What’s a filmmaker to do if they need to make an 80s slasher film but the trend is getting long in the tooth? Add some inappropriate folklore! A group of campers is stalked by a Viking berserker in the appropriately titled, BERSERKER (1987). And then a group of young people are mysteriously invited to their old summer camp built on land cursed by a…

It’s time for a European vacation with two films from across the pond that put their unique spin on the American slasher movie trend: BODY COUNT (1986) from famed Italian director Ruggero Deodato and Spanish slasher EDGE OF THE AXE (1988) directed by José Ramón Larraz.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Summer’s over! It’s time for Fall and Winter slashers to answer the question: Does changing seasons help change up a Friday-style slasher? SATAN’S BLADE (1984) combines bank robbing, attempted adultery, and boom mics with a local legend, while THE MUTILATOR (1984) mixes tones, tunes, and the craziest game of Blind Man’s Bluff you’ve ever witnessed.…

IT’S OUR 100TH EPISODE OF GET ME ANOTHER! While we ourselves are incapable of change, the Friday the 13th franchise is about to kick into overdrive. We look at the two movies that added the final pieces that cemented Jason Vorhees’s status as a horror icon. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III (1982) and FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984).…

What do you get when the marketing team wants to sell aliens and inhuman monsters, but you made a wilderness set Friday the 13th riff? We look at two slasher films with wildly inaccurate ad copy released in 1983, Andrew Davis’s THE FINAL TERROR, featuring a fantastic performance by Joe Pantoliano, and cinematic “bad boyfriend” THE PREY, featuring a…

Ryan from The New World Pictures Podcast joins to discuss Sisworo Gautama Putra’s SRIGALA (1981), a wild treasure-hunting Indonesian slasher film that owes much to Friday the 13th while simultaneously being its own unique experience. To check out The New World Pictures Podcast: https://newworldpicturespodcast.com…

This week features two films centered on a group of hikers encountering a backwoods killer in the mountains executed to quite different results. DON’T GO IN THE WOODS (1981) is one of the infamous video nasties banned in the UK during the 1980s. Did it deserve it? We then focus on a slasher film that has gained its reputation over time, JUST BEFORE…

The show goes Cropsey-Turvy this week with two films based on the New York urban legend of Cropsey: First up is THE BURNING (1981) featuring early career performances by Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter. Then MADMAN (1981) gives us the legend of Madman Marz, as well as one sweet, sweet theme song.…

Pack your sleeping bags and don’t stand with your back to a window because it’s time for Sean S. Cunningham & Victor Miller’s FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) to prove that a movie capitalizing on a trend can become a trendsetter in its own right. We then look at how FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981), directed by Steve Miner, altered the trajectory of the franch…

Our post-apocalyptic summer climaxes with Kevin Costner’s THE POSTMAN, a movie that plays with and goes beyond the conventions of the genre in a wonderfully bizarre way. Does Costner perform Shakespeare with a mule? Yes. Are there clips from Universal Soldier and The Sound of Music in the film? You bet your bippy. Was it unfairly maligned and gave …

Join us as we enter a world where the polar ice caps have melted and studio film budgets have no meaning. That’s right, we’re not done with the post-apocalypse yet. It’s time for WATERWORLD, the fourth collaboration between star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds. Special Guest Max Evry (A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY: DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE. AN ORAL…

Justin Beahm stops by for our final Mad Max episode to discuss two films with female protagonists: CHERRY 2000 (1987) starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews and TANK GIRL (1995) directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, and Ice-T. website: https://www.justinbeahm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinbeahm The J…

Strap in for a wild one as we enter the mind of writer/director Donald G. Jackson for two films that include: roller-skating nuns, frog people, a male chastity belt rigged with explosives, and horny puppets. That’s right, it’s time for ROLLER BLADE (1986) and HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) starring Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman.…

Special Guest Dirk Marshall of the VH US podcast joins us as we stand on our heads for two post-apocalyptic westerns featuring Brion James. First up is STEEL DAWN (1987) starring Patrick Swayze in a Shane-influenced search for water. Then we switch gears to STEEL FRONTIER (1995) as mysterious gunslinger Johnny Yuma battles the Death Riders. VH US w…

It’s time to go B-A-N-A-N-A-S, BANANAS...for post-apocalyptic sports week! Johnny Halladay, Karen Allen, and Jürgen Prochnow play the most dangerous game…no, not that one. It’s driving a truck powered by AI across the TERMINUS (1987). Then we slam dog skulls onto spikes with the Juggers in David Webb People’s THE BLOOD OF HEROES (1989), a.k.a. THE …

