Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy

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This week, we give you a piece of our minds, as the Diabolic Duo of Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage cover Joe Dante's 1981 werewolf classic, The Howling! Join us as we explore one of the literal handful of good werewolf films and talk about Times Square in the early 80's; Charles' time in a writing class taught by Gary Brandner, author of the novel the movie is based on; on the job sfx...

Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage send in the clowns as we talk about this disturbing but hilarious tale of a Funny Clown and a Sad Clown in Franco-era Spain. To say anymore would spoil the surprise, so if you haven't seen the movie, go see it, and then listen to us! Also, we talk about our latest Crowd Funding adventure, this time for the film Bishop's Cove!

On a very special episode of Cinematic Autopsy, SPECIAL GUEST Tibbie X of such legendary NYC punk bands Reagan Youth, the X-Possibles as well as Gash and Madame St. Beatrice, joins C. L. Squared Productions' Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage to discuss Dan O'Bannon's 1985 zombie classic, Return of the Living Dead. From the amazing punk soundtrack to the iconic nudity of Linnea Quigley to the r...

Grab your reagent and get ready for the next 6-12 minutes, as Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage cover Stuart Gordon's 1985 horror classic, Re-Animator. Listen as we talk about hiring actors based on a single word, how certain scenes can end a marriage, and how there is another version of the film that neither of us have seen, but definitely want to. All this and more in the profane, educationa...

Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage take a trip down the deep end of the David Lynch pool with special guest actress, writer, and co-host of the Popcorn Murder Stories podcast, Emily McKinley Hill , as they examine David Lynch's 1997 mindmelter, Lost Highway ! Find out what mechanical excellence, 1,400 horsepower, can do as we discuss the film and along the way, Angelo Badalamenti making jazz th...

This week, Charles and Chelsea handle Park Chan Wook's 2002 masterpiece, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, a Korean film where everyone does the wrong things for the right reasons, with often tragic consequences. From rock graves to narrative cruelty to amazing cinematography, the Diabolic Duo analyze it in our typical humorous, profane, and insightful manner. 

Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage, of C. L. Squared Productions, put on our sleuthhound ears, get our buckets ready, and put love in our punches as we explore Takashi Miike's 2001 masterpiece Ichi the Killer. 

And now, after 10 movies that made us miserable, we start analyzing movies we like, starting with Lucky McKee's May.  Often disturbing, quirky, and clever all in the same scene, this Angela Bettis-starring 2002 film marks the beginning of Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage going into movies that should have had bigger audiences. 

In the season 1 finale of Cinematic Autopsy, Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage of C. L. Squared Productions examine the towering tribute to the fragile ego of Kevin Costner that was 1997's The Postman. Witness the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived as women throw themselves at him and men tell him how honored they are to meet him, while everybody constantly lets him know how smart he is. Really. That...

Come join Charles and Chelsea on a log flume of hype and pointless dialogue as they review Quentin Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse genre, Death Proof.  Will the Diabolic Duo be able to keep awake during the pointless, interchangeable dialogue? Will anyone ever make the proper 14 minute version of this film? Will the world come to realize the glory of potatoes? All of this and more...

In the eighth edition of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy, the Diabolic Duo talk to you rat-brained man-animals about Battlefield Earth, the 2000 John Travolta passion project. Every week for the next few weeks, Charles and Chelsea will dedicate their time to dissecting various films and then how that film could have been better.

Your soul won't be the only thing torn apart in the seventh episode of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy as Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage of C. L. Squared Productions aim their scalpels right at Hellraiser: Bloodline, the movie that toppled a horror franchise.  But what went wrong? Join the Diabolic Duo, who have such sights to show you, across the past, present, and future of t...

In the sixth edition of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy, the Diabolic Duo struggle to understand the ways of Eternals and Brutals as they perform a cinematic autopsy on John Boorman's infamous disasterpiece Zardoz (1974).  Every week for the next few weeks, Charles and Chelsea will dedicate their time to dissecting various films and then how that film could have been better.

In the fifth edition of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy, the Diabolic Duo talk about Dee Snider's Strangeland, a 1998 film about a man who ceaselessly quotes Modern Primitive philosophy while forcibly piercing people. Every week for the next few weeks, Charles and Chelsea will dedicate their time to dissecting various films and then how that film could have been better.

In the fourth edition of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy, with audio cleaned up as much as we could clean it, the Diabolic Duo talk about a movie that combines the New York City Housing Market, Baby Jeff Goldblum, Therese and Alison, homophobia, the worst ableism you've ever seen, and the nice plaque at the Gates of Hell, 1977's The Sentinel. Every week for the next few weeks, Charles and...

In the third edition of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy, now available with audio as cleaned up as we could clean it, the Diabolic Duo talk about a movie that's one part Kirk Cameron sermon, one part Infinity War prequel, and all parts bad, 2000's Left Behind, from a filmmaker's perspective. Every week for the next few weeks, Charles and Chelsea will dedicate their time to discussing a dif...

In the second edition of Charles and Chelsea's Cinematic Autopsy, now with audio as cleaned up as we could possibly clean it up, the Diabolic Duo talk about everything that went wrong with the Chuck Norris/Joe Zito Right Wing wet dream, Invasion U.S.A., from a filmmaker's perspective. Every week for the next few weeks, Charles and Chelsea will dedicate their time to discussing a different film tha...

Now available, with audio cleaned up as much as we could clean it up, the first episode of Cinematic Autopsy, where we discuss Glenn Danzig's disasterpiece horror anthology, Verotika. Called by many "the room of horror" and Chelsea "the worst movie she had ever seen" (until she saw Battlefield Earth), Charles D. Lincoln and Chelsea LeSage attempt to make sense of this attempt at filmmaking.