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/