Genre Grinder
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGenre Grinder is a podcast devoted to the weirdest, most unique, and painfully specific film genres. Every month, your host, Gabe Powers, and a special guest will talk about movies that (hopefully) you’ve never heard of.
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Episode 44: Heavy Metal Horror, feat. Justin Clark of Slant Magazine
April 10, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBWELCOME TO THE HEADBANGERS’ BALL …FROM HELL!! Can hard rock music really corrupt the youth? Will the lyrics raise the dead and turn innocent children into perverts and murderers? Is that a literal demon on lead guitar? Join Gabe and returning guest Justin Clark as they enter the pit to answer these questions and more. While Gabe spent the month watching several heavy metal and hard rock horror movies, the discussion this week pertains largely to four films – Krishna Shah’s Hard Rock Zo...
Episode 43: Killer Animal Movies, feat. Arianny Pilarte of Not All Podcasts Wear Capes
March 07, 2024 02:34 - 1 hour - 106 MBLIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS AND RATS AND…DUGONGS?! OH GOD!! They’re cute, they’re cuddly, they’re out for blood. Join Gabe and returning guest Arianny Pilarte as they traipse into the sunbaked Australian outback, the darkest corners of Italy’s subway system, and dank Canadian sewers in search of the scariest and most insane killer animal movies released in a 11 year period between 1978 and 1989. This month’s batch of trash and treasures includes Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend (1978), Ru...
Episode 42.5: Alternative 1970s American Horror – THE SEQUEL, feat. Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters (2 of 2)
February 05, 2024 16:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBTHE GREATEST HITS OF A DECADE: VIETNAM, WATERGATE, ATTICA, MAN-EATING PIGS, SEEDY HOLLYWOOD, KILLER BRIDES, HOME INVASION, GANGSTERS, AXE MURDERERS, AND DEADLY GAMES… After Night of the Living Dead (1968) and before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes dec...
Episode 42: Alternative 1970s American Horror – THE SEQUEL, feat. Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters (1 of 2)
January 07, 2024 19:02 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBTHE SUMMER OF LOVE GIVES WAY TO PERVERSE MELODRAMAS, BLOODY HOME INVASIONS, NECROPHILIC HOUSEWIVES, AND…CARNIVOROUS BEDS? After Night of the Living Dead (1968), but before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audiences fo...
Episode 41: Killer Santa Movies, feat. Daniel Baldwin (aka: The Schlocketeer)
December 03, 2023 22:53 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBHO HO OH NO!! OL’ SAINT NICK HAS A HOLLY JOLLY AX!! You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why – Santa Claus is coming to town. And he’s out for blood! Join Gabe and first time co-host Daniel Baldwin, aka: The Schlocketeer, as they make a list, check it twice, and decide which murderous Santas are naughty and which are nice. Titles include Lewis Jackson’s Christmas Evil (1980), Charles E. Sellier Jr.’s Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) and its fi...
Episode 40.4: The ACTUAL 101 Scariest Movie Moments feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (Part 4)
October 31, 2023 15:00 - 2 hours - 140 MBTO AVOID FAINTING KEEP REPEATING IT’S ONLY A PODCAST…ONLY A PODCAST…ONLY A PODCAST! This is it, everyone – the Top 20 ACTUAL Scariest Movie Moments of all time. Put on a sweater to avoid chills! Fasten your seatbelt to avoid thrills! Use a tea saucer to avoid spills! Join Gabe and Patrick for the 4th and Final part of this impossibly long look at scary movie moments they didn’t already cover on the Bravo and Shudder Scariest Movie Moments specials. Will we pick YOUR favorite scary mome...
Episode 40.3: The ACTUAL 101 Scariest Movie Moments feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (Part 3)
October 22, 2023 19:59 - 2 hours - 184 MBIT’S GETTING HELLA SCARY AND DANG UNNERVING IN HERE! It’s time for Part 3 of THE event of Spooky Season, covering picks 45 to 21. Once again, this is the official 101 ACTUAL Scariest Movie Moments. Those previous Bravo and Shudder shows aren’t the real deal. Actually, I have to admit that even WE lied during Parts 1 and 2, because those picks weren’t nearly as scary. I still want you to listen to those episodes, because we put a lot of work into them, but, holy cow, they’re already so ...
