May 28, 2025 • 57 mins
It's Giallo... May? Better late than never as we dive into the comic book/fumete world of Sexy Cat. Claws, comedy, killer outfits, and a killer so obvious, even Erica figured it out early.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Prepare yourself for the terror the prison of madness. We
have few inter and nonritter.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Unsung Horrors with Lance and Denica. Leave all
your sanity behind. It can't help you now, Little sexy Cat.
(00:40):
Welcome to another episode of Unsung Horrors, the podcast where
we discuss underseen horror films, specifically those with under a
thousand views on Letterbox. I'm Lance and I'm Erica Erica.
Welcome to Giallo. May it just rolls off the tongue,
doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah? I mean maybe you should have saved this picture June.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
At least yellow June. No, it doesn't sound as good
as yellow. May all right now, but we took our
six month hiatus. Yes, and this was my initial pick
for Gyello January. We had to skip it. I thought,
why not just PLoP a yello in the middle of
twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Are you wearing a yellow shirt on purpose? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I do have a yellow shirt on.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm sorry, jallow shirt on purpose.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, that's exactly why I'm wearing this shirt. It's an
all your genre. I'm gonna wear a yellow every day, okay,
And this episode's perfect. We're gonna be discussing Sexy Cat
from nineteen seventy three, and it's it's a fitting May
pick because f this movie just dropped their June's Ploitation
twenty twenty five schedule, and yellow is one. So anyone
(01:45):
putting together a list for June's Ploitation, or anyone who
like Erica and I changed their pick at the last
minute due to like runtime or viewing availability. Yeah, sexy
Cat is eligible for yellow and any free space obviously.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And it's very short, so that helps too.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Eighty minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I don't know if I'm going to count this one
from my jollopick. I probably will, because it just depends
on like what I already started it. What is today
today is May twenty fifth. I started the day that
the list dropped. I was like, I got to start
now because my movie watching has fallen off. I am
I need to like retrain my brain to watch a
(02:27):
movie a day again. And I haven't even really been
able to do that. And originally I had planned to
because John and I were like, we're finally going to
get to later our gento.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Neither of us have seen Sleepless.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I have that on Blu Ray. It's a. It's an
Argento film. It's late Argento film.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yah, I should say, so, I don't. If we have
the ability to get through that, then that will be
my Jollo pick. But if not, then I will I'll
slide this one right into.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That pick, saying, yeah, I am way behind on how
I used to watch movies. I think I'm averaging like
five movies a week. Goddamn, I know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm doing better than me.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I don't know. It's bad, like it's in June's Pploitation.
I'm a little I'm a little anxious about it, but
I need to start. I haven't started at all, but
there's a you know, I may cheat and throw in
Sexy Cat for my Jello pick.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, so I so to clarify for anyone who hasn't
done June'sploitation before, f this movie thirty categories over thirty days.
There's like five free spaces in there, a lot of
exploitation categories exploitation. There's no cars this year, but they
have certain actors or actresses.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Wings Houser's in there. Yeah, it's a good one. They're
doing fold Sheet, which I understand every seventeenth on his birthday.
It's just the Pickens because we like to do first
watches for us. The Pickens are slim.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Get and Slim. We're doing John and I are going
to watch The Eroticist this year for ful Chi, but
I do want to This is two episodes in a
world we're going to shout out our friend Klawon. Oh yeah, yeah,
he's got his own like movie challenge.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What is Sizzlin Sizzlin Summer of side Splitters?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah? Now, And I love him for this because he's like,
you know what, y'all, we need some laughter in our
lives right now. And you know I don't like comedies.
I like to wallow in my misery. I am like, no,
let me lean into my anxiety and depression. So I
will tolerate the f this movie comedy categories, and usually
(04:40):
I do Hong Kong movies for those anyway. Yeah, but
I know you're participating in that, so I think our
episode might be kind of like a little mix of
the two.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I like that. Yeah, And what I like about Klon's
movie challenge is way more doable. It's it's one movie
a week. It's a fifteen week fifteen movie challenge, which
I really like and I can do that. Yeah, I
am picking like the later June weeks, and I'm probably
incorporating what those are into June'splitation. But yeah, I like
(05:12):
the idea of combining an episode because we do our
FS movie June'splitation episode every year. Yeah, let's cover Klon's
sizzling summer of side splitters.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I would say that it's a little bit. I know,
it's like one per week for fifteen weeks. It could
be longer because summer is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Forever in Texas especially.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, it's summer started a month ago here.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, I know it'll go through November at least. Another
thing that's awesome about Klon's challenge is that you receive
a reward if you complete this challenge. He said he
will send one of his zines, which I have a
few of their great but he'll send one free of
charge to you if you complete his fifteen week challenge,
(05:58):
and if you're very lucky, you might get the Roger
Corman scene that he did. I have a piece in there.
It's you should get it. If you get it and
you like the piece, get a tattooed on your back,
take a picture, tag me.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Actually, I'm sorry, I know we're going to get to
the movie.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I promise we don't have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
For sex, I did want has anyone ever gotten any
of your work tattooed on them and sent? Yeah? Really
that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, and it's like, no, they're not listening. But it's
like bad, like a bad commission I did for him.
And it's not like original, like original character design art
that I did. It's basically like draw what's say, Michael C.
Michael Michael C. Hall from Dexter. Oh okay, yeah, draw
him as a commission and then like I did, and
(06:46):
they got a tattooed on his leg and I'm like cool, Okay,
that's my art on your leg. But it's like it's
a portrait.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My brother Cody, he has a lot like he gets
asked to do a lot of design work. Everybody check
him out codyshabby dot com. He's a good guy. But yeah,
we'll drop a link to Klon's movie challenge in our
show notes along.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
With the June's ploitation for this movie. In case y'all
want to participate. We've got a channel in our discord
dedicated to that, and that can be our June's Ploitation
Slash Sizzling Summer Side Twitter good Lord Kwon, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Such a time to us. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But yeah, we'll put that check out our discord. Come, come,
say hi. We have a dummy Drop channel.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Dummy Trot, Rummy drops. Yeah, Sizzling Summer Dummy Drop. Yeah,
we have the dummy Drop channel. You know. Yeah. The
June's Ploitation has been really active, and it's been a
lot of fun looking at everybody's lists and I'm like, oh,
you know, I'll be looking at like Mark's lists. I'm like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna switch mine and pick that. But
we'll see. I have a lot of backups. My list
(07:52):
will guarantee change.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yes, mine's are I've already changed one, actually, did you? Yeah,
it was the same day change. I was like, oh,
here's my list. I fuck, I'm going to change one
like five minutes later.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, some of like the hour forty minute movies. I'm like,
that's probably going to be next. Yeah, okay, So anything
else we want to talk about, Oh sorry, yeah, no,
it's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Now we'll look about this chatty at the beginning of
an episode. But you know, like Lance said, we took
a six month hiatus, and.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, June is a busy year for us movie watching wise,
so it's trying to get into that headspace. Yeah, I'm excited,
but at the same time, I'm like, man, I really
dropped the ball these last couple of months. Yeah, okay,
let's talk about Sexy Cat. A quick synopsis of Sexy Cat,
a popular comic book series about a crime solving mysterious
(08:44):
female character called Sexy Cat, is being made into a
television film series, and all those involved in the production, cast, crew,
even the original comic book creators, are being stalked and
killed by someone dressed as the very sexy Sexy Cat,
and those that are being murdered are killed exactly in
ways that are in the Sexy Cat comic strip. There
(09:08):
are a lot of random suspects, and as usual, we
will be spoiling the ridiculous ending. This is mostly a
Spanish production, but it combines two different types of popular
Italian exploitation genres during the time of the early seventies
when this was made, of course, Giallo and the other
(09:28):
being fumetti or fumetti neeri and Fumetti is an Italian
word for comic books or comic strips, and it literally
translates to little puffs of smoke, which refers to the
you know, the word balloons or speech bubbles in comic books,
which resemble small puffs of smoke. And these quote heroes
(09:49):
of Fumetti NERII or Black comics. They're more anti hero
or villain than traditional heroes, like Diabolique. How do you
say it, diabolic, deabolic die it's just danger diabolic, Yeah,
that's okay. And Criminal and fu Meti were essentially Italian
comic books for adults, but they served as a basis
(10:10):
for a number of films in the late sixties and
early seventies, like Barbarella and Diabolic Satanic And this seems
to be where Sexy Cat drew its inspiration. Before we
go over the cast and crew, I just want to
spend just a tiny bit of time on the amazing
nineteen seventy three poster of Sexy Cat. This is artwork
by Macario or mac Gomez, who did more than four
(10:35):
thousand poster designs. He designed and illustrated posters of all types,
including Spanish versions of all the classic Hollywood films like
The Ten Commandments, Rebecca doctor knows some like it hot.
As I was looking through his artwork, I saw he
did the classic prom night poster that's everywhere of the
ski mask killer holding the blade. That's his design work
(10:58):
and illustration. But Sexy Cat is such a great poster.
He clearly understood the assignment. And I looked it up
online and I could find some copies that were like
or I could find some posters that were about one
hundred and seventy bucks to about four fifty on better quality. Yeah,
I'd love to have this one on my wall.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's a it's a great one. It's that's the gallery
in LA that like they always list they like they
sell all these old movie posters, and they're always like, oh,
five percent off, we're clearing out inventory, like we're closing,
and then like a month later it's like seventy five
percent off. We're clear. Like I'm like, are you open?
(11:38):
What are you doing? Sir? Like what does it?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
They probably price some way overhead?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
You know, Yeah, well they're in LA, and I'm sure
he's getting like all of like the estate sale bundles
and like just piles of posters and then selling them
online for a huge markup, right, and so even you know,
seventy five percent off is like they're still making money
on them. I don't know if they're still around anymore.
I think I stopped following because I spent too much
money here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I want to get a sexy cat poster for
your collection so you can put it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, this is going to actually as soon as I
get a fucking job and I can put up posters
on this wall again where it because like this is
you know, I sit here and like so they can
see my back wall, even if it's blurred, like sometimes
your head moves and they can see what's behind you.
This is gonna be aquatic core, So all my shark
movie posters tentacles is going to go in here. I
(12:27):
might put ape up in here too, because you know
it's got the shark on the front with like wrestlings.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh yeah, yes, I know it's.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Not technically aquatic core, so it might not fit. But
that's gonna be all shark posters there. So I'm gonna
have that one moved over Great Whites going over there,
Blue Water, White Death, and uh, what's the other one
I have? Oh? And I have on my list that
I am going to buy the Japanese poster for Jaws
the Revenge. As soon as I get a job, That's
(12:55):
gonna be my like gift to myself when I get
a job, because it's Mario van Peebles, like in the
Mouth of the Shark underwater. Yeah, it's fantastic. I fucking
want it. So yeah, I have. I have a lot
of poster ambitions right now, but I would not say
no to Sexy Cat having another like good display out
in full.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
View Sexy Cat, Sexy Cat, It's not a fucked okay. Yeah,
I was trying to find a close out song. It's
pretty good the one I think came up with anyways, Okay.
So Sexy Cat is directed by actor turned director Julio
Perez Tabanero, and this is his first feature as a director.
(13:38):
He was mostly an uncredited or very small acting roles
starting his career in the early sixties, predominantly Westerns, including
an uncredited role in A Fistful of Dollars, but he
had an interesting working relationship with Jess Franco. As I
was researching Tabonio, he acted in one of his one
(14:00):
of his films called Two Undercover Angels, which I'm going
to be talking about a little later in the episode.
But I saw that. And he also shared co directing
and co writing credits with Franco on a few films.
