Genre Grinder

RETURN TO THE GREATEST YEAR IN HORROR HISTORY FOR MORE IRONIC PUNISHMENTS, FIERY INFERNOS, CURSED TOWNS, BLOODTHIRSTY WITCHES, AND SEXY LIBRARIANS!   Happy Halloween hangover, everyone! Welcome back to 1960 and a deep dive into three more stone cold classics. Well, more like two classics and a movie that has an awful lot in common with some stone cold classics. Gabe and returning guest Patrick Rip...

PSYCHOPATHS! PEEPING TOMS! CRUMBLING HOUSES! EYELESS FACES! CITIES OF THE DEAD! LITERAL HELL!   Happy Halloween! It's time to settle some schoolyard arguments and decide once and for all the most incredible year in horror cinema history. Our world's greatest scientists, historians, and statisticians have compiled all the pertinent data and come to the following conclusion: 1960 was the best year f...

Time to sit back and vibe with more spooky music and movie clips. I've decided to put the Halloween mix onto the main podcast stream this year, instead of SoundCloud. I tried to dig deep into my archives to include songs, themes, and remixes that I've never used for another Halloween mix. Please enjoy and have a happy Halloween! Here is the complete track mix:  1. Martha & the Horses by Damon Alba...

DEAR BIG SEXY MONSTER, DO YOU LIKE ME, A SMALL, NORMAL HUMAN? [_] YES [_] NO Does your significant other sport a lush fur coat and fangs? Does your boyfriend have razor sharp talons, instead of feet? Is your wife the legendary chupacabra? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a Monster Lover. Or perhaps "love" is too serious a word for it. Maybe you're just a down 'n dirty Mo...

TAKE A SEAT, PUT YOUR NAPKIN ON YOUR LAP, AND UNDO YOUR BELT – YOU'RE IN FOR A VERITABLE BANQUET OF MOVIES ABOUT FOOD! Prepare yourself for the most mouthwatering, scrumptious, toothsome, and downright yummy episode of Genre Grinder yet. Gabe and returning guest/his significant other/food buddy, Kristine Fisher – who knows a thing or two about cooking – chow down on six courses of food-themed movi...

CATCH A TRIP INTO THE AFROFUTURE ABOARD A SHIP PILOTED BY SPACE-AGE PROPHETS, PHAROANIC JESTERS, METEOR MEN, AND OTHER BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER PLANET! What might the world look like in a universe where Africa hadn't been colonized? What might the race relations of our world look like to a visitor from outer space? What if Superman was a Black nerd from D.C.? What if malevolent aliens crash landed in...

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED AND IT WILL BE BROUGHT TO YOU EXCLUSIVELY BY MING TEA! TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP DEAD!  Psychotic games and sadistic reality television are on the docket this month. Gabe and returning guest Luana Saitta of Monster Island & Movie Lobby Commentaries check out three politically-charged classics about televised death sport, including Elio Petri's The 10th Victim (Italian...

TIGHTEN YOUR STRAITJACKETS AND SNUGGLE UP IN YOUR FAVORITE RUBBER ROOM, IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT PSCARY PSYCHIATRIC PHACILITIES!   Mental health can be scary, but do you know what's even scarier? The archaic asylums of the bygone era, where we used to lock up the mentally ill. Gabe and returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of the Your Favorite Monsters podcast take a look at four tales of cursed mental h...

ALIEN INVADERS, MIND-ALTERING SPACE SLUGS & BLACK MAGIC MADMEN ARE COMING TO STEAL YOUR CORPOREAL FORM & USE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER! Welcome back for a more typical episode of Genre Grinder. Gabe's finally done talking about SOV horror movies and is joined by Now Playing Network & Director's Club co-host Jim Laczkowski to take a long, very nearly complete look at Body Snatcher Movies. Specifi...

ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END AS MUST ALL BAD THINGS AND ALL THINGS RECORDED ON OBSOLETE HOME VIDEO MEDIA!   Welcome to the home stretch! After dozens of movies and six hours of podcasting, we've come to the end of Genre Grinder's shot-on-video horror retrospective. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, yet again, did most of the research) drag and claw their way thro...

Welcome to an extra special BONUS EPISODE of Genre Grinder. What you are about to hear is a digital mixtape compiled and mixed by Tracks of the Damned creator Patrick Ripoll. It includes themes, complete songs, and various clips from the films we've been discussing throughout Genre Grinder's shot-on-video horror series. Be aware that, in most cases, Patrick or myself had to rip the audio from the...

LISTEN IN TERROR AS WE CONTINUE TO BE STRANGLED BY THE GNARLED, RIPPLING TENTACLES OF DEAD ANALOG MEDIA!   Part three of our epic (seemingly never-ending) FOUR-PART look back on the insane world of shot-on-video horror movies from the pre-digital era. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, again, did most of the research) trudge through an additional 32 movies, 12 of which o...

