Cinema PSYOPS

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP306: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Decades ago, residents of Newt, Texas, long suspected that the Sawyer family was responsible for the disappearances of many people. When their suspicions finally were confirmed, vigilantes torched the Sawyer compound and killed every member of the family — or so they thought. Much later, a you...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP305: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Before being sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends take one last road trip, but when they get into an accident, a terrifying experience will take them to a secluded house of horrors, with a chainsaw-wielding killer. Legion Patreon:  https://www.patre...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP304: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake (2003) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! In this remake of the horror classic, a group of young travelers — including Erin (Jessica Biel), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) — comes across an isolated rural home while driving through Texas. Unfortunately for them, the decrepit house is the residence of a fami...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP303: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation 1994 The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! After leaving their prom early, innocent Jenny (Renée Zellweger) and three other teenagers crash their car in the backwoods of Texas. In their search for help, they run into Vilmer Slaughter (Matthew McConaughey), a vicious psychopath with a mechanical leg, and his twi...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP302: Full Franchise Fest: Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw III 1990 The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Driving through Texas, young yuppie couple Michelle (Kate Hodge) and Ryan (William Butler) stop at the Last Chance Gas Station, but after they witness the owner attacking a hitchhiker named Tex (Viggo Mortensen), they panic and flee. In their hasty departure, they get lost and soon...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP301: Full Franchise Fest: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 1986 The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface (Bill Johnson) is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally disturbed Chop-Top (Bill Moseley). This time, the masked killer has set his sights on pretty disc jockey Vanita “Stretch” Br...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP300: Full Franchise Fest: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 The TCM Full Franchise Fest begins with the original classic! When Sally (Marilyn Burns) hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family’s old farmhouse, they discover a group o...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP299: Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture 1973 The second of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ochô.  Ochô is mistakenly kidnapped by drug traffickers, tortured and sexually assaulted, and framed for murdering another of their victims. She is found and helped by Jyoji and discovers that the criminals use the body cavitie...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP298: Sex and Fury 1973 The first of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ocho. After the murder of Ocho’s policeman father, it is revealed that she has grown up to become a professional gambler as she searches for her father’s killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly).  Along the w...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP297: Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance 1974  Starting at the end of the war with Russia, Yuki is imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged.  To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, she is recruited into the secret police and becomes caught in a web of corruption, assassination and coercion when the vengeful swords-woman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japan...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP296: Lady Snowblood 1973 Based on the manga series of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura, Lady Snowblood recounts the tale of Yuki, born only for vengeance.  The path of vengeance is set for Yuki when her father is murdered, her mother raped, and her entire village swindled out of all of its money before she is even born.  Upon her mother’s death shortly after her birt...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP295: A Knife for the Ladies 1974 A giallo-style murder mystery with a wild West setting, A Knife for the Ladies is the story of a private detective who travels out west to investigate the murders of several prostitutes, facing off against the reluctance of the town’s grizzled sheriff, and several suspicious characters, each with something to hide. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP294: The House of Insane Women 1971 Although released the same year as Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’, The House of Insane Women is a somber look at similar subject matter with much less flair or anger.  The film is primarily an asylum melodrama. Because the main character is suffering from the trauma of seeing her mother’s exorcism, it was retitled Exorcism’s Daughter and passed off a...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP293: March Mattei: Hell of the Living Dead 1980  A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the Papua New Guinea jungle after a chemical leak at a laboratory turns its staff into flesh-eating zombies.   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP292: March Mattei: Cruel Jaws 1995 The coastal town of Hampton Bay is threatened when a 25-foot Tiger shark starts chomping up their vacationers. Days before the annual Regatta celebration, the townspeople are faced with financial ruin if something is not done about their new-found shark problem. If that was not enough, the owners of the local amusement park have been subject to a...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP291: March Mattei:  Rats Night of Terror 1984 Set 225 years after a nuclear holocaust in 2015, the survivors are divided between those who live in comfortable underground cities and the “New Primitives” who live in the sunlight. A group of 11 of these people come across a mysterious, abandoned village. Despite the presence of numerous horribly mutilated corpses, the adventurers dec...

CinePsyEP290: March Mattei:  Double S Girls 1977 ‘SS Girls’ (1977) aka ‘Casa privata per le SS’  is an Italian nazisploitation film by director Bruno Mattei. The film is about a brothel where traitors of the Nazi high command are eradicated. To help the brothel out, a Nazi commander, involved in intelligence work, enlists the aid of scientists who train various prostitutes to sexually satisfy the...

CinePsyEP289: Eyeball 1975 A knife-wielding maniac in a red rain slicker and gloves goes on the rampage and kills American tourists on a tour bus after gouging out their left eye. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops...

CinePsyEP288: Dark Waters (1993) Elizabeth travels to a primitive island to discover the truth about her dark past. On the island, Elizabeth finds a malevolent order of nuns and is tortured by horrible visions from her childhood. There seems to be no escape for her from this menacing evil that inhabits this strange island. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRo...

CinePsyEP287: The Dead Are Alive! (1972) Lost in a sea of despicable characters, sexual assaults, and abusive relationships, Cort and Matt try to discern the plot points of ‘The Dead Are Alive!’.  This film’s story runs some where around a horrific, alcoholic photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy as they are suspected for the murders of horny couples fucki...

CinePsyEP286: Twice-Told Tales (1963) Vincent Price stars in three horror stories. In ‘Dr Heidegger’s Experiment’, the titular character  reanimates his long-dead fiancée. In ‘Rappacini’s Daughter’ Price plays a psychotically over-protective father whom injects his daughter full of poisons that kill anyone she comes into physical contact with. Finally, in ‘The House of the Seven Gables’, Price’s c...

CinePsyEP285: The Mephisto Waltz 1971 A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson  is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles’ hands are ideally suited for piano. Myles’ wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan’s intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso...

CinePsyEP284: Death Race 2000 (1975) In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in a cross country automobile race.  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLK...

CinePsyEP283: The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) When a mysterious corpse is accidentally dug up by a boy in a small town, a group of local teens starts acting very strangely. The adolescents, led by a girl named Angel (Linda Hayden), are convinced the corpse was once possessed. Hoping to get in touch with the devil through the body, the teens act out a series of demonic rituals that causes a stir a...

CinePsyEP282: Byleth: The Demon of Incest (1972) A man who’s been incestuously in love with his sister since childhood comes back after a year’s absence to find that she has gotten married. Soon, several women in the area start turning up dead with strange wounds on their necks.  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.co...