The Devil's Mistress (1965)

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It can't help you now. Helloand welcome to another episode of Unsung
Horrors, the podcast where we discussunderseen horror films, specifically those with fewer
than one thousand views on Letterboxed.I'm Lance and I'm Erica. Before we
dive into this episode's film, wewant to thank Bill from Groovy Doom and
Sam from BNS about Movies for havingus on Driving Asylum to chat about the

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chat about child Kills and Kingdom ofthe Spiders. Yes, which was a
ton of fun. I had ablast talking to both of them. Yeah,
I love them both. I tunein every now and then when I
can, As you know, I'ma lurker over there. Usually you know,
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something like that. But they just, you know, they're more of the
generation of people whose taste I follow. And for sure, definitely I mentioned
that when when we were streaming withthem. Sam was kind enough to say
that we've introduced him to new movies, and I was like, the fuck
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I mean I always talk about Samand like his reviews and stuff from movies
that we pick. So yeah,they it's such a great time talking to
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Yeah, seeing my face on screennext to years, Yeah, it's odd.
Yeah, maybe we should do that. No, No, I agree,
Yeah, thank you Okay, butyeah, thanks Bill and Sam.

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are going Western. Are you readyfor it? Yeah? This one took
me in a interesting direction that Iwasn't expecting, So yeah, I'm definitely
ready for it. Yeah. It'sa horror. It's a Western horror called
The Devil's Mistress. Like the previouspick Invitation to Travel, it leans less
on the horror genre and more onThis one's specifically more on the Western genre.

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In my opinion. I mentioned it'skind of like a rape revenge story
when I introduced in the last episode, but it does have the horror genre
label tied to it on IMDb andletterbox on it. Yeah, it counts
on horror, but it counts,and I'm excited to have picked it and
chat about it. It's only anhour long too, It's not sixty six
minutes. Yes, it's fantastic.Yeah. I initially select this movie for

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a few reasons, but like thebiggest reason was I know that we've both
been kind of busy. You havea lot of stuff, a lot of
events coming up a lot of projectsthat we're working on. I'd eat into
our movie watching time and research.And also the director, Orville Wanzer.
He has no other releases. There'sreally no other film credits tied to the
cast and crew. And again,like I said, the movie's just over

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an hour long. It seemed likea cakewalk. But I was pleasantly surprised
that I went down a rabbit holeas soon as I started doing some studying
on the Devil's Mistress. Well,there is one crew member who we haven't
talked about in a while actually,and I wanted to shout him out.
Austin Green. Austin Green, myman, Austin Green. Yeah. What's

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funny too, is when we startedthis podcast, I have a friend Austin
Green. You both do, She'sour mutual friend. He would say,
Hey, just casually somehow, justdrop my name and do an episode every
episode. My friend Austin said this, or yeah, so I saw my
friend Austin Green. This one's easybecause there is an Austin Green in the
cast and crew yep, which I'lltalk about in just a minute. But

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yeah, I was, like Isaid, I was surprised about I thought
this was going to be a cakewalk. I didn't think I was going to
spend a whole lot of time,but I started learning about the filming location
of Las Crusis, New Mexico,Wanser's link to that region, and then
learning about the Acid Western which thisfalls into, and this all kind of

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led me to my new best friend, doctor Julia L. Smith. She's
currently a visiting assistant professor at NewMexico State University in the Department of English
and Gender and Sexuality Studies. ButI found her online due to the work
and all the devotion that she hasto essentially becoming an archivist of Orville Wanser's

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work, which the University Library Archiveshold. It's a collection of like one
hundred and forty reels of eight sixteenthirty five millimeter films. They include outtakes
and trailers for this movie The Devil'sMistress, a lot of Wanser films that
have never been released, one calledGeorge Andrews various scenes shot by Wanser,

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film student assignments and scenes around theNMSU campus in Las Crusis. And Julie
has been working on a documentary focusingon the evolution of the shut the subgenre
acid Western in New Mexico specifically fromnineteen fifty nine to nineteen seventy nine,
through the lens of Las Crusi's filmmakeror of A Wanzar. So I reached

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out to her and she responded,was very enthusiastic, extremely kind with her
time, very knowledgeable obviously on thesubject, giving me a call and we
just chatted for a little over anhour. She told me about Orvi Wanzer
in the New Mexico film scene.But yeah, I recommend everybody kind of
reach out or follow her on heron her socials, which we could put

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in show notes, because yeah,follow her journey on getting this documentary out.
She'll probably be posting links maybe forsome fundraising links to get this movie.
So but yeah, So The Devil'sMistress it just crossed one hundred views
on letterboxed with one hundred and twoviews. Hey, thanks Adam, Yeah,
thanks thanks listeners. I think itwas ninety six when I announced it.

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Oh, last day side, sowe've jumped up about six views.
You're one of them. I amone. I hope I watched it.
Which is better? Yeah, likeI said, this is in our last
episode. This is more of arape revenge western with light sprinkles of horror
throughout. The title certainly gives ita horror vibe. So we follow four
outlaw cowboys who are on the runfrom a robbery slash murder that they committed,

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and they come across a remote cabinwhere a kind man and his mute
quote woman take them in to feedthem and allow them to rest up.
And these dirt bags end up killingthe man and raping the woman, taking
her along with him, and whilerunning for the border or it's kind of
insinuated that they're going to Mexico.Yeah, they begin to slowly die off

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by the hands of the woman.I say slowly, but the movie's only
sixty six minutes long, but itdoes kind of drag it, and you
know, you're just kind of followingthese characters on the trail. Yeah,
we'll talk about the pacing and theruntime in just a bit, but let's
start with the man of the Hour, director Orville Wanzer. I want to
do a quick summary on his lifebecause Julia filled me in on a lot
of his information and it's really interestingand stuff that I found online. So

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Orville Joseph Budd as he was referredto Wanser. He had an interesting life.
He was born in Brooklyn in nineteenthirty raised in Queens, and when
he was eighteen, he served inthe US Navy for a few years,
where he developed a love for filmliterature and photography, highlighting his time as
a film projectionist aboard ships. Soafter his military service, he used the

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GI bill to attend the University ofMiami, earning a BA and master's degree
in English lit literature. And thisis where he met his wife, Joan
Stapleton, who actually plays Leah inthe movie That's his wife, The Mute
Woman. So Wanser was offered someteaching gigs from universities around the country,
and he and Joan decided on NewMexico State University, moving there in nineteen

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fifty nine, and there he taughtEnglish literature for several years when he and
another professor they created the NMSU JournalismDepartment, where Wanser taught photography, film
history, and eventually filmmaking. Andat the time, only a few universities
offered a filmmaking course, so Wanserwas able to elevate the university's film department,

