Junesploitation 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Prepare yourself for the terror the prison of madness. We
have a few inter and Nonritter.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Unsung Horrors with LUNs.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
And Dereka.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Leave all your sanity behind. It can't help you.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Welcome to another episode of Unsung Horrors, the podcast where
we discuss underseen horror films, specifically those which have fewer
than one thousand views on Letterboxed.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm Erica, I'm Lance.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
And we're taking a break from our normal episodes to
bring our recap of f this movie's June'sploitation twenty twenty
five challenge.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
How many years is this? Five? Six? No, we haven't
been recording that long.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We started in twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh, I guess we haven't recording that long.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, jeezuz, but we start. We didn't do June's Plitation
in twenty twenty because we didn't start the podcast until
September October, so we did June'sploitation with the old podcast
before that though, So at least five or six of these, yes,
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, but you've been doing this challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is my ninth one.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Good lord, Yeah, that's a lot. I am. You know,
normally I watch my thirty movies. They're all first time watches.
I did not do that this year. I do have
thirty movies to talk about. Good, but there's a lot
of we have an episode about that, so go listen

(01:50):
to that, or we talked about it in this episode,
or and for the first time, I do have some
rewatches in here, just because.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I had a rough month, as per usual, interviewing was
like seven companies, and I've had a hard time, Like
every time I would sit down to watch something, especially
if it had subtitles, I was like, I just I
don't want to.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, I felt that a bit, like it's yeah, it's
been tough to fit in. Like we said a couple
episodes ago, we're trying to get back into our intense
movie watching.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, but I have not gone back there.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yet, sitting down knowing that I have to kind of
like think about really think and remember, you know, have
notes prepared to my brain. It took me a while
to get through this month. I just finished last night.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Same. I think I actually liked What Making My List
more than actually.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh yeah, watch It's the funnest movie and it's ever
changing yet. Yeah, but the rewatches. Yeah, when I first
started June's Fploitation, it was just movies I had seen before,
a lot of rewatches. I wasn't even thinking about first
time watches until we decided to start doing that here.
But I have one rewatch on this, so I cheated.
Once I have a few, it's fine.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
We have a lot of movies to talk about. So
we have probably less than six because I think Lance
and I have some duplicates on here on this list,
so I think we should jump right in because it's
gonna be a long one.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, get ready usual.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
All right? Italian Crime is day one. You want to
kick it off?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Sure, I went with Weapons of Death by Mario Kayano
nineteen seventy seven. Kicking things off with Henry Silva's felt
right for June'sploitation. I actually did watch this on June first,
so I felt like, here we go, and then after
that I didn't watch a movie for a few days.
It feels like also starting off with the child kill
flick that's been covered in Your Sweetest Taboo two kills,

(03:38):
kid gets destroyed in a car wreck and another shot. Yeah,
this is an unofficial sequel to Lindsay's Violent Naples, which
I watched for Jeane'sploitation back in twenty eighteen. One character
from that movie returns, a cripple kid named Gennaro.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah he's the worst.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah he's you know, too many incidental commute moments. There
is a fun scene where he steals a car and
just kind of flies through the streets of Naples, right
police are chasing them. But he's kind of a short
round from Temple of Doom type of character. Funny yet
annoying for me. But yeah, convoluted plot, but basic, young
commissioner trying to take down a big time gangster. Kind

(04:20):
of just a bunch of vignettes of ultra violence, bank
robberies while the police are after Silva's gang. But this
one was a little tiresome for me. But I always
have fun with these. Polizio Teski's nice score, but yeah,
the editing's choppy. Henry Silva, who's kind of the reason
I picked this. He plays Santoro. He's cool as ever,

(04:41):
making everybody else almost seem like they're in comedic roles
compared to a serious PERSONA great decapitation dude gets his
nuts cut off, has kind of a dummy fall of
sorts where a man from a moving train falls and
gets shredded under the train, so you get all that
great Italian gore which is there. But yeah, I didn't

(05:02):
enjoy it as much as Violent Naples. But this one's great.
I mean, as Senry Silva, it's a good cast. That's
my pick.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I have a write of about all the violent Naples
in Rome, Roma and all that. That's in my uh
May that's in my fuck the police side party in
the book. Anyway, there's a recurring character in there played
by Mauricio Murley, who's in my pick for Italian crime.

(05:31):
That's Magnum Cop from nineteen seventy eight. Murley is playing
this wise cracking private detective. Of course, he used to
be a cop, so he still has relationships with people
on the force. He's hired to find a girl and
returner to her father in Austria, so the case actually

(05:52):
takes him to Austria and involves other cases all tied
to a prostitution ring which is led by Joan Collins,
who's in this and she plays one of the keyword
one of the love interests in this. And I didn't
think I would ever because I associate Joan Collins with like,

(06:14):
you know, soap Opera's dynasty, that sort of thing, and
her like trashy romance books that she wrote. But I
saw her boobies in this oh, and I was like, hey,
good for her.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Watch listed.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
So yeah. Magnum Cop nineteen seventy eight, score by Chipriani,
directed by Stelvio Massi. Who's done. I'm not sure if
we've talked about it on here, but I think other
people have. Arabella Black Angel, which is in one of
the Vinegar Syndrome.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh yeah, that was one of my double feature picks.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, there you that's where we've talked about it. Okay,
thank you. Yeah. Massy also did like Convoy Busters, so
fun movie. I think you can't really go wrong when
you've got Murley or Franco Niro, Henry Silva, Tamas Miller
on any of those for you know your euro crime pick.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, because that's a great jeen'splitation cast.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes, right there, all right. And then day two is Zombies,
so I went with Zombies the beginning from two thousand
and seven, and I picked a movie from this century
because it's directed by Bruno Mattee. So this was on
Prime and The Magnum cop for Anyone Keeping Track was

(07:27):
on two B two thousand and seven. The movie looks awful.
It looks cheap, because you know, it's on cheap digital film,
not well not film, but you get it. It. It
looks terrible, of course it's it's but it's not Mattey's fault.
I don't blame him for that. It follows all the
beats of a low budget Italian zombie movie. It's like, oh,

(07:49):
we're got to get the group together because there's a
you know, an abandoned facility and we haven't heard from them,
and there's experiments happening, and you know, oh no, there's zombies. Yeah,
there's nothing unfamiliar in this, and that is what is
great about it, because it serves as a sort of

(08:10):
comfort blanket in the sense of it being a Italian
zombie film. It's just not made in the right century.
So it just it doesn't look great. If you can
get past all of that, if you like you know,
Zombie three through five, Hell of the Living Dead, any
of that that sort of plot line, you'll be fine

(08:32):
with this even though it doesn't look great. I'm gonna
keep saying that because it looks fucking awful. I fucking
hate digital film like this, like that Asylum look to it.
It just it looks terrible.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
How are the practical effects legit?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, I mean there's still fun, Like you know, there's
there's still plenty of like good Gore. There's definitely some
really low rent CGI in this, but you know it's
because you know, you don't have like that grainy film
to hide the bad makeup or the bad effects. Because

(09:10):
it's on the cheap digital it's almost more pronounced, right,
which is kind of the charm or part of the
charm of it. At the same time, I'm much more
forgiving of Bruno Matte making a movie in two thousand
and seven than you know, some Asylum director Rob Zombie. Whoever.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
What was that terrible movie I sent you as an
Italian movie? I think it was called like Bloodline and
it's kind of shaky cam but it's all digital. It
had a child kill and I think I sent it
to and I'm pretty sure you watched it. Was terrible.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I probably already forgot it then.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, yeah, you have a write up about it that
you I think you've already watched it. Okay, very digital,
very clean, very of like iPhone.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, not fun, but so yeah, you're not gonna hear
me say this often about a movie made the Center,
but I would recommend it.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'm already surprised in this episode by zombie. Okay, I
went with a Mexican horror, the Curse of the Doll
People from nineteen sixty one.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
This one is so fun.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I did my watch list, which is how I make
a lot of the list for these type of challenges.
This one's on YouTube. That's at least that's where I
watched it. It might be somewhere else. Directed by Benito Alas Rocky,
which doesn't sound Mexican to me.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't know that you pronounce that right. No.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
I looked it up and I listened to it and
it was pronounced as spelled. So I didn't change, like,
I didn't do any type of different changing. Alas Rocky,
Benitos Rocky.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I'm sure you know Armando or Chido correct, They'll they'll
be like Lance, buddy.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, don't do like fucking Google translates. Come on to
it just being us. We're in your discord. So yeah,
it's it's about a couple who are invited to a party,
and the woman is an expert of the occult and
black magic, and there's a group of four people that
tell her about being in Haiti and trying to take

(11:09):
an artifact that one of the men in this group wanted,
and a witch doctor in Haiti who practices bonga black
magic curse them and they run away, and then the
doctor surprises all the guests when he ends up breaking
out this idol, and the guests and the party are
all freaked out, and the doctor's like, chill, this curse expires.

(11:29):
It actually expires tonight, you know, like the doctor told
us to expire at midnight on this day. And as
he's talking, the power goes out and boom, one of
the men are murdered and dies, and then the other
three men start dying. And so these people that are
murdered they turn into these little doll people, which like
their souls are lifted and transferred into these their dolls,

(11:51):
and they come to life and are ordered by the
witch doctor to seek revenge on the people who took
this idol. And these doll people are fucking crazy looking.
They're basically they look like child actors, not like little people.
They look like child actors with like adult old man
masks on and their eyes are wide open and it's
like a late max so their eyes aren't closing. Very creepy.

(12:15):
They're kind of zombie ish obviously, but there is an
actual literal zombie that pops up in this. It looks
very awesome. Actually, I took pics of it on my phone.
I was just like, I got to share this with people,
so on my as I was watching, I was taking pictures.
But yeah, I love this. It's kind of talky. It's
a sixties vibe, though, you know, the look is very

(12:36):
sixties vibe, very black and white, super endearing, awesome idea.
Child's play obviously really leans into this, where there's a
soul that goes into a doll's body. I rated it higher,
probably than it deserves, but yeah, I loved it. I
thought it was great, and you've seen it, you recommend
it as well. Yeah. Day three is David Carodine Hair High,

(12:58):
from two thousand and four animated feature film from Bill Plimpton,
about a high school prom queen falling in love with
the new nerd at school.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was, for some reason, I was thinking of a
totally different movie, so like.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
An actual acting, live action.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Totally fine with Bill Plimpton, never mind I take.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I was like, wait, what, you don't know what I'm
talking about?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't. I do.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Now it's really good. I love Bill Plumpton. Stuff. Def
Crocodt's been putting. Yeah, great stuff, but yeah, this this
high school prom falls in love with this nerd and
her quarterback boyfriend at the time really picks on him.
It's just very it's super horny. It's like kind of
like a animated Grease movie where you know, I don't know,

(13:46):
or Hairspray vibe. There's like dancing and kind of singing
going on from time to time, but it's super horny.
Keith carry Deane plays the storyteller, a diner owner named Jojo,
and he tells a young age Keith Cary Keith Carrodeine
does and then David Carridine plays the biology teacher. The
voice actors in this are great. David Carradine. His character's

(14:10):
name is mister Snurs, and he smokes and hacks in
the classroom while electrocuting frogs and just hilarious. I think
he should have done a ton of voice acting because
it sounds like he's having a blast, just probably smoking
and drinking behind the mic, which I guess he didn't
real life to. But other actors voice actors, Sarah Silverman,

(14:30):
Dermot Maroney, one of my favorites, Beverly DiAngelo, Justin Long
has a part, Michael Showalter at Begley Junior, Peter Jason.
It's really cool. There's this one scene where the students
are playing on the football team. You know, they're playing
a game at hair Echo High, hair Echo leg High,

(14:52):
and this football team are fighting and they get in
a fight and the quarterback quits. He runs off crying,
so they pulled the mask off in and the team's
called the Fighting Cocks. So he's stressed up as a
you know in this rooster, this cock mascot, and as
he's like running with the ball, the game announcer says,

(15:12):
you got to admit that cock's full of spunk. Funny
stuff like that. Yeah. Plumpton does a really good job
with the animation as always. The music's really good. It
helps kind of build tension in scenes, generates a lot
of laughs. I was like honestly laughing out loud in
a few of the scenes. There's a horror aspect to
it where these kids are killed, they come back as

(15:35):
skeletons and they start like killing everybody at the school.
That's that's a lot of people's favorite parts. But I
really love the goofy kind of character build ups of
all these these stupid high school kids. Great animation.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, so I watched for David carrottye the Misfit Brigade
from nineteen eighty seven. This is on to be or
it was on to B when I watched it. I
think it's got a few akas. I think it's got
a lot of aka's. Actually Wheels of Terror. I think
it might have come up on which is confusing because

(16:08):
there's another Wheels of Terror that's like about a car,
a guy driven rent in a car. Anyway, miss Fitbrigade
nineteen eighty seven has David Carrodine for three scenes total.
He plays some army lieutenant Oliver Reid. This is why
I picked it because they're like front and center on
the poster. Oliver reads in it for one scene at

(16:30):
the very end. This is sold as the German Dirty Dozen,
where you have criminal German soldiers sent out on missions.
They're and I love the Dirty Dozen, but this is
obviously like a really like not even a poor man.

