Genre Grinder

ALRIGHT, YA HOSERS, GRAB YOUR PLAID TRAPPER HAT, YOUR MOOSEHEAD, AND YOUR BIGGEST BOWL OF POUTINE – WE'RE CHECKING OUT SOME CANADIAN HORROR MOVIES!   You can't talk about the greatest horror and exploitation films of the ‘70s and ‘80s without including our neighbors to the North. Canadian horror – or canuxploitation – is a broad subject that covers several subgenres, so Gabe and returning guest Jim Laczkowski have limited their scope to four favorites that don't include David Cronenberg or Bob Clark: Alan Ormsb & Jeff Gillen's Deranged (1974), Peter Carter's Rituals (aka: The Creeper, 1977), Murray Markowitz's I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978), and Sandor Stern's Pin (1988).   00:00 – Intro (What is canuxploitation?)  09:52 – Deranged 28:45 – Rituals  55:22 – I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses 1:12:32 – Pin 1:34:56 – Outro and recommendations  

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS. A WINDSWEPT FIELD. TWO SUN-BEATEN MEN IN WIDE-BRIMMED HATS. ITCHY TRIGGER FINGERS. THE MUSIC CRESCENDOS. THE FINAL SHOWDOWN.    After a short break and some technical difficulties, Gabe and Patrick are back to finish what they started, looking back at 15 spaghetti westerns released in the year 1968. We saved some the greatest movies and the hottest takes for last – Sergio Corbucci's The Mercenary (Italian: Il mercenario), Enzo G. Castellari's Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (Italian: Ammazzali tutti e torna solo), Corbucci's The Great Silence (Italian: Il grande silenzio), and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West).   Check out Part 1 and Part 2 first.   Check out the complete list of films here: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/the-spaghetti-westerns-of-1968/   00:00 – Intro (What have we already covered?)  04:11 – The Mercenary 36:52 – Kill Them All and Come Back Alone  55:54 – The Great Silence 1:29:36 – Once Upon a Time in the West 2:06:31 – Outro (What have we learned?)  

WHAT'S BETTER THAN A SCARY STORY? SEVERAL SCARY STORIES COLLATED INTO A SINGLE MOVIE WITH A SPOOKY WRAPAROUND SEGMENT!   Gather ‘round the campfire, boils, ghouls, and non-binary creatures of all ages while we take a look at those little groupings of shorts known as Anthology or Portmanteau Horror. Join Gabe and first time special guest Chloe Warayan (https://chloesnotscared.com/) as they take a look at a cavalcade of titles from across the decades – Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer's Dead of Night (1945), Freddie Francis' Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Jeff Burr's From a Whisper to a Scream (aka: The Offspring, 1987), and Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark (aka: St. Vincent), Roxanne Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama's XX (2017).   00:00 – Intro (a brief history of Anthology Horror)  06:09 – Dead of Night 42:33 – Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 1:09:39 – From a Whisper to a Scream 1:37:19 – XX 1:55:25 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Gender/Justice HRT – Harm Reduction Toolkit (Omprakash HRT supply fundraiser) Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project (BLMP) Tigerrs: Minnesota Trans Intersex Gender-Expansive Revolutionary Resources & Services And please check out our merch on Genre Grinder Cares. All profits are going to charity!

  HOP ALONG, CASSIDY – OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS – AND TUCK IN FOR A SECOND HELPING OF PASTA & MEATBALLS WITH A SIDE OF BULLETS & GRIT!   Welcome back for part two of Gabe and Patrick's three-part look back at the Spaghetti Westerns of 1968. This is going to be the longest of the three episodes, because we're rappin' about six films – Ferdinando Baldi's Hate Thy Neighbor (Italian: Odia il prossimo tuo), Gianfranco Baldanello's Black Jack, Giulio Petroni's A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (Italian: ...e per tetto un cielo di stelle), Gianfranco Parolini's If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (Italian: Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte), Sergio Sollima's Run, Man, Run (Italian: Corri uomo corri), and Giuseppe Colizzi's Ace High (Italian: I quattro dell'Ave Maria).   This episode was culled from two different recording sessions so please excuse any inconsistencies in sound quality. My nose was also very stuffy.   Check out the complete list of films here: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/the-spaghetti-westerns-of-1968/   00:00 – Intro (what have we already covered)  01:11 – Hate Thy Neighbor 20:49 – Black Jack  39:34 – A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof 1:11:49 – If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death 1:27:30 – Run, Man, Mun 1:51:30 – Ace High 2:11:57 – Outro  

PREPARE YOUR SIX-GUNS AND YOUR BOLOGNESE AS WE DIG INTO THE TWO-FISTED ITALIAN COWBOY TALES OF THE BIGGEST YEAR IN SPAGHETTI WESTERN HISTORY! Welcome to another multi-part exploration of a single year in genre filmmaking. Join Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll as they follow up their series on the slasher films of 1981, the gialli of 1971, and the giant monster movies of 1957 with a look at the spaghetti westerns of 1968. Gabe, a superfan and massive nerd, narrowed down a list of seventy-seven (that's 77) films to the 15 he thinks best represent this jam-packed and particularly uneven year for the genre. In episode one of what will (probably) be three total episodes, we discuss Ferdinando Baldi's Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), Giorgio Capitani's The Ruthless Four (Italian: Ognuno per sé), Lina Wertmüller & Piero Cristofani's The Belle Starr Story (Italian: Il mio corpo per un poker), Enzo G. Castellari's Johnny Hamlet (Italian: Quella sporca storia nel west), and Giorgio Stegani's Beyond the Law (Italian: Al di là della legge). Check out the complete list here: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/the-spaghetti-westerns-of-1968/ 00:00 – Intro: What is a spaghetti western? Why 1968?  14:13 – Django, Prepare a Coffin  35:37 – The Ruthless Four 56:00 – The Belle Starr Story 1:20:01 – Johnny Hamlet 1:36:24 – Beyond the Law 1:52:12 – Outro  

