February 7, 2025 • 62 mins
Finding the joy in unfettered creativity. A podcast dedicated to bringing awareness and context to movies of any budget, from anywhere, and during any time.
In Episode 12 we cover the announcements from February 1st. The episode covers two lifetime TV directors that made a memorable splash with their feature films. It also covers an absolute stone cold genre legend who is getting one of his two cannibal films out. Between Cannibal! the Musical and the one this month it is cannibal season at VS.
Outside of the main line we see two Cinematographe releases that are both female directed and written movies about navigating sexual awakenings. And a Jodorowsky-lite director from Mexico getting a stunning release of one of his classic films.
Not to be outdone, the OCN releases this month are stellar. Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Tai Kato, Radu Jude, on and on with movies that would sell out at any arthouse theater.
Ryan and Jeremy are back with a quick hitting merch mates segment, and convincing Holly is back in rotation this month.
Looking forward to getting guests back in the booth on the 15th where we will have a Valentine's special. Thank you for those who continue to listen and please let me know how I can make this better!
In Episode 12 we cover the announcements from February 1st. The episode covers two lifetime TV directors that made a memorable splash with their feature films. It also covers an absolute stone cold genre legend who is getting one of his two cannibal films out. Between Cannibal! the Musical and the one this month it is cannibal season at VS.
Outside of the main line we see two Cinematographe releases that are both female directed and written movies about navigating sexual awakenings. And a Jodorowsky-lite director from Mexico getting a stunning release of one of his classic films.
Not to be outdone, the OCN releases this month are stellar. Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Tai Kato, Radu Jude, on and on with movies that would sell out at any arthouse theater.
Ryan and Jeremy are back with a quick hitting merch mates segment, and convincing Holly is back in rotation this month.
Looking forward to getting guests back in the booth on the 15th where we will have a Valentine's special. Thank you for those who continue to listen and please let me know how I can make this better!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Welcome back to Punk Vacation Episode twelve. Happy February to
those who celebrate. This is an unofficial Vinegar Syndrome podcast.
My name is Chris Haskell. I set this up a
few months back to find the joy in unfettered creativity.
(01:06):
I want to make a podcast dedicated to bringing awareness
and context to movies of any budget, from anywhere in
the world and any time in history. I've been a
subscriber since Black Friday of twenty twenty one, and I've
interviewed nearly all of the OC and partner labels. Although
I say that and it's changing a little bit when
(01:27):
they keep adding some I feel like I've been watching
Vinegar Syndrome become an industry powerhouse and using this as
a way to track and kind of see how high
they can go.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I had two different people that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Were supposed to be joining me today and schedules didn't
work out for a variety of reasons. So I'll do
one more solo episode for anybody that suffered through the
first one I did.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'll try to keep it tight and we'll have some fun.
I'm drinking Oban while we record. So if you want,
as long as you're not driving, if you want to
grab a drink, go through the February announcements with me.
I think this is going to be a month that
people talk about. This is a sneaky, really good month
for them. So I'm excited to go through and see
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what they do or see what they've put out. And
for pre order we have this month, we have VS.
Four ninety two, four ninety three, and four ninety four,
all single films. We also have a VS. Lab one
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that is I think people are going to be buzzing about.
We have two cinematograph titles and then a ton of
really really really strong partner label stuff, so we can
go through a little bit of ocean at a high level.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Two.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Although I might not do it, you know, as in depth,
because there's a lot of this month, as there always
are nowadays. So yeah, I mean, I think without further ado,
let's just jump into it. Look, I keep waiting for
the month that they pass over into five hundred, but
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they're not.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Quite there yet. VS.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Four two stars wings Houser which a Vinegar Syndrome favorite
and it is the carpenter.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
What are you doing just getting a job done? Man?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh? I don't like to leave things have to If
you're going to do it, you might as well do it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Ride.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
At least someone's working around here.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
All right, Let's go back to nineteen eighty eight. Somewhere
in Quebec, an American producer named Jack Bravian or Jack
Braveman maybe, who is known for being a pretty pretty
heavy exploitation and genre producer, got a crew together got
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wings Hauser to star in a slasher movie that is
remembered now was being a pretty wacky one, pretty bizarre one.
It if you don't know, if you know the name
wings Hauser and you're trying to place him, I always
know him for his role in Champagne and Bullets or
(05:04):
Gid even one of the VSA titles. But he's been
in several Vinegar Syndrome titles. He won an award for
Tough Guys Don't Dance, So he's been Yeah, he's been
all over Vinegar Syndrome. He's been all over kind of
genre films. If you look at his even just going
(05:24):
through his filmography, he was in multiple movies a year,
some Hollywood movies and some you know, some low budget stuff,
but he's stayed pretty steady worker. This movie is directed
by a Canadian guy named David Wellington and Doug Taylor
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is the writer. So Wellington was a Canadian director. This
was his first film. He did have a few movies
after this, but most of his career has been in
TV pretty much, you know a lot of Canadian TV shows.
He even did some episodes of Kids in the Hall.
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But if you go through, he did some of Queer's Folk,
he did some recently, he did some of Vikings, the
Taken TV series. So he's you know, he's a well
known TV director and he's a workman's director. Not a
lot of films under his belt. But this is a
fun one. It's an early one, and they actually get
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him to do a commentary track which is really fun
with the writer. And then there's a separate commentary track
with the Oscar Bait Film Collective podcast, which is a
great podcast if you're not listening to that. But yeah,
and then they even got wings Houser to come in
and do a new interview, which is fun. But this
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is a Yeah, this is a quick movie. It's eighty
six minutes. It's an off the wall slasher. People that
have seen it always talk about sort of how memorable
it is. So if you are a try before you
buy type, this is probably a good one to try
because it's lesser known and it might be a little
feel a little bit more risky, but it's pretty beloved
(07:12):
by the folks that have seen it, and maybe something
that Canadian International Pictures would have would have picked up
if Vinegar Syndrome didn't get it. I think this is
a movie that it just starts off with such a
weird premise. Somebody comes home from a mental hospital and
she wakes up to just find this carpenter like working
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on our house, and you know, like he throughout the movie,
there's people that come in and he's sort of there
as a guardian angel of sorts. So it starts off
with this odd dynamic and a very violent movie, and
then it just gets more off the rails as it
goes along.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think this is a one that has enough going
for it easy buy. But again, if you're the tribe
before you buy type, I think this is probably a
good one to experiment with a little bit. It's selling
pretty well, but there's still plenty of copies left. The
standard edition is actually selling a little faster, funny enough,
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so if you don't want the slipcover, you may want
to watch stock count on it. But I think this
is a lesser known one. But I hope people start
talking about it after they see it. I know I
will pretty soon. So four ninety three is one that
I think a lot of people are going to be
talking about. Some excited for the Just Franco completionists, some
(08:42):
not white. Cannibal Queen also known as Mondo Canniballe, taking
advantage of that whole Mondo thread from the late seventies
and eighties, also known as Cannibal World, the Cannibals. It's
a woman for the cannibal's barbarian goddess, so it has
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a ton of names. Star is only seventeen years old,
so there's a little bit of some awkwardness there. This
is one of only two cannibal films Franco made. I
hope that's right. He also made one called The Double Hunter.
You know. Interestingly enough, Vinegar Syndrome really hasn't done a
ton of Just Franco movies. You know, Severn plays very
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strong in that camp, and there's others that are getting
into it as well. There's obviously so many movies. We
were on the discord, we were debating how many films
that he's put out, and even the most ardent fan
is not really sure of the exact number, but it's
somewhere between one seventy five and one ninety five. It's
a lot of movies. And so you know, this is
(09:49):
I think either the second or the third. I know
they did Kiss Me Monster Apologies, and this. I think
there's one more they did as well. So this I
think I believe this is the third film that they
put out from him. If somebody please call me out
if I missed an obvious one. But I don't think
there's that many. Maybe this is the beginning of something new.
(10:10):
You know, Vinegar Syndrome likes to sort of test, kind
of dip their toe in the water and see if
it sells well and see if they want to pay
the rights and some of these. So if you're a
just fanco fan and I want to make sure they
put out more of his stuff, you know, go get it.
If you haven't seen a lot of Jess Franco movies,
I think it's pretty fair to say this is not.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
What he's really known for.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, this was made for a specific reason, and
it was made by the you know, in the middle
of that kind of cannibal craze, and so when you
look across the cannibal genre, this one's not talked about
as much. So we'll see if the release changes that.
I know it's mixed. Like I said, some people really
love it, some people don't quite understand it. So I'm
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excited to hear what y'all think if you watch it.
Did the special features on this are stacked.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I've got to say.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It has Eugenio Orcolani and Troy Howarth getting on there
and geeking out about Just Franco for ninety minutes, which
I can't wait for.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That, they have interviews with some of the actors.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They actually bring in Stephen Thrower, who wrote a book
on Just Franco, so it's a good addition. Eugenio or
Goolani has a separate interview, and they actually got to
have an Italian film historian named Alessio de Rocco talking
about Pranco for thirty minutes. So I'm pretty pumped about this.
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I feel like, even though they have put out more movies.
I don't think the Franco movies they put out have
come out to quite the same fanfare as this. I'm
worn in a time when Vineger Syndrome was as big
as they are now. So I love that they packed
this full of features and you really get the context
of the film, and and the man and the legend
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of Uncle Jess so White. Cannibal Queen is coming in at.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Four three.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Four four is one that I think some people might
sleep on, but I'm actually super interested in it. So
it is the possession of Joel Delaney.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Joel, Joel answered me, are you there? I'm a bit
You're the man who said my brother tried to attack you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
He never would have done such a thing unless he
was provoked.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Where's mister Delaney?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
All of a sudden, here we have a case just
like three others we had last summer, head cut off,
hair tied onto something. Those girls were all Puerto Rican girls.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Missus Benson?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
It is good that you understand things are much simpler
when you believe.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Missus Paris came to me because her son's spirit has
entered your brother's buddy.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Are you trying to tell me that my brother.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He's so weak, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So vulnerable that he can be invited from the outside.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
My maniaco is dad.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So I want to be a little careful with spoilers here.
I'll do my best at tiptoe around why I'm excited
about it. But it's a nineteen seventy two movie from
a guy named Waris Hussein. That's not his birth name.
But he's from India. He's in the UK and he
wound up going to school in the UK and staying
and working in the BBC like his his mother did.
