Tracks Of The Damned

"The film industry will always exist, but it will no longer be the film industry." - Roger Corman

@craigglennon4417 11 years ago SKIDDING THE CAR, DE NIRO SHOULD BE ASHAMED, OF HIMSELF

"Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner." ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception "Let's get Wavy!" ― Wavy Gravy

"This was a story about a group of society's unskilled, even illiterate, high school dropouts in a technologically advanced society. Some were psychologically maladjusted. They don't answer want ads for Draftsman, Tool and Die Maker, or Aircraft Fabricator. What is the life of a man with an 80 IQ? Janitor? Street sweeper? Gas station attendant? So why work in a demeaning job? They say: 'Fuck it, I'll get a girl who'll work and she'll collect unemployment and we'll scam together and we'll end up living together almost as well as if I were working. But at least I'm free. It beats holding down some crummy job all my life.' I saw the Hell's Angel riding free as a modern-day cowboy. The chopper was his horse. The locales would be the wide-open spaces- the beach, the desert, the mountains. I also remembered Sonny Barger's remark that 'we're not losers.' The most famous Angel of them all, and the president of the powerful Oakland chapter, was proud. A "winner" in society's terms meant being Mr. Assistant Sales Manager Barger, not Sonny Barger on a gleaming, growling chopper. The Angels were an intriguiging social phenomenon, and I wanted to tell it like it is." - Roger Corman with Jim Jerome, "How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood (and Never Lost A Dime)" Featuring a brief surprise appearance by Jim Laczkowski!

"For what really occurred, however, it is quite impossible that any human being could have been prepared. As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of "dead! dead!" absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once -- within the space of a single minute, or even less, shrunk -- crumbled -- absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome -- of detestable putridity." - "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", Edgar Allan Poe

"What seem to be vestiges of the Jim Crow world in a sense are just that. But passage of the old order's segregationist trappings throws into relief the deeper reality that what appeared and was experienced as racial hierarchy was also class hierarchy. Now blacks occupy positions in the socioeconomic order previously available only to whites, and whites occupy those previously identified with blacks. And the dynamics of superordination and subordination, patterns of appropriation and distribution, and dominant understandings of which material interests should drive policy remain much as they were. This underscores the point that the core of the Jim Crow order was a class system rooted in employment and production relations that were imposed, stabilized, regulated and naturalized through a regime of white supremacist law, practice, custom, rhetoric, and ideology. Defeating the white supremacist regime was a tremendous victory for social justice and egalitarian interests. At the same time, that victory left the undergirding class system untouched and in practical terms affirmed it. That is the source of that bizarre sensation I felt in the region a generation after the defeat of Jim Crow. The larger takeaway from this reality is that a simple racism/anti-racism framework isn't adequate for making sense of the segregation era, and it certainly isn't up to the task of interpreting what has succeeded it or challenging the forms of inequality and injustice that persist." ― Adolph L. Reed Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives   "Walt Price: What does he like? Bill Smith: 14-year-old girls. Walt Price: Well, get him something else. We want to get out of this town alive. Get him half a 28-year-old girl." -David Mamet, State & Main

"The tortures endured, however, were indubitably quite equal for the time, to those of actual sepulture. They were fearfully -- they were inconceivably hideous; but out of Evil proceeded Good; for their very excess wrought in my spirit an inevitable revulsion. My soul acquired tone -- acquired temper. I went abroad. I took vigorous exercise. I breathed the free air of Heaven. I thought upon other subjects than Death. I discarded my medical books. "Buchan" I burned. I read no "Night Thoughts" -- no fustian about churchyards -- no bugaboo tales -- such as this. In short, I became a new man, and lived a man's life. From that memorable night, I dismissed forever my charnel apprehensions, and with them vanished the cataleptic disorder, of which, perhaps, they had been less the consequence than the cause. There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell -- but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful -- but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us -- they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish." - "Premature Burial", Edgar Allan Poe

"@douglaswallace7680 1 month ago (edited) Roger  Corman at his best !   Starring looks - like - stars :  Humphrey  Bogart  and the  Mickey  Rooney brothers .   I am guessing they were busy the weekend that this film was made !   Kept it on 2.5 playback until  1:02:45 to see a t.Urd with 2 eyes ." "Everything dies baby, that's a fact but maybe everything that dies some day comes back" - Bruce Springsteen

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant eye-like windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime." - Edgar Allan Poe