(16:52):
It's just like a fucking terrible ripoff of that. There's no,
it doesn't feel like there's any real stakes because like
every new mission that comes up is way too easily overcome,
you know, when individuals die, there doesn't feel like there's
any real consequence, like like oh, so and so is dead, Okay,

(17:14):
let's move on, like it's just nothing. Bruce Davison is
in this. He's kind of the lead, the guy who
plays the what's his fucking name Bottlefingers and the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah. David Patrick Kelly, Yeah, he's in this. He's in
Twin Peaks. He plays one of the Horn brothers too.
He's great.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's right, Okay, Anyway, I don't recommend this as boring.
It's you know, you're gonna get drawn in by the
poster and like the whole premise of like oh German
dirty doesn't No, I'm no, And we're supposed to sympathize
with them because they're like, oh, we don't agree with
the SS they're the jerks. We're just here because we
have to be kind of thing, and it's like no, no,

(17:53):
you don't get a pass on this, especially watching this
in twenty twenty five, like, I'm not not like this
film one of my least favorite of the month. I'm upset.
I you know, had this because David Carrodin has plenty
of movies to choose from, and I went with this,
so all right, and then June fourth is blaxploitation. I

(18:17):
think we have the same thick unless you change, do
you do? Truck turner?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Truck turner baby?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
So I was very excited for this one because I
have been saving this because a lot of people whose
opinion I trust, especially in you know, genre films, have
said like this is their favorite blaxploitation film. I can
absolutely see why. Yeah, I don't know if I definitely

(18:42):
would put it way up there, definitely top five for me.
But Isaac Hayes plays truck. He and his partner are
bounty hunters. This recent job has mixed them up in
a sex worker ring that includes yaff At Kato and
Michelle Nichols, who I did not know was in this and.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I didn't either into her role as Derinda just fucking
I mean, it's for knocks and panties.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
When she says pussy, I'm like good lord, nobody says
pussy like Michelle Nichols. That's amazing in this Yeah, and
funny enough. I've actually been rewatching the TV show Homicide
Life on the Street because it's on TV right now,
and I love Yeafficcado and everybody's in that show, so
I just needed more Yeaffikado. I've got him in another

(19:29):
pick towards the end of the month as well. It's
got the perfect balance of it being fun and mean spirited,
having some like great fights for like no reason. Like
there's one scene where the guy that they're chasing runs
into a bar and tells the whole bar like, uh,
there's two guys that are going to come in here,
just beat the shit out of them. Here's some money,

(19:50):
and it's just this full on like bar brawl. It's great.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well then and then truck Turner's like, everybody drop your
pants and if anybody asks you, tell the you got
hit by a truck Mac truck Turner. Yeah. So many
great line like you said too. It has a great
balance because it starts off very silly, almost one hundred
percent comedy, like you know, these two guys kind of
running around being kind of just really goofy and then

(20:16):
it gets darker and darker as Yeah, at Codo pops
in after he sprinkles cocaine on the pimps coffin the
pimp that died or no, they sprinkle cocaine. He spits
on the guy's body. Yes, and that's when every thing
starts really this huge kind of you know, trying to
take over the pims and trying to kill Turner. It
gets really dark towards the end, and that's what really

(20:37):
surprised me. Dick Miller's in it too. Yes, I mean
there's so many good and Isaac Hayes does the songs
like the truck Turner song. If we have time, we
should probably throw it at the end of this episode,
if there's enough time, but oh, I'll throw it in. Yeah,
this is a great movie. Magic Day five I went
with the Taiwanese Black Magic Jam so I got a

(20:58):
lot of worms, snake s, maggots, puss, bile, just puke,
I mean everything, and a ding Dong. There's a kid
named ding Dong in this And this is a gross,
very gross movie. When it's gross, it fucking rules. But
when it's not, it it's just slow. There's a lot
of So the film opens up with the woman being

(21:20):
murdered while waiting for a train, cuts to a witch
kind of like healing a man of a curse, so
you know there's going to be black magic involved, and
then the murders. The murdered woman's ghost kind of just
appears that starts wanting revenge on everybody.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Wait, did you say the name of it?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
The Devil? Did I not say the name? Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay, maybe I missed it, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Maybe maybe I don't think I did. Yeah, yeah, the Devil. Yeah,
and then there's this great gore. Like I said, there's
this bell hop kid named ding Dong, and there's this
whole love story that every time, but they just cut
to these subplots. I was completely checked out. I wanted
more worms, blood, you know, snakes, lesting dung. The final

(22:05):
battle's really great with the ghost woman and the bad guy,
one of the killers. Obviously, there is a scene and
I don't know if I watched a certain version on
two B or wherever I watched it, but they go
into a club and there's somebody singing Billy Joels the
stranger like a Taiwanese before. It's the best cover ever

(22:27):
it rules. Yeah, it was okay, it was fine for me.
I know a lot of people love this, A lot
of the people I fall in letterboxed when it's gross.
I was loving it four stars. I think I gave
it three stars overall.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
I think I watched this when a blu ray came out,
but it was like a really rough blue ray. Like
they could they were like, we could only fix it
so much.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, it was definitely dark what I watched, and I
think it might have been cleaned up. Okay, I don't know, all.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Right, so magic for me, and I know it's not
an exploitation film. I know for gene exploitation. I don't
care because I don't care. Yeah, there's no one because
I just don't. I watched The Red Shoes, which has
been another one that I have been saving for years.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I still have never seen The Red Shoes.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I mean, it's fantastic, and it's one of those things
where it's like, you know it's going to be great.
It's Powell Presburger movie. I went on a really big
binge of their films last year after that documentary came
out with Martin Scorsese. So I did actually have a
little bit of this film spoiled for me, but it
didn't take anything away from it for me. And yeah,

(23:41):
it's I don't know that it's my ID have to
like go back and look at their films that I've
seen to decide is this my favorite of theirs? Because
I don't have any notes as far as like what
could be better about it? There's not as much magic
as I was expecting in this any semblance of it
happens during the performance of the play The Red Shoes,

(24:03):
which is based on Hans Christian Andersen's story, and it's
about the story itself. The Hans Christian Andersen story is
about these shoes that a dancer puts on and then
the shoes never let her stop dancing. She dances till
she dies, and so you kind of know what direction

(24:23):
this is going. And I honestly thought that the performance
was going to be the finale of it, and it wasn't.
So I think right after the performance I was a
little bit like, oh, we're the movie is going to
keep going, But like once I realized, like, well, that's
the performance itself wasn't necessarily the point. The point of
it is all about this that timeless theme of choosing

(24:47):
between heart and mind, choosing between love and your passion
for dance in her case. You know, I'm glad I
finally watched it. I think it's one that everyone should
watch in their lifetime. But you know, just everyone should
also have that bank of movies that they will eventually
get to, so that you always have something good to

(25:08):
look forward to. You know, I'm glad I finally watched it,
But my bank is now one movie less of ones
that I know are going to be great. Truck Actually
it's too less because Truck Turner was another one that's true.
Probably there's probably some others that might be on this
lispt No, I don't think so, but yeah, Red Shoes
watched it on the Criterion disc goes Great obviously one

(25:30):
of my favorites of the month. Yeah, Magic, And then
next was Jello. I watched sexiicat and we have an
episode about it.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
That song stuck in my head has nothing to do
with the movie, but yeah, everybody listened to that episode.
It's fun. Okay, my giallow pick the Case of the
Bloody Iris from nineteen seventy two or the Italian title
Why the Strange Drops of Blood on Jennifer's Body directed
by Juliano Carnameo, who did all the Gianni Garco Sartana

(26:06):
movies or the sequels. He did all the sequels, he
did Ratman, rat Man starring Edward Finish, the Critter from
the Shitter, Yes perfect Ti tagline George Hamilton, Edward Finnick.
Written by the great Ernesto Gstaldi. This has amazing camera
work and angles a lot of point of view shots

(26:27):
from different characters, and it really kind of that plays
in the whole red herrying games. You don't know everybody.
Usually it took a point of view just from the killer.
This is from a bunch of characters that you're following.
Fun mystery, if not pretty basic, gloved killer murdering women
for an unknown reason. And the killer is then after Edgwidge,

(26:47):
who plays Jennifer. Two detectives providing comedic relief handling the case.
Sometimes that could always be a downer, but these guys
actually are fucking funny. I got to hand it to this,
these two guys, and it wouldn't be a Giallo without
an uncredited Carlo Mancini roll who I didn't see her,
but she's on the Curetta.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
She's in there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Luciano Pigazzi also plays a nightclub owner. He's always great
when he pops up. Just this whole cast is kind
of like these top notch Italian characters that you see
in a lot of Gialli. Full of red herrings. Two
amazing dummy drops. I mean, this is it's just a
great one. I really enjoyed it, That's what I say.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
This one was just released I think last year on
Blu Ray, and it took them a really long time.
I think it was a newer Blu Ray company and
the only elements that they had were just wrecked. And
they I mean, from what I've seen, from what other
people have posted, it looks like they did a great

(27:49):
job cleaning it up.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, that must be what I watched, because this was beautiful,
like it looked fully restored. Here you June seventh Kung
Fu Challenge of the Tiger from nineteen eighty. This is written, directed,
and starring one of the Bruce Lees, Long King Long,
and this was included in the game's Game of Clones

(28:11):
severin box set.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Also stars Richard Harrison, who acts kind of like an
American James Bond type character. It's about a scientist who
creates a formula that can kill sperm or fertility in
all humans, and he's murdered in the very beginning. One
of the best cold openings ever. It's fucking hilarious. The
formula stolen. So CIA agents Bruce Lee and Richard Harrison

(28:35):
are recruited to save the human race. As a bunch
of terrorists and gangsters, they're all kind of fighting to
get their hands on this formula. Harrison is a complete
womanizer in this he's introduced playing tennis with a bunch
of topless girls, all in slow motion. I got this
picture on my phone. This is another part where I'm like,
I got to show Eric at this if she hasn't

(28:56):
seen this. While they're playing, they end up they're hot
and sweaty, so they go jump into the pool and
this scene starts where they're panting over the pool and
this lady's in the pool and there's this little guy
just it's a statue, just peeing in her mouth, that's all.
And then you know there's odd dubbing going on in this,

(29:17):
and in the background you could hear Richard Harrison talking
to other girls and the girls are all, oh, look,
she's really enjoying that. Like it's just funny, awesome, love
the great post the postter Ard and this is amazing.
You got to take a look at it on letterboxed.
Bruce Ley karate chops a bowl and the skull and
kills it and that's complete with animation of the skull cracking.

(29:37):
Very cool scene. Total exploitation. Crowd please are kind of
a Poe Boy film feel that feels like it should
be part of jeane'sploitation each and every year. A lot
of characters kind of walking down busy streets with just
natural bystanders looking directly at him and looking directly in
the camera. I always love that kind of a Larry

(29:57):
Cohen you know, no permits used when film. This has
a buffalo reed looking guy played by Brad Harris fighting
Bolo young Se who pops up perfect midnight movie. Like
I said, it seems like to be a lot of
laughing and cheering. I know that the Draft House played
this last year in Austin. I totally missed it. I
think he was in attendance.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Oh I remember, yeah, I wasn't able to make that.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I remember that it was probably for the box set. Yeah,
that was touring and stuff, but Challenge of the Tiger
one of my favorites of the month for sure.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah, we have that box set, so definitely going to
get around to see in that one.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
So my kung fu pick was Heroic Ones from nineteen
eighty three. This is on two B. It's also known
as Inheritor of kung Fu. Tee Long's master is on
a mission to find a kung fu scroll. He accuses
Telong of stealing it and then banishes him. So then

(30:59):
Teelong gets a some other clans he heals, stumbles on
some dead kids, then a kung fu battle on a
there's this like really epic kung fu battle on a
water platform at the end. It has a few moments
that remind me of Five Elements Ninja Five Element Ninjas.

(31:19):
I never know. I always forget which one's a plural
in that. But there's a sequel, Hero at the Border Region,
which is on the Wu Tang Channel YouTube channel, which
borrows a lot of scenes from this one. There's a
lot of overlap between the two. They're seemingly connected, but

(31:39):
it's mainly just reusing the water platform fight scene at
the end.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
I mean I liked it. It's fine. I watched it
because it was a dead kid movie and I've been,
you know, steadily working on volume two and it was good.
I guess this was early in the month. I think
this was before June even started, Like when they release
the list. I was like, I'm going to start early
because I'm going to finish it, and I did not.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, I did the same too, I started early. So
some of this stuff, I'm like, yeah, I guess I
watched this.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm like reading my notes, I'm like, yeah, I remember
this sort of. I remember the sequel more for some reason.
I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Anyway, there's dead kids in this, so good for them.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Then Day eight is heist. I watched Violent Panic the
Big Crash from nineteen seventy six. This was on Hoopla,
but I believe one of the Ocean Partner labels put
this out. It might be on a double set. It's
a Kinji Fukusaku film. He's mostly known for his yakuza films,
but this one felt much more like a Pliitio Tecchi film,

(32:46):
which I really enjoyed about it.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Poster looks like it too.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, it's cool. I think I think that art is
from like the release, and so I think whoever watched
it kind of felt that vibe and made it like that. Anyway,
So Takashi is a bank robber and the opening is
a montage of multiple heightsts happening in different cities. He
plans on one final big score and then plans to

(33:11):
go to Brazil, but he ends up being entangled with
a woman who won't leave him, and you know, he
tries to get rid of her, but then he always
ends up being like, okay, come on kind of thing.
His partner dies and then the so the brother of
the partner goes after him. Then there's this side plot
of the car body shop repairman and a doctor, and

(33:33):
then time spent with the cops investigating, and all of
this comes together in what is probably the most insane
final fifteen to twenty minutes that I've ever seen in
a movie. And you know, there's a car crash in
another another film later that is like this massive pile

(33:54):
up that happens towards the middle of the film. This
the last fifteen to twenty minutes. It's a car chase,
but because it's like all three of these plots converting
into once that is part of the car chase itself.
It's just it's insane.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
That sounds awesome.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, hard recommend another one of my favorites from the month,
Violent Panic, The Big Crash and the Big Crash. I
see why it's called that now or that's why that's
the subtitle of the film. So in nineteen seventy six
it was on Hoopla, but I believe it's also got
a Blu Ray release What About You for heist heists.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
So this isn't really an exploitation pick I guess, but
Johnny Guitar from nineteen fifty four, directed by Nicholas Ray
who did Rebel Without a Cause, there is a bank
heis that plays a big part in the movie, shifting
the entire plot, kind of setting up the third act.
And it worked because I had watched this for Mercedes
McCambridge for the run Home Slow episode and I saw

(34:55):
the heist and I was all, yeah, Okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna pick this. This worked.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
I did watch All the King's Men based on your
recommendation to holy shit, that movie is great.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It's good. One best best picture.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yes, well it was hard watching it right now where
I was like, oh god, this feels too timely.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
For oh yeah, where people holding funds and yeah, cutting
back on education.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Good times anyway, receives mcambridge was fucking great in that movie, so.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
She's great and everything. Okay, she is. I've listened to
the Run Home Slow episode, yes, but yeah, she steals
a show in this, but also Joan Crawford. She plays Vienna,
who's this gun tony businesswoman opens a saloon in the
middle of nowhere because she caught wind that a railroad
is being built and she knows how'll drive in some

(35:43):
big bucks and the nearby town just hate her. They
try to run her off. The sheriff gets involved, threatening
to outlaw drinking and gambling outside the town limits. McCambridge
is played by Emma Small. Early in the film, her
brother's killed and she thinks that Joan Crawford's men who
work with her murdered him, so she just calls Joan

(36:06):
Crawford a tramp every chance she gets. Really wants her dead.
Crawford's old fling, Johnny Guitar played by Sterling Hayden, pops up.
She wants him to be like a partner of the saloon,
but there's still kind of this animosity between them because
they once had a relationship. Also has John Carrodin in it.
Ernest borgnine, Royal Dano, very dramatic dialogue. I brought it

(36:30):
up in the Run Home Slow, but they just deliver
it with these neck jerks, like so dramatic where it's
like God, that looks fucking painful. But I love the
melodrama in it. Every character in this is just confident,
like the cast is perfect. Of course, Mercedes McCambridge can
never outdo her in any role I've seen her. She
seems to be born to play every role she's cast in.