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So he's you know, a lifelong sort of he's been
in the entertainment industry. I guess you could say second generation,
come from the wealthy class in India's dad was a statesman,
so upper class guy got into TV production and directing
and made a whole bunch of works. He even made
a long historical epic about King Henry and his six wives.
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So this guy, whereas Hussein, probably it's similar to the Carpenter,
somebody who spent a lot of his time in TV,
and this is a movie from him. There the interesting
thing about this film, and so I should say Sam
Deagan has a commentary on here which is super interesting.
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I can't wait to hear her talk about this. The
chatter from the people that have seen it and the
people that have really kind of given it a critical
look is that the possession of Joel Delaney is a
double meaning in the film, and so it is a
supernatural sort of horror film, like The Exorcist, you know,
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one of these, but there's an interesting family dynamic going
on that is not expected, and I'll just sort of
leave it at that. But this one is actually, I
think of the three, I'm actually most excited to see this,
if I'm being honest, love any chance to see a
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Franco film. And you know, The Carpenter is one that
has been on my list for a long time because
of how popular it is, so I might end up
liking The Carpenter the most. But this one has Sherley
McLain in a role that's apparently very unusual for her,
and she but you know, she kills it in the role.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Apparently. It has this actor named Perry King. Y'all may
know him.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He was big in Class of nineteen eighty four if
you saw that. But anyways, I think it has just
if you don't like spoilers, go in blind. If you
do like spoilers, go read it up a little bit
about it, even though Wikipedia page touches on it a
little bit as to why it has some interest there.
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But I don't know, you're ext you know, I don't know.
Some people really don't like spoilers, so I won't say
too much. But yeah, so the Possession of Joel Delaney.
Unfortunately for the movie, I think this is the worst
cover right that I've seen from them in a while.
And I don't mean that as a slight on the artist.
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The artist is somebody who's done a lot of covers
and is great at what they do. This one, I
just don't I don't know. I'm not interested in the
movie by the cover, So if you're in my camp,
I would suggest at least reading a little bit about
it and why it's interesting, because I think there's a
lot of stuff in here that makes it much more
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than just stay Possession film. Like I said, Sam Degan
does a commentary. They actually get Orris Hussein to interview
for this, which is awesome, and they get a film
historian to talk about the adaptation from the book that
this came from, and then they go through the locations
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of the film is a it's a fifteen minute feature
on the locations.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So that's the month for VS. Mainline.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's interesting there are some people that in the Discord
that were disappointed in this month when it first was
announced as far as the mainline title goes. You know,
there's nothing splashy. This is a month. To me, I'm
just gonna double down on something I was talking to
Sam Panico about last month. You know, this is a
month for me where they get some deep cuts in there,
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and I'm trusting them and I'm excited about the month. Actually,
you know, you can't have the ten every month, or
you can't have the keep every month. Right, those are events,
and there's a little bit there's going to be. And
then January had this events around it, right, So we
had a couple of months back to back of like
a lot of buzz and a lot of excitement. And
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I think in the Vinegar Syndrome world, I'm not surprised
if February feels a little bit of a letdown after
Black Friday and Christmas and then the subscriber we kind
of just like pop up, up, up up, you know,
And so that might be a common theme year over year,
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but I do think there's a lot of interest in
these for me and what I've read and what I've
been reading about them. Hey, let's do something a little different.
And before I get into some of the sub labels
and the partner labels, let's jump right into merchant Mates. Ryan, Jeremy,
what y'all got for us?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Hi there, and welcome to merch Mates. This is the
first time it's ever been in person and together. How
we doing, Jeremy?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hey, everyone, what was that?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Well last merch Maids you said, r oh, I forgot.
This is the next letter of the alphabet.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Got it? Got it? Next time we'll spill the tea.
So my name's Ryan and this is Jeremy with me.
We are covering the February announcements from Vinegar Syndrome. Not
a lot on the merch front, but I'm pretty happy
that we got a youth T shirt that I would
not be ashamed of buying for my children.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That's sure.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
No boobs on this one, No boobs or vagina. How
do you feel about the Tammy Tammy and her t
Rex Valentine shirt?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Honestly, I really like it and didn't even realize there
was a youth version until you just said so.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
I'm not shocked.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I liked it for myself, and I know I say,
this's a lot here on merch maids, but if I
didn't already own a thousand Vinegar Syndrome shirts, I would
buy it because I think it's a really cute design smart.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I do like that we got a cinematograph swirl shirt
this time as well. Looks like they got a little
cinematograph logo on the sleeve going.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
On, have some fun graffiti on the front there.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Also cinematograph swirl tope bag with it. Not a tope
bag guy, I hear my friend Will Dotson is not either.
On top of that, just a heads up that there
is the Valentine's Sale coming out in the middle of
the month, mel You. Scene is alreadyound that there will
be a lineup of merch so you might want to
check out over there. There could be I don't know,
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condom holders, coffee condom holders, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I'm not merch running at Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, we can't comment on those yet because it's not
the middle of the month yet.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
And we're probably never going to comment on them because
we're not going to do an announcement video in the
middle of February, so we'll see you next month in March.
Anything else you want to share with everybody before we go,
Happy Valentine's Day. On that note, have a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Thanks you.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Excellent. All right, let's get right back into it. Let's
go to let's see if I think about it. Next,
let's go to vs Labs, because that's one I'm excited
to talk about. And I think for those that like,
you know, kind of big name, interesting, intriguing titles and
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don't want the deep cuts, I think from here on
out the month just gets even more exciting.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Vs L fifteen is Juan Lopez maktezumas The Mansion of Madness.
Shout out to the Trash Mechs podcast, who when we
were talking about a lot of Mexican movies that were
coming out on Vinegar Syndrome, they made sure to call
out Mansion and Madness. And then separately, there's an episode
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on the Mando Macabro podcast if you want to give
that a shout where we talk about Juan Lopez Maktizuma
and Albokada. Historically this was a Mono Macabro title as well.
The Mansion of Madness was that and so Vinegar Syndrome
has it now. This is the debut film from Juan
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Lopez Maktizuma, and he's an interesting one because he's drawn
some comparisons to Yodoravski before. He's a little bit he's
more of a surrealist. He plays with imagery more, he
plays with the visuals on screen. He's more of a
like a visual poet, I guess in that way. He
has his own personal demons that come up later in
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his life, but his early films are all quite impactful
and quite different and really stand out. And the basic
premise of this is somebody goes to a rural a
mental hospital back when they were still calling it an
insane asylum, uh, and the inmates have kind of taken
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over the guards, and so it's an interesting premise if
you can imagine something like that handled through a surrealist
the artist. It has a lot of very beautiful imagery
and it's just a very interesting movie. I'm very very
excited that they got this. You know, I love Manda Macabro,
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so I'm always gonna be sad if they lose the title,
but it went. I mean, if it has to go somewhere,
it's in the right hand. There's an interesting trend too
of some of these historical films that really that are
from more surrealist artists that kind of play with the
mind a little bit. Voice Kas has one that's really
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good called The hour Glass Sanatorium. There's obviously a ton
of really interesting, you know one flew over the cuckoos
Nest type of films from America that deal with the
mental hospital and deal with patients, and so this is
a top it's well trodden, but I do think there
are certain filmmakers that sort of can carry a vision
regardless of the genre, and nothing feels stale. Certainly, if
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anybody has not seen Elokarta, I would recommend if you
feel like, you know nonsupplitation, definitely watch Alokarta because it's
a different take on the genre that's quite unique and
quite powerful. And I think that this film is going
to fit as well into that category of being something
different and really really excellent. So I can't wait for
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people to talk about the Mansion of madness. Like I said,
Vineger Syndrome Labs title for the month. This is another
one that's just chock full of features. So they actually
had They found a film historian about Mexican cinema named
Fruencisco Pareto, so he does the commentary truck. They found
an actress Ellen Sherman who's in it. They got a
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production designer, Gabrielle Weiss Carrington. They have of an interview
with the daughter's daughter that actually can't wait to hear
because I'm hoping she gets into some of what was
going on in Morctism's personal life and some of his
personal issues with let's just say mental health. I'm hoping
she gets into some of that. But either way, there's
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a ninety minute feature length documentary on the director that
they've included on here. It's a little bit old, it's
about ten years old, but I don't care. He's a
fascinating guy and I can't wait for the world to
learn a little bit more about him. These movies all,
by the way, I haven't really been keeping track of
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their runtime, but these are all around ninety minutes, if
not less. This is only eighty minute movie, eighty four minutes,
so it's not selling as fast as I would have expected.
I would have thought this would have sold very very
well given the history with Menda maccabro and and the
name for the guy from Albakarta. So I mean, you
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definitely have a chance to pick this up at any
time you want. I don't know how easy this is
to find it on streaming, if you want to try
before you buy. I can just say that if you're
a fan of experimental horror or surrealist horror at all,
especially ones that are not too far out there like
marcktism is stuff is not. It's not on the fore
end of the spectrum. It's a little bit closer to center.
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It just has like touches of it. And I think
this is a muss buy if you're in that category.
Switching for the I think, as far as I can tell,
I hope I didn't get this wrong. But that is
the only VS sub label title that came out this
month except for two from Cinematograph. So the first one
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from Cinematograph is Let's See Number fourteen, and it is
nineteen eighty four's The Joy of Sex. I think the
back story to this, to me is fascinating and I'm
very excited to see this movie. So the movie came
out in what did I say in nineteen eighty four? Right,
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the movie came out in nineteen eighty four, So nineteen
seventy two, there was a book that came out in
the US. It was an illustrated sex manual called The
Joy of Sex. There's a British author named Alex Comfort,
which is a fantastic name, and it was specifically designed
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to be structured like a cookbook, so it's a very
matter of fact book. It talks about all different sexual positions.