"As Kallis later recalled: "I told Roger, 'I'm doing very classy stuff with Saul Bass for the best studios.' Roger said, 'What would it take to get you?' I said, 'If, after we had general conversations about the approach to the picture, you'd leave all the decisions to me, I might be interested–and I'll give you a fixed price.' That appealed to Roger greatly!" It was the break Kallis needed. He was free to do what he wanted, how he wanted. Over the next decade Kaliis produced a series of kick-ass posters which were bright, bold, dynamic and original. His work was so good that there was an axiom that Kallis' artworks were often more thrilling, more exciting, more intense than the films Corman made. Kallis was also smart enough to take some of his hard-earned cash and invest in setting up the restaurant chain the International House of Pancakes." - "They Came to a Cinema Near You!: Attack of the B-Movie Posters" from flashbak.com  

Tom Weaver: So you did all of your own stunts in the film? Susan Cabot: Every bit of running, jumping, tackling, fighting and falling you see in that film, I did myself. One thing I remember in particular was that, as I attacked each character, I was supposed to bite their necks and draw blood. As I pierced the neck, to get the drama of the moment Roger wanted to see the blood. And so as I attacked everybody, I had Hershey's chocolate in my mouth -- which I proceeded to blurp, right on people's necks. What we did for Roger Corman -- I mean, things that you could never do in a real studio but you did for this guy. Everything seemed unreal with him.

"The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love." ― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer "The first screenplay Griffith wrote was Cardula, a Dracula-themed story involving a vampire music critic. After Corman rejected the idea, Griffith says he wrote a screenplay titled Gluttony, in which the protagonist was "a salad chef in a restaurant who would wind up cooking customers and stuff like that, you know? We couldn't do that though because of the code at the time. So I said, 'How about a man-eating plant?', and Roger said, 'Okay.' By that time, we were both drunk." - wikipedia

"The ambitious artist, the artist who wanted Success, now had to do a bit of psychological double-tracking. Consciously he had to dedicate himself to the antibourgeois values of the cenacles of whatever sort, to bohemia, to the Bloomsbury life, the Left Bank life, the Lower Broadway Loft life, to the sacred squalor of it all... Not only that, he had to dedicate himself to the quirky god Avant-Garde. He had to keep one devout eye peeled for the new edge on the blade of the wedge of the head on the latest pick thrust of the newest exploratory probe of this fall's avant-garde Breakthrough of the Century ... all this in order to make it, to be noticed, to be counted, within the community of artists themselves. What is more, he had to be sincere about it. At the same time he had to keep his other eye cocked to see if anyone in le monde was watching. Have they noticed me yet? Have they even noticed the new style (that me and my friends are working in) Don't they even know about Tensionism (or Slice Art or Niho or Innerism or Dimensional Creamo or whatever)? (Hello, out there!) ... because as every artist knew in his heart of hearts, no matter how many times he tried to close his eyes and pretend otherwise (History! History!-where is thy salve?), Success was real only when it was success within le monde. He could close his eyes and try to believe that all that mattered was that he knew his work was great ... and that other artists respected it ... and that History would surely record his achievements ... but deep down he knew he was lying to himself. I want to be a Name, goddamn it!" - Thomas Wolfe, The Painted Word " Sylvia, didn't you see me wave my zen stick?" - Walter Paisley

It's finally here! The worst Roger Corman movie has produced the very worst episode of this podcast! Whole five minute stretches of me saying nothing! Don't listen to this!

Tell your old lady to keep her wise cracks behind her teeth or she's gonna be wearing false ones!  

"I watched it for a little while I love to watch things on TV" - Lou Reed Halfway through this project from hell and Corman is still growing more powerful.

"@garypavlick5825 1 year ago I love the underlying tones in Corman films. I'm only, 58 so, these films were made: 10 years before I was born. And,  didn't air on tv. They were  midnight drive in movie's. Come the 80s. They were gone by then. About, 25 years ago. I found these on DVD. Compilation discs. I was hooked! The decade of the B film invasion. the beatnik era. The exposure of the back scenes of American lifestyle. When, I started watching these. I said.... Oh! No wonder my parents were kinda weird. That would've been the 70s.  I was born in 65 I said... So, thats what they did behind closed doors. Lol. Rex Carlton was another B movie King. I learned about the real history of American lifestyles through these types of movies. I started to collect as many as I could. all the way up to the early 80s. Remember Mario van Peebles films. and all those Black karate films. I had them all. Lol. And , Dick Miller became an idol to me too. how can't you not like him. ✌️

"CG: The Woolner brothers came to the Garden of Allah and we had a meeting in the Garden, where all the stars used to sneak away to make out. They wanted a gang picture, as it was the time of the street gangs and juvenile delinquents. I told them I had one called "The Rat Pack" and they said they wanted a girl gang. So I got to work on Teenage Doll, which was Larry Woolner taking the title of [Elia] Kazan's Baby Doll [1956]. But the Johnson Bureau, or the Hays Office – I forget which was in at the time – rejected the story. AG: So you had to re-write it over the weekend? CG: Well I had to ruin it over the weekend."