One is an adult film called The Midnight Party from
nineteen seventy five. Is that the one looking rome?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah on the letter box and I was like that,
I watched it. I saw you watched it, didn't read it,
so I was like, I'm not going to watch it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'd read that Franco actually directed this film in three days.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That tracks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It does track, yeah, given his you know, just his
movie release, his number of movies. But Tabanaro acquired it
for his own Titanic Film's production company, and he just
reconstructed it, re editing it, cutting it down the runtime, redubbing, rescoring,
so he got a directing credit, you know how. I
guess IMDb does it. His release was originally called Lady Porno,
(14:55):
but I watched it as The Midnight Party, and this
seems to be Tabannaro's cut down version with the DUBBI.
I had fun with it, very silly. Yeah. Lena Romee
stars is a very charming sex worker and she has
a threesome with the married couple and wakes up to
both of them murdered beside her, and basically it's just
trying to figure out like who killed or killed them
and if she's involved. But she narrates and breaks the
(15:18):
fourth wall, talking directly to the audience a lot, letting
you know that she would love to make love to you.
Oh hello, so obviously, I just like I'm zoned in. Okay,
I'm going to complete any challenges that I need to
do here. Jess Franco of course, has a role, and
he also talks directly to the camera as he has
funny dialogue, very silly. I enjoyed it. The humor does
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run out of steam like most movies like this too,
But if you want to see a ton of close
ups again, this is very Jess Franco of Lena Romey's Privates.
Midnight Party is your jam because I would say at
least fifteen scenes start or end with just zooming in JJ.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean I've seen it, but I mean I'll never
say no, it would so no.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, she's very charming in this. I feel like it
deserves to be seen. She deserves it, Remaine deserves it.
So Tabanera also wrote a video Nasty called Cannibal Terror
in nineteen eighty, which has a justsed Franco Co writing credit. Again,
this credit is due to to do the filmmaker or
the director of Cannibal Terair taking scenes from Franco's White
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Cannibal Queen, which was shot by Franco at the same
time of Cannibal Terror.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
That's my pick for june'sploitation.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Is it which one White Cannibal Queen or Yeah? Yeah,
they share the same locations most of the cast members.
I watched Cannibal Terror. I'm hoping Cannibal Uh, White Cannibal
Queen is much much, much, much better than Cannibal Terror
when you watch it. Franco said in an interview that
he only did these two cannibal films for the money,
(16:55):
and he said that he has no idea why anyone
would want to watch such films.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
For Berta Finlay when she's like, why do you want
to watch my.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Her commentaries are the best. Yeah. He also said that
Sabrina Ziani, who starred in both these films, was the
worst actress that he ever worked with and that our
only good quality was her quote delectable behind. But I did,
like I said, I watched Cannibal Terear. I actually really
enjoyed the first hour, where it has these kidnappers take
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the daughter of a famous automaker and they run to
the forest to hide while demanding ransom, and the whole
banter and it is just the dubbing is it's unintentionally funny,
but it was highly entertaining. And then the cannibal part
starts within the last fifty or fifteen or submitutes, and
it's just terrible. A bunch of bongos playing over long
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scenes of white dudes with mustaches and sideburns with face
paint on like they're the cannibals. Truly horrible, but still
somehow watchable, okay. And then Tabernaro also directed a few
other horror comedies, one called Hot Panties, which I couldn't find.
I kind of gave up after watching some of his
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other movies, and then the lively Vampires of Vogel if
I'm saying that right, but yeah. Along with Tabernaro, Sexy
Cat was co written by Juan Gallardo Munos, who also
wrote another Spanish Giallo called The Fish with the Eyes
of Gold from nineteen seventy four. I don't think it
was on your I watched it, and it has very
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very low ratings from most of the people I follow
on letterbox that had seen it, so I was worried,
but I you know me, I'm stupid. I enjoyed this.
I love the opening mystery. It's about a killer obsessed
with fish, and this obsession is determined simply because one
of the victims is wearing a necklace with the fish pendant,
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so he must be obsessed with fish. If you kill
somebody with a fish pendent, you're obsessed with fish. Lastly,
the only other crew member I want to go over
is the is a composer, Carmela Bernala, who did the
score for Sexy Cat obviously, but hundreds of other films
including Cutthroats, Nine Horror, Rises from the Tomb and Hidden Pleasures,
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and I like the score here. It kind of has
like a classic horror, universal horror type fuel. It still
has the expected like jazzy giallo vibe, but it's good.
I like this music. The Sexy Cat cast a lot
of recognizable faces for me, mainly because I think we've
covered a bunch of them. They popped up in past episodes. Yeah,
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Lonnie Fleming, who plays Liz and Sexy Cat. We chatted
about her for my No Rules November pick a Candle
for the Devil, directed by her husband a Uhineo Martin.
She's in The Fourth Victim, which we were going to
talk about yes, and obviously the Blind Dead films we
on the podcast just love her and another member we've
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chatted about is Belgian actress Dianique Zurakowski, who plays the
actress Martha in Sexy Cat. Spoiler alert Sadly, she doesn't
last very long in this, but she's beautiful and awesome
in it. But she was. She starred in The Sweet
Sound of Death that we covered years ago. It seems
(20:15):
like she's in a lot of westerns too, including a
movie I watch called dead Men Don't Count, which has
a great score by rizz ord'lani. Oh that's pretty much
all I can say about it. Oh, okay, it's okay.
Actually a lot of the cast and Sexy Cat are
in a ton of Spanish and Italian westerns. Like they're
not well known spaghetti westerns by any means, and they're
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just like, okay films, like I'm entertained while watching them,
but they're kind of been there, done that, run of
the mill. Recycled just fine films kind of like sadly
Sexy Cat.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, I think there's enough though that well, well, I
don't want to spoil like my viewing experience of Sexy Cat,
but like, I agree, but I do think that there's
enough in there to like still set it apart above
those ones that are just like checking all the boxes
and then you move on.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I agree. I think it's better again, well, I think
we'll talk about our recommendations, but I think it's better
than a lot of the forgotten Jaali that's being restored
and released. It has a lot going for it, but
at the same time, it's like I understand like a
three star rating, you know, or a two and a
half rating even But yeah, I watched a lot of
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westerns because of Sexy Cat, mainly because of the lead,
Herman Cobos, who plays Detective Mike Cash, and he was
a face I recognized. He was in De la Angrasias,
so he say his name Hidden Pleasures, which is a
movie I love. He's a director of Cannibal Man. I
love that movie too, But I just want to go
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over a couple of the Cobos westerns I watched mainly
because there are a few to add to your child
killed list.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I know there's one the Reverence Cult or yes, something
like that. I got that one already because I think
I saw your review or the letterboxed.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I did put a review in it about that one,
just to that's directed by Leon Klamowski, who we've covered
also dragonf For Each Corpse, starring Guy Madison, Richard Harrison.
Madison plays a bounty hunter turned priest who is out
for revenge for the murder of his father. Cobos plays
a guy who teams up with Guy Madison and another
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cast member from Sexy Cat, Mariano Vidal Molina, who plays
Lieutenant Cole, who I think is fucking hilarious and Sexy Cat.
He's my favorite, he's your favorite character.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, he's in a couple of movies that we've covered,
so Dragonfly and Corruption and Chris Miller.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yes, so, And I think he usually plays like a police.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Commission I mean he's got that face.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, and he's just like, yeah, he's very put off
and just like why am I doing this? Like just
a great actor. But yeah, Reverence Colt is fine. Guy Madison.
I think he's always He's known for being a wooden actor.
Which kind of helps his character in this regard. But yeah,
in my review, I said, he's a character who can't
seem to wipe a smile off his face, and maybe
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that's just the permanent expression of a child killer. Because
he accidentally guns down a little kid named Freddy.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You know what, Freddy was running out in the middle
of the street during a gunfight. So that's his fucking fault.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's true. And this is a perfect segue to Lola
Colt from nineteen sixty seven. There you go, pull up
your phone at it TI your list, all RIGHTLT. So
this was coed co written by the writer of Alberto
di Martino's Puma Man.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh god.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, so obviously I was like, I'm watching this, No,
I had reservations. But along with Cobos, it stars Lola
Falana who as the title character, and Cobos plays a
man called El Diablo who's terrorizing a small town. He's
literally like strapping people to like wagon wheels and blowing
them up. That's fun, setting fired the church, that's more fun. Yeah,
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he's a badass in this, and the people in the
town don't do anything because he has like a shitload
of hostages. Like from everybody's family that he's threatens to
kill if they mess with him. And then Lola is
a showgirl who shows up in town and she's like,
why are all the men here such cowards? So she
takes the bull by the horns. It kind of saves
the day. It's very cool because it's it's a movie
in the sixties and we have a black woman who's
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the hero in the wild, wild West, which you just
don't see. Also, she sings a lot, just breaking out
in song.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh well, you love that.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I mean, there's that, there's the Puma Man Association. There's
a lot going on that like about this. But it's again,
it's nothing too memorable. It's just a run of the mill,
kind of Western copycat. But it does have that delightful
child kill. It's a creepy, redheaded Italian boy named Pablito
and he's gone down as well, and all the townsfolk.
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I'm not like spoiling this because it's a fun scene.
All the townsfolk gather around and he has some last words.
He's probably about six or seven or seven. It's a
good kill, all right. So I'm going to be very
excited to read your write up. But yeah, I feel
like if you go down, because this was like the
third child kill I watched while watching Spaghetti or Italian Westerns,
or not Spaghetti Spanish or Italian Westerns. It seems like
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they just kind of there's no fear in these productions, so.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Like just fucking get that kid in the mix.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It might be good to just start watching a bunch
of those movies for I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Know, Spaghetti September, Spaghetti May.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Okay, anybody in the cast that you want to talk
about Highlight and sexy Cat.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean Lonnie Fleming obviously, like love to see her.
Molina is my favorite. I love that he's how he's
playing this just he's clearly the comic relief in this.
But it's funny because like he doesn't think very highly
of himself or his skills as a detective, which I
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mean with good reason because he sucks at his job.
But that's like thee the funny part of it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It is well and piggybacks on Cobos's character Mike Cash,
who I love how he just doesn't give a fuck
and he's not like all the ladies love him and
I don't, at least I don't find him that cool.
I just I just love how he's like, it is
what it is, you know, and he's always like at
the right. I mean, he's doing a job, like doing
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detective work, but he's never figured anything out on himself.
Everything's just falling in his lap and.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
He just shows up everywhere and he's like, oh, that
person I wanted to talk to was dead. Here's another clue.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, and it's more like, oh, well I just slept
with this person who was murdered. Well, here's another girl.
He has no care, which he's a comic relief too
in a lot of regard.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, there's an exchange between the two of them in
the morgue that is my favorite. I wrote it down
because it's the quote he's They're standing like talking to
each other, both of them have their arms crossed, and
they one of them says, there has to be an answer.
We can't just stand here with our arms crossed, and
they both look at each other uncross their arms.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It's a good humor, and that's I love the opening
of this movie because it's it sets up the humor
right away. First off, I love the credits with Gomez's
amazing art, and then like a random like live action
skull wearing a wig, laughing on. Yeah, and then the
quick cut to the setup of the mystery of who
like the authentic creator of Sexy Cat is you know exactly.