It talks about oral sex. It's just as it's meant to,
I guess educate really for lack of you know, it's
meant to be something that was just a topic that
was sort of taboo to talk about. But by the
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seventies at least you had the Free Love Revolution, so
people were becoming a little bit more open. And this
book was a massive hit, eleven weeks as a bestseller
in the in the top five on the New York
Times list for well over a year. I think the
exact number of weeks, well over a year. But it's
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a book that really took the country by storm, and
it's the beginning of these kind of you know, discussions
about the fact that people need to be more open
talking about sex because if that many people are buying
this manual, they're interested in it, right, So it really
left a cultural impact and it was it was quite
(28:34):
an interesting moment in American history. And then twelve years later,
Martha Coolidge, the director Martha Coolidge, who.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Did you know, real goofy movies.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I mean, they're fun in their own way, right, like
Valley Girl and Real Genius. She got this book and
worked with Kathleen what's her name, Kathleen Rowell? I think
is her last name.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I'll check.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'll double check in just a second, but she's one
of the writers for The Outsiders, and they got together
and sat down and adapted this book into a teen
sex comedy. It's a weird move, and certainly, you know,
I don't think the book leads itself to be adapted
in that way, but it's an interesting I think a
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lot of people that saw it when they were younger
have like mixed memories of this, depending on your first
of all, your level of comfort with sex in general.
There is underage sex depicted. I think everybody is actually
eighteen in the film.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I think I need to check that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But the you know, it's just one of these eighties
teen comedies, right, but it's just from the most unpredicted,
unpredictable sources, I guess, And so it's an interesting piece
of history. The movie was somewhat popular. I wouldn't say
it took the country by storm or anything, but it
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definitely has its fans and I cannot wait to hear
people talk about this. So they actually got somebody that
I really like named Elizabeth Pritchell, and then who's a
I guess historian, and then a critic named Katie Rife
to do the commentary truck. So I mean, if you
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think about it, right, you've got a movie that is
directed by a woman, written by a woman, on a
text that was primarily written.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
For women.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Although they wouldn't have said that directly, I think, you know,
a lot of researches was very clear that a lot
of women were buying this book when it came out,
and you know, and then the commentary track is by
two women film a story and critics, So I can't
wait to hear that. Actually, I think it could be
really interesting. They got Martha Coolidge to come back on
(31:06):
for an interview, which is great. They also got the
screenwriter Kathleen Rowell to come back on, which is great.
There are two more writers. They were billed at the
time as JJ Salter, but it's two people, Joyce and John.
So they came on and they're all interviewed, which is great.
Some of the actors are interviewed. Colin Camp is on there,
(31:29):
Alexandra Hella Nicholas does a essay profile on Martha Coolidge,
and they did get an interview with actress Lisa Lengola
as well, And I guess should mention there's a bunch
of essays in there, so it's a pretty stacked release.
And I think the interesting thing if you think about
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vinegar syndrome now the month or a couple of months,
they've had stuff like Congo and the Keep and you
know the tenant, we keep talking about it, right looking
for mister Goodbar are now the Joy of Sex through cinematograph,
which is not the top tier of like eighties comedies,
but there's a special there's a supplement on here right
with a specific video essay profile on Martha Coolidge, who
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was one of the premier directors from that era.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
They're just this theory that I had a few years back,
that they're going to be playing more and more into
this kind of mainstream cinema and finding the gems in
Hollywood films in the same way they find gems in,
you know, outside of Hollywood films. I think is it's
fun watching that trajectory, and it's interesting hearing these critics
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that have always been talking about outside art now doing
creating a video I say from Martha Coolidge. So yeah,
I don't know. I'm excited about the Shoelease. I think
I do think the film is going to cause some
discomfort in some folks, and that's fine. Of course, if
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you know anything around underage kids, it's uncomfortable for you
or there's something you don't want to watch, I would
definitely check the age of the actors before it goes in.
I might do it as well an issue an update
over Instagram or something. But yeah, this is what I'm
really excited about.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So finishing out the VS mainline and sub labels for
the month is another Cinematograph release, number fifteen. It is
actually from nineteen ninety six, this time Till the Swinton
stars in Female Perversions. This is another one where the
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backstories is pretty interesting to me. So there was a
book that came out a few years before this called
Female Perversions, and it was written by a pretty famous
a pretty famous psychoanalyst called Louis Kaplan, and it explores
a lot of themes about a woman who is coming
out in sexually and finding herself, finding her sexuality, and
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it's I guess in some ways it plays pretty well
for film adaptation. The person who directed this is a
woman named Susan Streitfeld who is not really well known
as a film director. She was a professor. She was
working at the Modern Art Museum I believe or one
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of the museums in New York for a while, making
documentaries and short films there and then moved out as
a professor and moved out and got very involved in
the theater scene in la wound up working with people
like John Cassavetti's and had some award winning plays.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
So she had a whole career, a very.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Well known career in theater and only has two feature films,
this and then another one a few years later. But
you know, she gets a lot out of her actors
with that theater background, and I think that's on display here.
Till To Swinton is in this role as the lead.
It's a very interesting performance from a pretty young till
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To Swinton. She does a good job. You know, her
range is well documented as an actor, and so if
you put aside the memes about her shang Chi role,
she's an accomplished actor and theater actor as well in
her own right, so you know, she does a good
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job here. I think Female Perversions is an interesting one
because much like Joy of Sex, it's, you know, Joy
of Sex handles hm, let's say, exploring sexuality in a
very childlike and sort of neophyte way where everything is
big and exciting, and the Female Perversions does the similar thing.
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But the woman in the film starts off as a
little bit older, the content is more mature. It's more
of a movie for adults as opposed to a movie
for teens, and it really kind of leans into that.
I think this is one that people are going to
be interested in talking about. It handles sex in a
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way almost like Looking for Mister Goodbar, in the way
that it's very frank about it, and the fact that
it has you know, lesbian relationships is. I wouldn't say
it was shocking in nineteen ninety six, but it's certainly
you know, there wasn't a lot of stuff coming out
in the theater in the theaters with that, so it
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stands alone or as a unique film in that way,
and one that is well made, and I'm excited that
Justin brought it back. Alexandra Hella Nicholas speaking of her,
she was on the other release there, but she does
a full commentary track here, which is great, so it'll
be very interesting to hear her take on the history
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of the text and the film and sort of the
context around it. They actually got Susan Streitfeld to come
back on and do an interview, which is wonderful. They
got a new writer, a new interview with one of
the writers, Julie Jabe, which is great. They have an
interview with the cinematographer, Teresa Medina. If you notices them
(37:28):
going through this, the writer, the directors, the cinematographer. This
is a very woman directed film from a text that
was designed by a woman and made for women, so
the film stayed true to the spirit there. So it's
a good piece to preserve. I think and talk of
and discuss based off of a lot of that not
(37:50):
only the background but also you know, obviously what's on screen.
There's two or three interviews with the actors in the movies,
and then they actually got some more writing, as they
always do when the cinematograph releases, from some critics and
even a culture writer metal In Sutton, who I'm excited
to read that piece.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Female Perversions nineteen ninety six. This is a little bit
of a longer when it's just under two hours, but
it's one that I think is I'm probably.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Interested in.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I anticipate I'm going to like female Provisions better than
enjoy of sex as I revisit all of these movies,
just I think from what I understand and kind of
vaguely remember about it, it deals with the topics very well,
and it's a movie that is quite well made. So yeah,
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I'm excited to revisit this. That's it for this month.
It's funny because in January we had six titles just
in the VS mainline and not even getting to the
sub labels. Yet this is going to be, you know,
it's a little bit of a lighter month. If if
you're thinking that this kind of got over quickly, it's true,
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but the partner labels more than make up for it.
So let's spend a few minutes on the partner labels
and then we'll do a final segment and be up. Okay, look,
I've got to talk about the partner labels this month,
specifically for a few so I'm just gonna get out
the ones I'm most excited about out of the way
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early because this month is just so awesome. So there's
a let's just start off with Film Movement Classics. They're
up to Well, actually I can't say they're up to
because they don't really do stock the same way that
some of the other labels do in the sense of
they don't have a spine number, so I don't worry
about that. But Viva Lamore is a movie from Siming
(39:54):
Ling And if you haven't seen Rebels of the Neon
God or Goodbye Dragging In, first of all, go see those,
and Viva Lamore is a really interesting movie to pair
with Rebbels of the Neng God. It follows the same
character around Simon Nang has a amuse in this actor
(40:15):
of his name is Kang Shang Lie and he plays
a character called Shao Kang and a Shao Kanan and
Kng is actually in both roles of the Niang God
and Viva Latmore, which Viva Lamore is the one that
Just Film Move In Classics is putting out this month.
It's a really interesting movie and very very well made.
(40:38):
It's a it's a story that's difficult to explain because
it doesn't sound real, but it's essentially there's one apartment
that a female realtory shows and throughout the film there's
two different men that end up squatting in this apartment
for different reasons, and they form a friendship, these two squatters,
and one of them gets into a romantic really relationship
(41:00):
with the realtor and there's a weird sort of energy
between the three of them. And so it's a even
though it's a shot in the slow cinema style, there's
so much going on at the plot, even though the
dialogue is light that this is it's almost like a
silent film in the way that it's constructed and that
(41:23):
you can see everything happening on the screen and you're
very engaged just in watching the way these characters interact
and are they going to get caught? And you know
there's all this stuff going on, and so I think
Feove a Lot More is an amazing movie, and I
really want everybody to buy this and prove that Samming
Lang has a big following and so they can keep
(41:43):
putting out his stuff because he's extremely talented, and they,
the partner labels, have done a good job of putting
out some of his stuff, so let's keep supporting them.
This one, as far as the slipcover goes, is just
under six hundred, so it has quite a few left.
And as is usual, the standard selling a bit faster.
It's down to like four hundred something. Okay, this next one,
(42:09):
this next set is the reason why I wanted to
start with my favorites up front. And Taekto is has
a two release pack also from full Movement to Classics
just holy cow. Like, I don't know if y'all are
very familiar with Taekto, I hope you are. If not,
(42:33):
try to fix that. Just catch essentially anything he's made streaming.
He's a extremely talented director, and his name is not
brought up in the same way as like Seijun Suzuki
or Takashi Mike or maybe even Teroi Shi. But he
(42:58):
is in this stratosphere for sure, like he's in that tier,
and people need to be talking about Tai Keto. So
I'm so excited that film movement Classics is putting out
two movies. One is By a Man's Face, you Shall
Know Him, and the second one is I the Executioner.