"Someday, you'll find all who love are blind when your heart's on fire You must realize smoke gets in your eyes" - The Platters "Now you know nothing, before, you knew a whole fucking lot Your ass don't wanna get shot" - ODB

"Come back, come back, come back, Bridey Murphy back to the place you once knew in a land where you were so happy and to those who loved you so true" - "The Ballad of Bridey Murphy", Eddy McKean The Undead is the past life of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe movies. What did he keep, what (and who) did he ditch, and did women really have such drastic support garments in 1347 or whenever this is supposed to take place?

"Guy N. Smith wrote his first horror novel, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974 published by New English Library (NEL). It spawned two direct sequels. However, he states it was Night of the Crabs, published in 1976, that really launched his career as a writer. Spawning 11 sequels, the latest of which was published in 2019, the series chronicles invasions of various areas of the British coastline by giant man-eating crabs." "A lifelong pipe smoker, Guy N. Smith won the British pipe smoking championship in 2003." "Oh, no, the professor died. I saw this movie in a little theater in West Texas when I was just a kid back in the late 1950s. It was in the winter and cold as ... well, as cold as it can get in the Panhandle. There was very little heat in the theater and my whole family sat shivering and with our jackets on, we but didn't want to leave. If you ever saw "The Last Picture Show" that will give you an idea of what it was like. But, good memories nonetheless." - @gilbertodominguez5212 3 years ago

"If I do not receive blood within four chronoctons of time, I will have no need of emotion."   "I wear my sunglasses at night So I can, so I can Watch you weave then breathe your story lines" Charles B. Griffith starts to spread his wings. 

Charles B. Griffith stumbles upon a new scenario to endlessly repeat for Roger Corman. Turns out, it's the same as the old scenario. In the meantime Beverly Garland cooks, Dick Miller finds his voice and we all listen to a lot of steel guitar.

The shoot was rough on everyone. Alison Hayes, a very witty, humorous actress, came up with the best line of all. "Tell me, Roger," she said, soaking wet and cold, "who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?" - How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood (And Never Lost A Dime) by Roger Corman with Jim Jerome The end of the Corman western pushes the Corman woman to the fore, while horrible weather pushes everyone indoors.

"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself." - Paul Nelson "[raising her rifle] You think you're gonna make a slave of the world... I'll see you in Hell first!" - Claire Anderson "I ate a hot dog It tasted real good Then I watched a movie From Hollywood" - Frank Zappa Roger Corman has arrived.  

https://brightlightsfilm.com/she-gods-gangsters-and-gunslingers-the-new-woman-in-the-early-films-of-roger-corman/ In my haste I don't think I actually say the name of the writer of this essay, Catherine Essinger. Apologies to Catherine Essinger, thank you Catherine for writing this.

Not as Russ Meyer as you may hope but still, at heart, a bondage fetish film about tough broads with great gams pointing guns at each other and looking at stock footage of alligators. Featuring the incredible eyes of Marie Windsor.

"I just can't help it, I have this uncontrollable urge to eat meat. Red... raw... meat." Post-apocalyptic radioactive bat-moth mutants with doodle boppers and angry eyebrows terrorize a found family of a fascist, a gangster, a stripper, a gold prospector, the guy from Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a young woman pining after a portrait of Roger Corman. What results is the first Corman classic and kind of crummy at the same time.

"The movie has been called one of Corman's dullest films." Roger Corman month continues with a low-wattage western murder mystery about a white man who teaches a biracial woman how to love by manhandling her and killing her brother. Dick Miller is in it but you have to wait 64 minutes before he shows up.

A commentary track for Five Guns West (1955). We're doing something stupid for November. One Roger Corman-directed movie a day. Why? Get action, do things, be sane. 

