No-Budget Nightmares

Grab your throwing stars and nun-chucks and head to the cemetery for a knock-down, drag-out brawl with episode 33 of the NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES PODCAST featuring Jim Van Bebber’s cult classic DEADBEAT AT DAWN. Your intrepid hosts Moe Porne and Doug “Sweetback” Tilley take to the mean streets of Dayton, Ohio and find a near apocalyptic hell-hole of nastiness, where gangs rule the streets and the only...

Todd Sheets. TODD SHEETS. If you had told us all the way back in Episode #5 that less than 30 episodes later MOE PORNE and DOUG “SWEETBACK” TILLEY would be talking to the man himself, they would have called you a liar. A scoundrel. A miscreant. Yet, here we are not only featuring a film he’s actively disowned (1993′s GOBLIN), but also featuring an interview with the MASTER OF SPLATTER TODD SHEETS!...

You could have a steam train, if you’d just lay down your track. Or you could have a SLEDGEHAMMER to the freakin’ SKULL! No, it’s not Peter Gabriel, it’s David DEADLY PREY Prior’s early 80s shot-on-video horror classic SLEDGEHAMMER! Packed to the gills with thoroughly reprehensible (and stupid!) characters, Prior has his cast maneuver the halls of his apartment while avoiding a shape changing, inv...

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER! No-Budget Nightmares returns with its 30th episode anniversary spectacular, and you’ve never heard ANYTHING like it. We have listener mail, recorded messages from some of our favorite film-makers, interviews with Oliver Assiran & Les Norris (directors of GORNO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY), David Sitbon (who appeared in SUBURBAN SASQUATCH and ANTFARM DICKHOLE), Jim...

You’ve never seen anything like SCIENCE CRAZED. That’s both a threat AND a promise. A Canuxploitation classic of the highest (lowest?) order, NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES hosts Moe Porne and Doug “Sweetback” Tilley can make neither head nor tail of the bizarre pacing, strange dubbing and downright BIZARRE qualities that make up Ron Switzer’s Canadian wonder. It deserves your love, respect and FEAR. Join t...

You like vomit, right? No? Well, thrash metal legend Lance Ozanix LOVES vomit. And in 1991 he decided to turn his unique ability to vomit on command into a 40 minute, blasphemous spectacular! HOLY MOLY features finger snippings, demon horns, neon ray-bans and is as ugly as it is entertaining (which is a LOT). Your podcast pals Moe Porne and Doug Tilley dive deep into the netherworld, and come up w...

Move over Herbert West, EDGAR ALLAN LOVECRAFT (seriously) is here! Full of more panty-headed partiers than you can shake a syringe of “reanimating serum” at, REANIMATOR ACADEMY is an aquarium of laughs that features a smattering of gangsters, a gaggle of decapitations, and prostitutes by the bucketful! If you listen carefully you can hear hosts Moe Porne and Doug “Sweetback” Tilley slowly lose the...

GREETINGS, TRUE BELIEVERS! This week we have a film from GERMANY, or – I should say – GOREMANY, because this episode is jam packed with organ meat, decapitations and TEETH DRILLING. Splatmaster Olaf Ittenbach cut his teeth (HA!) as a dental technician before churning out some of the nastiest low-budget violence that Deutschland has to offer, and he started his career making nihilistic shot-on-vide...

Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen, because it’s time for Mike Stanley’s immortal (GET IT) DEAD IS DEAD, starring the bearded, bowl-mulleted auteur as the hunky lead. THRILL! as Moe Porne and Doug “Sweetback” Tilley try to unravel the ancient mysteries of who these people are, and what the heck they are doing. And what’s up with those mutants?! If the leaden, awful dialogue doesn’t get you, th...

Pull out your cleaver and slap on some greasepaint, because it’s time to dive headfirst into 1985′s BLOOD CULT, which is notable as (not quite) the first straight-to-video feature film – and not notable for anything else! Featuring a septuagenarian hero, DOG MURDER, exciting driving music, DUMMY MURDER, and the geekiest love interest since REVENGE OF THE NERDS, BLOOD CULT is a nasty bit of video v...

Grab your laser gun and surprisingly large communicator pack, this week NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARE is featuring the 2005 Troma-distributed sci-fi comedy ROCK N ROLL SPACE PATROL ACTION IS GO! Featuring one of the most BIZARRE endings in low-budget cinema history, and plenty of goofball antics, your intrepid (and SEXY) hosts do battle with the villainous DR. SPIDER JONES while tackling the mysteries of te...

Antfarms! Dickholes! They go together like peanut butter and chocolate, and are FINALLY brought together in Bill Zebub’s WTF bizarro no-budget opus ANTFARM DICKHOLE. Featuring: Wedgies! Ants! Dickholes! Bikinis! Rampant nudity! Wang bananas! And ANT-EATER ACTION. Moe Porne and Doug Tilley WATCHED the damn thing, and now you’re going to listen to them stumble and sigh their way through talking abou...