Halloween Special: Rusty & Dip's Final Broadcast, a Found Footage Music Mix Tape
October 05, 2023 21:37 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBOn the afternoon of Friday October 30th, 1992, an unexplained phenomenon struck the suburban community of Dunwich, New England. The local authorities described it as an unprovoked, spontaneous explosion of homicidal violence, but the actual cause has been shrouded in mystery, following a brisk cover-up by unknown government agencies. By some accounts, more than 300 people lost their lives that day, including multiple members of the popular rock bands Dokken and Loverboy. What follo...
Episode 40.2: The ACTUAL 101 Scariest Movie Moments feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (Part 2)
September 24, 2023 00:14 - 2 hours - 131 MBIT’S TWO TIMES THE TERROR AND DOUBLE THE DREAD! We’re back with part two of THE event of Spooky Season. Once again, this is the official 101 ACTUAL Scariest Movie Moments. Don’t be fooled by imitators, even if they are professional filmmakers and scholars paid by the deep pockets at Bravo and Shudder. Actually, watch those shows, too, then listen to Part 1 of our list, then come back here and check out Part 2 and prepare yourself for Parts 3 and 4. Listen to Part 1 For a recap...
Episode 40: The ACTUAL 101 Scariest Movie Moments feat. Patrick Ripoll
September 09, 2023 18:48 - 2 hours - 135 MBSTEP ASIDE PAID EXPERTS, IT’S TIME TO HEAR FROM THE REAL EXPERTS – TWO GUYS WITH A PODCAST! Inspired by the classic Bravo TV countdown documentary and its improved Shudder-branded follow-up, Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned and 96 Greers have compiled the official Genre Grinder list of the Top 101 ACTUAL Scariest Movie Moments. That title is a joke, of course, because those older specials already covered a load of classic titles, meaning that the challeng...
Episode 39: Telekinesis Movies feat. Jim Laczkowski of Director’s Club Podcast
August 07, 2023 02:35 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBYEAH, PUSH IT! PUSH IT REAL GOOD! WITH YOUR MIND, THOUGH, NOT YOUR HANDS. It’s mind over matter as Gabe and returning guest Jim Laczkowski take a look at more movies about the potential power of the human brain. This time, we’re focusing on something a little less esoteric than Existential State Manipulation: telekinesis. But we’re not covering the big names – no Carrie, no superhero movies, no Star Wars, not even Zapped. Instead, we’re talking about Jack Gold’s The Medusa Touch (1978)...
Episode 38: Sapphic Vampire Movies, feat. Luana Saitta of Defend Your Trash Movie
July 02, 2023 02:26 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBLOVE WILL HAVE ITS SACRIFICES. NO SACRIFICE WITHOUT BLOOD. BEWARE THE NIGHT AND YOUR OWN GAY PANIC, BUT, ALSO, HUBBA HUBBA! Wash your neck, prep your veins, and get ready to donate your plasma to the blood-sucking daughters of Sappho. It’s time to explore the sexy, violent world of lesbian, pan, and bisexual vampires on film. Join Gabe and returning guest Luana Saitta of the Defend Your Trash Movie and Monster Island Commentaries podcasts as they explore a specific period in Sapphic va...
Episode 37: Horror Movies for Kids, feat. Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters
May 28, 2023 19:36 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBTAKE ANOTHER LOOK UNDER THE BED AND DOUBLE-CHECK THE CLOSET, BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING SCARIER THAN BEING A CHILD! What could possibly be worse than zombies, chainsaw-wielding maniacs, and blood sucking vampires? Puberty, bullies, cruel teachers, stranger danger, and childhood illness, of course. Join Gabe and returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters as they take a look at a group of traumatizing tales of horror made specifically for people under 12. Not horror movies fo...
Episode 36: Foreign Remakes of Hollywood Films, feat. Tyler Foster
April 11, 2023 15:56 - 2 hours - 127 MBCOVER VERSIONS OF YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES! NOW AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES FROM MULTIPLE COUNTRIES! Don’t worry, you didn’t select the wrong language track on your DVD Player, you’re just watching familiar movies with an unfamiliar twist. You’ve seen plenty of Hollywood remakes of Hollywood hits – The Ring, The Grudge, One Missed Call, Pulse, other examples that aren’t Japanese horror movies – but what about the opposite thing? Join Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster for a look at ...