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actually allowing students to shoot and developtheir own footage using military surplus sixteen
millimeter cameras that he got a holdof. So he definitely set up this
scrappy yet progressive film department in NewMexico. And I read and watched a
lot of interviews with previous students ofhis, somebody can find on Julia's instagram
which is at Birth of the AcidWestern. But they all adored ones where

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he seemed like a very nice guy, and the interviews I read he seemed
kind of, I don't know,he almost had like a deadpan humor and
kind of a bleak outlook on life, but in a very positive way.
It was fun. Yeah, it'sjust fun to listen to him speak.
And then there, while teaching atMSU, he wrote the screenplay for The
Devil's Mistress, which was originally titledLa Bruja or The Witch. You know,

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the thought of a professor riding andmaking a feature film on his own
like during that time wasn't very commonbecause it was all kind of Hollywood driven,
studio backed funded movies during that time. So he got a group of
people together and they made this lowbudget genre bending film, and he had
hopes of making profits that would allowhim and the others to continue making films
in Las Crusis, New Mexico.But it said that the would be distributors

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defrauded the locals and they made noprofit at all from The Devil's Mistress.
So obviously Wanser didn't make another featurefilm. He did make another film,
which I think is a short filmin nineteen seventy I believe it was called
George Andrews, as well as someother experimental eight millimeters shorts. But a
fun tidbit, The Devil's Mistress premierednationally in nineteen sixty five at the Rio

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Grand Theater in Las Crusis, andthen it was programmed there fifty four years
later by Julia kind of to kickoff her work on the Birth of the
Acid Western documentary that she was showing. Does Julia have the film elements now,
I'd asked. She said it wasa digital It was a digital projection

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from the scrap It's kind of what'sfloating around on to b and stuff.
I think they did come across thethirty five millimeter film. I think that
was found by the cinematographer of TheDevil's Mistress. But I think she said
it was sold. Oh so that'snot even in the archive as far as
I know, I don't know,like it could it could still be.
There's pictures of it on her Instagram. But I could have storw when I

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spoke with her that maybe it wasanother real distribution because it was filmed in
sixteen millimeters in the movie. Yeah, and they made distribution reels and I
think, I don't know, they'reobviously rare, so I kind of wanted
to see if maybe like Agfoot pickedit up or something, if it was
like on eBay, I could seethem picking it up. I should check,
Joe, what do you think?But yeah. Wanzer continued to teach

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film and photography until retiring in nineteeneighty five. There's a lot of his
beautiful photographs too that you can onlineof the New Mexico landscapes and wildlife in
that area. He remained in NewMexico, essentially living off the grid,
living in a house he built allby himself on land he co owned along
the Rio Grande, where he hikedwith his rescue dogs or all rescue dogs.

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I was pointed out some of mostof them only with three limbs is
what it said, so, that'scute. He taught himself stained glass,
building a car port with stained glasspanels. And he also wrote a fantasy
novel called The Elfin Brood, whichwas published in nineteen ninety seven, which
I had already ordered. I'm goingto get in. I'm planning to read
it on the plane when I goto Chicago and Philly, Okay, in

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a couple of months. And Iwas a huge as a kid. I
loved the dragon Lance Chronicles. It'snot just because of the title. I
was gonna say Land. They're thebest of the fantasy world to me.
The Elves drawarves. I also readthe Shannara books, but the dragon Lance
Chronicles are awesome. So I'm lookingforward to read Wanzer's take on fantasy.

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Yes, I'm very excited. Buthe passed away in twenty nineteen. But
before he did, this is whereJulia comes in. She was able to
film a series of interviews with him, and it was then that she learned
of his archive at n MSU andseeing his works at the Institute of Historical
Survey Foundation. And it was incollaboration with these archives, along with interviews

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with his family, as friends andformer students, when she discovered kind of
how instrumental Wanser was in growing theindependent film scene in southern New Mexico.
So she began to digitize and curatethe Wanser collections at these archives, especially
all his eight, sixteen, andthirty five millimeter films, but also his
photography, and she was ordered agrant for her proposed Orville Wanser digitization project.

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During this time, she also metand became friends with Teddy Gregory,
who's a cinematographer, and that's wherethey did obtain a thirty five millimeter distribution
reel of the film. But yeah, I'm not sure sure if it's still
in the archive. I would imagineit still is I get clarification on that.
So, yeah, he's an interestingfellow and like I feel like a
short documentary is you know, justhim as a subject is worthy. It

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is worth a short documentary alone.But she's focusing on through him, the
birth of the acid Western to thatspecific region. Wanzer, he made the
first film shot in Las Cruces,Mexico. But I wanted to quickly chat
about a few other films that werefilmed there in that area because it is
a beautiful landscape, like I thinkit's kind of eye candy, all the

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exterior shots in this movie. First, what is the subgenre of acid Western?
Though I think it could be openthere interpretation. Yeah, but it's
a subgenre of the Western film thatemergent merged in the sixties and seventies that
combines Western motifs with the cinematic excessesof spaghetti westerns, incorporating LSD inspired counter

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cultural narratives to rate a provocative,drug ut version of the American Frontier.
So basically trippy westerns, you know, that have kind of the violence and
exploitation of these movies from the sixtiesand seventies. But when doing searches on
acid western, it's all over theinternet that Monte Hellman directed the first acid
western with in nineteen sixty six,The Whirlwind. Yeah, right, in

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the Whirlwind and the shooting are consideredacid westerns. Yeah, okay, I
can see that. And then youhave Jeordiowski's al Topo. Yeah, that's
like that would be the one Iwould point to if someone was like,
what's an acid Western or a psychedelicWestern and be like, well, al
Topo, yeah, because that well, you know, if we're talking acid
Westerns. Now, I do feellike The Devil's Mistress is more of an

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acid Western than Right in the Whirlwindor The Shooting, which I think are
more straightforward Westerns. Obviously they dohave some exploitative story of story pots,
but yeah, al topo is actuallywhere the term, from what I could
tell, acid Western was first coinedby a reviewer who was actually blasting the
film, taking aim at the stonercrowd that it was pulling it in,

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that was pulling it in for screenings. Yeah, but The Devil's Mistress predates
Hellman's films, so it could beargued this is the earliest, certainly one
of the earliest acid Westerns, whichis what Julia's documentary seems to be focusing
in on. Other acid westerns,Rolling Clicks, Deadlock from nineteen seventy,
which we both just watched recently,starting the Fantastic Mario Adorf. Yeah.