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Mike Cash is like a bumbling detective who's looking for
a job. Is he'll take any amount he can get,
so you know, he's not like really his heart's not
really that into it. But another character, another one of
the actors that I didn't actually cover. His name's Benny Dais,
and he plays Paul Karpis, who owns all the Sexy
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Cat I just love how sleazy and angry he is. Yeah,
there's a scene where he takes a bath, which is
very weird, like run my bath, I want a steak
because he plays like this rich kind of production like
direct Hollywood director, mobile type guy. Yeah. But yeah, my
favorite part, I think the most memorable part. I like
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the comic book aspect of it. You know, in a Giallo,
but it's the cast of characters like they're kind of
there's a few that are very memorable. Yeah, Like I said,
this is kind of a basic Giallo, but it does
separate itself. Like the comic book aspect. I really like.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I think it's it's got the one where one place
where it really hits the mark is just is having
the unique kills, which you know, you you have to
have good kills in a jalla, like those are like
the set piece aspect of of this and usually there
is one that stands above the rest, like you know,
you point to certain kills and you know our gentle films,
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you know, early not late, and I think there's there's
a few in here that definitely stand out. I didn't
care for the snake death in this one really mainly
because that was like the most interesting one to me,
and then they killed the snake like real animal death.
I did not appreciate that, So that was my least favorite.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah. I do appreciate how Martha that's uh it was
Dianique who who's playing her role. I appreciate how she
has just a machete just hanging on her wall. Interesting decorating,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I got to appreciate you know, the it's a checkof's machete.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, whatever, Well, they didn't really show at the beginning
of the movie, so never mind.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, I think the coral snake killed kind of unsettled
me because of how many close calls, like she's walking barefoot. Yeah,
Tarantino would probably love that scene. But snakes still kind
of freaked me out. I always have dreams about getting
bid by snakes and that one. I mean, I liked
all the kills. Do you have a favorite kill?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I think, what's his name, Carvis Carcas.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Carpas Carpus purpose.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I kept wanting to say Carcass during the movie. Yeah, uh,
you know his death when he gets clawed to death
and like he's got there. It's great. There's great gore,
like the eyeball gore.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, none of that.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I love a good suffocation. So however, I will say,
like the plastic bag suffocation. So these kills are getting
set up because they've already been written. They're part of
the comics. So there's the Venetian dagger one that that's
the first one. There's the coral snake death. The synthetic
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death is what the plastic bag one is called, which
seems a little weird and generic, but watching it, I'm like, Okay,
the least believable part of that, for I think for
a modern film watcher is someone a opening the door
without asking who it is. Especially in this day and age,
and then b letting someone into your house when you
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can't their face because it's covered by the flowers, Like,
oh yeah, come on in. I thinks for you know,
the flowers like never.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
What I like about that scene is when I forgot
what's her name, Carla was when she suffocated to show
that she's running out of air. She's painted like this silver.
It looks very Star Trek television series to me, like
an alien from Star Trek. But it's like this silver look. Yeah,
they're all they're all kind of memorable deaths. I do
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like how they each have a title, The Venetian Dagger.
I think it's cool because they do show some of
the comic strips too, which again kind of sets its part.
Sets Sexy cat apart from a lot of well not
just gyallow, but just horror movies. Yeah, with comic book ties,
and I started thinking, like, you know, comic books and
horror movies. Obviously, there's a lot of characters like Constantine
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and swamp Thing that are based off comic books, but
there are a few movies that pull in like weird
comic book scenes like Nartmine, Elm Street Part five, Dream Child. Yeah,
with super Freddy told you comic books were bad for you.
That scene where he's you know that where he's chopping
up the artist John Carl Beekler's cellar dweller. Have you
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seen that?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
There's a scene where a comic book panel comes to
life and kill somebody. It's like this wolf creature. That's
the best part of the movie. Yeah, And of course,
like the creep show films. Yeah, I just anything we've
talked about, like the art in horror movies, like Where
It Is Now and there's so much art, original art
in Sexy Cat where it's just something I love watching. Yeah,
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people actually drawing live on screen. I mean I think
they're tracing pre existing drawing, except a guy in the
very beginning who's drawing like a very half assed Sexy Cat.
I do love watching art in the movies.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
One of the things that I was trying to think
of while you know, I was having that thought about,
like oh, the incorporation of the comic into this Jallo
or this horror movie, and thinking about some of those
horror movies that have that. I was trying to think
of my double feature pick, and I got stuck and
I don't know, like I don't want to jump ahead
to double feature picks yet. But I even asked John
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because I was like, I'm trying to think. I feel
like there is a movie that exists, but it's like
I can't think of it where the killer is killing
people in a manner which he read about in a book.
But every time I would google it, Google or whatever
their AI system is doing, any all the results thought
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I was talking about the kills matching the kills in
a book, like an adaptation. I'm like, no, fucking Google,
understand what's in my brain?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Like I was thinking of the exact same okay, And.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I couldn't come up with anything. And the closest I
got was was my actual double feature pick, which isn't
what this what I'm trying to figure out was. And
I so I asked John this. I was like, I need.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Hell no I did, No, he doesn't really, John, there
is Yeah, I'm right there with you, because I was like, Okay,
what I've seen something where they're either mimicking something from
a book or even like a comic book or like
a fable or something like something.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And then like the detectives find the book and they're like,
this is just like in the book and like like
he said seven and I was like, Paradise lost. I'm like, okay, yeah, fine.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That popped up in my search and I was like,
it's not that.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, it's not that. And then I think Bone Collector
came up, which I've never seen, so I was like,
I'm not picking that for fucking double feature.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Copycat came up. A copycat. They're copying previous serial killer murders.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, but listeners in some especially if you're in our discorder,
even just you in comment on our Instagram or whatever,
if you know a movie where this is the premise,
please let us know because that would have been one
of our double feature picks for this because I'm stumped.
Would John get stumped? And that never happens because I
asked him this question last night when he got home
from work, and I said, Okay, you have until tomorrow
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when Lance shows up to get me a fucking double
feature pick. Helped me out here.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He's gonna remember it tonight tonight it's recorded yet, Yeah, yeah,
you're gonna be fuck. You could edit it in.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Though I won't. If John can't figure it out that quickly,
then that's his fault.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well, he had to me that he hasn't seen it
what we're thinking of. But that's kind of odd too. Yeah,
I don't know. Yeah, it's out there. I know it's
out there because I was in the same boat as you.
And that's that's when I was like, I don't want
to read about Constantine and like, that's based on a
comic book because I thought Nell came up too. From
Hell did come up for me too? Yeah, and again
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I think AI is pulling from movies based off of
graphic novelge.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah, exactly, And that was like, no, Ai, this is
why you'll never be in charge. Stupid given dumb answers.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah. Well, as I was watching Sexy Cat, I was
thinking a moral of a story here, Like, what's the more?
Is there a moral to this story? And it's don't
adapt comics in the films or television series, right, So
someone should remake this and give it the Marvel treatment.
Like a couple of billionaires are running this production company,
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and they're they're pretty much just taking the ideas of
like these poor artists and writers who come up with
all these brilliant ideas, and they're passive and pennies while
they're making huge billions in profits. And I think it'd
be so cool if there was a sexy cat or
a character based on these characters. You know, these original
comic creators coming to kill and murder these corporate billionaires.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, that's moral is kill billionaires.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I want to see these guys get Yeah, Like, we
haven't talked about Luigi Mangioni, but this is another situation, right,
But it's a Luigi in the creative world, our patron.
Have you seen the murals or the paint Yeah, that's
really great. Around town and Austin, somebody's plastering these painted
murals of Luigi on like old houses that are empty,
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and it's a beautiful thing it is. But I want
to see, Yeah, I want to see a Luigi situation
in the creative world of original comic book ideas.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
But you know, I'm guilty as charge. I watched these
crappy superhero movies, so don't kill me. I'm just fucking
easily influenced. Like I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, I mean, I was just informed recently that the
newest Marvel movie, Thunderbolts, Yes, has a dead kidn't it
I saw.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That out of your list. Yeah, it's like, oh my gosh,
he's gonna watch that.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm waiting for that shit to hit the fucking library.
I am not paying for that movie. I refuse. I
have not paid to see a Marvel movie in a while.
I don't remember the last one I saw. It was
probably one of the Endgame movies or something that's so good.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
No it's not, Yeah it is. Endgame is good. Come on.
But now there's a quote actually from Mike cash Cobos's
character who says, many times losers don't make it because
others succeed using their ideas, and I'm like, this is
very true. And then we get to the random character
Malcolm in the wheelchair, who says Sexy does bad things
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because they've been bad to her, and I'm like, there's
so many the moral to this story here, which is
don't fuck with the the people with the original ideas,
or else you'll get you'll get murdered. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
So, speaking of Malcolm, his death is great too, although
I wish they would have found a way to show
it with that big machine in the junk yard.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, and I don't know if that's a budget reason
or Yeah, it's it's like.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
What happened? Did you get decapitated?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Like I envisioned, I'm getting cut in half? Okay, like
at the waist. That's what I hope.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
That all right? I love I do love though that
as soon as that happened, it's like end credits.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Mean you don't get like the extra scene of explanation
or anything. Now. It's like no, it's like we're fucking
Shaw Brothers here. We're out.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Well, that's my that I do love. We're cutting to
the end already here, which is fine. Yeah. The ending
is this random kid with supposedly polio. He's in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Can I before we get to that?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Though? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I know this never happens to me when I'm watching
the Jallo unless there's a priest in it. Then I'm like, oh,
that's the killer. I called the killer at thirty seven
minutes because I was looking. I got an email. I
looked down at my phone. I read my email real quick.
I look up. I see Malcolm in the wheelchair and
this is the first he's been introduced. I look at him.
I'm like, that's a killer. Yeah, thirty seven I wrote
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it down seats right, there, and then I even made
a note right there.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I was right, yeah, oh cats, I respect that.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
But yeah, like I as soon as I was like,
this has happened before in movies that we've covered where
there's a character in a wheelchair and we're like, no,
you're not you're not in a wheelchair, sir or madam. Yeah,
I mean you are physically in a wheelchair, but you
don't need to be in one, and we'll figure that
find that out later.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, and you're right, it's very like if it's if
it's not a priest, it's some handicap person.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Well, don't don't like downplay my my ability to figure
out who the killer is.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Lance, Well, I think I think a lot of people
might figure it out.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I know he's very proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, you said it never happens.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It does happen, you know, the killer right off the back.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
When it's a priest or someone.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
But now, one of my favorite scenes is the you said,
like at the end credits where you know, there's no explanation,
it's just like this junkyard saw metal saw thing turning.
But when what Malcolm is revealed to be the killer,
the kid in the wheelchair, and how it's determined is
so dumb. It's Mike Cash and the lieutenant are in
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Malcolm's room. He had just been supposedly kidnapped for ransom,
so they're kind of just sitting in his room. Mike
Cash is sitting in Malcolm's wheelchair and he's throwing darts,
and he figures it out because he has to stand
up to get the darts out of the dart board,
and no paralyzed kid could do that, which I'm like, bullshit.
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He has. This guy has like tons of money. There's
servants like always around him as a doctor. They could
easily just pulled the darts out for him. He could
have one of those robot claws and just pull the
fucking darts out of the dart board. But again, he
didn't figure it out. He might Cash, I guess did
figure it out, but at that point it's too late,
like everything's already been done. He's just a bumbling detective
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and he does. He endup killing the doctor at the end.
I'm trying to remember, he doesn't know the doctor's one
who kills Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Yeah, the doctor comes back like he's one who shoots them.
And then he falls into the machine and we don't
get to see how he actually dies.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, and that that's unfortunate. You just see his He
has those cool gloves which I guess are claws that
well they don't have poison in it because Mike Cash
got yeah, but he had. They're like furry and they
look like a little uh wolver Like they look fans.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Something you'd see in like a Baccan Echo movie where
they have like the claw hands on their.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, it's like, uh, what's it called? The movie?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
We covered a bloody a blood thirsty killer.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Like she had the furry hands too, kind of with
the claws. But going back to the whole, you know,
ripping off of artists and stuff and stealing people's ideas.