(43:19):
And I think if you there's a crime element to
both of these movies. And you know, Taikto is somebody
who is known for having a lot of violent content
in the film, but he definitely makes He's a strong
artor let me just say it that way. You always
know his films. They stand out. They're unique, and they're
(43:43):
a little bit violent, but they're just excellent. And I
don't know there's a The by a Man's Face you
Shall Know Him is sort of got popular in Japan
when it came out because it was an actual yakuza
member playing the lead role, and that was in the sixties,
(44:06):
so this is right around the same time as when
Segusinzuki was working. In fact, Suzuki was kind of coming
in an interesting phase in his career right around this
time because Tokyo Drifter came out in nineteen sixty six
and then Brandon Takil was the year afterwards, so he
it was right at that time. I mean he had
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made Youth of the Beast a few years earlier and
Detective Bureau two three, which is certainly these films certainly
were showing a lot of his artistic flair and like
his style. But from nineteen sixty six on is when
he really became like Sidu and Suzuki and the way
that people talk about him now, I think, And it's
(44:48):
interesting that you know, right at the same time this
guy take ty Kito was working and these films are
just begging to be rediscovered. Obviously, Radiance, I don't know
if you follow them. Radiance has done a great job
with ty Keito as well. So yeah, I just hope
that he has a chance to become very well known,
(45:12):
because just give these a chance. If there's any partner
labels that I would say, just pick up blind and watch.
It's this set from Film Movement Classics Saturn's Core. The
new movie is called Rot. It's from nineteen ninety nine.
(45:32):
As is common with me, Unfortunately, for those of you
all that know me, I don't have a strong history
in sov even though I'm interested in it. So this
was an easy buy for me. The first sentence of
the description is artist Sarah has sex with the corpse
in the local funeral home and finds herself infected with
a mysterious disease. So that's how the movie starts. Yeah,
(45:57):
it's from nineteen ninety nine. It's called Rot and it
has an amazing cover art. This one is down to
in the four hundreds on the slipcover. So I don't
know if it's necessarily a panic buy, but if you're
a Saturn's Core collector, it would be good to either
get it or you know, you can start watching it now.
(46:19):
Something I'm very excited about. So nineteen eighty eight, in
South Africa, there's a movie that came out called Mapansula.
It's this is again a Filled Movement's classic release. So
Mapansula is I'm just going to keep this quite short.
I've been here, I've known about this movie and I'm
(46:41):
very excited to get a chance to watch it now
because it was one of the first films to give
an honest look into apartheid. And it's not pretty obviously,
so it's a touching film and it's quite a powerful
film and from everything I've.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Read about it.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
It's it's excellent, so I can't wait to get it
in and watch it. It's yeah, like I said, a
film movement classics La Pensula. There's a documentary coming out
from some famous Canadian documentarians in nineteen eighty in the eighties.
(47:19):
This one is nineteen eighty four and it's called Hookers
on Davy and it just shows women that walk the
streets and these documentarians are known for being empathetic and
very human centered, and it's one of these ones that
(47:41):
people talk about. Is possibly one of the greatest films
and from in Canada ever, especially the especially a documentary
or nonfiction. But yeah, this is a movie that is
celebrating the forty anniversary this year, and it's just it's
(48:04):
supposed to be an incredible documentary. So I can't wait
to watch this. So not film movement Classics, but film movement.
There's a movie cut that they're putting out from twenty
twenty three called Her Body. It's you know, this movie
(48:25):
was quite popular when it came out. I'm sure y'all
may have even heard of it. But the basic premise
is there's a Czech high diver and she her Olympic
dreams are shattered, and she kind of gets into photography,
which leads to nude modeling, and then eventually gets into
pornography and she stars in over eighty porn movies. It's
(48:47):
a true story and it's a very touching documentary. So
I think, yeah, this is one that I think got
popular for the right reasons and is supposed to be
quite excellent. It is selling pretty well, they've sold already
(49:09):
more than half and yeah, I think for me, this is,
you know, there's this interesting split I find in a
lot of the people that pay attention to Vinegar Syndrome,
where the people that have been following a label for
you know, twelve ten, twelve years really sort of like
(49:31):
to talk about the adult films as art. And some
of the folks that are joining more recently are here
for some of the either partner label stuff or the
mainline stuff that FS is putting out, but they're almost
a little bit uncomfortable with the adult films in the catalog.
And I would just say that this is one that
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crosses over like a well made story and it's an
interesting subject and it's not it's not an actual, you know,
hardcore film, So yeah, I think Her Body is one
that did well for a good reason. The VHS hit
Fest title this month is a celebration of regional filmmaking
(50:16):
from a guy from Indiana called Bill Reeves. Nine of
his films. There's a commentary on all of them, and
there's a separate commentary where he gets some actors in
for the main one, Deadly Obsession. There's yeah, this is
a this is a love for you know. VHS hit Fest.
(50:37):
To me is it's really tough. I love Saturn's Court too,
but I love the types of movies that Dan finds
at VHS hit Fest, and so I'm excited for this
one just simply because of the I feel like, really
I shouldn't compare. They're both doing it in their own way.
I love the stuff that Ross finds as well for
(50:58):
Saturn's Court, but VHS Hitfest releases a little bit of
a slower pace. They're only up to fourteen now, and
they've all been really gems. So I'm excited to see
this these regional horror movies from Bill Reeves. There's an
interesting movie from IFC. Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard put
(51:26):
out a film called Auto Erotic and it's exactly what
it sounds like. You know, if you know about auto
eerotic asphyxiation. It's exploring the boundaries of self pleasure and
sexual exploration. But it's a comedy and it's I think
the folks that I've spoken to that I've seen this
say it's really it's really good, and they're very excited
(51:48):
for this. So I can't wait to see it. Auto Erotic.
It is not selling super well yet that might change
when people start talking about it. I think the content
in the film is kind of scandalous, but also it's
just a very good movie from everything I've read about it, and.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
The last one.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
I am a big, huge sucker for Abel Ferrara, and
early on, I mean later in his career, excuse me.
Twenty eleven, he made a movie called four forty four
Last Day on Earth and Natasha Leon's in it and
Shannon Lee, but you know, the big star is Willon
Dafoe and it's a Yeah. It's a narrative movie from
(53:02):
Able Ferrara, as you know most of his movies are,
and it's a movie that basically looks at a few
lives where they know that tomorrow at four forty four,
the World's going to end, and just how they navigate that.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
But yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
I'm just a I want to see everything able Ferraras done.
I love him and this is when I have not
seen from him. So I'm so excited that it got
released and I will be picking it up and watching
it as quickly as I can. Well, we did it, y'all.
Thanks for going through those again. I can't wait to
(53:46):
hear from some of y'all if there's there is some
part in the labels I didn't cover because I just
don't know anything about him or have much to say
on him. So if there's something I didn't cover you
want me to talk about, please let me know. If
there's something you disagree with my take. I know some
of the stuff, like the fact that I'm excited for
(54:07):
this month's mainline releases, might be controversial to some of y'all,
So anything like that that you want to argue about,
let's go. I'm here, I'm ready for it. But otherwise,
I'll finish with a segment that I've missed the last
two months, so I'm excited to bring it back. It's
and then all in the podcast after that. But thank
(54:29):
you so much for listening, and we'll end on a
segment I call convincing Holly. And the fun thing for
me and convincing Holly is I get to defend a
film I love to a person I love who most
likely will not love this movie. I'm actually gonna go
(54:51):
outside vinegar syndrome for this one because I have to
talk about Shinyasukumoto. So I saw Tsu The Iron Man
for the I don't know tenth time or something recently,
as I'm going through some of his earlier movies and
follow that up with Hidu Go the Goblin, and I
(55:12):
just want people to experience his movies. I'm going to
focus on Tetsu today.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
If you haven't seen.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Hidu Go the Goblin, anybody listening, I think you should
check it out. It's borderline a family movie, but it's
one with a lot of really horrific images and is
fully a horror movie, but it's got a sweet spirit
to it and it's about a family, and so it's
kind of like right there on the edge of being
something that kids can watch. But you know Tetsu with
(55:45):
The Iron Man. There's a commentary on there by Tom
mess and he describes it as the world's loudest silent film.
And you know, I think he's right. I watched it
without any sound, and I think I understand it better.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
But the speaking there's not a lot of talking in
the film to begin with, so it's not a herculean task.
But there's a lot of music in the movie. You know,
you get the it's like the kind of industrial technology,
and you know, the interesting thing about this film is
like he just created such a beautiful movie, and I
(56:30):
think that it's one that on the surface, and even
when you hear about it, you might hear about the
like spinning mechanical penis drill, for example, or you might
hear about some of the body mutilation that happens early
(56:53):
on in the story as he's trying to turn himself
into an iron man. And you know, there is some visceral,
intense stuff that happens in the movie. But if you
think about the fact that Zukimoto is somebody that loved
Kaiju movies or these monster movies like Godzilla types, or
(57:15):
you think about him as somebody who kind of had
a bit of a punk rock background or a bit
of an you know, kind of into a little bit
more outsider art. You think about him as somebody who
was well aware of the steampunk movement and wanted to
make something that you know was around there, and go
back and watch it. You may have to watch it
twice to get this, but you go back watching kind
(57:36):
of knowing what you're getting into and knowing what's going
to happen and what it's going to look like. I
think the movie becomes a lot more calm. It's kaotok.
Of course it's always going to be kaotok, but it's
a lot more. It flowed a lot better for me
this time, and I just love the movie a lot,
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And I would encourage if you're in a mood to
push yourself a little bit on the type of film
that you would typically not see and you're trying to
figure out what that would be for the evening.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
I think Tatsu with.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
The Iron Man is a really good place to start.
And for any of the hardcore you know, Vinegar Syndrome fans, Sorry,
this is not a VS title. It has had a
few releases. The one I watched recently was the Arrow release.
I'll do my best to bring in Vinegar Syndrome titles
to this segment when I can, but I just for
a different reason. I rewatched it recently and I just
(58:31):
had to talk about it because it's just just such
an amazing movie. So to two of The Iron Man
by Shinasakimoto. It is streaming on the aero Player, so
you don't have to get the disc. You can just
get the like the Criterion channel. You know they have
the aeroplayer, you can just get that and watch it there.
I would encourage anybody to do it. Okay, So y'all,
(58:59):
thank you so so much.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
We did it.
Speaker 2 (59:02):
We got it through all of it. Around the middle
of the month, there's going to be a special guest
to join Celeste, and we're going to talk about a
Valentine's Day special going through a lot of the adult titles,
born titles from Melochine, as well as just you know,
digging into the history a little bit of Vinneger syndrome.