for nathaxnne walker "The Devil is dope" - The Dramatics Beyond the darkest depths of imagination, the outer rim of human experience, the forbidden rites thought forgotten, rediscovered. The annual tradition of the Halloween mix corrupted, made sinister, clawed loose from the crypt and into the stark sunlight of reality. Italian soundtracks to 1930's jazz to darkwave to stoner metal to house to folk to garage psychedelia and beyond. Remember: when you look Satan in the face, he looks back at you, with one eye open and one eye closed. *1. The Devil is Dope - The Dramatics *2. Headless - Tearist (Live on KXLU) 3a. "AKA Dr. Satan" (House of 1000 Corpses excerpt) *3b. House of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie 4a. Drive-In Movie Radio Spot - Night of the Living Dead & Blood and Black Lace (1968) *4b. In The Room Where You Sleep - Dead Man's Bones 5a. "Satan, our Lord and Master" (Alucarda excerpt) *5b. Main theme (from Beyond the Darkness) - Goblin 6a. "The great devil's advocates of the past..." (Anton LeVey interview excerpt) *6b. Cryptorchild - Marilyn Manson 7a. Race With The Devil radio spot *7b. Jekyll And Hyde - Jim Burgett 8a. Devil Shake Radio Ad (Murray the K 1966 broadcast) *8b. Evil Satan (Devil Shake remix) - Acid King 9a. Damien Prayer monologue (from Final Conflict: The Omen 3) *9b. Lucifer's The Light Of The World - King Dude 10a. The Devil's Widow trailer *10b. Me and the Devil - Soap&Skin 11a. "Jesus was talking about a place called hell" (The Burning Hell excerpt) 11b. Crackling fireplace sfx *11c. [Don't Worry] If There Is a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go - Curtis Mayfield *11d. Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell - Iggy Pop & The Stooges *11e. Man - Yeah Yeah Yeahs *11f. To Hell with Good Intentions - McKlusky *11g. We're All Going To Hell - The Bastard Fairies *11h. All Hell Breaks Loose - The Misfits *12. Headless (2015 mix) - Tearist *13. Death 2 - Flatbush Zombies 14a. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985 teaser trailer) *14b. Nightmare (Maggot's Over Antwerp) - Spencer Tune 15a. Seance Piano Strings sfx 15b. The Call Of The First Aethyr - Aleister Crowley *15c. Swingin' At the Séance - Deep River Boys *16. Lipstick to Void (Under the Skin score) - Mica Levi 17a. Take It from Someone Who Used to Talk to Satan: Halloween Is a Bad Idea (CBN news segment excerpt) *17b. Ordinary Vanity (Silent Hill 2 score) - Akira Yamaoka *17c. On All Hallow's Ever - Killing Joke *18. Masquerade (The Adventure of Kohsuke Kindaichi soundtrack) - The Mystery Kindaichi Band 19a. "Faster and Faster" (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me excerpt) *19b. Pink Room (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack) - Angelo Badalamenti 19c. Satanic Mass - Coven *19d. The Litanies of Satan - Diamanda Galás *19e. Witches & Devils - Albert Ayler 20a. Seven Doors of Death (AKA The Beyond) trailer *20b. Voci dal Nulla (The Beyond score) - Fabio Frizzi 21a. The Devil Within Her trailer *21b. Aloha From Hell - The Cramps *22. The Devil's Gonna Get You - Bessie Smith *23. Midnight Graveyard - Mother Sunday *24. Headless - Tearist  

FIGHT BACK AGAINST TRANSPHOBIC ATTACKS ON THE CHILDREN OF TEXAS: Resources For Transgender Youth in Texas: https://www.txtranskids.org/ Transgender Education Network of Texas: https://www.transtexas.org/services Equality Texas: https://www.equalitytexas.org/ ---------- Whether it's a complicated layered confession from the man who introduced blockbuster filmmaking into the water supply, turning his fellow New Hollywood icons into endangered species or just the best monster movie of the 90s, Jurassic Park (1993) is a beloved institution that will never go away, that children around the world will never stop enjoying, that will never stop influencing the world of populist popcorn cinema. So why does everyone seem to get it wrong? To dig into the minutae of what makes this highly sophisticated machine tick and also just reminisce about being kids in the 90's when this came out, Patrick Ripoll and Regina Linn hold onto their butts and ask the big questions like: Is this movie actually a good demonstration of chaos theory? How does Alan Grant know how to do a Brachiosaurus call? And just how many fucked up space drugs was ET using?  All that and more on the most recent episode of Tracks of the Damned! TIME STAMPS: 0:00 - 5:40  -  Intro 5:41 - 2:15:13  -  Commentary 2:15:14 - 2:21:12  -  Outro

A special Halloween treat: a unique performance of the classic HP Lovecraft short story by Patrick Ripoll and Regina Linn.

