Flickers from the Cave

In this epic episode we turn our attention to three films from British director  Donald Cammell .  We start with  Demon Seed  from 1977, starring  Fritz Weaver ,  Julie Christie  and an un-credited  Robert Vaughan  as the voice of Proteus 4, a new, cutting-edge ( for 1977 ) Artificial Intelligence that has a "curiosity" about mankind and a desire to break out of it's "box".  Based on a novel by  D...

Slasher films  were a hugely popular genre and a mainstay of the theaters during our favorite decade, the 80's.  This episode focuses on two films from 1982 that are basically part of that genre but which approach the theme from radically different directions.  We start off with  Madman , which tells the tale of  Madman Marz , an evil farmer who murders his family one night  in a fit of  bloodlust...

Welcome back to the cave everyone, for a very special episode. Some podcasts hold up the 100 episode mark as the measure of accomplishment, but here, deep in the bowels of the earth, we use a different scale. For us, the  magik  number is 69! That's right folks, we have at last reached full aural penetration with our listeners. We felt like episode 69 would be an appropriate time to revisit some f...

Welcome back to the cave and also back to the gorgeous country of  Italy !  Both films this time are Italian productions though the first, 1971's  A Lizard in Woman's Skin , comes from Italy by way of London. Directed by the maestro himself,  Lucio Fulci  ( yes, we went back to that well AGAIN! ),  this tells a story full of bizarre  dreams  and  mysterious hippies .  This one will keep you guessi...

We are back for a little more dark and mysterious  doings  on this episode of the podcast. This time we focus on  groups who want to rob their members of their freewill and to change them in profound and fundamental ways .  Some people would call them cults, but  others would just call them families.  We start with 2014's  Faults , featuring  Leland Orser  and  Mary Elizabeth Winstead .  This is a...

We go deep this week, all the way to smoldering depths of hell, to bring you three incredible movies that feature devil worship in all it's black-eyed, cat-murdering, car crushing, RV driving glory!  We start off with 1971's  The Brotherhood of Satan  which has a great cast, including  Strother Martin ,  LQ Jones  and  Alvy Moore , and tells the story of a small California town that is under a  si...

Yeehaw ! We are heading back into the woods this time, for some  demon-whiskey  and fast driving.  We focus on two movies from the 70's that have moonshine-making at their core. The first is 1976's  Dixie Dynamite , with a great cast including  Christopher George ,  R.G. Armstrong  and show-favorite  Warren Oates .  The titular "Dixie" is played by the stunning  Jane Anne Johnstone  in her only kn...

We couldn't keep ourselves away from legendary Italian director  Lucio Fulci . A favorite of ours ( for some reason ), the man has made some very influential films throughout his career. We talk about two of them on this show. Both films are part of his " Gates to Hell " trilogy, which started with 1980's  City of the Living Dead  ( also known as "The Gates of Hell" ).  We start the show with what...

Welcome back to the cave everyone for episode 63! This one is a bit of a sad occasion unfortunately, as we are remembering the late  Robert Z'Dar . You may not know the name but you'll never forget the face. First up we look at 1987s  The Night Stalker . A totally boiler plate tale of a crazed killer murdering prostitutes, it features  Charles Napier  playing the most unlikable screen detective ic...

SEE! outcast, misunderstood and bullied teens summon the power of pure  EVIL to reap sweet revenge on their tormentors. SEE! the unbelievable range of expressions  Clint Howard can achieve with his incredibly elastic face. SEE! way more  teenage boys in the shower than you ever wanted to ( I guess that last one is up to personal preference, to each their own). Welcome back to Flickers everyone. In...

Are you getting too old for this  shit ? Is your fishing boat sitting in your driveway just waiting for you to finally retire from the force? Are you paired up with some loose cannon oddball hotshot young punk who takes too many unnecessary risks? Friend, have I got the solution for you! Plug in the wireless device of your choice and give a listen to episode 61 of the Flickers From the Cave podcas...

Welcome one and all, back to the cave for episode sixty! We have a really interesting examination of some of the films of acclaimed Japanese auteur  Kinji Fukasaku . Beginning in the early sixties Fukasaku embarked on a career that would go on to span four decades and see him try his hand in nearly every genre. First up for us is 1968's  The Green Slime . This is a gloriously action packed chunk o...

Welcome one and all to episode 59 of Flickers. On this episode we are looking at three films from prolific genre director  Albert Pyun . Right out of the gate we dig into Pyun's debut effort,  The Sword and The Sorcerer . An insanely ambitious project to start your career with/ It is done with such youthful exuberance and ingenuity it became an almost instant cult classic. Next up, we look at one...