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Actually that one popped up when wecovered Invitation to Travel. I saw that
when I was going through his filmography, and I was like, oh,
that looks interesting, and then coincidentallyI was like, Okay, well there
we go. I'm going to bumpthat up on my watch list. Hell
yeah, it's good. It's funlittle thriller. Yeah, it's some of
the other stuff that I read aboutacid westerns is having like the sort of

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really bleak narrative and these like antiheroes at the center of it, and
that definitely those characteristics are definitely presentin Deadlock. You know, there's no
one likable in it. Yeah,there's no your enemy, there's no hero,
You're just kind of everybody's kind ofyeah, like there's anti heroes.

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You're just doing their own thing.It's that movie is so dusty though.
I'm like, it's so dirty.It is like all their hands are always
like they're just everybody's covered in likethis and like this this dust Dennis Hoppers
the Last movie from nineteen seventy one. Okay, yeah, very bleak.
Your favorite guy, Peter Fonda,I know you hate him. But the

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Hired Hand from nineteen seventy one,which I think is in your book,
I watched that for Jeane's plitation.I pointed out that there was oh yeah,
that's in the appendix is I don'twant to you don't want to give,
you don't want to shine any lighton beautiful your Fonda And then dead
Man from nineteen ninety five. Morerecently, Yeah, Armish nineteen ninety five.

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I've never really gotten on the JimJermush Jarmish train. I just I
don't know, he's never been mybag. But I mean same. I
watched Dead Man probably. I meanit was like, yeah, like the
mid nineties. I think I rentedit, and you know, I wanted
to see a glasses wearing Johnny Depp, and I remember the the supporting cast

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was awesome. It had like LanceHenrickson in it, Iggy Pop pops up,
you know there seems it's very artsy. But yeah, I remember thinking
when I was at that young age, I was like, I don't know
if I'm into this. I needto give another rewatch. I'll give another
shot. I think I was inthe same boat. I saw it same
time roughly, and I like whohe casts in his films. But what

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was the last one he did thatboth of us were like, oh,
ghoules with Adam Driver, Dead Don'tDead, Don't Die. Yeah, Okay,
I didn't see that. I thought, Okay, well maybe I told
you not to and you actually listento me. But why Yeah, I
didn't have I didn't have a desireto say I did not have. I
don't know why I did then,but the trailer didn't didn't sell me.

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It did not a couple other likemodern more modernish ones to Richard Stanley's Dust
Devil, which I almost picked fora double feature, but I just did
that one for a midnight ride,so I did not pick that one.
And then I think a lot oflists and a few YouTube videos that I
saw referenced Zalar's Bone Tomahawk as anotherone, which, you know, whatever

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your political feelings are about Zollar,I think Bone Tomahawk is is great.
I do too. I understand likethere's people who have problems with it because
of because of Zalor and some interviewsand some messaging in there, and I
get that and I sympathize. Butit's been a really long time since I've

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seen a movie that had a scenethat just made me go, oh fuck,
yeah when it starts, I was. I watched it alone in the
theater, I remember, and Iwas like, holy fuck, Like that's
a good one too. Yeah,any others that you have on your list
there, there's a few others thatwere mentioned that I haven't seen. Zachariyah
from nineteen seventy one proposition from twothousand and five High Planes Drifter from nineteen

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seventy one, which is on mywatch list. I just I have never
gotten around to it, but Ihave seen that one. Yeah, that's
that one's I believe that's the Clintystory, right, Yeah, and I
think he comes to town and basicallyjust starts like raping and taking control of
the town and everybody's like, hey, you can do whatever you want if
you protect us. Like it's well, that's definitely an anti hero. Yeah,

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yeah, exactly. One other oneI did just watch. It popped
up on like one list, andI don't I mean, it definitely has
like the anti hero in it anda lot of the spaghetti Western leanings.
But it's also directed by Corbucci,so it is already a spaghetti Western in
my head. But that's Sonny injed Oh, I love that one.

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Yeah, I saw you watched ittoo. I just watch the fucking score,
holy shit bang in. Yeah.I mean Corbucci usually he gets the
composers and they get it down likethey know their assignment. Yeah, it's
perfect. But yeah, that's that'spretty much it for the ones that I
came across in this the acid Westerngenre. Yeah, I mean, honestly,

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I have one, but I'm savingthat. You're saving that. I'm
saving one for one for my doublefeatures. Yeah, I mean honestly.
I mean I had heard the subgenreused before, but I have never I
had never really taken time to spendmore than five minutes on looking at what's
considered an acid Western until this thisepisode. So it's been a lot of
fun. So again, I'm lookingforward to this documentary that Julia releases soon.

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Yeah, I hope soon. Iknow it's a it's a big tax,
so I don't mean to rush anybody. But getting back to Las Crusis,
New Mexico. You know, there'stons of westerns and films that are
filmed in New Mexico. The Devil'sMistress is the first one that was shot
in specifically Las Crusis. It kindof put him on the map. Three
years later, Clint Eastwood's Hang ThemHigh, Oh, filmed in Las Crusis,

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New Mexico in nineteen sixty eight,directed by Ted Post. Supposedly Orvoe
Wands are helped with Hang Them Highdoing scouting and consulting work on the film.
Julia when I was speaking to herwith her she mentioned that she's been
told that Wants Are also has filmingbehind the scenes footage during the making of
the film, so she was like, I wonder if like Clint Eastwood has

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those reels or they're out there somewhere, because they're not in the archive.
Not filmed in New Mexico, butit takes place in New Mexico, or
Sergiolioni's Dollars Trilogy filmed in Spain,obviously, but one movie that is specifically
filmed in Las Crusis is The Curseto the Bite. Oh yeah, it's
so fun. Well, I've recentlywatched this and really it has It doesn't

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even mention New Mexico is the place, so it really doesn't have anything to
do with Las Crusis. It alsohas nothing to do with the First Curse
at all. It's not a it'snot a lovecraft, No, it's none
of That's it's what happens when youjust randomly hire an Italian to make your
sequel. That's what you get.You get bit by a snake and you

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turn into a snake. Your hand, your hand turns into a hand pup
at snake. That kills people.Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
There are good there's great effects init. It definitely has the Italian feel
in it, and it has theIt does have the beautiful landscapes that is
in Las Crusis, but other filmsthat are shot in not specifically Las Crusis,
but other New Mexico locations. TheCoen Brothers, No Country for Old

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Men, They're true Grit, WilliamFreakin Sorcerer, The Hired Hand, Your
Boy, Beauter fond A Easy Rider, two Lane Blacktop, another Monty Helmet
film. This one was great whenI saw it on a list. Paul
Bartel's Less Than the Dust starring TheBeautiful Divine and tab Hunter. The Brotherhood
of Satan was filmed in Albuquerque,but Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, Young

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Guns two, The Man Who Fellto Earth, Arthur Pinn's The Missouri Breaks,
and then recently the the series TheCurse starring Emma Stone, Nathan Fildey
Fielder and Binny Softie. It's onshit, it's a showtime series. Why
do you don't look at me likeI should know what you're talking about when
it's something that's on a streaming platform. Well, it's good. It's worth

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like, well, Twin Peaks wason Showtime, so that's why I kind
of that was like way back thereturn, Yeah and you want. Yeah,
it's not the original Twin Peaks,but I think they might be on
there. But yeah, it wasfilmed. The Curse was filmed in Santa
Fe and Espanola, which is whereI think Julia said she was from originally.