The climax of the career of the greatest horror star of all time and also a miserable failure critically and commercially, The Devil Commands was the product of a hungry up and coming director, Edward Dmytryk, being paired with material best described as "Lovecraftian" decades before that word meant anything to anybody. In this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, host Patrick Ripoll tackles the second horror boom of the 40s and asks the big questions like: is that matte painting haunted? Time-Stamps: 0:00 - 0:37  -  Apology Concerning My Thoughtless Words 0:38 - 2:47  -  Intro 2:48 - 1:10:05  -  Commentary 1:10:06 - 1:53:58  - Ten Must-See Karloff Performances 1:53:59 - 1:57:54  -  Outro

The year was 2007, we were all drinking Four Loko, playing Super Mario Galaxy, listening to MIA's "Paper Planes" and taking to our Livejournals and message boards to argue about "torture porn" films. Were they pumped up cinema sadism designed to please craven adolescent creeps? Or angry political works calling back to horror's glory days of the 70's?   The better question was, perhaps, were they torture porn at all? To answer all that and more on the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, Patrick recruited Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder to take a look at Hostel: Part Two (2007), the ambitious and oft-ignored follow up to Eli Roth's breakthrough film. We get into the influence of Tarantino, the history of Elizabeth Bathory in horror films, it's connections to Italian genre films and how Eli Roth made up for certain short-comings as a writer with one particularly brilliant piece of casting. Let's go!   0:00 - 4:16  -  Intro 4:17 - 1:51:51  -  Commentary 1:51:52 - 1:57:16  -  Outro

In a world full of rip-off artists the key is how you rip something off. Sean S. Cunningham, the director of two separate Bad News Bears knockoffs, was not the first guy to go "Hey, this Halloween movie is real popular and seems cheap to make" but he was the guy who did it the exact right way at the exact right time to change the world of horror forever. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned Patrick finally returns to the one that started it all (the uncut version!) and talks about why critics despised it, why it was so successful and just what kind of winding road one takes from pornography to deep sea sci-fi movies. 0:00 - 5:18 - Intro 5:19 - 1:41:55 - Commentary 1:41:56 - 1:44:25 - Outro 1:44:26 - 1:48:23 - ???

It's cold, meat is carved and you're thankful it exists. That's all the justification we need for a special Thanksgiving episode of Tracks of the Damned where Patrick & Jim sat down and did an impromptu, research-free commentary track for The Evil Dead. You may not get to be with your family this year but sit down next to the hearth (don't forget the screaming claymation Necronomicon) and warm your bones with us and Bruce Campbell. That ain't cranberry sauce! Ash gets the stuffing beaten out of him. And a third Thanksgiving joke. 0:00 - 2:43 - Intro 2:44 - 1:30:39 - Commentary 1:30:40 - 1:43:07 - Outro

We've cut off heads, double impaled lovers, went 3D, we ended things, we began them again, we went Frankenstein, we went Carrie, we went to Manhattan, we went to Hell, we went to Space we went Kaiju, what the hell is left to do? Do it all again! How do you remake a movie when the things the fans love about the series don't actually exist in that movie? By remaking the entire series. As ambitious as it is divisive, Friday the 13th (2009) may not be a great film but it is a great example of the problem solving inherent to writing a remake. It's got perfect reference placement, baby. 0:00 - 2:25 - Intro 2:26: - 1:46:30 - Commentary 1:46:31 - 1:49:33 - Outro

