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333 - DOCTOR GORE (1973) + DOCTOR DEATH (1973) ft. Oliver Leach

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Oliver Leach discuss a double feature of gory doctor themed 70s B-horror movies with a double feature of Herschell Gordon Lewis protege J.G. Patterson Jr.'s strange and inept 70s grindhouse BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN riff DOCTOR GORE (1973) and Hollywood assistant director Eddie Saeta's campy and theatrical supernatural serial killing magician TV movie DOCTOR DEATH (1973).

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on the dark und...

332 - THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963) + THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the passing of a genre filmmaking Titan, the B-movie producing maestro Roger Corman, with another episode on his decadently production designed and colorfully photographed gothic horror adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe starring the God of theatrical acting Vincent Price: THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963) which despite the Poe title turned out to be one of the earliest H. P. Lovecraft adaptations about an evil New England warlock and THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) which ...

Bonus Transmission 54 - FURIOSA, KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, LOVE LIES BLEEDING, MONKEY MAN + GODZILLA x KONG (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.

LOVE LIVES BLEEDING // 09:46-28:06
MONKEY MAN // 28:06-51:43
GODZILLA x KONG // 51:43-1:09:10
KINGDOM OF THE APES // 1:09:10-1:42:35
FURIOSA // 1:42:35-2:41:31

331 - TRUE CONFESSIONS (1981) + LIGHT OF DAY (1987) ft. Steven Hyden

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest rock critic Steven Hyden discuss a double feature of movies loosely connected to legendary heartland rocker Bruce Springsteen: Ulu Grosbard's LA noir conspiracy-Catholic brother melodrama TRUE CONFESSIONS (1981) starring the two Roberts (Duvall and De Niro) that apparently inspired his 1982 album NEBRASKA, and Paul Schrader's Ohio blue-collar bar band family melodrama LIGHT OF DAY (1987) that before eventually casting Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett was ori...

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) - May. 30th* @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN on Thursday, May 30th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime May 30th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of May 30th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.

We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams and mics for J...

330 - THE WARRIORS (1979) + MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss mythological "warriors" of old being updated for a dirtier pulpier, post-apocalyptic gang settings with a double feature of Walter Hill’s cult classic THE WARRIORS (1979) about a gang of NYC delinquents who run and fight their way across the city all night like they’re in a 70s rock-n-roll comic book version of a Greek odyssey and George Miller’s sequel to his original Australian outback gearhead revenge movie MAD MAX, the unhinged, high-octane controlled-ch...

329 - ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971) + CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972) ft. Cameron Fetter

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Cameron Fetter (of Podcast About List) continue our discussion of one of the most enduring science-fiction concepts and depressing pop studio franchises of all time THE PLANET OF THE APES with a double feature of arguably the two best sequels. Don Taylor's ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971) which takes the franchise in a fun fish-out-of-water time travel adventure movie direction until its suddenly an incredibly upsetting 70s political t...

328 - PLANET OF THE APES (1968) + BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the origins of one of the most enduring science-fiction concepts and depressing pop studio franchises of all time with a double feature of the original adventure pulp thriller meets sci-fi horror PLANET OF THE APES (1968) about Charlton Heston crash-landing on a topsy-turvy Darwinian nightmare planet where humans are the ones treated like inferior savage animals to be hunted, caged and ruled over by an entire political, scientific and militarized society of hyper-...

327 - THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953) + THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!? (1964) ft. Charles Pinion

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest filmmaker Charles Pinion (the director behind scuzzy and psychedelic shot-on-video art-horror films we've covered including RED SPIRIT LAKE, TWISTED ISSUES and WE AWAIT) discuss two surreal musical fantasies that he loved growing up and informed his own directing style: Roy Rowland's Dr. Suess scripted take on a dark post-war WIZARD OF OZ-style imaginatively dreamlike, Technicolor children's fantasy THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953) and infamous cult tras...

326 - TWISTED ISSUES (1988) + WE AWAIT (1996)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the scuzzy and surreal SOV (shot-on-video) nightmares of resourceful no-budget art-horror filmmaker Charles Pinion with a double feature of his Florida skater punk music documentary turned disgusting stream-of-consciousness splatter movie TWISTED ISSUES (1988) and his psychedelic drug-induced San Francisco update on the cannibal family horror film WE AWAIT (1996).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking THE 5,000 FINGER...