So sexy cats look. I really like, Yeah, she's got
kind of it. I wouldn't say it's blonde hair. I
would say it's silver. People call it blonde. Maybe it's
just like a restoration issue because it is dark and
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certain scenes, but I love her look. She's got the
black mask, and I think Marvel pulled a carpass here
and ripped off sexy cat. So there's a character called
the black Cat. Felicia Hardy. You know I'm talking about.
She first appeared in The Amazing Spider Man number one
ninety four, published in July nineteen seventy nine. Black Cats
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look is exactly Sexy Cats, and I feel like, I mean,
the outfit everything.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Okay, I need a Google. Hang on, I don't because
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I think Cat.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
If I google black Cat spider.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Man, yeah, I should come up. We're black Cat, Marvel
or probably Okay, that's her, that's sexy Cat. Yeah, so Marvel,
you got some splaining to do, like be careful, Sexy
Cat might be coming for you. Yeah. So I think
we've kind of blown through the whole movie. There's a
lot of favorite We've already kind of covered all our favorites.
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Do you have anything else that pops out that you
that you really remember. I mean with the banter between
the lieutenant and Cash, the nervous dressmaker that they bring
in for no reason, who was a He was like
a witness to the synthetic death murder. He was very
humorous scene. Really goofy.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
I would like a Venetian dagger in my house.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yes, I want to say that I have one. I
want to ma Chetty just on my wall too. I mean,
I should start to have this seems like it would
be safe. There's a teaki bar scene that.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
I really liked a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Okay, I was gonna ask you're a fan of tiki bars.
Sometimes they're kind of gross because you're you know, there's
a lot of shareable drinks and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I don't want to share drinks with anybody, and I'm
honestly not a fan of the drinks themselves because.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
They're just flavor.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Yeah, okay, I don't generally do sweet drinks at all.
I can handle like one and then like the sugar
just gets to me.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Yeah, rod drinks.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
I love the aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I do too, especially if they they do the presentation.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Have you been to Tiki Tatsuya here in Austin.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I have not been there yet.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
It's fun and they have there's one called it's a
shareable drink, but it's called the Skeleton Cruise and it's
like a one hundred dollars drink.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Good lord.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, I mean it's always pricey at tiki bars, but
this one is Like, I love Tiki Tatsuya because you know,
they have the decor. It's just it's a great it's
a great vibe, great atmosphere. But when they bring one out,
like specifically the skeleton cruise, the whole place, the whole
bar of the lights go down, there's there's music, there's rumbling,
and then they come out and their hold like your service,
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hold in it like it's got the dry ice, and
everybody stares and and you start sucking on the long
straws getting covid.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
IM all right, so I'm not I know this is
going to be no surprise to you. I don't like
to share, Like I'm not like a share I'm not
good about Like I don't like, oh, let's get the
big drink and share, like I don't. I don't want
to do that. I'm not a fan of like the
whole tapus like situation. I don't like, oh, let's just
(45:14):
order a bunch of stuff for the food, like I
have certain friends who like love doing that shit, And
at the time, I'm like, God, damn, I fucking hate that.
I'm like, I want to order my meal for myself.
I want to eat, Like what if it's like there's like, oh,
one of the topists like I really like, and I'm like,
i want a whole fucking place, order for yourself, no weird.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
I like sharing, and mainly because I'm I'm vegetarian or
a pescatarian, so a lot of the stuff that I order,
people are skipping over for the meats. So I'm like,
yeah for me.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Well, okay, that makes sense for you, that's fine, But
I'm just like, no, can I just can we order
the I want to order my thing and then you
guys do what you want and then like when we
got to do the whole like oh, everyone gets one
of each thing, and I'm like I understand, like, oh,
get to try a little bit of everything. I understand
the concept. That's fine. That's why they have like those
appetitzess where it's like a little bit of everything, but
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it's like when your whole meal is that fuck off?
Speaker 2 (46:06):
No, I don't want to Yeah, well, in most tiki
places are just small plates. They usually don't have dinners.
Like yeah, there's a place in Chicago that I went
to call three Dots in a Dash and that we
we you know, obviously have to they're shareables and stuff,
but I don't know, they didn't have the presentation like
tiki Tatsuya.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
But I do like a tiki like Frankie's in Las Vegas.
I love that. I have two mugs from one mug,
I sold one because money. But like at that place,
I love it. It's got the great like you know, the
Polynesian aesthetic. I love it. But I'm not I don't
want to share a drink or food with you or
with anyone. Sorry, I want my own. Okay, I'm not
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going to drink a skeleton. I'm not going to order
a hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Drink skeleton crews. I think it feeds like I.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Don't know that better be like five or six people.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, I think it's like six people. Okay, I want
to say it's like a whole table, right unless you
have like a shitload of people.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
That's all more reason because like I think about everyone's
got a straw and it's like, oh, it took a
sip and then half my spittle just went back down.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
And then I get it. I'm like, this is the
best drink I've ever had. It tastes like.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
It's like Spie.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
It tastes like somebody who does not want to share. Yeah,
so sexy cat, like we said, I think it differentiates
itself from the giallo genre. I already said it's better
than a lot of the forgotten jelly it's being released.
I would like to see. I think it deserves some
treatment and a restoration. I mean, because it's not it's
better than a lot of the stuff that is getting it.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah, I mean Terror Vision put out Satanic, which is,
you know, along the same lines, Like I think that
could potentially make a good double feature. But yeah, I
think it definitely deserves I'd like to see a cleaned
up version of a non. I mean the dub is fun,
but like i'd like to see you you know.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Language and like maybe a short documentary like the artist
mag Omez. Yeah, because his art that's what makes this movie. Yeah,
it's all over the place double features.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Uh yeah, So I mean I mentioned Satanic potentially goo
with that. Nathaniel Thompson's review said that he thinks Bobby
Yaga would make a good double feture.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Okay, that's kind of like a Fumetti Neeri.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah, so like I can see that. So this is
the movie that I immediately thought of when getting back
to what we're talking about earlier about trying to figure
out like the killer is mimicking the kills in a book.
For whatever reason, this popped into my brain first. And
when I asked John this question, he said, this was
the first movie that popped into his brain. But it's
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not like it doesn't fit that bill, Like, there's not
a killer who is mimicking the kills in a book,
but there is an author with a book. It is
a Jallo. We talked about our gentle earlier. It's tenebray.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Oh okay, yeah, so I think.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
It's fits, but it's you know, it's definitely different enough.
So it's basically like a double Jollo. You have an artist, sorry,
an author at the sort of center of the murder mystery.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Temporary.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
I like it. Thank you. What's yours?
Speaker 2 (49:18):
This was easy? The two thousand and four masterpiece Catwoman
starring Holly Berry.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
Really really, oh I was I thought your faced was
sirius for a second. I was like, oh wow, all right.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
No, I've still never seen that.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
I should I've never Actually i've never seen it either.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
Really, that's a surprise. It's a I guess that's a
d C. Yeah, Catwoman's DC.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
I've seen comic book movies, but like, I just have
never had an interest in seeing that movie. I get
it just because of its reputation.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I'm like, then I automatically don't care.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
So with all the ties that director Tabernaro has with Franco,
I felt like I should do a Franco And I
watched this particular film earlier in the year and I
learned that Tabernaro's actually has an acting credit in it.
I think he plays one of the characters, Butler or something.
But what really ties the two films together is the
movie poster. It's also designed by Mac Gomez, and it's
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very very similar to Sexy Cat, which came out four
years later. My pick is Two Undercover Angels from nineteen
sixty nine, and this is about two female detectives who
go by Red Lips and they're on a case to
find missing models and dancers, and there's a pop artist
who is the main suspect. So like Sexy Cat, there's
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a lot of art and original paintings involved, and the
killer paints photographs and sculpts his victims as they are murdered.
Very silly, genre bending kind of action horror, think German slash,
Spanish Pink Panther or even Austin Powers with murder. Just
ridiculous characters, over exaggerating every moment, every movement, every piece
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of dialogue that they speak. What's his name? I always forget,
I don't. I mispronounce his name every all the time.
But Michel Luong, he plays a werewolf igor type servant
named Morpho. It's crazy, it's good. There's a lot of
ties with Tabernaro, with the art involved with Jess Franco.
To undercover Angels is my pick. Speaking of pick, what's
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the next episode?
Speaker 3 (51:26):
All right, next episode? I'm keeping with the short movie.
Not a lot of other films to watch in their filmography.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yeah, June's going to be busy.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
So and I feel like this could potentially go I
don't know category wise, but definitely just you could free
space it if you wanted. I'm going with The Headless
Eyes from nineteen seventy one. This is directed by Ken Bateman.
As eight hundred and eighty seven views on Letterbox So
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I had originally planned to do this later in the year,
but because it's, you know, getting close to nine hundred,
I always get worried that there'll be some random surge
because of something. But this is about a continuing the
sort of artist theme that we've had so far since
our return. This is about a New York artist who
gouges out eyes with a spoon after the same is
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done to him.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Why a spoon, cousin, why not a knife or a fork?
Speaker 3 (52:29):
This is short, it's under eighty minutes and Liz Purchell
her review of it, not our full review, but one
thing that she wrote in her review of it says,
feels like what would have happened had HG. Lewis made
a gore picture in New York? Grim and sleazy but
never dull.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Hell yeah, it's old, Yeah, I mean gouging cut and
eyes out with spoons already.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, it's very grimy, sixteen millimeter. It's on YouTube, so
that's going to make it even more like fuzzy and
hard to watch. So have fun with that on YouTube.
Will put a link to where you can watch it
in show notes and in our discord. So, yeah, the
Headless Eyes. Now, when you look us up on letterbox,
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if you see the poster for it, it looks like shit.
And if it looks familiar, that's because there is another
movie called The Killer I, which.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
Is a Is that what this is or is that
this is the post, this is the actual poster.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
I honestly, I don't know. I gotta I'm going to
dig into that when I like actually do my research
for the episode, because if you look up that and
then you look up The Killer I, you're going to
see the same fucking poster with just a different movie name.
The Killer I is a god awful It's either Full Moon,
Charles Band, something like that movie that I watched for
(53:49):
my previous podcast, and uh, it's about a literal killer eye,
like a big floating eyeball that kills people and it's
very Oh no, I think it's a David Code movie
because the movie being super horny. Okay, yeah, that movie sucks.
God blessed David Dakoto. I love him for what he does,
but I don't I can only handle so much, all right.
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If you're not already, you can follow this podcast on
Instagram and Facebook. You can join our discord there's a
link in show notes, and you can follow me on
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Speaker 2 (54:24):
You can find me on letterbox and Instagram at l Chivy.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see you back next episode
for the headless eyes.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Hie bye, You say a lot of dreams.
Speaker 4 (54:35):
Got it question? It's a long time ago, and low
seems to you that everything doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
You are alone, and now you're searching at night among
the stars in the sky.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
For the wind of a new lone, the wind of
hello and goodbye. A sexy cat fins on down the clouds,
the placeful, fair.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
Hurry of grace.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
I see you caressing the moon and the.
Speaker 5 (55:10):
Stars in heaven.