Episode 35.5: The Gialli of 1971 (Part 2 of 2), feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
February 19, 2023 22:33 - 1 hour - 108 MBSHARPEN YOUR STRAIGHT RAZORS AND POLISH YOUR BLACK LEATHER, WE’RE NOT QUITE DONE WITH ITALIAN THRILLERS JUST YET!! Welcome back to Genre Grinder’s look back on the gialli of 1971. In part one, Gabe (the fan) and Patrick (the skeptic) covered Sergio Martino’s The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Italian: Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh), Dario Argento’s Cat O’ Nine Tails (Italian: Il gatto a nove code), Lucio Fulci’s Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna)...
Episode 35: The Gialli of 1971 (Part 1), feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
January 23, 2023 21:32 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBMAD KILLERS! ANXIOUS WOMEN! TWISTED CRIMINAL PLOTS! CHIC INTERIOR DECORATING! PSYCHEDELIC FLASHBACKS! NEEDLESSLY LONG TITLES!! Giallo – plural gialli – so-named for the cover color of pulp crime novels in Italy is a stylish world of psychosis and murder that has existed in some capacity since the early 1960s, but it wasn’t until Dario Argento’s 1970 classic, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, became a worldwide hit that the giallo fad really took the country by storm. The following yea...
Episode 34: Pre-Code Crime Movies, feat. Arianny Pilarte of Not All Podcasts Wear Capes
December 21, 2022 03:46 - 1 hour - 109 MBCALLING ALL CARS! CALLING ALL CARS! BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POINTED PROFANITY, SUGGESTIVE NUDITY, AND RIDICULE OF THE CLERGY! Before the MPAA ratings board, there was the Production Code and, before that, there was the Hays Code, which was more of a series of nagging demands than an actual code. Film historians tend to refer to the five-year period between the widespread adoption of sound (1929) and the harsh implementation of the Production Code in July of 1934 as the “Pre-Code Era.” G...
Episode 33: La Llorona, feat. Kristine Fisher
November 09, 2022 04:43 - 1 hour - 125 MBTHERE’S A CHILL UPON THE AIR AS THE WIND CARRIES THE CRIES OF A WEEPING WOMAN. MIS HIJOS! MIS HIJOS! Once upon a time, there was a poor woman who murdered her children after being slighted by her wealthy lover. Or was it an indigenous woman who had her child stolen by colonizers? Or maybe it was an accidental pregnancy that was secretly terminated? However the story goes, the woman died and her ghost now wanders the night in search of new children. To avoid her wailing spirit, take a ...
BONUS EPISODE: Halloween Music Mix 2022 – All Goblin, All The Time
October 04, 2022 20:06 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MBBetween canceled episodes, personal scheduling conflicts, and a secret project, we here at Genre Grinder have been very busy. But we don’t want to shirk our spooky season music mix responsibilities, so, please, enjoy this special all Goblin experience. Every one of the songs and sound effects used to create this moody mix (with one exception) were produced by some iteration of Italy’s great prog-rock horror pioneers, Goblin. No Simonetti solo music, Daemonia, or the Simonetti-Pignatelli-Mora...
Episode 32: Disaster Movies, feat. Justin Clark
September 07, 2022 22:43 - 2 hours - 113 MBFORTIFY THE TORNADO SHELTER, STAY CLEAR OF THE WINDOWS & STOCK UP ON FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, IT’S DISASTER-O-CLOCK! Do you hear earthquakes and lightning? Do you hear hurricanes blowing and fear the rivers overflowing? Well, don’t we all – it’s called climate change. The end is coming for us all. Why not spend what time you have left listening to Gabe and returning guest Justin Clark chat about the spectacular disaster movies that predicted our current predicament? Join us for a look back ...
Episode 31: Shot-on-Video Horror – Addendum, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned (Part 2 of 2)
August 03, 2022 00:52 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBLONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH! OUR BLOODSTREAMS ARE ANALOG DATA! OUR SKIN IS TEXTURED PLASTIC! OUR INTESTINES ARE RIBBONS OF MAGNETIC TAPE!! Welcome back to SOV hell! Your hosts Gabe and Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned and Uptown Song Club have nine more movies to talk about, seven of which at least one of them was able to see. This includes a homemade homage to Italian horror, a surprisingly sophisticated slasher shot in Gabe’s hometown, two J.R. Bookwalter films (one good, one not so goo...