Welcome back to the cave everyone! On this episode we slink into the world of spies and super villains. First up, we look at 1966's  Kiss The Girls and Make Them Di e starring  Mannix  himself,  Mike “Touch” Connors . Featuring some amazingly bizarre 60's fashions and a solid supporting cast, including  Terry-Thomas , this is a solid Bond rip off with something for everyone! Then we move on to 196...

Welcome to the Jungle baby! We are back, to close out the year of 2014 by focusing on two films with similar themes and VERY similar antagonists. We start off by looking at 1986's  Link , from Australian director  Richard Franklin  and starring a young  Elisabeth Shue  and  Terence Stamp .  Our second film is 1988's  Monkey Shines  by the one and only  George Romero , featuring perfomances by  Jas...

The topic of  transformation  is central to the movies in this episode of the podcast. We look at two of our favorites from our youth, starting with 1973's  Sssssss , starring the one and only  Strother Martin , and  Dirk Benedict . This tells the story of a total  stoner , who is working with snakes. Working a little TOO closely with them as a matter of fact.  We meet a  king cobra  that would ra...

Episode 55 is totally focused on the Spanish film legend  Paul Naschy . We chose three of his films, 1972's  The Werewolf Vs The Vampire Woman ,  1973's  The Mummy's Revenge , and 1976's  Inquisition  to get a sampling of his work in genre films.  After talking at some length about those three, we turn our attention to a magnificent documentary about Mr. Naschy, 2010's  The Man Who Saw Frankenstei...

Welcome back to the cave everyone for episode 54. Now, right up front I have to confess that we have both, at one time or another, been described as the  personification of evil , but unfortunately never the personification of  Evel . That title belongs to one man, and one man alone...the one...the only... Evel Knievel ! This man, this legend was a hero to us both in our  formative years  and we c...

Hey friends! Do you like  scantily clad women ? How about  freakish body modification ? Maybe your thing is half-human/half-animal suburban beasties or even  lycanthropic  allegories referring  to the  menstrual cycle . If any of this sounds like your cup of tea, then we have the show for you! Step right up and try some Flickers From the Cave. Episode 53 starts off with 2000's  Ginger Snaps , a co...

Welcome one and all to episode 52 of Flickers From The Cave. This show has everything you could ever want, action, violence, comedy and even  Dennis Rodman ! We have jumped into the wayback machine and found ourselves in a time when  Jean-Claude Van Damme  ruled the world of cinema, the late 90s! First up, we look at 1998's “ Knock Off ” starring  JCVD  and  Deuce Bigalow  himself,  Rob Schneider...

Sasquatch .  Skunk Ape .  Bipedal Hominid . Although known by many names, we are of course, talking about the one, the only,  Bigfoot . Episode 51 finds us deep in the dark forest of our childhood subconscious. Having grown up in the seventies during what was a sort of Bigfoot renaissance, we both took in films, magazines and television containing any reference to this legendary creature. During t...

You know, any way you look at it, fifty is a landmark number. Whether it's your 50th birthday or your 50th tequila shot, if you've made it this far, why stop now?! Well, in spite of many obstacles, we have finally made it to our 50th episode, and since fifty is a goal that we have strived for, we felt that it was only appropriate that we do a couple of movies that were of some significance to us....

Welcome brave warriors, it's time to draw your broadswords and strap on your Birkenstocks as episode 49 of FFTC strides majestically on to the savage wasteland known as the internet! In this edition we delve into the corpulent genre of the  Sword and Sandal epic . With dozens, nay, hundreds of films of this ilk available to us, we settled on 1983's  Conquest  by the ever nap-inducing  Lucio Fulci...

On this episode we turn to one of the most iron-clad character actors out there, Mr.  Harry Dean Stanton !  After Daniel posted an amazing  Youtube video  of HDS relating his personal philosophy, we decided to dig through his lengthy career and find some obscure jewels to bring to everyone's attention. We start off with 1979's  Wise Blood , directed by  Jhon Huston  ( deliberately misspelled ) and...

Welcome everyone to episode 47 of the Flickers From the Cave podcast. I hope you’re ready to polish up your  third eye , because this time we’re featuring a couple of films that deal with elements of a mind bending nature. First up, we have 1982’s  The Sender , a solid little thriller from  Roger Christian , the man who would later unleash the dreaded  Battlefield Earth  on our unsuspecting planet...