Incredibly Strange Video

We hope you're ready to get your sexy German Expressionism on, because today we're talking about - not the  remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - but rather the full on direct  sequel to the 1920 silent film. We answer important questions such as, "Did The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari need to be remade?", and "If so, should it have been at the hands of an avant garde adult fi...

We're back! We took a break while Ryan focused on another project, but now we've returned for more incredibly strange cinema, starting with a rare ski-slasher, in which a bunch of horny couples gather for a timeshare presentation at a winter villa and are slowly picked off one by one by a mysterious killer! Iced is a film that until last year was stuck in VHS purgatory, released once and...

Take the seminal surf movie Gidget from 1959, add in a bunch of slasher elements from the 80's, and use it all to deconstruct gender norms - that's Psycho Beach Party in a nutshell! This crazy stage-to-screen should-be-cult-classic is a must-see offbeat comedy for fans of incredibly strange cinema. Chicklet Forrest is a sixteen year old tomboy who wants nothing to do with chasing boys an...

What's spooky season without a certified slashic? And it doesn't get much more grindhouse than this - woefully maligned by most critics and audience reviewers alike, we're here to tell you this all but forgotten low-budget slasher is far more interesting and more intricately constructed than most would have you believe. Terror at Tenkiller is a regional horror film from outside Tuls...

There's perhaps never been a more exciting movement in action filmmaking than the Hong Kong New Wave in the 1980's, and within that body of work perhaps no films more unique and unusual than the hopping vampire movies. What are Hong Kong Hopping Vampires? Well, they're vampires from the Qing Dynasty who hunt for victims by...hopping. Feet together, arms out, one stiff hop after anot...

It's Spooky Season, and what better way to kick things off than with the spookiest film that ever did spook - Spookies! To say that Spookies has a unique production history is an understatement - the film started shooting in 1984 and didn't hit US theaters until 1988, over which time it was in the hands of three different directors and two directors of photography and multiple teams of a...

It's the Season 1 finale! Instead of the Razzie awards, which poke fun at the worst movies of the year, we're hosting our first annual SNAZZY AWARDS! Over the next hours we'll be celebrating the best and boldest of the incredibly strange cinema we covered in our first season, revisiting the 29 films we discussed this year and choosing our picks for prestigious titles such as "G...

"WE MADE YOU! WEEEEE MAAAAAADE YOOOOUUUUUU!" Ahem, er yes, now that we've got that out of our system, let's gear up for the third and final installment of our BIG TRUCK TRILOGY. Master of horror Stephen King has left his mark across scary cinema for decades, but perhaps surprisingly, he only ever directed one film. And it's this one. And it's CRAZY. Maximum Overdrive...

When 2 women, 18 wheels, and 16 gears are rollin'...move over! The two women in question are Annie Potts as Flatbed Annie and Kim Darby as Sweetie Pie, two lady truckers on the run from a relentless repo man (played by Harry Dean Stanton before he'd again play a repo man in, um, Repo Man) and menacing cocaine traffickers. Fred Willard and Joe Estevez are also hanging around the fringes o...

Buckle up for perhaps the wildest ride to ever hit the road out of Laughlin, Nevada! When shipments of military plutonium become the target of terrorists, there's obviously only one thing to do - hire a retired trucker, have his grandson and college friends build a bunch of makeshift weapons, and transport the plutonium across the desert in a proto-Fury-Road battle of automotive carnage. We d...

It might not get more incredibly strange than this one. A late entry into our first annual Ani-May, Legend of the Overfiend is the original animated video nasty, the first animated film to ever receive an NC-17 rating from the MPAA...and that was the American cut. On today's episode we're tackling the entire original uncut triple-OVA version of the film, a 2:26 tentacle hentai apocalypti...

It's a new yearly tradition on Incredibly Strange Video - we're celebrating ANI-MAY! Which is when we take all of May to break down cult and unusual anime films! Today's film, Redline, falls into the former category. A major financial failure for its studio after a grueling 7-year-long production, this action/racing smorgasborg of adrenaline-fueled violence has since become a cult c...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! And what film pairs better with a pint of Guinness and some cottage pie than the cult classic, Leprechaun! Warwick Davis gives an iconic horror performance as the titular villain, terrorizing Jennifer Aniston (yes, THAT Jennifer Aniston, in her first feature film leading role) as he searches for his stolen pot of gold. This horror comedy went on to become a surprise h...

