Measuring Flicks

BARBARIAN MONTH rolls on with an unauthorized entry in the world of Conan the Barbarian. It’s the Sword-and-Spaghetti epic RED SONJA! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max, Karl, and Bird sit down to talk about CONAN THE DESTROYER. And they do. They just make each other laugh hysterically the entire time as well. What a great movie. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Part II of the Measuring Flicks breakdown of 1982’s CONAN THE BARBARIAN! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Winter has come, and with it long dark months of barbarism. So grab your furs and your battle axe: it’s time to enter the world of CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)! Part 1 of 2. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Karl conclude UNIVERSAL MONSTER MONTH with The Wolf Man (1941) . Brilliant. Dark. Laden with pathos and nuance. Also, this movie has Dracula (Bela Lugosi), The Invisible Man (Claude Rains), The Phantom of the Opera (Rains again), and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) in it, which makes it a must-see confluence of classic horror. If you like what we do and want to help support the show, head on...

UNIVERSAL MONSTER month continues with The Invisible Man (1933). It’s that sort of miraculous masterpiece so well executed that it seems hardly to age. Immensely fun, hilariously funny, with moments of genuine fright, and the highest body count of any of the Universal Monster movies, The Invisible Man is spectacular. It’s perfect October fare. Enjoy it! We certainly did. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm M...

Our journey through UNIVERSAL MONSTER month continues with a bit of an oddity: Phantom of the Opera . It’s got Claude Rains. There are musical numbers—not enough to be a musical, but perhaps too many for a movie that’s pointedly not a musical—and cool stunts, and beautiful set pieces. We’re still not sure how we feel. All we know is that the episode was such fun. If you like what we do and want to...

Max and Karl wrap up their deep dive (okay, seriously, that was the last one) into Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

It’s UNIVERSAL MONSTERS MONTH, and what better way to kick it off than to dive into Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Karl exit THE MONTH OF THE LIVING DEAD on a cheesy black-and-white throwback: I Eat Your Skin (1964). Writer (and perhaps Ultimate Mary Sue) Tom Harris uncovers time-lapse zombies on a mythical island that nobody (everybody) knows about. Low-budget hijinx ensue. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The number of times Karl almost throws up while discussing The House by the Cemetery ( 1984) is just one more indicator of how awesome this terrible flick truly is. Low-budget blood and guts at its finest. (Make sure you eat something gloppy before listening, to really get the experience.) Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Month of the Living Dead rolls on with The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1972). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Our Month of the Living Dead begin with 1973’s Messiah of Evil! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringflickspodcAST@gmail.com

On this quarter’s shootout: Road to Paloma, The Pink Angels, Hell Ride, Easy Rider, The Master (2 episodes), Stormriders, Versus, Samurai Reincarnation, House on Haunted Hill, Carnival of Souls, The Last Man on Earth, and Indestructible Man … Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

This flick’ll hit you harder than a bazooka in the bread basket! (Not really—there are some pretty boring chunks.) THRILL! as corpses are sold for cigarettes and pocket change! GASP! as envelopes made of pure sound are tossed carelessly about! BE GENUINELY HORRIFIED by the “happy ending.” Yes! All this, and so much more, await those brave enough (or far enough into an evening in the Green) to thro...

Based on I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, The Last Man on Earth (1964) is an excellent little entry in the long list of Vincent Price films worth watching when the autumn comes. If you would rather hear us talk about I Am Legend (2007) or Omega Man (1971)—two other films based on Matheson’s novel—head on over to Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm , where we do all the remakes and sequels of our main-season...

Herk Harvey’s 1962 masterpiece Carnival of Souls took us completely by surprise—despite the fact that Max had seen it probably a hundred times. We watched the Criterion Edition for this episode, and cannot recommend it highly enough: the transfer is absolutely remarkable, and allows the sharp edges of this masterwork of psychedelic, psychological horror cut you as they were meant to: deep and irre...

Welcome to Augustober! The boys start their nostalgic stroll through the gloomy, monochromatic gardens of Classic Horror movies! House on Haunted Hill (1959) hangs the body high for the month with murder plots, sedatives, acid in the party basement, and that’s all before the pistols in baby coffins come up! One of our favorites. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

When you think of the best Crappy Kung-Fu Flick imaginable, 1981’s Samurai Reincarnation is what you’re thinking of. It is the perfect end to KUNG FU MONTH. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Part II of our hectic episode on Versus (2000). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

In well over a hundred episodes, we have never seen anything like Versus (2000). Not even Drive Angry was as amped-up as this flick is. Not even close. Basically an attempt to film Anime in real life, on a shoestring budget, Versus is the kind of movie that you watch with your friends with a bowl of popcorn and a full J-Bone battering at the inside of your skull. Trust us. Don’t die without watchi...

The Stormriders (1998) is an educational film about early surgical procedures in ancient China, told through the medium of music videos and video game cutscenes. We love it. If you want to help us keep the lights on and the celluloid spinnin, head over to Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPocast@gmail.com

It’s KUNG FU MONTH! So… The Master isn’t actually a movie. It’s a Television series. Whoops! But it’s got Lee Van Cleef, and it is so schlocky and ridiculous we decided to just go ahead and mush the first two episodes of the series into a “Movie” of sorts. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Chris Fieldhouse swung by the FZK studios to talk one of the most iconic movies in American history: 1969’s Easy Rider , and what ensued was both one of the funniest and most thought-provoking episodes we’ve done yet. Also Franzia. Also crimes. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Michael Madsen. Vinnie Jones. Dennis Hopper. David f**king Carradine. More nudity and graphic violence than you can shake a dusty doodad at. Pure biker trash from start to finish. Max loves it. Karl…not so much. Fight! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com