(59:23):
I'm sure they're gonna have, you know, some new titles
coming out around the sale, and so we'll talk about that,
and I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
We'll do probably a joint segment with Celeste and the
special guest, as opposed to breaking it out. So the
middle of the month. I will also do my best
(59:45):
to cover everything from January. No, that's not true, everything
from yeah January. Yeah, we're gonna do my best to
cover everything from that. I've already got started. I've seen
Curse of the Devil and Seventh Curse already, both which
I highly recommend. Seventh Curse is just incredible, but it's
(01:00:08):
not fair to compare Curse to the Devil to that.
Curse of the Devil's fun. It's like a quiet, gothic
kind of wearable film. Yeah, Seventh Curse is absolutely batch it.
I can't wait to talk about it. But we'll go
over the titles and then we'll do an extended segment
on the adult titles for Valentine's Day. And I hope
to see you all in So thank you for listening
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Welcome back to Punk Vacation Episode twelve. Happy February to
those who celebrate. This is an unofficial Vinegar Syndrome podcast.
My name is Chris Haskell. I set this up a
few months back to find the joy in unfettered creativity.
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I want to make a podcast dedicated to bringing awareness
and context to movies of any budget, from anywhere in
the world and any time in history. I've been a
subscriber since Black Friday of twenty twenty one, and I've
interviewed nearly all of the OC and partner labels. Although
I say that and it's changing a little bit when
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they keep adding some I feel like I've been watching
Vinegar Syndrome become an industry powerhouse and using this as
a way to track and kind of see how high
they can go.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I had two different people that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Were supposed to be joining me today and schedules didn't
work out for a variety of reasons. So I'll do
one more solo episode for anybody that suffered through the
first one I did.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'll try to keep it tight and we'll have some fun.
I'm drinking Oban while we record. So if you want,
as long as you're not driving, if you want to
grab a drink, go through the February announcements with me.
I think this is going to be a month that
people talk about. This is a sneaky, really good month
for them. So I'm excited to go through and see
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what they do or see what they've put out. And
for pre order we have this month, we have VS.
Four ninety two, four ninety three, and four ninety four,
all single films. We also have a VS. Lab one
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that is I think people are going to be buzzing about.
We have two cinematograph titles and then a ton of
really really really strong partner label stuff, so we can
go through a little bit of ocean at a high level.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Two.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Although I might not do it, you know, as in depth,
because there's a lot of this month, as there always
are nowadays. So yeah, I mean, I think without further ado,
let's just jump into it. Look, I keep waiting for
the month that they pass over into five hundred, but
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they're not.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Quite there yet. VS.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Four two stars wings Houser which a Vinegar Syndrome favorite
and it is the carpenter.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
What are you doing just getting a job done? Man?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh? I don't like to leave things have to If
you're going to do it, you might as well do it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Ride.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
At least someone's working around here.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
All right, Let's go back to nineteen eighty eight. Somewhere
in Quebec, an American producer named Jack Bravian or Jack
Braveman maybe, who is known for being a pretty pretty
heavy exploitation and genre producer, got a crew together got
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wings Hauser to star in a slasher movie that is
remembered now was being a pretty wacky one, pretty bizarre one.
It if you don't know, if you know the name
wings Hauser and you're trying to place him, I always
know him for his role in Champagne and Bullets or
(05:04):
Gid even one of the VSA titles. But he's been
in several Vinegar Syndrome titles. He won an award for
Tough Guys Don't Dance, So he's been Yeah, he's been
all over Vinegar Syndrome. He's been all over kind of
genre films. If you look at his even just going
(05:24):
through his filmography, he was in multiple movies a year,
some Hollywood movies and some you know, some low budget stuff,
but he's stayed pretty steady worker. This movie is directed
by a Canadian guy named David Wellington and Doug Taylor
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is the writer. So Wellington was a Canadian director. This
was his first film. He did have a few movies
after this, but most of his career has been in
TV pretty much, you know a lot of Canadian TV shows.
He even did some episodes of Kids in the Hall.
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But if you go through, he did some of Queer's Folk,
he did some recently, he did some of Vikings, the
Taken TV series. So he's you know, he's a well
known TV director and he's a workman's director. Not a
lot of films under his belt. But this is a
fun one. It's an early one, and they actually get
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him to do a commentary track which is really fun
with the writer. And then there's a separate commentary track
with the Oscar Bait Film Collective podcast, which is a
great podcast if you're not listening to that. But yeah,
and then they even got wings Houser to come in
and do a new interview, which is fun. But this
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is a Yeah, this is a quick movie. It's eighty
six minutes. It's an off the wall slasher. People that
have seen it always talk about sort of how memorable
it is. So if you are a try before you
buy type, this is probably a good one to try
because it's lesser known and it might be a little
feel a little bit more risky, but it's pretty beloved
(07:12):
by the folks that have seen it, and maybe something
that Canadian International Pictures would have would have picked up
if Vinegar Syndrome didn't get it. I think this is
a movie that it just starts off with such a
weird premise. Somebody comes home from a mental hospital and
she wakes up to just find this carpenter like working
(07:35):
on our house, and you know, like he throughout the movie,
there's people that come in and he's sort of there
as a guardian angel of sorts. So it starts off
with this odd dynamic and a very violent movie, and
then it just gets more off the rails as it
goes along.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I think this is a one that has enough going
for it easy buy. But again, if you're the tribe
before you buy type, I think this is probably a
good one to experiment with a little bit. It's selling
pretty well, but there's still plenty of copies left. The
standard edition is actually selling a little faster, funny enough,
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so if you don't want the slipcover, you may want
to watch stock count on it. But I think this
is a lesser known one. But I hope people start
talking about it after they see it. I know I
will pretty soon. So four ninety three is one that
I think a lot of people are going to be
talking about. Some excited for the Just Franco completionists, some
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not white. Cannibal Queen also known as Mondo Canniballe, taking
advantage of that whole Mondo thread from the late seventies
and eighties, also known as Cannibal World, the Cannibals. It's
a woman for the cannibal's barbarian goddess, so it has
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a ton of names. Star is only seventeen years old,
so there's a little bit of some awkwardness there. This
is one of only two cannibal films Franco made. I
hope that's right. He also made one called The Double Hunter.
You know. Interestingly enough, Vinegar Syndrome really hasn't done a
ton of Just Franco movies. You know, Severn plays very
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strong in that camp, and there's others that are getting
into it as well. There's obviously so many movies. We
were on the discord, we were debating how many films
that he's put out, and even the most ardent fan
is not really sure of the exact number, but it's
somewhere between one seventy five and one ninety five. It's
a lot of movies. And so you know, this is
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I think either the second or the third. I know
they did Kiss Me Monster Apologies, and this. I think
there's one more they did as well. So this I
think I believe this is the third film that they
put out from him. If somebody please call me out
if I missed an obvious one. But I don't think
there's that many. Maybe this is the beginning of something new.
(10:10):
You know, Vinegar Syndrome likes to sort of test, kind
of dip their toe in the water and see if
it sells well and see if they want to pay
the rights and some of these. So if you're a
just fanco fan and I want to make sure they
put out more of his stuff, you know, go get it.
If you haven't seen a lot of Jess Franco movies,
I think it's pretty fair to say this is not.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
What he's really known for.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know, this was made for a specific reason, and
it was made by the you know, in the middle
of that kind of cannibal craze, and so when you
look across the cannibal genre, this one's not talked about
as much. So we'll see if the release changes that.
I know it's mixed. Like I said, some people really
love it, some people don't quite understand it. So I'm
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excited to hear what y'all think if you watch it.
Did the special features on this are stacked.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I've got to say.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It has Eugenio Orcolani and Troy Howarth getting on there
and geeking out about Just Franco for ninety minutes, which
I can't wait for.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That, they have interviews with some of the actors.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They actually bring in Stephen Thrower, who wrote a book
on Just Franco, so it's a good addition. Eugenio or
Goolani has a separate interview, and they actually got to
have an Italian film historian named Alessio de Rocco talking
about Pranco for thirty minutes. So I'm pretty pumped about this.
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I feel like, even though they have put out more movies.
I don't think the Franco movies they put out have
come out to quite the same fanfare as this. I'm
worn in a time when Vineger Syndrome was as big
as they are now. So I love that they packed
this full of features and you really get the context
of the film, and and the man and the legend
(12:03):
of Uncle Jess so White. Cannibal Queen is coming in at.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Four three.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Four four is one that I think some people might
sleep on, but I'm actually super interested in it. So
it is the possession of Joel Delaney.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Joel, Joel answered me, are you there? I'm a bit
You're the man who said my brother tried to attack you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
He never would have done such a thing unless he
was provoked.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Where's mister Delaney?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
All of a sudden, here we have a case just
like three others we had last summer, head cut off,
hair tied onto something. Those girls were all Puerto Rican girls.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Missus Benson?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
It is good that you understand things are much simpler
when you believe.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Missus Paris came to me because her son's spirit has
entered your brother's buddy.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Are you trying to tell me that my brother.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He's so weak, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So vulnerable that he can be invited from the outside.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
My maniaco is dad.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So I want to be a little careful with spoilers here.
I'll do my best at tiptoe around why I'm excited
about it. But it's a nineteen seventy two movie from
a guy named Waris Hussein. That's not his birth name.
But he's from India. He's in the UK and he
wound up going to school in the UK and staying
and working in the BBC like his his mother did.
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So he's you know, a lifelong sort of he's been
in the entertainment industry. I guess you could say second generation,
come from the wealthy class in India's dad was a statesman,
so upper class guy got into TV production and directing
and made a whole bunch of works. He even made
a long historical epic about King Henry and his six wives.
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So this guy, whereas Hussein, probably it's similar to the Carpenter,
somebody who spent a lot of his time in TV,
and this is a movie from him. There the interesting
thing about this film, and so I should say Sam
Deagan has a commentary on here which is super interesting.
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I can't wait to hear her talk about this. The
chatter from the people that have seen it and the
people that have really kind of given it a critical
look is that the possession of Joel Delaney is a
double meaning in the film, and so it is a
supernatural sort of horror film, like The Exorcist, you know,
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one of these, but there's an interesting family dynamic going
on that is not expected, and I'll just sort of
leave it at that. But this one is actually, I
think of the three, I'm actually most excited to see this,
if I'm being honest, love any chance to see a
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Franco film. And you know, The Carpenter is one that
has been on my list for a long time because
of how popular it is, so I might end up
liking The Carpenter the most. But this one has Sherley
McLain in a role that's apparently very unusual for her,
and she but you know, she kills it in the role.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Apparently. It has this actor named Perry King. Y'all may
know him.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He was big in Class of nineteen eighty four if
you saw that. But anyways, I think it has just
if you don't like spoilers, go in blind. If you
do like spoilers, go read it up a little bit
about it, even though Wikipedia page touches on it a
little bit as to why it has some interest there.