(36:52):
But yeah, nothing much to say. Everybody should watch this
if you haven't seen. I think it's a near perfect Western.
Some of the characters at the end, for me personally,
kind shift in their the tone and the character they've
they held the entire film. But that was necessary to
wrap it up, and even though it felt forced, I
understood it. I do have to point out that Hayden

(37:13):
Sterling Hayden playing the guitar as Johnny is hilarious to
watch because he has he's never picked up a guitar
in his life. He probably picked on. He's never played
a chord, so when he's playing and singing songs walking around,
it's just the funniest thing to watch because it's so unrealistic,
like he's you know, it's not really him strumming the
chords obviously, but Johnny guitar love it. I have a

(37:36):
shitload of Mercedes Macambridge movies coming up, by the way. Okay,
we are going to day nine, right yeah, Free Space,
our first free Space. This was another movie I watched
because of Run Home. Slow doesn't have Mercedes Macambridge, but
it does star Gary Kent. Schoolgirls in Chains nineteen seventy three, written,
produced and directed by Don Jones, who pops up a

(37:58):
lot in Gary Kent's book that reading. That's amazing. I'm
going to finish it. But this starts off with a
woman who's she's stranded on the side of the road
because her car is broken down. A car with two
brothers guy's named Frank and John pull over to help her,
offer to take her to a mechanic, and they end
up taking her to their home, throwing her into a
seller where two other women are being kept. One's been

(38:20):
there for two months, one two weeks. The brother Frank
is played by Gary Kent, and he's very stoic and
just super creepy. Perfect role for him because it's a
young Gary Kent, so he's still kind of finding he's
a stuntman turn actor, so that his acting is a
little questionable in a lot of roles, even in Run

(38:41):
Home Slow, especially Run Home Slow. But he's really good
in this kind of Anthony Perkins in Psycho type of thing.
The brother John is like Lenny from of Mice and Men.
Very simple Jack. There's a ma in the house that's
never shown, but you can kind of guess why as
you're watching it. It's a little but the brothers, I
think they're creepy enough. They make it worth, you know,

(39:04):
watching and sitting through. Like I said, Gary Kin's especially good.
But the other brothers played by John Parker, who's the
director of Dementia, Daughter of Horror. Oh, that was my
pick for Disembodied. Yeah. I didn't realize that until I
started like checking him out on letterbox. I was like,
oh shit, he directed this amazing short movie that I love.
Some scenes get really uncomfortable. The goofy brother John likes

(39:27):
to play doctor with the captive girls. There's a terrible
rape scene that has a sexy saxophone and heart music
playing over it as it happens. Yeah, incredibly inappropriate, but
just a lovely idea like let's make this as romantic
as possible, but it's a vicious kind of rape scene.

(39:48):
There's a flashback scene where Frank's mom is telling his
girlfriend at the time that she's been fucking Frank, so
that you get some incest going on. And what kind
of triggers Frank Kent's character to start kind of getting
these women and putting them in the cellar is that
his mom tells them that all young pretty girls are

(40:09):
evil and the devil and they should be kept in
a cage. Yeah, we are, they are, And that's why
I love this movie. All the young women in this
are They give very realistic performances, like I don't know
how much of the script they knew about, but it
seems like they were caught off guard in a lot
of situations, which asta makes it feel very uncomfortable. The music,

(40:30):
and there's original songs and music by Joseph Powell. He
has an inspiring opening credit song that everybody should listen to,
but he is like, oh, if he's like more crazy
than the brothers in this, I don't know what he
was thinking when he scored this thing. Very cool shots,
a lot of great camera angles. The director of photography's
wrong Garcia, who went on to film the entire Twin

(40:52):
Peak series and fire Walk with Me, And you could
see a lot of a lot of the car works
seems where they're driving in the car. He does some great,
great angles. Yeah, it's kind of like a three star
Scuzy film, but I bumped it up because I love
the ending. Okay, three and a half your first free space, my.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
First free space. So John will host a marathon here
like I don't know, every other month with his film
club buddies, and this was one of the films in
it and I had never seen it. Usually, he'll most
of the stuff that he programs for his marathons are

(41:29):
things that he's seen before and knows that they're going
to be good, like crowd pleasers kind of thing. This
one he hadn't seen before and neither had I. So
I was like, all right, cool, and we had the
disc for it. That's three the Hard Way from nineteen
seventy four, So I mean it's just the trifecta of
blaxploitation goodness. Yet Jim Brown as a record producer, You've

(41:53):
got Jim Kelly as a karate instructor, and Fred Williamson.
I think he has a job, but I mean all
he does is just like meet new women everywhere he goes.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
It's all he needs to do.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
I mean, yeah, that's all he does. Jim Brown's wife
gets kidnapped by a group of white supremacists, so then
the three Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Fred Williamson all team
up to get her back and put a stop to
the white supremacist plot to poison the water supply with
a toxin that only kills black people. I mean this,

(42:28):
I mean Eddie movie about three of well two, Jim
Kelly's fine of my favorite black exploitation actors is you know,
going after and beating the shit out of and killing
white supremais Yes, I'm I'm one hundred percent here for it.
Hell yeah, I love this movie. Another one of my
favorites of the month.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
You've seen this, I have not seen this.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
This is You're in for a tree?

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah, I really, I mean obviously, I try and cram
in as many Fred Williamson movies will all year round,
but especially during Jude pploitation.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
No, I have not seen this one.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
It's it's great. Hard recommend for this one for sure.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Corp burns. Yes, I can just see a white premise.
I'm assuming anyone white and this is evil. Yes, it's funny.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Yeah, all right. Day ten is Jess Franco. I put
off my Jess Franco pick over and over and over again,
and I finally I was and there are no shortage
of just Franco movies, so you would get this very
easy for me to just fucking pull one out and
fucking watch it. And I ended up doing a rewatch

(43:35):
of Vampires lest Posts because I have a reason though,
because John just bought me the a Nora Criterion Blu ray,
which has Mike Madsen on the cover, as you know
the Vampires Lesbos pose, and so I was like, oh,
I've been meaning to rewatch it because it's been fucking
years since I've seen it, And before I rewatch a

(43:59):
Noora with John, I was like, I should watch that
to see like what other things I can pick up on. Yeah,
so that was my reason I rewatched Vampires Lesbos. We
have the disc, but it's also streaming on Hoopla for
free if that's hooked up to your library. But I
would say peak Soladad Miranda. But obviously this is at
the end of her life. You know, she died in

(44:21):
nineteen seventy in a horrible car crash. This came out
in seventy seventy one. She is just one of the
most stunning actresses to watch, Like I think she to me,
she's up there with like Edwige Finnick, Like she's just
up there with someone who just immediately transfixes you. So

(44:42):
of course it makes absolute sense for her to be
a lesbian vampire because she's just you know, she's just like, Oh,
it's one of the sexiest movies of all time. I
think you know, if you haven't seen it, if you
need an introduction to Jess Franco, Honestly, it's a going
to go down from here if you start with this one,

(45:02):
So maybe save it.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Point.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
I mean, I think she's she's great and I equally
love she killed an Ecstasy. Oh yeah, I do think
that you've got maybe those two. Maybe start with one
of those as an introduction, and then you know, bump
your way down to like, I don't know, say this
of Notre Dame or something like that, and you know,

(45:25):
get a few more like maybe women in Prison movies
or something like that, and then come back to like
a good one like this or she Killed an Ecstasy.
But yeah, I'm not. I mean, obviously, if I was
not including the rewatches, this would be a favorite of
the month. But I've seen it before, so I'm not
going to include that is favorite because it's not a

(45:45):
new to me.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, and the soundtrack to this is I don't know
if it's like considered a holy grad, but I have
the vinyl and it's just like one of my favorite
vinyl in my collection.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Yeah, that's great. What about you for Jess Franco.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Okay, I went with Marquis Decide Justine okay from nineteen
fifty nine. Not on the level of Actually I think
I might have rated it higher. I tend to rate
higher now as I progress in my old age.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Really, I'm like, anyway, mine are going down? Or are
you need to pick it? You need to step it up?
Movie made for it?

Speaker 2 (46:20):
I need to watch. I did give my first half
rate half star rating the other day. I watched pet
Cemetery Bloodlines, and I was like, Okay. As soon as
I started feeling like okay, I'm just this is funny.
This is really bad funny, and then they like the
endings happens, I'm like, this is terrible. Half star. Sorry anyway.
Marquis de Sade Justine's follows two sisters there who are

(46:43):
thrown out of a school because their parents are killed
and they can no longer pay for staying there. One sister, Juliette,
is kind of a murderous bitch, while the other, Justine,
is an innocent virgin, and Juliette heads to a brothel
to take both of them in, but Justine's like, I
don't want any part of this. She runs away, and
pretty much the entire movie, which runs over two hours.

(47:05):
That's a long. This is Jess Franco's Barry Lindon. We
just kind of follow her running into every person that
takes her in and is at first kind is just
trying to corrupt her in some way, which is a
lot of fun to watch. Kinski has a starring credit,
but he has maybe ten minutes of screen time in this.

(47:27):
He plays the Marquis Desade, telling the story from his
prison cell. I watched this because Mercedes McCambridge is in
it again, steals the show. She's Madame Dubois. But Jack
Palance is in this and he's right there with her. Huh.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
You gotta do your impression anytime you bring him.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Up and you I'm my number one. That's my Jack
Palince Palance, but he's this eccentric guy who runs this
Brethren that's in pursuit of pleasure. He takes in women
needing shelter, chains them up and turns them into sex
slaves with all these gross other Jack Palince looking men.

(48:09):
Rose Albanieri makes an appearance. Oh, she's one of Palnce's girls.
Howard Vernon of course pops up wearing the worst wig
you could ever imagine, Like, this is worse than Vampire
and Brooklyn.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Shit, this is bad, but.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
He looks good in it. I love this way more
than most, I think, because I was on my mcambridge
kick and she's amazing in it. But I thought Juliet,
I thought all the characters, Justine, just the length of it,
the dreaminess of it, Like I was totally sucked in,
watched it in one sitting. Sometimes I have to break
up long movies like I hate doing that, but I

(48:46):
give it four stars. I love this thing nice And
we are moving on to June eleventh. Day eleven is
nineties action. We already talked about my man. I had
to put him in Fred Williamson. Would it be June's
ploitation with him? So I'm going with Black Cobra Part three,
Manila Connection. This is directed by Antonio Margotetti's son Eduardo,

(49:10):
and Williamson is back as Chicago cop Robert Malone. This
time he sent to Manila to investigate a missing American
and find a stockpile of weapons, because that's what you
do when you're a Chicago cop, right, Yeah, obviously this
is kind of a buddy sequel to you know, the

(49:30):
previous two with Williamson and a terrible actor. Sorry but
he's terrible. His name's Fory Smith. He's just so lazy.
So Monotone really bad. Has a bunch of sloppy fights,
lazy editing, completely ill fitting music. But the music is
badass because it's like Italian horror music. Oh some of

(49:51):
it sounds like goblin ripoffs, like something from like Profondo
Rosso or something. It's just really good. But Yeah, when
I think of jean'sploitation, I do think in movies like this,
where it's just kind of a mess, people are just
going for it. There's no real script, Like this is
kind of a turd, but it's like a perfect turd
for nineties action exploitation. Jeane'sploitation stuff. Yeah, I can't wait

(50:15):
to watch part four Black Cobra. Part four is coming
up next.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Oh my god. You know, every year I look forward
to what is Lance's Fred Williamson movie going to be?
This year?

Speaker 2 (50:29):
I wanted to fit in another one, but I ended
up taking it out last minute. It ran longer than
I had time for.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Yeah, I cut it like I think The Red Shoes
was the longest movie I watched. And yeah, I uh, well,
we'll get to that in like two picks. My shortest
one but nineties action for me was Expect the Unexpected
from nineteen ninety eight. I had to download this one

(50:58):
from legal adjacent Hong Kong action film directed by Patrick Taw.
This is about this elite organized crime bureau team. It's
headed by a guy named Ken played by Simon Yam,
and they are working to bring down a gang of thieves.

(51:20):
The movie starts with like a jewelry store robbery across
the street from a restaurant. The restaurant owner named Macy.
She's a witness to this crime and so she soon
becomes involved in this love triangle with Ken and his
second in command, Sam, played by Sean Wow. It's a
Patrick Towe film and he worked regularly with Johnny Toe,

(51:41):
who is actually a producer on this, so I expected
it would be similar to films where he was an
assistant director to Toe, like The Iron, Butterfly and Lifeline,
and it certainly has that pace and esthetic. Simon Yam
is super hot in this. He always is, though he
still is. Fun fact, so I was working on a

(52:05):
blue ray a special feature thing researching Simon Yam. He
put out a photography.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Book with news, oh you brought this up?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
And no, no, no, that's Eldest Choi and that was for
the Demon's Baby episode. No. Simon Yam also put one.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Out Okay, yeah, I mean when you know you're hot,
I guess you're approached and you're like, you need to
make a book.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Of there is a copy on like Taiwan's eBay or something.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Like that, and when does it arrive?

Speaker 3 (52:35):
I didn't. Someday I'll own it someday. There is a
child death in this John told me about it before
I watched it. But it involves an appliance, and those
are some of my favorite type of child that's they
don't actually show the death. It's like more of the
aftermath thing. But the fact that like the appliance was
involved in the first place makes me happy.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
I gonna say the appliance. It's we have to get
the book to find out.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Yes, I don't know if I.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Or we could just watch the movie.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
You can just watch the movie. You should. It's really good.
The ending is upsetting and unexpected, hence the title, although
you should expect me unexpected because that's the title. I
was not prepared for it. I can imagine if this
were playing in a theater that there would be people

(53:23):
like screaming at the screen at the end of this,
like in distress about it. Yeah, I mean, I don't
want to spoil it because I think people should watch
it again. I'm sorry I had to download this one.
Hopefully this feels like one that will eventually get released
by like Vinegerson Drome or Eureka eighty eight Films. One
of those at some point, because it's a you know,

(53:44):
Johnny Toe adjacent it'll probably get out there someday, all right,
So Expecting Unexpected nineteen ninety eight. Another one of my
favorites from the month day twelve is cartoons. I watched
a ten minutes short on Canopy call The Metamorphosis of
Mister Samsa from nineteen seventy seven. This is an animated

(54:06):
adaptation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and it was made from
carving images into sand with glass, and so I can
see why it's only ten minutes, because like this is
the kind of tedium that you get with things like
stop motion and things like that. But I love outsider
animation like this. It's easy to recommend. It follows the

(54:30):
story of Gregor Sampsa very pretty directly. The director Caroline Leaf.
I think she's got some other films, so I'm going
to get around to watching those at some point, because
I thought this was just really interesting.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Is it all just animated stuff? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:46):
It looks like Yeah. I feel like this would probably
end up as like a special feature if she was
like adjacently connected to you know, anything else, def crocodile, Yeah,
something like andile definitely, so I enjoyed it, and it's
easy to recommend because it's only ten minutes, so nice,

(55:07):
what about you?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
This is my only cheat because I have seen this before,
but to age myself like I do every episode. I
probably haven't watched this in thirty thirty five years. Came
out in nineteen eighty seven. Family Dog. I brought this
up and run home slow oh right area. Mercedes McCambridge
provides one of the character voices. This is It's a

(55:29):
twenty two minute episode that premiered on Steven Spielberg's anthology
TV series Amazing Stories from eighty five I think it started.
It ran for a couple of years on NBC and
Family Dog. It later turned into its own series after
this kind of it's called a pilot, but it was
just a segment. It was created just for Amazing Stories.

