The Butcher Shop

Happy Halloween from the Cinema Beef Podcast. Now give us your candy!!!! Jamie and Gary are joined by Brian M. Sammons to celebrate the time when the hills ran red with children’s blood to discuss two family films. Kind of ironic, huh. We cover the first two films in the incredible Laika Studios catalog. First up, when a lonely girl is bored and ignored by her family, she discovers a secret world...

People of Legion! Lend me your ears! I bring you mediocre cinema from a superior director! Most know Mario Bava from his horror efforts but amongst those works of art were some other films. We are joined by Duncan McLeish of The Podcast Under The Stairs and Duncan and Bo Go To Twin Peaksies to discuss two such gems. One is more of a shiny turd. When the fiendish Dr. Goldfoot is bent on killing UN...

  Have you ever been down in your luck in the big city and you only have your sweaters and your explosives to keep you company?  That’s the true conundrum of villain to some, anti-hero to others Wulfgar.  This is his story done in the gentle words of one Jim Croce and masterfully mixed by DJ X. Enjoy!! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

  Hey kids! Do you like violence? Do you like several intertwining plot lines that don’t really go anywhere. How about casual racism? You get all this and a whole lot more in this one. It is just the regular crew this time around and we discuss three police centric films. First up, when two wisecracking transit cops encounter trouble with an arsonist, a rapey railroad men, gangsters, a fiery Latin...

Get out your Aqua Net go get stoned with a savage. The beef is back with some new reviews for you. I am sans Jamie and X on this one. I am joined by two very capable folks being Lee Russell from They Must Be Destroyed On Sight and Willis Wheeler of N.F.W. and Two Drink Minimum Commentaries and of course Terror Troop.  We cover two films where white folks are messing where they shouldn’t have been...

Cinema Beef is going back to class and we got enough gum for the whole class. We are joined by The VD Clinic’s Vanessa McEnery to discuss two high school-centric films from the year I graduated being 1999. First up, when teen brown nose Tracy Flick is hellbent on being class president. It’s up to bitter Mr. McCallister to put a monkey wrench in her plans. All this and lots of Chris Klein pity in E...

Oh the 80s. When the ghetto blasters were loud and white people wanted to control everything. Wait…..is it the same now…..i dunno. We are joined by Mike Maryman of Evil Episodes, Rad Radio and Theme Warriors Podcasts to discuss three films where this runs rampant. When someone is tearing down slums to make fancy apartments, it unleashes a beast that terrorize New Yorkers and make Edward James Olmo...

We’re back and we’re bad. Well the movies are. Or are they? I am sans Jamie and X but I got Mike Maryman from Theme Warriors, Evil Episodes and the brand new Rad Radio with our picks for the second edition of So Bad It’s Good. Mike chose castaways and mad scientists for his choice. When their hot air balloon crashes on a remote island, the survivors are met by strange doctors, oddly clothed henchm...

Welcome to the world of card sharks. Where the stakes are high and the women are beauties. We are joined by Brian M. Sammons of Evil Episodes, Dark Regions Radio and ABCs of Hidden Horror podcasts for three films about the perils of gambling. We cover Steve McQueen with an all star cast in The Cincinnati Kid, Robert Mitchum  and Dean Martin fighting to unravel a who done it in Five Card Stud and M...

Welcome to the wonderful experiment known as the Beard Hits Bottom sidecast. I am joined by Vanessa McEnery from the new VD Clinic Podcast to cover the crazy drug induced fever dream Killer Nun. When people start dropping like flies under the questionable Sister Gertrude’s care, everyone suspects that she’s not right in the head. As the body count rises and the sister slowly loses her mind and cra...

Cinema Beef is back with no issues. Despite the title of the show. We are joined by Mike White about three very different bands with three very different vibe.  We discuss the very blah David Chase directed Not Fade Away, the very drab Lou Adler directed Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains and the very fab John Cameron Mitchell is the drag dynamo with something leftover in Hedwig and The Angr...

Welcome to a land where the zombies are vengeful and the mystics are sometimes subpar. The beefers travel to Haiti and get some of that old black magic in em with three superb features. When 007 has to investigate why other MI-6 agents are being assassinated, he in embroiled in a world or witch doctors, gangsters, redneck sheriffs and one shitty but smokin hot tarot reader in Live and Let Die. Nex...