COME WITH US AS WE TUMBLE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, PASS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, ENTER THE WARDROBE, AND RIDE A TORNADO TO OZ!   It's time to cover one of my favorite subgenres: movies where people cross over into another world where they learn a lesson and meet a bunch of walking metaphors. This episode's guest host, Betsy, calls these Portal Fantasies and notes similarities to the popular anime/manga Isekai genre, but I'm afraid that those titles will mess up my search results, so I'm calling them [Blank] in Wonderland Movies.   We're trying to cover some of the rarer examples of the genre – specifically Tsui Hark's Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), Vladimir Grammatikov's Mio, Min Mio (aka: Mio in the Land of Faraway, 1987), Hiroyuki Morita's The Cat Returns (2002), and Gokhan Yorgancigil's On the Count of Zero (Turkish: Sıfır Dediğimde, 2007) – but we can't help but also talk about popular classics, like Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away, and others.   00:00 – Intro and all the important, great movies we aren't going to cover 12:29 – Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain  34:04 – Mio, Min Mio 1:07:22 – The Cat Returns 1:29:23 – On the Count of Zero 1:47:55 – Outro and other recommendations  

IT'S SEQUENTIAL DRAWINGS VERSUS FLESH & BLOOD ACTORS IN A SHOWDOWN OF MULTIMEDIA PROPORTIONS!   Since the advent of filmmaking, people have been combining live-action photography with hand-drawn animation and now we're talking about it. But this is a podcast and we don't have time to cover a century of motion pictures, so Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster are covering a smaller collection of movies released in the wake of Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), some inspired by its success, others that would have existed without it.   This month's diverse slate includes Walter C. Miller's It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (1988), Maurizio Nichetti & Guido Manuli's Volere Volare (To Want to Fly, 1991), Ralph Bakshi's Cool World (1992), Jan Svankmajer's Faust (1994), and Des McAnuff's The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000). I had some issues with Tyler's audio and had to do some actual (gasp) mixing to correct it. Hopefully, I did my job well enough that it sounds relatively consistent.    00:00 – Intro 11:16 – It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown  26:18 – Volere Volare 43:09 – Cool World 1:23:07 – Faust 1:41:43 – The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 2:02:20 – Outro  

A DEAD WOMAN WITH THE SOUL OF A MAN! A MURDEROUS MAN WHO CAN TRANSFORM INTO A WOMAN! PROBABLY JUST A COINCIDENCE!   Have you ever noticed that Hammer Studios made two horror films that work as trans allegories? Well, technically three, but I forgot about one of them. Anyway, I've been curious for a while as to what an actual trans person might think of Terence Fisher's Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) and Roy Ward Baker's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), so I invited back my friend and the co-host of the Defend Your Trash Movie podcast, Luana Saitta, in order to pick her brain (Frankenstein-related wordplay intended).   This was originally going to be a look at multiple horror movies with a trans/genderqueer slant, but we ultimately had more than enough to talk about with just these two films. Are they really trans allegories? Have they aged well? Are they good outside of the allegory? I hope you agree, enjoy this angle on a couple of Hammer classics, and have a happy Halloween season!   00:00 – Intro 13:55 – Frankenstein Created Woman (and other Hammer Frankenstein movies)  50:32 – Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (and other Hyde and Jack the Ripper movies) 1:42:26 – Outro and sections from Luana's ‘trans canon'   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ Hope Mill Inc's Hurricane Relief:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-hope-mill-incs-hurricane-relief Florida Disaster Fund (PayPal):  https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/119147482333313104/charity/1521272 Palestine Children's Relief Fund:  https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief  

TAKE ONE LAST TRIP INTO THE UNKNOWN FOR THE ULTIMATE GIANT INSECT MOVIE, THE ULTIMATE GIANT MAN IN A DIAPER MOVIE, AND THE ULTIMATE KILLER, UM, ROCK MOVIE… Welcome to the final part of Gabe and Patrick's look back at the biggest year in giant monster movie history. This episode features the most eclectic collection of movies, including a shoestring ‘lost world' epic in Virgil W. Vogel's The Land Unknown, Edward Ludwig's absolutely incredible Black Scorpion, Bert I. Gordon's second giant bald guy movie of the year, The Amazing Colossal Man, John Sherwood's uniquely eerie The Monolith Monsters, and the only real kaiju movie released in 1957, Ishirō Honda's The Mysterians.   Remember to also check out part one, which covers Nathan H. Juran's 20 Million Miles to Earth, Roger Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters, Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Kurt Neumann's Kronos, as well as part two, which covers Nathan H. Juran's The Deadly Mantis, Kenneth G. Crane's The Monster from Green Hell, Fred F. Sears' The Giant Claw, Arnold Laven's The Monster that Challenged the World, and Gordon's The Beginning of the End and The Cyclops.   This episode is taken from two recording sessions, so forgive us for overlap and minor changes in audio quality.   00:00 – Intro 5:32 – The Land Unknown 25:24 – Black Scorpion 43:16 – The Amazing Colossal Man 56:55 – The Monolith Monsters 1:17:43 – The Mysterians 1:56:24 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

YOU DON'T NEED TO GO TO AMITY ISLAND FOR A SHARK MASSACRE!! IN FACT, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A SHARK!!   It's easy to recognize a Jaws knock-off when it revolves around a shark eating people, but what about all of those movies without sharks that lift scenes and ideas from Steven Spielberg's film and Peter Benchley's novel? Well, around here we call those movies “Jaws, Minus the Shark” movies and they make up a surprisingly versatile and eclectic little subgenre, one full of Brodys, Quints, and inordinately sexy Hoopers.   Join Gabe and Ann-Marie Taylor – returning to Genre Grinder for the first time since 2020's Bad Shark Movies episode – as we explore what defines a Jaws, Minus the Shark movie and look at four such films: Michael Anderson's Orca (aka: Orca: The Killer Whale, 1977), Lewis Teague's Alligator (1980), Dick Maas' The Lift (Dutch: De Lift, 1983), and Christophe Gans' Brotherhood of the Wolf (French: Le Pacte des loups, 2001).   Note: There's something going on with my mic during this recording that makes me sound a little weird. Unfortunately, I didn't notice until I was editing. Apologies.   00:00 – Intro 10:48 – Orca (and the unfortunate truth of killer whales in captivity) 50:08 – Alligator 1:10:32 – The Lift 1:33:50 – Brotherhood of the Wolf 2:02:42 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Justice for Sonya Massey: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-sonya-massey Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