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But this was something I couldn't bingeat all, Like I had to
take rests between episodes because it's souncomfortable. It is such an uncomfortable series.
But the finale is the like,go for it. Okay, everybody
watched The Curse, I recommend it, but you do I have forget a
ship time. I mean it'll hita you know, it'll get some release

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and I can get from the libraryat something that's true. Yeah, because
A twenty four I think produced it, so they're probably okay then yeah,
it'll get something. But yeah,anyway, just a ton of movies filmed
in New Mexico. Yeah, So, like I said, it's I'm just
I'm looking forward to this documentary andspeaking with Julia is already kind of obviously
I'm very excited from it. Butyou know, the acid Western Orville Wanzer

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and just the New Mexico landscapes andthe filming history there. It got mcgiddy,
like you learn. So yeah,it makes me want to check out.
Wanser has like a bunch of likeavant garde kind of experimental films out
there too that I really want totake a look at where he did a
lot of interesting film techniques. Okay, So I spent a lot of time
on Wanzer because mainly, like wesaid, nobody else really has any credits.

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Yeah, aside from a few whichI'm gonna We've already mentioned that the
mute woman Leah is played by Wanser'swife at the time, Joan Stapleton,
who I thought looked a little bitlike Helena Bottom Carter when she first popped
up with their big eyes and yeah, I can see that. Yeah,
I don't know. I just thecowboys and the Devil's Mistress. They really
don't have any other credits. Frank, played by Robert Gregory, has credits

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listed on Letterboxed, but not IMDb, and I don't think that's the same
Robert Gregory because everything on letterbox arelike UK thrillers from Oh yeah, He
definitely didn't come from but he wasan extra in Hang Him High while they
were because they were filming near hisranch in the Oregon Mountains. So he's
in there somewhere, which the OrganMountains are the backdrop in The Devil's Mistress,

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New Mexico. The production supervisor whowe've already named Austin Green, I
know him well. He directed amovie in nineteen sixty five called At the
End of the Rainbow, which isbetter known as The Princess and the Magic
Frogs. This ring a bell toyou, so agfa and something weird.
Oh, they offered this as adownload during Christmas, like the holiday break.

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Yeah, yeah, but this wassome of these sums. Some of
the scenes were filmed in White SandsNational Monument and throughout New Mexico, some
of the desert scenes. But thatdirector, yeah, he worked on he
was the production supervisor. Didn't thespace shuttle from Space camp Land in New
Mexico? You know, the putMax in space movie? Oh yeah,

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you might be right. I don'tknow, Okay, I don't know.
Yeah, I see I saw thatmovie. Listener, somebody somebody will know.
Yeah, somebody comment in our podcastchannel. Mean you could probably just
go ask John. He wouldn't knowthat movie. John was probably watching Cannibal
Holocaust when we were watching Space Camp. Respect but yeah. Really, the

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only person in the casting crew thathas multiple credited work is William Allen.
Casselman who was credited is Billy Allenand The Devil's Mistress, who, along
with Douglas Warren, did the originalscore. He also scored She Freak Hell
Yeah herschel Gordon Lewis's Ecstasies of Women, Jack Hill's The Big Bird Cage.

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Andy was the producer this, Idon't think. I think this is just
a coincidence, but he was theproducer for Johnny Firecloud, which you just
watched, Yeah, during a marathon. Yeah, John programmed a marathon for
some friends here and I hadn't seenit before and it's really good. Well
he's this this composer apparently was aproducer on that film. Okay, Well,
I actually I take it back.I knew that ahead of time.

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I watched it because of that onecredit. There you go. Research.
I did no research for this episode. Well that's about it for the cast
and crew that I have. There'sa lot of anecdotes that I just kind
of you know, cut from mynotes because like I said, I could
keep talking about Wanzer and acid Westerns, but the information's out there on Julia's

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and it will be out there whenthe documentary's ready. So yeah, we're
gonna save it for that awesome.So let's jump into this short and sweet
movie. Draw some boobies in thedirt. Yeah, it's fucking sticking knife
in it. So yeah, firstoff, this is short and sweet.
It feels a bit like it tailsfrom the crypt or like a Twilight Zone
episode, and that it moves sofast and it's kind of PG. Yeah,

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it's not you could feel the budgetin this because it's it's labeled a
horror. There's no gore. There'smurders, but they're not graphic by any
means. Yeah, but it's shortand sweet, and I think that the
the original score by Alan gives ita gives it almost like a made for
TV feel too. Yeah, itdefinitely has that feel to it, you

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know, Like you mentioned, there'sno gore, you know, there is
at the very end. She doeshave a heart in her hand, but
that's pretty much it. But Ithink some of the more horrific elements to
me are any sort of like bodilyfunction stuff like I know you have like
issues with like with like out ofout of when people kiss with their tongues

(30:11):
outside their mouth, Like I knowyou hate that. Yeah, I can't
really, I mean maybe it is. I don't kiss gross. But like
the when they first come to thehouse in the middle of nowhere and they're
served a meal and it's this longscene, no dialogue, It's literally three

(30:33):
minutes long. I was going tosay, that's I timed it. I
like, well, I looked atthe time stamps, so that's the same
thing. But like close ups ofthem chewing, smacking their lips, burping,
just it's just plate shuffling and scrapingfor like three minutes, and it's
so uncomfortable for me. It is, and it's it has to be intentional,

(30:56):
like to make you feel like thisunpleasant. It's an lay in three
minutes, they're literally grunting and moaninglike pigs. They're like you can hear
them. I saw an interview wherea student when this was filmed, I
think at the Rio Grand Theater.A student said that scene reminded him of
watching like David Lynch before. Obviouslyit's before David Lynch, and I felt

(31:19):
that because of the uncomfortable nature,which you know you get in a lot
of those too long and zoom inscenes from David Lynch. It reminded me
of the little Man from Another Placefrom Twin Peaks eating his garment Bozia his
creamed corn in reverse, because it'slike when he in that scene in Twin
Peaks gets firewalk with me, heeats it. But you know, Lynch

