Blood and Black Rum Podcast - A Cult Film / Horror Podcast

Continuing Red Hot Action Summer, we take a look at John Carpenter's less-revered sequel Escape from L.A., which returns to Snake 15 years later and adds a whole lot more bad CGI to the mix. We talk about the unnecessary plot twists in the film, Bruce Campbell being a shining star, and Pam Grier making an appearance! We're also drinking Prison City's Mass Riot New England IPA.

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Continuing our '90s action summer, we're taking on something with a bit more of a science fiction atmosphere with Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall. It's great to have Arnold back on the show and here we discuss whether we're all just living in a dream, whether we'd partake in a recall memory, and the unequivocal hotness of '90s Sharon Stone. We're also drinking Sloop Brewing's Jungle Juice sour with...

Red Hot '90s Action Summer is back, baby! We've got some fun picks for this year, and we're starting things off with the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker buddy cop movie Rush Hour! We talk about how nice this mashup of Hong Kong martial arts and American crime dramas feels, the stunts, the laughs, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Adirondack Brewing Co.'s Lake George's IPA!

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This film certainly knows all about what you did last summer, but unfortunately it's a derivative requel that isn't able to capitalize on the few good moments of its predecessor. This return to Southport really made us quite frustrated, and we even give it the hard R - "regrettable" - in this discussion about where it all went wrong. We're also drinking Brooklyn Brewing's Fonio Rising Pale Ale!

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We swore we were out of the game, but we couldn't pass up a chance to see DC restart their cinematic universe yet again with James Gunn's Superman! While we admit that we did have a mildly fun time with this movie, we spend the hour picking at some of the worst elements, from its overly comic book-y shtick to the muddy CGI to the messy political overtones. We're also drinking Mill Creek Brewing Co.'s Kold One kolsch...

Finally we get back to some giallo roots with Strip Nude for Your Killer, a sleazy slasher from Andrea Bianchi that utilizes most of the common giallo tropes but adds a lot more nudity. We're talking the twists, turns, and anal jokes throughout the movie, and questioning just how long a stalking sequence involving turning on the water can go. We're also drinking Saranac's Summer Shandy.

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Happy Fourth of July! We really haven't done much with this holiday, so we thought it was an appropriate time to celebrate with William Lustig's 1996 slasher Uncle Sam, a film that features tons of jingoistic American festivities while being pretty blatantly critical of US politics and war. While the film is a bit lackluster, we have a lot of fun calling out the crazy things in the movie: from a peeping tom on stilts, to a ...

In our first Pride Month episode, we're talking about John Waters' most influential and prominent film, Pink Flamingos! Since it's a first for both of us, we talk about experiencing the wild filthy antics of the movie, the tongue-in-cheek humor and extremity, and the home video/auteur filmmaking from Waters. We're drinking the new Busch Light Lime for the ultimate trashy experience!

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It's the 50th anniversary of Jaws, and we've yet to do an official Steven Spielberg film so the timing just feels right. We're talking about Amity yokels, the iconic first scene, the excellent shark effects, and Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw both make another appearance on the show. We're also drinking... what else but Narragansett!

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While the podcast's plan was to get out to see the new Final Destination: Bloodlines installment currently in theaters, that didn't happen. So instead we thought it would still be beneficial to go back to where it all began with 2000's Final Destination. We talk about the more simplified Rube-Goldberg devices, the aggressive '90s/'00s experience, the common trope of kids living without parents, and more! We're also drinking Ommegan...

Continuing our look into the gritty crime-addled lifestyle of 1970s NYC, we cover the neo-noir and comedic trappings of The Talking of Pelham One Two Three, which fuses the two genres into a hybrid that shouldn't work but does very well. We talk about the mammoth presence of Walter Matthau, the coolness factor of the four hijackers, and even throw out some love for Jerry Stiller's and Doris Roberts' small parts. We'...

Pope tribute! We're talking Alice, Sweet Alice on this episode of the show, diving into the religious subtext about Catholic guilt and appreciating the early slasher elements and giallo pairings that Alfred Sole brings to the movie. We're also drinking the Limaveza lime lager from Aldi!

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In celebration of the career of Wings Hauser, we're tackling the gritty crime thriller Vice Squad! We talk about the police treatment of sex ring syndicates, the ways this film succeeds in attempting to see both sides of sex work, and the excellent performance of Hauser as Ramrod. We're also drinking Corona's Sunbrew Citrus Cerveza!

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Continuing our tribute to late actors, we tackle the excellent Gene Hackman crime thriller The French Connection directed by William Friedkin. Here we take a look at the composition of the film and how its edits and multiple chase sequences add to the film's swift feeling. We also talk about Poughkeepsie, police racism, rooting for Charnier the villain, and a lot more. We're drinking Sloop Brewing Company's collaboration with Maris...

Ah, the sounds of Burt Bacharach... the camaraderie of two gentlemen with nothing between them besides wide open plains... the handsome face of Robert Redford. How can you beat a movie like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Well, you can't, and we talk about all the ways this Paul Newman/Redford vehicle just simply works as a marker in Americana. We're also drinking Tree House Brewing's 10th Canniversary double IPA!

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We may be a little late for Valentine's Day, but that didn't stop this couple from heading to the theater to check out the new holiday-themed slasher film from Josh Ruben. We enjoyed Heart Eyes well enough, but we also talk criticism of some of the ways this film fails to pair rom-com and slasher elements together succinctly. We'e also drinking Paradox x Stewart's Mountain Brew beer!

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Our goal was to get to some more gialli this year, so we're starting off with Dario Argento's second film The Cat O' Nine Tails. This one is technically a giallo but has a lot more in common with Italian poliziotteschi than anything else, and interestingly it refrains from dealing in most of the common tropes of the sub-genre. We talk about the somewhat mundane plotting of this murder mystery, the pseudo-science of XYY ...

In honor of David Lynch, we present our first episode for one of his films. Blue Velvet is an important movie for a lot of reasons - mainly that it helps set the tone of contemporary quirky neo-noir - but also because it (probably) enlightened a lot of people on the importance of Pabst Blue Ribbon. We're celebrating with a Heineken/PBR comparison, discussion about the surreal dreaminess and male gaze in the film, and a lot more...

We finally got out to see Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, and though the theater experience was not necessarily the best, we were still thrilled with this rendition of the classic vampire. We talk about the differences between Nosferatu and Dracula, the history of vampire lore, and then dive deep into what's on screen with conversations about the infamous first meeting with Count Orlock, how Eggers explores his own themes, and a lot more...