Tracks Of The Damned
57 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTracks of the Damned is a horror film commentary track podcast hosted by Patrick Ripoll. Finally, some new use for that huge DVD collection you've been ignoring! Informative! Entertaining! Weird! Adjective!
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Halloween Mix 2022 - One Eye Open, One Eye Closed
October 27, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBfor nathaxnne walker "The Devil is dope" - The Dramatics Beyond the darkest depths of imagination, the outer rim of human experience, the forbidden rites thought forgotten, rediscovered. The annual tradition of the Halloween mix corrupted, made sinister, clawed loose from the crypt and into the stark sunlight of reality. Italian soundtracks to 1930's jazz to darkwave to stoner metal to house to folk to garage psychedelia and beyond. Remember: when you look Satan in the face, he looks ...
Bonus - Jurassic Park (1993) ft. Regina Linn
March 03, 2022 21:20 - 2 hours - 189 MBFIGHT BACK AGAINST TRANSPHOBIC ATTACKS ON THE CHILDREN OF TEXAS: Resources For Transgender Youth in Texas: https://www.txtranskids.org/ Transgender Education Network of Texas: https://www.transtexas.org/services Equality Texas: https://www.equalitytexas.org/ ---------- Whether it's a complicated layered confession from the man who introduced blockbuster filmmaking into the water supply, turning his fellow New Hollywood icons into endangered species or just the best monster movie of...
Bonus - From Beyond by HP Lovecraft
October 30, 2021 22:50 - 21 minutes - 39.1 MBA special Halloween treat: a unique performance of the classic HP Lovecraft short story by Patrick Ripoll and Regina Linn.
S.2 E.11 - The Devil Commands (1941)
October 05, 2021 21:03 - 1 hour - 123 MBThe climax of the career of the greatest horror star of all time and also a miserable failure critically and commercially, The Devil Commands was the product of a hungry up and coming director, Edward Dmytryk, being paired with material best described as "Lovecraftian" decades before that word meant anything to anybody. In this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, host Patrick Ripoll tackles the second horror boom of the 40s and asks the big questions li...
Bonus - Hostel: Part Two (2007) feat. Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder
August 18, 2021 17:11 - 1 hour - 122 MBThe year was 2007, we were all drinking Four Loko, playing Super Mario Galaxy, listening to MIA's "Paper Planes" and taking to our Livejournals and message boards to argue about "torture porn" films. Were they pumped up cinema sadism designed to please craven adolescent creeps? Or angry political works calling back to horror's glory days of the 70's? The better question was, perhaps, were they torture porn at all? To answer all that and more on the latest episode of Tracks of the Damne...
S.2 E.10 - Friday the 13th (1980)
February 26, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBIn a world full of rip-off artists the key is how you rip something off. Sean S. Cunningham, the director of two separate Bad News Bears knockoffs, was not the first guy to go "Hey, this Halloween movie is real popular and seems cheap to make" but he was the guy who did it the exact right way at the exact right time to change the world of horror forever. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned Patrick finally returns to the one that started it all (the uncut version!) and talks about...
Bonus - The Evil Dead (1981) ft. Jim Laczkowski of Director's Club
November 25, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBIt's cold, meat is carved and you're thankful it exists. That's all the justification we need for a special Thanksgiving episode of Tracks of the Damned where Patrick & Jim sat down and did an impromptu, research-free commentary track for The Evil Dead. You may not get to be with your family this year but sit down next to the hearth (don't forget the screaming claymation Necronomicon) and warm your bones with us and Bruce Campbell. That ain't cranberry sauce! Ash gets the stuffing beaten out...
Bonus - Friday the 13th (2009)
November 19, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBWe've cut off heads, double impaled lovers, went 3D, we ended things, we began them again, we went Frankenstein, we went Carrie, we went to Manhattan, we went to Hell, we went to Space we went Kaiju, what the hell is left to do? Do it all again! How do you remake a movie when the things the fans love about the series don't actually exist in that movie? By remaking the entire series. As ambitious as it is divisive, Friday the 13th (2009) may not be a great film but it is a great example o...