Episode 31: Shot-on-Video Horror – Addendum, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned (Part 1 of 2)
July 11, 2022 15:54 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBYOU THOUGHT WE WERE DONE EXPLORING THE DEPTHS OF DO-IT-YOURSELF ANALOG HORROR? YOU FOOL!! Remember when Gabe and always special guest Patrick Ripoll spent almost eight hours talking about the weird, wonderful, and horrible world of Shot-on-Video (SOV) Horror? Well, there have been some developments since then. More of these movies have been dug up by boutique home video labels and maniacs on YouTube and now we have to make an addendum episode. Make that TWO addendum episodes, because there ...
Episode 30: Western Horror, feat. Luana Saitta of Defend Your Trash Film
June 08, 2022 15:17 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBIT’S WRANGLERS VS. DINOSAURS, BUCKAROOS VS. WEREWOLVES, AND DISGRACED SOLDIERS VS. WESTWARD EXPANDING CANNIBALS! Howdy, cowpoke, did you just hear a spooky coyote howl? Catch a glimpse of a ghostly cow, maybe? That’s probably because Gabe and returning guest Luana Saitta are talking about westerns with a horror slant this month. Well, that was the idea, at least. We ended up covering classic dino “Weird Western,” The Valley of Gwangi (directed by Jim O'Connolly, 1969), an arty frontier...
Episode 29: Existential State Manipulation, feat. Jim Laczkowski of Director’s Club Podcast
April 06, 2022 13:05 - 1 hour - 101 MBDON A BIG, BLINKY SCI-FI HELMET, DIVE INTO THE NEAREST SENSORY DEPRIVATION TANK, AND GIRD YOURSELF FOR A TRIPLE-FEATURE EXPERIENCE THAT WILL BEND THE MIND AND REALITY WITH IT! What if you could change your physical form with the power of your mind? What if you knew a guy that could alter reality with his dreams? What if you could record your life and death to a virtual reality cassette tape? Worry not, dear friends, because, this month, Gabe and returning guest Jim Laczkowski of the Di...
Episode 28: Weird Stephen King Adaptations, feat. Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters
March 07, 2022 18:11 - 1 hour - 108 MBSURE, YOU’VE SEEN THE SHINING AND PET SEMATARY, BUT HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF THE DOLLAR BABIES? THAT FAMOUS FAILED BROADWAY SHOW? THAT MOTION COMIC SPONSORED BY A MOBILE COMPANY? It would be futile to think anyone would come to us at Genre Grinder for a Stephen King episode, especially considering how many fantastic podcasts are already devoted exclusively to the author’s work, but what about those oddball adaptations that didn’t get an international theatrical release? Join Gabe and retu...
Episode 27.5: Alternative American Horror of the 1970s, feat. Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters (part 2 of 2)
February 06, 2022 21:07 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBCOME WITH US AS WE CONTINUE OUR CROSS-COUNTRY TREK THROUGH THE DARKEST BOULEVARDS AND ALLEYWAYS OF THE ‘ME DECADE’ UNDERGROUND! After Night of the Living Dead (1968) and before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audienc...
Episode 27: Alternative American Horror of the 1970s, feat. Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters (part 1 of 2)
January 02, 2022 20:11 - 1 hour - 82 MBWELCOME TO THE END OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE AND THE BEGINNING OF A COUNTERCULTURE DEATHTRIP THAT WILL SCARE YOU TO DEATH! After Night of the Living Dead (1968) and before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audiences for th...
Episode 26: Heaven Can(t) Wait Movies, feat. Tyler Foster
December 05, 2021 22:44 - 1 hour - 101 MBLEAVE THE SPOOKY SIDE OF DEATH BEHIND THIS MONTH AND JOIN US ON A JOURNEY INTO THE ROMANCE, COMEDY, AND BUREAUCRACY OF THE AFTERLIFE. We’ll get back to scary things next month, because this month is all about the wholesome possibilities of death stories. Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster explore a surprisingly prevalent subgenre of romantic comedies concerning the processes of the afterlife. Avoiding movies that focused too much on haunting or possession, we still ended up with a l...