FROM THE FROZEN WASTES OF THE ARCTIC TO THE DEPTHS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE, THE ARID DESERTS OF MEXICO, AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST THEY CAME… Welcome to part two of Gabe and Patrick's look back at the biggest year in giant monster movie history. We've got a lot of big bugs this time, including Nathan H. Juran's The Deadly Mantis, the wasps of Kenneth G. Crane's The Monster from Green Hell, ocean mollusks of Arnold Laven's The Monster that Challenged the World, and locusts of Bert I. Gordon's The Beginning of the End. For good measure, we also talk about the really big bird from the antimatter universe seen in Fred F. Sears' The Giant Claw and the mutated monster man of Gordon's The Cyclops.   Remember to also check out part one, which covers Nathan H. Juran's 20 Million Miles to Earth, Roger Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters, Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Kurt Neumann's Kronos. We recorded this in two parts and I apologize for a change in audio quality that occurs at the beginning and middle of this middle part.    Here's the full Letterboxd list we are working from: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/1957-giant-monster-movies/   00:00 – Intro and corrections 5:32 – The Deadly Mantis 25:24 – The Monster from Green Hell 43:16 – The Giant Claw 56:55 – The Monster that Challenged the World 1:17:43 – Beginning of the End 1:39:40 – The Cyclops 1:56:24 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

FROM THE FURTHEST REACHES OF SPACE AND THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE SEA CAME ALIENS, MUTATED CREATURES, AND OTHER LARGE, SCARY ALLEGORIES! Welcome to another patented Genre Grinder deep dive into a specific year where a specific genre peaked. This time, Patrick and Gabe are looking at 15 of 17 movies about gigantic monsters released in some capacity during the year 1957 (festival, roll-out, wide, et cetera). The other two are a lost film (Tokyo 1960) and one already covered on a different episode of Genre Grinder (Quatermass II). Not unexpectedly, the conversation carried on for some time, so the complete 15-movie discussion will be spread over three episodes.   In part one, following an intro to the genre and era, we're covering Nathan H. Juran's 20 Million Miles to Earth, Roger Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters, Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Kurt Neumann's Kronos.    Here's the full Letterboxd list we are working from: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/1957-giant-monster-movies/   00:00 – Intro: Why were there so many Giant Monster movies in 1957? 13:21 – 20 Million Miles to Earth and the cinema of Ray Harryhausen 42:47 – Attack of the Crab Monsters and the cinema of Roger Corman 1:02:46 – The Incredible Shrinking Man and post-WWII gender politics 1:26:40 – Kronos  1:48:27 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

THE FIRST PODCAST ABOUT MOVIES THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT'S A PODCAST ABOUT MOVIES!!   Gabe (looks directly into camera): This is a podcast about making podcasts. The podcasters are also acknowledging you, the listener, directly. Yeah, you, Derek. Oh, and the fabric of the podcast is also haunting us and maybe killing you. And by you, I mean Derek. Anyway, join me and returning guest Jim Laczkowski as we look at the phenomenon of meta horror movies. We initially planned on covering José Mojica Marins' Hallucinations in a Deranged Mind (1978), Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain (1990), Julian Richards' The Last Horror Movie (2003), and Prano Bailey-Bond's Censor (2021), but the discussion ended up requiring comparisons to Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982), and David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), and many more. 00:00 – Intro 07:01 – Hallucinations in a Deranged Mind, plus a primer on José Mojica Marins/Coffin Joe 18:56 – Cat in the Brain, plus a primer on Lucio Fulci 31:59 – Comparing Hallucinations in a Deranged Mind, Cat in the Brain, New Nightmare, and Tenebrae (plus Videodrome, Scream [1996], and the other Nightmare on Elm Street movies) 54:41 – The Last Horror Movie, plus Man Bites Dog (1992) 1:11:19 – Censor, plus a primer on the Video Nasties phenomenon 1:41:44 – Outro If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Campus Encampment Bail Funds (school by school links): https://campusbailfunds.com/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/

WELCOME 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 Zombies (1984), John Fasano's Black Roses (1988), Álex de la Iglesia's Day of the Beast (Spanish: El día de la bestia, 1995), and Tetsuro Takeuchi's Wild Zero (1999).   00:00 – Intro 08:38 – Hard Rock Zombies (and other ‘80s Heavy Metal Horror) 27:58 – Black Roses 45:21 – Day of the Beast 1:11:05 – Wild Zero 1:36:47 – Outro   Check out Justin's review of Monkey Man here: https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/monkey-man-review-dev-patel/   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Palestine Children's Relief Fund Anera Gaza Aid Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds)  

LIONS 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), Russell Mulcahy's Razorback (1984), Franco Prosperi's Wild Beasts (Italian: Belve feroci, 1984), and Damien Lee's Gnaw: Food of the Gods II (1989).   00:00 – Intro 06:38 – Long Weekend 30:33 – Razorback 1:00:00 – Wild Beasts 1:31:25 – Gnaw: Food of the Gods Part II 1:54:18 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign: https://www.freedomoklahoma.org/donate Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

THE 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 decades – to be recognized by cult audiences for their unique contributions to American horror. Join Gabe and special guest Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast and numerous Blu-ray commentary tracks look at six more underseen classics of the era.   Part 2 includes Marc Lawrence Pigs (aka: Daddy's Deadly Darling, 1973), Christina Hornisher's Hollywood 90028 (aka: Insanity and Twisted Throats, 1973), Jean-Marie Pélissié's The Bride (aka: The House That Cried Murder and Last House on Massacre Street, 1973), Frederick R. Friedel Axe (aka: Lisa, Lisa and California Axe Massacre, 1974), Peter S. Traynor Death Game (aka: The Seducers, 1977), and Karen Arthur's The Mafu Cage (1978).   Check out episode one here, and the original 2 part series here and  here.   00:00 – Pigs 19:20 – Hollywood 90028 40:39– The Bride 58:21 – Axe (plus Video Nasties and Kidnapped Coed) 1:16:55 – Death Game (and Knock, Knock and Little Miss Innocence) 1:37:19 – Mafu Cage 1:57:39 – Outro   And check out Christina Hornisher: Alone with that Obscene Image of Yourself by Marc Edward Heuck (The Projector Has Been Drinking blog), which Bill references during our discussion of Hollywood 90028.   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Islamic Relief USE (Emergency Gaza fund) : https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

