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Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Nominations - Apr. 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 LE SAMOURAI (1967) + GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will be for one of our episodes in April!

This is our 20th time doing this so I'm sure that most of you know the drill by now...

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314 - LE SAMOURAI (1967) + GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss two stylishly cool neo-noirs about modern for-hire contract killers who ritualistically live by their own version of an ancient, strict samurai code with a double feature of Jean-Pierre Melville's influential, lonely French procedural LE SAMOURAI (1967) and Jim Jarmusch's off-beat New Jersey street remix of it GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999). 

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking THE STREET FIGHTER (1974...

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313 - THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER (1982) + CONQUEST (1983) ft. BenDavid Grabinski

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest writer/director BenDavid Grabinski (co-creator of SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF) discuss two of our favorite directors going gory 80s Sword and Sorcery Fantasy mode with passionate and resourceful B-movie maestro Albert Pyun's THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER (1982) and surreal Italian horror God Lucio Fulci's CONQUEST (1983).

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on LE SAMOURAI (1963) and GHOST DOG: WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999), you can get acc...

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Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: VIRTUOSITY (1995) - Jan. 25th @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of VIRTUOSITY (1995) on Thursday, Jan. 25th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Jan. 25th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Jan. 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 mics for Jami...

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312 - RICHOCHET (1991) + FREEWAY (1996)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss two incredibly sleazy™ and sadistic 90s VHS-era cat-and-mouse thrillers with a double feature of Russell Mulcahy's deranged cop-and-crook revenge movie RICOCHET (1991) starring Denzel Washington and John Lithgow + Matthew Bright's crude modern trailer trash take on Little Red Riding Hood FREEWAY (1996) starring Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland.

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest talking THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER (...

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311 - THE RULING CLASS (1972) + JACK'S BACK (1988) ft. Meg Shields

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Meg Shields discuss off-kilter Jack the Ripper themed genre movies with a double feature of Peter Medak's dryly absurd satire turned borderline horror film of British aristocracy THE RULING CLASS (1972) starring Peter O'Toole and Rowdy Herington's neon-synth LA copycat serial killer procedural/voyeur thriller JACK'S BACK (1988) starring James Spader.

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on RICOCHET (1991) + FREEWAY (199...

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310 - ROAR (1981) + THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS (1996)

Hosts Josh and Jamie kick off 2024 with some Lion-sploitation eco-horror with a double feature of Noel Marshall's family comedy about saving African wildlife turned notoriously irresponsible, accidental documentary snuff film ROAR (1981) and Stephen Hopkins' more old-fashioned studio colonial biographical drama meets animal attack thriller/horror THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS (1996). 

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

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309 - The Best Genre Movies Of 2023

Hosts Josh and Jamie put 2023 to bed by counting down their official top 15(!) genre movies of the year. Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on ROAR (1981) + THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS (1996), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier.

Intro // 00:00-36:31
Honorable Mentions // 26:08-2:18:00
15 // 2:18:00-2:34:00
14 // 2:34:00-2:48:22
13 // 2:48:22-2:57:28
12 // 2:57:28-3:07:44
11 // 3:07...

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Announcing this month's $10 patron live-watch: NEW YEAR'S EVIL (1980) - Dec. 28th @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of NEW YEAR'S EVIL (1980) on Thursday, Dec. 28th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Dec. 28th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Dec. 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 webcams and mics for...

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308 - WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (1972) + HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (1972)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss some underseen 1972 holiday horror with a double feature of Curtis Harrington's tragic, Psycho-biddy exploitation riff on Hansel & Gretel WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? and John Llewellyn Moxey's made-for-TV murder mystery, borderline Giallo melodrama HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with our annual Top 10 Genre Movies of the year episode. Keep it sleazy!

Intro // 00:00-11:55
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO// 14:20-1:11:...

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307 - REAL LIFE (1979) + DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991) ft. Michael Chau

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Michael Chau discuss legendary American comedian Albert Brooks (as an actor and a director): his debut satirical feature REAL LIFE (1979) that darkly, prophetically satirized reality TV ethics and sociopathy before it was anywhere near as popular as it is now + his attempt to tone down the post-modern cynicism and deliver a warmer, more gentle (yet still existential and witty) romantic comedy with DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991) co-starring Meryl St...