It's the final stop (for now) on our journey into the year 2000! Come along to the mythical fantasy realm of Detroit where in the year 2047 sex has been outlawed by an authoritarian government! That, of course, does not stop basically everyone from having sex anyway, for those who abstain are fraught with a horrible affliction: The Hornies! Also, this is a retelling of Cinderella. Also, it&ap...

We continue our podcast journey into the year 2000! Like a mission ripped right out of an Obsidian RPG, Melanie Griffith plays bounty hunter E. Johnson, who takes desperate lover Sam Treadwell on a fetch quest to post-apocalyptic Las Vegas to replace his sex robot, Cherry 2000. On their way, they run into a gang of Dads on permanent vacation who would love to get their hands on a Cherry 2000, as w...

In the first Ozploitation film we've featured on the show, Escape 2000 - aka Turkey Shoot - presents us with a dystopian future (or present?) where dissenters against a fascist government are sent to death camps with only one way out: participating in the turkey shoot. The turkey shoot, of course, is an event where a bunch of rich people bring a bunch of insane weapons into the Australian bus...

In the year 2000 hit and run driving is no longer a felony. It's the national sport! Roger Corman's incredible cult classic puts soon-to-be screen legends Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine behind the wheel of trans-American racing machines designed to do two things: go fast and kill pedestrians! Death Race 2000 is a hilarious and bloody satirical look at sports and media culture in...

It's the thrilling conclusion to the Jack Wild trilogy! Except it's not about Jack Wild anymore! And doesn't appear to have any connection to the first two films! Or does it?... Ryan thinks so. Cassie isn't so sure. In this third Crackerjack adventure, Jack is now an old man (played by Bo Svenson!) who runs a department in the CIA. After retiring he's roped back into the a...

Hey everybody! It's a mutiny! And just what is a musical mutiny? Well...it's a free concert. Orchestrated by the ghost of a pirate. At Pirates World amusement park in Dania Beach, FL in 1970, featuring Iron Butterfly performing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. The whole song. And this psychedelic musical journey is part of the Pirates World cinematic universe! If you recall from our last episode on S...

It's one of the strangest films ever made, a delirious slice of incomprehensible Christmas cinema. In the beginning of the episode a new motto is proposed: "The podcast that tests the theory, there is no such thing as a bad movie." That sentiment is immediately put through the ringer as we analyze Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny . Shot at the now defunct Pirates World amusement park i...

Did John Hughes and Christopher Columbus rip off this film when they made Home Alone? That's the million dollar question we seek to answer on this episode! Because one year before Home Alone, France released its own home invasion Christmas film, complete with a boy genius fending off the intruder with makeshift traps and gadgets. Director René Manzor is absolutely convinced that Home Alone&ap...

O' come let us adore...the original slasher! And right now you can adore it on the big screen! Black Christmas is returning to theaters for its 50th Anniversary from December 7-22 in a wonderful new 4K restoration. So as a primer for its return to theaters, we're here to celebrate the season by celebrating the film that started it all, the film woefully overshadowed by Halloween as the s...

Join us as Ryan presents one of his favorite movies of all time, Deep Rising! This movie holds a very special place in his heart, and he'll explain why on this first-ever 4-person episode! We're joined by regular guest, cinematographer Ryan Kroboth, who walks us through the challenges of shooting an action film almost entirely around and underwater! And we're super excited to welcom...

"Is this giallo, or is this porn?" That's the critical question we seek to answer by the end of this new episode about a late-80's scissor-killing sleazefest! Arabella is a nymphomaniac. Which is going just fine for her until every single guy she sleeps with starts to wind up dead, mutilated by a pair of scissors. All of this is captured in cinematography typical of the giallo...

Famously torpedoed as one of the worst films of all time, we're here to tell you...we kind of liked it! Consider this a redemption episode, as we submit ourselves to a film that critics have called "a film of monumental dreadfulness" as well as "excruciatingly, painfully, horribly, terribly awful" and come out the other side the better for it, with lots of soul searching t...