THE 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 for their unique contributions to American horror. Join Gabe and special guest Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast and numerous Blu-ray commentary tracks as they explore more independent horror films from the era.   This year's batch begins with Ken Friedman's' Death by Invitation (1971), Jacques Lacerte's Love Me Deadly (1972), Robert J. Emery's My Brother Has Bad Dreams (1972), George Barry's Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), and Bill Gunns Ganja & Hess (1973). Stay tuned for six more titles in Part 2, live early next month.   Check out the original 2 part series here and  here.   00:00 – Intro 08:22 – Death by Invitation 23:45 – Love Me Deadly 44:16 – My Brother Has Bad Dreams 1:03:17 – Death Bed: The Bed that Eats 1:16:34 – Ganja & Hess   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Islamic Relief USE (Emergency Gaza fund) : https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Anera Gaza Aid: https://www.anera.org/where-we-work/palestine/gaza/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

HO 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 first sequel (1987), René Manzor's Deadly Games (French: 3615 code Père Noël, 1989), and Paco Plaza's A Christmas Tale (Spanish: Películas para no dormir: Cuento de navidad, 2005).    00:00 – Intro 03:05 – Christmas Evil 22:35 – Silent Night, Deadly Night and Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (plus the other sequels) 59:01 – Deadly Games 1:22:02 – A Christmas Tale 1:41:33 – Outro   Islamic Relief USE (Emergency Gaza fund): https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/ Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief Kākoʻo Maui Fund (Maui recovery): https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/

TO 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 moment? No, probably not. We're sorry about that. Please ring in the end of the Spooky Season with us, anyway.   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:   Islamic Relief USE (Emergency Gaza fund): https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/   Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief   Hawaiʻi  People's Fund (Maui recovery): https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund   Kākoʻo Maui Fund (Maui recovery): https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui  

IT'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 outdated.   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Islamic Relief USE (Emergency Gaza fund): https://irusa.org/middle-east/palestine/   Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-relief   Hawaiʻi  People's Fund (Maui recovery): https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund   Kākoʻo Maui Fund (Maui recovery): https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui  

On 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 follows is the only known evidence of the event: a 5:00 pm broadcast from radio station KLLR, in which Drive at Five deejays Dippy “Mo” Mclean and Rusty Claymore conveyed vital instructions to the local populace. This is a complete and unedited account of their bravery in the face of certain doom. Listener discretion is advised.

IT'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, check out the official Viewing Companion – Part 1   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Hawaiʻi  People's Fund (Maui recovery): https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund Kākoʻo Maui Fund (Maui recovery): https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

STEP 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 challenge here was to explore 101 different movie moments. Hopefully, listeners are in for some pleasant surprises in this, Part 1 of a planned four-part series.   00:00 – Intro 09:37 – Numbers 101 - 81 1:32:27 – Soda break 1:33:44 – Numbers 80 - 71 2:24:06 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Hawaiʻi  People's Fund (Maui recovery): https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund Kākoʻo Maui Fund (Maui recovery): https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/  

YEAH, 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), Roland Emmerich's Making Contact (aka: Joey, 1985), Pierre David's Scanner Cop (1994), and Yeon Sang-ho's Psychokinesis (Korean: Yeom-lyeok, 2018). Prepare to be in awe of how badly we butcher Korean names!   Did you know I also started a Patreon? Learn all about it here: https://www.patreon.com/GenreGrinder 00:00 – Intro 06:45 – The Medusa Touch 24:23 – Making Contact 43:44 – Scanner Cop 1:08:11 – Psychokinesis 1:28:37 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Dallas Hope Charities (LGBTQ+ homeless youth charity): https://secure.givelively.org/donate/dallas-hope-charities Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state  

LOVE 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 vampire movie history (1970 to 1983) and four representations of the surprisingly prolific genre: Roy Ward Baker's The Vampire Lovers (1970), Harry Kümel's Daughters of Darkness (French: La Rouge aux Lèvres, 1971), Jean Rollin's The Living Dead Girl (French: La Morte Vivante, 1982), and Tony Scott's The Hunger (1983).   00:00 – Intro 09:26 – The Vampire Lovers 32:43 – Daughters of Darkness 53:12 – The Living Dead Girl 1:21:57 – The Hunger 1:40:44 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Dallas Hope Charities (LGBTQ+ homeless youth charity): https://secure.givelively.org/donate/dallas-hope-charities Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state  

TAKE 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 for grown-ups featuring kids or horror movies that happen to be rated PG or PG-13 – movies intended for children that are also intended to be scary. Our little collection includes Michael Rubbo's The Peanut Butter Solution (1985), Bernard Rose's Paperhouse (1988), Mario Piluso's The Halloween Tree (1993), and Hideyuki Hirayama's Haunted School (aka: Ghost School Stories, 1995).   00:00 – Intro 04:59 – The Peanut Butter Solution 30:47 – Paperhouse 54:59 – The Halloween Tree 1:15:50 – Haunted School 1:37:09 – Outro (and Little Monsters)   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Dallas Hope Charities (LGBTQ+ homeless youth charity): https://secure.givelively.org/donate/dallas-hope-charities Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state

COVER 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 the Turkish version of Rocky, the Niger version of Purple Rain, the Bollywood Silence of the Lambs, the Russian version of 12 Angry Men, the Hong Kong version of Cellular, the Chinese version of Blood Simple, and the Japanese version of Unforgiven. This one went a little longer than usual, but it was worth it!   00:00 Intro 07:15 Çetin Inanç's Black Lightning (Turkish Kara Simsek, 1985) 23:48 Christopher Kirkley's Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (Tuareg: Akounak tedalat taha tazoughai, 2015) 38:06 Tanuja Chandra's Sangharsh (1999) 58:27 Nikita Mikhalkov's 12 (2007) 1:21:16 Benny Chan's Connected (Cantonese: Bo chi tung wah, 2008) 1:43:23 Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop (Mandarin: San qiang pai an jing qi, 2009) 1:56:24 Lee Sang-il's Unforgiven (Japanese: Yurusarezaru mono, 2013) If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/ Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