(55:50):
But it ended up getting picked up for ten episodes
for a single season. I remember watching those when it
came out and I was like, definitely, what it probably
didn't deserve a series. I hate to say, but this
episode that I watched and I loved. I watched it
so much as a kid. It's just it's the best

(56:11):
So the plot is about a dog who the family
just terrorizes. You have a really bratty boy chases the
dog around with a vacuum cleaner. You have a little
girl who really plays rough with him, dresses him up
is a doll. And one night the mom cooks and
the you know, she plates everybody, and the family takes
to bite and it tastes like shit. So they're all
and they're kind of scooping it on the floor to

(56:33):
the dog who's eating everything, and they're like, hey, why
don't we catch a movie and go see a pizza
or go grab a pizza and catch a movie. So
they all leave and the dog is completely just a mobile,
just fat of food, completely full, and the home is
broken into by these two burglars, and the dog just
laying there like can't move because it's so overstuffed, and

(56:57):
the dad comes the family comes home, then Dad's like,
you know, you screwed up. You're supposed to be a
guard dog. So that it takes the dog to like
a guard dog school, and the main kind of head
of this dog school is played by Mercedes McCambridge with
their rough voice. I loved it. I just love this thing.
I hadn't seen it in forever. I think this was

(57:18):
other than Truck Turner. This was my highest rated. It's
not even a film, but I just rated it. Yeah,
I think it's on Vimeo. I think that's where I
watched it. But a young Tim Burton worked on it.
Like I said, Spielberg produced it. Danny Elfman and Steve
Bartek do music. Just really great stuff. You could check
out the series if it like it appeals to you. Didn't.

(57:39):
I wasn't like sucked in as a kid when I
watched the series, but this thing I could probably watch
over and over again. We are on Friday the thirteenth,
which June literally fell on a Friday the thirteenth this year.
Don't Go in the Woods from nineteen eighty one, directed
by a Jungle Trap Lady Street Fighter director James Bryan.

(58:01):
Very Friday, the thirteen four friends go into the woods
and they, along with some randos who are also visiting
the woods, are being stalked and killed by a killer.
I had another Brian film on my june'splitation last year,
The Executioner Part two. It was Vigilantes pick and great film.

(58:21):
All of Brian's films I love. I think Jungle Trap
has a lot of endearing qualities, but the Executioner Part
two you can't beat it. This has a great score
by h Kinsley Thurber, which Josiemba and Nanny Choy used
his inspiration when they had to redo or create a
score for the Jungle Trap release that they did for

(58:42):
Agva As Taken by Savages, their band, And it has
an awesome original song during the end credits, which is
kind of like a Madman goofy song, you know, singing
about what happened in the movie and stuff. Well, I
was searching on to B though for this movie. I
found that there's another Don't Go in the Woods, and

(59:04):
it's a horror but it's also apparently a musical. But
what was really interesting is that it's Vincent Dinafrio's directorial debut. Yeah.
I started like, I was all, let's check this out,
and man it was whow talk about like you know,
the digital camera, and then like just it. I'm definitely
gonna watch it. Yeah. This makes it a really solid

(59:28):
Friday thirteenth pick because it has a great sleeping bag
kill in it. Very low ratings on Letterbox, I totally
get why people don't enjoy this. It's a complete mess.
The sound editing is a huge turn off. The voice
dubbing is like almost unbearable annoying in a lot of regards.
The actors have never acted in their life before, probably
never acted again after. This kind of never ends. But

(59:50):
I think I gave it like three stars of yeah,
it's just yeah, no spoilers. But when the Killer in
the Woods actually is finally revealed about five minutes into
the film, like, it's pretty jarring. Like I had no
clue it would go in this weird direction. I'm like,
what did this movie just turn into? Yeah, don't go

(01:00:11):
in the woods?

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
Okay, Here's where I failed. I did not finish My
Friday the thirteenth pick Oh. I started it, and then
I forgot about it, and then I was putting my
notes together for the rest of the movies. I just
crammed in this weekend before you came over, and I
realized that I never watched My Friday the Thirteenth movie,
which was a tie horror film called Thong Souk thirteen

(01:00:38):
aka Long Weekend. It's on YouTube. It has subtitles, so
here's what I would have watched. It's about a group
of friends that sets off for the weekend get away
on Friday the thirteenth to challenge a supernatural belief, only
to realize that some things are not to be messed with.
Has three point one on Letterbox under eight hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Views, twenty thirteen.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Yeah. I was really trying to like stick with the
Friday the thirteenth thing, and like found this like random one,
and I was like, all right, it's you know, it's
a tie film, so I probably won't hate it as much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
But I'm going to watch List of this bad point.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Yeah, I didn't finish it, so I'm going to watch
Listed so i'd remember to watch it. Finish it, I
should say. But yeah, I was really excited when I
found that, and I'm disappointing myself. I didn't finish, but
you know, it's been a rough month. So moving on
to the next free space. I watched Egg from two
thousand and five. This is on Prime. It's a Japanese film.

(01:01:45):
Genre wise, I what is it listed at? It's listed
as horror, fantasy, comedy, science fiction, and drama, and all
of those are correct. It's basically every genre. It's not
a Western though. Anyway. Egg is about this woman I
think I'm pronouncing her name right, ari E r a

(01:02:07):
I Arii. Anyway, her job, she sits at a computer
with headphones on and she plays binary code mind sweeper.
You remember mind sweeper. Yeah, she plays that like it's
like literally like click click click click click click click
click click. She's like always clicking on ones and zeros.
That's her whole job. But she starts sort of blacking

(01:02:29):
out and having these visions of an egg, just an
egg in like this red sort of void and there's
just an egg there, and then the egg starts moving,
and then the egg starts hatching, and all of this
is happening over time, all accompanied by these massive headaches.
So the egg hatches, and then the bug that emerges
begins to torment her. The cops are chasing her because

(01:02:52):
they think she's mentally unstable, but her friends are, you know,
trying to be supportive and like help her face figure
out what happened, and so like figure out some like
family backstory, like what's the whole deal. And it turns
out this is like an inherited thing, like you have
this like bug in your brain, this egg in your brain.

(01:03:17):
I'm explaining it very poorly, but I promise it's very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
So they're not they're hallucinations, but it's really happening.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Yes, Okay, visually it's really interesting. I think the bug
is like fun, especially he'll like run up to the
camera like it talk. It makes noises, but it doesn't talk.
So I'm just gonna say this. So I take calcium

(01:03:47):
and vitamin D supplements every day because my mother and
my grandmother on her side had osteoporosis. This is what
I have inherited. This is I'm probably also going to
have like Alzheimer's when I'm older. That's we have my
four grandparents, or dementia. Anyway, we'll find out. This is
what I've inherited. Ari Ariy has inherited a retina nerve

(01:04:13):
egg monster, which honestly is kind of adorable. I know,
I've said it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
It's like a digimun.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Yeah, there you go. It's adorable, except for all the
miserable pain it causes. The mother was so concerned, Sorry,
the grandmother was so concerned about it that she ends
up killing a child because she doesn't want her to
go through it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
A young child.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Yes, it's going to be in the book. Yes, Yes,
I'm not going to spoil how Ari solves the problem
of her retina nerve monster. I'm sure people can guess,
but you probably won't expect the sort of genre bending
aspects of this. It is actually really funny. It's trying.

(01:04:59):
The humor translates really well, but it also has these
very art house sensibilities to it, so it's a really
interesting one. I can't remember who told me there was
a dead kidnet to watch it, but yeah, I'm glad
they did because I actually enjoyed this. It's also seventy
three minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Oh, very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Yeah, so it does drag a little bit towards the
end when it comes to this sort of predictable conclusion,
but I liked it. Egg two thousand and five.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Nice, Okay, My Free Space The Scarf from nineteen fifty one.
This is another Mercedes McCambridge movie, directed by Ea DuPont.
This is actually, from what I can tell, her first
leading role since Yeah, since she kind of busted into
the scene with All the kings Men. She starts with

(01:05:47):
John Ireland, who also co starred and All the Kingsmen
with her, which she won the Oscar for as well.
Ireland plays a man who escapes from an asylum. He
was convicted for a murder two years ago, murdering a woman,
and he escapes because he's been having these memories and
he has no recollection of the murder that he was
convicted for, but he wants to find out if he

(01:06:09):
really did kill this woman. So he's like, am I
really crazy? Did I really do this? I need to
find out? And he meets mcambridge, who she's wearing a scarf,
and this triggers more blurred memories of the murder, and
she finds out he's a wanted man and believes he's innocent,
so they kind of you know, that's kind of like
a quick summary of the movie because that takes a while.

(01:06:31):
That's all kind of towards the end. But again, another
very theatrical. It's from the early fifties, quick dialogue. It's
very stagy, like a stage play, just so damn dramatic.
Like most of Mercedes McCambridge roles. Robert Block claimed that
this movie ripped off his first novel, but I guess
it was analyzed and he didn't like, you know, press

(01:06:54):
any charges or any type of season desist, but it
was kind of deemed like yeah, your first novel was
called The Scarf, but that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Yeah, well, if he was Harlan Alison, he definitely would
have sued, Yeah, even if he didn't have a case.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
But yeah, I really enjoyed it The Scarf. Like I said,
Mercedes mc cambridge every film, it's difficult for someone to
kind of outshine her in the cast. But there is
a character named Ezra who's played by an actor named
James Barton, and he's like a Charles Bukowski type guy
where he has like just quick witted saints. Physically he
looks like Charles Bukowski too, but he's like this tough guy.

(01:07:32):
He denies authority. He's given like every sucker the benefit
of the doubt. He's always rooting for the underdog. Really
great characters in this movie. But yeah, I think I
watched this on YouTube or two be one or the other.
The Scarf on my Mercedes McCambridge kick And then day fifteen,
we're halfway there, right home, Slow. This is Revenge for

(01:07:56):
the Revenge category. Listen to it with a listener episode
with Julias smith Sadly Eric is not in it that much.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Sorry I had audio issues. I'm sorry. Well you know,
we're still we're still coming back, like I did. I
didn't push the right button for me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Whoops. Sorry, Like no, but I mean you're you're right
in the post too. It was all about like listening
to Julian Yeah, like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
I mean, I just I shouldn't even be there, like
I'm just here like Lancey Modock, you know, you moderate
her talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
I just gushed on me Cambridge for like four hours.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Yeah. So check out our episode. That's the last one
before this one. So my pick for revenge was Family
Honor from nineteen seventy three. This is on to be
John and I. This this took a couple sittings to finish.
I really was not digging on it too much. The
poster looked really promising, like I you know, I was like, oh,

(01:08:54):
this guy like looks like Dennis Weaver, my fioso something
dude ready to get some revenge. And he just turns
out to be this like overly sensitive guy who like
his mom keeps pushing him to get revenge for his
father's death because some mobsters gunned him down and they're like,

(01:09:15):
you need to get revenge, And it's very like stereotypical,
like pinched fingers, Italian mafia type situation, not in a
good way. The best part about it is just how
like seventies grimy New York it is. But it's just
really slow. It's generic mob revenge. There are some parts

(01:09:36):
in it where there's some woman that he's trying to
help detox off of heroin, and they show like needles
going into skin and I'm like, is this real? This
is probably real? And I'm just ugh, Like, I know
I'm covered in tattoos, but I fucking hate needles and
I don't want to look at it. Yeah, this one
took a few sittings to finish, and I fell asleep

(01:09:57):
a few times within that. So it's for New York
crime seventies complete US only. I think I didn't really
recommend this one, and then sixteenth eighties comedy. Whenever I could,
I picked a Hong Kong movie. So Hong Kong comedy

(01:10:18):
Winners and Sinners from nineteen eighty three. Samo, Yes, I
love this movie. Another one of my favorites from the
month that was streaming on Prime. I think we have
I think I looked afterwards and we do actually have
a disc too, so that's fine. I didn't have to
get up. But it's about these five friends, including Samuel

(01:10:39):
Hung and Richard Eng, who are released from prison and
they start a cleaning business to stay out of trouble,
but they end up caught in a war between rival
triad gangs who are fighting for control of counterfeit money
or currency market something like that, something to do with
counterfeit money. There's really fun moments. I'll take Hong Kong

(01:11:03):
comedy over just traditional comedy any day. Like it's just
it's silly, and it's never really like laugh out loud funny,
but I like, I just enjoy the general silliness vibe,
especially when you throw in Samo fights. He's my favorite
martial artist, Like I love watching him fight. I think

(01:11:24):
the highlight that anyone who's seen this would point to
is the car accident pile up that seems to never end.
It just starts and goes and goes and goes and
like and then you think, like, okay, that's that's it.
Like the people have gotten out of the car and
they start scratching their head. Nope, here comes more cars.
It's more piling on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
It's fantastic kind of blues Brothers or Yes, Smoky Part two.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Yeah, it's it's great. So Winners and Centners nineteen eighty three,
definitely recommend.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
My eighties comedy pick is Euphoria spelled ufo Rhea okay
teen eighty four. The stars Fred Ward, Cindy Williams, and
the Great Harry Dean Stanton. So Fred Ward, he's fantastic
in this, Actually the all three are. But he kind
of thinks he's Wayland Jennings. And it has a great
soundtrack because they have a lot of Whyland Jennings songs.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
It's fred Ward sing. He seems like he would sing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
He does sing in this. Yeah, he sings some Jenning's
on the stage and oh in real life, yeah probably, Yeah,
I could see. I mean, I don't know the answer,
but I would imagine he just has that swagger. Yeah.
I wonder if maybe those are actually his songs. Maybe
did the score to this. I didn't look into this
or the soundtrack. But he's his character who's he doesn't

(01:12:39):
have a penny to his name. So he's introduced during
the opening credits, breaking open condom dispensers to steal the
quarters and gas station restrooms, eating food, real fast and
grocery stores. While nobody's looking just kind of a down
on his lut Guy, and he has a buddy living
as sort of a traveling preacher, brother Bud, played by Hair.

