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Weird Scenes 9/19/19: Al Pacino - An Actor's Actor
September 20, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 139 MBBorn in, of all places Harlem and raised in the Bronx, forced to leave an already broken home when he made the choice to pursue acting, Al Pacino was born tough and lived it as well (being known as a troublemaker and fighter in school) He actually won the “triple crown” in getting not only an Oscar, but an Emmy and a Tony for work across film, television and stage…which is a fairly rare achievement, to say the least. He did study under Strasberg and the hated Method, but he graduated to tha...
Weird Scenes 9/5/19: The Muscles From Brussels: An Evening With Jean Claude Van Damme
September 06, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBFrom a local child prodigy in karate and competitive bodybuilding to one of the first and most influential kickboxing film stars, tonight we talk a man who supposedly inspired the entire Mortal Kombat series, whose oft referenced but seldom imitated balletic approach to full contact martial arts is positively legendary. Starring in a number of films whose tropes were copied and repeated in other, often lesser films and series within the nascent kickboxing genre (the futuristic Cyborg-style,...
Weird Scenes 8/22/19: Do You Believe in Bronson?…Because You’re About to Meet Him!
August 23, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 155 MBWhen it came to movie tough guys, Eastwood was your strong silent type, Stallone your streetwise paisan, Schwarzenegger your jokey bruiser…and Bronson the hard ass, vindictive son of a bitch nobody wanted to deal with. Making his way up from decidedly humble roots in Pennsylvania coal mining and a veteran of WWII, this unlikeliest of action heroes came to prominence well past accepted Hollywood vintage (his first notable ensemble roles came when he was in his forties, and his earliest Europ...
Weird Scenes 8/8/19: Elliott Gould: The Dark Side of Humor (a very 70's sex symbol)
August 09, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBNotable for playing nebbishy if likeable everyman types, the former Elliott Goldstein was something of a unique type who could pull off comedy and serious melodrama equally believably. Born and raised in the heavily Italian immigrant neighborhood of Bensonhurst Brooklyn, he spent about five years working in theater before being given his first film role. Interestingly, it took another five years before his defining turn in 60’s sexual revolution dramedy Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, whic...
Weird Scenes 7/25/19: You're Simply Not Tough Enough for This Show: The films of Chuck Norris
July 26, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBFrom humble roots in the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Carlos Ray Norris took his post Korean war-era stint in the Air Force and turned it into what became a black belt in three separate disciplines (Korean karate, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo) and international karate championships, where he met and trained further with the man, the myth: Bruce Lee. Tapped by Lee for his Way (nee Return) of the Dragon, he shortly found his way into film, starting with the trucker and CB craze hicksploiter Breaker...
Weird Scenes 6/13/19: Stranger in a Strange Land - the Counterculture of Donald Sutherland
June 14, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 123 MBThis time, we're taking on another counterculture icon! Tonight we take on a Canadian actor and former radio newsman hailing from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in his younger days. As such, it's probably no surprise he hails mainly from Scotch stock (with a bit of German in there for good measure)... He double majored in, of all things, engineering and drama, quickly dropping all the dry bourgeoise practicalities of applied math to pursue acting across Western Europe, doing a lot of work i...
Weird Scenes 5/30/19: That Knowing Smile, That Piercing Gaze: The Tao of Charlotte Rampling
May 31, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBCharlotte Rampling, like Diana Rigg and many others of her generation, began her career as a 60's fashion model. After bit parts in such well remembered films as A Hard Days Night and The Knack and How to Get It, she stepped into a major role in the seminal Swinging London kitchen sink drama Georgy Girl, which got her noticed and brought over to Italy where she showed up in two WWII related epics that made her famous (and perhaps unintentionally helped kick off a certain infamous and short ...
Weird Scenes 5/16/19: From Brixton to Brexiteer: The Films of Michael Caine
May 17, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 125 MBBorn to a poor Cockney fishmonger and charwoman (you know, the folks that come around after hours to clean the office?), Michael Caine quickly discovered some important things about himself and the world around during a then-mandatory stint in National Service…a shattering of ivory tower illusions about communism, and a zest to live each day as if it were your last. Making his way up through the usual bit parts on television and film, his first big break came when cast in a fairly major par...