Episode 25.5: Year in Horror: 1960, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned (part 2 of 2)
November 03, 2021 19:31 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBRETURN TO THE GREATEST YEAR IN HORROR HISTORY FOR MORE IRONIC PUNISHMENTS, FIERY INFERNOS, CURSED TOWNS, BLOODTHIRSTY WITCHES, AND SEXY LIBRARIANS! Happy Halloween hangover, everyone! Welcome back to 1960 and a deep dive into three more stone cold classics. Well, more like two classics and a movie that has an awful lot in common with some stone cold classics. Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned had already talked about Georges Franju’s Eyes without a Face, M...
Episode 25: Year in Horror: 1960 feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned (part 1 of 2)
October 18, 2021 16:46 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBPSYCHOPATHS! PEEPING TOMS! CRUMBLING HOUSES! EYELESS FACES! CITIES OF THE DEAD! LITERAL HELL! Happy Halloween! It’s time to settle some schoolyard arguments and decide once and for all the most incredible year in horror cinema history. Our world’s greatest scientists, historians, and statisticians have compiled all the pertinent data and come to the following conclusion: 1960 was the best year for horror movies. Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned parsed 32 ...
BONUS EPISODE: Halloween Music Mix 2021
October 01, 2021 01:24 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBTime to sit back and vibe with more spooky music and movie clips. I’ve decided to put the Halloween mix onto the main podcast stream this year, instead of SoundCloud. I tried to dig deep into my archives to include songs, themes, and remixes that I’ve never used for another Halloween mix. Please enjoy and have a happy Halloween! Here is the complete track mix: 1. Martha & the Horses by Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman (Ravenous OST) 2. Die Klapperschlange by The Splash Band (1984 disco re...
Episode 24: Monster Lovers, feat. Arianny Pilarte of Not All Podcasts Wear Capes
September 01, 2021 20:21 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBDEAR BIG SEXY MONSTER, DO YOU LIKE ME, A SMALL, NORMAL HUMAN? [_] YES [_] NO Does your significant other sport a lush fur coat and fangs? Does your boyfriend have razor sharp talons, instead of feet? Is your wife the legendary chupacabra? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a Monster Lover. Or perhaps “love” is too serious a word for it. Maybe you’re just a down ‘n dirty Monster F#©ker? Either way, boy, have we got the episode of Genre Grinder for you. Join Gabe a...
Episode 23: Food-Themed Movies, feat. Kristine Fisher
July 27, 2021 23:54 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBTAKE A SEAT, PUT YOUR NAPKIN ON YOUR LAP, AND UNDO YOUR BELT – YOU’RE IN FOR A VERITABLE BANQUET OF MOVIES ABOUT FOOD! Prepare yourself for the most mouthwatering, scrumptious, toothsome, and downright yummy episode of Genre Grinder yet. Gabe and returning guest/his significant other/food buddy, Kristine Fisher – who knows a thing or two about cooking – chow down on six courses of food-themed movies that mostly fit the concept of magical realism, including Jûzô Itami’s Tampopo (1985), Gabr...
Episode 22: Afrofuturism & Black Sci-fi/Fantasy, feat. Justin Clark
June 27, 2021 17:48 - 2 hours - 117 MBCATCH A TRIP INTO THE AFROFUTURE ABOARD A SHIP PILOTED BY SPACE-AGE PROPHETS, PHAROANIC JESTERS, METEOR MEN, AND OTHER BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER PLANET! What might the world look like in a universe where Africa hadn’t been colonized? What might the race relations of our world look like to a visitor from outer space? What if Superman was a Black nerd from D.C.? What if malevolent aliens crash landed in the London projects? These questions and more will be answered in Genre Grinder’s look at Afr...
Episode 21: Most Dangerous Game Shows, feat. Luana Saitta of Monster Island Commentaries
May 24, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBTHE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED AND IT WILL BE BROUGHT TO YOU EXCLUSIVELY BY MING TEA! TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP DEAD! Psychotic games and sadistic reality television are on the docket this month. Gabe and returning guest Luana Saitta of Monster Island & Movie Lobby Commentaries check out three politically-charged classics about televised death sport, including Elio Petri’s The 10th Victim (Italian: La decima vittima, 1965), Paul Bartel’s Death Race 2000 (1975), and Paul Michael Gla...