(01:13:01):
He has this great scene where he's given a sermon
saying everybody's going to go to Hell. Ward plays a
cripple man and walks up and Harry Dean heals them,
so they start getting money that way, and then Cindy Williams,
it's kind of all she's kind of the lead character.
She plays a supermarket cashier who's very religious and thinks
that Jesus came down to Earth on a flying saucer

(01:13:23):
and that's how he ascended into Heaven, and Adam and
Eve were left as astronauts, and Ward kind of starts
falling in love for her, and they both kind of
start hooking up and going out. And this local older
couple goes onto the news and they talk about seeing
a UFO one night, and Cindy Williams's character believes a
UFO is coming down to Earth and that she is

(01:13:46):
Noah of the arc of the of the actual flying saucer.
So the whole movie's kind of them all each reflecting
on their own beliefs as they imagine what's happening, what
they do, kind of dealing with Cindy Williams's crazy. He's
falling in love with her. Fred Ward is falling in
love with her, but she's potentially a crazy lady. But

(01:14:08):
I might get past that. Very down to earth stuff, Like,
the conversations are very natural, it's very laid back, kind
of freestyling feeling some of the dialogue. This was a
funny quote when it's Fred Ward talking to Harry Dean.
It's like, do you believe in something, Bud, And Harry
Dean says, everybody ought to believe in something. I believe.
I'll have another drink, you know, shit like that, you know,

(01:14:30):
and then it like kind of fades out into the
next scene. Silly Stuff definitely works as a comedy, but
it does have kind of a dramatic undertone, just these
three personalities. It throws in these quick scenes and weird
subplots of the town people that are also kind of
dealing with their religious beliefs. Gave me this odd ball
Cohen Brothers meets kind of David Lynch goofy vibes. A

(01:14:54):
couple of people on Letterbox called it a Western repo man,
which is accurate mainly because of Harry Dan and kind
of how the ending comes about. But there is this
one scene that really stood out to me of this
woman who just gave birth and she begins breastfeeding her
baby and she says to her husband, Honey, I wish
she could experience what this feels like, and he quickly says,

(01:15:14):
I know how it feels one time on acid. I
was my own mother. I sucked my own breast. I
was both mother and son. And then they decide to
name their baby Christian Jesus. It's just silly little scenes
like that that I fell in love with as I
was watching this. It would make a perfect double feature
with the movie that I'll talk about here in a

(01:15:35):
bit with Mercedes McCambridge. Or did I already talk about it. No,
I haven't talked about it yet. Okay, Day seventeen is
fold Chi, Happy birthday, foul Chi. I had never seen
four of the Apocalypse. Oh yeah, nineteen seventy five, about
four criminals. They're kicked out of town and they kind
of wander aimlessly through the West. Yes, sad Fabio looking

(01:15:57):
great and beige as he always does. I mean looking
this he's like Rosalvenieri. Every time I watch something with her,
I'm like, she's never looked better. But then, like I
watched Fabio test, I'm like, this guy's never looked better.
He looks great in this. Lynn Frederick plays Bunny, one
of the four of the Apocalypse. She has a tragic story.

(01:16:17):
I was reading about her. She died at thirty nine.
She was married to Peter Seller's very interesting, like read
about her, kind of sad. A youngish looking as young
as he can look. Michael Pollard is in there playing
looking like Peter Jackson, a skinny Peter Jackson. And then
the fourth is Harry Verd who plays Bud. Thomas Millian

(01:16:38):
plays Chuckle, who's like a Manson slash Jack Sparrow type character.
You know, I could, I would imagine like Johnny Depp
pulled true inspiration from this character and not Keith Richards
or whoever he claims. But he joins the group before
about an hour into the film, and he just kind
of torments them the whole movie. People are blowing up

(01:16:59):
bar shotguns, great Volgi Gore. It's an awesome western. It's
one of my favorites of the month. The music is
really strange. I've read some reviews. I think Klawn actually
made comment on it about how he hated the songs.
It's like early Pink Floyd, very poppy, like seventies. One
song kind of like Partridge Family type jams almost, but

(01:17:22):
one song sounded just like a smashing Pumpkin song called
blue Away written by James Eha, which is like not
even It's like the song you go take a piss
or get a drink if they play it live. Okay,
so it's not quite a compliment, but no, yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
You just heard James e has feelings.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Well, when I did see them, when I saw them last,
they played it and I stuck around because everybody was leaving,
and I was all, no, you go, James Eh, Well,
but why is this on the set list? Like why
the fuck are you playing this lot? There's anyway. Yeah,
I loved it. I mean a movie I've had my
watch was for forever, and like I've said every year,

(01:18:03):
if this movie do foulchi. It's kind of tough to
find a lot of his stuff that I haven't seen,
but I'm glad I got this.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Yeah, I'm I'm down to some swim Pickens, but John
had this one downloaded for a while and he had
been wanting to see it too. The Erotosicist from nineteen
seventy two. Definitely not my comfort zone with Fulci because
this is a so it's a political and religious satire
sex comedy about a senator who can't who just can't

(01:18:33):
seem to stop himself from grabbing tushies. He just has
to do it. He sees your booty and he's like
got to pinch it, and then he's a and then
he can't, and then sometimes he doesn't even know he's
doing it, and then he can't let go. Like so
at one point he gets sent to a convent to
try to like cure himself of the tushy grabbing, and

(01:18:56):
he like latches onto one nuns and while he's sleeping
and she's just sitting there, like what am I supposed
to do?

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Like it's do they end up having sex?

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
No, he does end up, so it does get progressively
more horny. My problem with it is, like, I know
there's a lot more going on with this that I
would get out of it if I was more in
tune with Italian politics and social aspects, and like I
get that he's poking fun at and creating a satire

(01:19:29):
about politics and religion, both of which he was just like,
fuck both of those things. But there just seem to
be a lot of in jokes that I was like,
I don't know what this is referencing. I'm so I
felt a little bit lost. You know, It's fine, I'm
glad I watched it, But aside from like the more

(01:19:49):
obvious digs it religion and politicians, I'm just missing a
lot of what would make this a more satisfying watch.
Like I feel like if I watched a commentary, I'm
like Kat Ellinger, she could provide a lot more context
for me, because as it stands right now, I'm like,
it's goofy and whatever. Fine, And I'm I know he

(01:20:10):
got a lot of shit for this because of the
subject matter. I think it was even banned because of that,
but like, yeah, I don't know. I hate like being
just meh about something that's faulty, but you know, they're
not all perfect. I mean, our Geno made Dracula three d's.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Oh yeah, banger, did you see that?

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
What was it? The card player just got announced for
Vinegard Syndrome four K.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
I'm like, I've not seen that yet.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Our bess, someone's gonna buy it and they're gonna be
very happy with it. But that person is not me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
That'll be me, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
So next category is rock and roll. This is another
one that I did not get around to. But I
had a movie that I watched fairly recently, within the
last couple of months that I was like, I'm just
gonna throw this in there to talk about I don't
I think my original pick was like thunder Road or
something like that, and then I looked at the run
time and it was almost two hours, and I was like,
get the fuck out of here. So I replaced it

(01:21:11):
with a movie called Halloween Pussy Trap, Kill Kill from
twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Another one.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
You folks know where this is already going because it's
from twenty seventeen. It was on two B. This is
in or it will be in volume two, and I'm
going to share my write up that I have already
done for it, obviously subject to change after you know, editing,
proof reading and all that stuff. Halloween Pussy Trap Kill
Kill twenty seventeen, an all female rock band gets trapped

(01:21:38):
in a house by a wounded veteran who has set
multiple death traps in each room that the girls must
move through. Typically, when I watch a movie for this
book and it's one that someone let me know there
is a child death, I will go in blind. I
already know to expect dead kids, so I don't want
to know much else before watching, so that I can
have a genuine reaction and write up about it. But

(01:22:00):
for some reason I felt the need to dig into
this one a little bit before watching, and I didn't
get too far before finding out that one Dave Mustain
provides a voice for the Master. Don't get excited what
and two The director regularly makes movies for The Asylum,
the studio that brought us such classics as The Pacific
Rim twenty thirteen ripoff Atlantic Rim, The Krawl twenty nineteen

(01:22:26):
ripoff Swim from twenty twenty one, and their own fast
Cars and family movie, The Fast and the Fears from
twenty seventeen. This movie is somehow not produced by the Asylum,
but instead by Cleopatra Entertainment, who made the wise decision
to invest in and distribute the Blu ray for Glenn

(01:22:48):
Danziggs movies Verrotica twenty nineteen and Death Writer in the
House of Vampires from twenty twenty one. Both of these
movies are better than Halloween Pussy Trap. I am not
saying they are better made, but they are infinitely more entertaining.
So I knew all of this before going in and
watching it, and to keep myself entertained during what I
knew would be a likely misogynistic slog I made a

(01:23:12):
list of all the things that I thought would happen
in the film. Here's what I got right. This will
be low, low budget because most of the budget was
blown on Dave Mustain. The lead singer will be the
final girl. We will see most, if not all, of
the boobs of the women in the band because we
can't be too girl boss. It's a Saw ripoff, but

(01:23:35):
the traps will not be elaborate at all. The dead
kids will probably be tricker treaders since this is a
Halloween movie. The women will scream and cry a lot. Again,
can't be too girl boss. And here's what I did
not have on my list but that I should have guessed.
A rapist will become the hero. And here is what

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is to be determined by the time the book comes out.
This movie will still have fewer than one thousand views
on Letterboxed and hopefully Danzig will have released his third movie,
Thank You.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
That was awesome. I got one question for you, What
do you mean? I don't believe in God?

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Oh, Piper did not like that?

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Sorry, nobody likes here. And Dave Mustange that sound of
like the family Dog. So fun. Little Megadeth story. It's
not Dave Mustaine related, but I bought a vinyl p
cells but who's buying Megadeth album? And inside when I

(01:24:38):
pulled out the vinyl, there was a handwritten letter and
it was from the bass player David Elson, and it
was like about he had written to some friend of
his that was like, yeah, I hope you like the shirts,
you know, just talking. It's like a little diary of
how the tour was going and whatever year it was
eighty six or eighty eight or cool Little Treasure. Fine.
Oh that's my story. Okay, here's my rock and roll.

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Pick psych Out from nineteen sixty eight, directed by Richard Rush,
who went on to direct The Stuntman with Peter O'Toole.
Obviously I watched this because Gary Kent is in this movie.
Him and John Bud Cardos they handle all the stunt work,
but Kent also plays the quote thug leader and also

(01:25:25):
Linda gay Scott, who's in Run Home Slow. She is
in this movie and she's you know, she's credit as
introducing Linda gay Scott, totally ignoring that she had done
Run Home Slow three or four years earlier. She plays
the jazz flute in this. Jack Nicholson has a fake
ponytail that looks terrible. He's the star. His name is
Stony and he's the frontman of a band called Mumbling Joe,

(01:25:49):
which is a group of guys and Linda Scott who
played better on Acid and Stoned. He does his best
Sterling Hayden guitar playing impression in this. By the way,
Dean Stockwell's in this. He's a weird hippie dressed in
the spirit beaded headband floral shirts. He's like the band manager.
He's kind of upset because promoters are coming and trying

(01:26:11):
to make this band successful. The movie is pretty much
about a deaf runaway who is looking for her brother
in San Francisco and she meets up with this band
and they help her out going on the scavenger hunt
to look for her brother who is known amongst all
the scene the trippy scene as the Seeker, and he's
played by Bruce Dern so he's got that crazy look

(01:26:35):
in his face. It's boring, though. Oh there's so many
like five to ten minute scenes of people just dancing,
spacing out and making out, listening to music, decorating rooms
with music playing. It's just very levy dovey flower power stuff.
The music spy bands called Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Seeds. Yeah,

(01:26:58):
so it's that type of music. It's a Dick Clark production. Okay,
So the end message is kind of kids don't do drugs,
which square I know. There is this great scene though,
where this guy's having a bad trip and he sees
his friends coming at him, you know, trying to help
him and calm him down. And you see his point
of view and they're all like these their flesh is

(01:27:19):
ripped away, they like zombies and stuff. And he looks
at his hand and it's all like gross and burns.
So he picks up a like a electric songs tries
to cut his hand off. That's the best scene in
the whole movie, one of my least favorite of the months,
just kind of boring characters. The music was okay, but
it wasn't. It was fun watching the recognizable actors pop up.

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And that's about it, okay, and we are going to
our third free space. I think Day nineteen The Pyramid
nineteen seventy six. I watched this as well, written and
directed by Gary Kent, obviously on a McCambridge and Gary
Kent kick this takes place. It's kind of hard to
summarize this movie.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
It's very just like going on like a soul searching
mission for the fact kind of thing. You were right
though about the opening bus crash.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Holy fuck, yeah, so I yeah, when I watched it,
there's a it's great scene because it's kind of like
this music, happy go lucky music, and it's just this
random guy who's getting up in the morning, puts on
his outfits heading out to work, and he has a
heart attack, and the music before that is showing like
a school bus, real happy music school bus. And then

(01:28:34):
as they collide, the music starts getting real dramatic intents
and he hits the school bus and takes out this
these kids. Yeah, but yeah, it takes place in Dallas
about these two reporters who witness are kind of witnessing
the horror of the world. Kind of one of the
reporters he's fired and he struggles to find his life purpose.

(01:28:55):
He decides to make short films and documentaries just random shit.
Went about a pyramid that some guy's building in a park.
He starts dating a therapist, and the other reporter loses
his girlfriend or wife and just starts downward spiraling. He
ends up killing himself on live broadcast like on TV.
I felt like it starts to unravel like the first

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twenty five minutes or so, when it gets into like
faith healing and psychic healers and esp ways and weird stuff.
But yeah, that first five minutes is kind of what
it's all about. I in my review I said I'd
strangely pair this with John Huckert's The Passing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
I don't think that's a strange pick. I feel like
this one is very much of its time versus The Passing,
which I feel like has a much more timeless feel
because it's about absolutely, you know, transplanting your consciousness into
someone else, and like this one's more about like fucking
hippie bullshit.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
Yeah, it's like the what is in the mid to
late seventies and the wardrobes give it away. If not,
you know, the content that the news is showing. But yeah,
it's very soul searching though. It's Yeah, they both gave
me that same vibe. And I wish Gary Kent wrote
and directed a shitload of movies because this was bizarre.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
Yeah, all right. My next free space was Demon Hunter
from nineteen eighty three. This is one that's Armando from
the trash Mes podcast told me about. I should have
asked him for a copy with subs in it, though,
because I watched this on YouTube with no subs. Oh

(01:30:33):
it's okay, though they had auto generated subtitles, which that's
never a good choice. So I know I missed a
lot of like the lore and the side plot in this,
but for the most part, everything I was able to
follow I did really enjoy. It's got some mean spiritedness
to it. It's got Valentine Trujillo, who gives me enough

(01:30:55):
reason to watch this one again with subtitles though, I'm
gonna get it with but this is about it. So
it starts off with a husband he walks in on
his wife who's in labor. But there's a brewhole there
a witch doctor performing a ritual on her. Later, the
baby is born dead. This one doesn't count. The husband
kills the brewho, but death cannot stop a shape shifting

(01:31:21):
nahual I. We'll get into that. The shape shifter goes
on a killing spree, first killing the husband and then
leaving the local authorities to suspect it's a bear. It's
not a bear. The next victim is young Janito, when
he is riding his bike home at night. We don't
see his death, but we do hear how as we're
showing the moon. Later, Rosa, one of the main characters

(01:31:45):
in this, she drives down the same road she sees
Juanito's body falls on the car. It's bloodied, torn to shreds.
It's great. Still not a bear, though more victims follow.
There's a family, there's two young children who as furry
arms and claws break through the front door. It's not
a bear. Local doctor Jose Luis. He discovers that the

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victims have human saliva on their bodies, and Padre Martin,
who's played by Tito Junko, reads this giant book about bears,
not bears, werewolves and satan. Rosa ends up getting kidnapped
by the werewolf. Padre Martin warrens Jose about the creature

(01:32:31):
having natural instincts with a female. So Jose is worried
about his girlfriend getting raped by the werewolf. I won't
spoil if that happens or not. While they go to
look for the sheriff is getting help from a bigfoot tracker.
What I know, It's just I know, I dispute a

(01:32:52):
lot of like nonsense, but I swear like it does
follow up a but it's.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
A werewolf movie.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
It is a werewolf Okay, no, not who all?

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Not? Who all?

