They Must Be Destroyed On Sight!

In this episode Lee is joined by special guest, friend and fellow podcaster, Brady Kimball, to cover Paul Schrader's intimate and innovative docudrama of the influential Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, whose art and life became one on the day he ended it. The film, "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)", is a meaty film to pick at, and the hosts try their best to come to some conclusions about M...

Paul returns to the podcast to help Lee talk about the classic 1941 Universal horror film "The Wolf Man", directed by George Waggner, starring Claude Rains, and Lon Chaney Jr. as the beast itself. Much of the conversation revolves around Chaney and his performance, and the possible hidden layers in the script that don't always clearly come out in the finished product. Is this the best of the class...

This week Lee is joined by friend and fellow podcaster, Vaughn Kuhlmeier, to cover one of the more notorious, yet somewhat forgotten, late-period Euro-horror sleaze flicks "Vampire in Venice" (1988), AKA: "Nosferatu in Venice". Originally envisioned to be an unofficial sequel to Werner Herzog's remake of "Nosferatu", the only connection is its star Klaus Kinski, who returns to his iconic role, but...

TMBDOS! does something a little out of the wheelhouse and covers a James Bond film this week. Lee and Lady Leah watched the final Daniel Craig outing as Bond, in theatres during their vacation, and are back on this episode to talk about 2021's "No Time to Die". Is it a good send-off for Craig? Is it a good Bond film? Is it too "woke"? What does the future hold for the series? The hosts also talk a...

Facing several set-backs this year, he still couldn't be held down! Lee Van Teeth returns to take over TMBDOS! Radio and Blood on the Tracks once again for Halloween. This time out he presents his favourite musical selections from the long-running "Halloween" film franchise. What made the cut and what is best left forgotten on this larger than usual BotT episode? Tune in with the Wolf Man to find...

Lee and Leah have returned from a much-needed vacation and recount the horror-related stuff they watched, tried to watch, or just flat-out fell asleep through for the week or so they were away. Featured Music: "The Sultan and the Slave Girl" by Manfred Mann & "Aloha from Hell" by The Cramps.

Lee is back this episode giving you a playlist compiled from the soundtracks and scores for his favourite British crime films of the last 50 years. --It's Caper Time from "The Italian Job" (1969) --Quincy Jones --Dyed, Dead, and Read from "Performance" (1970) --Jack Nitzsche --The Hashishin from "Performance" (1970) --Ry Cooder --Excerpt from "Villain" (1971) --Jonathan Hodge --Getting Nowhere in...

This week Lee and Leah have promised to live to see you die, and they will. Well, not really, but there's a lot of that sort of thing going on in Edward L. Cahn's radioactive monster thriller "Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955). The hosts discuss just how effective this low budget sci-fi horror film is. Do they get radiation right? Does it matter? Early squib work; shitty grenades; questionable...

Lee is joined this episode by his friend and fellow podcaster Vaughn Kuhlmeier to chat about an underseen Canadian exploitation film, "Siege" (1983), directed by Paul Donovan. Set in, and shot on location in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Lee's home province), some Canadian history surrounding the premise for the film, and some silly East Coast-isms are pointed out by Lee. Police brutality and corruption c...

Lee and Leah get lost in the vast desert that is the seemingly endless conflict in Afghanistan, as they look at a film that was requested a while back by a listener. This week it's 1988's "The Beast of War", directed by Kevin Reynolds. This bleak and unexpectedly serious tale of a Russian tank on the run from Afghani rebels, during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, contains very little to be li...

Lee and Leah return this episode with a trip back to the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, taking a look at "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1942), directed by Roy William Neill, picked to be covered by special guest host on this episode, Matt Anderson. Much of the conversation revolves around the otherwise straight-forward plot and the changes made to Holmes after Universal picked up...

Lee, Kerry, Greg and Leah are finally back to talk more outer space super hero stuff with James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2" (2017). This lively and sometimes argumentative discussion gets into some of the deeper psychology of family dynamics, in what's otherwise a silly action film full of daffy jokes. "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2" IMDB  Featured Music: "Fox on the Run" by Sweet.

The Atomic age is upon Blood on the Tracks this month as all sorts of strange radiation-born monsters are invading the perfect utopia that was the 1950s *cough-cough*. Anyway, it was a great decade to be a sci-fi and horror fan, and it was a decade that produced a lot of great film scores. Lee curates a playlist that reflects some of the best examples of this fact, in his opinion. --Main Title fro...

