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Nick Rehak (French Toast Sunday) joins me to talk about Terrence Malick's debut film Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a murderous couple looking for freedom as they head to the Badlands of Montana.
Plus overrated creatives, the end of the New Hollywood era and horrific nature plus more!
Letterboxd: Elwood / Nick
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Jess Manzo (French Toast Sunday) returns to the show to talk about David Lynch's Blue Velvet as the discovery of a human ear leads a college student to discover the dark underbelly of his hometown.
We look at the iconic performances, the legacy of the Lynch-verse and why Dennis Hopper's Frank might be the scariest villain ever!
Letterboxd: Elwood / Jess
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Elwood and Greg kick off a new season looking at William Friedkin's Sorcerer who sadly passed away a few weeks after we recorded this episode. The film following four criminals exiled to a small village in South America who are offered a chance of escaping their current situation by transporting a shipment of highly unstable nitro-glycerine 200 miles through the jungle to an oil well.
We look at the insane production and how Friedkin managed to pull off some of the films more spectacular moments and more!!
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Alice Taylor Matthews joins me to look at Sam Rami's splatter classic "Evil Dead 2" as we talk DIY film making, favourite horror weapons and trade bookseller war stories and more!
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Stephen Palmer my Asian Cinema Film Club co-host returns to the podcast to talk about American Movie
A cult documentary following aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt and who alongide loyal best friend Mike Schank set out to finally finish the short horror film he started years earlier, with the hopes it will help provide funding for his feature movie dream -
Mortal Kombat superfan Jeanette Ward (The Mundane Adventures of A Fangirl) joins me to discuss not only the ultimate sleepover movie but arguably the greatest video game adaptation ever. There's also plenty of geeking out over the games as Jeanette talks favourite characters, fatalities and colour palette swap ninjas and more!!
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my all time favourite shows and while I might podcast with a bunch of super talented folks sadly none of them are Buffy fans. Thankfully Emily (Why This Film Podcast) is a fellow super fan of this iconic show and joins me for this episode as we each countdown our top seven episodes aswell as looking at what it was about the show which continues to resonate with it's fans.
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Wrapping up this years Alternative Christmas specials we have the cult classic Jack Frost as a serial killer resurrected as a killer snowman proceeds to wreck havok on a small town while hunting down the sheriff who finally caught him.
I'm joined on this episode by Emily Slade (Why This Film Podcast) to talk Christmas snacks, essential festive viewing aswell as trying to figure out what the hell Festive Spice is supposed to be and more!!
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Eight years after she washed ashore a New Jersey beach, schoolteacher Samantha (Geena Davis) still has no idea who she was prior to washing up on the beach. However after a car crash unlocks skills she never knew she had, she set out with private detective Mitch (Jackson) to find out the truth about who she really is. However there are those keen to make sure she never remembers.
Jeanette Ward (The Mundane Adventures of a Fangirl) joins me to discuss this festive action thriller directed by Renny Harlin and scripted by Shane Black (hence the Christmas setting) while we also look at female action heroes, why everyone should check out "Unreal" and intense eye make up plus more!!
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Nick Rehak (French Toast Sunday) joins me to look at the David Cronenberg's cult classic Videodrome. Here body horror blends with our love of technology into one nightmarish vision as Max Renn (James Woods) stumbles across a rogue tv stream called Videodrome which he feels will be perfect for his trashy TV channel only to soon find himself drawn into a much darker path as he uncovers the secrets behind Videodrome.
We also look at visionary directors, David Lynch and the return of Twin Peaks and how streaming services are changing our cinematic consumption plus much more.
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Back for another season of cult cinema watching, the journey through the Mad, Bad and Downright Strange movie list continues with Alex Cox's cult classic "Repo Man" as I'm joined once more by Greg Sahadachny (Debatable Podcast) as the hunt for a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu and the mysterious contents of it's trunk is waged through a truly unique vision of L.A.