(16:17):
But I don't know, you're ext you know, I don't know.
Some people really don't like spoilers, so I won't say
too much. But yeah, so the Possession of Joel Delaney.
Unfortunately for the movie, I think this is the worst
cover right that I've seen from them in a while.
And I don't mean that as a slight on the artist.
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The artist is somebody who's done a lot of covers
and is great at what they do. This one, I
just don't I don't know. I'm not interested in the
movie by the cover, So if you're in my camp,
I would suggest at least reading a little bit about
it and why it's interesting, because I think there's a
lot of stuff in here that makes it much more
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than just stay Possession film. Like I said, Sam Degan
does a commentary. They actually get Orris Hussein to interview
for this, which is awesome, and they get a film
historian to talk about the adaptation from the book that
this came from, and then they go through the locations
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of the film is a it's a fifteen minute feature
on the locations.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
So that's the month for VS. Mainline.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's interesting there are some people that in the Discord
that were disappointed in this month when it first was
announced as far as the mainline title goes. You know,
there's nothing splashy. This is a month. To me, I'm
just gonna double down on something I was talking to
Sam Panico about last month. You know, this is a
month for me where they get some deep cuts in there,
(17:53):
and I'm trusting them and I'm excited about the month. Actually,
you know, you can't have the ten every month, or
you can't have the keep every month. Right, those are events,
and there's a little bit there's going to be. And
then January had this events around it, right, So we
had a couple of months back to back of like
a lot of buzz and a lot of excitement. And
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I think in the Vinegar Syndrome world, I'm not surprised
if February feels a little bit of a letdown after
Black Friday and Christmas and then the subscriber we kind
of just like pop up, up, up up, you know,
And so that might be a common theme year over year,
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but I do think there's a lot of interest in
these for me and what I've read and what I've
been reading about them. Hey, let's do something a little different.
And before I get into some of the sub labels
and the partner labels, let's jump right into merchant Mates. Ryan, Jeremy,
what y'all got for us?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Hi there, and welcome to merch Mates. This is the
first time it's ever been in person and together. How
we doing, Jeremy?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hey, everyone, what was that?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Well last merch Maids you said, r oh, I forgot.
This is the next letter of the alphabet.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Got it? Got it? Next time we'll spill the tea.
So my name's Ryan and this is Jeremy with me.
We are covering the February announcements from Vinegar Syndrome. Not
a lot on the merch front, but I'm pretty happy
that we got a youth T shirt that I would
not be ashamed of buying for my children.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
That's sure.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
No boobs on this one, No boobs or vagina. How
do you feel about the Tammy Tammy and her t
Rex Valentine shirt?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Honestly, I really like it and didn't even realize there
was a youth version until you just said so.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
I'm not shocked.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I liked it for myself, and I know I say,
this's a lot here on merch maids, but if I
didn't already own a thousand Vinegar Syndrome shirts, I would
buy it because I think it's a really cute design smart.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I do like that we got a cinematograph swirl shirt
this time as well. Looks like they got a little
cinematograph logo on the sleeve going.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
On, have some fun graffiti on the front there.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Also cinematograph swirl tope bag with it. Not a tope
bag guy, I hear my friend Will Dotson is not either.
On top of that, just a heads up that there
is the Valentine's Sale coming out in the middle of
the month, mel You. Scene is alreadyound that there will
be a lineup of merch so you might want to
check out over there. There could be I don't know,
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condom holders, coffee condom holders, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I'm not merch running at Vinegar Syndrome.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, we can't comment on those yet because it's not
the middle of the month yet.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
And we're probably never going to comment on them because
we're not going to do an announcement video in the
middle of February, so we'll see you next month in March.
Anything else you want to share with everybody before we go,
Happy Valentine's Day. On that note, have a good one.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Thanks you.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Excellent. All right, let's get right back into it. Let's
go to let's see if I think about it. Next,
let's go to vs Labs, because that's one I'm excited
to talk about. And I think for those that like,
you know, kind of big name, interesting, intriguing titles and
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don't want the deep cuts, I think from here on
out the month just gets even more exciting.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Vs L fifteen is Juan Lopez maktezumas The Mansion of Madness.
Shout out to the Trash Mechs podcast, who when we
were talking about a lot of Mexican movies that were
coming out on Vinegar Syndrome, they made sure to call
out Mansion and Madness. And then separately, there's an episode
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on the Mando Macabro podcast if you want to give
that a shout where we talk about Juan Lopez Maktizuma
and Albokada. Historically this was a Mono Macabro title as well.
The Mansion of Madness was that and so Vinegar Syndrome
has it now. This is the debut film from Juan
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Lopez Maktizuma, and he's an interesting one because he's drawn
some comparisons to Yodoravski before. He's a little bit he's
more of a surrealist. He plays with imagery more, he
plays with the visuals on screen. He's more of a
like a visual poet, I guess in that way. He
has his own personal demons that come up later in
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his life, but his early films are all quite impactful
and quite different and really stand out. And the basic
premise of this is somebody goes to a rural a
mental hospital back when they were still calling it an
insane asylum, uh, and the inmates have kind of taken
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over the guards, and so it's an interesting premise if
you can imagine something like that handled through a surrealist
the artist. It has a lot of very beautiful imagery
and it's just a very interesting movie. I'm very very
excited that they got this. You know, I love Manda Macabro,
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so I'm always gonna be sad if they lose the title,
but it went. I mean, if it has to go somewhere,
it's in the right hand. There's an interesting trend too
of some of these historical films that really that are
from more surrealist artists that kind of play with the
mind a little bit. Voice Kas has one that's really
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good called The hour Glass Sanatorium. There's obviously a ton
of really interesting, you know one flew over the cuckoos
Nest type of films from America that deal with the
mental hospital and deal with patients, and so this is
a top it's well trodden, but I do think there
are certain filmmakers that sort of can carry a vision
regardless of the genre, and nothing feels stale. Certainly, if
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anybody has not seen Elokarta, I would recommend if you
feel like, you know nonsupplitation, definitely watch Alokarta because it's
a different take on the genre that's quite unique and
quite powerful. And I think that this film is going
to fit as well into that category of being something
different and really really excellent. So I can't wait for
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people to talk about the Mansion of madness. Like I said,
Vineger Syndrome Labs title for the month. This is another
one that's just chock full of features. So they actually
had They found a film historian about Mexican cinema named
Fruencisco Pareto, so he does the commentary truck. They found
an actress Ellen Sherman who's in it. They got a
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production designer, Gabrielle Weiss Carrington. They have of an interview
with the daughter's daughter that actually can't wait to hear
because I'm hoping she gets into some of what was
going on in Morctism's personal life and some of his
personal issues with let's just say mental health. I'm hoping
she gets into some of that. But either way, there's
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a ninety minute feature length documentary on the director that
they've included on here. It's a little bit old, it's
about ten years old, but I don't care. He's a
fascinating guy and I can't wait for the world to
learn a little bit more about him. These movies all,
by the way, I haven't really been keeping track of
(25:39):
their runtime, but these are all around ninety minutes, if
not less. This is only eighty minute movie, eighty four minutes,
so it's not selling as fast as I would have expected.
I would have thought this would have sold very very
well given the history with Menda maccabro and and the
name for the guy from Albakarta. So I mean, you
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definitely have a chance to pick this up at any
time you want. I don't know how easy this is
to find it on streaming, if you want to try
before you buy. I can just say that if you're
a fan of experimental horror or surrealist horror at all,
especially ones that are not too far out there like
marcktism is stuff is not. It's not on the fore
end of the spectrum. It's a little bit closer to center.
(26:24):
It just has like touches of it. And I think
this is a muss buy if you're in that category.
Switching for the I think, as far as I can tell,
I hope I didn't get this wrong. But that is
the only VS sub label title that came out this
month except for two from Cinematograph. So the first one
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from Cinematograph is Let's See Number fourteen, and it is
nineteen eighty four's The Joy of Sex. I think the
back story to this, to me is fascinating and I'm
very excited to see this movie. So the movie came
out in what did I say in nineteen eighty four? Right,
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the movie came out in nineteen eighty four, So nineteen
seventy two, there was a book that came out in
the US. It was an illustrated sex manual called The
Joy of Sex. There's a British author named Alex Comfort,
which is a fantastic name, and it was specifically designed
(27:30):
to be structured like a cookbook, so it's a very
matter of fact book. It talks about all different sexual positions.
It talks about oral sex. It's just as it's meant to,
I guess educate really for lack of you know, it's
meant to be something that was just a topic that
was sort of taboo to talk about. But by the
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seventies at least you had the Free Love Revolution, so
people were becoming a little bit more open. And this
book was a massive hit, eleven weeks as a bestseller
in the in the top five on the New York
Times list for well over a year. I think the
exact number of weeks, well over a year. But it's
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a book that really took the country by storm, and
it's the beginning of these kind of you know, discussions
about the fact that people need to be more open
talking about sex because if that many people are buying
this manual, they're interested in it, right, So it really
left a cultural impact and it was it was quite
(28:34):
an interesting moment in American history. And then twelve years later,
Martha Coolidge, the director Martha Coolidge, who.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Did you know, real goofy movies.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I mean, they're fun in their own way, right, like
Valley Girl and Real Genius. She got this book and
worked with Kathleen what's her name, Kathleen Rowell? I think
is her last name.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I'll check.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'll double check in just a second, but she's one
of the writers for The Outsiders, and they got together
and sat down and adapted this book into a teen
sex comedy. It's a weird move, and certainly, you know,
I don't think the book leads itself to be adapted
in that way, but it's an interesting I think a
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lot of people that saw it when they were younger
have like mixed memories of this, depending on your first
of all, your level of comfort with sex in general.
