Cinema PSYOPS

CinePsyEP220: Mayhem The final week of spoopy movies brings us an impromptu show where Fancy Mark steps in for an ailing Matt to discuss Joe Lynch’s Mayhem.   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 Google Play Music: ht...

The fourth week of spoopy movies brings us the second and final pairing of Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee in Curse of the Crimson Altar.  Cort confesses to a life long obsession with Barbra Steele as Matt tries to hold his illness at bay to do the notes.  The scavenged iMac has a massive power board failure and causes the boys to record with out the benefit of any live playback for the music, p...

CinePsyEP218: Demented 1980 The third week of spoopy movies brings us the would be sleaze fest Demented from 1980.  Demented is a veritable cornucopia of examples of the wrong thing to do in the face of a horrific sexual assault on a loved one.  The film bums out both hosts who attempt to find something worth discussing amongst all of the film’s victim blaming and patriarchal pandering to rape cul...

CinePsyEP217: The House That Screamed The second week of spoopy movies brings us The House That Screamed and stuns both hosts in its story telling and ability to weave numerous plot threads into an engaging and emotional story that sparks many side tangents.  Cort confesses to his disappointment in not getting the kind of sleazy flick he was expecting and proceeds to side track Matt with his perve...

CinePsyEP216: The Devil’s Rain The Spoopy is back for the Halloween season at PSYOPS labs as Cort picks various titles in a horror theme.  First up is The Devil’s Rain aka Dallas and Kirk battle McHale’s Satanists with a little help from Orville Wendell.  A star studded cast and some truly amazing effects round out a solid devil cult comes to the desert to seek reincarnated revenge against the des...

CinePsyEP215: Penitentiary The final film in the Listener Supported picks from Robert brings a boxing tournament within the walls of a federal penitentiary and all the other horrible things that happen in the titular Penitentiary as well.  The film sparks many debates between the cohosts as well as a discussion on the possible messages and social commentary layered into the plot llnes of the film...

CinePsyEP214 The Last House On Dead End Street The story behind the scenes of the film may be far more interesting and disturbing than the film itself these days, however in its 1977 debut, four years after its troubled production, The Last House On Dead End Street became its own urban legend and shocked the entirety of 42nd Street. A film filled to the brim with anger and vitriol spewing as much...

CinePsyEP213 The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer In another poor taste move, Cort decides to cover a controversial film made rapidly on the heels of the trial and conviction of Jeffery Dahmer.  The film piggy backed off of a media circus and the shocking crimes of the most notorious necrophilic cannibal killer in modern America.  The reason for covering this movie on episode 213 is probably the most t...

CinePsyEP212 Listener Supported: Corruption  Corruption, is it supernatural? Are the events of the film fractured memories of a dying mind?   Are all faustian deals with the devil or can one sell their soul in increments because of poor life decisions? All of these questions are not the average things that should be going through your mind when watching an adult film, but none the less here we are...

CinePsyEP211 Listener Supported: A Woman’s Torment Mental health of the affluent female is explored here in an adult film from Listener Supported Selection: A Woman’s Torment.  The film represents the triumphant return of director Roberta Findlay to the show. and as our discussions of her films Lurkers and Prime Evil sparked Listener Supporter Robert to select the films for this series. Spotify: h...

CinePsyEP210 Listener Supported: Memories Within Miss Aggie The First episode of our Listener Supported selections from our boy Robert is Memories Within Miss Aggie.  This film is unarguably pornographic in nature, however the storytelling craft takes both the hosts by shocking surprise as they find deeper meaning in all the things placed deep within Miss Aggie.  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/...

CinePsyEP209 Eaten Alive The First episode of year 5 has both the boys in ill health and ill tempered.  The boys complain like the old ass pieces of shit they are for most of the opening about everything and anything until Matt starts in on bullshit conspiracy theories and angers Cort even more.  Eventually the dumb ass duo get their shit together enough to talk about Umberto Lenzi’s Eaten Alive. ...