Apocalypse 2021 - A Tracks of the Damned Halloween Mix
October 27, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 142 MB"Remember last year, when we were worried that Halloween in 2020 wouldn't feel like Halloween? 'We can't bob for apples, the season is ruined!' Well now some time has passed, it's October again and I haven't even seen an apple in 7 months." - Micah Bravo, host of Tracks of the Damned You think this year was a clusterfuck, you ain't see nothing yet. Live, from the radio station of the third most prestigious community college in the greater Baton Rouge area, DJ Micah Bravo (Regina Linn) sur...
Bonus - Freddy Vs. Jason (2003) feat. Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder
September 28, 2020 04:00 - 2 hours - 96.4 MBIt took 17 years, three god-awful sequels, 18 spec scripts and meetings with every person who ever worked in Hollywood but we got here, we have arrived, grab your shit from the overhead bin because the plane has landed, Freddy Vs. Jason is upon us. A stupid idea inspired by only the most juvenile among the fanbases somehow, some way, turned out to be one of the best entries in either series, a well-crafted and energetic bit of party cinema, grab your gummi bears and throw them at the scree...
Bonus - Jason X (2001)
August 27, 2020 15:05 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBHe went to development hell and stayed there but now Jason is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: SPAAAACE. Yes, since "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman but slasher" was apparently too monumental a task for New Line to tackle Sean S. Cunningham once again delayed Freddy Vs. Jason to boldly go where Hellraiser, Leprechaun AND Critters had already gone before, none of them successfully. But would Jason X be the film to crack that "Horror Franchise In Spac...
Bonus - Jason Goes To Hell (1993)
July 29, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBAfter Paramount squeezed all of the blood they could from their stone they sold that dry-ass stone to New Line with a shrug and a smile. They say the plan was always Freddy vs. Jason, but when Wes Craven threw a monkey wrench into the spokes of his old friend Sean Cunningham and, with no ideas and no real interest in anything but money, Cunningham went the dirt cheap route of hiring a bunch of college kids, including his son's old best friend Adam, to radically alter the massive film franchi...
Bonus - The House of the Devil (2009) w/ Jim of Voices and Visions
June 24, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 97 MBIf the quintessential quarantine experience is walking around your house bored doing nothing as you wait for the pizza you ordered to arrive, than The House of the Devil is the quintessential quarantine movie. Alternately thought of as brilliant and a total waste of time, Ti West's divisive modern classic may not have a quick pace but will it quicken your pulse? To find out we got Jim and Patrick to take a look and debate it's relative merits as horror and as art, time capsule and post-mod...
Bonus - Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhtattan (1989) w/ Louisa of Hack the Net
June 17, 2020 04:00 - 2 hours - 83.2 MBParting can be such sweet sorrow, but it can also just be sorrow, no sweetness, nothing good about it whatsoever. As we close the book on the Paramount years of the Friday the 13th series we see that Frank Mancuso Jr. opted to go out not with a bang, or even a whimper, just a shrug, a gimmicky ad campaign and no fucks given whatsoever. Welcome to Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan, where the ideas ran out long before the money did. But if we are to continue down the thankless pa...
Bonus - X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
June 10, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBSo you get your X-Ray Vision but the truth is that after a week of staring at everyone's boobs and dongs nudity fails to do anything for you anymore. What are you going to use it for? Cheating at cards? Curing the sick? Hiding in a dingy Long Beach boardwalk doing insult comedy while dressed lake a blindfolded Pharaoh? If you said all three you might be Dr. James Xavier, star of Roger Corman's 1963 classic X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned we tak...
Bonus - Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood (1988) w/ Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters
June 02, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBhttps://chicagobond.org/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd Just when you thought it was safe to have a psychic freakout at your parent's summer home! Some say this movie started as Freddy Vs. Jason, or as a Jaws rip-off, an attempt at an Oscar or an attempt to meet Federico Fellini but if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that it's neutered! Yes, they cut out all the gore, but that does mean they cut out all the fun? To find out Patrick enlist...
S.2 E.9 - I Drink Your Blood (1970)
May 27, 2020 12:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBBefore Boyle cleared out London, before Snyder tacked a mediocre remake onto a strong opening sequence, before Cronenberg went beyond the green door to ask for Marilyn Chamber's phone number, David Durston was there, making zombies who ran hella fast. Raconteur, TV writer, actor and possible gigantic liar (seriously, some of his life stories are wild), Durston was a cuddly madman who saw news footage of caged children foaming at the mouth and thought "that'd make for a fun movie, if only you...
