The Shadow was meant to be a summer blockbuster and the starting point for a new film franchise. It was not.
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I love rip-offs of Jaws more than the real movie. This week. Great White, Devil Fish, Mako, Cruel Jaws and Orca get me all excited like chum in the water.
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Embassy Pictures, who created Sons of Hercules, was founded in 1942 by Joseph E. Levine as a distributor of foreign films. He knew that these movies had been popular in theaters and that while that initial success may be waning, local UHF channels had a desperate need for content. They answered with Sons of Hercules, which gave these stations fourteen movies unified with a memorable name, a catchy theme song and a voiceover that starts each movie placing them into the same cinematic universe, even if there was no such connection.
This episode gives an overview of the movies in that package:
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I’m a huge fan of Donald Pleasence and this episode, I’ll be talking about Night Creature, Tales That Witness Madness, You Only Live Twice and Double Target.
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Born in Lodi, New Jersey, The Misfits are a horror punk band that were originally around from only 1977 to 1982 — in their original incarnation — before years of legal wrangling and new lineups finally gave way to a series of reunions that began in 2016. Along the way, nearly every song had a movie reference. Let’s get into it!
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This episode, I’ve been sponsored by Michael Orlando Yaccarino to talk about Jess Franco. I can’t believe I live in a world where I get paid to talk about Venus In Furs, How to Seduce a Virgin, Countess Perverse, Hot Nights of Linda, Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, Shining Sex, Doriana Gray and Macumba Sexual.
Thank you so much, Michael! If anyone else wants to pay me to talk about a whole bunch of movies — and I will spend your donation on more movies — donate to my ko-fi page.
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Women’s Prison Massacre, Violence in a Women’s Prison, Emanuelle In America, Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade and Caligula: The Untold Story. These are scummy movies. This is what I do.
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Jenn and I get into a George Romero movie that not enough people have seen, Season of the Witch, AKA Jack’s Wife and Hungry Wives. You can watch the movie on Tubi and listen to the show on Spotify on Jenn’s site, The Cinema Junction.
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Olivia Serdy works with me and we discuss movies quite often. I was excited to have her on, especially because I wanted to see if she could get me to admit that I don’t hate all of the Star Wars prequels. We jump around to a lot of franchises, but I think if you are interested in 2000s culture, introducing movies to your kids and being nerdy, you’ll have fun with this episode.
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I had the awesome chance to be on this podcast and I’ll let Professor Cesare Augusto tell you all about it!
The Rad Revival House explores the gruesome sub-genre of Italian Sci-Fi Exploitation cinema with the bonkers 1984 picture, RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR
Appearing for the first time on our show as Special Guest Lecturer is Sam Panico of the cool AF cult film website B&S About Movies. Along with our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, Sam offers his enthusiastic insight about RATS and its bizarre take on the post-apocalyptic sub-genre of Science Fiction.
After a nuclear war devastates the world, the human race has been split into two: the surface world, and the subterranean world. Making their way through the barren surface world is a diverse gang of misfit bikers, scavengers grabbing everything they can get to survive and enjoying themselves, too. They stumble upon a deserted research facility that is grotesquely infested with hordes upon hordes of disgusting, diseased-filled rats! One by one, the bikers are killed by the genetically-enhanced vermin, until a small few are left to fight for their survival.
Cesare and Sam discuss the nasty yet surprisingly compelling production within RATS, how director Bruno Mattei was able to masterfully create a grim atmosphere despite a low budget, and how the picture’s special effects are effectively performed WITHOUT the use of slick special effects. RATS, as Sam said, is a strong example of how filmmakers can excel at being weird and being memorable, without having otherwise prolifically artistic visions in mind!
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