SHARPEN 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), Enzo G. Castellari's Cold Eyes of Fear (Italian: Gli occhi freddi della paura), and José María Forqué's Eye of the Hurricane (Spanish: El ojo del huracán).   Part two (of two) features even more giallo goodness, including Luigi Bazzoni's The Fifth Cord (Italian: Giornata nera per l'ariete), Emilio Miraglia's The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (Italian: La notte che Evelyn usci' dalia tomba), Umberto Lenzi's Oasis of Fear (aka: An Ideal Place to Kill; Italian: Un posto ideale per uccidere), Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood (Italian: Ecologia del delitto; aka: Twitch of the Death Nerve), Duccio Tessari's The Bloodstained Butterfly (Italian: Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate), Paolo Cavara's The Black Belly of the Tarantula (Italian: La tarantola dal ventre nero), and Aldo Lado's Short Night of the Glass Dolls (Italian: La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro).   00:00 – Intro 01:37 – The Fifth Cord 22:29 – The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave  40:04 – Oasis of Fear 1:00:00 – A Bay of Blood 1:09:02 – The Bloodstained Butterfly 1:22:01 – Black Belly of the Tarantula 1:34:29 – Short Night of the Glass Dolls 1:55:11 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/ Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state

MAD 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 year, 1971, was arguably the biggest in the genre's history, with a total of more than 40 films, several of which would become classics. Join super-fan Gabe and relatively apathetic returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned and Uptown Song Club as they explore a total of 12 titles in a two-part series.   Part one includes 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), Enzo G. Castellari's Cold Eyes of Fear (Italian: Gli occhi freddi della paura), and José María Forqué's Eye of the Hurricane (Spanish: El ojo del huracán). The original plan was to do 6 per episode, but I have COVID-19 and ran out of energy. But stay tuned for a longer part two soon!   00:00 – Intro 09:45 – The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh 27:05 – Cat O' Nine Tails  44:26 – Lizard in a Woman's Skin 58:23 – Cold Eyes of Fear 1:11:24 – Eye of the Hurricane 1:28:07 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/ Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/ Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state

CALLING 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.” Gabe and returning guest Arianny Pilarte take a look at four such films, all of which fall into the crime genre, including two gangster classics – William A. Wellman's The Public Enemy (1931) and Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932) – and two salacious melodramas from a feminine point-of-view – Mervyn LeRoy's Three on a Match (1932) and Stephen Roberts' The Story of Temple Drake (1933).     00:00 – Intro 08:07 – The Public Enemy 36:30 – Scarface 1:10:11 – Three on a Match 1:33:16 – The Story of Temple Drake 1:55:34 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:   Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid: https://mylegalaid.org/support-our-work/giving   Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state   Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

THERE'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 listen to Gabe and returning guest Kristine Fisher as they talk about movies starring that most popular of Latin American ghosts, La Llorona, including Ramón Peón's La Llorona (1933), René Cardona's La Llorona (1960), Rafael Baledón's The Curse of the Crying Woman (1961), Miguel M. Delgado's Santo and Mantequilla Napoles in The Revenge of the Crying Woman (1973), Rigoberto Castañeda's Kilometer 31 (2006), and Jayro Bustamante's La Llorona (2019).   00:00 – Intro 04:34 – La Llorona (1933) 14:33 – La Llorona (1960) 27:21 – The Curse of the Crying Woman 41:18 – The Revenge of the Crying Woman 57:32 – Kilometer 31 1:15:43 – La Llorona (2019) 1:28:50 – Outro   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:   Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid: https://mylegalaid.org/support-our-work/giving   Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state   Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

Between 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-Morante pairing.   Please enjoy, have a happy Halloween, and we'll see you again for a standard episode of Genre Grinder soon.   Here is the complete track mix:  Ai margini della follia (ALT)/Zombi (The Living Dead's Voices Bonus Track) – Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) OST La caccia – Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) OST Patrick (ALT)/Vibrazoni – Patrick OST Snip Snap – Patrick OST (and Roller) Buio Omega (Titoli) – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST Memoria – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST Buio Omega (M32) – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST Withy – Contamination OST Connexion – Contamination OST The Carver – Contamination OST Wampyr (Finale) – Wampyr (Martin) Alternate Italian ST Sequence 2 – La via della droga (The Heroin Busters) OST School at Night (Celeste version)/Death Dies – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Mad Puppet – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Profondo Rosso – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Mad Puppet – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Roller – Roller Yell – Amo non amo (Together?) OST Witch – Suspiria OST Markos – Suspiria OST Suspiria – Suspiria OST The Gonk by Herbert Chappell

FORTIFY 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 at new and classic catastrophic cacophonies, including John Guillermin's The Towering Inferno (1974), Shiro Moritani's Japan Sinks (aka: Submersion of Japan, 1973), Roger Donaldson's Dante's Peak (1997), Roland Emmerich's 2012 (2009), and Dean Devlin's Geostorm (2017).   00:00 – Intro 02:48 – The Towering Inferno 31:51 – Japan Sinks 54:10 – Dante's Peak 1:13:40 – 2012 (and other Roland Emmerich movies) 1:41:37 – Geostorm 1:52:53 – Outro & other recommendations   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:   UNHCR Pakistan Flood Relief: https://tinyurl.com/2kkaac4p Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state National Network of Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/  

LONG 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 good), and one genuine transgressive horror classic. Don't worry, though, this isn't our “good-bye” to SOV Horror, it's “see you later.”   Part 2 includes: Paura il Diavolo (Darren Ward, 1992) † Evil Night (Todd Jason Cook, 1992) Humanoids from Atlantis (J.R. Bookwalter, 1992) ∆ Death Magic (Paul Clinco, 1992) †∆ Hellspawn (Mark & John Polonia, 1993) America's Deadliest Home Video (Jack Perez, 1993) ∆ Red Spirit Lake (Charles Pinion, 1993) †∆ Ozone (J.R. Bookwalter, 1994) †∆ Jungle Trap (James Bryan, 2016) ∆ † Seen by Gabe∆ Seen by Patrick If you want to catch up with the complete SOV Horror podcast collection, please check out Patrick and Gabe's original four-part podcast on SOV Horror, Patrick's SOV Horror Mixtape, and the first part of the Addendum wherever you listen to podcasts.   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:Donations 4 Abortions (state-by-state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state National Network of Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