Lee, Leah and special guest Gary Hill join the mile high club this week as they talk about "Fly Me" (1973). This Roger Corman-produced off-shoot of his sexy nurses films features the directing talents of Cirio H. Santiago, Jonathan Demme, and Curtis Hanson; and along with a cast of often-naked beauties, it has bit parts by Dick Miller and Vic Diaz. How can it fail? Tune in to find out! Italian mot...

Lee and Leah find themselves with the daunting task of talking about "Citizen Kane" (1941) -- the film that put Orson Welles on the map, and is often hailed as the greatest film of all time. But is it any good? Does it hold up? Is it a case of style over substance? Do the hosts have anything new to say about this film? Maybe not, but join in anyway to hear their opinions; Lee get in a fight with a...

Lee and Leah are joined on this episode by special guest Daniel Segura, of the excellent Moustachioed Podcastio to talk about a film that deals with bride kidnapping and honour killings - and it's a swinging 1960s comedy! On this episode they cover the Monica Vitti-starring film "The Girl with the Pistol" (1968). Also, as Daniel is a first-time guest, he gets to play The Movie God Game. Can Lee st...

Despite the subject matter, Lee & Leah try to keep in good spirits while having a pretty serious chat about a very different rape/revenge film, in Emerald Fennell's "Promising Young Woman" (2020). "Promising Young Woman" IMDB   Featured Music: "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You, Baby" by Donna Missal.

It's been a busy summer so far for Lee, so he's half-assing it a bit on this episode and presenting another TMBDOS! grab bag episode, featuring soundtrack and score selections found on more recent episodes of the They Must Be Destroyed On Sight! podcast. --Day of the Dead from "Day of the Dead" (1985) --John Harrison (Episode 200) --Theme from Southern Comfort from "Southern Comfort" (1981) --Ry C...

Lee, Leah, and special guest Vaughn Kuhlmeier of the excellent podcast Motion Picture Massacre attempt to slay the dragon that is Terry Gilliam's Monty Python-adjacent film "Jabberwocky" (1977). Not loved at its time of release, is this still a critical failure, or has its politics and social messages aged much better over the years? Is it funny? What did they get away with while still rated PG? W...

Lee, Leah, and the returning Daniel hang-out in the desert to get drunk and talk about giant ants, that are bent on spreading communism across the world. Or something. Yes, it's the Gordon Douglas-directed, 1954 atomic age monster movie classic "Them!". We talk about the thinly veiled themes in the film; the agency of female scientists in a 1950s sci-fi horror; educational films about ants; govern...

Lee and Leah are back this episode to talk about Guillermo del Toro's fantasy/horror/anti fascist film set in the post-Spanish Civil War era, "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006). Most of the talk revolves around what is or isn't real in the film and the central themes, as well as the amazing special effects and visuals. You might say the hosts really Faun over this one. Thank you, we're here all week. Try th...

Lee is back in a super-sized episode, finishing off his look at the prolific contributions to film music from the talented duo of Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, AKA: Oliver Onions. --Seq. 1 & Temi di Laura from "My Father's Wife" (1976) --Main Theme from "Cop in Blue Jeans" (1976) --Caccia All'uomo, Pt. 1 & Il Grande Racket, Pt. 1 from "The Big Racket" (1976) --Nata Leri from "Due sul Pianerottolo"...

Lee, Leah, and returning special guest Gary Hill get their rain slickers and galoshes out to tackle "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), one of the best known and most well-loved of the big Hollywood musicals, featuring the talents of Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a very young Debbie Reynolds. What Gary and Leah have watched as of late is also covered, and Lee reads an unusually long and informative Y...

Lee and Lady Leah have a conversation covering their thoughts on director Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary "The Act of Killing", which is about the surviving Indonesian death-squad leaders, who were responsible for the deaths of over one million people from 1964-65. A lot of it is just the shock and anger both hosts felt while watching the brazen boasting by these monsters, but they do get in...

Lee is flying solo this time out to give you his thoughts on six recent films. He reviews "Nobody" (2021); "Justice Society: World War II" (2021); Jiu Jitsu" (2020); "Sator" (2019); "Fried Barry" (2020); and "In the Earth" (2021). Featured Music: "Psychomania Front Titles" by John Cameron & "I Have Always Been Here Before" by Roky Erickson.