Cinema_PSYOPS_EP301: Full Franchise Fest: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 1986 The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface (Bill Johnson) is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally disturbed Chop-Top (Bill Moseley). This time, the masked killer has set his sights on pretty disc jockey Vanita “Stretch” Brock (Caroline Williams), who teams up with Texas lawman Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper) to battle the ...
May 23, 2021•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 301
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP300: Full Franchise Fest: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 The TCM Full Franchise Fest begins with the original classic! When Sally (Marilyn Burns) hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family’s old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-w...
May 16, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 300
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP299: Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture 1973 The second of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ochô. Ochô is mistakenly kidnapped by drug traffickers, tortured and sexually assaulted, and framed for murdering another of their victims. She is found and helped by Jyoji and discovers that the criminals use the body cavities of women from a gang of female thieves to smuggle drugs to the Clan Ogi led by the Yakuza Goda, who...
May 09, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 299
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP298: Sex and Fury 1973 The first of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ocho. After the murder of Ocho’s policeman father, it is revealed that she has grown up to become a professional gambler as she searches for her father’s killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa a...
May 02, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 298
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP297: Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance 1974 Starting at the end of the war with Russia, Yuki is imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged. To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, she is recruited into the secret police and becomes caught in a web of corruption, assassination and coercion when the vengeful swords-woman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionP...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 297
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP296: Lady Snowblood 1973 Based on the manga series of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura, Lady Snowblood recounts the tale of Yuki, born only for vengeance. The path of vengeance is set for Yuki when her father is murdered, her mother raped, and her entire village swindled out of all of its money before she is even born. Upon her mother’s death shortly after her birth, Yuki is raised and trained by a warrior priest. When she turns 20, she sets out to seek revenge on ...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 296
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP295: A Knife for the Ladies 1974 A giallo-style murder mystery with a wild West setting, A Knife for the Ladies is the story of a private detective who travels out west to investigate the murders of several prostitutes, facing off against the reluctance of the town’s grizzled sheriff, and several suspicious characters, each with something to hide. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 295
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP294: The House of Insane Women 1971 Although released the same year as Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’, The House of Insane Women is a somber look at similar subject matter with much less flair or anger. The film is primarily an asylum melodrama. Because the main character is suffering from the trauma of seeing her mother’s exorcism, it was retitled Exorcism’s Daughter and passed off as a clone of the Exorcist, confusing viewers even further. The cut down to just over 90 minute versio...
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 294
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP293: March Mattei: Hell of the Living Dead 1980 A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the Papua New Guinea jungle after a chemical leak at a laboratory turns its staff into flesh-eating zombies. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2&ls=1 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-ps...
Mar 28, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 293
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP292: March Mattei: Cruel Jaws 1995 The coastal town of Hampton Bay is threatened when a 25-foot Tiger shark starts chomping up their vacationers. Days before the annual Regatta celebration, the townspeople are faced with financial ruin if something is not done about their new-found shark problem. If that was not enough, the owners of the local amusement park have been subject to a hostile takeover from a prospective businessman looking to cash in on their prized property. It is t...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 292
Cinema_PSYOPS_EP291: March Mattei: Rats Night of Terror 1984 Set 225 years after a nuclear holocaust in 2015, the survivors are divided between those who live in comfortable underground cities and the “New Primitives” who live in the sunlight. A group of 11 of these people come across a mysterious, abandoned village. Despite the presence of numerous horribly mutilated corpses, the adventurers decide to settle in town after discovering a large amount of food, a greenhouse with various fruit trees...
Mar 14, 2021•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 291
CinePsyEP290: March Mattei: Double S Girls 1977 ‘SS Girls’ (1977) aka ‘Casa privata per le SS’ is an Italian nazisploitation film by director Bruno Mattei. The film is about a brothel where traitors of the Nazi high command are eradicated. To help the brothel out, a Nazi commander, involved in intelligence work, enlists the aid of scientists who train various prostitutes to sexually satisfy the desires of the Nazi high command and root out any traitors. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Ph...
Mar 07, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 290
CinePsyEP289: Eyeball 1975 A knife-wielding maniac in a red rain slicker and gloves goes on the rampage and kills American tourists on a tour bus after gouging out their left eye. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ij7cs3a2qml6bz2lajomirqcngi?t=Cinema_PSYOPS Cinem...
Feb 28, 2021•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 289
CinePsyEP288: Dark Waters (1993) Elizabeth travels to a primitive island to discover the truth about her dark past. On the island, Elizabeth finds a malevolent order of nuns and is tortured by horrible visions from her childhood. There seems to be no escape for her from this menacing evil that inhabits this strange island. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: h...