YOU 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 is still so much to discover. Or maybe not DISCover. Maybe we're TAPEscovering. Man, I'm funny.   Part 1 includes: Demon Queen (Donald Farmer, 1987) †∆ Sexandroide (Michel Ricaud, 1987) †∆ Conton (Japanese: Jûshin densetsu; Takuro Fukada, 1987) † Hollywood's New Blood (James Shyman, 1988) † Halloween Party (Dave Skowronski, 1989) ∆ Dream Stalker (Christopher Mills, 1991) †∆ The Butcher (Maik Ude, 1991) † Holy Moly (Lance Ozanix, 1991) †∆ Vampire Trailer Park (Steve Latshaw, 1991) Neighbor Hoodz (Lemy Hassan & James Adam Tucker, 1991) Way Bad Stone (Archie Waugh, 1991) Death by Love (Alan Grant, 1991) Hellroller (Gary J. Levinson, 1992) †∆   † Seen by Gabe∆ Seen by Patrick If you like what you're hearing and can't wait a couple of weeks for Part 2, please check out Patrick and Gabe's original four-part podcast on SOV Horror, as well as Patrick's SOV Horror Mixtape, wherever you listen to podcasts (Episode 18, Parts 1-4 and BONUS EPISODE: VCR Horrors).   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:Donations 4 Abortions (state-by-state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state   National Network of Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds   Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

IT'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 bodice ripper with a werewolf twist in Martin Donovan's Mad at the Moon (1992), one gen-u-ine western horror classic – Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999). Have you guys seen Ravenous? Because it's really good.   Note: I didn't notice that Luana's mic was a bit hot and that mine was echoing until I was in the process of editing. I tried to fix both issues to the best of my abilities. Please excuse our occasional crackle and echo.   00:00 – Intro 04:51 – The Valley of Gwangi 33:22 – Mad at the Moon 56:40 – Ravenous 1:30:09 – Final thoughts and outro   Listen to Luana and Travis Defend a Trash Movie: https://anchor.fm/trashmoviepod/episodes/The-Black-Cauldron-1985-e1iuube   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Equality Texas (trans youth resources): https://www.equalitytexas.org/ Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/ New Voices for Reproductive Justice: https://newvoicesrj.org/about-us/

DON 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 Director's Club Podcast watched three movies that will answer these and many more questions – Ken Russell's Altered States (1980), David Loxton & Fred Barzy's Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Douglas Trumbull's Brainstorm (1983). Then Gabe found a cool sounding phrase to describe the whole thing: Existential State Manipulation. It only ended up applying to two of the movies, but just go with it, alright? Cool.   00:00 – Intro 06:32 – Altered States 43:03 – Lathe of Heaven 1:12:52 – Brainstorm 1:41:07 – Outro   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Equality Texas (trans youth resources): https://www.equalitytexas.org/ North Texas Giving Day Trans Kids and Families: https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/transkidsandfamiliesoftexas Alight (Afghan refugee fund for the MPLS/SP area): https://wearealight1857.ac-page.com/alight-welcome-home-landing-pg International Rescue Committee Ukraine Crisis Action: https://www.rescue.org/article/ukraine-russia-crisis-what-happening

SURE, 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 returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters podcast as they take a look at four truly unique King adaptations, including John Woodward's Disciples of the Crow (one of the earliest of King's Dollar Babies, 1985), Michael Gore/Dean Pitchford's Carrie: The Musical (or at least a combination of filmed versions), a 25-episode motion comic micro-series based on Stephen King's N. (2008), and Anurag Kashyap's surrealistic, Bollywood black comedy No Smoking (2007).   00:00 – Intro 06:31 – Disciples of the Crow (and other Dollar Babies) 30:27 – Carrie: The Musical 1:12:05 – Stephen King's N. 1:33:31 – No Smoking 1:53:09 – Outro   Check out Shawn S. Lealos' book Dollar Deal: The Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers.   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Equality Texas (trans youth resources): https://www.equalitytexas.org/ Alight (Afghan refugee fund for the MPLS/SP area): https://wearealight1857.ac-page.com/alight-welcome-home-landing-pg International Rescue Committee Ukraine Crisis Action: https://www.rescue.org/article/ukraine-russia-crisis-what-happening

COME 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 audiences for their unique contributions to American horror. Join Gabe and special guest Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast and numerous Blu-ray commentary tracks as they explore another collection of independent horror films from the period, including George A. Romero's Season of the Witch (aka: Jack's Wife and Hungry Wives, 1973), Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck's Messiah of Evil (1973), Bob Clark's Deathdream (aka: Dead of Night, 1972), Matt Cimber's The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976), Martin Goldman's Dark August (1976), and S.F. Brownrigg's Keep My Grave Open (1976).    00:00 – Intro 00:53 – Season of the Witch (and other George Romero movies) 16:08 – Messiah of Evil 31:59 – Deathdream (and other Bob Clark & Alan Ormsby movies) 49:10 – The Witch Who Came from the Sea 1:06:40 – Dark August 1:23:13 – Keep My Grave Open (and other S.F. Brownrigg movies) 1:35:07 – Outro   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://mnfreedomfund.org/bailbond-referral Sanctuary Supply Depot Minneapolis: https://linktr.ee/sanctuarysupplydepot Alight (Afghan refugee fund for the MPLS/SP area): https://wearealight1857.ac-page.com/alight-welcome-home-landing-pg Documenting MN (Black youth community-led journalism internship program): https://linktr.ee/DocumentingMN

WELCOME 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 their unique contributions to American horror. Join Gabe and special guest Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast and numerous Blu-ray commentary tracks as they explore a collection of independent horror films from the era, including John Hayes' Dream No Evil (1970), John Hancock's Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), Alan Rudolph's Premonition (1972), Robert Altman's Images (1972), and Richard Blackburn's Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973). Stay tuned for Part 2 next month.   00:00 – Intro 11:15 – Dream No Evil 25:17 – Let's Scare Jessica to Death 43:45 – Premonition 55:36 – Images 1:11:51 – Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural Outro song – “Let's Scare Jessica to Death” by Left Hand Black: ​​https://lefthandblack1.bandcamp.com/track/lets-scare-jessica-to-death   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Abortion Access Fund, Inc: https://abortionaccessfund.org/ Solidarity Fund for striking Apple and Netflix employees: https://coworkerfund.org/contribute/ ACER: African Career, Education, and Resources, Inc. (nonprofit support for African immigrant communities in Minneapolis suburbs): https://acerinc.org/ National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org/

