The Schlock and Awe Podcast

Happy All Hallows Eve! And we finish off our J & K Horror Series with a heavy hitter. Jun-On. Lindsay and Mark enter the murder house and slide the murder tape into the VHS Player. It's Ju-On The Grudge 2 & Sadako vs. Kayako. We are building up the mythology and then smashing it to pieces. Let Them Fight Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferre...

On this Schlocktober Lindsay and Holy Terror's Pat look at Vampires in Japan. And it is all about the D. With Michio Yamamoto's Vampire Doll (1970) & Toyoo Ashida's Vampire Hunter D (1985). This is a double looking how Japanese film makers took the Vampire and molded it into what this Double is. Magical, Dark and completely berserk. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock &...

On this Schlocktober Lindsay & Bede of Bede vs The Living Dead Podcast go over to South Korea and take in a Double from one the Korean Trio Kim Jee-woon. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) & I Saw the Devil (2010). Both movies show case his signature style as well as Lee Mo-gae's cinematography. And they are awesome.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your...

This time around on S&A Presents Murderers We Have Know Lindsay & Nadine head over to France to look at World War One French Serial Killer Henri Desire Landru. With Charles Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947) & Claude Charbol's Bluebeard aka Landru (1963). This is a Double that looks at the notion of chivalry, war profiteering and Charbol's bizarre taste in interior design. Please feel f...

This week on S&A Schlocktober Lindsay and It Didn't Go Platinum Podcast Host Tim take a look at J Horror's Scream Queen Eihi Shiina. With Takashi Miike's Audition (1999) & Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police (2008). Gore is a King and Eihi is all over it.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform. 

This week on S&A Schlocktober J Horror Series. Lindsay and VH US Podcast Host Dirk head to both Japan and South Korea for a hellish double. Jung Bum-shik's Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) & Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku aka Sinners in Hell (1960). Truly a Double Feature about creating your own hell, one movie using modern film techniques and the other a pioneering abstract horror movie that also...

On this S&A Schlocktober Lindsay and Andrew sit down for a Japan DIY Horror with Shinichi Fukazawa's Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995 aka 2009) & Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo The Iron Man (1989). What starts of as a double looking at two independently made Japan Horror Movies, and Lindsay getting the works Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell in all kinds of configuration. It turns into...

This week we begin Schlocktober with the world of Kojo Suziki, the Well & the VHS Tape. Lindsay & Gabe travel that small volcanic island to visit Sadako. It's a Double of Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998) & The George Iida' Spiral (1998). Both released on the same day in 1998. One an atmospheric adaption of Suziki's novel that focuses on the visual metaphors of a horror storytelling. The oth...

On this S&A Presents MWHK we look at a legend from a land of legends. The East End of London and the story of the Kray Twins, who ruled the 1960s like an iron fist with The Firm, a brass knuckle and a well tailored suit from Savile Row.  Lindsay & Nadine will be sitting down for a Double of Peter Medak's The Krays (1990) & Brian Helgeland's Legend (2015) This is all about the family  ...

And thus Schloctober 2026 begins! Before we get into the main event it is time for a Triple Feature. Because Demons come out at night. Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon (1957), James C. Wasson's Night of the Demon (1980) & Kevin S. Tenney's Night of the Demons (1988) - we have to end on a party! This is a triple witchcraft, curses, bigfoot, cults, possession & lipsticks. When you go lo...

On his special Schlock & Awe - Lindsay finally finished editing Lindsay, Nadine & Kahn's MIFF coverage part three. In this episode we look at Josephine, Spanish Movies The Beloved & Bitter Christmas, Yellow Letters. Also Clarissa, Mouse, Fox & Ah Girl Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This Week on S&A Lindsay & Unholy Terrors Podcast's Pat Brennan hear the loud yell of the Yukuza. It's a Double of Kazuya Shiraishi's Blood of the Wolves (2018) & Juzo Itami's Minbo: The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992). This is a Double that looks breaking down the mythology and aggrandizement of the Yukuza. One of these movies have tragic real world consequences. Please feel f...