Austin Trunick, the author of THE CANNON FILM GUIDE, helps Chris scan a Cannon Films double feature that totally nukes the post-apocalyptic genre: AMERICA 3000 (1986) with Chuck Wagner and Laurene Landon, as well as Albert Pyun’s CYBORG (1989) starring the “Muscles From Brussels,” Jean-Claude Van Damme. Meanwhile, Rob is lost in the vortex of tomor…

This week, we set the Wayback machine to “1983” and continue discussing the Italian wave of post-Mad Max films. First up, we race against the Eurac Monarchy to find a fertile woman in Sergio Martino’s 2019, AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK, starring Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis, and George Eastman. Then we penetrate the Wall of Illusion with the Rider in…

This week we have a pair of supremely stylish post-apocalyptic films by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari and starring Fred Williamson. 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (1982) and THE NEW BARBARIANS (1983). Questa settimana abbiamo un paio di film post-apocalittici estremamente eleganti del regista Italiano Enzo G. Castellari e interpretati da Fred Willi…

Ryan from the New World Pictures Podcast joins us for a pair of New World Pictures riding that Mad Max wave. Who has the coolest post-apocalyptic nickname? Is it Michael Beck as Hunter in BATTLETRUCK (1982) directed by Harley Cokeliss? Or can STRYKER (1983) take the crown of coolest dude this side of the Oil Wars/nuclear holocaust? To check out The…

They say that people don’t believe in heroes anymore. Well, damn them! Grab your petrol cans and weapons as we lurch toward the apocalypse with George Miller's MAD MAX (1979) starring Mel Gibson, John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) starring Kurt Russell, and MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981).…

Rob has hijacked the studio to discuss Gaspar Noe’s CLIMAX (2018), an avant-garde horror film about a French dance troupe’s hellish acid trip, starring Sophia Boutella. It’s an unforgettable film, from the incredible dance number set to Cerrone’s “Supernature” to a child locked in a room screaming for his mommy.…

We bring the Hard Day’s series to a close with two meta-narrative movie musicals starring singer-songwriters: ROBERTO CARLOS EM RITMO DE AVENTURA (1968) starring “the King” Roberto Carlos, and Anthony Newley’s CAN HEIRONYMUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS (1969).Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

We are joined by guest Tony Bevilacqua, guitarist for The Distillers, for BEATLE MOVIE MANIA PART TWO as we discuss HELP! (1965), directed by Richard Lester, the MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR television special (1967) written and directed by the Beatles themselves, and the animated YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968).Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

This week is a tale of contrasts as we talk about the musical party that is THE GHOST GOES GEAR (1966), featuring The Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood, before traveling back to the States for William Friedkin’s first feature film, GOOD TIMES (1967), starring Sonny & Cher.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

We’re joined by Justin Beahm to look at projects fronted by “manufactured” bands, including the ground-breaking sitcom THE MONKEES (1966), Saturday morning cartoon THE ARCHIES (1968), as well as the Monkees’s feature film HEAD (1968), directed by Bob Rafelson and written by Rafelson & Jack Nicholson. website: https://www.justinbeahm.com Instagram: …

It’s time for Hollywood studios to invade the British Invasion with two sitcom-esque American films starring Herman’s Hermits: HOLD ON! (1966) and MRS. BROWN, YOU’VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER (1968).Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

We look at a pair of 1965 films about Swinging Sixties youth that use British rock-n-roll stars in more traditional movie musicals. EVERY DAY’S A HOLIDAY stars John Leyton and Freddie & the Dreamers, while THREE HATS FOR LISA features Joe Brown and songs by Leslie Bricusse.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Chris and Rob dive into the charms of FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY (1964), starring Liverpool’s own Gerry and the Pacemakers. In I’VE GOTTA HORSE (1965), Billy Fury and his love for animals take center stage, prompting Chris and Rob to lose their minds.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

We discuss Richard Lester’s blockbuster Beatles comedy musical, A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964), and its influence on both cinema and music videos. Then we switch gears to John Boorman’s feature-film debut starring the Dave Clark Five, CATCH US IF YOU CAN (1965), a surprising movie that explores more mature themes of disaffection and estrangement.…

Join us for an epic interview with Max Evry, movie journalist and author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. Get ready for a deep dive into the troubled history and artistic merits of David Lynch’s DUNE (1984), starring Kyle MacLachlan. Max’s website: https://www.maxevry.com X: https://twitter.com/maxevry Instagram: h…

GET CHRIS ANOTHER… CLUE! This 1985 cult classic was made by a murderer’s row of 80s American comedy. It’s also one of Chris’s favorite films. If you’re game, sit down, roll the dice, and make your guess whodunnit!Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Tis the season for SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 (1987) and SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! Grab your cocoa and listen as we add “colon Garbage Day” to the title of Part 2 and Chris explains how SNDN 3 led to Resevoir Dogs.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