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
Yes, I like, I'm not a bear.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
He picks up a big book of bears Baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
I really like this one. Thank you Armando for the
recommendation and pointing me to another child death. I'd love
to see this one cleaned up subtitles. So hopefully that's
that's coming soon. If it is, I'm sure Armando knows
about it. All right. So that was Free Space the
nineteenth We're under the twentieth Exploitation a Tours. I took

(01:33:35):
some liberty with this one. I had originally picked a
Jack Hill movie, and then I pivoted to this movie
because it's a John Waters favorite, So I feel like
that's close enough. Yeah, AFS screens this one, I feel
like once every year, if not every other year in

(01:33:56):
thirty five and it's Boom from nineteen sixty eight. This
is based on the Tennessee Williams play. He wrote the
script as well. Elizabeth Taylor plays a rich woman named
Flora go Forth or fora I think it's Flora. She
goes by Sissy anyway, but her last name being go Forth,

(01:34:17):
you know, very much part of the film itself. She's
living on the island of Capri in this just you know,
Mediterranean villa at the top of an island, and she's
there writing and by writing, I mean she's reciting to
her assistant her memoir. A poor poet named Chris Flanders
is played by Richard Burton comes to the island. He

(01:34:40):
has a reputation for being a sort of grim reaper
basically like all the women that he visits die shortly
after spending time with him. It's very stagy like. It
feels like a Tennessee Williams play in the dialogue. But
this is just this is one hundred percent about watching
Taylor and Burton strut around. I'm not a fashion person

(01:35:05):
by any means. I don't give I've been wearing T
shirt and jeans since I was a teenager, Like I
don't give a fuck about any of this stuff. But
like her outfits in this, like it's it's so over
the top, like who are you dressing up for? Like
no one can see you, Like you're just here with
your people that are working for you, Like that's it.
But it's just there's this one moment where Burton is

(01:35:29):
he's reciting some poetry. I don't know if it's his
own or I think it's somebody else's, like classic poetry,
but he's reciting something. You know how Burton is just
very just like theatrical and like he'll recite something and
you're like fuck and Taylor after he's done, she's just
like what It's just she's just in these gaudy costumes

(01:35:58):
and Burton is in the samurai plus a sore like this.
I understand now after seeing this why this is John
Water's favorite. I think he said he shows this on
first dates and if the person doesn't like the film,
he never talks to that. Yeah, I would this movie.
It's gonna annoy some people, and I completely would understand why.

(01:36:21):
But if you know anything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth
Taylor and their life together and just any of that,
if you appreciate gaudiness, this is that movie all in one.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Yeah. I need to check it out. I really wanted
to see it when it was at AFS this time.
But it'll come back.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
It always does. Yeah, what about you for exploitation All Tour?

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
Exploitation all Tour? So yeah, I also kind of, you know,
broke the rules a little and I went with the
remake of an all Tour A Bucket of Blood. This
is a nineteen ninety five remake.

Speaker 3 (01:36:54):
I don't like it already.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Yeah, also known as The Death Artists of obviously a
remake of the Great Corman nineteen fifty nine Dick Miller
Bucket of Blood. This one's directed by Michael McDonald, the
guy from Mad TV who plays Stewart, and he's the
guy who reminds me of Tom Basham's mister Rabbi from

(01:37:16):
An Eye for an Eye, you know that character. He
directed this, and in Dick Miller's place we have Michael Anthony.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
Hall I hate this, Why did you do this?

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
And Justine Bateman's in it. She plays an artist as well.
She you know, his name's Walter In and she has
an accident, it says Valta. Valta also has some podcast
favorites in small roles. Paul Bartel pops up speaking of
John Waters. Mink Stole is his wife. David Cross is

(01:37:53):
in this, Jennifer Coolidge and a very young in fact,
this is his first acting reddit Will Ferrell and this
is why I picked this, because this is my sizzling
summer of side splutters SNL pick for Kwan's Challenge, a remake.
A young artist wants to be famous. He murders animals
and humans and begins kind of pouring plaster over them

(01:38:16):
and selling the mis sculpted works of art. But this
entire cast is just hamming it up, like they probably
read this on paper and just like you did and
heard the cast, and they're like, oh, I hate this already.
I'm just gonna fucking have fun with it and be
as stupid and off the wall as possible. And it works.
It worked for me. I think I gave her three stars.

(01:38:38):
I know it does end with the terrible where are
they now? Clips of all the main characters, Like she's
a gas attendant working on you know, in New Jersey
or whatever. Just everybody see this movie as soon as possible.
A Bucket of Blood also known as the Death Artist. Also,
if you look at the poster on letterbox, it is, well,

(01:38:59):
I'm not going to look terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
I'm not gonna even give this a view. I know
letterboxes not track that type of thing. Like did someone
click looking at this? No, I'm not gonna fucking look
at it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
Erica, come on, Okay, well everybody else out there, you'll
probably hate it too, Okay. Westerns Day twenty one Randy
Rides Alone from nineteen thirty four. I watched this. I
was visiting the in laws in sant Angelo, Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
As you do, I feel like you've always got at
least one pick every year from your watching your hiding
from the in laws in the bedroom.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
That's one hundred percent that this was a late night though.
This was like everybody's in bed. I popped this on
or it came on Star's Western channel. You I don't
pop anything on in their house. Yeah, And I was
kind of engrossed because it has an awesome opening of
John Wayne, very young John Wayne coming up to a
small saloon with like this slively music playing through the

(01:39:59):
wall the outside, and what's funny is it's a miniature
Like he's on a hill and he looks down. It's
a little miniature model. I'm like, this is interesting. And
he walks in and finds everyone dead inside and the piano,
the player piano self playing, and he was going there
to meet one of the dead men. He finds he
was going to help him keep his land, the owner

(01:40:20):
of the saloon, from being seized by bandits. So he
works with the dead man's niece to stop the bandits
from killing off other people and trying to take over
the saloon. It's you know, it started off with that scene.
You hear the music, there's no dialogue. It's nineteen thirty four,
So I thought this like, I was like, is this
going to be a talkie or is it going to
be a silent film? Because the first character that's introduced

(01:40:44):
other than John Wayne, he's a mute named Matt the Mute,
and he writes everything down. So he's talking like to
John Wayne, and he's handing them the notes, and you know,
the camera focuses on that. I'm like, interesting, that's kind
of a cool play of a silent film, but then
it becomes talking. People start talking, and yeah, John Wayne's
like twenty nine or twenty four years old. He looks

(01:41:06):
great in it. Got that swagger already. Like I said,
it does have cool miniature models and kind of a
spoiler alert, but at the end it does have the
saloon again, the same kind of picture and it blows up,
so it's like this tiny little Also, I logged this
and kept it because I watched it and I was like, yeah,
I'll just throw this on Western. It was fifty three

(01:41:27):
minutes long.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
Oh okay, but it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
Is a film and an awesome I think I put
it in discord. But there's a cowboy who shot and
I say, his bones completely dissolved and he turns into
this mushy dummy and just falls, so the dummiest of dummies. Yeah,
I recommend it. I mean the runtime alone is it's quick. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
I watched the short one as well. This came from
your recommendation in our Sexy Cat episode, So go back
and listen to that one if you want to hear
Layu talk about Lola cult from nineteen sixty seven. I
really enjoyed this one. Lola Fallana is gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Yeah she is.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
I mean, I'm god damn. I was like, can you
take some clothes off? Would you like?

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
You're just okay? I'm not the only one.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
Yeah, no, Yeah, we talked our lands talked about it
in that episode. I agree with everything you said and
that this is my push for you to go listen
to the episode if you have not already, and check
out Lola Cult. It's on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
There's a child killing.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
There is a child killing, yes, and I do have
my write up for that, but I did not copy
paste up here. But I don't want to give too
much of the book now I've already don't like one.
So next category is usually one of my least favorite
that comes up often for tunexploitation teenagers, even though I
feel like teenagers comes up a lot and a lot

(01:42:57):
of the movies we watch anyway, mostly horror movies. But
I watched teenage Hitchhikers from nineteen seventy four. This is
on twob Honestly, I picked this because it's seventy four minutes.
It's about two girls, Mouse and Bird, who are hitchhiking.
Obviously the title. It's more of a series of comedic

(01:43:18):
vignettes loosely tied together, like there is like characters from
the beginning to come back later kind of thing. But
it's mostly like, oh, then this happened, then this happened,
then this happened. I should have looked at the genre
before watching this, because I thought this was going to
be like some kind of like sleazy the girls get kidnapped. Yeah, like, no,
not at all, not at all. This is a sex

(01:43:40):
comedy through and through. I do appreciate that the girls
are very sex positive and not afraid to use it
for what they want and what they need, but it's
very heavy on the sex. There's even an orgy at
the end. One of the stars, Bird is played by
Sandrael Peabody, who was Mary Calling and Craven's Last House

(01:44:02):
on the left. So I mean, there's for sure some
sleeves in it, but it's like, haha, fun sleez. It's
never like dirty exploitation type sleeze Like this definitely is
like a you know, Clawn Czland summer type of pick gotcha, Yeah,
it's I mean, I mentioned I should have checked the

(01:44:23):
genre first. I wasn't expecting a comedy, and I just
really wasn't in the mood for it. I don't think
there's anything outwardly wrong with it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
I just you weren't feeling it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
I wasn't feeling it. I probably gave it like three stars.
It's probably probably three and a half, but honestly, I
just wasn't feeling it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
So I felt my teenager's pick. I went with Wild
Style from nineteen eighty two, directed by Charlie A. Hearn,
and it's about this young teenager named Zoro who he
lives in New York and he's secretly spray paints graffiti
tags art overnight all across the city and the graffiti

(01:45:05):
community have no idea who he is, but you know,
they love his art, and he's kind of like a
Banksy type character artist. A lot of his friends are
big fans of the art, and you won't even come
out and tell them, but he pretty much just like
runs from the cops every night, and like you know,
building owners and security guards and Fab five. Fab five

(01:45:28):
Freddy is in this. He plays a guy named Fade
and he's an old school graffiti artist who wants to
get Zoro fame. He knows who Zoro is so he
can kind of cash in on the popularity. So he
brings in a reporter to cover Zoro him the whole
art scene. Art dealers and rich white people start showing interest.

(01:45:49):
The plot's very freestyle and uneventful. It's basically watching Zoro
like tag these buildings and keeping it a secret while
other people are trying to cash in on them. It
all kind of leads up to a big rap console
with Zora painting the huge stage and building it's taking
place in. Yeah, great long scenes of the artist. There's
a lot of rappers that pop in, you know, Fab five,

(01:46:09):
Pretty's in it. There's other like local artists and rappers
of that scene. Feels very much like a documentary, kind
of like Style Wars in New York. A lot of
long scenes of breakdance scene, just DJing, rappers laying down rhymes,
you know, just good stuff. It's cool period piece. Very

(01:46:30):
amateur acting though, because these are real artists, real graffiti artists,
and real rappers that are asked to deliver lines and
act in roles. Yeah, but I actually had a lot
of fun with it. I think last year I picked
young Blood was my teenagers, maybe it sounds right, and
that was I feel like it's been a category, like
you I'm like, huh, but it always seems to work out.

(01:46:50):
This reminded me a lot of already said Style Wars,
But I watched a south By Southwest screener in twenty twenty.
I think is a Brazilian film called Vultures that didn't
make the festival, but it's about like the tagging scene
in Brazil. It's a fiction, but it's really well made beautiful.
Didn't get programmed, but if it's out there, I recommend

(01:47:11):
people looking for that. One sweet day twenty three New
World Pictures everyone with the Filipino action film Sirio Santiago.
He exteene'sploitation. Yeah, the movie's called Savage with an exclamation point.

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
James Eigilhart, star of The Death Force, also Santiago. He
plays Savage, a soldier who takes control of adding to
the chaos of whatever the fucking plot is. Like, I
have no idea what this movie is about. There's a
mission involved, and he's hired and doing all sorts of shit.
It was one of the messiest things I've seen in while,

(01:47:50):
But I'm not going to say I did en have
fun with it, because the explosions are great. Obviously, at Santiago.
There's great characters, the dubbing, the voiceover works ridiculous, But
there were moments that were so abrupt in scenes that
I thought it to be commercial was popping up, but
it was like part of the movie. I'm like, what
the fuck is happening here? Yeah, I couldn't I could

(01:48:12):
even begin to tell you what it was about. Caroline
Speed is a love interest who is a sex worker
turned badass. Super soldier. Vic Diaz is in it, of
course as a dyllain. There's a torture scene where a
woman isn't answering their questions, so he sticks an electric
probe up her private part, her private area.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
I don't like that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:31):
Yeah, that's the only part that made sense. Like now,
a total mess. But for like exploitation film, it's like, yeah,
this is kind of the shit you want to watch, Savage.
It was on tub all right.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
New World Pictures. I watched The Philadelphia Experiment from nineteen
eighty four. This is about a World War two naval
experiment that goes wrong and two sailors, including David played
by Michael Pare, end up. In nineteen eighty four, the
TimewARP has caused a cloud butthole that is slowly sucking

(01:49:09):
up towns. So meanwhile, David and his friend, the other sailor,
kidnap Allison played by Nancy Allen, and she helps him
evade the police. The friend eventually something happens to him,
like he's like glowing because of the radioactive experiment, and

(01:49:31):
he ends up disappearing and they find out like he
went back, and so they meet up with him in
nineteen eighty four when he's old and they're trying to
figure out like how Michael Pare can go back to
I'm making it sound more interesting than it is. It's
actually really boring. It was produced by John Carpenter though,
oh wow, but I didn't really feel his involvement in

(01:49:54):
it at all, aside from like a few of like
the sci fi gioactive moments, which are the highlight, but
there's not enough of those in the hour forty five
minute runtime to make it interesting. So ultimately it's just
fine and forgettable. Like I took. Those are all my
notes that I took, and it like I forgot that

(01:50:16):
I watched this movie until we got to this category.
I was like, oh, yeah, I watched that, so.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
You will not be watching the sequel.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
No, I will not watch the sequel. I have seen
some of the director's other films, and I really I
can say that he is not my bag. He directed
Mac and Me.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Oh, Tammy and the t Rex, Tammy and the t
Rex is fun.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
Yeah, it's fun. And Mannequin two on the move. So yeah,
it's fine. Whatever. I guess this feels like something Shout
Factory put out. They probably did, and I just don't
know because I don't keep up with anything anymore, but
Philadelphia Experiment. It's fine. It was on Hoopla whatever, all right.

