MBDS Showcase

Nick Rehak ( French Toast Sunday ) joins me to talk about Terrence Malick's debut film Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a murderous couple looking for freedom as they head to the Badlands of Montana. Plus overrated creatives, the end of the New Hollywood era and horrific nature plus more! Letterboxd:  Elwood  /  Nick For more reviews check out  From The Depths of DVD Hell

Jess Manzo (French Toast Sunday) returns to the show to talk about David Lynch's Blue Velvet as the discovery of a human ear leads a college student to discover the dark underbelly of his hometown. We look at the iconic performances, the legacy of the Lynch-verse and why Dennis Hopper's Frank might be the scariest villain ever! Letterboxd: Elwood / Jess For more reviews check out From The...

Elwood and Greg kick off a new season looking at William Friedkin's Sorcerer who sadly passed away a few weeks after we recorded this episode. The film following four criminals exiled to a small village in South America who are offered a chance of escaping their current situation by transporting a shipment of highly unstable nitro-glycerine 200 miles through the jungle to an oil well. We look...

Alice Taylor Matthews joins me to look at Sam Rami's splatter classic "Evil Dead 2" as we talk DIY film making, favourite horror weapons and trade bookseller war stories and more!

Stephen Palmer my Asian Cinema Film Club co-host returns to the podcast to talk about American Movie A cult documentary following aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt and who alongide loyal  best friend Mike Schank set out to finally finish the short horror film he started years earlier, with the hopes it will help provide funding for his feature movie dream 

Mortal Kombat superfan Jeanette Ward ( The Mundane Adventures of A Fangirl ) joins me to discuss not only the ultimate sleepover movie but arguably the greatest video game adaptation ever. There's also plenty of geeking out over the games as Jeanette talks favourite characters, fatalities and colour palette swap ninjas and more!!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my all time favourite shows and while I might podcast with a bunch of super talented folks sadly none of them are Buffy fans. Thankfully Emily ( Why This Film Podcast ) is a fellow super fan of this iconic show and joins me for this episode as we each countdown our top seven episodes aswell as looking at what it was about the show which continues to resonate with...

Wrapping up this years Alternative Christmas specials we have the cult classic Jack Frost as a serial killer resurrected as a killer snowman proceeds to wreck havok on a small town while hunting down the sheriff who finally caught him.  I'm joined on this episode by Emily Slade ( Why This Film Podcast ) to talk Christmas snacks, essential festive viewing aswell as trying to figure out what th...

Eight years after she washed ashore a New Jersey beach, schoolteacher  Samantha (Geena Davis) still has no idea who she was prior to washing up on  the beach. However after a car crash unlocks skills she never knew she  had, she set out with private detective Mitch (Jackson) to find out the  truth about who she really is. However there are those keen to make sure  she neve...

Nick Rehak (French Toast Sunday) joins me to look at the David Cronenberg's cult classic Videodrome. Here body horror blends with our love of technology into one nightmarish vision as Max Renn (James Woods) stumbles across a rogue tv stream called Videodrome which he feels will be perfect for his trashy TV channel only to soon find himself drawn into a much darker path as he uncovers the secrets b...

Back for another season of cult cinema watching, the journey through the Mad, Bad and Downright Strange movie list continues with Alex Cox's cult classic "Repo Man" as I'm joined once more by Greg Sahadachny ( Debatable Podcast ) as the hunt for a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu and the mysterious contents of it's trunk is waged through a truly unique vision of L.A.

Taking a break from the usual trek through the more forgotten realms of cinema, on this episode I'm joined by a trio of bloggers for another exciting draft club.  This time we are looking at our favourite movie deaths while celebrating the often creative and inventive ways that characters have met their demise.

Indie Director Zach Shildwachter joins me for this episode to talk about his debut feature film "Powerbomb". A wrestling thriller which has been described as "Misery meets the Wrestler"  We not only talk about how you can support the film through the Indiegogo campaign but also how he got his start in the business, his inspirations aswell as why Clive Barkers "NightBreed" is so essential plus...