Weird Scenes 5/2/19: Disreputable: the cult cinema of David Hemmings
May 03, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBWith his sleepy eyed look and tousled blond locks, he came across as some amalgamation of Robert and Chris Mitchum...with more than a touch of Paul McCartney as a finisher. Generally strolling through films as oddly passive, even disinterested, he could flip to a crazed enervation unexpectedly, leading him to serve as the ultimate outsider figure: either failing to react or overreacting to the events onscreen, in turn. Seldom a lead but always a presence, he effortlessly shifted from star b...
Weird Scenes 4/18/19: He Always Comes Back - the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger
April 19, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 112 MBBorn into a stiff, lower middle class Austrian background just after the war, Arnold Schwarzenegger rebelled from his rigid father and proscribed life at an early age, eschewing the family plans for his life and career to pursue a rocky road in the dubious world of bodybuilding. Idolizing the likes of up and coming cinematic pepla stars like Steve Reeves and especially Reg Park, the young Arnold followed his dreams from breaking into local gyms to work out on off hours to participating in i...
Weird Scenes 4/4/19: Sean Connery - Beyond Bond
April 05, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 119 MBOur late in the run At Eye Level correspondent from Scotland regularly brought up, as a sort of bemused reality check, the fact that his grandmother's milkman was none other than Sean Connery. A prophet has no honor in his own country... Supposedly an amateur bodybuilder (though you'd probably never know it from what we see on celluloid) and ex-Royal Navy man, Connery was a milkman both as a youth and an adult, a truck driver, a grave digger, an artist's model and a laborer. But that all ch...
Weird Scenes 3/21/19: Roddy McDowall - a true character
March 22, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBA British character actor, who made precious few films outside the US. A former child actor who made his fortunes more on his adult career than what came before. A man who’s starred in well over a hundred films and dozens of television shows, many falling well inside the realm of cult, SF and horror, but seldom as more than a minor role, even a cameo. And yet, he’s the one you’ll remember when the credits roll… Join us tonight as we wend our way through some highlights of a signific...
Weird Scenes 3/7/19: The Italian Stallion: the Films of Sylvester Stallone
March 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBHells Kitchen brought the world two rather formidable things: my grandfather and the Sylvester Stallone. The son of...of all things, a beautician and an astrologer (!), Stallone survived a difficult birth and life on the mean streets of what had already become something of an ethnic ghetto to star in a notorious off Broadway play soon to wind up as a Radley Metzger film: Score. Following theatrical work with a number of walk ons and bit parts (including the infamous Italian Stallion aka Pa...
Weird Scenes 2/21/19: The King died on the throne: the weird world of the Elvis movie
February 22, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 130 MBElvis Presley. The very name conjures a host of associations, both general and particular to the individual. The young trucker with a golden voice, making his way through the tough Southern rockabilly circuit before emerging as the posterboy for everything rock n' roll - the positive liberation of an emergent youth culture and the first musician to truly "cross the color line" of the era, the negative associations of stiff necked traditionalists and conservative fearmongers, damning e...
Weird Scenes 2/7/19: Wk 58 Superhero cinema pt. 3: Marvel studios steps in
February 08, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 150 MBWe've talked superhero television (and the serials before them) in an earlier show, now buckle in as we take on the long running, seemingly inexhaustible run of superhero cinema, from the serials to its (mostly televised) fits and starts of the 1970s and 80's through the Fox Studios licenses of the early millenium to the ever more interconnected Marvel Studios universe of today! In our final show, we pick up where Marvel Studios begins, finally bringing the outsourced characters home to roo...
Weird Scenes 1/11/19: Week 56 - Superhero cinema pt. 1: DC
January 12, 2019 05:00 - 2 hours - 133 MBWe've talked superhero television (and the serials before them) in an earlier show, now buckle in as we take on the long running, seemingly inexhaustible run of superhero cinema, from its fits and starts of the 1970s-early 80's Superman series and 1989-present Batman series through the Fox Studios licenses and DC revival of the 1990s to the ever more interconnected Marvel Studios universe of today! In our first show, we take on the earliest days, once again paying visits to those seminal Su...
Weird Scenes 1/24/19: Week 57 - Superhero cinema pt. 2 : early Marvel
December 25, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBWe've talked superhero television (and the serials before them) in an earlier show, now buckle in as we take on the long running, seemingly inexhaustible run of superhero cinema, from its (mostly televised) fits and starts of the 1970s through the Fox Studios licenses of the early millenium to the ever more interconnected Marvel Studios universe of today! In our second show, we take on the earliest Marvel properties based films, from the Corman pictures (both released and not) and the Blade ...
