Movie Melt! Podcast - Psychotronic and Outsider Cinema

The Sensitive Boys™ head to the beaches of Ibiza with Summer Night Fever (1978), the West German sex comedy from director Sigi Rothemund. Riding the disco wave kicked off by Saturday Night Fever, this sun-soaked exploitation romp follows two friends on a vacation overflowing with girls, discos, bikinis, bell-bottoms, and a debatably awesome soundtrack. PLUS: Battle of the Bands returns! C-bear's Y...

Your sensitive boys are back! Listen as we pack into a grimy little Beach House and spend 76 sweaty minutes obsessing over one of the most forgotten sex comedies of the early 80s. From Jersey boardwalk hangouts and chaotic house parties to doo‑wop punks, softball grudges, and one especially questionable horndog named Marty, this hangout movie somehow dodges the usual sleaze and lands as a genuinel...

ALIEN ARSENAL (1999) | Charles Band Loves Teens This week we’re covering Charles Band’s attempt at kid-friendly sci-fi — the Moonbeam years — then following the trail into Pulsepounders and its teen-skewing sub-label ActionXtreme, and eventually land on David DeCoteau’s ALIEN ARSENAL. Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

The litigious duo is back! More lovely vanity-project-insanity from Craig Bruss and Vineeta Prasad! These two lovebirds are the heart and brains behind our favorite modern action saga, and the happy couple deliver the goods with their third installment of this very personal action film—complete with their very own real-life wedding! It’s a perfect union of nunchucks, romance, and weird times! PLUS...

It's spring break. We're skipping the belly-flop contest and going artifact hunting — which is exactly what the cast of Camp Fear (1991) thought they were doing before the earthquakes, bikers, and George Buck Flower showed up. Betsy Russell stars in what was intended to be a Cheerleader Camp Sequel, but as will be explained, things went whacky in all the right ways to make a very very interesting...

News reports warn of missing children as a mysterious young man named Sylvio appears wherever kids are in danger. Nobody seems especially alarmed except Sylvio, a quiet drifter with frosted tips and unclear motives who spends his time watching over local playgrounds. At home, Sylvio lives with his elderly father in a tiny blue room with a clown door, where memories are hazy and answers are scarce....

YouTube tried to erase us — but they can’t kill the tape Halfway through our live breakdown of The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005), the broadcast suddenly disappeared with zero warning while we were still on air, still talking, still laughing at the mysteriously empty viewer count. No strike notice. No explanation. Just gone. So here it is — the full, resurrected episode. We finally dig into one of t...

Subscribe to Movie Melt TV On Youtube - I WANT MY MMTV!! Before we’ve even covered a straight-up W.A.V.E. movie, in true Movie Melt fashion we went the deep-cut route — diving into the W.A.V.E. Productions extended universe through one of their oldschool regulars who went on to make her own fascinating work: Pamela Sutch. We went LIVE on YouTube to discuss Pamela’s GENETICS (2008) — a SOV body-swa...

It's our casual 10-year celebration of the show with more vanity project insanity from a man who calls himself Jah and his gangster-buddy-heist passion project. Things get contentious (and kinda thirsty) when we discuss our fashion red lines in the sand, and somehow it all comes back to deez nuts. Plus a battle of the bands! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 2...

It’s a full-on wiener roast as we nerd out with The Baron Against the Demons, a Spanish fantasy oddity that plays like The Dark Crystal colliding with the Star Wars prequels and an all-consuming fertility obsession. It’s puppets, miniatures, foam-muscle warriors, green screens, archaic CGI, and body horror pushed as far as $200 can possibly go. PLUS: How Have You Been, Battle of the Bands, and so...

We're pouring ourselves a nice warm cup of Sheitan (2006) — the nasty French holiday horror where twitchy Satanist Vincent Cassel plays the backwoods host-with-the-most, throwing a group of Parisian club kids the most aggressively uncomfortable Christmas they've ever been trapped at. Drink it hot. Drink it fast. Because it's a mean cup of Sheitan! PLUS: Battle of the Bands: Holiday Edition, Russia...

MIDNIGHT DRAGON (1995) Another All-Nut BROvember This week on Movie Melt, we dive into Midnight Dragon, a VHS-era vanity project overflowing with seizure-inducing effects, one-of-a-kind transition wipes, and audio that can only be deciphered with the power of AI. Our hero Youfonso Martindale karate-chops and side-kicks his way through a plot that technically exists somewhere under all the noise… a...

It’s All-Nut BROvember, and to celebrate raw, uncut, vein-bulging alpha-male friendships, we dove into Jamaa Fanaka’s Penitentiary III — a tale of brotherhood forged between a dungeon-dwelling, crack-addicted little person and a champion boxer named Too Sweet. Two men. One bond. Infinite testosterone. PLUS: Battle of the Bands — Handsome, financially dominant male actor edition! "Penitentiary 3" F...