(31:41):
does that whole reverse stuff, awalking backwards, talking backwards. So the
cream corn is feeding out of hismouth onto the spoon and it's a close
up shot. And this scene remindedme of that three minutes of that,
right, I just wanted to likegag and applaud simultaneou No, I loved

(32:01):
it. That scene is Yeah,I have that listed on one of my
favorites. It's listed in my like, well, that was distressing and the
food that they eat that they're eating, it's hinted that I don't know what
it's hinted at, like it couldbe man, it could be because there's

(32:23):
no game like one of the Ithink it's it's either Joe or Will.
One of the cowboys is like wheredid this met come from taste with the
main guy, who's like not likewho doesn't go in at first? Is
that? Yeah, that's not frankNo, Frankie's like the real he's the
last guy. Okay, Yeah,it's hinted at because he even mentions like,

(32:45):
I've never tasted meat like this before, what is this? And they
don't answer, and any like allof the food that they have there because
they're in this extremely barren landscape.She's like pulling like multiple loaves of bread
out of the oven and like it'salmost like Hansole and Gretel moment where just
like food just magically appears to likefatten them up. And so like I

(33:07):
got that kind of you know,we talked before in the last episode about
like getting a fairy tale vibe outof it, and I kind of got
that in that element where I waslike, Okay, this is too good
to be true where they're starving,they're thirsty, and they just happen upon
some random house in the middle ofnowhere. Some kind people are like have
all this food just ready to goand they're not eating either. So then

(33:30):
you're like, well, you know, I know it's daytime, but you
know, we think of like thevampires and in the sense like that where
like they're not eating, but they'reyou know, they want you to be
happy. Yeah, and it's kindof hinted that she, I mean,
she does have some vampire tendencies likethe bite on the neck and stuff,
and they're very pale. But yeah, I got like during that scene,
it's very I got another worldly kindof idea in my head too, like

(33:52):
they're essentially doomed. To me,it felt like the Devil and the Mistress,
we're treating this as a game,like they knew they were going to
die, they knew they're doomed,and they're basically like eating themselves, like
they're tasting each other. Yeah,I mean it could be like I even
got to the level where I waslike, maybe they're already dead and they're

(34:13):
in purgatory and they show up hereand they're just being like fed all this
food. That's really like they're likeHomer and Hell where he's being fed donuts,
you know, and they're just likethey don't fucking care, they're just
eating it up. Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. And these guys are
gross. I mean, these menare terrible. We've already talked about they're
eating habits. Although I do haveto say I do love the sound when
I watch Westerns. I love thesound of the woodenspoon hitting like the skillet

(34:37):
while they're eating beans around a fireor something. I'm like, that just
sounds good. And then you geta big old piece of bread and just
stip it in. I don't know, I just thought of that right now.
Okay, so kind of a comfortthing like Peter cushion, put your
cushion washing his hands. It makesme feel good, it makes me feel
warm. But yeah, aside fromtheir eating habits, these personalities are disgusting.

(34:59):
Listening to speak in the very beginningaround that campfire is like, it's
gross. They're they're basically I don'tknow, they're just kind of going on
these sets there they're talking about.Well, to me, I almost got
like a homo erotic feeling because they'retalking about their sexcapades and one, you
know, like the raping and stuffand the women that they've been with,

(35:19):
and I just thought like, Okay, they're very secluded, they're together,
they're lonely, they're boasting about theirsexual adventures. They're obviously very horny.
And then that's when, like WillieNelson in Orbville Pex song They're the latest
single of you Heard That, theCowboys are for le Fond each Other started

(35:44):
playing like I wanted to play itwhile watching that scene, maybe even while
they were eating. But yeah,I couldn't stand when I first watched it.
I couldn't stand that Charlie guy becausehe reminded me a little Randy Quaid
and a weird way with his likefishing ain't no fun unless you know the
fish fights, and he does thishorrible, high pitched giggle and moan like

(36:08):
like I couldn't. I mean,he's definitely like a villain, like it's
you know, we're talking about antiheroes, but he is just a terrible
person from the very beginning. Yeah, And I think one could watch this
and think, like the performances,and I saw it in some reviews on
letterbox where they're like, these peopledo not know how to act. They'll
never they shouldn't be and I hopethey're not in any other movies, where

(36:30):
I was kind of the opposite.I was like celebrating the performances, thinking
like they made this, Yeah,this is done, Like I'm sold,
I'm I'm completely invested in the dirtbaggery that they're portraying. Yeah, you
don't watch a movie that was made, you know, an independent film on
a micro non existent budget and compareit to people who have had like professional

(36:54):
acting training in the Hollywood movie orsomething like you set your bar a certain
place. It's like when we talkabout sv movies and things like that,
like exactly, I'm not concerned aboutlike their performance so much. I'm concerned
about like how much they're putting intoit and how much I believe what it

(37:14):
is that they're doing. I believethis fucking freak right wants to rape women
and like a struggle, and likeI believe that about this person. And
yeah, obviously I'm not going tocompare you know, Wantzer's wife to like
Meryl Streep or something like. That'sabsurd. Like you take each movie for

(37:36):
what it is and you evaluated basedon that. Yeah, and you have
to take a step back. Imean, and a lot of people don't.
They just put on a movie ontwo be maybe and be like what
the fuck is this? Right?Yeah, but you know this is this
is a professor that's just making amovie with his wife and some friends.
You know, and when we watchset on video, I go in hoping
for you know, arguably, I'mgonna throw out quote trashy and terrible performances

(38:01):
because that's what m yes I didwhen I first watched this, I said,
if Ted V. Michaels made aWestern, it might look a little
something like The Devil's Mistress. Andthat is a total compliment. Yeah,
of course, because it's it's rightup my alley as it moved along.
I mean, there's a lot offavorites that I liked in this, and
I found that I kind of respectedhow it doesn't really waste any time with

(38:23):
filler. Again, it's a it'sa short film. I do think it's
predictable, but sure, but stillI have so much fun getting to know,
like wanting to know who's going tobe the last cowboys standing? You
know, How's you know, how'sFrank and Joe and Will? How are
each of them going to go out? Did you have a favorite death like

(38:45):
from any of those? I thinkthe rattlesnake to the face, Yeah,
I mean, because it happens reallyquickly, and so I rewound it because
it actually looks like the rattlesnake gothim in the face like that. He
did a really quick edit to itand I was like, oh shit.
And yeah, when he's laying down, it's like right between the eyes you

(39:06):
see the snake bite. Yeah,it is kind of a crappy copy on
too, but it's pretty dark.Yeah. Yeah, I think that was
Joe that got the snake bite tothe face. Yeah, but I mean
I think what I like about thattoo, is that the whole scene starts
with Leah trying to get something tohelp, and she's like pointing to like,
go get that thing up there,so it's like she's setting them up,

(39:28):
like pretending to help, and thenhe gets bit by the rattlesnake and
falls down, and I'm like,yeah, that's where I kept thinking too,
Like when they were in the cabin, like they like you said,
they I feel like they knew thatthey're dooing from the start. They might
already be dead. But I lovedin each of those moments. When Lee
is gonna kill one of the men, she's like smiling, you know,
she's up to something, like it'sa game, like from the get go.