Zombies. Zombies? ZOMBIES! Yes, the immortal TODD SHEETS is back on NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES, and this time our intrepid hosts are dumpster diving into his 1989 debut ZOMBIE RAMPAGE. It’s his goopiest, craziest and – oddly – most impressive feature, even if much of it MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL. You’ll never wash the stink off yourself, so you might as well get down with the hosts with the most(s). ENJOY.

Grab your cross, garlic, machetes, throwing stars, and AIR BRUSHED TITTIES as this week on the NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES podcast we’re covering Sean Gallimore’s ridiculous action/horror film VAMPIRE HUNTER. Packed to the gills with martial arts action and incomprehensible dialogue, Moe and I get DOWN AND DIRTY with the Hunter, and its bizarre, ultra-90s theme song. The power of Christ COMPELS YOU to li...

I’ve seen fire, and I’ve seen rain, and I’ve seen a Sasquatch with drawn-on abs and big ol’ boobs! That’s right, this week on NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES is the modern low-budget classic SUBURBAN SASQUATCH from director Dave Wascavage! COWER in terror as Bigfoot severs limbs, drinks blood and growls confusingly. We love it, and you’ll love it too!

HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONE! This week NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES brings you a tender aw-shucks meeting between a demented HOLLYWOOD STRANGLER and the murderous SKID-ROW SLASHER as directed (sorta) by the legendary Ray Dennis Steckler. Who likes bums? We got ‘em! Both literally and figuratively! It’s tons ‘o fun and chock full ‘o nuts, so grab your switchblade and start rambling on and on and on.. because we...

He’s a NINJA! But.. also a ROBOT. Actually, ROBOT NINJA doesn’t really feature a robot or a ninja, but it *does* contain a sociopath comic book writer inadvertently causing the death of many innocent people. It also has face stabbings, head stabbing, stomach stabbings and BODY MODS. But that’s not all! How about a little BURT WARD? How does that sound? J.R. Bookwalter followed his classic THE DEAD...

Yes, after a brief, dramatic interlude your hosts Doug “Sweetback” Tilley and Moe Porne have returned to explore the depths and heights of ultra-low-low-low budget cinema. This week we cleanse our palate with Todd Jason Cook’s 1995 zombie opus DEATH METAL ZOMBIES, featuring choreographed head-banging, gut-munching, UNFORTUNATE UNDERWEAR and lots and lots of DEATH METAL. Shengar commands you to lis...

HIP HOP LOCOS. BARELY LEGAL LESBIAN VAMPIRES. THE SUMMER OF THE MASSACRE. We’ve talked about plenty of terrible, no-good, very bad films here on NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES, but GORNO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY might very well trump them all. A sickeningly pretentious attempt at aping the “teenage debauchery” sub-genre dominated by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, it uses film as a blunt object in which to hamm...

Ah, Todd Sheets. So we meet again. NIGHTMARE ASYLUM pushed us to our limits, but that was a cake-walk compared to the BLOOD-CURDLING TERROR present in SORORITY BABES IN THE DANCE-A-THON OF DEATH. Who likes incomprehensible dialogue? How about acting that would be booed off the stage at a kindergarten play? We’ve got crotchety old men and a bevy of ladies in mom jean-shorts and bulky, early 90s swe...

“There’s definitely no logic/To human behavior” – Bjork, “Human Behavior” Take a dash of murder mystery, a pinch of psychological thriller, and a twist of, um, a twist and you have 2001′s HUMAN BEHAVIOR starring a cast of people you never heard of trapped in an infinite loop of plot explanation. The lovely and talented Moe and I dissect the slow-moving 72 minute ode-to-crazy, and manage to fit a f...

On this week’s No-Budget Nightmares podcast we look at the 2003 Canadian gonzo mutant film KILL THEM AND EAT THEM. Despite my sympathetic nature, and respect for the ambition of the filmmakers, eventually the whole thing just devolves into a big pile of unpleasant goo. And not the good kind. Will out sanity hold out? Or, will I be babbling about WAR HORSE by the end? (Spoiler: it’s the latter). Jo...

Why does this exist? It’s a question I asked myself over and over while I was watching REDNECK COUNTY FEVER; an oddity from (possibly) the early 90s that constantly makes you wonder how it came into being. What could have possessed a group of (presumably) right thinking individuals to give up their time and money to produce something that appears to have no discernible purpose? It’s ostensibly a l...

And now for something completely different. This week’s No-Budget Nightmare was filmed between May and October 2006 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It was written by Sean Bruce, Dan Kildey, and SWEETBACK. It had torture, explosions, gore, a ventriloquist dummy, pornography, jello, and Canadian Content. And – in the end – it was a bad movie. Yes, I was involved in the creation of a bad, no-budget...

On this week’s Daily Grindhouse Presents – No-Budget Nightmares, Daily Grindhouse contributors Moe and Sweetback discuss Joe Castro’s 2002 ultraviolent comedy TERROR TOONS. There’s Rage Against The Machine lyrics, misogyny, and a mean streak a mile wide. If you like your cartoons unpleasant and – somehow – live action, this is the podcast for you. And, yes, Satan himself shows up.