There is underage sex depicted. I think everybody is actually
eighteen in the film.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I think I need to check that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But the you know, it's just one of these eighties
teen comedies, right, but it's just from the most unpredicted,
unpredictable sources, I guess, And so it's an interesting piece
of history. The movie was somewhat popular. I wouldn't say
it took the country by storm or anything, but it
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definitely has its fans and I cannot wait to hear
people talk about this. So they actually got somebody that
I really like named Elizabeth Pritchell, and then who's a
I guess historian, and then a critic named Katie Rife
to do the commentary truck. So I mean, if you
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think about it, right, you've got a movie that is
directed by a woman, written by a woman, on a
text that was primarily written.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
For women.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Although they wouldn't have said that directly, I think, you know,
a lot of researches was very clear that a lot
of women were buying this book when it came out,
and you know, and then the commentary track is by
two women film a story and critics, So I can't
wait to hear that. Actually, I think it could be
really interesting. They got Martha Coolidge to come back on
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for an interview, which is great. They also got the
screenwriter Kathleen Rowell to come back on, which is great.
There are two more writers. They were billed at the
time as JJ Salter, but it's two people, Joyce and John.
So they came on and they're all interviewed, which is great.
Some of the actors are interviewed. Colin Camp is on there,
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Alexandra Hella Nicholas does a essay profile on Martha Coolidge,
and they did get an interview with actress Lisa Lengola
as well, And I guess should mention there's a bunch
of essays in there, so it's a pretty stacked release.
And I think the interesting thing if you think about
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vinegar syndrome now the month or a couple of months,
they've had stuff like Congo and the Keep and you
know the tenant, we keep talking about it, right looking
for mister Goodbar are now the Joy of Sex through cinematograph,
which is not the top tier of like eighties comedies,
but there's a special there's a supplement on here right
with a specific video essay profile on Martha Coolidge, who
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was one of the premier directors from that era.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
They're just this theory that I had a few years back,
that they're going to be playing more and more into
this kind of mainstream cinema and finding the gems in
Hollywood films in the same way they find gems in,
you know, outside of Hollywood films. I think is it's
fun watching that trajectory, and it's interesting hearing these critics
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that have always been talking about outside art now doing
creating a video I say from Martha Coolidge. So yeah,
I don't know. I'm excited about the Shoelease. I think
I do think the film is going to cause some
discomfort in some folks, and that's fine. Of course, if
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you know anything around underage kids, it's uncomfortable for you
or there's something you don't want to watch, I would
definitely check the age of the actors before it goes in.
I might do it as well an issue an update
over Instagram or something. But yeah, this is what I'm
really excited about.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So finishing out the VS mainline and sub labels for
the month is another Cinematograph release, number fifteen. It is
actually from nineteen ninety six, this time Till the Swinton
stars in Female Perversions. This is another one where the
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backstories is pretty interesting to me. So there was a
book that came out a few years before this called
Female Perversions, and it was written by a pretty famous
a pretty famous psychoanalyst called Louis Kaplan, and it explores
a lot of themes about a woman who is coming
out in sexually and finding herself, finding her sexuality, and
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it's I guess in some ways it plays pretty well
for film adaptation. The person who directed this is a
woman named Susan Streitfeld who is not really well known
as a film director. She was a professor. She was
working at the Modern Art Museum I believe or one
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of the museums in New York for a while, making
documentaries and short films there and then moved out as
a professor and moved out and got very involved in
the theater scene in la wound up working with people
like John Cassavetti's and had some award winning plays.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
So she had a whole career, a very.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Well known career in theater and only has two feature films,
this and then another one a few years later. But
you know, she gets a lot out of her actors
with that theater background, and I think that's on display here.
Till To Swinton is in this role as the lead.
It's a very interesting performance from a pretty young till
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To Swinton. She does a good job. You know, her
range is well documented as an actor, and so if
you put aside the memes about her shang Chi role,
she's an accomplished actor and theater actor as well in
her own right, so you know, she does a good
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job here. I think Female Perversions is an interesting one
because much like Joy of Sex, it's, you know, Joy
of Sex handles hm, let's say, exploring sexuality in a
very childlike and sort of neophyte way where everything is
big and exciting, and the Female Perversions does the similar thing.
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But the woman in the film starts off as a
little bit older, the content is more mature. It's more
of a movie for adults as opposed to a movie
for teens, and it really kind of leans into that.
I think this is one that people are going to
be interested in talking about. It handles sex in a
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way almost like Looking for Mister Goodbar, in the way
that it's very frank about it, and the fact that
it has you know, lesbian relationships is. I wouldn't say
it was shocking in nineteen ninety six, but it's certainly
you know, there wasn't a lot of stuff coming out
in the theater in the theaters with that, so it
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stands alone or as a unique film in that way,
and one that is well made, and I'm excited that
Justin brought it back. Alexandra Hella Nicholas speaking of her,
she was on the other release there, but she does
a full commentary track here, which is great, so it'll
be very interesting to hear her take on the history
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of the text and the film and sort of the
context around it. They actually got Susan Streitfeld to come
back on and do an interview, which is wonderful. They
got a new writer, a new interview with one of
the writers, Julie Jabe, which is great. They have an
interview with the cinematographer, Teresa Medina. If you notices them
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going through this, the writer, the directors, the cinematographer. This
is a very woman directed film from a text that
was designed by a woman and made for women, so
the film stayed true to the spirit there. So it's
a good piece to preserve. I think and talk of
and discuss based off of a lot of that not
(37:50):
only the background but also you know, obviously what's on screen.
There's two or three interviews with the actors in the movies,
and then they actually got some more writing, as they
always do when the cinematograph releases, from some critics and
even a culture writer metal In Sutton, who I'm excited
to read that piece.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Female Perversions nineteen ninety six. This is a little bit
of a longer when it's just under two hours, but
it's one that I think is I'm probably.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Interested in.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I anticipate I'm going to like female Provisions better than
enjoy of sex as I revisit all of these movies,
just I think from what I understand and kind of
vaguely remember about it, it deals with the topics very well,
and it's a movie that is quite well made. So yeah,
(38:46):
I'm excited to revisit this. That's it for this month.
It's funny because in January we had six titles just
in the VS mainline and not even getting to the
sub labels. Yet this is going to be, you know,
it's a little bit of a lighter month. If if
you're thinking that this kind of got over quickly, it's true,
(39:09):
but the partner labels more than make up for it.
So let's spend a few minutes on the partner labels
and then we'll do a final segment and be up. Okay, look,
I've got to talk about the partner labels this month,
specifically for a few so I'm just gonna get out
the ones I'm most excited about out of the way
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early because this month is just so awesome. So there's
a let's just start off with Film Movement Classics. They're
up to Well, actually I can't say they're up to
because they don't really do stock the same way that
some of the other labels do in the sense of
they don't have a spine number, so I don't worry
about that. But Viva Lamore is a movie from Siming
(39:54):
Ling And if you haven't seen Rebels of the Neon
God or Goodbye Dragging In, first of all, go see those,
and Viva Lamore is a really interesting movie to pair
with Rebbels of the Neng God. It follows the same
character around Simon Nang has a amuse in this actor
(40:15):
of his name is Kang Shang Lie and he plays
a character called Shao Kang and a Shao Kanan and
Kng is actually in both roles of the Niang God
and Viva Latmore, which Viva Lamore is the one that
Just Film Move In Classics is putting out this month.
It's a really interesting movie and very very well made.
(40:38):
It's a it's a story that's difficult to explain because
it doesn't sound real, but it's essentially there's one apartment
that a female realtory shows and throughout the film there's
two different men that end up squatting in this apartment
for different reasons, and they form a friendship, these two squatters,
and one of them gets into a romantic really relationship
(41:00):
with the realtor and there's a weird sort of energy
between the three of them. And so it's a even
though it's a shot in the slow cinema style, there's
so much going on at the plot, even though the
dialogue is light that this is it's almost like a
silent film in the way that it's constructed and that
(41:23):
you can see everything happening on the screen and you're
very engaged just in watching the way these characters interact
and are they going to get caught? And you know
there's all this stuff going on, and so I think
Feove a Lot More is an amazing movie, and I
really want everybody to buy this and prove that Samming
Lang has a big following and so they can keep
(41:43):
putting out his stuff because he's extremely talented, and they,
the partner labels, have done a good job of putting
out some of his stuff, so let's keep supporting them.
This one, as far as the slipcover goes, is just
under six hundred, so it has quite a few left.
And as is usual, the standard selling a bit faster.
It's down to like four hundred something. Okay, this next one,
(42:09):
this next set is the reason why I wanted to
start with my favorites up front. And Taekto is has
a two release pack also from full Movement to Classics
just holy cow. Like, I don't know if y'all are
very familiar with Taekto, I hope you are. If not,
(42:33):
try to fix that. Just catch essentially anything he's made streaming.
He's a extremely talented director, and his name is not
brought up in the same way as like Seijun Suzuki
or Takashi Mike or maybe even Teroi Shi. But he
(42:58):
is in this stratosphere for sure, like he's in that tier,
and people need to be talking about Tai Keto. So
I'm so excited that film movement Classics is putting out
two movies. One is By a Man's Face, you Shall
Know Him, and the second one is I the Executioner.
(43:19):
And I think if you there's a crime element to
both of these movies. And you know, Taikto is somebody
who is known for having a lot of violent content
in the film, but he definitely makes He's a strong
artor let me just say it that way. You always
know his films. They stand out. They're unique, and they're
(43:43):
a little bit violent, but they're just excellent. And I
don't know there's a The by a Man's Face you
Shall Know Him is sort of got popular in Japan
when it came out because it was an actual yakuza
member playing the lead role, and that was in the sixties,
(44:06):
so this is right around the same time as when
Segusinzuki was working. In fact, Suzuki was kind of coming
in an interesting phase in his career right around this
time because Tokyo Drifter came out in nineteen sixty six
and then Brandon Takil was the year afterwards, so he
it was right at that time. I mean he had
(44:26):
made Youth of the Beast a few years earlier and
Detective Bureau two three, which is certainly these films certainly
were showing a lot of his artistic flair and like
his style. But from nineteen sixty six on is when
he really became like Sidu and Suzuki and the way
that people talk about him now, I think, And it's
(44:48):
interesting that you know, right at the same time this
guy take ty Kito was working and these films are
just begging to be rediscovered. Obviously, Radiance, I don't know
if you follow them. Radiance has done a great job
with ty Keito as well. So yeah, I just hope
that he has a chance to become very well known,
(45:12):
because just give these a chance. If there's any partner
labels that I would say, just pick up blind and watch.