Bonus - Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)
May 21, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBHere's some real truth for you: every time your neighbor is loud and annoys you through the walls, what they are doing is making a deposit. It's a deposit in your "be as loud and obnoxious as you want guilt-free" bank. You don't have to feel guilty about shouting at the TV while watching The Americans or for stomping around as you dance. When neighbors are aspiring DJ's that's the world telling you: don't worry about being polite all the time. It is in that spirit that on the latest episo...
Bonus - A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) w/ Tessa Racked of pandabearshape.com
May 13, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 89 MB1, 2, Patrick's coming for you...4, 3, check your RSS feed. That's right, Tracks of the Damned is back with another bonus episode, this one of the rare 2017 vintage. In it Patrick is joined by Tessa Racked of Consistent Panda Bear Shape to talk about the controversial and oh-so delightful A Nightmare on Elm Street Part Two. You take a newly-successful studio like New Line and ask them what to do with all that Freddy Money (tm), it's no surprise they didn't exactly know what the future...
Bonus - Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning (1985) w/ Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder
May 06, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBEvery new beginning comes from some other beginning's end, it's true, but when that other beginning's end was the high point of the series since the beginning's beginning what can you expect from the new beginning, particularly it's end? Why, one of the most controversial choices of the franchise, of course! We've reached the love-it-or-hate-it section of the series, so we made sure to have both sides represented. On the love it side we have Gabe Powers, proprietor of GenreGrinder.com ...
Bonus - The Black Cat (1934)
April 29, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBSo you saw Night of the Living Dead when you were 8, you brag to all your high school buddies about how your parents let you watch Martyrs, but trust me you aren't ready for this. Gnarly onscreen violence is one thing, but violent architecture? There's only one classic horror film that can make art deco scary: The Black Cat. Lugosi and Karloff together, now you know you in trouble. Ain't nothin but Ulmer thing baby, two horror star legends so it's crazy. Released a mere month and a hal...
Bonus - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
April 22, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBWell it took us several weeks but we're finally here. We've had decapitations and double impalements and 3D yo-yos and now we've reached the thrilling conclusion of the Friday the 13th series and, with it, our commentary tracks. (Wait, they made HOW many more after this? Oh geez.) Yes, on this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, we take a look at the least accurately titled slasher movie since Jason took Vancouver. But even if it wasn't the end of t...
Bonus - Frogs (1972) w/ beer
April 15, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBLook there's nothing wrong with an overgrown octopus pulling down the Golden Gate Bridge, there's nothing wrong with adorable giant bunnies gobbling up the townsfolk, but what if you got something more? What if you saw a killer animal movie that really got under your skin? An early 70's AIP cheapie directed by someone mostly known for TV work seems like an unlikely candidate, but sometimes life surprises you. On this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track pod...
Bonus - Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982) w/ Regina Linn of Consistent Panda Bear Shape
April 08, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBOnce, twice, three times a dopey slasher series but how are you gonna get the kids coming back to pay to see the same movie they already paid to twice before? The real answer is "Twice? Wait til you realize we can do this 8 more times!" but it's 1982, they don't know what they're sitting on yet. Instead they find a solution fitting their respect for the franchise: stick a bunch of goofy 3D gimmick shit in it! Yes, it's time to talk about Friday the 13th: Part 3, the film that launched the ...
Bonus - Halloween (Director's Cut) (2007)
April 01, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBIt's an age-old question. Why do we keep pushing on that bruise, tonguing that sore, why do we watch movies we know we hate, movies we know hate us? We don't know, but there are few more mainstream horror films more hateful than Rob Zombie's Halloween. Yes, kids, it's time to gaze into the abyss. Patrick may not like Rob Zombie's divisive 2007 remake of the Carpenter classic, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to figure it out, like some kind of Film Crit Sam Loomis trying to see what...
