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In "Catch of the Day", Edward X
Young as mad Doctor Benjamin Jackal (on right) with John Link, as his toady, Groton (on left) BDSM the be-
jeezus out of male prostitute, Danny Karron (center).& Chris Haste learns it's all fun & games until somebody loses
an eye!
In "Bite School"' Lisa Fox gets exsanguinated in a bathtub.
Edward X Young, as Mr. Fong, celebrates victory with the head of an enemy. In "Gory Tits", Nicoletta Ringwalker bares hers for blood.
James Balsamo makes a cast of Edward X Young's head for a decapitation scene in "Bite School".
"I Spill Your Guts: Part 2" DVD box art "Bite School" DVD box art.
James Balsamo's quintessential "Gory Tits" features from left: Dana Busterman, James Balsamo, Danny Karron, Edward X Young as Mister Fong, & Rachel Zaytes.
school children to finance my evil plan
to create an army of cannibalistic
whores so as to take over the under-
world. “Gory Tits” costars include pro-
lific independent New York City
grindhouse moviemakers, Samuel Os-
wald Stone (“Escape from King’s
Park”), Jennifer “Aardvark” Valdes
(“Jack O’Slasher”) and her sister
Fallen Fayth. Danny Karron, a regular
performer in Balsamo’s pictures plays a depraved street hustler, a reprising a role he has played nu- merous times.
If you patronize popular horror movie conventions, such as Kevin Clement’s “Chiller Theatre Expo” or Dave Hagan’s “Monster Mania Con”, you might find James Balsamo at a celebrity table, selling his wares and personally autographing them for you while posing for photo ops. At such venues, you will often find his regular superstar actors, John Link and Yours Truly, Edward X Young, at his side.
See also James Balsamo’s “I Spill Your Guts”, in which John Link & I play ourselves, discussing our radio show, as we chance upon a grisly mur-
der in progress and bravely flee
It’s hard to believe, but young James Balsamo cut his teeth at prestigious academies, such as The Pro-
the scene without getting in-
volved or notifying authorities. In
“I Spill Your Guts: Part 2”, Yours
Truly, Edward X Young, portrays a
corrupt congressman who gets
roasted alive by fiend with a
flamethrower - my hottest death scene yet!
Theatre & Film Institute. Soon after his schooling was over, James Balsamo
You may also see James Balsamo perform- ing a brutal death scene as an actor in Ryan Scott Weber’s “Sheriff Tom vs. the Zombies” along with Joe Parascand in the titular role and Stephen Ohlarik as the zombie having sex! Balsamo plays Brett in “Burn in Hell”, a film by Joshua Bruce (“Comic Book Men”), in which Yours Truly, Edward X Young, plays God.
As a film critic over a decade ago, I predicted independently produced
The grindhouse talents of James Balsamo ooze through “Cool as Hell”, “Hack Job”, Manny Serrano’s “Blood Slaughter Massacre”, “Bloody Christmas”, “MILFS vs. Zombies”, “Shark Exor- cist” and more!
You won’t find James Bal-
samo’s movies playing at Lin-
coln Center or in suburban multiplexes; but they’re available for sale on DVD wherever cult movies are sold. Yongman Kim’s Underground Video, of Saint Mark’s Place, used to carry all of them; but sadly, that mecca of rare selections is no more!
You may find more information about James Balsamo’s work at his Acid Bath Productions website: www.acidbathproduc- tions.com
fessional Performing Arts High School, in New York City, and The Lee Strasberg
grew weary performing Shakespeare in tights on stage, driven by Destiny to
make the transition to screen to grind out the kind of garbage that he and
we at New York Waste love.
horror movies would emerge as the new Punk Rock. James Balsamo ful-
fills my prophecy.