For Hallweenus we venture into the black hole of early-2000s DTV — where a melodramatic group of mid-thirtysomething “teens” are haunted by a pajama-wearing Headless Horseman who looks like a Phish tourhead. Everything is spared in this bizarre attempt to cash in on Tim Burton’s hit… except their lives! Sharpen your Excalibur sword and zip up those Dave Matthews pants — class is in session at Slee...

Regional DIY SOV horror at its finest: BMX kids dig up a cursed gargoyle, a mullet brigade faces demonic puberty, and a new Movie Melt Saint ascends. Plus: we uncover what nobody else has about director Chuck Lang's secret Vegas empire. ALSO: Battle of the Bands and lost films from Down Under. Join our Patreon if you can! ollow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Hey, why not call us...

We hit the Shaw Brothers jackpot with the most insane film they ever produced — Kuei Chih-Hung’s The Boxer’s Omen (1983)! What starts as a simple boxing revenge flick spirals into flying severed heads, throat eels, Buddhist black magic battles, and crocodile strippers. Top-shelf mind-melting insanity. PLUS: Battle of the Bands: Crocodile Edition, What We’ve Been Watching, and so much more!! Join o...

Back-to-school means we get educated with Cybela Clare’s female-led vanity project on ancient aliens, clones & parrots! Bird's Eye View: An ET's Solution for Humanity (2020) PLUS: Battle of the Bands + our very special guest, queer hip hop king AUNTIE BOY . Class is in session! 🎒👽🦜 Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Movie Melt’s cheer squad is back on the megaphone for the booger-sugar-fueled camp comedy Gimme an ‘F’. Expect pom-poms, pee-pee-filled balloons, saucy Mad Max role-play, new wave cheerleaders, the Jan Hammer soundtrack, and enough dazzling dance routines to knock your pom-poms off. This criminally underseen gem’s got male cheerleaders breakdancing-in-wet-tightie-whities-while-doing-Gymkata-on-the...

A wrestler, a madman with a super-powered rubber glove, and a space princess with an Ewok sidekick walk into a neon-lit fever dream. What do they find? Chubby motorcycle luchadores, bald men with ponytails, and an El Santo movie tailor-made for the early ’90s. This week, CDR beams with national pride as pleather-clad Canadian hero Vampiro sinks his fangs into the role he was genetically engineered...

We’ve name-dropped him dozens of times… and yet this is our first actual Fred Olen Ray episode?! Unbelievable, but true. Carlo stays up way past his bedtime to tell us all about Evil Toons (1992)—a movie full of unkept promises. It definitely does have a haunted book, Monique Gabrielle, and 45 seconds of a bad scary wolf that’s animated though! Plus: Gary Coleman news, Heather rearranging magnets...

Too much gay crashed Matt’s hard drive (yes, another one!), and so our final 2025 Pride episode is dropping on the 4th of July. Fitting, because what’s more American than repressed senators dating twink heirs to a popcorn fortune? Just like this week's movie: Traveling to Olympia (2001), a queer shot-on-video headscratcher set in the Pacific Northwest—the Wakanda for Gays, apparently. We follow Jo...

Happy Pride! We get probed by Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker (1996)—the queer, trippy, E.T. sci-fi oddity about interdimensional lust, alien contact, and sexual awakening in the Arizona desert. Plus: A gay Battle of the Bands, Auntie Boy (!), orgone energy, what we’ve been watching, and more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Possibly the greatest vanity project ever made... again! We’re revisiting GetEven (aka Champagne & Bullets, aka Road to Revenge)—a redux of Episode 3 where we first stumbled into one of the most tippy-top-shelf vanity projects in existence. This episode’s a three-fer. It puts a temporary end to our evil "feel-bad" movie streak. It gives us a chance to revisit a film we love. And it continues o...

Carlo takes us into the cosmic void with Rat Scratch Fever (2011)—Jeff Leroy’s creature-feature about mutant rats from Mars that rip through Los Angeles using every special effect known to man: CGI, practical gore, puppets, stop-motion, green screen, etc. It’s an ambitious no-budget feat that must be seen to be believed! Plus: what we’ve been watching, 20,000 calorie meals, coochie rats, and more!...

We hit the filthy, scum-ridden streets of Los Angeles alongside our late patron saint and cult icon, Wings Hauser, in Street Asylum (1990). It’s got all the things we love—Wings Hauser, fascistic police brutality, and G. Gordon Liddy having kinky S&M sex. This is our toilet-humor tribute to the man we love most. Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!