Episode 20: Asylum Horror, feat. Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters
April 16, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 157 MBTIGHTEN YOUR STRAITJACKETS AND SNUGGLE UP IN YOUR FAVORITE RUBBER ROOM, IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT PSCARY PSYCHIATRIC PHACILITIES! Mental health can be scary, but do you know what’s even scarier? The archaic asylums of the bygone era, where we used to lock up the mentally ill. Gabe and returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of the Your Favorite Monsters podcast take a look at four tales of cursed mental health institutions, including Mark Robson’s Bedlam (1946), Juan López Moctezuma’s The...
Episode 19: Body Snatcher Movies, feat. Jim Laczkowski of Director’s Club Podcast
March 18, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 181 MBALIEN INVADERS, MIND-ALTERING SPACE SLUGS & BLACK MAGIC MADMEN ARE COMING TO STEAL YOUR CORPOREAL FORM & USE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER! Welcome back for a more typical episode of Genre Grinder. Gabe’s finally done talking about SOV horror movies and is joined by Now Playing Network & Director’s Club co-host Jim Laczkowski to take a long, very nearly complete look at Body Snatcher Movies. Specifically, science fiction – or at least sci-fi adjacent – movies that feature usually alie...
Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, Part Four, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
February 18, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END AS MUST ALL BAD THINGS AND ALL THINGS RECORDED ON OBSOLETE HOME VIDEO MEDIA! Welcome to the home stretch! After dozens of movies and six hours of podcasting, we’ve come to the end of Genre Grinder’s shot-on-video horror retrospective. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, yet again, did most of the research) drag and claw their way through a final 16 SOV oddities; nine of which one or both of them were able to watch, inclu...
BONUS EPISODE: VCR Horrors – An SOV Mixtape by Patrick Ripoll
February 03, 2021 22:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBWelcome to an extra special BONUS EPISODE of Genre Grinder. What you are about to hear is a digital mixtape compiled and mixed by Tracks of the Damned creator Patrick Ripoll. It includes themes, complete songs, and various clips from the films we’ve been discussing throughout Genre Grinder’s shot-on-video horror series. Be aware that, in most cases, Patrick or myself had to rip the audio from the films themselves, so the sound quality will be uneven to say the least. Then again, that’s kin...
Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, Part Three, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
January 28, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBLISTEN IN TERROR AS WE CONTINUE TO BE STRANGLED BY THE GNARLED, RIPPLING TENTACLES OF DEAD ANALOG MEDIA! Part three of our epic (seemingly never-ending) FOUR-PART look back on the insane world of shot-on-video horror movies from the pre-digital era. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, again, did most of the research) trudge through an additional 32 movies, 12 of which one or both of them were able to watch, including D3’s Death Row Diner (1988), Wally Ko...
Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, Part Two, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
January 08, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBENJOY EVEN MORE TALES OF THE TAPE AS WE DELVE FURTHER INTO THE INSANE DEPTHS OF THE MOST NEOPHYTIC MOVIES EVER TO GRACE A VIDEO RENTAL STORE! Bring on part two of three! Wait, of three? That can’t be right. Oh, yeah, this is a four-part epic now. Gabe and special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who did most of the research) break down 21 more shot-on video horror movies; nine of which one or both of them have been able to actually see, including ‘classics,’ like the Polonia Brothers’ Hall...
Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
December 14, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBTAKE A TRIP BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF WTF DIY HOME VIDEO HORROR! I REALLY WISH I HADN’T USED UP MY ‘ADJUST YOUR TRACKING’ REFERENCE ON THE FOUND-FOOTAGE HORROR DESCRIPTION! Strap in for part one of a three-part look back at an era when three teenagers with a camcorder could shoot a horror movie without a script and sell it to video rental stores across the country. Gabe and special guest/co-host Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned do their best to parse the mind-melting world of sho...