(39:51):
I did love Will's who was onthe horse. I guess the horse
ran and killed him. He gothung in the tree branches and hanged.
He got hanged. I love howLeah Talxin whispers to the horse. I
love that scene. Yeah yeah,And I almost wanted to try and make
it, like make out what shewas saying. It seemed like she was
really exaggerating and you know, accentuatingthe words, but I couldn't get it.

(40:14):
Yeah, I like that we can'thear like it's yeah, no for
sure, and yeah I knew why, Like we don't see that event actually
happen, Like we don't see thehorse go wild and him like his head
the hit the branches and then getstuck in there, like we just see
him hanging from there and like he'sstuck between two branches and obviously either his

(40:35):
neck is broken or he suffocated.But obviously in a movie like this,
like they wouldn't be able to filma scene like that, they would that
would require like a horse trainer tomake sure that's sun Yeah, yeah,
all these things like you're not goingto get in this, and so I'm
like it's fine, Like I sawthe after effect, I'm okay with that.
Yeah, effective, it totally worked. It's actually I think more effective
to where you just think about whathappened, and I did, like how

(41:00):
how the devil the main the man, the bearded man falls after he's shot
and his cabin. It's very creepy. He's just very stiff and just falls
straight down without closing his eyes.This one, I think the face makeup
and kind of the grainy film,but like the white makeup and the way
that people are kind of rigid itdid. This was another kind of Lynch

(41:21):
moment for me where I was like, this feels like something from like a
student film, like from the Grandmotherof the Alphabet. It's very creepy.
Yeah. One thing that took meout of the if I was trying to
get into the horror vibe was themusic. I think I had mentioned that
it start. It starts off verywesterny, but as soon as they enter
the cabin, it gets a littleplayful. And again it could be maybe

(41:44):
it's it is becoming like a gameand stuff, but it started feeling like
a Roger Corman Rock All Night orlike Bucket of Blood, where it's just
kind of jazzy here and there,and it didn't really fit. I think
it would be a complete banger ifit's dark and brooding. But I like
how it's unsettling and it just asa match, which is kind of the
you know, genre bending that's inthis film. Yeah, and it's itself

(42:05):
other favorites, So I have Ilove when when Leah's crawling through the sand
at the very end to Frankie kindof to finish the job, Like she
she has this evil grin on herface. Yeah, knowing that she's going
in for the kill. She startslike viciously sucking his hand. Yeah,
she's I mean she's doing the samething in the neck, Like she's not
really whiting it. She's just likelike is she kissing him seductively? Because

(42:27):
that's like yeah, you know,I mean it was it's no, no,
no, like Dan what I meanShe's like Yeah, That's where it
goes back to like is it avampire suckubyss Is she just some mistress,
some demon of the devil? Yeah, there's a lot that you can kind
of decipher a pit, like youcould just make up your own what you
think, what you believe. Also, Leah gutting Frankie rules too, Yes,

(42:51):
kind of a full circle thing whenthey're talking about stabbing the you know,
the Indian woman in the beginning,right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and she basically guts some you don'tsee it her backs to the camera,
but she just stabbed the knife intothe sand, much like that freaking
Charlie character did. Yeah, wellyou see it. Like the poster for
this is like that, like herwith the knife raised up and about to

(43:15):
stab them. Yeah. One thingI did though, respect about this is
they everybody talks about the Apaches thatare in this land that they're at,
but you know, the Apaches arenever shown. They're never causing any danger.
It's these white terrible cowboys that arecausing the danger. Yep. So
they're basically yeah, they're they're thesavages and the devil and the Mistress.

(43:37):
It's also mentioned that they fled fromSalem, which is kind of which is
funny. It looks silly, Yeah, escape from religious persecution from Salem to
live freely in this remote area,and they live in harmony with the Apaches
rather than you know, have conflictwith them. So I like what Wanser
did there with the story. Thestorytelling, like there's no clear struggle with

(43:59):
the American Indian with the Apaches,except just in this fantasy that these cowboys
are bringing up you know. Andthen one thing also I've respected about the
film is so I already said Ithought it was a little bit predictable,
but I was I was glad thatthey killed off Frankie, who seemed to
be kind of the innocent one inthe Cowboy. They were almost leaning into
a possible relationship with Leah and Frankie. But yeah, guilty by association,

(44:22):
like he's you were, you're oneof them? Sorry, And I loved
his kill like he was he wasstruggling to stand on his feet. Yeah,
So let's talk about the end,because that's kind of where all my
favorites are. The ending. Yeah, first off, I love the unnatural
way when the devil pops back upand the very unnatural way that the Hood

(44:43):
pulls back. It's it almost seemsagain like a reverse shot. It just
doesn't make sense. It seems likefrom another world where it says, what's
his name, Jeed Boham. Idon't think they say his name, but
in the subtitles die Jered Boham,Jeed bo. But the ending, to
me, what did you think ofthe ending? First off? I want

(45:06):
to hear, like, how doI interpret it? Yeah, like how
did it make you feel? Like? And yeah, did did you do
you have an interpretation of it?I mean you kind of mentioned it already,
Like I thought it was pretty predictable. As soon as like the you
know, cloaked figure in the distanceshowed up, I was like, Oh,
he's back, you know, andlike he's the devil and that's the
mystery. Like the title kind ofgives it away, where you're like,

(45:29):
he's back to collect his wife,but he's or mistress, but he's letting
her get the vengeance because it washer who is done wrong more than anything,
Like he was just shot and shesuffered more than than he did.
Yeah, I felt like it wasalmost it was like uplifting, It was
almost happy. Yeah. I thinkit's a happy ending. I mean I
don't you know, Devil's comes outon top. Good for him. Yeah,

(45:52):
with the a of these fucking cowboyswho basically feel like they have there's
no consequences, they can just runwild on the land, and they each
get they have no conscious, nomorals, and they murder this kind man,
rape and take his woman, andeach are killed. And she's lovingly
she lovingly returns to the arms ofthe Prince of Darkness. Yeah, I