LEAVE 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 list of seven movies that share a curious number of concepts and tropes in common – Alexander Hall's Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Victor Fleming's A Guy Named Joe (1943), Vincente Minnelli's Cabin in the Sky (1943), Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait (1943), Powell & Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (aka: Stairway to Heaven, 1946), Warren Beatty & Buck Henry's Here Comes Mr. Jordan remake, Heaven Can Wait (not otherwise related to the Lubitsch movie, 1978), and Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life (1991). In the process of breaking these films down, we also talk briefly about Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1947), Steven Spielberg's A Guy Named Joe remake (Always [1989]), and Paul & Chris Weitz' Here Comes Mr. Jordan remake (Down to Earth [2001]).   00:00 – Intro 7:13 – Here Comes Mr. Jordan 19:36 – A Guy Named Joe 36:01 – Cabin in the Sky 47:12 – Heaven Can Wait (1943) 56:36 – A Matter of Life and Death 1:14:06 – Heaven Can Wait (1978) 1:31:15 – Defending Your Life 1:46:03 – Outro   Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Abortion Access Fund, Inc:​​ https://abortionaccessfund.org/ UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) Gaza Crisis Appeal: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/ Lilith Fund (Texas abortion access): https://www.lilithfund.org/ National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org/

RETURN 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, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, and Roger Corman's (Fall of the) House of Usher in part one and, this time, they're covering Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku, Mario Bava's Black Sunday, and John Llewellyn Moxey's City of the Dead.   00:00 – Jigoku 18:42 – Black Sunday 50:05 – Interlude (other 1960 horror movies) 54:09 – City of the Dead 1:21:07 – Outro   Here's the complete Letterboxd list that we were originally working from: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/1960s-horror-movies/

PSYCHOPATHS! 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 of the year's genre releases and chose six to discuss at length – Georges Franju's Eyes without a Face, Michal Powell's Peeping Tom, Roger Corman's (Fall of the) House of Usher, Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku, Mario Bava's Black Sunday, and John Llewellyn Moxey's City of the Dead. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho also comes up constantly, but not at length, because it's one of the most popular movies ever made.   This didn't end up being as long as some of Gabe & Patrick's other list episodes, but the discussion still went long, so the three-hour episode has been split into two Fun-Sized treats (instead of three or four, so don't worry).   00:00 – Intro: Why 1960? and a brief history of horror movie booms 17:40 – Eyes without a Face 44:46 – Peeping Tom 1:05:57 – (Fall of the) House of Usher   Here's the complete Letterboxd list that we were originally working from: https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/list/1960s-horror-movies/

Time 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 remix of John Carpenter's Escape from New York title theme) 3. Demonica by Simon Boswell (Demons 2/Demoni 2 OST) 4. Out of Time by Claudio Simonetti (Demons/Demoni OST) 5. Lesbo (Film Version) by Simonetti Morante Pignatelli (Tenebrae OST) 6. Seq. 1 by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis (Alien 2: Sulla Terra OST) 7. Pericolo by Daniela Casa (Sovrapposizione Di Immagini) 8. Metric 36 by Cavern of Anti-Matter (In Fabric OST) 9. La Comtesse et L'Inspecteur/The Countess and the Inspector by François de Roubaix 10. Dismembered Bodies by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis (Torso/I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale OST) 11. Transmute by Goblin (Patrick OST) 12. Inseminoid by John Scott (Inseminoid OST) 13. Block by Chu Ishikawa (Tetsuo the Bullet Man OST) 14. Sign in the Dark by Tangerine Dream (The Keep OST) 15. Demon Knights by Carlo Cordio (Aenigma OST) 16. Crawling Around by Chuck Cirino (Chopping Mall OST) 17. The Chase Continues (Po's Plane) by Rick Wakeman (The Burning OST) 18. Blind Concert by Goblin (Suspiria OST) 19. Verso L'Ignoto by Fabio Frizzi (The Beyond/L'Aldila OST) 20. John Dalton Street by Guiullano Sorgini & John Cacavas (Living Dead at Manchester Morgue OST) 21. TerrorVision by The Fibonaccis (TerrorVision OST)

DEAR 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 and first-time special guest Arianny Pilarte (@laciguapa) of Not All Podcasts Wear Capes fame as we talk about the long-standing fictional phenomenon of loving, smooching, and screwing movie monsters, from vampires and zombies, to Beasts (of the “Beauty and” variety) and fishmen. This is a broad subject, so, for this podcast, we've narrowed it down to four movies: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987), Tony Ching Siu-Tung's Chinese Ghost Story (1987), Brian Yuzna's Return of the Living Dead III (1993), and Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera (2004). Note that we occasionally had some latency issues, so Gabe talks to himself for a few minutes during the Near Dark discussion. He blames gremlins, specifically that sexy one from Gremlins 2. 00:00 – Intro: What is a Monster F#©ker? 04:49 – Near Dark and other human/vampire romance 23:58 – Chinese Ghost Story 41:52 – Return of the Living Dead III and other human/zombie romance 1:03:51 – The Phantom of the Opera (2004 and beyond) 1:30:51 – Other Monster F#©kers and outro Check out Not All Podcasts Wear Capes here (or wherever you download your podcasts): https://notallpods.podbean.com/ Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Aid: https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/nearly-10m-children-afghanistan-need-humanitarian-aid-now/38936 Direct Relief Haiti Earthquake Relief: https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/haiti-earthquake-2021/ Lilith Fund (Texas abortion access): https://secure.everyaction.com/ZKj2BPy6bkaxpudp-4YwUQ2 Second Harvest Food Bank of South Louisiana (Hurricane Ida relief): https://no-hunger.org/