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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 3-way tie for the bottom two slots), now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for January is going to be! GO!

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306 - WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) + MATILDA (1996)

Hosts Josh and Jamie discuss the sugary sadism of Roald Dahl with a double feature of Mel Stuart's sweet, colorful children’s musical WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) with Gene Wilder as the titular, eccentric chocolatier who tortures and mutilates children and Danny DeVito's playfully grotesque and sentimental adaptation of the telekinetic revenge coming-of-age tale MATILDA (1996).

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

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305 - NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) + NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980) ft. Cameron Fetter

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Cameron Fetter (of Podcast About List and Monster Crazy) resume regularly scheduled programming with a B-horror double feature of two very different styles and eras of dorky professors vs. hairy monsters both titled NIGHT OF THE DEMON: legendary Val Lewton collaborator Jacques Tourneur's 1957 elegantly stylized, eerie old-school Hollywood mix of slow-burn Noir procedural and malevolent, occult folk horror and 70s queer porno director James C. W...

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Announcing this month's $10 Noirvember patron live-watch: THE NARROW MARGIN (1952) - Nov. 30th @ 10:00PM EST

Join us for an online, live-chat viewing of THE NARROW MARGIN (1952) on Thursday, Nov. 30th @ 10:00 PM EST. Sign up to the $10 tier anytime before showtime Nov. 30th to receive the invite link, it will go out to everyone subscribed at that tier on the morning of Nov. 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 f...

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Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Nominations - Feb. 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 TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) + L.A. CONFIDENTIAL 1997) which we just dropped. The next episode you're voting on will be for one of our episodes in February! 

This is our 19th time doing this so I'm sure, once again, that most of you know the drill...

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304 - TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) + L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)

Hosts Josh and Jamie conclude Noirvember with a double feature of corrupt cop/ACAB noirs: Orson Welles' seedy, expressionistic and tragic vision of a dirty, unjust lawman in TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) and Curtis Hansen's slick, Oscar-winning, pop action-thriller take on James Ellroy and the neo-noir genre L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997). 

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest resuming normal programming with NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) and NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980)...

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Bonus Transmission 50 - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, WHEN EVIL LURKS + THE KILLER (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.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON // 10:35-1:11:47
WHEN EVIL LURKS // 1:11:47-1:33:47
THE KILLER // 1:33:47-2:18:51

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303 - KISS ME DEADLY (1955) + THE MAN WHO STOLE THE SUN (1979) ft. Casey (@MinovskyArticle)

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Casey (aka @MinovskyArticle) continue Noirvember 2023 with a double feature of strange, bleak, apocalyptic, and nuclear anxiety-fueled (sort of sci-fi) crime thrillers with a double feature of Robert Aldrich's masterfully blunt and nasty adaptation of Mickey Spillane's pulp paperback P.I. Mike Hammer KISS ME DEADLY (1955) and Kazuhiko Hasegawa's deranged, genre-bending mix of atomic bomb satire and hardboiled cat-and-mouse procedural THE MAN WH...

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Free SPOOKTOBER Watch Party Recording - TRICK OR TREAT (1986) - Oct. 30th, 2023

Here's the recording of the free Halloween screening for any who missed it! It was a really fun one. See you $10 patrons next month where we'll be watching something special for Noirvember.

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302 - MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) + BLAST OF SILENCE (1961)

Hosts Josh and Jamie continue Noirvember with a double feature of focused, compact, offbeat and early existential hitman B-noir procedurals with a double feature of Irving Lerner's detached, relaxed almost documentary approach to his transactional killer in MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) and Allen Baren's more ruthlessly cold, dour and hateful variation on a similar protagonist in BLAST OF SILENCE (1961).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest continuing Noirve...