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Taking a break from the usual trek through the more forgotten realms of cinema, on this episode I'm joined by a trio of bloggers for another exciting draft club. This time we are looking at our favourite movie deaths while celebrating the often creative and inventive ways that characters have met their demise.
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Fellow Brit Zoe (Zobo With A Shotgun) joins me for this latest episode to share her love of all things dark and twisted which formed the basis of her site. We also look at British horror with Neil Marshall's "Dog Soldiers" before looking at the notorius former video nasty "Cannibal Holocaust"
We also discuss the censorship and the darker side of horror, living near horror sites and Zoe reveals which horror icon she'd most like to take for a pint.
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Indie Director Zach Shildwachter joins me for this episode to talk about his debut feature film "Powerbomb". A wrestling thriller which has been described as "Misery meets the Wrestler" We not only talk about how you can support the film through the Indiegogo campaign but also how he got his start in the business, his inspirations aswell as why Clive Barkers "NightBreed" is so essential plus much more!
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Brandon Tenold (Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews) returns for an ass kicking double as we look at the overlooked Bruceploitation movie "Challange of the Tiger" aswell as getting to see Doug McClure team up with Peter Crushing for "At The Earth's Core" as he fights dinosaurs, seduces cavewomen and solves problems by punching them!!
All this plus Canuxploitation, movie ratings and the appeal of bad movies, plus much more!
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Writer / Podcaster Kristen Lopez (Journeys In Classic Film / Ticklish Buisness) joins for me for a David Cronenberg double as we look at two films from his more overlooked period of work which falls between "The Fly" and "A History of Violence". First up Cronenberg does for video games what "Videodrome" did for TV in 1999's "eXistanZ".
We also question why Jeremy Irons didn't get the Oscar for his potrayal of identical twin brothers / gynocologists in "Dead Ringers" All this plus why Cronenberg keeps appearing as doctors, the career path of Jeremy Irons and the forgotten films of Cronenberg plus more!!
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On this latest episode I'm joined by my "Game Warp" co-host Kim Lo (Tranquil Dreams) as we take a break from talking about video games to look at a pair of movies released at the end of the golden age of the American Indie. First up we join Nick and Norah for a wild trip across New York's nightsports in search of "Where's Fluffy" in "Nick and Norah's Infinate Playlist". Next up we switch our attentions to child beauty pagents and family disfuncion in "Little Miss Sunshine".
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Rebecca Sharp (Almost Ginger) joins me for this episode as we look at John Carpenter's classic slasher "Halloween" which introduced the world to the now iconic Michael Myers.
We also look at the Quentin Tarantino scripted "True Romance" while wondering if a kung fu triple feature really makes for a good first date? All this plus film theories, embracing your nude scenes and asking why Tony Scott can't seemingly shoot a sex scene plus much more!!
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For this episode I'm joined by Kristen Lopez as we take a look at one of the more overlooked era's of cinema history "Pre-Code Hollywood". A brief period between the introduction of the first sound pictures in 1929 to the enforcement of the “Motion Picture Production Code” in 1934 there existed an era known as Pre-Code Hollywood. A wild time for cinema as films were produced including profanity, drug use, prostitution, infidelity and abortion, while it also produced films featuring heroic criminal figures and strong female characters in what would be one of the wildest, yet still strangely overlooked era in cinema history and one we set out to explore on this episode.
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Unsuprisingly this episode comes with a warning not to listen if easily offended, as Greg Sahadachny (The Debatable Podcast / All The Pieces Matter) returns for this sleazy double feature.
First up is the Nazisploitation "SS Girls" as Bruno Mattei essentially gives us a more fun version of "Salon Kitty" while also somehow working in a Nazi pope! We also look at the cult favourite "Thriller: A Cruel Picture" aka "They Call Her On Eye" a truly bonkers rape revenge movie which gained popularity after a snippit was featured in the end credits of Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof".
All this plus we discuss Censorship, The documentary films of Sean Dunne and how Bruno Mattei created the mockbuster plus so much more!
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