(46:14):
mean all of those men deserve todie, Like I'm so, I don't
have any sympathy for rapists, likeas far as I'm concerned, Like,
you know, if you're not goingto kill them, you can just fucking
cut their dick off and take theirweapon away from them, like that movie
The Ladies Club. It's got thefucking right idea there. Anyway. Yeah,

(46:35):
No, I think I enjoyed theending. I did think it,
like you mentioned, it was predictable. I'm happy with how it turned out,
like there needs to be consequences forbehavior like that. And also I
like the fact that, you know, again going back to what you already
said, with the apaches not beingthe villains here, I think that's commendable

(46:58):
in a movie like this. Yeah, and then you kind of end this
long journey Like I mentioned too,it felt like a game, like they
could have been dead and the deviland the Mistress knew that they had it
coming. And it almost felt liketoo, that this could have been a
test for her to earn the Devil'slove, Like, yeah, kill these
men and the end is very suggestive. You can suck the d of the

(47:20):
devil, you know, like itit ends this journey on a very high
sexual note, like you know,indicating filatio. Yeah. And Julia actually
she mentioned this when we were talkingthough, but she said, when he
opens the cape, you can't seeit because it's very it's a dark transfer,
you know, the print that's ontwo be But she's like, it's
suggestive of a vagina, like itlooks like it's red in the opening,

(47:42):
and then the way that the hood'sdown right here. I could, I
mean I could kind of see thatbecause when he's pulling it back from the
face, I was like, oh, this is like a it's not even
an opening, it's spreading. Yeah. So yeah, I feel like she's
kind of I mean, she's apowerful one in this, Like she's doing
all the work. She's doing allthe labor to you know, to not

(48:05):
really exact revenge, but just getgive what these men deserve. Like it's
but you know, it is kindof like a rape revenge movie, and
it is an early one. Imean it's from nineteen sixty five. Yeah,
And that's going to lead me tomy double feature pick. Do you
have anything else you want to talkabout? No? No, I'm ready
for double feature picks. What's yourdouble feature pick? I think this would
do really well to be paired withreally any of the acid westerns that we

(48:30):
talked about, Like it would justbe you know, expose people to this
idea of what an acid Western is, and like, what are some elements
of that. A lot of theones we already mentioned, you know,
dust, double Bone, Tomahawk,al Topo, things like that. There's
a few others that like are havelike take place in a Western setting and

(48:51):
have anti heroes in them kind ofthing, But I don't consider them as
Western as a genre, like CutThrough nine a Knife for the ladies.
You could even go like the westernrape revenge route. You know, they're
very specific subgenre, but like HandyCalder is the first one that comes to

(49:13):
mind. I wouldn't pair this withsomething like Deep in the Heart, even
though that is its own sort ofWestern rape revenge film as well. There's
another Western rape revenge film, butit's the husband getting the revenge, not
the woman getting her own revenge.Last Train from gun Hill nineteen fifty nine,

(49:34):
starring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn.Kirk Douglas plays Marshall Matt Morgan,
his wife is raped and murdered bythe son of his friend, Belden,
played by Anthony Quinn. It's reallygood, but I'm trying to go more
as much horror as I can,and I did want to circle back to

(49:54):
having an acid Western as a doublefeature. And I know this is gonna
be a controversial pick, like somepeople are gonna be like, god fucking
damn it. Eric has stop harpingon about these movies. But I you
know, just like anyone who elsewho is low budget, you have to

(50:14):
commend them for their triumphs and theirimprovements over time and things like that.
In this I'm not pairing it withThe Devil's Mistress ironically. I mean this
sincerely, Danzig's death writer in theHouse of Vampires. God damn it,
Erica, come on, yeah,I still have never seen a Danzig movie,

(50:38):
so I can't. You can't commenton it. But I understand that
there are people who are like,Okay, I'm never gonna watch a dancing
movie. That's fine, I getit. But this is another It's from
twenty twenty one. It's a lowbudget acid Western film. You know,
Danzig is a unique in our timeas far as films goes, I'm going

(51:02):
to share a letterbox review this fromAndrew Furtado. He gave this movie four
stars, but there's a very clearexplanation behind it. He says, this
is a bold four star recommendation basedalmost entirely on how much Danzig has grown
as a director since Vertica, theamount of stars he added to his roster,

(51:23):
his extreme use of f stops,his new camera trick of zooming in
and out of shots just long enoughthat it's ridiculously funny. It felt like
he either got in on the jokeor he's finding his style as a director.
Either way, I'll be there tosee what the fuck he does next.
So much like I am a Californiatwo, but a Rhode Island eight.

(51:43):
Death Writer House in the House ofVampires is a cinematic two point five
star film, but a Danzig four. That's a great review. Yeah,
I might have to seek it outnow. I shelled out the money from
the company Cleopatra Records that put itout on Blu Ray. I have it
on my shelf. Oh, I'msupporting Danzing. I want to see him

(52:05):
make another film. I want tosee him continue to improve. Okay,
Yeah, and Just for the record, I'm not like Auntie. I'm never
going to watch the Dancing movie.That's why I haven't watched his movies.
It's just because I just never gotaround to watch. It's not like they're
easily. I think there might havebeen one on Shutter, but I canceled
my shutter. Yeah I will thatShutter in a while. But yeah,
they never end up on any ofthe other streaming ones. So but yeah,

(52:28):
I know it's not for everyone,but I'm standing by my pick.
Good. I like it. Whatabout you? Okay, So, yeah,
we mentioned a couple of these moviesalready, but I did watch The
Curse to the Bite because of thelast Crusus connection. Like I said,
though it has nothing to do withthe Devil's Mistress or the first Curse.
So other than watching the Beautiful Landscapes, I did ask Julia though, what

(52:52):
she thought would make a good doublefeature and kind of without Matty and I.
She immediately replied the Virgin Spring,which is, you know, the
old one of the oldest, ifnot the rape Revenge movies. Yeah.
That also made me think of likeMiss forty five would be good or you
know they call her one Eye,but I've picked Miss forty five for a
double feature. I think you did, Beatrice Cenci, I think yeah,

(53:15):
but yeah. Ultimately, I decidedon another horror western. I recently watched
one called Curse of the Undead fromnineteen fifty nine, and it was written
and directed by a husband wife filmmakingteam, Edward and Mildred Dean. It's
essentially a vampire flick that's taking placeduring the Old West, where these young

(53:36):
women are mysteriously dying while a strangenew gun slinger hangs around town much like
the Devil's Mistress. Though you mightsee everything that's coming, but it's very
fun to watch to see if you'reright. And it has fantastic dialogue with
a believable script and how the charactersreact to situations unfolding. It's not like
completely off the hook and you know, unbelievable, but you kind of relate

(54:00):
to a lot of how the charactersare acting to these situations. Saying that
though I loved how melodramatic it is, the performances are very melodramatic, especially
because this is essentially it felt likea nineteen fifties hammer horror western, like
that's that's what I got vibes fromkind of Gothic hords. It felt great.