Weird Scenes 9/27/18 - Week 55 - This podcast will self destruct in 5 seconds
September 28, 2018 04:00 - 2 hours - 110 MBThe show that launched not only a sequel a decade and a half on, but an equally popular movie series two full decades thereafter, the tropes and score of Mission Impossible have been used, referenced and celebrated throughout popular culture well past any similar series' shelf life. Despite avoidance of actual characterization or backstory, this unique spy cum heist series went on to be nominated for and win any number of awards throughout its run (6-10 Emmy nominations a year for the Landau...
Weird Scenes 9/13/18 - Week 54: Eddie Romero and the horror of the Philippines
September 14, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBIf you’re going to discuss Sam Sherman and American International Pictures, Roger Corman and Hemisphere Pictures, there’s simply no way you can avoid bringing up the cult cinema of the Phillipines. While other directors like Cirio S. Santiago would carry the nation’s coproductions into a plethora of increasingly pointless lookalike Vietnam war pictures throughout the 80’s, what will immediately spring to mind for most film aficionados are the weird, almost 50’s style rubber monster pictures...
Weird Scenes 8/30/18: Week 53 - Joe Don Baker: Walk softly and carry a big stick
August 31, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBOnly in the 70's could a beefy, drawling television character actor change gears and morph into not only an action hero, but even some measure of sex symbol to an audience bedazzled by an aging, Vegas Elvis and the good humored down home charm of Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson... After nearly a decade toiling away in bit parts on series from Honey West and Gunsmoke to the Mod Squad to Mission Impossible, Texan good ol' boy Joe Don Baker brought a likeably rootsy appeal to his roles, fr...
Weird Scenes 8/16/18: Week 52 - Easy Ridin' with Cap - the films of Peter Fonda
August 17, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBOne of New York's own, scion of an acting dynasty that includes his famed father, controversial sister and indie film regular daughter, Peter Fonda walked a very different path from the man who raised him, in short order becoming the figurehead of a generation. From an oddball pair of Roger Corman quickies that barely seemed to grasp the counterculture they centered on (and were ostensibly marketed towards), Peter Fonda took on the role of a lifetime in a film that was just as loose, wild an...
Weird Scenes 8/2/18: Week 51 - the OTHER career of William Shatner
August 03, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 92 MBA man of contradictions whose name's literal derivation is "from the shadows", yet is one of the most recognizable, well beloved cultural icons of our time. A Canadian actor, nearly all of whose performances were both lensed and based in the States. A "singer" whose recordings consist of hilariously bombastic theatrical spoken word readings...mostly of popular hits of the day. A persona noted for his onscreen virility, despite spending the better part of same busting out of every suit he's...
Weird Scenes 7/19/18 - Radley Metzger - a dash of Euro Chic
July 20, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBBorn in the Bronx at the dawn of the Great Depression, a young man falls in love with film...and specifically the burgeoning European arthouse cinema coming in from celebrated critical darlings all over France, Italy and even Sweden, whose loftier and more visual (if not downright highbrow) approach to film would later inform his own strange career. From humble beginnings in film editing and dubbing, he formed the celebrated Audobon Films, responsible for the importation and distribution of ...
Weird Scenes 7/5/18 - Io, Emmanuelle
July 06, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBAt the very dawn of the 1960s, a then-typically "Anonymous" book of erotica appeared on the shelves of the more specialized and discreet booksellers and bodegas of Paris. Generally considered to be autobiographic fiction, Emmanuelle was penned by a Thai expat going under the pen name of Emmanuelle Arsan. While the book was later widely reattributed to her French husband, Emmanuelle was an amazing novel, rivalled only by Pauline Reage's Story of O and the works of Sade as a quintessentially ...
Weird Scenes 6/21/18: Watch Out, Baby…it’s Eddie Constantine!
June 22, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 82 MBA Russian-Pole cabaret singer and contemporary (and collaborator!) of Edith Piaf, Eddie Constantine made his fame in the bohemian Left Bank of Paris…first as a proto-Serge Gainsbourg chanteur…but more famously, as the unlikely star of a long running series of generally hard boiled neo-noir (but just as often, self-mocking and comedically oriented!) crime pictures. Much beloved, oft imitated but never paralleled, Constantine would appear in films by the likes of Jean Luc Godard and Jesus (Jes...