You ever been home and there is nothing on but uttter reality garbage? It happens all too often. Maybe these films are what’s to blame for the trash we see today. We are joined via Australia by The Wych from The Wych vs. The Doomsday Clock as we discuss three films that pre-dated these shows by a long way. When death row inmates are put on as live executions with cash and prizes at stake, you get...

82                 Rejoice and let the Capricas fly in celebration of a great man. We lost a great human and actor in Richard Hatch so in that familiar beef style we pay tribute with gusto. I am joined by Cort Psyops and Hatch-Man super fan and personal friend of Captain Apollo Mike Wellman. First up, when the streets are too much for one veteran, he uses his certain set of skills to take out the...

    Does work give you the Monday blues everyday? Do you work for a reprehensible creep? Well you thought you’re job was bad.  Try working for these super bosses and I ain’t talkin about the Devil Wears Prada. We got three features with that evil boss motif and we couldn’t have picked better guests. We got the darlings of the Legion feed Ricky and Danny from the Hail Ming Power Hour.  We talk abou...

Have you ever had a performance that made you sketchy about a certain person in the film. We have and let me tell you that some of these people are awful. Dig into our minds and sometimes trauma in four films chosen by the hosts. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Here it is, folks.  The first edition that pits two actors against one another to answer the age old question of these two dopplegangers, who’s scowl is it anyway! Mike Maryman joins Jamie and Gary to discuss what turned out to be quite the gem in “The Million Eyes Of Sumuru.” When two lotharios get caught up in a web of beautiful girls and general tomfoolery, they stumble onto a plot in which a h...

All right, beefers. Pack light and dress warm. We’re headed North to Canada with Kevin Smith to discuss his True North Trilogy (so far). We got animal lovers, new age martial arts, crazy man hunters and bratzis?! We have a full show with special guests Jon Cross of The After Movie Diner and Dan Chase of Cut To The Chase joining us on this trip.  How’s aboot that!?   ★ Support this podcast on Patre...

The Beef travels to small town USA where the citizens are holier than thou and the kids are hungry for attention. When kids and adults start to go missing in a small town, It’s up to a writer to figure out the puzzle of the “woodies” and how to keep these little bastards from filling their bellies. All this and mass genocide in Beware! Children At Play. From Troma! Of Course. ★ Support this podcas...

Welcome to high society where cash is king and you can be for dinner. Suzanne and I cover the Brian Yuzna directed Society from 1989. Rich kid Billy is having and identity crisis. He’s not sure who he is or even where he belongs. Soon he starts to learn the ugly truth about his lineage, his surroundings and how far a human body can stretch. All this and a whole lot of KY jelly in Society! ★ Suppor...

Day 10 brings us to the graduation dance and Filip Onell and I are going stag. This is my big redemption film in The Prowler from 1981. After one of the big wars, Rosemary breaks up with her soldier boyfriend. She gets his response in the form of a pitchfork and rose. Years later, teens reboot the banned get together only to attract more blood and carnage. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Beef heads up to the great white North for a pastry run. When a vampire moves in to a hotel, he falls in love with a waitress at a  local donut shop. He soon runs afoul of some local baddies led by David Cronenberg and becomes the sole protector of the lady fair. Can their love survive with the strains of daylight and bloodlust? Find out in Blood and Donuts from 1995. ★ Support this podcast on...

Cort Psyops and myself head to the land of the kiwis where the land is vast and beautiful but the livestock have a screw loose. We are of course covering the flock-sploitation joint from New Zealand Black Sheep. When a scientist starts to do strange experiments on the sheep of a small village, one of the abominations gets loose and infects the whole populace including some of the townsfolk to bloo...

The Beef gets all gangsta on this edition. Day 7 is going on last train to crazytown with Piper Laurie in Ruby from 1977. After Ruby’s gangster husband gets gunned down by his own men, Ruby is left with a child and a burden of guilt about what happened. Now, running a drive in theater ran by her husband’s old crew, Ruby is faced with her employees dropping like flies and her daughter becoming poss...

Gary, X and Suzanne head to merry ole England in the time when Jack The Ripper was a regular ladies man and a model father. When his daughter witnesses the slaying of her mother by this notorious killer, She is infused with rage and her father’s murderous tendencies. Now a damaged woman, She holds up with a psychiatrist who hopes to figure her out with bloody consequences. All this and shiny trink...