(01:51:01):
Then Day twenty four, Hong Kong action, No surprise. I
watched the Hong Kong movie Oh the Lady Is the
Boss nineteen eighty three. Uh, we have the Blu ray
of this. I'm not sure who put it out, but
this is a really fun action comedy about an older
kung fu master trying to cling to the traditional ways

(01:51:21):
of teaching students in his kung fu school. In his
kung fu school, when a young female master played by
car Y she shows up from America where she's been
trained by the same master, so they keep calling her
Auntie because it's like she's kind of like that equivalent.
She shows up and she turns the school in like

(01:51:44):
she wants to make sure the school is successful too,
but she turns it into the equivalent of like a
nightclub with kung fu. She's like, oh no, you got
to get with like the new, you know, hip like
do kung Fu to music type thing. Predictably, it goes
in the direction of both them realizing they need to
work together with the old and the new in order
to defeat the people who are trying to shut down

(01:52:06):
the school. But had some great gags, great really great
fight choreography, which no surprise because this is directed by
Lao Carlong who did thirty six Chamber of Shellen, Dirty Hoe,
eight Diagram Poll Fighter, just outright classics in the genre.
So the Lady is the Boss nineteen eighty three hard

(01:52:26):
recommend really good.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
Nice in butte Hong Kong action Heroes Shed No Tears
from nineteen eighty four, directed by John Wu. I'm going
to preface this by saying I watched the Golden Harvest
version Hero Shed No Tears on Tuby and not John
Wu's original film version called Sunset Warriors. Apparently, Harvest had

(01:52:49):
another director come in and film all the scenes that
I had problems with because I actually I had a
review and I wrote out notes and then I started
reading about the history and production of this. A lot
of comedy scenes fail or to break up the action.
So this is basically like an Alan Smithy John Wufilm,

(01:53:10):
who kind of disowns this movie from what I heard rightfully,
So quick summary is pretty much, the Thai government hire
a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a drug lord
to bring him to them, and this group of mercenaries
battle tribes, drug lords, the military. It all gets very violent.

(01:53:31):
They're all kind of converging, and people are after these
mercenaries for different reasons, not just the drug lord they have.
I think when I think back on it, I think
it's all happens in real time too, which is kind
of cool, Like as it was happening, there's no real
like I think there's like, you know, they go to
sleep and wake up the next morning, but it's all
very real time. Yeah. The version I watched, how the

(01:53:51):
inserted scenes a lot of like these these are the
scenes I kind of have problems with. There's a long
scene of soldiers playing dice with local villagers and they're
gambling and has nothing to do with anything. One gets
a massage, one gets really stoned, a lot of sex scenes.
It just yeah, it's the stuff added without the WU

(01:54:12):
because it's really well lit. I think it's completely stylized
kind of war film. Beautifully shot, great squibs, the gores awesome.
It's under ninety minutes. I don't know what the other
actual version is. Yeah, the sound editing and music is
especially sound. It like stand out to me. Everything sounded
so I don't know, it's just really really well done.

(01:54:34):
The outside like I'm a big family. Crickets or just
or birds are in the background, like somebody might say
cut that out, but I think it sounds great. I
got really excited when they set up a child kill
that didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
Why would you be excited for it not.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Happening because I wanted I always like when it happens
when a child you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:54):
Said you were excited for set up, and then it
didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
And then there was no child. I was excited because
they set up a childkill, like I really thought, there's
this is it's not going to start saying.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
And then I was disappointed because it didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:55:10):
It was like, there's no way this child's going to survive,
and yeah, so I got excited. I was like pulling
out my phone. I was going to text you and
be like, holy shit, I mean but no, Okay, that's
my story. We're moving on to Day twenty five. This
is Wingshauser tribute LRIP. I went with Uncommon Valor from

(01:55:36):
nineteen eighty three. So this is directed by Todd Ketchoff
or kot Chef, sorry, Todd Kotchef, who directed First Blood,
Wake and Fright Weakend of Bernie's. This is written and
the story well it's not completely right, but the story
is by Wingshauser and he produced it. That's why I

(01:55:57):
went with this. It stars. I loved the cast, That's
why I wanted to watch. It starts Gene Hackman. Fred
Ward is back in one of My Jean's ploitation picks.
Young Patrick Swayze's here You Got the Bikers Dude from
Raising Arizona, Randall Tech Cobb, Tim Thomerson pops up and
made My Day plays a pilot. So it's nineteen seventy seven.

(01:56:19):
Gene Hackman's son has never returned. From Vietnam. Vietnam, and
he was last seen five years ago by his platoon
running towards their helicopter as they left and couldn't go
back for him. So Gene Hackman, who's a retired colonel,
he wants to head to Laos where he thinks his
son's a prisoner war prisoner, and he recruits the guys

(01:56:40):
from his old so from his son's old platoon. They
spent about five years to find everybody to get this
mission in place. Trained for it. They recruit Patrick Swayzee,
who's a weapons expert but he was discharged from the
Marines because he's kind of crazy. Silly montage short scenes
of them like training and preparing and just shooting the shit.

(01:57:03):
They build a replica of like the prison that he's in.
Robert Stack plays the man financing the team because his son,
like Gene Hackman, is also missing and believed to be
in this prison camp. This thing should have been like
thirty or forty minutes longer, because the characters are interesting
enough that you could learn more about him, But it
feels like scenes are missing. But at the same time,

(01:57:25):
it's very rambo commando type. Thing has a lot of
silly humor, odd tone because it tries to get serious
in certain areas where it's just kind of lost in translation,
doesn't really work. Sloppy edity and progression. Progression. Yeah, it
looks great though, great locations. But the wings info that
I found on this is that he did write a

(01:57:45):
screenplay for it, and he said it was inspired by
stories of a childhood friend who had been to Vietnam,
and he said, quote, I saw that he had left
something behind in Vietnam, and that triggered this whole idea.
And then I became aware of the A and the
Pow situation, and I thought, well, this will be a
great excuse to go back to Noam and get the
POW's and where they're going. What they're really going back

(01:58:09):
for is their own clarity and their own integrity. And
that's the story. That's the whole story. So he said
he took eighteen films to write the script. He sold
it to Paramount. The original title was called Last River
to Cross, but it went through like five title changes,
and then a producer came in. His name was John Millius,
and he gave the script. Is that John Millius be

(01:58:31):
directed Conan. Oh, you might be right, let me check,
I got my carbo vella right here. You're the same guy, yeah,
John Millius.

Speaker 3 (01:58:41):
My John would be very proud of me for that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
That's very good. But apparently he took wings the script,
gave it to a guy named Joe Gaton to rewrite.
Houser lost screenplay credit and arbitration, and he did receive
the story by credit, and he was a producer. But
in nineteen eighty nine, Wingshauser said, without restrictions, quote John

(01:59:03):
Millius is a scumbag, right wing bastard and I can't
wait for his day to die. That son of a bitch.
And the guy who got the credit, he was a punk.
I don't think he's sold anything since and I have,
and he's a joke. End quote. So I'm gonna throw
that Wingshuser blurb. Rip man. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
So I tried starting a couple different movies Wingshauser, and
just time got away from me and I didn't. So
I'm going to talk about my absolute favorite Wingshauser movie
that I have seen in the past, and I recommend
everybody watch, and that is the Art of Dying. I
have the VHS for this. I hope this gets a

(01:59:45):
beautiful Blu ray someday with a Sam Deagan commentary because
that's her boy. But this is streaming on Hoopla for
anyone interested if it's again connected to your library. So
as I mentioned seeing it before, but this I do
think this is my favorite of his. So since this
is a tribute, you know, I want to highlight it.
Written by Joseph Maherhy So folks familiar with PM Entertainment,

(02:00:10):
starring and directed by Wings about a cinematographer and his
assistant who are attracting aspiring young actresses by getting them
to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil
cameraman actually kills them, and how it's done are there's
some creative kills in this. There are some plot elements

(02:00:33):
that may remind you of much better mystery films. I
saw Laird throw out like Hitchcock de Palma, things like that,
which is fine, you know, like I because of like
the nature of this, Like the movie itself is so
much fun that I don't mind being reminded of those things.
It's when it's a bad movie and you remind me

(02:00:54):
of a better movie that you're not doing a good
job right this movie. It may not have you know
Jimmy Stewart staring through binoculars at his neighbor. But it
has Wingshauser feeding liquor to a bunny on a beach
and having sex in a kitchen where there's milk spilling
all over the floor and he's barefoot on said floor,

(02:01:17):
hands down, and must watch if you have not seen
the Art of Dying. I think this is Wingshauser's best film.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Nice, I've not seen it all.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Right, Then we have Eurosploitation Day twenty six. This is
one I could have sworn i'd seen before. And I
looked up and I was like, you know what, I've
seen it. Maybe it's just been so long and I
forgot it. I'll give it a rewatch. And I'm watching
it and I'm like, I have not fucking seen this movie.

Speaker 2 (02:01:43):
They all kind of bled together, all these wasteland.

Speaker 3 (02:01:45):
They do, they all blend together. I'm like, I've seen it,
like Warrior of the Way, like this, New Barbarians of
Blot like whatever, all the things. So Enzo Castellaries New
Barbarians from nineteen eighty three I had not seen before.
So I'm glad I finally watched it, starring George Eastman,
your Boyfred Williamson, and John Carlo Prete from The Last Shark,

(02:02:09):
which my Blu ray for that is coming very soon.
I pre ordered it from Orbit can't wait. I used
a gift card from my mom for that. Sweet thanks mom.
All Right, I hadn't seen this before. Gratuitous exploding and
decapitating of dummies in this is exactly what I needed.
I watched this last night and I was like, good lord,

(02:02:32):
everyone's getting decapitated. Every dummy, every person that's going to
get killed is exploded, like all of like the slingshots
that explode people, the guns, the late all the things.
Every every dummy is exploded or decapitated. It's fucking glorious. Sorry,
it's about a post apocalypse. I think it takes place

(02:02:53):
in twenty nineteen, which I wish. This is what twenty
nineteen actually was a couple of mercenaries. That's John Carlo
Prette and Fred Williamson. They're battling the Templars, led by Eastman,
who at one point rapes Scorpion Brette's character. I was like,
holy shit. Bang and Siminetti score another one of my

(02:03:16):
favorites of the month.

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
Nice Yeah, your exploitation. I watched Jess Franco ninety nine Women. Oh,
because Mercedes mcambridge. This is the exact same year, nineteen
sixty eight. I believe it was. I don't have it
all minutes, but that he directed Marquis de Sade Justine,
So you have a lot of the same actors and

(02:03:38):
actresses in it. It's about women convicted of crimes of
all types and they're sent to this Alcatraz like prison
on a small island. Herbert Lohm plays the governor of
this island, Governor Santos, and he's the warden pretty much
of the prison, and Mercedes McCambridge plays his superintendent, and

(02:04:01):
she's extremely cruel to the women, as you can imagine,
and another superintendent is sent to observe the behavior and
her specifically, Mercedes McCambridge specifically because a a lot of
the inmates are showing up dead, and like I said,
a lot of the same casts from Marquis de Sade
and Rosalbinieri's in there, who plays Zoey. She's like the

(02:04:23):
tough inmate. She has a very odd dub. Her voice
is unlike anything I've heard on rose AALBINII before and
it didn't work for me, but who cares you didn't
watch it. She's never looked better, That's all I'm saying.
There is a brutal, real snake death where and it
looks scary because it's like some of the inmates are

(02:04:45):
escaping and they're in this kind of swampy area and
one of the actresses grabs this huge snake and it's
like moving and fighting her, and another one comes up
with a knife and stabs it in the neck and
starts trying to cut its head off, and the snake
won't and they both look terrified that you know, they
have to kill in this scene. It's brutal. Yeah, this
is a pretty basic. It's not very much a women

(02:05:07):
in prison film that I thought it would be. No,
it's like a light focus on like just the women
in their backstories and why they're in prison, and it's
just not very interesting. A lot of them are there
by accident, and the superintendent visiting starts to feel bad
for some of them and starts butting heads. Obviously with
Herbert Lohm and McCambridge. It's fine. Mcambridge is great in it,

(02:05:29):
of course than we are. Is this our last free space? Yeah, okay.
This is Angel Baby from nineteen sixty one, directed by
Paul Windkos who did our you know, we had an
episode on him, Fear No Evil with Amanda Reyes. Stars
George Hamilton and Mercedes mcambridge, and this is one of
Burt Reynolds's first feature film roles. He's very young in

(02:05:50):
this doesn't have a lot of screen time, but he's
not that great in it. Hamilton plays an evangelist named
Paul Strand who claims he can heal people through the
power and grace of Almighty God. And an older woman
brings in her mute daughter who hasn't spoken since her
father beat her, and she speaks for the first time

(02:06:11):
in years during one of Hamilton's service. So people have
this grand vision, including the Hamilton character, and think angel Baby,
which is what she's called and known as that this
young girl has the calling, you know, to help and
heal and spread the word of God, and George Hamilton
starts falling in love with her. But the problem is

(02:06:31):
Mercedes McCambridge is married to George Hamilton at the time,
so she's like this older wife that he has. Her
name is Sarah, and she calls him Paul husband, Paul husband.
It's real awkward and it's very odd seeing her with
blonde hair. She has blonde hair in this. But she's
very religious in this, but she's all hell, fire, damnation

(02:06:51):
type of Christian wanting to scare sinners instead of like
showing any type of compassion. And she thinks Angel Baby
is a complete slut and the devil trying to steal
her husband and destroy religion. But again she the Cambridge
is amazing in this. She's just tormented as she watches
her husband Paul in love with this double child. But

(02:07:12):
an Angel Baby is sent to the South as a
soldier of God by the Cambridge and she becomes this
huge success. A man meets her wants to start managing her.
He starts sending phonies to her people that are you know, blind,
that she can make see and angel starts believing that
she has these powers to actually heal all these these people.

(02:07:34):
So she's requesting all the lame in the world to
be sent to her, and Paul to George Hamilton. Hamilton
character catches one to this, so he and what the
manager's doing. So he goes to the South and like
professes his love to her. And I'm not going to
spoil because I think it's worth watching. It's fine, but
the ending is like it's an okay finale. Some of
the messaging is a bit muddled where it kind of

(02:07:56):
focuses like almost saying that promoters are terrible people but
not evangelists in a weird way. But yeah, Mcambridge and
George Hamilton. This is the best I've ever seen George
Hamilton in a performance. They steal a show. Really well shot.
It's by the cinematographers Haskell Wexler, who did one flow
over the Cuckoo's Nest, The conversation in the heat of

(02:08:17):
the night. A lot of bangers, and this is the
one that would make a great double feature with Euphoria. Okay,
you know, the whole kind of faking the religion thing
and healing people's stuff. What's your last free space?

Speaker 3 (02:08:29):
Badge of the Assassin from nineteen eighty five. I watched
this on Prime. It's a TV movie and I was
really excited for this one because you'll understand why the
cast is fucking banging yaffit. Kato and James Woods are
the cop and the DA that are teamed up to
solve a case. About two cops who've been shot. Supporting

(02:08:52):
cast members include raid On Chong, Pam Greer, and Alex Rocco. Like, yeah,
I saw the cast, Like fuck yeah. Also it's eighties
James Woods, so yeah, yes, please hate the player, love
the game in this case. So it's very procedural heavy,
which I like in Poliziotecci films, but that's because they

(02:09:16):
have moments of being unhinged to break it up, you know,
they have like really cool like car chase or shootouts
or like something like that. Here. No, it's just it's
very talky. It's mostly just going back and forth between
New York and LA and New Orleans and talking about
evidence and like James Woods like yelling about like we're

(02:09:37):
near to get their witness for the blah blah blah,
and it's just, you know, he's no Sam Waterston is
what I'm saying. When it comes and I wanted, like
he's not going unhinged enough that James Woods should be.
And it's just it's fine, but because it's a TV movie, right,
But it's like I was really disappointed because the cast
was really fucking amazing, but nobody is. Nobody's got to

(02:10:02):
like really stand out performance in it. It's just kind
of there. It's very forgettable. So I appreciated some of
like the griminess of New York, and that was pretty
much it. Then we have Cannon. I think this is
a regular june'splitation category I watched. I don't know why
I did this. I think I was trying to work

(02:10:22):
in some comedies because of Klon's challenge, the Summer Seaslin challenge.
But I I just I'm annoyed with my pick. There's
nothing overtly wrong with it. The Happy Hooker Goes to
Hollywood nineteen eighty. This was on two B.