Weird Scenes 6/7/18: In the Shadow of Giants: the Weird World of Amicus films
June 08, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBIn the wake of the surprising runaway success of the Hammer Horrors, any number of budget conscious producers suddenly saw gold in them thar hills, ranging as far distant as Roger Corman's California production house (with the much lauded Hammer-derived "Poe cycle") and as close to home as Kevin Francis' short lived Tyburn, Tony Tenser's far more credible Tigon...and a Shepperton Studios based, yet American founded company with an obsession for EC Comics and the portmanteau format, namely Ami...
Weird Scenes 5/24/18: The Icy Eyes of Death - the films of Barbara Steele
May 25, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBHow does a nice British girl out of Liverpool wind up as the figurehead of Italian horror cinema? One of thousands of feckless art school attendees during the beatnik era that both preceded and prefigured the sweeping cultural change of the British Invasion and subsequent hippie movement, Barbara Steele's striking, yet severe looks landed her roles in several classic Italian films, even catching the eye of Federico Fellini himself while creating an all too brief series of gothic horror effor...
Weird Scenes 5/10/18: Embracing Mania – Ken Russell in the 80's
May 11, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBWe’d previously discussed the life and career of one of his most famed (and controversial) collaborators, Oliver Reed…and now we go whole hog and dive in for the full monte. Just pardon us if we don’t wrestle in the buff… A wild visionary filmmaker, England’s Ken Russell has traversed the heights of critical approval and fame and wallowed in the swamps and sewers of their approbation throughout his long and winding career. While many would laud his efforts with Reed (and takes on Who-penne...
Weird Scenes 4/26/18: The First Gay Action Hero?
April 27, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBGroomed as a potential leading man and heartthrob for the Hollywood studio system of the 1950s, George Nader went from a debut in an acknowledged camp classic (Robot Monster) through roles alongside the likes of Tony Curtis, Maureen O’Hara, Esther Williams, Hedy Lamarr and John Saxon, eventually winding up in the career-defining role of FBI G-man Jerry Cotton in an unforgettable series of two fisted German action films that drew equally from the Bondian excess of the Eurospy craze and the wil...
Week 92 (Sun. Oct. 15) - Mark Briody of Jag Panzer
October 16, 2017 04:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBNext Sunday, October 15, join us for Week 92 of Third Eye Cinema with one of the founding and longest standing members of a band whose very name has become synonymous with the term "US power metal"! Releasing their first legendary EP back in 1983, Coloradans Jag Panzer have weathered many a storm, not to mention a lineup change, over the decades...and yet not once did they throw in the towel, until very recent days. Now back in full fighting form with their most beloved and justly celebrate...
Week 91 (Sun. Oct. 8) - Dan Watson of Hexx
October 04, 2017 05:30 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBjoin us for Week 91 of Third Eye Cinema with the one and only Dan Watson, guitarist and driving force behind cult US power metal band Hexx! Making their debut way back in 1983 as Paradox, Hexx worked the San Francisco Bay Area scene, opening for bands like Quiet Riot, Lita Ford, Exodus, Vicious Rumors and more. Signed to the legendary shred label Shrapnel Records, Hexx put out two unimpeachable slabs of molten steel...with two very different vocalists. But all was not well behind the scene...
Third Eye Cinema 6/8/17 with Michael Raso of Film Media - 6 years on
June 10, 2017 00:30 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBThe Third Eye Cinema podcast returns with our (official) 90th episode, as we catch up with one of our very first guests and interviews and discuss his newest venture! Back in late 2011, we'd met with Mike Raso of EI Entertainment, Retro-Seduction Cinema, Shock-O-Rama, Camp Motion Pictures and many more sub-labels of indie film goodness. Aired as the second week of our brand spanking new podcast in January of 2012, we covered everything from SOV to classic sexploitation directors to the pend...
At Eye Level 2/6/17: Mystery of the Missing Cohost - Future is Now!
February 07, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBIn a baffling conundrum suitable for Miller & Liu's Holmes and Watson, upon the approach of our 6 year anniversary, show cohost and founder Matt G has vanished like Sherlock after Reichenbach Falls, pulling the plug and disappearing from both the online and interpersonal world, for the nonce. Join us as we discuss this unusual situation and look towards where things may or may not go from here, in terms of the network christened after our reclusive compatriot, the archives for all four podca...
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 12/18/16: Revisiting Bond: the Finale
December 19, 2016 07:00 - 2 hours - 165 MBAnd here you thought you heard it all the first time around... The long awaited finale to Week 42's incomplete revisitation of Bond covering everything from Never Say Never Again through Spectre...and even a little more! The last gasps of Connery and Moore! Dalton! Brosnan! Craig! Hell, there's even a nod to both versions of Casino Royale... More laughs! More gaffes! More unexpected shifts in opinion, and why! And a whole lot more edutainment! It's all in there...plus a special bonus in...