Episode 17: Silent Era Slapstick, feat. Kristine Fisher
November 13, 2020 22:54 - 1 hour - 129 MBDUST OFF YOUR PORK PIE HATS, FLAPPER SKIRTS, AND ROUNDED GLASSES, YA DEWDROPPERS, AND SHUT YER YAP FOR A HOTSY-TOTSY TRIP THROUGH PRE-TALKIE ANTICS! Let us journey way back in time, before sync sound was easy to record and people still thought a pie in the face was the height of comedy with Gabe and today’s guest, his girlfriend Kristine. Kristine has the knowledge and Gabe has the will to learn as they look at a handful of classic films and shorts. Today’s sockdoglar includes Henry Lehrma...
Episode 16: Found Footage Horror, feat. Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters
October 09, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBDIG THE OLD CAMCORDER OUTTA STORAGE, DIM THE LIGHTS, AND RELIVE YOUR FAVORITE FRIGHTENING HOME MOVIES! REMEMBER TO ADJUST YOUR TRACKING! We all know that found footage and mockumentary horror is the scourge of straight-to-streaming media these days, but there are some good movies out there, assuming you’re willing to endure a lot of very bad ones. Returning guest Betsy Jorgensen has taken it upon herself to cull through hundreds, nay, thousands of found footage horror movies. She has...
Episode 15: Video Game Adaptations, feat. Justin Clark
September 07, 2020 12:00 - 2 hours - 171 MBMovies based on video games. Absolutely nobody enjoys them, right? Well, they wouldn’t keep making them if someone wasn’t watching them. Who is that someone? It’s actually two someones, your humble podcast host Gabe and his friend, video game player, chronicler, critic, and all-around enthusiast, Justin Clark. Join them on their co-op mode adventure through four classic and, erm, not-so-classic motion pictures – James Yukich’s Double Dragon (1994), Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat...
Episode 14.5: Twin Peaks: The Return, feat. Tyler Foster
August 12, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.4 MBIT IS HAPPENING AGAIN. CURL UP WITH YOUR FAVORITE LOG AND ENJOY THIS BONUS EPISODE. You can’t talk about the legacy of legacy sequels without talking about the legacy of a legacy sequel that skirts the lines between the legacies of film, television, and even David Lynch’s as a filmmaker. I (Gabe) am not exactly a Twin Peaks novice, but this was my first time watching anything other than the original series (i.e., Fire Walk with Me and The Return), so, Tyler Foster, who is well-vers...
Episode 14: Legacy Sequels, feat. Tyler Foster
July 17, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBLegacy sequel. What does it mean? Well, the simplest way to put it is “a sequel is made a considerable amount of time after its predecessor,” but it’s also more than that. Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster try to suss out the precise meaning of this particularly enigmatic subgenre – and there’s a lot to cover in only a couple of hours. First, they talk about early and popular examples, like J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Ryan Coogler’s Creed (2015). Then, they...
Episode 13: Techno Horror, feat. Jim Laczkowski of Director’s Club Podcast
June 14, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBWELCOME! YOU’VE GOT MAIL! AND A SPECIAL DELIVERY OF E-FEAR! Enter the Matrix! Or, rather, what early ‘90s Hollywood thought virtual reality would look like, before movies like The Matrix offered a more nuanced alternative. Gabe and special guest, Now Playing Network head honcho Jim Laczkowski, take a look at Techno Horror. More specifically, Techno Horror movies about haunted and evil computers, video games, and internets. They begin with Michael Fischa’s filmed in the early ‘80s...
Episode 12: Pop Star Movies, feat. Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned
May 05, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBOkay, this one is a little hard to explain: Gabe and Patrick are looking at films featuring rock, hip-hop, R&B, and reggae artists. Not concert movies or movies where a pop star plays someone else, but movies in which they essentially appear either as themselves or a slightly fictionalized version of themselves. Obvious examples include The Beatles in Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night (1964) or Prince in Albert Magnoli’s Purple Rain (1984). But we’re also not talking...
Episode 11: (Bad) Shark Movies, feat. Anne-Marie Taylor
April 08, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBDUH DUN DUH DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN (duh nanaaa) DUNDUNDUNDUN Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.... Genre Grinder is back and focusing on actual genres, following the three part best of 2010s. Well, sort of. This month, Gabe and first-time guest Anne-Marie Taylor chat about shark movies or, more precisely, BAD shark movies. Honestly, it was just easier this way. Not only does Anne-Marie pride herself on knowing all the best in shitty selachimorpha flicks, but th...