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Cultpix Radio WCPX 599 - Episode 82 Summary This episode brings massive news as Cultpix celebrates four years with the biggest announcement yet: the launch of the Something Weird Channel, a brand-new sister streaming service featuring the complete Something Weird Video catalogue in partnership with Lisa Petrucci. We explore how this new channel emerged following Something Weird Video's decisi...

Django Nudo and The Smut Peddler welcome Robert Page, the visionary creator behind the revolutionary sex education series "The Lover's Guide". Page delights listeners with extraordinary behind-the-scenes stories from his illustrious career, including a surreal phone call from Stanley Kubrick seeking advice on directing intimate scenes for "Eyes Wide Shut" and an unexpected...

Episode 80 finds us back on air after a brief hiatus (and hospital visit!), with plenty of news to share about both the platform and our upcoming releases. We start by addressing the elephant in the room - our transition to GoCardless bank transfers for payments. This change came about because traditional payment processors (boo-hiss Stripe) weren't comfortable with our vintage nudie and erot...

Greetings Cultpix fans! Django Nudo and the Smut Peddler are back with Episode 79 of Cultpix Radio, where we finally crawled back onto the airwaves after a two-month hiatus. Here's what went down during the extended radio silence: The BIG Topics: Why we've been MIA: Turns out credit card companies aren't fans of our "abusive" content (their words, not ours). Stripe kicked...

In this sizzling episode of Cultpix Radio, we're diving horns-first into Satanic September , our devilishly delightful themed month. Prepare your souls (and your eyeballs) for a hellish ride through our infernal collection! We kick things off by bragging about our recent documentaries, including some fancy-schmancy lectures from the Wickman Week film festival - we managed to persuade several...

We're back! After a bit of a hiatus, we're back on the airwaves with a brand new episode of Cultpix Radio. It feels good to be back, and we've got a lot to catch up on. This episode is all about filling you in on what we've been up to during our break, the incredible events we've hosted, and the exciting content we've been adding to Cultpix. First up, we dive into the...

Django Nudo and the Smut Peddler are thrilled with the reception to the Mike Vraney Memorial Month , with a wealth of new films from Lisa Petrucci - the first Theme Month when we did TWO films each day - and an influx of new members. (There will be more news from Something Weird Video soon.) 'Roughies' such as "Unholy Matrimony" (1966) were definitely a favourite of Mike's...

The Top 10 films on Cultpix in 2023. Top 10 Nice: 10. Eve and the Merman (1965) - A 60s nudie, with no (famous) talent behind or in front of the camera!  9. Alucarda, the Daughter of Darkness/Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (1977) - An actual classic! Demonic forces and obsession.  8. Killer Workout (Aerobicide) (1987) - Cheesy 80s outfits in a Jane-Fonda-meets-Jason slasher. 7. Skräcken har 10...

Santa Nudo and the Smut Peddler (aka Satan's Little Helper) are back in the studio after a long break. Lots of things has been happening while we were of air and busy with other (Cultpix things), including finances, applications and great plans for 2024! We had a second Rene Bond Theme Week and there are enough of her films to come for two more weeks. In October we had 31 Days of Halloween ,...

Count von Nudo and Schmutt P. Eddler do the time warp back to the musical that started a cult phenomenon exactly 50 years ago - The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show. We celebrate the opening song "Science fiction/Double Feature", which name-checks some of the greatest science fiction and horror films of the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s. We have been able to include six of the 11 films mentioned in...

Denmark might not be the first country you think of when it comes to science fiction films, but Django and Smut put it on the space map with the latest theme week, celebrating two film makers that made their mark on the genre:  Ib Melchior and Sidney W. Pink. The Dane Melchior was a distinguished World War II hero who was awarded the Bronze Heart, before embarking on writing and directing. He met...

Smut and Django are back from their summer breaks, though the films still kept on coming. In this episode, they go over some of the themes, films and fun that happened while Cultpix Radio was off the air. There was no episode on Hungarian 'Easterns' (aka 'Goulash Westerns') or about director Bob Chinn , which might still get their own dedicated podcasts in the future. Meanwhile...