Weird Scenes 12/14/16 - Into the Mouth of Madness with Klaus Kinski
December 15, 2016 05:00 - 2 hours - 131 MB“There is no great genius without some touch of madness,” Aristotle once penned, as quoted by Seneca. And in no case does this aphorism greater apply than with respect to the inimitable Klaus Kinski. Famed for his work with the similarly mad Teutonic filmmaker Werner Herzog (whose highly amusing relationship with was documented in My Best Fiend), Kinski had spent over a decade working in German Edgar Wallace krimis and Italian and Spanish “Spaghetti and Paella” Westerns before ever meeting ...
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 12/8/16 - Revisiting Bond
December 09, 2016 05:00 - 2 hours - 115 MBWe’d previously addressed the cinema of Ian Fleming’s favorite son, a gritty MI6 man turned urbane jet setter and lounge lizard cum male fantasy figure (come on, who out there didn’t want to be Bond…or bag the plethora of global lovelies he made his way through in one epic adventure after another?) in our second season. But with a recent upgrade to Blu Ray, the household of yours truly has spent the last few months wending our way through Britain’s favorite son once more, from the quirkily f...
Weird Scenes 7/7/16 - Spies, Thighs and Private Eyes: Eurospy cinema
July 08, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 134 MBIn the wake of the surprising worldwide success of the James Bond films, moviemakers around the globe raced to put forth their own homegrown versions of M16's favorite son. Occasionally utilizing pre-existing detective/spy stories (Belgium's Francis Coplan, Germany's Rolf Torring) but more often creating their own from scratch, directors from such nations as Italy, Spain, Germany and France in particular would release a flurry of pictures revolving around such recurring characters as OSS 117...
Weird Scenes 6/30/16: The Angry Young Man in Winter: Oliver Reed
July 01, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBWhile American audiences would later thrill to the likes of Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen and James Coburn, one of the earliest "tough guy" actors of their vintage actually hailed from the UK. Noted as much for his personal volatility and drunken escapades as his intense, "angry young man" portrayals of out of control teddy boys and suchlike, Oliver Reed would display a surprising versatility, covering musicals, literary classics and Shakespearean roles with the same panache as h...
Weird Scenes 6/23/16: Nikkatsu pt 1: Sun Tribe Borderless Action & Seijun Suzuki
June 24, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBSet up at the turn of the century, The Nikkatsu Corporation halted production during the war years, only to return with a vengeance in the mid-50s for a long run of genre-defining cinema. From the "Sun Tribe" films of a new, more freespirited youth culture to a strong (if somewhat belated) Japanese take on Film Noir through to their famed "Borderless Action" films, Nikkatsu was the go to company for such internationally feted directors as Keiichi Ozawa, Yasaharu Hasebe, Chusei Sone, Koreyosh...
Weird Scenes 6/2/16: Tony Anthony, still Stranger
June 03, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 118 MBWest Virginia born Roger "Tony Anthony" Pettito made a name for himself when he moved to Italy and starred in the Stranger series, presenting a uniquely sleazy, sneaky and quite amoral antihero fairly far removed from the likes of Clint Eastwood, Gianni Garko, Franco Nero, William Berger or even Lee Van Cleef! Breaking ties with original director Luigi Vanzi, Anthony came to even greater prominence (and more entertaining films) in partnership with Ferdinando Baldi for the Ringo Starr-ing B...
Weird Scenes 5/26/16: Mexican Horror pt. 1 - Lucha Libre contra Los Monstruos
May 27, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBIn the second installment of our look into cinema south of the border, we head to sunny Mexico! One of the most recognizable (and recognizably insane) subgenres of cinema is that of the luchador: featuring well known masked wrestlers facing off against mummies, mad scientists, zombies, vampires, sinister dwarves and more! Often paired with other notables (and rivals in the ring), tonight we talk the surprisingly lengthy film career of the legendary Enmascarado de Plata (Man in the Silver Ma...
Weird Scenes 5/19/16: American Gothic pt. 2 - Tobe Hooper
May 20, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBAs promised, we're picking up the pieces and gathering up the bits we never got to due to the inevitable ticking of the clock. This week, we take on the second director intended for our American Gothic show! College professor and documentarian Tobe Hooper seemed to come out of left field with his gruesome (yet strangely bloodless) take on the Ed Gein murders, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Parlaying the film's unprecedented success into a career in oddball horror, he would give us strange ...