Bonus - Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)
March 25, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBIt's slower than we'd like but the days are finally getting warmer, the clouds are beginning to part and that first lonesome call of the loon cracking across the valley indicates the summer must soon be here. Time for camp! Yes Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, is returning with this bonus episode recorded in 2019 that goes deep into the heart of New Jersey to Camp Crystal Lake with the indeliable Friday the 13th: Part 2. We're here to ask the really hard ques...
S.2 E.8 - Martin (1978) w/ Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder
March 18, 2020 04:00 - 2 hours - 149 MBTracks of the Damned is back? We must truly be living in the end of days. Oh. Right. Well regardless, if we're all gonna be stuck in front of our TVs for the next two months than we might as well watch some movies together. So the plan right now is to go back into the crypt and dig up some old unreleased episodes and other archival material to release on a weekly basis. And to start off, a real doozy: Martin! In this episode, originally recorded in 2017, Patrick is joined by Gabe Power...
Halloween Mixtape 2019: Sweet Treats and Rotten Tricks
October 28, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBHey all, Jim here. I wish I could explain what you're about to hear, but I really can't. But Patrick is recovering in the hospital after 40% of his body was eaten away by insects, so all I can do is direct you to this sound file, which captures his final moments before he succumbed to a demonic force. So listen, but listen with caution, lest the same happen to you... TRACKLIST 1. Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong 2. Everyday is Halloween - Ministry 3a. "Help Me!" from The Fly (...
Halloween Mixtape 2018
October 30, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBI've spent the past 2 weeks making this special Halloween mix for you all to enjoy. Novelty songs, soundtrack cuts, horrorcore, horror-punk, horror surf, trailers, and other assorted bits and bobs. A creeptastic spooktacular! 1. Dark Dark Dark from "Spooky Scary Stories", read by Robert Dryden (1973) 2. Spooks! by Louis Armstrong and Gordon Jenkins (1954) 3a. The Graveyard Shift by Nature Sounds DJ (2013) 3b. Main Title from "Carnival of Souls" by Gene Moore (1962) 4a. Screams and...
S.2 E.7 - Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
October 27, 2017 04:00 - 2 hours - 138 MBThey say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, so why does the past seem like such a nightmare? In the world of pre-Vatican Patterson, NJ the Catholic communities are trapped, shamed, guilty, frustrated, and unhappy. And that's before a maniac in a mask starts burying butcher knives into the tops of people's feet. Alice, Sweet Alice is one of the greatest slashers of all-time and unforgivably forgotten by too many people, but on this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film com...
S.2 E.6 - Horror of Dracula (1958) with Robert Reineke
August 26, 2017 16:34 - 1 hour - 103 MBHey folks, Jim here. We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Patrick's computer, now in a deep coma. I have used my skills as a part-time fortune teller and medium to contact it in The Great Beyond and can confirm that it may be quite some time before it returns, if it ever does. So we must announce that Tracks of the Damned is on an indefinite hiatus until this matter can be resolved. However before Squinky The Wonder Laptop had her unfortunate accident, she did do one last noble ...
S.2 E.5 - Prince of Darkness (1987)
August 18, 2017 13:52 - 1 hour - 110 MBYou will not be saved by iTunes. You will not be saved by Stitcher Radio. In fact, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED. You take Carpenter's filmography and put it in a giant 1,500 lb blender, mix with some green goo, and hit puree. The result? Prince of Darkness (1987), a supernatural quantum physics siege film that has as many high minded science fiction ideas as it does characters. But can a director who's worked his way to major studio projects go back to a puny 3 million dollar budget? Can...
S.2 E.4 - Final Destination 2 (2003)
August 04, 2017 04:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBBut is that deer head you have hanging above the couch in your den really secure? Just how good are your cars brakes anyway? Did you know that 11 out of 10 people who use a ladder start a Rube Goldberg chain of events that ends with a bowling ball smashing someone's head? Yep, it's a big dangerous world out there and in 2000 New Line Pictures saw all the dough Scream and it's derivatives were raking in and shouted into a phone "DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT." Thankfully, instead of another maske...
S.2 E.3 - Duel (1971)
July 22, 2017 15:16 - 2 hours - 123 MBSo we all know the stories. Spielberg was a wunderkind. He snuck onto the Universal lot as an 8 year-old with nothing more than a turtleneck, viewfinder and a suitcase full of candy bars and was immediately hired to design the Creature From the Black Lagoon and do re-writes on Magnificent Obsession. But the truth is that even The Beard started somewhere and anyone who's seen his episodes of Night Gallery knows that start was inauspicious at best. So while now we can look back on Duel (1971...