ENJOY EVEN MORE TALES OF THE TAPE AS WE DELVE FURTHER INTO THE INSANE DEPTHS OF THE MOST NEOPHYTIC MOVIES EVER TO GRACE A VIDEO RENTAL STORE!   Bring on part two of three! Wait, of three? That can't be right. Oh, yeah, this is a four-part epic now. Gabe and special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who did most of the research) break down 21 more shot-on video horror movies; nine of which one or both of the...

TAKE A TRIP BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF WTF DIY HOME VIDEO HORROR! I REALLY WISH I HADN'T USED UP MY 'ADJUST YOUR TRACKING' REFERENCE ON THE FOUND-FOOTAGE HORROR DESCRIPTION! Strap in for part one of a three-part look back at an era when three teenagers with a camcorder could shoot a horror movie without a script and sell it to video rental stores across the country. Gabe and special guest/co-host P...

DUST OFF YOUR PORK PIE HATS, FLAPPER SKIRTS, AND ROUNDED GLASSES, YA DEWDROPPERS, AND SHUT YER YAP FOR A HOTSY-TOTSY TRIP THROUGH PRE-TALKIE ANTICS! Let us journey way back in time, before sync sound was easy to record and people still thought a pie in the face was the height of comedy with Gabe and today's guest, his girlfriend Kristine. Kristine has the knowledge and Gabe has the will to learn a...

DIG THE OLD CAMCORDER OUTTA STORAGE, DIM THE LIGHTS, AND RELIVE YOUR FAVORITE FRIGHTENING HOME MOVIES! REMEMBER TO ADJUST YOUR TRACKING! We all know that found footage and mockumentary horror is the scourge of straight-to-streaming media these days, but there are some good movies out there, assuming you're willing to endure a lot of very bad ones. Returning guest Betsy Jorgensen has taken it upon...

Movies based on video games. Absolutely nobody enjoys them, right? Well, they wouldn't keep making them if someone wasn't watching them. Who is that someone? It's actually two someones, your humble podcast host Gabe and his friend, video game player, chronicler, critic, and all-around enthusiast, Justin Clark. Join them on their co-op mode adventure through four classic and, erm, not-so-classic mo...

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN. CURL UP WITH YOUR FAVORITE LOG AND ENJOY THIS BONUS EPISODE. You can't talk about the legacy of legacy sequels without talking about the legacy of a legacy sequel that skirts the lines between the legacies of film, television, and even David Lynch's as a filmmaker. I (Gabe) am not exactly a Twin Peaks novice , but this was my first time watching anything other than the origi...

Legacy sequel. What does it mean? Well, the simplest way to put it is "a sequel is made a considerable amount of time after its predecessor," but it's also more than that. Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster try to suss out the precise meaning of this particularly enigmatic subgenre – and there's a lot to cover in only a couple of hours. First, they talk about early and popular examples, like J....

WELCOME! YOU'VE GOT MAIL! AND A SPECIAL DELIVERY OF E-FEAR! Enter the Matrix! Or, rather, what early '90s Hollywood thought virtual reality would look like, before movies like The Matrix offered a more nuanced alternative. Gabe and special guest, Now Playing Network head honcho Jim Laczkowski, take a look at Techno Horror. More specifically, Techno Horror movies about haunted and evil computers, v...

Okay, this one is a little hard to explain: Gabe and Patrick are looking at films featuring rock, hip-hop, R&B, and reggae artists. Not concert movies or movies where a pop star plays someone else , but movies in which they essentially appear either as themselves or a slightly fictionalized version of themselves. Obvious examples include The Beatles in Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night (1964) or...

DUH DUN DUH DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN (duh nanaaa) DUNDUNDUNDUN   Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.... Genre Grinder is back and focusing on actual genres, following the three part best of 2010s. Well, sort of. This month, Gabe and first-time guest Anne-Marie Taylor chat about shark movies or, more precisely, BAD shark movies. Honestly, it was just easier this way. Not only does An...

ARE WE STILL DOING THIS? WE ARE STILL DOING THIS!! THERE'S SO MUCH MORE CONTENT FOR THE MACHINE!!   Gabe and Tracks of the Damned's Patrick Ripoll are back ...again and running down more of Patrick's favorite horror movies of the previous ten years ...again. When they're done, it's up to Your Favorite Monsters' Betsy Jorgensen to tell us what she thinks made the last decade in horror great. Then,...

THERE WAS TOO MUCH GOOD STUFF FOR ONE PODCAST! OR EVEN TWO!! THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER ONE AFTER THIS ONE, GUYS!!! Gabe and Tracks of the Damned's Patrick Ripoll are back and running down more of Patrick's favorite horror movies of the previous ten years. Right smack-dab in the middle, Gabe is also joined by Monster Island Commentaries/Movie Lobby Commentaries' own Luana Saitta (recorded separately...

IT'S THE END OF AN ERA! JOIN US AS WE LOOK BACK ON THE BEST HORROR MOVIES OF THE 2010S WITH...20/20 VISION! BET YOU HADN'T HEARD THAT JOKE YET! It was a heck of a decade and Gabe has gathered all of his friends (and co-hosts) together to discuss the very best horror movies released between 2010 and 2019. In part one, he is joined by Tracks of the Damned's Patrick Ripoll and Voices + Visions' Jim L...