Speaker 4 (55:45):
To come back to life. You dip your tired body
and the dying seas you sow us like a museum
of brilliant thoughts and non trivial things. And I would
like to stay with you more, but your house is
probably cursed. The devil scene is to be there until
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your lonely soul has he burst. A sexy cat fliesan
Donnie clouds, the plassful fairy of love. I see you
caressing the moon on the stars, and I leave you.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Unsung Horrors with Lance and Denica. Leave all
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(00:40):
Welcome to another episode of Unsung Horrors, the podcast where
we discuss underseen horror films, specifically those with under a
thousand views on Letterbox. I'm Lance and I'm Erica Erica.
Welcome to Giallo. May it just rolls off the tongue,
doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah? I mean maybe you should have saved this picture June.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
At least yellow June. No, it doesn't sound as good
as yellow. May all right now, but we took our
six month hiatus. Yes, and this was my initial pick
for Gyello January. We had to skip it. I thought,
why not just PLoP a yello in the middle of
twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Are you wearing a yellow shirt on purpose? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I do have a yellow shirt on.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm sorry, jallow shirt on purpose.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, that's exactly why I'm wearing this shirt. It's an
all your genre. I'm gonna wear a yellow every day, okay,
And this episode's perfect. We're gonna be discussing Sexy Cat
from nineteen seventy three, and it's it's a fitting May
pick because f this movie just dropped their June's Ploitation
twenty twenty five schedule, and yellow is one. So anyone
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putting together a list for June's Ploitation, or anyone who
like Erica and I changed their pick at the last
minute due to like runtime or viewing availability. Yeah, sexy
Cat is eligible for yellow and any free space obviously.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And it's very short, so that helps too.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Eighty minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I don't know if I'm going to count this one
from my jollopick. I probably will, because it just depends
on like what I already started it. What is today
today is May twenty fifth. I started the day that
the list dropped. I was like, I got to start
now because my movie watching has fallen off. I am
I need to like retrain my brain to watch a
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movie a day again. And I haven't even really been
able to do that. And originally I had planned to
because John and I were like, we're finally going to
get to later our gento.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Neither of us have seen Sleepless.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I have that on Blu Ray. It's a. It's an
Argento film. It's late Argento film.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yah, I should say, so, I don't. If we have
the ability to get through that, then that will be
my Jollo pick. But if not, then I will I'll
slide this one right into.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That pick, saying, yeah, I am way behind on how
I used to watch movies. I think I'm averaging like
five movies a week. Goddamn, I know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm doing better than me.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I don't know. It's bad, like it's in June's Pploitation.
I'm a little I'm a little anxious about it, but
I need to start. I haven't started at all, but
there's a you know, I may cheat and throw in
Sexy Cat for my Jello pick.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, so I so to clarify for anyone who hasn't
done June'sploitation before, f this movie thirty categories over thirty days.
There's like five free spaces in there, a lot of
exploitation categories exploitation. There's no cars this year, but they
have certain actors or actresses.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Wings Houser's in there. Yeah, it's a good one. They're
doing fold Sheet, which I understand every seventeenth on his birthday.
It's just the Pickens because we like to do first
watches for us. The Pickens are slim.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Get and Slim. We're doing John and I are going
to watch The Eroticist this year for ful Chi, but
I do want to This is two episodes in a
world we're going to shout out our friend Klawon. Oh yeah, yeah,
he's got his own like movie challenge.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
What is Sizzlin Sizzlin Summer of side Splitters?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah? Now, And I love him for this because he's like,
you know what, y'all, we need some laughter in our
lives right now. And you know I don't like comedies.
I like to wallow in my misery. I am like, no,
let me lean into my anxiety and depression. So I
will tolerate the f this movie comedy categories, and usually
(04:40):
I do Hong Kong movies for those anyway. Yeah, but
I know you're participating in that, so I think our
episode might be kind of like a little mix of
the two.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I like that. Yeah, And what I like about Klon's
movie challenge is way more doable. It's it's one movie
a week. It's a fifteen week fifteen movie challenge, which
I really like and I can do that. Yeah, I
am picking like the later June weeks, and I'm probably
incorporating what those are into June'splitation. But yeah, I like
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the idea of combining an episode because we do our
FS movie June'splitation episode every year. Yeah, let's cover Klon's
sizzling summer of side splitters.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I would say that it's a little bit. I know,
it's like one per week for fifteen weeks. It could
be longer because summer is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Forever in Texas especially.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, it's summer started a month ago here.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, I know it'll go through November at least. Another
thing that's awesome about Klon's challenge is that you receive
a reward if you complete this challenge. He said he
will send one of his zines, which I have a
few of their great but he'll send one free of
charge to you if you complete his fifteen week challenge,
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and if you're very lucky, you might get the Roger
Corman scene that he did. I have a piece in there.
It's you should get it. If you get it and
you like the piece, get a tattooed on your back,
take a picture, tag me.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Actually, I'm sorry, I know we're going to get to
the movie.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I promise we don't have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
For sex, I did want has anyone ever gotten any
of your work tattooed on them and sent? Yeah? Really
that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, and it's like, no, they're not listening. But it's
like bad, like a bad commission I did for him.
And it's not like original, like original character design art
that I did. It's basically like draw what's say, Michael C.
Michael Michael C. Hall from Dexter. Oh okay, yeah, draw
him as a commission and then like I did, and
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they got a tattooed on his leg and I'm like cool, Okay,
that's my art on your leg. But it's like it's
a portrait.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
My brother Cody, he has a lot like he gets
asked to do a lot of design work. Everybody check
him out codyshabby dot com. He's a good guy. But yeah,
we'll drop a link to Klon's movie challenge in our
show notes along.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
With the June's ploitation for this movie. In case y'all
want to participate. We've got a channel in our discord
dedicated to that, and that can be our June's Ploitation
Slash Sizzling Summer Side Twitter good Lord Kwon, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Such a time to us. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But yeah, we'll put that check out our discord. Come, come,
say hi. We have a dummy Drop channel.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Dummy Trot, Rummy drops. Yeah, Sizzling Summer Dummy Drop. Yeah,
we have the dummy Drop channel. You know. Yeah. The
June's Ploitation has been really active, and it's been a
lot of fun looking at everybody's lists and I'm like, oh,
you know, I'll be looking at like Mark's lists. I'm like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna switch mine and pick that. But
we'll see. I have a lot of backups. My list
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will guarantee change.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yes, mine's are I've already changed one, actually, did you? Yeah,
it was the same day change. I was like, oh,
here's my list. I fuck, I'm going to change one
like five minutes later.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, some of like the hour forty minute movies. I'm like,
that's probably going to be next. Yeah, okay, So anything
else we want to talk about, Oh sorry, yeah, no,
it's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Now we'll look about this chatty at the beginning of
an episode. But you know, like Lance said, we took
a six month hiatus, and.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, June is a busy year for us movie watching wise,
so it's trying to get into that headspace. Yeah, I'm excited,
but at the same time, I'm like, man, I really
dropped the ball these last couple of months. Yeah, okay,
let's talk about Sexy Cat. A quick synopsis of Sexy Cat,
a popular comic book series about a crime solving mysterious
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female character called Sexy Cat, is being made into a
television film series, and all those involved in the production, cast, crew,
even the original comic book creators, are being stalked and
killed by someone dressed as the very sexy Sexy Cat,
and those that are being murdered are killed exactly in
ways that are in the Sexy Cat comic strip. There
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are a lot of random suspects, and as usual, we
will be spoiling the ridiculous ending. This is mostly a
Spanish production, but it combines two different types of popular
Italian exploitation genres during the time of the early seventies
when this was made, of course, Giallo and the other
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being fumetti or fumetti neeri and Fumetti is an Italian
word for comic books or comic strips, and it literally
translates to little puffs of smoke, which refers to the
you know, the word balloons or speech bubbles in comic books,
which resemble small puffs of smoke. And these quote heroes
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of Fumetti NERII or Black comics. They're more anti hero
or villain than traditional heroes, like Diabolique. How do you
say it, diabolic, deabolic die it's just danger diabolic, Yeah,
that's okay. And Criminal and fu Meti were essentially Italian
comic books for adults, but they served as a basis
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for a number of films in the late sixties and
early seventies, like Barbarella and Diabolic Satanic And this seems
to be where Sexy Cat drew its inspiration. Before we
go over the cast and crew, I just want to
spend just a tiny bit of time on the amazing
nineteen seventy three poster of Sexy Cat. This is artwork
by Macario or mac Gomez, who did more than four
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thousand poster designs. He designed and illustrated posters of all types,
including Spanish versions of all the classic Hollywood films like
The Ten Commandments, Rebecca doctor knows some like it hot.
As I was looking through his artwork, I saw he
did the classic prom night poster that's everywhere of the
ski mask killer holding the blade. That's his design work
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and illustration. But Sexy Cat is such a great poster.
He clearly understood the assignment. And I looked it up
online and I could find some copies that were like
or I could find some posters that were about one
hundred and seventy bucks to about four fifty on better quality. Yeah,
I'd love to have this one on my wall.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's a it's a great one. It's that's the gallery
in LA that like they always list they like they
sell all these old movie posters, and they're always like, oh,
five percent off, we're clearing out inventory, like we're closing,
and then like a month later it's like seventy five
percent off. We're clear. Like I'm like, are you open?
(11:38):
What are you doing? Sir? Like what does it?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
They probably price some way overhead?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
You know, Yeah, well they're in LA, and I'm sure
he's getting like all of like the estate sale bundles
and like just piles of posters and then selling them
online for a huge markup, right, and so even you know,
seventy five percent off is like they're still making money
on them. I don't know if they're still around anymore.
I think I stopped following because I spent too much
money here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I want to get a sexy cat poster for
your collection so you can put it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, this is going to actually as soon as I
get a fucking job and I can put up posters
on this wall again where it because like this is
you know, I sit here and like so they can
see my back wall, even if it's blurred, like sometimes
your head moves and they can see what's behind you.
This is gonna be aquatic core, So all my shark
movie posters tentacles is going to go in here. I
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might put ape up in here too, because you know
it's got the shark on the front with like wrestlings.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Oh yeah, yes, I know it's.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Not technically aquatic core, so it might not fit. But
that's gonna be all shark posters there. So I'm gonna
have that one moved over Great Whites going over there,
Blue Water, White Death, and uh, what's the other one
I have? Oh? And I have on my list that
I am going to buy the Japanese poster for Jaws
the Revenge. As soon as I get a job, That's
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gonna be my like gift to myself when I get
a job, because it's Mario van Peebles, like in the
Mouth of the Shark underwater. Yeah, it's fantastic. I fucking
want it. So yeah, I have. I have a lot
of poster ambitions right now, but I would not say
no to Sexy Cat having another like good display out
in full.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
View Sexy Cat, Sexy Cat, It's not a fucked okay. Yeah,
I was trying to find a close out song. It's
pretty good the one I think came up with anyways, Okay.
So Sexy Cat is directed by actor turned director Julio
Perez Tabanero, and this is his first feature as a director.
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He was mostly an uncredited or very small acting roles
starting his career in the early sixties, predominantly Westerns, including
an uncredited role in A Fistful of Dollars, but he
had an interesting working relationship with Jess Franco. As I
was researching Tabonio, he acted in one of his one
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of his films called Two Undercover Angels, which I'm going
to be talking about a little later in the episode.
But I saw that. And he also shared co directing
and co writing credits with Franco on a few films.
One is an adult film called The Midnight Party from
nineteen seventy five. Is that the one looking rome?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah on the letter box and I was like that,
I watched it. I saw you watched it, didn't read it,
so I was like, I'm not going to watch it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'd read that Franco actually directed this film in three days.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That tracks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It does track, yeah, given his you know, just his
movie release, his number of movies. But Tabanaro acquired it
for his own Titanic Film's production company, and he just
reconstructed it, re editing it, cutting it down the runtime, redubbing, rescoring,
so he got a directing credit, you know how. I
guess IMDb does it. His release was originally called Lady Porno,
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but I watched it as The Midnight Party, and this
seems to be Tabannaro's cut down version with the DUBBI.