This week on S&A it's a Twinning Titles. Lindsay & Bede are a City on Fire. Literary and Fugitively. Alvin Rakoff's City on Fire (1979) & Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1978). This is a Double of two movies not alike in stature, but both very entertaining. And both examples of genres of which they were born. The Disaster Movie and The Hong Kong New Wave. Both incredibly influential genres....

On S&A it's a Melbourne International Film Festival Round Up Part 2. There was too much to cover. Lindsay, Nadine & Kahn talk more movies. On this episode they discuss Fatherland, Blue Heron, Big Girls Don't Cry, Marama and La Gradiva. All chewy movies with a lot to say. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform 

This week on S&A we take a look a the 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). The largest in the Southern Hemisphere - over 250 movies over a two and a half week period. Lindsay, Nadine and Kahn tried to see as much as they could. In Part One we cover, Wicker, La Bola Negra, All of a Sudden, Coward, Maddie's Secret & I Want Your Sex.  There was so much to say about these movies....

This week on S&A Lindsay and Justin Anderson will take a martini shaken not steered. I'm Bond James Bond. A Double of Terence Young's From Russia From Love (1963) & Michael Bay's The Rock (1996). This is a double of how not only James Bond the character has developed and has influenced film history but also how action as a genre and Sean Connery's career has evolved.  Please feel free to r...

This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw look at Baby's First Body Horror Double. Steve Barron's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Movie (1990) & David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). A secret of the ooze double. But more than that - how a specific generation was brought up. There is a through line from Jim Henson - Steven King - David Cronenberg. And we are the way we are because of it. War...

On this Murderers We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take a look at another Crime of the Century. The murder of New York Architect Stanford White by Philadelphia Millionaire Harry Thaw. All seeming about The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Richard Fleischer's The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing (1955) & Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981). These movies are set during a specific time of innovation and pro...

This week on S&A Lindsay and Carmelita Valdez McKoy go for a triple feature of epic proportions and sexual awakening. Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) & José Ramón Larraz's The Coming of Sin (1978) & Tony Richardson's The Taste of Honey (1961). This Triple goes into so many directions, sex, exploitation, queerness, growing up. To grow into a women there is a lot go...

This week we go to Springfield where they did story telling first. Lindsay & Bede Jermyn look at reference and story telling convention with a Double of The Simpsons Tree-house of Horror II (1991) & Curry Barker's Obsession (2026). Not only was Lisa 's Nightmare The Monkey Paw one of Barkers inspiration for his Obsession but it also show how our stories are often change, manipulated and re...

This week on S&A Lindsay & Genevieve Radosti of Movie Jawn & CineFilth Podcast have to choose a Messiah but we change the channel. It's a Double of Hal Ashby's Being There (1979) & Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). This is a double of a Jesus Figure who loves television. And more importantly a portrait of 1970s America and where they are heading to into the 1980s and...

On this Murders We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take on another kill duo. This time Raymond Fernandez & Martha Beck - The Lonely Hearts Killers. The Double Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts (2006) & Leonard Kastle The Honeymoon Killers (1970). One a period piece set in the time appropriate time of the late 1940s, the other set in contemporary America. And everything is just a bit shit, whet...

This week Lindsay & Bede on this S&A Twinning Titles Lindsay & Bede want One More Shot. James Nunn's One More Shot (2024) & Nicolas Clifford's One More Shot (2025). Two movies who used a gimmick structure - The Long Take or One Shot or the Time Loop Movie to contain their movies. Do these movies stretch out of the structure or work within it.   Feel free to rate, review & subsc...

This week on S&A Lindsay & Age Film Critic Jake Wilson head into the world of Charles Walters. A Spectacular Spectacular Double of Walter's Dangerous When Wet (1953) & Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962). Two golden age musicals that are about movement, transformation and that something intangible thing about art. Feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite pod...

Welcome to a new Schlock & Awe Series. Murderers We Have Known. Lindsay & Nadine will focus on a famous murder or series of murders and look at how a Double Feature treats changes and portrays the crime. To start things off we are looking at Leopold & Leob and the Crime of the Century with a Double of Tom Kalin's Swoon (1992) & Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). This is a Double that...