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We're back after an extra extended hiatus!!! With what is described as an action comedy, but features neither action nor comedy!!! It's Marky Mark in The Big Hit!!!

After a slight delay we are back with the final entry in our TIFF coverage! Films covered on this episode include Matt and Mara, The Shrouds, Dead Mail, Presence, It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This, Superboys of Malegaon, and The Shadow Strays.

Graham's back to discuss three more films that he saw at the 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. The films discussed are: VIKTOR (dir Olivier Sarbil, Ukraine), Triumph (dir Peter Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva, Bulgaria), and Harvest (dir Athina Rachel Tsangari, UK).

Graham breaks down the films he's seen so far at the 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival!

We're back! The boys from DBV took a trip waaaaay out to the East End of Toronto to see Harmony Korine's infrared synth wave freakout! It's (sort of) about an assassin who goes on a mission to fight a giant bad guy (maybe?). It's a whole lot of weirdness in a very short episode! Enjoy!

We're back to discuss our some of our favourite films from the year that was 2023! Featuring some of your favourites and probably some not so favourites!!! It's more merry movie mayhem on DBV!

We're back with a cold blast of yuletide terror!!! We dig into the 2022 soon to be classic: Christmas Bloody Christmas! It's Christmas Eve and there's a maniac robot Santa on the loose! And only two metalhead record store workers can stop it! Listen in as we discuss all the Merry Movie Mayhem!

We're back! Sorry for the delay but here's an extra long episode that dives into our favourite films of the 1990s! There's plenty of well known favourites and some weirdo freakouts!

We're back! Join us as we discuss Mario Bava's 1965 sci-fi/horror freakout: PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES!!! It's a colourful blast from the past that more than likely was the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Alien (or was it?). There's thrills, chills, and snazzy jumpsuits!!!

We kick off the year with our first ever episode on a shot-on-video horror movie! It's Night Feeder! See a New Wave band trapped in a hair-metal world try to act tough while a mysterious brain sucking maniac is on the loose! One determined reporter is all that stands between her community and a deranged individual who only feeds at night!

We take a look back at our favourite films from 2022 as well as our favourite first time watches of the previous year. Pretty straight forward. But we find a way to get off track. Enjoy!

We're back with what just might be our most rambling, and at the same time tightest, episode! We dive into the 1990s time capsule The Brady Bunch Movie! It was a time when television shows from 30+ years in the past were turned into big budget feature films! We discuss the original show; watching reruns of shows made from the 1960s; baby boomer and gen-x culture clashes (which we had to sit quietl...

It's the spooky season and your sort-of-favourite podcast is back with a terrifically, terrifying, triple feature. First up we dive into the world of heavy machinery possessed by intergalactic stuff that makes it run amok! Then we take a hard turn into 1990s cheese with the weird and whacky: Teenage Exorcist! Finally, we throw down with an all time 1980s classic: Friday the 13th Part VI: JASON LIV...

DBV115: The People's Joker! by Death By Video

We're back with an episode on Drive! No, not that movie; it's Drive from 1997! Starring Mark Decascos, Kadeem Hardison and Brittany Murphy! It's a martial arts extravaganza as the movie's heroes Toby & Malik fight their way from San Francisco to Los Angeles! Listen in as our hosts dive into the action insanity of this film! There's high kicking! There's fast punching! There's chainsaw shenanigans!...

We're back with a Jean-Claude Van Damme late 1990s classic! From director Tsui Hark it's Knock Off! It tells the tale of a couple clothing bootleggers just trying to make their way in Hong Kong, only to get caught up in an international nano-bomb smuggling scheme. Good thing one of them is a secret agent! And it isn't Jean-Claude Van Damme! All this and more in the latest episode of Death By Video...

We're back with the first part of our Canadiana series! We dive into the only authentic Canadian Giallo; appropriately named American Nightmare! It's the skeeziest Toronto has ever looked on film. There's murder! There's sex! There's grungy 1980s' Toronto! There's Michael Ironside!

We're back with the 1960s rags to riches to rags to riches rock-and-roll extravaganza: WILD GUITAR! There's guitar slinging, record company swindling, hoodwinking, ice dancing, and a whole lot of rocking! Listen in as our hosts point out how the main character's naiveté borders on just being straight up dumb! Plus we discuss all the cast's inability to pronounce the word "café." All this and more...

We're back!!! And so is David Cronenberg with his body horror freakout: CRIMES OF THE FUTURE!!! Listen in as our hosts report live from Downtown Toronto; the home of David Cronenberg (or as we in Canada call him "Uncle Dave")! There's open heart operations for fun and influence! There's micro plastics! There's all kinds of gooey gross mayhem in this episode of Death By Video!

While we're gearing up for another series of themed episodes here's an episode about the films we're watching lately. Films discussed are: Wobble Palace, Blood & Black Lace, Single White Female, Sudden Fury, Nightmare Alley (2021), Drive My Car, Def-Con 4, Bigfoot's Wild Weekend, His Name Was King, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Bingo Hell, Freaky Farley, and X!

We finally watched Blood Feast II!!! Are we happy about it? Not really, but listen in as we dive into this decades later sequel to the original Blood Feast! There's lots and lots and lots of names that are puns! There's "whacky" office humour! There's a song by the Butthole Surfers! There's bumbling cops! Did we mention the whacky office humour? We watched it all and lived to talk about it!

We're back with one of the strangest love stories ever committed to film! It's the age old tale of a man who meets a woman, who then meets her giant ape companion! There's vine swinging! The cheetah twirling! There's six different kinds of monster movie mayhem! All this and more in our episode on The Mighty Peking Man!

We're back with the final instalment in Herschel Gordon Lewis and David Friedman's "Blood Trilogy." It's a beatnik run amok in this 1960s art scene freakout! Listen in as we discuss the totally in efficient way that the murderous painter uses his victims' blood on his canvas! Hear us marvel at the cringy beatnik couple that wear matching wigs and dress shirts! The art world will never see it comin...

Yeehaw! We take a trip to the deep deep south only to run into Two Thousand Maniacs!!! It's the second part in our David F. Friedman/Herschell Gordon Lewis series! It's also the second part in their notorious "Blood Trilogy!" There's barrel rolling, there's horse racing, there's rock falling, and a whole lot of blood and guts in this southern fried freak out!

Listen in as we dive into the first "gore" film in history. It's Herschell Gordon Lewis' BLOOD FEAST!!! We explore the exploitation film environment that birthed this movie that shocked audiences coast to coast! There's Egyptian lectures, inept cops, haphazardly composed scenes, and a big helping of gore and viscera! This is the first part in our four part look at the partnership between director...