The Sin Syndicate

The credo of Ryan Verrill and Will Dodson's podcast network is "every movie is someone's favorite." To celebrate one-year of being a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions network, The Sin Syndicate are joined by 1/2 of SFP and the larger Antenna Releasing company, the Disc-Connected man himself, bossman Ryan Verrill, to recap the past year and play a game of pick five. What five are we pickin...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. It all started with our discussion with fetish historian and author Jane Garrett about 1967's  Venus in Furs ( Trodden Underfoot ). As a follow-up, we chatted with Nathan Schiff, Long Island filmmaker and longtime friend of  Furs director, Joseph Marzano ( Back to Marzanoland ). I guess we're masochists, we didn't get enough Lou Campa, or I just wanted to cl...

It's a Love Explosion! In an attempt to maintain our sanity amidst deadlines and life generally, we bring you another episode of our  Short Ends series, which we've used in the past to feature additional discussions that have either gone long, didn't fit, or generally felt like they were worthy of standing on their own. We've slightly expanded this design to hopefully include more low-key and info...

That’s right, we’re going Back to Marzanoland . If you’ve been a consistent listener, you’ll know that in Episode 38, “Trodden Underfoot,” we discussed the Joseph Marzano film Venus in Furs (1967) with author and fetish historian Jane Garrett . After the release of that episode, low-budget Long Island filmmaker and sexploitation super-fan Nathan Schiff reached out to us to share some stories about...

Where else will you find a worldwide exclusive about what Christina Lindberg is going to wear on the Cannes 2026 red carpet? For Episode 39, " The Power of the Horn ," The Sin Syndicate have connected with our brothers from another mother, the purveyers of Swedish Sin, Rickard Gramfors & Patrick von Sychowski, co-partners of the Stockholm-based multimedia company Klubb Super 8 and streaming pl...

Yes, we have this in a higher heel. Enter a world of suprasensual sexploitation with this week's deep dive into one of the earliest big screen adaptations of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s oft-referenced sadomasochism novella, Venus in Furs . Muscle-hunk Shep Wild plays this version of Severin (named David), a shoe-salesman who is taken for a literal trip after a chance meeting with the striking Mari...

Do you partake? The Sin Syndicate are preemptively celebrating the Stoner's Holiday with this special 4/20-themed episode which is, let's be honest, just an excuse for us to talk about one of our favorite late 60s sexploitation hang out films, director/cinematographer Joseph Mangine's Manhattan-set story of celluloid swingers and black-clad moto bikers,  Smoke and Flesh (1968). After cutting his t...

The Sin Syndicate return with another of our Short Ends bonus episodes, this time spotlighting the second release in the Reviver mystery box series from Vinegar Syndrome's Film Archive team. But before that, we've got more sexploitation news, including another update on Secret Places, Secret Things (which was discussed in Episode 31: "Love Land" ), a correction on Andy Milligan's Compass Rose (sor...

Before she was Valerie in Daughters of Darknes s, actress Danielle Ouimet was Valérie in Valérie , a landmark Quebec sexploitation film from director Denis Héroux and producers André Link and John Dunning of the legendary Montreal-based Cinépix Inc. Valérie is a time capsule to a post-Expo 67 Montreal, a city looking to flaunt its new modernity, and with artists looking to stage their own  révolut...

After there were two exotic servants ( The Nude Vampire ), but before there were two backpacking schoolgirls ( Girls Without Shame ), two shipwrecked ghosts ( The Demoniacs ), two runaway virgins ( The Escapees ), and two blind brats ( Two Orphan Vampires ), there were, according to Harry Novak’s English language trailer, “ Two Devilish Nymphets ” (also virgins). For Episode 35 we are joined by th...

To know her is to love her. Meet Francy. Or better yet, meet Curt Ledger, a name you may recognize as being attached to a notorious sexploitation film (often called the roughest roughie) called She Came on the Bu s. While that film is a “classic” voice-over narration-style piece of artless trash, Ledger was also involved with another picture, a very different, and surprisingly, very good film, cal...

A bold attempt by a smut publisher and an exploitation director at melding fetishism with general release melodrama,  Satan in High Heels is a film that aims big with its sophisticated lounge jazz LP and its lesbianic novelization tie-in. But maybe the world wasn’t ready to get fully Bizarre just yet . A few years later, One Shocking Moment would open with a sharp heel to the back of a hand, among...

Rip the curlers from your hair. Peggy’s gone. She was The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . For this episode we planned to discuss Anything for Money with Joe Sarno biographer Michael Bowen, but just an hour before recording we got the news that Peggy Steffans-Sarno had passed away the night before. She was 84 years old. Peggy was many things: she was a New Yorker; she was a mother; she was a mu...