Bonus Transmission 53 - HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, CIVIL WAR, IMMACULATE, THE FIRST OMEN + SNACK SHACK (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.

IMMACULATE + FIRST OMEN // 06:43-35:26
SNACK SHACK // 35:26-52:39
CIVIL WAR // 52:39-1:24:26
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS // 1:24:26-1:59:14

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: HARD TIMES (1975) - Apr. 25th @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of Walter Hill's HARD TIMES (1975) on Thursday, Apr. 25th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Apr. 25th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Apr. 25th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.

We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams and...

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Voting Poll

These were the 4 most upvoted double features as selected by you guys, now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for June is going to be! GO!

325 - STRANGE DAYS (1995) + THE CELL (2000) ft. Andrew Law

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Andrew Law (of Boonta Vista) discuss virtual reality sci-fi horror/crime-thrillers with a double feature of Kathryn Bigelow's cyberpunk tech-horror apocalypse meets voyeuristic, conspiratorial L.A. noir STRANGE DAYS (1995) and Tarsem Singh's gruesome serial-killer-of-the-week procedural meets therapeutic dream-sharing surrealism THE CELL (2000).

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on TWISTED ISSUES (1988) + WE AWAIT (1...

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Nominations - Jun. 2024

I'm sure most of you know the drill at this point but one episode every other month around these parts is a special episode where you folks nominate and vote for that week's double feature! Democracy!

Your last vote was for THE BOXER'S OMEN (1983) + RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY (1991) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will be for one of our episodes in June!

This is our 21st time doing this so I'm sure that most of ...

324 - THE BOXER'S OMEN (1983) + RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY (1991)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss batshit insane Hong Kong kung fu splatter face-melters with a double feature of Kuei Chih-Hung's ostensible boxing revenge-drama that turns into a disgusting, surreal fantasy-horror exploitation movie THE BOXER'S OMEN (1983) and Lam Ngai Kai's juvenile, slapstick gore mania comic book rendition of a martial arts prison escape movie RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY (1991).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking STRANGE DAYS ...

323 - THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (1972) + WENDIGO (2001) ft. Esther Rosenfield

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Esther Rosenfield (of Get Cynical and The Lost Broadcasts) discuss lo-fi independent horror films about folkloric forest beasts with a double feature of Charles B. Pierce's spooky regional faux-documentary about the Arkansas bigfoot THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (1972) and minimalist indie-horror legend Larry Fessenden's unnerving mix of emotionally cogent family drama and hallucinatory cannibal cryptid B-horror fable WENDIGO (2001).

Next wee...

322 - OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (1983) + MOUSE HUNT (1997)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss comical psychological breakdowns and violent home invasions caused by dastardly, dirty little rodents with a double feature of George P. Cosmatos' low-budget giant rat 80s horror creature feature OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (1983) and Gore Verbinski's absurd, darkly comic silent-era slapstick/live-action Looney Tune kids movie approach to a similar premise in MOUSE HUNT (1997).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking THE LEGEND OF...

Bonus Transmission 52 - DUNE PART TWO, ROAD HOUSE, DRIVE AWAY DOLLS + LAND OF BAD (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.

LAND OF BAD // 10:48-30:24
DRIVE AWAY DOLLS // 30:24-47:22
DUNE PART TWO // 47:22-1:37:14
ROAD HOUSE // 1:37:14-2:17:35

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: STRIKING DISTANCE (1993) - Mar. 28th @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of Rowdy Herrington's STRIKING DISTANCE (1993) on Thursday, Mar. 28th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Mar. 28th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Mar. 28th. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.

We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes...

321 - WALKING TALL (1973) + ROAD HOUSE (1989) ft. Eddie Averill

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Eddie Averill (of Extended Clip) discuss two movies that update the old-school macho western folk hero for the 70s/80s vigilante justice-revenge and regional outlaw crime movie: B-movie maestro Phil Karlson's mix of hokey, friendly country-western drama and brutal, traumatizing exploitation blockbuster WALKING TALL (1973) starring Joe Don Baker, and Rowdy Herrington's broad, vulgar, caricatured hangout neo-western meets 80s dive bar melodrama m...