S.2 E.2 - The Funhouse (1981)
July 14, 2017 13:18 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBLook, I get it. You're a major studio, you see a movie like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre make a boatload of money, you look at a movie like Friday the 13th make a trainload of money, you think "Well, if we could get the director of THAT to make a version THIS, we could make a planeload of money!" Here's your wake-up call. Tobe Hooper is only ever gonna do what Tobe Hooper wants to do. He doesn't just follow his own drummer, he IS his own drummer (listen to the TCM score if you don't bel...
S.2 E.1 - The Haunting (1963)
July 07, 2017 04:00 - 2 hours - 134 MBWhat is behind that door? It's maybe the key question at the root of all horror. What is behind that door, what is in that shadow, what was that noise? It's a fact that RKO producer Val Lewton exploited better than anyone and one that Robert Wise, who was mentored by Lewton, used as the backbone of his 1963 psychological ghost story classic The Haunting. For the season 2 premiere of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, Patrick is joined by author Christopher Olso...
Bonus Episode Update
April 22, 2017 03:14 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBHis tomb disturbed by raging teenagers, Patrick returns from the cold embrace of death to issue this warning: Bonus episodes are here, if you want them. So here's the deal. Season 2 will begin as planned July 7th, with one episode a week, 20 episodes total. All free of charge, at your leisure. HOWEVER. Patrick's already started recording Season 2. There will be 5 or 6 episodes already complete by the time July 7th rolls around. So if you'd like access to Season 2 episodes b...
Tween Season Update
March 01, 2017 21:09 - 8 minutes - 7.72 MBHey folks, Patrick here. With Season 2 of Tracks of the Damned on the way, I figured it'd be a good idea to give people an update on the podcast, why Season 1 was abruptly cut short, and why, now more than ever, it's important to record commentary tracks for A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2. Or whatever. Also, check out a new song by Genki Genki Panic, whose new album, Litanies of Surf, is available on Bandcamp now.
S.1 E.18 - Blood Feast (1963) with Never-Before-Heard Herschell Gordon Lewis Interview
November 04, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBIn 2016 the streets of Chicago are full of celebrations but in 1963 the streets of Miami were full of blood. Anyone can walk into a nudist camp and point a Bolex at some breasts, but it took a mad professor (Herschell Gordon Lewis) and his carny friend (David F. Friedman) to think of ripping a sheep's tongue out of a Swedish model's face in screaming color. Enter Blood Feast. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, Patrick takes aim at the world's first gore movie (no, for real,...
S.1 E.17 - Scream 4 (2011)
October 29, 2016 21:28 - 2 hours - 135 MBNew decade, new cast, new blood, new rules? Well wait, let's pump our brakes a sec here, what are the rules of remakes? What do the remakes of The Fog and A Nightmare on Elm Street share, other than the fact that they both suck? So maybe the whole "someone's trying to remake the events of the original" angle is a bit clumsy, and maybe there's no actual reason for this movie to exist. But the Final Chapter (until the New Beginning) of this seminal slasher series does have some merit to...
S.1 E.16 - Scream 3 (2000)
October 21, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 160 MBScream once, Scream twice, Scream as loud as you can, but you've got an episode about Scream 3 (2000) in your red right hand. Reviled by many, defended by a few, Scream 3 was the death knell for the new slasher boom. With an assist from Tessa Racked of Consistent Panda Bear Shape, Patrick dives into a movie that dares to ask: are two Gale Weatherses better than one? If one of those Gales is Parker Posey, the answer is "Yes, hell yes, oh my God yes". In addition to discussing th...
S.1 E.15 - Scream 2 (1997)
October 14, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 129 MBOh Jesus Christ, will the internet never leave Scream 2 alone? First there was a script leak before they even started filming. Then an extra brought a camcorder into the opening scene and filmed the whole thing. Then another script leak that made them change the ending. And now, the final indignity, some moron named Patrick Ripoll is gonna release a commentary track and jabber on over the whole thing? Is there no justice in the world? There is no justice, there's just us. And wha...