TAKE 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), Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (Danish: Babettes gæstebud, 1987), Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Alfonso Aráu's Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate, 1992), Stephen Chow's The God of Cookery (1996), and Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott's Big Night (1996). Please be aware that we recorded with two mics and it caused some weird crackly (thankfully not too loud) feedback to crop up every once in a while. I've done my best to mitigate the problem where I could and apologize for not fixing it during recording. 00:00 – Intro, food documentaries, classic food scenes 11:33 – Tampopo 23:37 – Babette's Feast 36:19 – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 59:19 – Like Water for Chocolate 1:12:30 – The God of Cookery 1:28:05 – Big Night 1:43:20 – Outro Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: Second Harvest Heartland (MN food bank): https://secure.2harvest.org National Immigrant Justice Center: https://immigrantjustice.org/ Immigration Justice Campaign: https://immigrationjustice.us/ UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) Gaza Crisis Appeal: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/

CATCH 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 Afrofuturism and Black sci-fi/fantasy movies. Join Gabe and returning guest host Justin Clark of Slant Magazine & Game Spot as they attempt to parse this wide-ranging, unique, and socially relevant genre by looking at five films – John Coney's Space is the Place (1974), John Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Robert Townsend's The Meteor Man (1993), Joe Cornish's Attack the Block (2011), and Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You (2018). They also take time to chat briefly about other relevant films.   00:00 – Intro 07:16 – Space is the Place (+ Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames [1983]) 25:27 – The Brother from Another Planet  42:14 – Meteor Man (+ the Blade movies, the Alien vs. Predator franchise, and Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome [1995]) 1:26:00 – Attack the Block (+ the Black Panther comics and movie) 1:43:31 – Sorry to Bother You 1:55:31 – Outro, Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Colm McCarthy's The Girl with All the Gifts (2016 + Last of Us and the Sweet Tooth comic), and Stefon Bristol's See You Yesterday (2019)    Check out Justin's Resident Evil Village walkthrough at Game Spot  Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash: UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) Gaza Crisis Appeal (critical healthcare, construction, food, and education) Black Lives Matter Daunte Wright Family/Community Support George Floyd Memorial Foundation National Bail Fund Network Directory

THE 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 Glaser’s The Running Man (1987). Come for the wacky costumes and violence, stay for the endless puns and surprisingly prescient social satire. 00:00 – Intro 06:23 – The 10th Victim 27:29 – Death Race 2000 1:05:43 – The Running Man 1:43:47 – Deathrow Gameshow (1987), Absolute Aggression (1996), and final thoughts   Check out Luana’s Podcast, Monster Island & Movie Lobby Commentaries This month’s charity links include one of Luana’s preferred charities, a listener request, and Palestinian relief resources. Please consider donating if you have any spare cash: UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) Gaza Crisis Appeal (critical healthcare, construction, food, and education) George Floyd Memorial Foundation Support Black-Owned Businesses: 181 Places to Start Online Mercy Housing (US affordable housing and support program)

TIGHTEN 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 Mansion of Madness (1973), Brad Anderson’s Stonehearst Asylum (2014), and Jung Bum-shik’s Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).   00:00 – Intro 07:27 – Bedlam 30:13 – The Mansion of Madness 53:31 – Stonehearst Asylum (and Shutter Island) 1:16:23 – Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum 1:43:18 – Final thoughts/outro   Check out Betsy’s Podcast, Your Favorite Monsters:  On April 11th, Daunte Wright Sr. was murdered by a Brooklyn Center police officer. If you’re in the position to help his family and community during this painful time, please consider donating to some of the following funds: The Daunte Wright Sr. Memorial Fund Brooklyn Center Mutual Aid Fund Brooklyn Center Schools–Student and Family Support

ALIEN 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 alien, sometimes human, and almost always malevolent entities that possess human bodies, stealing identities, and/or creating automaton doppelgängers (pod people, robots, zombies, et cetera).  Given the scope of the discussion this time around, the discussion has been loosely broken down into an introduction and four categories (note that we cover more than the movies listed and the time spent on each movie varies): 00:00 – Intro: Invaders from Mars (1953), literature & television 14:08 – Part 1, The Official Invasion of the Body Snatchers Canon: Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers (1993), and Oliver Hirschbiegel’s The Invasion (2007).  54:02 – Part 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers Successors and the Unofficial Representatives of Each Decade: John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), Larry Cohen’s The Stuff (1985), Robert Rodriguez’ The Faculty (1998), Edgar Wright’s The World’s End (2013), and Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017). 1:16:12 – Part 3, Alien Slug Parasite Movies: Bruno VeSota’s The Brain Eaters (1958), Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps (1986), Stuart Orme’s The Puppet Masters (1994), Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher (2003), and James Gunn’s Slither (2006), including Gene Fowler Jr.’s I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958). 1:47:43 – Part 4, Unique Variants and Final Thoughts: Hajime Sato’s Goke the Body Snatcher from Hell (1968), Gary Sherman’s Dead and Buried (1981), and everything else.   If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers: Minnesota Freedom Fund Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition American Nurses Foundation’s Coronavirus Response Fund  

ALL 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, including Mark Shepard’s Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990), Carl Denham’s Shreck (1990), and J.R. Bookwalter’s Kingdom of the Vampire (1991). The list is shorter this time, but we both had a lot to say about some of these movies, especially Carl J. Sukenick’s mind-bending Alien Beasts (1991), Olaf Ittenbach’s gut-wrenching The Burning Moon (1992), and Scooter McCrae’s genuinely great The Shatter Dead (1994). . Again, people have asked for a list of the films covered in the description, so here you go. All of the movies that at least one of us has seen are marked with a †, while the others are discussed based on available information/reviews: Bimbos B.C. (1990) Attack of the Hideopoid (1990) Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990) † Gorgasm (1990) Shreck (1990) † Crystal Force (1990) Attack of the Killer Refrigerator (1990) † Honeymoon Murders (1990) Kingdom of the Vampire (1991) † Zombie ‘90: Extreme Pestilence (1991) † Alien Beasts (1991) † The Burning Moon (1992) † Scary Tales (1993) † Savage Vengeance (1993) Vampires and Other Stereotypes (1994) Shatter Dead (1994) † If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:   Minnesota Freedom Fund   Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund   Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition   American Nurses Foundation’s Coronavirus Response Fund