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Ryan from The New World Pictures Podcast joins to discuss Sisworo Gautama Putra’s SRIGALA (1981), a wild treasure-hunting Indonesian slasher film that owes much to Friday the 13th while simultaneously being its own unique experience. To check out The New World Pictures Podcast: https://newworldpicturespodcast.com

This week features two films centered on a group of hikers encountering a backwoods killer in the mountains executed to quite different results. DON’T GO IN THE WOODS (1981) is one of the infamous video nasties banned in the UK during the 1980s. Did it deserve it? We then focus on a slasher film that has gained its reputation over time, JUST BEFORE DAWN (1981) directed by Jeff Lieberman.

The show goes Cropsey-Turvy this week with two films based on the New York urban legend of Cropsey: First up is THE BURNING (1981) featuring early career performances by Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter. Then MADMAN (1981) gives us the legend of Madman Marz, as well as one sweet, sweet theme song.

Pack your sleeping bags and don’t stand with your back to a window because it’s time for Sean S. Cunningham & Victor Miller’s FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) to prove that a movie capitalizing on a trend can become a trendsetter in its own right. We then look at how FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981), directed by Steve Miner, altered the trajectory of the franchise and overall trend.

Our post-apocalyptic summer climaxes with Kevin Costner’s THE POSTMAN, a movie that plays with and goes beyond the conventions of the genre in a wonderfully bizarre way. Does Costner perform Shakespeare with a mule? Yes.  Are there clips from Universal Soldier and The Sound of Music in the film? You bet your bippy.  Was it unfairly maligned and gave us the feels anyway? Tune in to find out! (But a...

Join us as we enter a world where the polar ice caps have melted and studio film budgets have no meaning. That’s right, we’re not done with the post-apocalypse yet. It’s time for WATERWORLD, the fourth collaboration between star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds. Special Guest Max Evry (A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY: DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE. AN ORAL HISTORY.) helps us dissect this much maligned act...

Justin Beahm stops by for our final Mad Max episode to discuss two films with female protagonists: CHERRY 2000 (1987) starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews and TANK GIRL (1995) directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, and Ice-T. website: https://www.justinbeahm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinbeahm The Justin Beahm Radio Hour is available on all podcast...

Strap in for a wild one as we enter the mind of writer/director Donald G. Jackson for two films that include: roller-skating nuns, frog people, a male chastity belt rigged with explosives, and horny puppets. That’s right, it’s time for ROLLER BLADE (1986) and HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) starring Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman.

Special Guest Dirk Marshall of the VH US podcast joins us as we stand on our heads for two post-apocalyptic westerns featuring Brion James. First up is STEEL DAWN (1987) starring Patrick Swayze in a Shane-influenced search for water. Then we switch gears to STEEL FRONTIER (1995) as mysterious gunslinger Johnny Yuma battles the Death Riders. VH US website: https://www.vh-us.com Marshall’s Haute Sau...

It’s time to go B-A-N-A-N-A-S, BANANAS...for post-apocalyptic sports week! Johnny Halladay, Karen Allen, and Jürgen Prochnow play the most dangerous game…no, not that one. It’s driving a truck powered by AI across the TERMINUS (1987). Then we slam dog skulls onto spikes with the Juggers in David Webb People’s THE BLOOD OF HEROES (1989), a.k.a. THE SALUTE OF THE JUGGER starring Rutger Hauer, Joan C...

Austin Trunick, the author of THE CANNON FILM GUIDE, helps Chris scan a Cannon Films double feature that totally nukes the post-apocalyptic genre: AMERICA 3000 (1986) with Chuck Wagner and Laurene Landon, as well as Albert Pyun’s CYBORG (1989) starring the “Muscles From Brussels,” Jean-Claude Van Damme. Meanwhile, Rob is lost in the vortex of tomorrow… Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CannonFilmGuid...

This week, we set the Wayback machine to “1983” and continue discussing the Italian wave of post-Mad Max films.  First up, we race against the Eurac Monarchy to find a fertile woman in Sergio Martino’s 2019, AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK, starring Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis, and George Eastman.  Then we penetrate the Wall of Illusion with the Rider in WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD, starring Robert Gint...