It's this set from Film Movement Classics Saturn's Core. The
new movie is called Rot. It's from nineteen ninety nine.
(45:32):
As is common with me, Unfortunately, for those of you
all that know me, I don't have a strong history
in sov even though I'm interested in it. So this
was an easy buy for me. The first sentence of
the description is artist Sarah has sex with the corpse
in the local funeral home and finds herself infected with
a mysterious disease. So that's how the movie starts. Yeah,
(45:57):
it's from nineteen ninety nine. It's called Rot and it
has an amazing cover art. This one is down to
in the four hundreds on the slipcover. So I don't
know if it's necessarily a panic buy, but if you're
a Saturn's Core collector, it would be good to either
get it or you know, you can start watching it now.
(46:19):
Something I'm very excited about. So nineteen eighty eight, in
South Africa, there's a movie that came out called Mapansula.
It's this is again a Filled Movement's classic release. So
Mapansula is I'm just going to keep this quite short.
I've been here, I've known about this movie and I'm
(46:41):
very excited to get a chance to watch it now
because it was one of the first films to give
an honest look into apartheid. And it's not pretty obviously,
so it's a touching film and it's quite a powerful
film and from everything I've.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Read about it.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
It's it's excellent, so I can't wait to get it
in and watch it. It's yeah, like I said, a
film movement classics La Pensula. There's a documentary coming out
from some famous Canadian documentarians in nineteen eighty in the eighties.
(47:19):
This one is nineteen eighty four and it's called Hookers
on Davy and it just shows women that walk the
streets and these documentarians are known for being empathetic and
very human centered, and it's one of these ones that
(47:41):
people talk about. Is possibly one of the greatest films
and from in Canada ever, especially the especially a documentary
or nonfiction. But yeah, this is a movie that is
celebrating the forty anniversary this year, and it's just it's
(48:04):
supposed to be an incredible documentary. So I can't wait
to watch this. So not film movement Classics, but film movement.
There's a movie cut that they're putting out from twenty
twenty three called Her Body. It's you know, this movie
(48:25):
was quite popular when it came out. I'm sure y'all
may have even heard of it. But the basic premise
is there's a Czech high diver and she her Olympic
dreams are shattered, and she kind of gets into photography,
which leads to nude modeling, and then eventually gets into
pornography and she stars in over eighty porn movies. It's
(48:47):
a true story and it's a very touching documentary. So
I think, yeah, this is one that I think got
popular for the right reasons and is supposed to be
quite excellent. It is selling pretty well, they've sold already
(49:09):
more than half and yeah, I think for me, this is,
you know, there's this interesting split I find in a
lot of the people that pay attention to Vinegar Syndrome,
where the people that have been following a label for
you know, twelve ten, twelve years really sort of like
(49:31):
to talk about the adult films as art. And some
of the folks that are joining more recently are here
for some of the either partner label stuff or the
mainline stuff that FS is putting out, but they're almost
a little bit uncomfortable with the adult films in the catalog.
And I would just say that this is one that
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crosses over like a well made story and it's an
interesting subject and it's not it's not an actual, you know,
hardcore film, So yeah, I think Her Body is one
that did well for a good reason. The VHS hit
Fest title this month is a celebration of regional filmmaking
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from a guy from Indiana called Bill Reeves. Nine of
his films. There's a commentary on all of them, and
there's a separate commentary where he gets some actors in
for the main one, Deadly Obsession. There's yeah, this is
a this is a love for you know. VHS hit Fest.
(50:37):
To me is it's really tough. I love Saturn's Court too,
but I love the types of movies that Dan finds
at VHS hit Fest, and so I'm excited for this
one just simply because of the I feel like, really
I shouldn't compare. They're both doing it in their own way.
I love the stuff that Ross finds as well for
(50:58):
Saturn's Court, but VHS Hitfest releases a little bit of
a slower pace. They're only up to fourteen now, and
they've all been really gems. So I'm excited to see
this these regional horror movies from Bill Reeves. There's an
interesting movie from IFC. Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard put
(51:26):
out a film called Auto Erotic and it's exactly what
it sounds like. You know, if you know about auto
eerotic asphyxiation. It's exploring the boundaries of self pleasure and
sexual exploration. But it's a comedy and it's I think
the folks that I've spoken to that I've seen this
say it's really it's really good, and they're very excited
(51:48):
for this. So I can't wait to see it. Auto Erotic.
It is not selling super well yet that might change
when people start talking about it. I think the content
in the film is kind of scandalous, but also it's
just a very good movie from everything I've read about it, and.
Speaker 3 (52:11):
The last one.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
I am a big, huge sucker for Abel Ferrara, and
early on, I mean later in his career, excuse me.
Twenty eleven, he made a movie called four forty four
Last Day on Earth and Natasha Leon's in it and
Shannon Lee, but you know, the big star is Willon
Dafoe and it's a Yeah. It's a narrative movie from
(53:02):
Able Ferrara, as you know most of his movies are,
and it's a movie that basically looks at a few
lives where they know that tomorrow at four forty four,
the World's going to end, and just how they navigate that.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
But yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
I'm just a I want to see everything able Ferraras done.
I love him and this is when I have not
seen from him. So I'm so excited that it got
released and I will be picking it up and watching
it as quickly as I can. Well, we did it, y'all.
Thanks for going through those again. I can't wait to
(53:46):
hear from some of y'all if there's there is some
part in the labels I didn't cover because I just
don't know anything about him or have much to say
on him. So if there's something I didn't cover you
want me to talk about, please let me know. If
there's something you disagree with my take. I know some
of the stuff, like the fact that I'm excited for
(54:07):
this month's mainline releases, might be controversial to some of y'all,
So anything like that that you want to argue about,
let's go. I'm here, I'm ready for it. But otherwise,
I'll finish with a segment that I've missed the last
two months, so I'm excited to bring it back. It's
and then all in the podcast after that. But thank
(54:29):
you so much for listening, and we'll end on a
segment I call convincing Holly. And the fun thing for
me and convincing Holly is I get to defend a
film I love to a person I love who most
likely will not love this movie. I'm actually gonna go
(54:51):
outside vinegar syndrome for this one because I have to
talk about Shinyasukumoto. So I saw Tsu The Iron Man
for the I don't know tenth time or something recently,
as I'm going through some of his earlier movies and
follow that up with Hidu Go the Goblin, and I
(55:12):
just want people to experience his movies. I'm going to
focus on Tetsu today.
Speaker 3 (55:19):
If you haven't seen.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Hidu Go the Goblin, anybody listening, I think you should
check it out. It's borderline a family movie, but it's
one with a lot of really horrific images and is
fully a horror movie, but it's got a sweet spirit
to it and it's about a family, and so it's
kind of like right there on the edge of being
something that kids can watch. But you know Tetsu with
(55:45):
The Iron Man. There's a commentary on there by Tom
mess and he describes it as the world's loudest silent film.
And you know, I think he's right. I watched it
without any sound, and I think I understand it better.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
But the speaking there's not a lot of talking in
the film to begin with, so it's not a herculean task.
But there's a lot of music in the movie. You know,
you get the it's like the kind of industrial technology,
and you know, the interesting thing about this film is
like he just created such a beautiful movie, and I
(56:30):
think that it's one that on the surface, and even
when you hear about it, you might hear about the
like spinning mechanical penis drill, for example, or you might
hear about some of the body mutilation that happens early
(56:53):
on in the story as he's trying to turn himself
into an iron man. And you know, there is some visceral,
intense stuff that happens in the movie. But if you
think about the fact that Zukimoto is somebody that loved
Kaiju movies or these monster movies like Godzilla types, or
(57:15):
you think about him as somebody who kind of had
a bit of a punk rock background or a bit
of an you know, kind of into a little bit
more outsider art. You think about him as somebody who
was well aware of the steampunk movement and wanted to
make something that you know was around there, and go
back and watch it. You may have to watch it
twice to get this, but you go back watching kind
(57:36):
of knowing what you're getting into and knowing what's going
to happen and what it's going to look like. I
think the movie becomes a lot more calm. It's kaotok.
Of course it's always going to be kaotok, but it's
a lot more. It flowed a lot better for me
this time, and I just love the movie a lot,
(57:58):
And I would encourage if you're in a mood to
push yourself a little bit on the type of film
that you would typically not see and you're trying to
figure out what that would be for the evening.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
I think Tatsu with.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
The Iron Man is a really good place to start.
And for any of the hardcore you know, Vinegar Syndrome fans, Sorry,
this is not a VS title. It has had a
few releases. The one I watched recently was the Arrow release.
I'll do my best to bring in Vinegar Syndrome titles
to this segment when I can, but I just for
a different reason. I rewatched it recently and I just
(58:31):
had to talk about it because it's just just such
an amazing movie. So to two of The Iron Man
by Shinasakimoto. It is streaming on the aero Player, so
you don't have to get the disc. You can just
get the like the Criterion channel. You know they have
the aeroplayer, you can just get that and watch it there.
I would encourage anybody to do it. Okay, So y'all,
(58:59):
thank you so so much.
Speaker 3 (59:01):
We did it.
Speaker 2 (59:02):
We got it through all of it. Around the middle
of the month, there's going to be a special guest
to join Celeste, and we're going to talk about a
Valentine's Day special going through a lot of the adult titles,
born titles from Melochine, as well as just you know,
digging into the history a little bit of Vinneger syndrome.
(59:23):
I'm sure they're gonna have, you know, some new titles
coming out around the sale, and so we'll talk about that,
and I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
We'll do probably a joint segment with Celeste and the
special guest, as opposed to breaking it out. So the
middle of the month. I will also do my best
(59:45):
to cover everything from January. No, that's not true, everything
from yeah January. Yeah, we're gonna do my best to
cover everything from that. I've already got started. I've seen
Curse of the Devil and Seventh Curse already, both which
I highly recommend. Seventh Curse is just incredible, but it's
(01:00:08):
not fair to compare Curse to the Devil to that.
Curse of the Devil's fun. It's like a quiet, gothic
kind of wearable film. Yeah, Seventh Curse is absolutely batch it.
I can't wait to talk about it. But we'll go
over the titles and then we'll do an extended segment
on the adult titles for Valentine's Day. And I hope
to see you all in So thank you for listening
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