320 - HIGH NOON (1952) + OUTLAND (1981)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss lonely, weary lawmen making a moral stand against corrupt forces in Fred Zinneman's McCarthy-era real-time civics class western-thriller HIGH NOON (1952) starring Gary Cooper and Peter Hyams' dirtier, exploding head corporate conspiracy-noir science-fiction update on a very similar premise in OUTLAND (1981) starring Sean Connery.

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking WALKING TALL (1973) + ROAD HOUSE (1989). Keep it sle...

319 - GONIN (1995) + THE MISSION (1999) ft. Perry Ruhland

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Perry Ruhland discuss expertly directed, unconventional 90s crime thrillers about five guys in the criminal underworlds of Japan and Hong Kong teaming up to do a job and it not quite going to plan in Takashi Ishii's ruthlessly bleak yakuza heist-horror hybrid GONIN (1995) and Johnnie To's artfully controlled triad hangout movie THE MISSION (1999).

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on HIGH NOON (1952) + OUTLAND (1981)...

318 - THE ITALIAN CONNECTION (1972) + THE BOSS (1973)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the stoic screen presence of Sicilian legend Henry Silva and his collaborations with the God of the mercilessly bleak and brutal Italian "Years of Lead" Poliziotteschi film Fernando Di Leo with a double feature of THE ITALIAN CONNECTION (1972) and THE BOSS (1973), both of which merge the icy cool mob hitman neo-noir + the gritty American vigilante cop revenge movie with full-on Italian grindhouse levels of vulgarity and violence. 

See you all in a week'...

317 - SHAMUS (1973) + HEAT (1986) ft. Eric Szyszka

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Eric Szyszka (of We Hate Movies) discuss the man, the myth, the mustache Burt Reynolds with a neo-noir pulp double feature of his attempt at a grislier, sexier 1970s update on a Philip Marlowe private detective conspiracy in Buzz Kulik's SHAMUS (1973) and his charmingly weary turn as William Goldman's Las Vegas strip for-hire mercenary/gambling addict in HEAT (1986) directed by apparently 6 different directors.

Next week's episode is a pa...

Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: MALONE (1987) - Feb. 22nd @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of MALONE (1987) on Thursday, Feb. 22nd @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Feb. 22nd to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Feb. 22nd. Before we get started we also play some fun pre-show tunes and retro movie trailers to give anyone running late a chance to join in.

We run these events on service for the live viewing that includes webcams and mics for Jamie an...

316 - NEW JACK CITY (1991) + JUICE (1992)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss early-90s Harlem-set social message blaxploitation crime movies (co-starring and soundtracked by hip hop artists) with two of the most magnetic villain performances of the 90s: Mario Van Peebles' crack cocaine epidemic update on the old Warner rise-and-fall gangster tragedies NEW JACK CITY (1991) and Earnest R. Dickerson's marginally more grounded high school melodrama turned morality play horror movie JUICE (1992). 

See you all in a week's time where w...

Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Voting Poll

These were the 5 most upvoted double features as selected by you guys (usually 4 but this week we had a 2-way tie for the last slot), now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for April is going to be! GO!

315 - THE STREET FIGHTER (1974) + SISTER STREET FIGHTER (1974) ft. Brandon Lim

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest programmer Brandon Lim (of Blackbelt Cinema) discuss 1974 Japanese martials arts exploitation movies starring legendary black belt actor Sonny Chiba, with his animalistic turn as the sadistic for-hire Karate fighter in Shigehiro Ozawa's lean and mean yakuza neo-noir meets martial arts action film THE STREET FIGHTER + Kazuhiko Yamaguchi's goofier, comic book mania spin-off SISTER STREET FIGHTER starring Chiba's protégé Etsuko Shihomi.

Next week's ...

Bonus Transmission 51 - ARGYLLE, THE BEEKEEPER, NIGHT SWIM + ONE MORE SHOT (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release genre movies that we wanted to talk about! Mild spoilers and such! Let us know what you guys thought of these movies if you saw 'em and if you have any recommendations for next month.

ONE MORE SHOT // 11:47-28:36
NIGHT SWIM // 28:36-40:02
THE BEEKEEPER // 40:02-1:02:25
ARGYLLE // 1:02:25-1:51:08