S.1 E.14 - Scream (1996)
October 07, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 121 MBWhat's your favorite scary movie? Ok, well what's your favorite scary movie that was originally titled "Scary Movie" but then changed to "Scream" because the Weinsteins thought that first name was box office poison? Scream (1996) has many die-hard fans and many die-hard detractors, but it's impact on the horror landscape of the late 90's is undeniable and it's status as a slasher movie touchstone is untouchable. To celebrate the greatest month of the year, Patrick decides not just to c...
S.1 E.13 - Jacob's Ladder (1990) feat. Jim Laczkowski of Directors Club
September 30, 2016 04:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBWho is that on the subway muttering to himself? The shell-shocked vet or the man with the tail or the faces you can't make out. Is it just me or is that bag twitching? Who said that? Who are these people at this party, why can't I breathe and who is my girlfriend dancing with and why can't I breathe and where lurks the Vibroman? Natural questions if you're the main character of Jacob's Ladder (1990). For Patrick and guest Jim Laczkowski of Director's Club, the questions are a little more s...
S.1 E.12 - City of the Living Dead (1980) feat. Gabe Powers of DVDActive
September 23, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBGrab your best blow-up doll and get ready to puke your guts out. You can learn all the horror movies rules, grab a crucifix, holy water, and silver bullets, but none of it will help you. An undying hanged priest don't care about your logic. An undying hanged priest just wants you to suffer. Lucio Fulci really knew how to reach out and squeeze the audience's brain, and there's few films that prove that better than City of the Living Dead (1980). Bravely in lockstep with DVDActive's Gabe...
S.1 E.11 - 1st Annual Tracks of the Damned Short Horror Film Festival
September 16, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBDid you know the original Halloween is 110 minutes long? I'm sorry, but who's got time for that noise? Maybe back in 1978 when all people had to do was homebrew beer and collect Susan B. Anthony dollars and wait in line for gas that shit would fly, but us modern folks got things to do, places to be, Pokemon to Go. What the world needs now, is films, short films. And we here at Tracks of the Damned are all about fulfilling your needs (hey baby, hit me up at tracksofthedamned...
S.1 E.10 - Troll 2 (1990) feat. a merry band of drunken delinquents
September 09, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBHo boy. Ok folks, this one is a little different. Patrick took a five day trip to Salem, Massachusetts with his partner Tessa Racked to visit their friends: actress Jess Conger-Henry and theater programmer Nick Henry. He fully intended to spend all five days steeping in the rich history of Salem to return with a 4 hour lecture on witchcraft, witch hunts, the effects of historical tourism on modern day neo-pagan landscape, and the broader sociological and metaphysical implications of polyth...
S.1 E.9 - Doctor X (1932)
September 02, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBYou ever see something so ugly it's cute again, like an armadillo or a pangolin? Not to oversell it, but this movie is kind of like that. It has the color of reality, just muted, twisted, slightly broken. Alive but not. That's right: two-strip technicolor is the synthetic flesh of color processes. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, Patrick dives into the many contradictions of famed director Michael Curtiz truly singular mad-scienti...
S.1 E.8 - Carnival Of Souls (1962) feat. Chris Olson of Pop Culture Lens
August 26, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 97 MBSure, Night of the Living Dead is the masterpiece, the one they all fawn over.. But you know what else it is? Wasteful. Did it shock the world, invent a lasting pop cultural icon, and inspire hundreds of low-budget copycats the world over? Certainly. But it also cost 90,000 dollars. Which means, if I do my math correctly (and what is art if not the result of math), George Romero could have taken that same $90,000 and made THREE Carnival of Soulses. Yes Carnival of Souls (1962), Kansas...
S.1 E.7 - Masque of the Red Death (1963)
August 19, 2016 04:34 - 1 hour - 103 MBSatan. Say it loud and there's music playing. Say it soft and it's almost like praying. The debauchery of the 60's had yet to even really begin when Roger Corman decided to have the final word in colorful horror bachanalia with The Masque of the Red Death (1963). In this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror commentary track podcast, Patrick dives into the Corman Poe cycle, the advantages of shooting your costume dramas in England, and what Vincent Price means to Patrick as a queer m...