"Remember last year, when we were worried that Halloween in 2020 wouldn't feel like Halloween? 'We can't bob for apples, the season is ruined!' Well now some time has passed, it's October again and I haven't even seen an apple in 7 months." - Micah Bravo, host of Tracks of the Damned You think this year was a clusterfuck, you ain't see nothing yet. Live, from the radio station of the third most prestigious community college in the greater Baton Rouge area, DJ Micah Bravo (Regina Linn) surveys a decimated post-nuclear landscape and does what they do every Halloween: get high and party with another great mix of weird and wild spooky tunes. The pumpkins may have mutated a new skin that's impervious to knives but Halloween will never die! ACT ONE 1. What Lurks On Channel X? by Rob Zombie 2. Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani in G Minor, FP 93: I. Andante by Francis Poulenc 3a. Troma Team Title Music 3b. Clip #1 of The Masque of the Red Death read by William S. Burroughs 3c. Silver Shamrock Jingle by John Carpenter & Alan Howarth 4a. Halloween by Betty Grable & David Wayne 4b. Slaughterhouse by Ganksta NIP 5a. Spookshow Trailer 5b. Experiment in Terror by Harry Mancini 6a. Dracula (1979) trailer 6b. Stage 4-3 Bram Stoker's Dracula for Genesis by Andy Brock 6c. Clips from Dracula (1979), Nosferatu (1979), Count Dracula (1970), Bram Stoker's Dracula, Count Dracula (1977), Spanish Dracula (1931) 7. Bela Lugosi by Severed Limb 8a. Dream Clinic scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street 8b. Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish 9a. Ghost in the Machine trailer 9b. Hex from The Andromeda Strain by Gil Mellé 10a. Carvel, Kooky Spooks Make-Up commercials 10b. The World Television Premier of John Carpenter's Halloween 10c. John Carpenter's Halloween by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 11a. To Raise The Dead by Vincent Price 11b. Zombie Jamboree by Harry Belaftone 12a. Living Dead Beats by Sek 12b. "Are they slow moving, chief?" from Night of the Living Dead 13. "I Love The Dead" by Alice Cooper ACT TWO 1. The Spook by Pete Drake 2. Theme From Cannibal Ferox by Roberto Donati and Fiamma Maglione 3. Clip #2 of The Masque of the Red Death read by William S. Burroughs 4a. "Whoa, psychedelic!" from Terrorvision 4b. Terrorvision Theme by The Fibonaccis 5. Night of the Vampire by The Moontrekkers 6a. Halloween Saftey (1985) clip 6b. Fall Children by AFI 7a. "All the different ways of dying. Violently?" clip from Return of the Living Dead 7b. Transylvanian Concubine by Rasputina 8. Dead & Buried Suite by Joe Renzetti 9. Now I'm Feeling Zombified by Alien Sex Fiend 10a. Sadismo trailer 10b. Shadowman by Link Wray 11a. 781 Redrum by Brotha Lynch Hung 11b. Pass The Shovel by Gravediggaz 12. Boo! from The Canterville Ghost by Gordon Getty ACT THREE 1. The Munge by Genki Genki Panic 2. Werewolf & Witchbreath by The Troll 3. Clip #3 of The Masque of the Red Death read by William S. Burroughs 4a. The Hills Have Eyes Opening Theme by Don Peake 4b. Sammy Terry Nightmare Theater opening 5. Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones) by Macabre 6a. Abby Trailer 6b. Day of Wrath Funk Breaks by The Rite of Exorcism 7a. Penn Jillette on Monstervision: Ed Wood defense 7b. Opening Theme to Ed Wood by Howard Shore 8a. Hot Rod Herman clip 8b. The Munsters theme by The Surf Dawgs 9a. Subway scene from Possession (1981) 9b. Demon Host by Timber Timbre 10a. Don't by Garden on a Trampoline 10b. New Jim Jones (live) by Dre Dog

It took 17 years, three god-awful sequels, 18 spec scripts and meetings with every person who ever worked in Hollywood but we got here, we have arrived, grab your shit from the overhead bin because the plane has landed, Freddy Vs. Jason is upon us. A stupid idea inspired by only the most juvenile among the fanbases somehow, some way, turned out to be one of the best entries in either series, a well-crafted and energetic bit of party cinema, grab your gummi bears and throw them at the screen, shouting is enouraged! And in that spirit join Patrick as well as Genre Grinder's Gabe Powers for a rollicking good time commentary that dares to ask: When did horror movie soundtracks become heavy metal mixtapes? Where did Kane Hodder go? And who the hell approved that original ending that caps off a decades-awaited monster mash with Freddy committing sexual assault? All that PLUS we pitch our own Freddy Vs. Jason ideas on this latest episode of Tracks of the Damned! 0:00 - 5:12 - Intro 5:13 - 1:50:57 - Commentary 1:50:58 - 2:08:39 - Our Freddy Vs. Jason Pitches 2:08:40 - 2:13:40 - Outro

  He went to development hell and stayed there but now Jason is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: SPAAAACE.   Yes, since "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman but slasher" was apparently too monumental a task for New Line to tackle Sean S. Cunningham once again delayed Freddy Vs. Jason to boldly go where Hellraiser, Leprechaun AND Critters had already gone before, none of them successfully. But would Jason X be the film to crack that "Horror Franchise In Space" nut?   No, it sucks.   But I meant what I said and I said what I meant, a podcaster's faithful One Hundred Percent, so we're doing a commentary track for Jason X anyway, watching Jason kill 24 people, an entire space station, and more than a few careers. Let me give you an upload!   0:00 - 3:31  -  Intro 3:32 - 1:37:30  -  Commentary 1:37:31 - 1:46:40  -  Outro