Django and Smut celebrate Cultpix being named on of the 10 Best New Streaming Services , talks about the next two episodes before the summer break, highlight the launch of the LGBTQ+ sub-genre  and mourn the demise of Network Releasing . We have held what is probably the world's most comprehensive retrospective of the films of Ed Wood Jr , including films that he directed, wrote the script or...

Smut and Django are at the Cannes Film Festival (technically the Marche - Market) to meet with distributors and sign deals. There was a great article in Variety about the latest batch of Cultpix deals, which mean that we have over 250 more films to add later this year, with some real cult classics.  This episode is the third devoted to Doris Wishman, focusing on the sun-soaked 'Daylight Years...

Django Nudo reports live from sunny California, while the Smutpeddler sits in the cold north of Sweden, discussing with Luca Balbo, in the hopefully sunny Paris! We celebrate our second anniversary, and discuss how the value for money only increases, great news in this world of recession. Cultpix is forming new relationships with amazing rights holders and DVD companies all over the place. Recentl...

Zatoichi Week 1 - In which we invite our guest, Swedish film professor Johan Nordström, who's been living in Japan for the past 15 years, to discuss Daiei Studios, Japanese cinema in general and specifically the Zatoichi films, the one-of-a-kind star of the films, Shintaro Katsu – and Japanese society. Cultpix owes a lot to Johan-san, as he has been the door-opener to both Kadokawa-Daiei and...

Django Nudo and Smut Peddler are excited to have new films this week from two of their favourite companies that specialise in the beautiful restorations of lost classics: Denmark's Another World Entertainment and Deaf Crocodile . From A.W.E. we have "Pornography - a Musical" (1971) , a series of erotic vignettes with music by amongst others jazz legend Dexter Gordon. (NB: the Bodil...

This week it's all about Czech Cult Classics! Cultpix is proud to present seven digitally restored Czech cult classics with English subtitles in cooperation with the Czech Film Archive. An eighth film will be uploaded in June, with new English subtitles. Czechoslovakia (as It was back then) was home to some of the most innovative filmmaking in the 1960s, led by the likes of Miloš Forman and J...

Djang00 Nudo and Smut Peddler moan (as usual) about Roku's uselessness, but celebrate a productive Berlin Film Festival, with plenty of films in the proverbial bag. They then parachute into the theme week of Euro Spy films, also known as Spaghetti Spy films. These are film produced by 1964 and 1968, mainly in Italy, in response to the success of the first James Bond films. More than 50 of the...

Smut Peddler and Django Nudo cover two big film topics for the price of one, while also cursing Roku for still not having sorted out the missing Cultpix films. First up is Daimajin , the giant demon god stone statue that comes alive and wrecks destruction on the unjust. Daiei produced no less than three Daimajin films in the span of one year (1966): "Daimajin" , "The Return of Daima...

The Swedish film director Arne Mattsson was active in the film industry across eight decades (if you count him carrying beer to the film crew at a shoot when he was 6 years old). He made his last film in 1990 and passed away in 1995. In 2019 Mattsson would have been 100 years old. But this was not celebrated at all in the gigantic way Ingmar Bergman’s 100th was celebrated the year before. Shame! ...

Django Nudo and the Smutpeddler discuss this week’s theme of 80’s American horror films, and why they can only be watched by our North American members. (Clue: rights issues.) But there will also be upcoming themes where the US audience won’t be able to watch some films, so it kind of evens out. But, Cultpix's main goal is as always, to be a truly global streaming platform and cult. However,...

Django and Smut welcome Kitty back to the Cultpix Studio to look back (slapping alert) in 2022 and ahead to 2023. We start off with what we did over the holiday, mainly the Christmas and Swedish films that were posted, plus a shout out to our three last pod guests: Jimmy, Adrian and Lisa. We go around the proverbial table to pick out personal favourites from the past year, whether film, theme week...

The Smut Peddler celebrates Doris Wishman – The Twilight Years 2022 is Doris Wishman’s year. The maverick director was born in 1912 and passed away in 2002, still making movies. She would have turned 110 this year, and it’s 20 years since her passing. No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman . She is one of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, a writer-direc...