(54:20):
The ending here, though, iscompletely opposite from The Devil's Mistress in
that it leans a bit too hardand the God is good. God saves
us all message. But it's stilla fun time. I'd play Curse of
the Undead before the Devil's Mistress becausethe devil always wins in the end.
Yeah, that's we got to endon the devil. So that's it with
our first Western horror Acid Western excellent. That's a lot of fun. Yeah,

(54:45):
what's the next pick? Before Iget to that, I do want
to plug a few things I know, and we normally do plugs at the
end, but I don't want toforget these. So I was just a
guest on Twitch of the Death Nerve. That episode will probably be out by
the time this episode comes out.Sam and Charles were lovely enough to have

(55:07):
me on to talk about the book, and so you can hear more of
the behind the scenes of getting thebook, you know, into your hands,
and all of the fun and notfun stuff and favorite child kills and
all that good stuff. And yeah, there are as of this recording all

(55:28):
of the books, all the copiesof the books that I sold to retailers
are sold out, but you canstill buy them directly from me. I
know. We have some international folksthat are like, hey, can you
help me out? And I'm like, like, honestly, I'm sorry,
but this is like the struggle ofself publishing, Like I don't have a
publisher, therefore I don't have adistributor. Like I mean, what if

(55:50):
they say, like, hey,I will pay fifty dollars for shipping.
I feel terrible. But if youwant to do that, you can.
You can message me. But likeI just I literally couldn't put it on
the site and say yes, I'mgonna you know, it's going to be
fifty dollars for me to ship itto the UK or something like that.
Josh from Miskatonic Institute reached out andhe wanted like he was asking about a

(56:12):
UK disturbuing. I was like,bro, nobody, I don't even have
a fucking publisher, and he was, you know, he wanted ten copies
for Miskatonic and I was like,okay, this is what the shipping is
going to be. And he waslike all right, I'm like okay,
So like I'll do it, butI'm not going to put it on the
website because like it just it justfucking feels gross, like it's so expensive

(56:35):
and stupid right now that I'm sorry, Like if enough people reach out,
then I'll see if I can getsome other some more copies to Diabolic who
does international shipping. But I knowthat's they'll give you a better rate,
but it's still getting me expensive alot. So it's just the you know,
it is what it is right nowwith shipping costs, and I'm very
sorry about that. And as ofthis recording, the list is not fucking

(57:00):
dropped yet. But by the timethe episode comes out, I'm sure the
June'sploitation list from f This Movie willbe out. That's going to be coming
up June first. If you're notin our discord, you should be because
this is one This in October,our most active times of year. We
have a June'sploitation channel, share yourpicks daily. It's a lot of fun.

(57:21):
It's got it has to drop onthe twentieth of the latest Jase he's
working. I went on the FThis Movie site and someone commented, like,
when's the list dropping, and Patricksaid he was working on it,
okay, And that was yesterday,so it should be coming any day now.
I can't believe it's already June.I know it's coming up. So
June's Ploitation, that'll be a lotof fun. We'll obviously, we'll do

(57:42):
our June's Ploitation episode wrap up thebeginning of July, so a lot to
look forward to. But before allof that next episode's movie, Lance,
my pants are on fire. OhI see that, because I know I
said I was done with France forthis year. What are you kidding?

(58:04):
Okay? Is this wait your lastpick? Yeah? Is this four in
a row? It's not four ina row? Is it? You did
Invitation to Joy, the Joyous Death, Invitation to Travel? What was after
that? I got my list righthere, I know, I know,
like when we had Bill on butthat was last year. That was another
French movie. Let me see,I got I got yours right here.

(58:25):
Okay, Okay, we have whatwas March? We have at the meeting
with Joyous Death. That was February, right, Demon is on the Island?
Oh that was French? And thenoh no, no, we did
you did? Okay, you dida blood thirsty killer, that's right,
Okay, yeah, so I didtake a quick break. Anyway, there's
a lot of French movies. No, I love it, skin, I

(58:45):
mean, I don't need to makeany whatever. We don't have excuse yet,
I don't I don't know explain myselfto to anybody. I'm picking another
French movie, even though I saidI was done with them. And Dan
Sig has a French movie I wish, Oh my god, No, but
there's in Veronica. There's a girllike one of his sex film actresses that

(59:07):
tries to do a French accent andit's horrific. Is it Kansas Bowling?
I don't know. I think shewas in one of those movies. I
don't know which one it was,but she I think she also has like
eyeball. I think she also haseyeballs on her nipples. Oh yeah,
nice. Anyway, we are notdoing a dancing movie. I would not
do that to our listeners. Now. Next pick is going to be Threshold

(59:30):
of the Void from nineteen seventy two. This is about a young artist named
Wanda who comes to Paris to tryto forget a lover. We don't really
get her backstory other than like afew we can tell she's having a flashback,
but no dialogue, and there's aman there, so it's clear she's
trying to get away from somebody orsomething. And she rents a room from

(59:51):
an old woman, and this oldwoman tells her to never open a certain
locked door that's attached to her room. So if you've seen a movie before,
you know that. Obviously, shedoes open the door, and she
finds a room that is completely void. There's no light, there's no color,
there's no items. You just walkin and it's blackness, and like

(01:00:13):
the threshold itself, like you yousee her like disappear into the blackness when
she walks through it. She likeactually brings some lights in there, and
she finds inspiration and starts painting inthere and things like that. But she
soon discovers that the purpose of theroom has there's something much more sinister going

(01:00:34):
on in there. So I willleave it at that. This is currently
available to watch on archive dot org. I will put a link in show
notes as well as in discord andas of this recording has one hundred and
ninety six views on letterbox. Yes, looks like there's some adult adult films
I might be watching. Yes,the director. I think this is his

(01:00:58):
only non sex film poster Threshold loveBoy. That is creepy. It's yeah,
that's what drew me to it,and no one is going to be
surprised. But Sam has seen thismovie. Yeah, I did notice that.
I saw you have your I alwaysrespect the spoilers, uh tag you
have on here? Yeah, butyeah, I'm not going to read it
right now. Okay, all right. If you are not already, you

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voted for us in the Best ofAustin Podcast category. Yeah, and I'm
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All right, Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see you back next episode
for Threshold and The Void. Arise shot tis a ride the one time

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try to bring a mob to pocastTurn. I'll go the way old b
ba A mount up. You're good. I can thought about this. Help

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me up now you Okay, chutmy goat. I'm like child. Can't
they know you can? My dad? You're togas today on what I guess?

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