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301 - THE SOUND OF FURY (1950) + SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950) ft. Hesse (@ZeroSuitCamus)

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Hesse (of Seeking Derangements and Movie Mindset) kick off Noirvember 2023 with a double feature of underseen 1950s Turner Classic Movies programmers: Cy Endfield's bleak, post-war mob violence/blacklist-era message picture THE SOUND OF FURY and Pat Jackson's strange, pulpy child endangerment B-thriller SHADOW ON THE WALL.

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on procedural hitman noirs: MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) and BLA...

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Free Halloween Spooktober Watch Party Link - TRICK OR TREAT (1986) - Oct. 30th @ 10:00PM EST

Free to everyone, invite your friends. Trailers will start at roughly 10:00pm EST, feature at roughly 10:20pm EST. See you guys in a few hours!

Link to the screening room: https://www.cya.live/event/SYoOUJb9GHaBExUsVD44p

And don't forget we do these the last Thursday of every month for patrons at our $10 tier. 

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300 - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) + WISHMASTER (1997)

Hosts Josh and Jamie conclude Spooktober and celebrate 300 episodes of the show with a very special episode finally talking about Wes Craven's visually surreal, psychologically tormented supernatural teen slasher masterpiece A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) and regular Craven special effects artist Robert Kurtzman's goofier, more ridiculous fantasy-horror B-movie WISHMASTER (1997).

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest kicking off Noirvember with THE SOUN...

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Announcing this month's TWO Spooktober patron live-watches!! One free for everyone on Oct. 30th and one exclusively for $10 patrons on Oct. 26th!!

Join us for our free Spooktober online, live-chat viewing of TRICK OR TREAT (1986) on Oct. 30th @ 10pm EST, which will be free to all listeners here: https://www.cya.live/event/SYoOUJb9GHaBExUsVD44p

As well our usual Thursday monthly paid screening for $10 patrons which this month is FADE TO BLACK (1980) and will be taking place a few days earlier on Oct. 26th at 10pm EST, sign up to the $10 tier an...

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299 - CREEPSHOW (1982) + BLACK SABBATH (1963) ft. Rob Franco

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Rob Franco continue Spooktober 2023 by discussing a Halloween Mindset double feature of spooky, anthology horror films: George Romero and Stephen King's colorfully-exaggerated, comically mean-spirited throwback to gruesomely zany EC Comics CREEPSHOW (1982) and Mario Bava's meticulously-stylized, decadent gothic Italian horror BLACK SABBATH (1963).

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) ...

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Bonus Transmission 49 - EXORCIST: BELIEVER, SAW X, TALK TO ME, NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER (Spoilers)

Josh and Jamie saw some more new release (spooky) 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.

LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER // 17:44-30:00
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU //30:00-44:36
TALK TO ME // 44:36-1:01:58
SAW X // 1:01:58-1:31:42
EXORCIST: BELIEVER // 1:31:42-2:00:53

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298 - THE HOUSE OF USHER (1960) + THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961)

Hosts Josh and Jamie continue Spooktober by discussing the first of many economical and visually imaginative 1960s collaborations between legendary screen creep Vincent Prince, economical B-movie maestro Roger Corman and the Gothic horror tales of Edger Allen Poe with a double feature of THE HOUSE OF USHER (1960) and THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961). 

See you all in a week's time where we'll be back with a special guest continuing Spooktober by talking about CREEPSHOW (1982) and BLA...

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Bi-Monthly Patron Double Feature Voting Poll

These were the 4 most upvoted double features as selected by you guys (with the exception of one disqualified entry due to... one of the films already being selected by a guest for this month), now it's time to officially vote on what our Patron-selected episode for Noirvember is going to be! GO!

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297 - DON'T LOOK NOW (1973) + THE VANISHING (1988) ft. Adam Nayman

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Adam Nayman kick off Spooktober 2023 by discussing a double feature of acclaimed, European arthouse-horror enigmatically structured around loss, obsession, and predestined convergences: Nicolas Roeg's gothic, surreally impressionistic grieving couple psychological horror film DON'T LOOK NOW (1973) and George Sluizer's more clinical, hypnotic kidnapping procedural thriller THE VANISHING (1988).

Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bon...

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