We refill the eyewash station for Sergio Martino’s proto-slasher TORSO (1973) before coming back full circle to Dario Argento for DEEP RED (1975), which, like THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, changed Italian cinema.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Join us for a pair of 1972 giallo films by Umberto Lenzi, one focused on an investigation, the other on psychological torment. Follow the clues of SEVEN BLOOD STAINED ORCHIDS before you shiver under the KNIFE OF ICE.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

This week has a double helping of Giallo Queen Edwige Fenech with THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS (1972) as well as the “HEAT” of giallo films… Sergio Martino’s YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY (1972) with both Edwige Fenech and Anita Strindberg.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Join us for two giallo films by director Aldo Lado. SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS (1971) and WHO SAW HER DIE? (1972) starring George Lazenby.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Kevin and Erin from The Podcast That Wouldn’t Die! help us decipher if Dario Argento’s THE CAT O’NINE TAILS (1971) and FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET (1971) can recapture the magic of his film debut. https://linktr.ee/TPodcastTWDieBởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Friend of the podcast Justin Beahm joins us as we look at Mario Bava’s film that launched a thousand American slasher films A BAY OF BLOOD (1971) and then shift gears to DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS (1971). website: https://www.justinbeahm.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/justinbeahm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinbeahm…

Join us for two Lucio Fulci films that take giallo in a new direction, each with a fantastic turn by Florinda Balkan: A LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN (1971) examines the seedy underbelly of the urban upper class, while DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (1972) uncovers the rotten core of rural life.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

This week we have a pair of (maybe) murderous husbands in two films from 1971: THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA and THE BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Get ready for a double helping of Sergio Martino as we talk THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH (1971) and THE CASE OF THE SCORPION’S TAIL (1971) with Special Guest Geoff Garlock of The Cannon Canon. https://twitter.com/TheCannonCanon https://www.instagram.com/thecannoncanon https://www.patreon.com/thecannoncanon https://www.1089thehawk.com…

The giallo explosion of the 1970s is unlike any film trend before or since. Part arthouse, part grindhouse, no other genre mixes the sacred and profane with this much style. It’s time to slip on your black gloves for Mario Bava’s BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) before losing yourself to obsession with Dario Argento’s THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (…

June of 1982 saw the release of five stone-cold classic Hollywood films. Today, we discuss none of them. Instead, don your spandex and hop on your motorbike for MEGAFORCE (1982) as we examine if this cinematic swing for the fences deserves a place in the Pantheon of June ’82.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

We send off our Indiana Jones series with two Cannon Films featuring martial arts action stars. Drink from an unmarked gourd for FIREWALKER (1986) starring Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr. before you float down the RIVER OF DEATH (1989) with the American Ninja himself, Michael Dudikoff.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

It’s time to travel to South Asia for a pair of Indy-inspired adventure films: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TENNESSEE BUCK (1988) and BLOODSTONE (1988) directed by Dwight H. Little (Marked for Death, Rapid Fire) and starring Indian cinema superstar Rajnikanth.Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

It’s time to get weird with two pulp fiction-inspired adventure movies from 1986: the Australian SKY PIRATES and New World Pictures’s JAKE SPEED. Which one of these films haunts Chris to this very day? Tune in and find out… if you dare!Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

Grab your whip and kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather for our discussion of Just Jaeckin’s S&M themed THE PERILS OF GWENDOLINE IN THE LAND OF THE YIK YAK (1984) starring Tawny Kitaen before we head to Spain for Matt Cimber’s western adventure YELLOW HAIR AND THE FORTRESS OF GOLD (1984) starring Laurene Landon.…

Austin Trunick, author of THE CANNON FILM GUIDE, joins us for a Cannon Quartermain double feature of KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1985) and ALLAN QUARTERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD (1987) both starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. Twitter/X https://twitter.com/CannonFilmGuide Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CannonFilmGuide…

Ciao bella! Pour yourself a Bacardi and milk with crushed ice and sit back for an Italian triple-feature of Indy-inspired action from maestro Antonio Margheriti: HUNTERS OF THE GOLDEN COBRA (1982), THE ARK OF THE SUN GOD (1984), and JUNGLE RAIDERS (1985).Bởi Chris Iannacone & Rob LaMorgese

It’s time to put on your dancing shoes, feather that hair, and get wild with special guest Jason Kleeberg (Force Five Podcast) as we discuss Robert Zemeckis’s action-adventure rom-com ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) and its sequel THE JEWEL OF THE NILE (1985), both starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. https://www.forcefivepodcast.com/ Twitter @…