I had fun with it, very silly. Yeah. Lena Romee
stars is a very charming sex worker and she has
a threesome with the married couple and wakes up to
both of them murdered beside her, and basically it's just
trying to figure out like who killed or killed them
and if she's involved. But she narrates and breaks the
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fourth wall, talking directly to the audience a lot, letting
you know that she would love to make love to you.
Oh hello, so obviously, I just like I'm zoned in. Okay,
I'm going to complete any challenges that I need to
do here. Jess Franco of course, has a role, and
he also talks directly to the camera as he has
funny dialogue, very silly. I enjoyed it. The humor does
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run out of steam like most movies like this too,
But if you want to see a ton of close
ups again, this is very Jess Franco of Lena Romey's Privates.
Midnight Party is your jam because I would say at
least fifteen scenes start or end with just zooming in JJ.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean I've seen it, but I mean I'll never
say no, it would so no.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, she's very charming in this. I feel like it
deserves to be seen. She deserves it, Remaine deserves it.
So Tabanera also wrote a video Nasty called Cannibal Terror
in nineteen eighty, which has a justsed Franco Co writing credit. Again,
this credit is due to to do the filmmaker or
the director of Cannibal Terair taking scenes from Franco's White
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Cannibal Queen, which was shot by Franco at the same
time of Cannibal Terror.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
That's my pick for june'sploitation.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Is it which one White Cannibal Queen or Yeah? Yeah,
they share the same locations most of the cast members.
I watched Cannibal Terror. I'm hoping Cannibal Uh, White Cannibal
Queen is much much, much, much better than Cannibal Terror
when you watch it. Franco said in an interview that
he only did these two cannibal films for the money,
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and he said that he has no idea why anyone
would want to watch such films.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
For Berta Finlay when she's like, why do you want
to watch my.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Her commentaries are the best. Yeah. He also said that
Sabrina Ziani, who starred in both these films, was the
worst actress that he ever worked with and that our
only good quality was her quote delectable behind. But I did,
like I said, I watched Cannibal Terear. I actually really
enjoyed the first hour, where it has these kidnappers take
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the daughter of a famous automaker and they run to
the forest to hide while demanding ransom, and the whole
banter and it is just the dubbing is it's unintentionally funny,
but it was highly entertaining. And then the cannibal part
starts within the last fifty or fifteen or submitutes, and
it's just terrible. A bunch of bongos playing over long
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scenes of white dudes with mustaches and sideburns with face
paint on like they're the cannibals. Truly horrible, but still
somehow watchable, okay. And then Tabernaro also directed a few
other horror comedies, one called Hot Panties, which I couldn't find.
I kind of gave up after watching some of his
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other movies, and then the lively Vampires of Vogel if
I'm saying that right, but yeah. Along with Tabernaro, Sexy
Cat was co written by Juan Gallardo Munos, who also
wrote another Spanish Giallo called The Fish with the Eyes
of Gold from nineteen seventy four. I don't think it
was on your I watched it, and it has very
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very low ratings from most of the people I follow
on letterbox that had seen it, so I was worried,
but I you know me, I'm stupid. I enjoyed this.
I love the opening mystery. It's about a killer obsessed
with fish, and this obsession is determined simply because one
of the victims is wearing a necklace with the fish pendant,
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so he must be obsessed with fish. If you kill
somebody with a fish pendent, you're obsessed with fish. Lastly,
the only other crew member I want to go over
is the is a composer, Carmela Bernala, who did the
score for Sexy Cat obviously, but hundreds of other films
including Cutthroats, Nine Horror, Rises from the Tomb and Hidden Pleasures,
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and I like the score here. It kind of has
like a classic horror, universal horror type fuel. It still
has the expected like jazzy giallo vibe, but it's good.
I like this music. The Sexy Cat cast a lot
of recognizable faces for me, mainly because I think we've
covered a bunch of them. They popped up in past episodes. Yeah,
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Lonnie Fleming, who plays Liz and Sexy Cat. We chatted
about her for my No Rules November pick a Candle
for the Devil, directed by her husband a Uhineo Martin.
She's in The Fourth Victim, which we were going to
talk about yes, and obviously the Blind Dead films we
on the podcast just love her and another member we've
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chatted about is Belgian actress Dianique Zurakowski, who plays the
actress Martha in Sexy Cat. Spoiler alert Sadly, she doesn't
last very long in this, but she's beautiful and awesome
in it. But she was. She starred in The Sweet
Sound of Death that we covered years ago. It seems
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like she's in a lot of westerns too, including a
movie I watch called dead Men Don't Count, which has
a great score by rizz ord'lani. Oh that's pretty much
all I can say about it. Oh, okay, it's okay.
Actually a lot of the cast and Sexy Cat are
in a ton of Spanish and Italian westerns. Like they're
not well known spaghetti westerns by any means, and they're
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just like, okay films, like I'm entertained while watching them,
but they're kind of been there, done that, run of
the mill. Recycled just fine films kind of like sadly
Sexy Cat.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah, I think there's enough though that well, well, I
don't want to spoil like my viewing experience of Sexy Cat,
but like, I agree, but I do think that there's
enough in there to like still set it apart above
those ones that are just like checking all the boxes
and then you move on.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I agree. I think it's better again, well, I think
we'll talk about our recommendations, but I think it's better
than a lot of the forgotten Jaali that's being restored
and released. It has a lot going for it, but
at the same time, it's like I understand like a
three star rating, you know, or a two and a
half rating even But yeah, I watched a lot of
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westerns because of Sexy Cat, mainly because of the lead,
Herman Cobos, who plays Detective Mike Cash, and he was
a face I recognized. He was in De la Angrasias,
so he say his name Hidden Pleasures, which is a
movie I love. He's a director of Cannibal Man. I
love that movie too, But I just want to go
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over a couple of the Cobos westerns I watched mainly
because there are a few to add to your child
killed list.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I know there's one the Reverence Cult or yes, something
like that. I got that one already because I think
I saw your review or the letterboxed.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I did put a review in it about that one,
just to that's directed by Leon Klamowski, who we've covered
also dragonf For Each Corpse, starring Guy Madison, Richard Harrison.
Madison plays a bounty hunter turned priest who is out
for revenge for the murder of his father. Cobos plays
a guy who teams up with Guy Madison and another
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cast member from Sexy Cat, Mariano Vidal Molina, who plays
Lieutenant Cole, who I think is fucking hilarious and Sexy Cat.
He's my favorite, he's your favorite character.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, he's in a couple of movies that we've covered,
so Dragonfly and Corruption and Chris Miller.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yes, so, And I think he usually plays like a police.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Commission I mean he's got that face.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, and he's just like, yeah, he's very put off
and just like why am I doing this? Like just
a great actor. But yeah, Reverence Colt is fine. Guy Madison.
I think he's always He's known for being a wooden actor.
Which kind of helps his character in this regard. But yeah,
in my review, I said, he's a character who can't
seem to wipe a smile off his face, and maybe
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that's just the permanent expression of a child killer. Because
he accidentally guns down a little kid named Freddy.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You know what, Freddy was running out in the middle
of the street during a gunfight. So that's his fucking fault.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's true. And this is a perfect segue to Lola
Colt from nineteen sixty seven. There you go, pull up
your phone at it TI your list, all RIGHTLT. So
this was coed co written by the writer of Alberto
di Martino's Puma Man.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Oh god.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, so obviously I was like, I'm watching this, No,
I had reservations. But along with Cobos, it stars Lola
Falana who as the title character, and Cobos plays a
man called El Diablo who's terrorizing a small town. He's
literally like strapping people to like wagon wheels and blowing
them up. That's fun, setting fired the church, that's more fun. Yeah,
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he's a badass in this, and the people in the
town don't do anything because he has like a shitload
of hostages. Like from everybody's family that he's threatens to
kill if they mess with him. And then Lola is
a showgirl who shows up in town and she's like,
why are all the men here such cowards? So she
takes the bull by the horns. It kind of saves
the day. It's very cool because it's it's a movie
in the sixties and we have a black woman who's
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the hero in the wild, wild West, which you just
don't see. Also, she sings a lot, just breaking out
in song.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh well, you love that.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I mean, there's that, there's the Puma Man Association. There's
a lot going on that like about this. But it's again,
it's nothing too memorable. It's just a run of the mill,
kind of Western copycat. But it does have that delightful
child kill. It's a creepy, redheaded Italian boy named Pablito
and he's gone down as well, and all the townsfolk.
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I'm not like spoiling this because it's a fun scene.
All the townsfolk gather around and he has some last words.
He's probably about six or seven or seven. It's a
good kill, all right. So I'm going to be very
excited to read your write up. But yeah, I feel
like if you go down, because this was like the
third child kill I watched while watching Spaghetti or Italian Westerns,
or not Spaghetti Spanish or Italian Westerns. It seems like
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they just kind of there's no fear in these productions, so.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Like just fucking get that kid in the mix.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It might be good to just start watching a bunch
of those movies for I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Know, Spaghetti September, Spaghetti May.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Okay, anybody in the cast that you want to talk
about Highlight and sexy Cat.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean Lonnie Fleming obviously, like love to see her.
Molina is my favorite. I love that he's how he's
playing this just he's clearly the comic relief in this.
But it's funny because like he doesn't think very highly
of himself or his skills as a detective, which I
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mean with good reason because he sucks at his job.
But that's like thee the funny part of it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It is well and piggybacks on Cobos's character Mike Cash,
who I love how he just doesn't give a fuck
and he's not like all the ladies love him and
I don't, at least I don't find him that cool.
I just I just love how he's like, it is
what it is, you know, and he's always like at
the right. I mean, he's doing a job, like doing
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detective work, but he's never figured anything out on himself.
Everything's just falling in his lap and.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
He just shows up everywhere and he's like, oh, that
person I wanted to talk to was dead. Here's another clue.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, and it's more like, oh, well I just slept
with this person who was murdered. Well, here's another girl.
He has no care, which he's a comic relief too
in a lot of regard.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, there's an exchange between the two of them in
the morgue that is my favorite. I wrote it down
because it's the quote he's They're standing like talking to
each other, both of them have their arms crossed, and
they one of them says, there has to be an answer.
We can't just stand here with our arms crossed, and
they both look at each other uncross their arms.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It's a good humor, and that's I love the opening
of this movie because it's it sets up the humor
right away. First off, I love the credits with Gomez's
amazing art, and then like a random like live action
skull wearing a wig, laughing on. Yeah, and then the
quick cut to the setup of the mystery of who
like the authentic creator of Sexy Cat is you know exactly.
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Mike Cash is like a bumbling detective who's looking for
a job. Is he'll take any amount he can get,
so you know, he's not like really his heart's not
really that into it. But another character, another one of
the actors that I didn't actually cover. His name's Benny Dais,
and he plays Paul Karpis, who owns all the Sexy
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Cat I just love how sleazy and angry he is. Yeah,
there's a scene where he takes a bath, which is
very weird, like run my bath, I want a steak
because he plays like this rich kind of production like
direct Hollywood director, mobile type guy. Yeah. But yeah, my
favorite part, I think the most memorable part. I like
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the comic book aspect of it. You know, in a Giallo,
but it's the cast of characters like they're kind of
there's a few that are very memorable. Yeah, Like I said,
this is kind of a basic Giallo, but it does
separate itself. Like the comic book aspect. I really like.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I think it's it's got the one where one place
where it really hits the mark is just is having
the unique kills, which you know, you you have to
have good kills in a jalla, like those are like
the set piece aspect of of this and usually there
is one that stands above the rest, like you know,
you point to certain kills and you know our gentle films,
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you know, early not late, and I think there's there's
a few in here that definitely stand out. I didn't
care for the snake death in this one really mainly
because that was like the most interesting one to me,
and then they killed the snake like real animal death.