Brandon Tenold ( Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews ) returns for an ass kicking double as we look at the overlooked Bruceploitation movie "Challange of the Tiger" aswell as getting to see Doug McClure team up with Peter Crushing for "At The Earth's Core" as he fights dinosaurs, seduces cavewomen and solves problems by punching them!!   All this plus Canuxploitation, movie ratings and the appeal of...

Writer / Podcaster Kristen Lopez (Journeys In Classic Film / Ticklish Buisness) joins for me for a David Cronenberg double as we look at two films from his more overlooked period of work which falls between "The Fly" and "A History of Violence".  First up Cronenberg does for video games what "Videodrome" did for TV in 1999's "eXistanZ".  We also question why Jeremy Irons didn't get the O...

On this latest episode I'm joined by my "Game Warp" co-host Kim Lo ( Tranquil Dreams ) as we take a break from talking about video games to look at a pair of movies released at the end of the golden age of the American Indie.  First up we join Nick and Norah for a wild trip across New York's nightsports in search of "Where's Fluffy" in "Nick and Norah's Infinate Playlist".   Next up...

Rebecca Sharp ( Almost Ginger ) joins me for this episode as we look at John Carpenter's classic slasher "Halloween" which introduced the world to the now iconic Michael Myers.   We also look at the Quentin Tarantino scripted "True Romance" while wondering if a kung fu triple feature really makes for a good first date?  All this plus film theories, embracing your nude scenes and asking w...

For this episode I'm joined by Kristen Lopez as we take a look at one of the more overlooked era's of cinema history "Pre-Code Hollywood".  A brief period between the introduction of the first sound pictures in 1929 to the enforcement of the “Motion Picture Production Code” in 1934 there existed an era known as Pre-Code Hollywood. A wild time for cinema as films were produced including profan...

Unsuprisingly this episode comes with a warning not to listen if easily offended, as Greg Sahadachny (The Debatable Podcast / All The Pieces Matter) returns for this sleazy double feature.    First up is the Nazisploitation "SS Girls" as Bruno Mattei essentially gives us a more fun version of "Salon Kitty" while also somehow working in a Nazi pope! We also look at the cult favourite "Thr...

Christine Makepeace (The Feminine Critique Podcast) is back on the show to talk about editing her recent annual collection of female horror writing.   We also look at the prequel to David Lynch's classic series "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" aswell as cult comic book movie "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.   All this plus we talk weird crushes, soundtracks and some serious Twin Peaks g...

A very special show marks my return after the recent break as I'm joined by my good friend Jenn Francis (Calvacade of Perversions) to look at the "Critters" franchise.   Jenn also shares her love of Little Rubber monsters and why the horror genre means so much to her, alongside some great book and podcast recomendations aswell as arguging the case for Bizzaro fiction plus so much more.

Matthew Stewart (Simplistic Reviews) joins me to for a fun pairing of films which if we are to believe "Rotton Tomatos" rating are wildly underated.   First up we have Clive Barker's stab at a horror version of "Star Wars" with Nightbreed. A film which also questions who the real monsters are.  We also look at the first collaberation between Jet Li and Luc Besson, while also learnin...

Kim Lo (Tranquil Dreams / Movies and Tea) joins me this week as we take in pair of films stacked with some of the biggest names in Asian cinema.  Kicking things off is the Donnie Yen crime thriller which see's him teaming up with Simon Yam to take down a notorius Triad boss played by the legendry Sammo Hung.   Next up we have the first film in the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy a film which...

Having spent over three decades writing about Godzilla and Kaiju movies its safe to say that August Ragone knows a thing or two about Godzilla.  For this episode I sat down to chat with the two time Rondo award winner aswell as author of the essential "EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS" to chat / nerd out over all things Kaiju. From his early beginings on Bob Wilkins "Creature Features" thou...

Artist, classic porn historian and obscure cinema fan Robin Bougie joins me for this latest episode as he prepares to celebrate 19 years of the cult cinema zine "Cinema Sewer" now also in its fifth collection through "FAB Press".  We talk about his journey from its conception to its current cult status.  Robin also talks about his other books the XXX movie poster collections "Graphic Thr...