Speaker 2 (02:10:40):
New York.

Speaker 3 (02:10:41):
Madam writes her memoir and Hollywood executives want to make
it into a movie. Adam West is one of these executives,
trying to convince her to sign a contract for the
movie deal. He lies to her and seduces her. There's
this weird sex scene in the jacuzzi that a few
people pointed out. This is very like proto show girls

(02:11:01):
sex scene in the pool. It is. It's kind of gross.
It's weird to see Adam West like that because I'm
I'm forever like Adam West is Batman.

Speaker 2 (02:11:08):
Yeah, you know, even Batman needs love.

Speaker 3 (02:11:16):
Anyway, they all lie to her, so she decides to
make the movie on her own. Of course, it becomes
very successful. So this is based on XAVIERA. Hollander's memoir
called The Happy Hooker. She's played here by Martin Beswick,
who we know from Jeff Burr's Nine of the Scarecrow.
We have an episode about that. Make sure you listen
to it. It's one of the rare moments of me

(02:11:36):
liking a nineties horror movie.

Speaker 2 (02:11:38):
I love that episode because that was the first time
we got together after COVID, Like that was our first
in person?

Speaker 3 (02:11:44):
Hey all memories?

Speaker 2 (02:11:46):
Yeah? Or was it? Was it after COVID? It's or
was it our first? Yeah, it was after COVID?

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
Yeah, yeah, okay, sorry, that's okay. She's also in Doctor
Jackall and Sister Hide.

Speaker 2 (02:11:57):
Yes, love that.

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
Yeah. So this one's very heavy on the comedy. This
is just again, this is what I'm just not in
the mood for. Nothing offensively bad to make me dissuade
someone from watching this, But this is just one that
I simply was not in the mood for. I do
think that Xavier Hollander's memoir The Happy Hooker and her
whole story is more interesting than the movie itself. Usually

(02:12:23):
that's the case, like obviously this is all you know,
it's a cannon movie. I wouldn't even call it a
Hollywood movie. Yeah, of course, there's a sort of meta
element about like this is actually a woman whose book
was made into a movie, about a you know, a
madam getting her book made into a movie.

Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
So yeah, I see that. There's an actual collection of
the Happy Hoocar collection.

Speaker 3 (02:12:44):
Yeah, there's there's a couple of movies based on this
as well. She's an interesting person, you know. I'd love to,
you know, read up about her more someday, but not today, Seeton,
what about you?

Speaker 2 (02:12:59):
Okay? So I went with a comedy for my cannon pick.
This is a Bruno Corbucci film starring I felt like
I was. It was a definite hit. Is it star
as Bud Spencer?

Speaker 3 (02:13:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:13:11):
Yeah, Aladdin from nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (02:13:13):
Six, Superfantajennio, Yes, that's it.

Speaker 2 (02:13:17):
Yeah, has a super annoying, catchy song. The music's by
Fabio Frizzy, which is a good it's a good score.

Speaker 3 (02:13:25):
If I may interrupt Sam Deegan her podcast, she has
an interview with Fabio Fritzy.

Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
Oh talking about they bring about.

Speaker 3 (02:13:32):
This and he is just ecstatic that she even brought
it up. He's because he's so used to talking about
Fulci movies. Sam is like Superfantage and he's like, oh
my god, he's Brava. You know, it's beautiful. It's the
greatest thing. If you have not listened to that episode
of Aeros plus Masacre with her interview with Fabio Fritzi,
definitely check that out.

Speaker 2 (02:13:52):
Yeah, she I saw, she logged it on letterbox and
she likes it. She liked it a little bit more
than I did. I think, which the music's great. Gonna
throw that out at all. Yeah, but it's I mean,
it's a Latin you know what it's about. It This
old guy runs an old antatique store. He goes to
the to like the local dock where he pays fishermen
who just pull up drunk junk in their fish nets.

(02:14:14):
He gives him like five dollars for a basket of
the drunk and he takes in this particular case, he
takes a basket back to his shop. There's a young
teenager kid working there. He yells at him to clean
it all up so he can resell it the next day,
and the kid starts rubbing this genie lamp that's found
and out pops Bud Spencer, who seems completely put off

(02:14:36):
in this movie, like tired and just over everyone. To me,
I feel like he wasn't enjoying himself at all. But
I went to his site where he had little blurbs
about his performances, and he said he loved this movie,
he loved playing it. I was like, Okay, to me, sadly,
this is gonna sound terrible because I love Bud Spencer,
but in this he looked like a bearded Steven Sigal,

(02:14:59):
but with real hair like it. It was, Yeah, everything
seemed a little off to me. The teenagers really annoying.
He's like an Italian Corey Haym, like I like Corey
hank Not no no shade there. But this kid's trying
to beat him.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (02:15:14):
His name is Al Hadden in it Come on, and
he can only see Bud Spencer's Genie character unless he
makes him visible. So he starts wishing for, you know,
beating up bullies. He wants to rolls Royce, he wants
he makes the girl that he likes kiss him, which
is very awkward, wants to be a great basketball player.

(02:15:36):
There is a funny scene where he starts doing kind
of like teen wolf backflips, scoring all the baskets in
this basketball game. Yeah, and the team is down fifty
six to eight and he comes back to win. I mean,
that's that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:15:50):
I think you Astros could do that.

Speaker 2 (02:15:53):
Oh they could. They just fucking blew the fucking Dodgers
out of the water eighteen to one. It's a baseball game.
It's crazy. Okay, sorry, good for them, but yeah, a
lot of wild subplots in this. There's like gangsters running
the city demanding money from everybody, including the teenager's grandfather
and then the kid. He's randomly kidnapped and he's taken

(02:16:14):
to a child labor camp. And the also the genie
loses his powers at night. He just becomes a normal man.
He just hangs out with the kids, so he can't
like help them, and a lot of these problems, but
it's like pointless and confusing. The police chief thinks that
the genie is a robot or maybe an alien, so
he captures them to dissect him, and he's getting ready

(02:16:36):
to dissect him, but the kid pops up to save them,
and they fly away on a magic carpet that just
happens to be in the in the hotel or in
the hospital to go throw the lamp into the Bermuda Triangle.
Like it's just like what is happening? Everything you see
in the posters in the movie, including the Genie trucker

(02:16:57):
cap at Spencer, he just randomly shows up in one
scene and he's at that says I'm the Genie. No explanation,
but I love that poster, by the way. But it
was funny. There were some funny moments. The effects were
really bad and silly, but it just kind of reminded
me of like a Police Academy sequel or something. The
humor was a little tasteless, didn't land a whole lot

(02:17:19):
for me, and the fact I couldn't get over how
checked out Bud Spencer just seemed in the role like
it was just like lazy and done with it probably
one of my least favorite, sadly of June's plitation. We're
going to eighties action. I have Phantom Soldiers from nineteen
eighty seven. This is an Italian Filipino production directed by

(02:17:39):
Teddy Chew. He goes by Irvin Johnson on the title credit.
First three and a half minutes, a whole village is destroyed.

Speaker 3 (02:17:48):
Isn't that Magic Johnson?

Speaker 2 (02:17:50):
Irvin Magic Johnson?

Speaker 3 (02:17:52):
Yeah, oh my god, I got a sports.

Speaker 2 (02:17:56):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:17:56):
I grew in California. I don't think I could not
know his name, you know, Okay, anyway, look at me,
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
Amazing But yeah, first three and a half four minutes,
a whole village is destroyed, children getting gunned down, limbs missing, looking,
very realistic, dead kids on the ground. I didn't text
this to you. I wanted a surprise.

Speaker 3 (02:18:18):
Oh okay, I appreciate.

Speaker 2 (02:18:19):
That, So add this one. Fano Soldiers. This is one
of those Filipino movies where you watch and you're like, oh, oh, yeah,
someone totally died making this, Like these stunts are too
real looking. Those explosions definitely took a limb. But it's
about these indestructible super soldiers. They wear all black gas masks,

(02:18:39):
big goggles, very menacing looking, and they're sent to Vietnam
to destroy the population, and they're using American weapons and ammunition.
So American soldiers are trying to figure out who they are.
Some of these soldiers go Mia and one of the
soldiers's brother is a Texas ranger along the Texas Mexico border,

(02:19:02):
and he wants to go to Vietnam to find his
brother and figure out what the fuck's going on. Real goofy.
Like I said, great stuntwork, awesome action. The dubbing can
be a bit too much, pretty annoying, but the dialogue
is so humorous where you're just like, yeah, bring it on,
like I'm into it all. It looks great, like I said,
blowing up people with rockets and grenades. If you had

(02:19:25):
the dummy, you said, dummies are getting decapitated, and what
is it new barbarians? This is just dummies exploding like
every ten minutes or something.

Speaker 3 (02:19:34):
I'm into it.

Speaker 2 (02:19:35):
It's fine. I think I gave it like three stars.
It gets a little silly, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:19:40):
Eighties action for me was a Shaw Brothers film Shaolinn
Prince from nineteen eighty two. So this is about two princes.
They're played by t Long and Derek Kee.

Speaker 2 (02:19:52):
Spin Doctors wrote a song about this movie. Really two princes.

Speaker 3 (02:20:03):
Stop all right, Telong and Derkie. They're separated at birth
following this ambush that results in the deaths of multiple
toddlers decoys, but still toddlers. So there's like just toddlers
just being flung all over the place and cut in

(02:20:25):
mid air being exploded.

Speaker 2 (02:20:27):
I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:27):
No, Well, you can get out then, but they're all
being killed at the hands of a fire baton twirler.
You're back in one is so one of the princes.
Both the princes escape with their handler. One of them
is raised by a prime minister. The other is raised
by the three mad Shaolin monks, who are a lot

(02:20:50):
of fun. They're the highlight of the movie. Years later,
the two princes find themselves crossing paths as the tyrannical
ninth Prince, Iron Fingers, who's played by Jason Piepiao, seeks
to expand his power. So I think I counted five
or six martial arts directors on the credits for this,

(02:21:11):
and I don't believe for a second that that's a
typo because this has some of the best fighting choreography
set pieces that I've seen in a Shaw Brothers films,
with an abundance of wire work. There are multiple pyramid
human pyramids being built like there's an eighteen man acrobatic formation.

(02:21:34):
There's a final kill that. I'm just I laughed out
loud when it happened and it wasn't a child normally,
those are the only ones that make me laugh out loud.
I mentioned like the Mad Monks, they're genuinely funny. There's
at one point, so they have to I think that.
I don't think it's a curse, but there's some sort
of thing where like they're not allowed to leave their home,

(02:21:54):
like they cannot set foot keyword phrase rather phrase, they
cannot set foot outside of their home. So when they
actually leave and they arrive to another place, they arrive
on pogo sticks. Oh it's fun. Hell, this might be

(02:22:14):
like this might be a top five Show Brothers for me.
Maybe definitely top ten. I'd have to, like I'd have
to go back and look. If I'm not counting horror movies.
I'm talking like these sort of like period kung Fu films.
I don't know, Like it's hard to say, like when
there's over seven hundred Show Brothers films, but how many
of those set a bunch of toddlers on fire at

(02:22:37):
the opening?

Speaker 2 (02:22:38):
Yeah, only one I know of.

Speaker 3 (02:22:40):
So so far. Anyway, Uh Shaolin Prince, I think this
is on one of the Shout sets one of them.
There's so many Shaw Brothers box sets now I can't
keep up. It's in one of those, and it's also
on Prime I think. All right, last pick Italian horror.
Oh guess what. I picked the House of Loss in
nineteen eighty nine, and that's going to be our next episode.

(02:23:03):
So you got to tune in for that.

Speaker 2 (02:23:05):
Love it. I'll have some words about it too.

Speaker 3 (02:23:07):
Yeah, it's in the Cauldron box set and it's also
on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (02:23:11):
Nice. Okay, So my last Italian horror pick is Werewolf
Woman from nineteen seventy six, starring French actress Anique Burrell
as the werewolf Woman. She's actually when I clicked on
her in Letterbox, she popped up in Truck Turner as
one of the girls. She's also in Blood Orgy of
the She Devils ted by Michaels. So within five minutes,

(02:23:33):
great opening sequence of a naked woman dancing who transforms
into a werewolf and looks just like Ozzy Osbourne from
Bark at the Moon album cover. Feeling she has qure
crazy werewolf titties. Oh like, yeah, it's you got to
see this to believe it, people, and Burrell plays young
Danielle who was raped, not in a film, but she

(02:23:58):
was raped, and she becomes a recluse to the trauma
that she experienced, and she lives alone with her father,
and she has consistent nightmares of an ancestor who looks
just like her, who was said to be a werewolf.
And Daniella's sister comes home to visit and her sister's
husband looks just like a man that she is murdered

(02:24:18):
in one of her nightmares. Then it starts getting super sleazy.
It's very horny movie. Daniella masturbates while watching her sister
have sex. She ends up believing she is a werewolf.
She never transforms, but on full moons she does go
out and bite and kill people when the moon is full,
and after each murder, she goes into this catatonic state

(02:24:41):
and her father and doctors put her in the hospital.
She escapes. These aren't really crazy big spoilers, by the way,
because she meets a guy, a stuntman in like movies.
He's like a stuntman in film, and she starts falling
in love and becoming real happy. And then these three
guys bust into their house night while he's away and
they brutally Raper and he shows up and they kill him,

(02:25:04):
and then it becomes this revenge movie where she's after
these three guys. Okay, and that's most of the movie,
so it's very interesting. Yeah, the ending is kind of
a letdown because it kind of narrates what happens to
the characters as if it's based on a true story.
But I really enjoyed this Burrell puts in. The work

(02:25:26):
is like this sex craze, like werewolf animals. She's very
possessed in this role. Really impressive performance. This is one
of my favorites I think of the of the month.
I really enjoyed it. Thanks, that's it. Oh my god,
that's we're done. Thanks for sticking around everybody. If you're
still here, it's a long one.

Speaker 3 (02:25:46):
We're running long as usual in these episodes, so if
you're not already, you can follow this podcast on Instagram
and yeah, that's it, and you can follow me on
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Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
You can follow me there too, a l Shy.

Speaker 3 (02:26:04):
Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see you back next episode
for the House of Lost Souls, Happy June's Ploitation.

Speaker 2 (02:26:12):
Yeah, thanks for everybody in discord for participating, sharing your pigs,
your favorites of the month. I mean that was it
was a great month. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (02:26:20):
Bye bye.

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Speaker 1 (02:26:45):
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Speaker 2 (02:26:52):
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I don't.

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