After Paramount squeezed all of the blood they could from their stone they sold that dry-ass stone to New Line with a shrug and a smile. They say the plan was always Freddy vs. Jason, but when Wes Craven threw a monkey wrench into the spokes of his old friend Sean Cunningham and, with no ideas and no real interest in anything but money, Cunningham went the dirt cheap route of hiring a bunch of college kids, including his son's old best friend Adam, to radically alter the massive film franchise he didn't quite intend to create. Did this gambit pay off and redefine the beloved series? Or did they make Jason Goes To Hell? On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, Patrick takes a look at the misbegotten sequel and asks important questions such as: What adored horror icon gave a blessing to this rip-off of his work? What does Kane Hodder do all day on the set of a Jason movie with little to no Jason? And why the hell is this movie so fucking hard to watch? Also featuring an introduction from indie wrestling star and AAW champion Mance Warner! Kneepad up, kneepad down! 0:00 - 2:02 - Mance Warner intro 2:03 - 9:18 - Intro 9:19 - 1:40:18 - Commentary 1:40:19 - 1:46:47 - Outro

If the quintessential quarantine experience is walking around your house bored doing nothing as you wait for the pizza you ordered to arrive, than The House of the Devil is the quintessential quarantine movie. Alternately thought of as brilliant and a total waste of time, Ti West's divisive modern classic may not have a quick pace but will it quicken your pulse? To find out we got Jim and Patrick to take a look and debate it's relative merits as horror and as art, time capsule and post-modern riff, homage and parody. And also complain a lot because THIS MOVIE IS BORING AS SHIT. Or at least, so sayeth Patrick. But Jim forsooth sayeth thy atmosphere et thee pace is interesting. Or something. 0:00 - 3:40 - 2020 Intro 3:41 - 9:07 - 2017 Intro 9:08 - 1:46:31 - Commentary 1:46:32 - 1:48:05 - 2020 Outro

Parting can be such sweet sorrow, but it can also just be sorrow, no sweetness, nothing good about it whatsoever. As we close the book on the Paramount years of the Friday the 13th series we see that Frank Mancuso Jr. opted to go out not with a bang, or even a whimper, just a shrug, a gimmicky ad campaign and no fucks given whatsoever. Welcome to Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan, where the ideas ran out long before the money did. But if we are to continue down the thankless path to hell, chronicling the remaining years of Jason Voorhees, we need not do it alone. On this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, Patrick is joined by Louisa Herron of Hack the Net to watch this execrable mess and ask the big questions, like: Did Rob Hedden have any ideas to begin with? What type of Pokemon is Jason? And would you rather live without potatoes or onions? Punch it up! 0:00 - 6:17 - Intro 6:18 - 1:49:30 - Commentary 1:49:31 - 2:01:59 - Outro

So you get your X-Ray Vision but the truth is that after a week of staring at everyone's boobs and dongs nudity fails to do anything for you anymore. What are you going to use it for? Cheating at cards? Curing the sick? Hiding in a dingy Long Beach boardwalk doing insult comedy while dressed lake a blindfolded Pharaoh? If you said all three you might be Dr. James Xavier, star of Roger Corman's 1963 classic X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned we take a look at a pivotal AIP sci-fi shocker and ask the big questions like: How did this movie change the career of Roger Corman? What classic novel does it resemble? And is that really any way to test a monkey? All this and more! Pluck em out! 0:00 - 4:35 - Intro 4:36 - 1:24:40 - Commentary 1:24:41 - 1:30:00 - Outro

https://chicagobond.org/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd    Just when you thought it was safe to have a psychic freakout at your parent's summer home! Some say this movie started as Freddy Vs. Jason, or as a Jaws rip-off, an attempt at an Oscar or an attempt to meet Federico Fellini but if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that it's neutered!  Yes, they cut out all the gore, but that does mean they cut out all the fun? To find out Patrick enlisted the help of Bill Ackerman of Supporting Characters to take a look at this controversial sequel and ask the big questions like: Just how gay is this movie really? Is Danny Steinman getting a bad rap? And did we accidentally trick ourselves into like Kane Hodder? All this and more on the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary podcast! Space mummy!   https://chicagobond.org/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd  0:00 - 7:54  -  Intro 7:55 - 1:34:45  -  Commentary 1:34:46 - 1:44:24 - Outro

Before Boyle cleared out London, before Snyder tacked a mediocre remake onto a strong opening sequence, before Cronenberg went beyond the green door to ask for Marilyn Chamber's phone number, David Durston was there, making zombies who ran hella fast. Raconteur, TV writer, actor and possible gigantic liar (seriously, some of his life stories are wild), Durston was a cuddly madman who saw news footage of caged children foaming at the mouth and thought "that'd make for a fun movie, if only you could squeeze Charles Manson in there".   So it is on this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, that we look at one of the gnarliest and most fun horror trash epics of the 1970's, I Drink Your Blood. But why is it that a movie about Satanist Murder Cult Real-Live-Chicken-Sacrificing Hippies Who Eat Tampered Meat Pies And Decapitate A Small Town's Worth of Upstate New York Bumpkins so much fun to us? Is it because we're sick weirdos or is it because seeing the lines of good taste crossed satisfies a primal urge to violate societal taboos in the safety of our own theater seats? It's probably the first one, but just in case Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder joins Patrick for a post-commentary discussion about transgressive movies, offensive content, and how genre fans navigate the line between watching Cannibal Holocaust and being a good person. Check it out, SADOS commands you! 0:00 - 4:54  -  2020 Intro 4:55 - 6:21  -  2017 Intro 6:22 - 1:31:20  -  Commentary 1:31:21 - 2:27:04  -  Conversation w/ Gabe Powers on transgressive films 2:27:05 - 2:30:36  -  2020 Outro