This week we have a pair of supremely stylish post-apocalyptic films by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari and starring Fred Williamson. 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (1982) and THE NEW BARBARIANS (1983). Questa settimana abbiamo un paio di film post-apocalittici estremamente eleganti del regista Italiano Enzo G. Castellari e interpretati da Fred Williamson. 1990: I GUERRIERI DEL BRONX (1982) e I NUOV...

Ryan from the New World Pictures Podcast joins us for a pair of New World Pictures riding that Mad Max wave. Who has the coolest post-apocalyptic nickname? Is it Michael Beck as Hunter in BATTLETRUCK (1982) directed by Harley Cokeliss? Or can STRYKER (1983) take the crown of coolest dude this side of the Oil Wars/nuclear holocaust? To check out The New World Pictures Podcast: https://newworldpictu...

They say that people don’t believe in heroes anymore. Well, damn them! Grab your petrol cans and weapons as we lurch toward the apocalypse with George Miller's MAD MAX (1979) starring Mel Gibson, John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) starring Kurt Russell, and MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981).

Rob has hijacked the studio to discuss Gaspar Noe’s CLIMAX (2018), an avant-garde horror film about a French dance troupe’s hellish acid trip, starring Sophia Boutella. It’s an unforgettable film, from the incredible dance number set to Cerrone’s “Supernature” to a child locked in a room screaming for his mommy.

We bring the Hard Day’s series to a close with two meta-narrative movie musicals starring singer-songwriters: ROBERTO CARLOS EM RITMO DE AVENTURA (1968) starring “the King” Roberto Carlos, and Anthony Newley’s CAN HEIRONYMUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS (1969).

We are joined by guest Tony Bevilacqua, guitarist for The Distillers, for BEATLE MOVIE MANIA PART TWO as we discuss HELP! (1965), directed by Richard Lester, the MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR television special (1967) written and directed by the Beatles themselves, and the animated YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968).

This week is a tale of contrasts as we talk about the musical party that is THE GHOST GOES GEAR (1966), featuring The Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood, before traveling back to the States for William Friedkin’s first feature film, GOOD TIMES (1967), starring Sonny & Cher.

We’re joined by Justin Beahm to look at projects fronted by “manufactured” bands, including the ground-breaking sitcom THE MONKEES (1966), Saturday morning cartoon THE ARCHIES (1968), as well as the Monkees’s feature film HEAD (1968), directed by Bob Rafelson and written by Rafelson & Jack Nicholson. website: https://www.justinbeahm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinbeahm

It’s time for Hollywood studios to invade the British Invasion with two sitcom-esque American films starring Herman’s Hermits: HOLD ON! (1966) and MRS. BROWN, YOU’VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER (1968).

We look at a pair of 1965 films about Swinging Sixties youth that use British rock-n-roll stars in more traditional movie musicals. EVERY DAY’S A HOLIDAY stars John Leyton and Freddie & the Dreamers, while THREE HATS FOR LISA features Joe Brown and songs by Leslie Bricusse.

Chris and Rob dive into the charms of FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY (1964), starring Liverpool’s own Gerry and the Pacemakers. In I’VE GOTTA HORSE (1965), Billy Fury and his love for animals take center stage, prompting Chris and Rob to lose their minds.

We discuss Richard Lester’s blockbuster Beatles comedy musical, A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964), and its influence on both cinema and music videos. Then we switch gears to John Boorman’s feature-film debut starring the Dave Clark Five, CATCH US IF YOU CAN (1965), a surprising movie that explores more mature themes of disaffection and estrangement.

Join us for an epic interview with Max Evry, movie journalist and author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History.  Get ready for a deep dive into the troubled history and artistic merits of David Lynch’s DUNE (1984), starring Kyle MacLachlan. Max’s website: https://www.maxevry.com X: https://twitter.com/maxevry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxevry1