Cinema PSYOPS

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP319:  The Attic Expeditions 2001 (Main Feed) Trevor Blackburn (Andras Jones) is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith (Beth Bates), in a brutal ritual. He’s sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk (Jeffrey Combs), who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerf...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP318:  Hitcher in the Dark 1989 (Main Feed) A disturbed young man with sexual desire for his dead mother gives a ride to a hitchhiker who bears a striking resemblance to her. Legion Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP317:  Ice Cream Man 1995 (Main Feed) Children (Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee) alert the police to a disturbed vendor (Clint Howard) who blends human parts into his frozen confections. Legion Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP316: The Fear 1995 (Main Feed) A group of college seniors spending a weekend at a cottage for a psychological experiment called “fear therapy” find a human-sized wooden figure called Morty, which triggers everyone’s deepest and darkest secrets and emotions. Legion Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP315: Jennifer 1978 (Main Feed)   Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes! Legion Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4E...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP314: Emanuelle in America 1977 Hedonistic photojournalist Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) goes undercover to expose the seedy lives of rich and powerful sex cultists and snuff film peddlers in America and Europe. Legion Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podc...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP313: Coffy 1973 As a nurse, Coffy (Pam Grier) has seen the ill effects of drugs up close, but it isn’t until her little sister becomes addicted to heroin that she finally decides to wage a one-woman battle. Disguised as a prostitute, Coffy goes on a killing rampage, at first going after street dealers and pimps such as sleazy King George (Robert DoQui), then gradually working her w...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP312: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm V: Ravager 2016 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Concludes! Small-town friends Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), and Jody (Bill Thornbury) continue in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) and his armada of killer Sentinel Spheres. This time, the fight becomes a multi-dimensional...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP311: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm IV: Oblivion 1998 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Continues! With a hearse as his escape vehicle, Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) flees from the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), who wants to enslave him as an undead servant. Along the way, he investigates the origins of his enemy. Elsewhere, Mike’s friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) searches for him in a variety...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP310: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead 1994 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Continues! The evil alien known as the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) has infiltrated the minds of Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) and Reggie (Reggie Bannister). The two friends embark on a journey to find and kill him, only to discover that he has destroyed town after town, leaving zombies in place o...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP309: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm II 1988 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Continues! Years after surviving his encounter with the sinister Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), Mike Pearson (James LeGros), now a mental patient, still has nightmares about the evil gaunt mortician. Upon being released from the institution, Mike and his friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) set out to track down the...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP308: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm 1979 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Begins! The residents of a small town have begun dying under strange circumstances, leading young Mike (Michael Baldwin) to investigate. After discovering that the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), the town’s mortician, is killing and reanimating the dead as misshapen zombies, Mike seeks help from his older brother, Jo...

Cinema_PSYOPS_EP307: Full Franchise Fest: Leatherface (2017) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! A violent teen and three others kidnap a young nurse while escaping from a Texas mental institution. Pursued by a vengeful sheriff, the disturbed young man embarks on a murderous rampage that shapes him into a legendary killer known as Leatherface. Legion Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodc...

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/...