Weird Scenes 5/12/16: Champagne, Bongos and Brolly Sword Canes - The Avengers
May 13, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 118 MBWithout parallel, the single most influential and beloved British cult television series this side of Doctor Who was the quirky, often campy take on the 60's spy genre was Sydney Newman's (and later Brian Clemens') Avengers. Starting life at the very dawn of the 1960s as a gritty, nigh-street level crime series (with covert government involvement), Patrick MacNee's iconic British Intelligence man John Steed cycled through a succession of civilian partnerships, moving from a suave yet icily c...
Weird Scenes 5/5/16: Cinema South of the Border- Coffin Joe, Isabel Sarli & more
May 06, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 123 MBThis week, we go south of the border to sunny South America! A true pioneer in outsider cinema, Jose Mojica Marins fought both poverty and governmental censure to create and release his homegrown cinema of philosophical and literal transgression, using throwaway celluloid short ends and scratching "special effects" directly on the emulsion to bring his uniquely Nietzchean anticlerical Xe do Caixao (better known on these shores as Coffin Joe) and faux-messianic madman Finis Hominis to an outr...
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 4/28/16: Spanish Horror
April 29, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 137 MBWe've already spoken at length in prior episodes to Jess Franco, El Hombre Lobo Paul Naschy and Director of the Blind Dead Amando de Ossorio...tonight, we fill in the gaps on the short lived but much beloved Spanish horror scene! We'll touch on everyone from Naschy collaborators Leon Klimovsky, Carlos Aured and Javier Aguirre to the likes of Eugenio Martin (Candle for the Devil, Horror Express), Jorge Grau (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie), Eloy de la Iglesia (Cannibal Man), Narciso Ibanez Serrador...
Weird Scenes 4/13/16: Full Moon Rising: Dave DeCoteau, Charles Band and more
April 14, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBKicking off his career as a lowly production assistant under Roger Corman, Dave DeCoteau went on to helm dozens of films for Full Moon and its offshoot Torchlight Pictures throughout the 1980's and 1990's before establishing his own homoerotically oriented Rapid Heart Pictures. Charles Band continued his father's theatrical tradition, enlisting his brother for soundtrack composition and establishing first his own Charles Band Productions, then the even more successful Empire Pictures and fin...
Weird Scenes 4/7/16 - Podcast of the Blind Dead -the films of Amando de Ossorio
April 08, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBIn the short lived but much beloved Spanish horror scene, after Paul Naschy and perhaps the more internationally inclined Jesus Franco, one name stands out above all the others: Amando de Ossorio. Starting off as a documentarian and veering off briefly into adult film, de Ossorio is known on these shores for quirky late night favorites Night of the Sorcerers, Fangs of the Living Dead and Demon Witch Child...but without a doubt, his most famed creation is those zombified agents of repression,...
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 3/31/16 - Lamberto Bava and Michele Soavi
April 01, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 135 MBThis week, we discuss two men who started off as prominent assistant directors (and in the case of the latter, onscreen bit player), later to move on to carve a niche all their own in the annals of Italian cult cinema! Michele Soavi worked his way through the Italian film industry, first as an onscreen actor in minor roles for the likes of Fulci, Castellari, Deodato, Cozzi, D'Amato and even Lamberto Bava himself, before becoming AD on several Argento, Bava and D'Amato affairs. But it was a ...
Weird Scenes 3/24/16 - American Gothic: John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper
March 25, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBTonight, we leave European shores to discuss two prominent directors of homegrown cult cinema! Worshipping at the unlikely altars of John Ford and Howard Hawks, USC Film School student John Carpenter dropped out to kick off what was one of the most distinctive American directorial careers of the 1970's and 80's! While few would defend his post-1995 productions as a rule, it's unquestioned that for almost 20 years, John Carpenter was one of the most important American directors. From classi...
Weird Scenes 3/17/16 - Even Darker Shadows - Dan Curtis in the 70's
March 18, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 124 MBComing off of his hit transformation of gothic soap opera Dark Shadows from a vaguely Rebecca-esque turn of the century gothic into an all-out monsterfest, Dan Curtis proceeded to both theatrical release (House/Night of Dark Shadows) and a decade long run as the king of TV movie horror! Often in partnership with Richard Matheson, Curtis would not only tackle adaptations of traditional horror classics (Jekyll & Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Gray, Frankenstein and Turn of the Screw), but create severa...