I did not appreciate that, So that was my least favorite.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah. I do appreciate how Martha that's uh it was
Dianique who who's playing her role. I appreciate how she
has just a machete just hanging on her wall. Interesting decorating,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I got to appreciate you know, the it's a checkof's machete.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, whatever, Well, they didn't really show at the beginning
of the movie, so never mind.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, I think the coral snake killed kind of unsettled
me because of how many close calls, like she's walking barefoot. Yeah,
Tarantino would probably love that scene. But snakes still kind
of freaked me out. I always have dreams about getting
bid by snakes and that one. I mean, I liked
all the kills. Do you have a favorite kill?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I think, what's his name, Carvis Carcas.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Carpas Carpus purpose.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I kept wanting to say Carcass during the movie. Yeah, uh,
you know his death when he gets clawed to death
and like he's got there. It's great. There's great gore,
like the eyeball gore.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, none of that.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I love a good suffocation. So however, I will say,
like the plastic bag suffocation. So these kills are getting
set up because they've already been written. They're part of
the comics. So there's the Venetian dagger one that that's
the first one. There's the coral snake death. The synthetic
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death is what the plastic bag one is called, which
seems a little weird and generic, but watching it, I'm like, Okay,
the least believable part of that, for I think for
a modern film watcher is someone a opening the door
without asking who it is. Especially in this day and age,
and then b letting someone into your house when you
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can't their face because it's covered by the flowers, Like,
oh yeah, come on in. I thinks for you know,
the flowers like never.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
What I like about that scene is when I forgot
what's her name, Carla was when she suffocated to show
that she's running out of air. She's painted like this silver.
It looks very Star Trek television series to me, like
an alien from Star Trek. But it's like this silver look. Yeah,
they're all they're all kind of memorable deaths. I do
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like how they each have a title, The Venetian Dagger.
I think it's cool because they do show some of
the comic strips too, which again kind of sets its part.
Sets Sexy cat apart from a lot of well not
just gyallow, but just horror movies. Yeah, with comic book ties,
and I started thinking, like, you know, comic books and
horror movies. Obviously, there's a lot of characters like Constantine
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and swamp Thing that are based off comic books, but
there are a few movies that pull in like weird
comic book scenes like Nartmine, Elm Street Part five, Dream Child. Yeah,
with super Freddy told you comic books were bad for you.
That scene where he's you know that where he's chopping
up the artist John Carl Beekler's cellar dweller. Have you
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seen that?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
There's a scene where a comic book panel comes to
life and kill somebody. It's like this wolf creature. That's
the best part of the movie. Yeah, And of course,
like the creep show films. Yeah, I just anything we've
talked about, like the art in horror movies, like Where
It Is Now and there's so much art, original art
in Sexy Cat where it's just something I love watching. Yeah,
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people actually drawing live on screen. I mean I think
they're tracing pre existing drawing, except a guy in the
very beginning who's drawing like a very half assed Sexy Cat.
I do love watching art in the movies.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
One of the things that I was trying to think
of while you know, I was having that thought about,
like oh, the incorporation of the comic into this Jallo
or this horror movie, and thinking about some of those
horror movies that have that. I was trying to think
of my double feature pick, and I got stuck and
I don't know, like I don't want to jump ahead
to double feature picks yet. But I even asked John
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because I was like, I'm trying to think. I feel
like there is a movie that exists, but it's like
I can't think of it where the killer is killing
people in a manner which he read about in a book.
But every time I would google it, Google or whatever
their AI system is doing, any all the results thought
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I was talking about the kills matching the kills in
a book, like an adaptation. I'm like, no, fucking Google,
understand what's in my brain?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Like I was thinking of the exact same okay, And.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I couldn't come up with anything. And the closest I
got was was my actual double feature pick, which isn't
what this what I'm trying to figure out was. And
I so I asked John this. I was like, I need.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Hell no I did, No, he doesn't really, John, there
is Yeah, I'm right there with you, because I was like, Okay,
what I've seen something where they're either mimicking something from
a book or even like a comic book or like
a fable or something like something.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And then like the detectives find the book and they're like,
this is just like in the book and like like
he said seven and I was like, Paradise lost. I'm like, okay, yeah, fine.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That popped up in my search and I was like,
it's not that.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, it's not that. And then I think Bone Collector
came up, which I've never seen, so I was like,
I'm not picking that for fucking double feature.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Copycat came up. A copycat. They're copying previous serial killer murders.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, but listeners in some especially if you're in our discorder,
even just you in comment on our Instagram or whatever,
if you know a movie where this is the premise,
please let us know because that would have been one
of our double feature picks for this because I'm stumped.
Would John get stumped? And that never happens because I
asked him this question last night when he got home
from work, and I said, Okay, you have until tomorrow
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when Lance shows up to get me a fucking double
feature pick. Helped me out here.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He's gonna remember it tonight tonight it's recorded yet, Yeah, yeah,
you're gonna be fuck. You could edit it in.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Though I won't. If John can't figure it out that quickly,
then that's his fault.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well, he had to me that he hasn't seen it
what we're thinking of. But that's kind of odd too. Yeah,
I don't know. Yeah, it's out there. I know it's
out there because I was in the same boat as you.
And that's that's when I was like, I don't want
to read about Constantine and like, that's based on a
comic book because I thought Nell came up too. From
Hell did come up for me too? Yeah, and again
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I think AI is pulling from movies based off of
graphic novelge.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah, exactly, And that was like, no, Ai, this is
why you'll never be in charge. Stupid given dumb answers.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah. Well, as I was watching Sexy Cat, I was
thinking a moral of a story here, Like, what's the more?
Is there a moral to this story? And it's don't
adapt comics in the films or television series, right, So
someone should remake this and give it the Marvel treatment.
Like a couple of billionaires are running this production company,
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and they're they're pretty much just taking the ideas of
like these poor artists and writers who come up with
all these brilliant ideas, and they're passive and pennies while
they're making huge billions in profits. And I think it'd
be so cool if there was a sexy cat or
a character based on these characters. You know, these original
comic creators coming to kill and murder these corporate billionaires.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, that's moral is kill billionaires.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I want to see these guys get Yeah, Like, we
haven't talked about Luigi Mangioni, but this is another situation, right,
But it's a Luigi in the creative world, our patron.
Have you seen the murals or the paint Yeah, that's
really great. Around town and Austin, somebody's plastering these painted
murals of Luigi on like old houses that are empty,
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and it's a beautiful thing it is. But I want
to see, Yeah, I want to see a Luigi situation
in the creative world of original comic book ideas.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
But you know, I'm guilty as charge. I watched these
crappy superhero movies, so don't kill me. I'm just fucking
easily influenced. Like I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, I mean, I was just informed recently that the
newest Marvel movie, Thunderbolts, Yes, has a dead kidn't it
I saw.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That out of your list. Yeah, it's like, oh my gosh,
he's gonna watch that.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm waiting for that shit to hit the fucking library.
I am not paying for that movie. I refuse. I
have not paid to see a Marvel movie in a while.
I don't remember the last one I saw. It was
probably one of the Endgame movies or something that's so good.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
No it's not, Yeah it is. Endgame is good. Come on.
But now there's a quote actually from Mike cash Cobos's
character who says, many times losers don't make it because
others succeed using their ideas, and I'm like, this is
very true. And then we get to the random character
Malcolm in the wheelchair, who says Sexy does bad things
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because they've been bad to her, and I'm like, there's
so many the moral to this story here, which is
don't fuck with the the people with the original ideas,
or else you'll get you'll get murdered. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
So, speaking of Malcolm, his death is great too, although
I wish they would have found a way to show
it with that big machine in the junk yard.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, and I don't know if that's a budget reason
or Yeah, it's it's like.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
What happened? Did you get decapitated?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Like I envisioned, I'm getting cut in half? Okay, like
at the waist. That's what I hope.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
That all right? I love I do love though that
as soon as that happened, it's like end credits.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Mean you don't get like the extra scene of explanation
or anything. Now. It's like no, it's like we're fucking
Shaw Brothers here. We're out.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Well, that's my that I do love. We're cutting to
the end already here, which is fine. Yeah. The ending
is this random kid with supposedly polio. He's in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Can I before we get to that?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Though? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I know this never happens to me when I'm watching
the Jallo unless there's a priest in it. Then I'm like, oh,
that's the killer. I called the killer at thirty seven
minutes because I was looking. I got an email. I
looked down at my phone. I read my email real quick.
I look up. I see Malcolm in the wheelchair and
this is the first he's been introduced. I look at him.
I'm like, that's a killer. Yeah, thirty seven I wrote
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it down seats right, there, and then I even made
a note right there.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I was right, yeah, oh cats, I respect that.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
But yeah, like I as soon as I was like,
this has happened before in movies that we've covered where
there's a character in a wheelchair and we're like, no,
you're not you're not in a wheelchair, sir or madam. Yeah,
I mean you are physically in a wheelchair, but you
don't need to be in one, and we'll figure that
find that out later.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, and you're right, it's very like if it's if
it's not a priest, it's some handicap person.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Well, don't don't like downplay my my ability to figure
out who the killer is.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Lance, Well, I think I think a lot of people
might figure it out.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I know he's very proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, you said it never happens.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It does happen, you know, the killer right off the back.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
When it's a priest or someone.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
But now, one of my favorite scenes is the you said,
like at the end credits where you know, there's no explanation,
it's just like this junkyard saw metal saw thing turning.
But when what Malcolm is revealed to be the killer,
the kid in the wheelchair, and how it's determined is
so dumb. It's Mike Cash and the lieutenant are in
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Malcolm's room. He had just been supposedly kidnapped for ransom,
so they're kind of just sitting in his room. Mike
Cash is sitting in Malcolm's wheelchair and he's throwing darts,
and he figures it out because he has to stand
up to get the darts out of the dart board,
and no paralyzed kid could do that, which I'm like, bullshit.
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He has. This guy has like tons of money. There's
servants like always around him as a doctor. They could
easily just pulled the darts out for him. He could
have one of those robot claws and just pull the
fucking darts out of the dart board. But again, he
didn't figure it out. He might Cash, I guess did
figure it out, but at that point it's too late,
like everything's already been done. He's just a bumbling detective
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and he does. He endup killing the doctor at the end.
I'm trying to remember, he doesn't know the doctor's one
who kills Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Yeah, the doctor comes back like he's one who shoots them.
And then he falls into the machine and we don't
get to see how he actually dies.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, and that that's unfortunate. You just see his He
has those cool gloves which I guess are claws that
well they don't have poison in it because Mike Cash
got yeah, but he had. They're like furry and they
look like a little uh wolver Like they look fans.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Something you'd see in like a Baccan Echo movie where
they have like the claw hands on their.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, it's like, uh, what's it called? The movie?
Speaker 3 (41:51):
We covered a bloody a blood thirsty killer.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Like she had the furry hands too, kind of with
the claws. But going back to the whole, you know,
ripping off of artists and stuff and stealing people's ideas.
