The Schlock and Awe Podcast

The Schlock and Awe Podcast

Schlock and Awe is a Double Feature Podcast that celebrates all movies from the sublime to the suspicious

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October 24, 2025 139 mins

On this Schlocktober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and Chainsaw & Claws Patrick Visious enter the cult of Melissa Barrera. It's a Double of Caroline Lindy's Your Monster (2024) & Radio Silence's Scream 5 (2022).

This show many sides of the actor all while looking at a Double about the Killer Instinct but also the creation of art in it's many different forms. When art turns into real life.

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This time on Schlocktober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and host of Bede vs The Living Dead Bede Jermyn go full Ocker. It's a Double of Ollie Martin & Kendal Flanagan's Houseboat Horror (1989) & Philip Brophy's Body Melt (1989). This is a true blue Double you cannot get more Aussie than this.

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This episode of Schloctober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and film writer Brian Keiper doom scroll in a Double of Matt Spicer's Ingrid Goes West (2017) & Wes Craven's Scream 4 (2011). This is a double of Psychotic Influencers. Who needs friends when you have fans.

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On this Schlocktober we take a break from Kills & Giggles so Lindsay can convince Film Writer Preston Mitchell he likes Horror Movies. With a Candlelight Double of Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase (1946) & Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961)

Oh the gothic nerding out that is about to happen

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Original Music Anthony King

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On this Schlocktober Kills & Giggles Lindsay and Chainsaw and Claws Co-Host Robb never pick up the phone. It's a Super Slasher Double of Amy Holden Jones' The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) & Wes Craven's Scream (1996)

Both are era defining Slasher Movies both poking holes and loving re-creating and re-inventing the troupes we love in Slashers. All while commenting on the underlying themes that always bubble there

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On this Kills & Giggles we look at Monster Who Kill. Zelda Williams' Lisa Frankenstein (2024) & James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein. Both Comedies. But both movies nail into why we love the freaks and want what is best for them.

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And Schlocktober begins! Kills & Giggles where we look at Slashers we love and the Horror Comedy's that show case why we keep going back.

To kick off Kills & Giggles Lindsay, Mike Scott & Andy Gorham turn down that dirt road in Hillbilly Country. With a Double of Rob Schimdt's Wrong Turn (2003) & Eli Craig's Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

This is a Double of the troupe of deranged Redneck Hillbillies - or ...

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On this Quickie Review Lindsay takes a look at a true Masterpiece and it's reinterpretation: Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (1963 & Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

If you go for the King you only have one shot.

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Original Music Anthony King

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This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Brian Keiper take a look at nature. It's revenge and it's randomness. With George McCown's The Frogs (1972) & Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

Sometimes Frogs are load and will plot your murder, other times they fall from the sky. Strange things happen all the time.

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This week on S&A Lindsay and Justine watch a Double of Romanized Grieving, with a Double of Jerry Zucker's Ghost (1990) & John Carpenter's Starman (1984). This is a Double of Supernatural Love and Loss. Of how a director gets you to a place where you are weeping on your couch and your cat is looking at you like a weirdo.

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On this Quickie Review Lindsay (with her Partner Dan butting in) takes a look at Stephen King Sentimentality with a Double of Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994) & Francis Lawrence's The Long Walk (2025)

It's all about hope and that you have Get Busy and Keep Walking

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw head out to the wild west and quote every single line. It's a Double of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974) & Tombstone (1993). Not only can you quote these movies endlessly but also both movies are looking at two very different types of Mythology.

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On this S&A bonus episode Lindsay & film critic Kahn Duncan finish their conversation on the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). And there are still so many movies to talk about. This was the busiest MIFF since 2019.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Preston Mitchell walk with purpose through LAX. It's a Double of John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) & Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999). The Silver Fox's are looking for revenge.

This is a Double of a specific style, vibe and experimentation. But more importantly they are a look at tough guy cinema. Everyone loves a tough guy.


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On this bonus episode Lindsay and Film Critic Kahn Duncan go into the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). They go onto a busy experience trying to see as many of the over 200 movies shown over to weeks.

And since we talked over 20 movies I split the conversation into two parts.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Brian Keiper head down the Amazon in search of El Dorado in a Double of Dougal Wilson's Paddington in Peru (2024) & Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). One will give you the hard stare the other is Klaus Kinski.

This is a double of colonialism and the very notion of what is wealth. With some Marmalade Sandwiches.

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This week on S&A Lindsay & Carmelita Valdez McKoy get trippy with 1968 Sci Fi Roger Valdim's Barbarella (1968) & Franklin J. Schaffner's Planet of the Apes (1968). This is a Utopia & Dystopia all wrapped in the counter culture.

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This week on S&A Twinning Titles is back! Lindsay and Bede Jermyn ask a very important question. What is IT . With a Double of Clarence Badger's It (1927) & Tommy Lee Wallace's It (1990).

There is a certain It Factor that cannot be defined, whether is in the eyes or deadlights? And why we cannot keep our eyes away from It.

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This week on S&A Lindsay and the Schlockateer Daniel Baldwin head into the wilds of 1970s Simian Sci Fi with J Lee Thompson's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) & Jun Fukuda's Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla (1974)

We got some amazing scores, cheap practical effects and intense political subtext

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