We've got more secrets and more things. In this Short Ends bonus episode, we have a few important updates regarding Secret Places, Secret Things , the film covered in Episode 31: "Love Land." What is Satin Lips ? How much is rent for a studio apartment at the former Westgate Hotel where the film was shot? How cute is Debbie Osborne's senior yearbook photo? Besides all things Secret , the Sin Syndi...

Fasten your seatbelts, don't forget to pack your mother's diaphragm, we're heading to Main Street, USA for an evening in  "Love Land." In Episode 31 of The Sin Syndicate, we are joined by author, brick-breaker and long-time exploitation film historian, Chris Poggiali, who personally chose the subject of this week's episode: actor/stuntman Gary Kent's directorial debut, the woozy, mysterious, sensu...

You asked, we answered, Part 2. Our new year Q&A concludes with the second and final installment, " Uta Go Home ." In this episode, Casey once again rants about the missing footage from The Amazing Transplant , Alex throws shade at the non-gore Herschell Gordon Lewis films and Gentry would really like people to stop asking him where they can watch these films. If you enjoyed Alex's in-depth ex...

You asked, we answered. We thought it would be fun to kick off the new year with a little Q&A, but that little Q&A unsurprsingly turned into a four-hour epic. So, we've broken it in two. If you don't hear your question answered in this episode, stay tuned for next week. But in the meantime, in Part One, "Radley Metzger's Ascot," we are joined by our Canadian youngboy Alex DiSanto to discus...

It’s a Christmas miracle! It’s been a long time coming, but for the final episode of the year, The Sin Syndicate have been blessed with the immaculate presence of The Boss, Something Weird Video owner and operator,  Lisa Petrucci . Ever since we started this podcast we knew we wanted to bring Lil’ Lisa on the show, but we were waiting for the right moment. Well, what better time than now, our last...

Strap in for Episode 27, “ Not That Tony Orlando ,” a two and half hour ride that boards at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, makes a detour to Brigantine, New Jersey, and comes to a stop at New York’s Grand Central Station. There will be: more Dawn Bennett slander, a discussion about what makes a “bear,” and a reveal of the inspiration behind Casey’s move to The Big Apple. Curl up with a bag of...

What would you do for a Van Houten chocolate bar? Crawl on your hands and knees and join us for Episode 26 of the Sin Syndicate, where we are submitting to the erotic symphony of director Allen Savage’s psychosexual 1969 sex film, Submission . Starring future hardcore star Jennifer Welles under her “Lisa Duran” pseudonym, she plays “little miss innocence,” a baby doll beauty used and abused by her...

The theme is respect yourself . For Episode 25, " Earn Your Money, Koichi ," The Sin Syndicate are peering through the two-way mirror at producer/distributor Bob Cresse's Japanese sexploitation pick-up, The Bite (1966 ) . Directed by pink film pioneer Kan Mukai, this early B&W eroduction was purchased for $4,000, re-dubbed, and re-distributed to adults only theaters by Cresse's Olympic Interna...

Lick the end of that paint brush. Tie that electrical cord a little tighter. Rub that ice cube counterclockwise over your left breast. We're entering the " Vortex of Voluptousness " for Episode 24 of The Sin Syndicate podcast—peering into New York City apartments filled with sex games, body painting, banana nibbling and general absurd degradation—with a look at two films from director Joel Landweh...

It’s all fun and games at the black magic bacchanal until someone holds a heated plate to your chest with a hungry rat inside. The Sin Syndicate conclude their horrotic Halloween series with Episode 23, “ New Thrill at Old Castle ,” at look at Zoltan G. Spencer’s languid softcore gothic from 1972, Terror at Orgy Castle . This narration-only bone, uh, chiller, features a bevy of underdiscussed beau...

Just keep telling yourself, "This is only a hypnotic astral projection, Cindy.” The Sin Syndicate's horrotic October continues with Episode 22, "Let's Fantasy F**k Now!" Join us for an in-depth look at  Psyched by the 4D Witch, a uniquely terrifying tale of demonology from director Victor Luminera .  Largely a one-man passion project from the psydonomous man, this strange and often comical light a...

Someone’s playing this game for keeps. Instagram’s least favorite podcast, The Sin Syndicate, is back for the onset of scary season with Episode 21, “ Uncle’s Night of Tricks .” In honor of October, we’re looking at director Ron Garcia’s Pandora's box of horrotic, Freudian depravity, "The Toy Box" (1971), a midnight party with orgies, casket play, magic boxes, and Debbie Osborne as a sleepy-drunk...