CinePsyEP208 Cort’s Favorite: The Ninth Configuration The final episode in year four brings Cort’s favorite film to discuss for review.  The Ninth Configuration is a film that has deeply affected Cort from the day it randomly entered his life over two decades ago.  The film is a chaotic mix of multiple genres that collide into a beautiful fever dream about existential dread and finding a reason to...

CinePsyEP207 Matt’s Favorite: Animal House With the Romero Full Franchise Fest closing with two episodes left in year four, Cort has decided that the Boys will each choose their favorite film to discuss for review.  Matt’s choice is up first with the comedy classic Animal House.  This episode has both of the boys geeking out about not only a comedic corner stone film, but also the creators and the...

CinePsyEP206 Full Franchise Fest: Survival Of The Dead  The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 206 weeks continuously with out missing a single week! We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.  The show opens with the ending audio drama segment. Then we move...

CinePsyEP205 Full Franchise Fest: Diary Of The Dead  The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 205 weeks continuously with out missing a single week!  We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.   Diary Of The Dead represents the first full divergence of opinion...

CinePsyEP204 Full Franchise Fest: Night Of The Living Dead 1990 The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 204 weeks continuously with out missing a single week!  We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.   Night Of The Living Dead 1990 represents a second chan...

CinePsyEP203 Full Franchise Fest: Land Of The Dead The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 203 weeks continuously with out missing a single week!  We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.   Land Of The Dead is proof positive of a movie studio that refuses t...

CinePsyEP202 Full Franchise Fest: Day Of The Dead The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 202 weeks continuously with out missing a single week!  We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.  Day Of The Dead is Cort’s favorite Romero film.  The nihilistic look...

CinePsyEP201 Full Franchise Fest: Dawn Of The Dead The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 201 weeks continuously with out missing a single week!  We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.  Dawn Of The Dead is Matt’s favorite Romero film. The discussions on...

CinePsyEP200 Full Franchise Fest: Night Of The Living Dead The run to the end of the fourth year is upon us with an epic Romero Dead Films Full Franchise Fest!  We made it 200 weeks continuously with out missing a single week!  We celebrate with covering the single favorite franchise of both hosts one movie a week to close out the show.  Night Of The Living Dead changed the way people saw horror f...

CinePsyEP199 Movie Stack Jenga:  Emmanuelle And The Last Cannibals Finally, after enduring the painful run of May Mattei, Cort and Matt settle into the 199th episode to talk about the Joe D’Amato  sleazefest Emmanuelle And The Last Cannibals.  We aren’t saying we only enjoyed this because of Laura Gemser, but having her in the movie certainly helped.  As of this release the show needs feedback and...

CinePsyEP198: May MatteI: In The Land Of The Cannibals We’re Not saying In The Land Of The Cannibals is a Predator rip off, but its definitely a Predator rip off.  Mattei at his awful best with a movie only slightly more enjoyable than Mondo Cannibal with actual helicopter sequences stolen right out of Predator!  There is little joy found in the movie itself but all of the fun ends up becoming an...

CinePsyEP197 May Mattei:  Zombies: The Beginning Zombies: The Beginning is clearly ripping off an action packed blockbuster sequel and replacing the threat of other worldly killing machines with Resident Evil like zombies.  A side-loaded sequel to Island of the Living Dead and the most fun we have had yet on the inaugural May Mattei, Zombies: The Beginning is a bright and shinny turd in a sea of b...

CinePsyEP196 May Mattei: Mondo Cannibal The anger is real on this episode as Cort goes off on Mattei for the choices made in Mondo Cannibal.  Matt is disappointed that this plot-line, stolen completely from Cannibal Holocaust, spoils that film before he ever saw it.  Both of the boys are concerned at how much worse it can be to finish out May Mattei.  Is all hope lost? Will this destroy the show? ...