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Hiruko the Goblin 1991
295 - HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) + HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995) ft. Trevor Henderson
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Trevor Henderson discuss two visually surreal/imaginative, ostensibly "kid-friendly" Japanese body-horror creature features with a double feature of Shinya Tsukamoto's HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) and Hideyuki Hirayama's HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE SEARCHERS (1956) and HARDCORE (1979), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our Patreon.
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Haunted School 1995
295 - HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) + HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995) ft. Trevor Henderson
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Trevor Henderson discuss two visually surreal/imaginative, ostensibly "kid-friendly" Japanese body-horror creature features with a double feature of Shinya Tsukamoto's HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) and Hideyuki Hirayama's HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE SEARCHERS (1956) and HARDCORE (1979), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our Patreon.
Listen to this episode for free on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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One Dark Night 1982
First of all, seeing the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s mausoleum brought back fond memories of when I visited a few months ago. I saw Edgar G. Ulmer’s final resting place, which is in a hall not unlike the one where much of this movie is set. I like to think that he was one of the bodies resurrected in this movie’s climax.
I laughed when my good friend Ethan Vestby whispered “You saw Mademoiselle Kenopsia, right?” during one of the many…
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One Dark Night 1982
This is almost like the cinematic equivalent of going into one of the funhouses at Universal Studios -- thirty minutes of being assaulted by prop corpses that's preceded by an hour of waiting in line and talking. The wonky plotting and the PG-rated (read: nonexistent) sexuality and violence make this feel almost like an Okay TV movie for me. Liking this just because I really want a Sisters jacket.
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Devil in a Blue Dress 1995
Postwar prosperity and a deal with the devil(s), who is not in a blue dress btw but looks a lot like Tom Sizemore, a film about the things you will do when you have a mortgage, unusual for a P.I. but of course he doesn’t start out that way, he’s an ex-GI, ex-factory worker, and an ex-Texan, a snapshot of the migrant experience, discovering (like the original emigre noir directors) that “Everybody’s in Business in L.A”, Franklin’s commentary essentially describes…
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Jack's Back 1988
Sept 30th: James Spader with a lab coat and glasses.
Oct 1st: James Spader with a leather jacket and earring.
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Jack's Back 1988
Jack the Ripper copycat thriller with enough ludicrous ideas to fill in half a dozen lesser movies. James Spader as twins, some hilarious overcooked cop dialogue, multiple psychopaths, psych links, Roberto Piccardo and Spader sharing screen and trying to see who can chew scenery more, lots of 80s atmospheric cinematography, every possible leap of logic to move from one plot beat to the next It is a lurid trash fever dream. The direction is by Rowdy Herrington, his first, and as usual he throws himself at material with as much gusto as he lacks taste.
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Terror in a Texas Town 1958
294 - MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) + TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958)
Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss underrated Old Hollywood B-movie director Joseph H. Lewis with a double feature of his merging of gothic horror and identity/gaslight thriller in MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) and his goofy harpoon vs. six shooter McCarthy-era left-wing B-western TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back talking about HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) and HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995). Keep it sleazy!
Listen to this episode exclusively on our Patreon by subscribing here.
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My Name Is Julia Ross 1945
294 - MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) + TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958)
Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss underrated Old Hollywood B-movie director Joseph H. Lewis with a double feature of his merging of gothic horror and identity/gaslight thriller in MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) and his goofy harpoon vs. six shooter McCarthy-era left-wing B-western TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958).
See you all in a week's time where we'll be back talking about HIRUKO THE GOBLIN (1991) and HAUNTED SCHOOL (1995). Keep it sleazy!
Listen to this episode exclusively on our Patreon by subscribing here.
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Youth (Spring) 2023
I Survived Wang Bing’s 212-Minute Documentary About Chinese Sweatshop Labour.
We meet many, many workers during this movie, all of them young, many of them teenagers, and few of whom emerge as “characters,” although the movie’s chief virtue is giving them, collectively, a human face. They crack jokes, flirt, bicker, argue with their bosses over their poor wages, get pushed by their bosses into abortions, listen to pop music, and live in horrendous, garbage-strewn concrete tenement buildings that probably aren’t…
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When Evil Lurks 2023
A delightfully brutal and bleak throwback (in the most earnest way possible) to the nasty depths of misanthropic euro-horror so wonderfully explored by Fulci and co. in the 70's and 80's.
A contagious possession film absolutely drenched in rural doom, the comparisons to Fulci's City of the Living Dead and Serrador's Who Can Kill A Child? are extremely on-point and earned. The paperback horror feel of the world-building and lore is wonderful, and it's mostly delivered in a natural way…
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