Here's some real truth for you: every time your neighbor is loud and annoys you through the walls, what they are doing is making a deposit. It's a deposit in your "be as loud and obnoxious as you want guilt-free" bank. You don't have to feel guilty about shouting at the TV while watching The Americans or for stomping around as you dance. When neighbors are aspiring DJ's that's the world telling you: don't worry about being polite all the time. It is in that spirit that on the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, host Patrick welcomes not only Jim Laczkowski of the Director's Club Podcast but also his downstairs neighbors, who played loud gabber music through the whole episode. The more the merrier, it's a party when you watch Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Paramount's celebration of the return of Jason Voorhees and one of the all-time great horror-comedy slashers. Patrick and Jim watch the fan favorite and ask the big questions, like: What kind of horror in-jokes are acceptable? What Universal Horror movies inspired writer/director Tom McLoughlin? And what's the best Friday the 13th and Edgar Allan Poe-inspired way to murder your rude neighbors if you live in Chicago? All this and more on the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned! Cro-nen-berg it! And check out Jim's fundraising request a song here! 0:00 - 6:38 - Intro 6:39 - 1:31:25 - Commentary 1:31:26 - 1:39:20 Outro

1, 2, Patrick's coming for you...4, 3, check your RSS feed.   That's right, Tracks of the Damned is back with another bonus episode, this one of the rare 2017 vintage. In it Patrick is joined by Tessa Racked of Consistent Panda Bear Shape to talk about the controversial and oh-so delightful A Nightmare on Elm Street Part Two. You take a newly-successful studio like New Line and ask them what to do with all that Freddy Money (tm), it's no surprise they didn't exactly know what the future of the franchise should be. But a movie like this only raises questions, like: Who's responsibility is all this subtext anyway? What Errol Morris documentary is lurking just in the margins? And does Rhonda ever get called? All this and more on this episode of Tracks of the Damned! Sweat it out!   0:00 - 6:25  -  2020 Intro 6:26 - 8:47  -  2017 Intro 8:48 - 1:35:53  -  Commentary 1:35:54 - 1:40:43  -  2020 Outro

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end, it's true, but when that other beginning's end was the high point of the series since the beginning's beginning what can you expect from the new beginning, particularly it's end? Why, one of the most controversial choices of the franchise, of course!   We've reached the love-it-or-hate-it section of the series, so we made sure to have both sides represented. On the love it side we have Gabe Powers, proprietor of GenreGrinder.com and host of the Genre Grinder podcast, whose delight in the film's drug-fueled sleaze is only matched by his interest in it's Eurocult vibes. On the hate it side, Patrick Ripoll, who wishes they did something, ANYTHING, with the premise of a halfway house slasher. Together they come together and ask the big questions like: What alternate reality 1990's does this exist in? What does director Danny Steinman have to say about Ronald Reagan's repeal of The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980? And just how much does he like boobs?   The answer to that last question will become abundantly clear. Check it out! And if you want to hear Gabe and Patrick talk about pop star movies like Rock n Roll High School, Head and House Party, be sure to check out Genre Grinder podcast episode 12.   0:00 - 5:40  -  Intro 5:41 - 1:43:04  -  Commentary

So you saw Night of the Living Dead when you were 8, you brag to all your high school buddies about how your parents let you watch Martyrs, but trust me you aren't ready for this. Gnarly onscreen violence is one thing, but violent architecture? There's only one classic horror film that can make art deco scary: The Black Cat.   Lugosi and Karloff together, now you know you in trouble. Ain't nothin but Ulmer thing baby, two horror star legends so it's crazy. Released a mere month and a half before they started enforcing the Hayes Code, this deep dive in sadism, necrophilia, torture, Satanism and sexual assault is every bad taste horror idea you can think of rolled into one very classy old-dark-but-actually-extremely-clean-and-well-lit-house horror movie. Let's get into it!   0:00 - 2:23 - Intro 2:24 - 1:12:00 - Commentary