Feb 21, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 288
CinePsyEP287: The Dead Are Alive! (1972) Lost in a sea of despicable characters, sexual assaults, and abusive relationships, Cort and Matt try to discern the plot points of ‘The Dead Are Alive!’. This film’s story runs some where around a horrific, alcoholic photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy as they are suspected for the murders of horny couples fucking in tombs and pastoral settings. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7...
Feb 14, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 287
CinePsyEP286: Twice-Told Tales (1963) Vincent Price stars in three horror stories. In ‘Dr Heidegger’s Experiment’, the titular character reanimates his long-dead fiancée. In ‘Rappacini’s Daughter’ Price plays a psychotically over-protective father whom injects his daughter full of poisons that kill anyone she comes into physical contact with. Finally, in ‘The House of the Seven Gables’, Price’s character moves into his cursed family mansion with his new wife. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/sh...
Feb 07, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 286
CinePsyEP285: The Mephisto Waltz 1971 A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles’ hands are ideally suited for piano. Myles’ wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan’s intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA i...
Jan 31, 2021•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 285
CinePsyEP284: Death Race 2000 (1975) In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in a cross country automobile race. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher...
Jan 25, 2021•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 284
CinePsyEP283: The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) When a mysterious corpse is accidentally dug up by a boy in a small town, a group of local teens starts acting very strangely. The adolescents, led by a girl named Angel (Linda Hayden), are convinced the corpse was once possessed. Hoping to get in touch with the devil through the body, the teens act out a series of demonic rituals that causes a stir among the townspeople. When word of the satanic activity spreads, certain parents start trying to loc...
Jan 17, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 283
CinePsyEP282: Byleth: The Demon of Incest (1972) A man who’s been incestuously in love with his sister since childhood comes back after a year’s absence to find that she has gotten married. Soon, several women in the area start turning up dead with strange wounds on their necks. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops ...
Jan 10, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 282
CinePsyEP281: Who Can Kill a Child? 1976 A bromance reunion leads this episode as Boz steps in to cohost with Cort as Matt is on the road to recovery from illness. The pair discuss the ground breaking Spanish film ‘Who Can Kill a Child?’ and answer the question posed by the title. Check out Boz’s latest project: https://youtube.com/c/BTTRHitTheMatPodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyo...
Jan 04, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 281
CinePsyEP280: Full Franchise Fest Clean Up: Sleepaway Camp Matt is ill and unable to do the show this week leaving Cort with no time to throw a show together one day before Christmas. Somehow, Cort is able to cover both the actual 4th movie in the Sleepaway Camp Franchise, Return to Sleepaway Camp and the fucked up clip show mess that was supposed to be the 4th movie in the series that was never completed in one show! Half the hosts with twice the reviews! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/...
Dec 28, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 280
CinePsyEP279: The Beast In The Cellar (1970) A series of violent murders shakes a quiet English village. As the story unfolds, a link emerges between the killings and something unseen that lives in the cellar of a cottage belonging to two kindly, elderly sisters. Things take a very dark turn this week as the review and the news break Matt and Cort. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 279
CinePsyEP278: The House of Seven Corpses (1974) A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfK...
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 278
CinePsyEP277: The Weekend Murders (1970) A family gathers at a British estate to hear the reading of a will and while there they are murdered one by one in a comedic spoof romp of Agatha Christie murder mysteries. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ij7cs3a2qml6bz2...
Dec 07, 2020•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 277
CinePsyEP276: Wild at Heart (1990) Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor as the weirdest version of Wizard of Oz plays out in the background. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ij7cs3a2qml6bz2lajomirq...
Nov 30, 2020•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 276
CinePsyEP275: Sleepaway Camp Full Franchise Fest A unique and varied series of films, the Sleepaway Camp Trilogy sparks many discussions about identity and abuse. There is feed back, there are out takes, and this episode is far too long as is. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops Google Play Music: https://play.goog...
Nov 22, 2020•4 hr 53 min•Ep. 275
CinePsyEP274: Suddenly in the Dark 1981 A wife starts to suspect her husband’s infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper, who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ij7cs3a2qml6bz2lajomirqcngi?t=Cinema_...
Nov 15, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 274
CinePsyEP273: Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory 1961 At a girls’ school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ij7cs3a2qml6bz2lajomirqcngi?t=Cinema_PSYOPS ...
Nov 08, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 273
CinePsyEP272: Watch Me When I Kill 1977 When a pharmacist is murdered and a woman happens to see the culprit leave the scene, she soon finds herself being stalked by the killer. Her boyfriend tries to identify the murdered and stop him, but discovers there is more to the murder. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574921?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cinema-psyops ...
Nov 02, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 272