So sexy cats look. I really like, Yeah, she's got
kind of it. I wouldn't say it's blonde hair. I
would say it's silver. People call it blonde. Maybe it's
just like a restoration issue because it is dark and
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certain scenes, but I love her look. She's got the
black mask, and I think Marvel pulled a carpass here
and ripped off sexy cat. So there's a character called
the black Cat. Felicia Hardy. You know I'm talking about.
She first appeared in The Amazing Spider Man number one
ninety four, published in July nineteen seventy nine. Black Cats
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look is exactly Sexy Cats, and I feel like, I mean,
the outfit everything.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Okay, I need a Google. Hang on, I don't because
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I think Cat.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
If I google black Cat spider.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Man, yeah, I should come up. We're black Cat, Marvel
or probably Okay, that's her, that's sexy Cat. Yeah, so Marvel,
you got some splaining to do, like be careful, Sexy
Cat might be coming for you. Yeah. So I think
we've kind of blown through the whole movie. There's a
lot of favorite We've already kind of covered all our favorites.
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Do you have anything else that pops out that you
that you really remember. I mean with the banter between
the lieutenant and Cash, the nervous dressmaker that they bring
in for no reason, who was a He was like
a witness to the synthetic death murder. He was very
humorous scene. Really goofy.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
I would like a Venetian dagger in my house.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yes, I want to say that I have one. I
want to ma Chetty just on my wall too. I mean,
I should start to have this seems like it would
be safe. There's a teaki bar scene that.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
I really liked a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Okay, I was gonna ask you're a fan of tiki bars.
Sometimes they're kind of gross because you're you know, there's
a lot of shareable drinks and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
I don't want to share drinks with anybody, and I'm
honestly not a fan of the drinks themselves because.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
They're just flavor.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Yeah, okay, I don't generally do sweet drinks at all.
I can handle like one and then like the sugar
just gets to me.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Yeah, rod drinks.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
I love the aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I do too, especially if they they do the presentation.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Have you been to Tiki Tatsuya here in Austin.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I have not been there yet.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
It's fun and they have there's one called it's a
shareable drink, but it's called the Skeleton Cruise and it's
like a one hundred dollars drink.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Good lord.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Yeah, I mean it's always pricey at tiki bars, but
this one is Like, I love Tiki Tatsuya because you know,
they have the decor. It's just it's a great it's
a great vibe, great atmosphere. But when they bring one out,
like specifically the skeleton cruise, the whole place, the whole
bar of the lights go down, there's there's music, there's rumbling,
and then they come out and their hold like your service,
(44:44):
hold in it like it's got the dry ice, and
everybody stares and and you start sucking on the long
straws getting covid.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
IM all right, so I'm not I know this is
going to be no surprise to you. I don't like
to share, Like I'm not like a share I'm not
good about Like I don't like, oh, let's get the
big drink and share, like I don't. I don't want
to do that. I'm not a fan of like the
whole tapus like situation. I don't like, oh, let's just
(45:14):
order a bunch of stuff for the food, like I
have certain friends who like love doing that shit, And
at the time, I'm like, God, damn, I fucking hate that.
I'm like, I want to order my meal for myself.
I want to eat, Like what if it's like there's like, oh,
one of the topists like I really like, and I'm like,
i want a whole fucking place, order for yourself, no weird.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
I like sharing, and mainly because I'm I'm vegetarian or
a pescatarian, so a lot of the stuff that I order,
people are skipping over for the meats. So I'm like,
yeah for me.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Well, okay, that makes sense for you, that's fine, But
I'm just like, no, can I just can we order
the I want to order my thing and then you
guys do what you want and then like when we
got to do the whole like oh, everyone gets one
of each thing, and I'm like I understand, like, oh,
get to try a little bit of everything. I understand
the concept. That's fine. That's why they have like those
appetitzess where it's like a little bit of everything, but
(46:03):
it's like when your whole meal is that fuck off?
Speaker 2 (46:06):
No, I don't want to Yeah, well, in most tiki
places are just small plates. They usually don't have dinners.
Like yeah, there's a place in Chicago that I went
to call three Dots in a Dash and that we
we you know, obviously have to they're shareables and stuff,
but I don't know, they didn't have the presentation like
tiki Tatsuya.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
But I do like a tiki like Frankie's in Las Vegas.
I love that. I have two mugs from one mug,
I sold one because money. But like at that place,
I love it. It's got the great like you know, the
Polynesian aesthetic. I love it. But I'm not I don't
want to share a drink or food with you or
with anyone. Sorry, I want my own. Okay, I'm not
(46:43):
going to drink a skeleton. I'm not going to order
a hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Drink skeleton crews. I think it feeds like I.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Don't know that better be like five or six people.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, I think it's like six people. Okay, I want
to say it's like a whole table, right unless you
have like a shitload of people.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
That's all more reason because like I think about everyone's
got a straw and it's like, oh, it took a
sip and then half my spittle just went back down.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
And then I get it. I'm like, this is the
best drink I've ever had. It tastes like.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
It's like Spie.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
It tastes like somebody who does not want to share. Yeah,
so sexy cat, like we said, I think it differentiates
itself from the giallo genre. I already said it's better
than a lot of the forgotten jelly it's being released.
I would like to see. I think it deserves some
treatment and a restoration. I mean, because it's not it's
better than a lot of the stuff that is getting it.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah, I mean Terror Vision put out Satanic, which is,
you know, along the same lines, Like I think that
could potentially make a good double feature. But yeah, I
think it definitely deserves I'd like to see a cleaned
up version of a non. I mean the dub is fun,
but like i'd like to see you you know.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Language and like maybe a short documentary like the artist
mag Omez. Yeah, because his art that's what makes this movie. Yeah,
it's all over the place double features.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Uh yeah, So I mean I mentioned Satanic potentially goo
with that. Nathaniel Thompson's review said that he thinks Bobby
Yaga would make a good double feture.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Okay, that's kind of like a Fumetti Neeri.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah, so like I can see that. So this is
the movie that I immediately thought of when getting back
to what we're talking about earlier about trying to figure
out like the killer is mimicking the kills in a book.
For whatever reason, this popped into my brain first. And
when I asked John this question, he said, this was
the first movie that popped into his brain. But it's
(48:45):
not like it doesn't fit that bill, Like, there's not
a killer who is mimicking the kills in a book,
but there is an author with a book. It is
a Jallo. We talked about our gentle earlier. It's tenebray.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Oh okay, yeah, so I think.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
It's fits, but it's you know, it's definitely different enough.
So it's basically like a double Jollo. You have an artist, sorry,
an author at the sort of center of the murder mystery.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Temporary.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
I like it. Thank you. What's yours?
Speaker 2 (49:18):
This was easy? The two thousand and four masterpiece Catwoman
starring Holly Berry.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
Really really, oh I was I thought your faced was
sirius for a second. I was like, oh wow, all right.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
No, I've still never seen that.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
I should I've never Actually i've never seen it either.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
Really, that's a surprise. It's a I guess that's a
d C. Yeah, Catwoman's DC.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
I've seen comic book movies, but like, I just have
never had an interest in seeing that movie. I get
it just because of its reputation.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, it's it.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I'm like, then I automatically don't care.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
So with all the ties that director Tabernaro has with Franco,
I felt like I should do a Franco And I
watched this particular film earlier in the year and I
learned that Tabernaro's actually has an acting credit in it.
I think he plays one of the characters, Butler or something.
But what really ties the two films together is the
movie poster. It's also designed by Mac Gomez, and it's
(50:16):
very very similar to Sexy Cat, which came out four
years later. My pick is Two Undercover Angels from nineteen
sixty nine, and this is about two female detectives who
go by Red Lips and they're on a case to
find missing models and dancers, and there's a pop artist
who is the main suspect. So like Sexy Cat, there's
(50:38):
a lot of art and original paintings involved, and the
killer paints photographs and sculpts his victims as they are murdered.
Very silly, genre bending kind of action horror, think German slash,
Spanish Pink Panther or even Austin Powers with murder. Just
ridiculous characters, over exaggerating every moment, every movement, every piece
(51:02):
of dialogue that they speak. What's his name? I always forget,
I don't. I mispronounce his name every all the time.
But Michel Luong, he plays a werewolf igor type servant
named Morpho. It's crazy, it's good. There's a lot of
ties with Tabernaro, with the art involved with Jess Franco.
To undercover Angels is my pick. Speaking of pick, what's
(51:25):
the next episode?
Speaker 3 (51:26):
All right, next episode? I'm keeping with the short movie.
Not a lot of other films to watch in their filmography.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yeah, June's going to be busy.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
So and I feel like this could potentially go I
don't know category wise, but definitely just you could free
space it if you wanted. I'm going with The Headless
Eyes from nineteen seventy one. This is directed by Ken Bateman.
As eight hundred and eighty seven views on Letterbox So
(51:59):
I had originally planned to do this later in the year,
but because it's, you know, getting close to nine hundred,
I always get worried that there'll be some random surge
because of something. But this is about a continuing the
sort of artist theme that we've had so far since
our return. This is about a New York artist who
gouges out eyes with a spoon after the same is
(52:21):
done to him.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Why a spoon, cousin, why not a knife or a fork?
Speaker 3 (52:29):
This is short, it's under eighty minutes and Liz Purchell
her review of it, not our full review, but one
thing that she wrote in her review of it says,
feels like what would have happened had HG. Lewis made
a gore picture in New York? Grim and sleazy but
never dull.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Hell yeah, it's old, Yeah, I mean gouging cut and
eyes out with spoons already.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, it's very grimy, sixteen millimeter. It's on YouTube, so
that's going to make it even more like fuzzy and
hard to watch. So have fun with that on YouTube.
Will put a link to where you can watch it
in show notes and in our discord. So, yeah, the
Headless Eyes. Now, when you look us up on letterbox,
(53:12):
if you see the poster for it, it looks like shit.
And if it looks familiar, that's because there is another
movie called The Killer I, which.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
Is a Is that what this is or is that
this is the post, this is the actual poster.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
I honestly, I don't know. I gotta I'm going to
dig into that when I like actually do my research
for the episode, because if you look up that and
then you look up The Killer I, you're going to
see the same fucking poster with just a different movie name.
The Killer I is a god awful It's either Full Moon,
Charles Band, something like that movie that I watched for
(53:49):
my previous podcast, and uh, it's about a literal killer eye,
like a big floating eyeball that kills people and it's
very Oh no, I think it's a David Code movie
because the movie being super horny. Okay, yeah, that movie sucks.
God blessed David Dakoto. I love him for what he does,
but I don't I can only handle so much, all right.
(54:11):
If you're not already, you can follow this podcast on
Instagram and Facebook. You can join our discord there's a
link in show notes, and you can follow me on
Instagram or letterboxed at x Massacre.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
You can find me on letterbox and Instagram at l Chivy.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see you back next episode
for the headless eyes.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Hie bye, You say a lot of dreams.
Speaker 4 (54:35):
Got it question? It's a long time ago, and low
seems to you that everything doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
You are alone, and now you're searching at night among
the stars in the sky.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
For the wind of a new lone, the wind of
hello and goodbye. A sexy cat fins on down the clouds,
the placeful, fair.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
Hurry of grace.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
I see you caressing the moon and the.
Speaker 5 (55:10):
Stars in heaven.
Speaker 4 (55:45):
To come back to life. You dip your tired body
and the dying seas you sow us like a museum
of brilliant thoughts and non trivial things. And I would
like to stay with you more, but your house is
probably cursed. The devil scene is to be there until
(56:08):
your lonely soul has he burst. A sexy cat fliesan
Donnie clouds, the plassful fairy of love. I see you
caressing the moon on the stars, and I leave you.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
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