We jumped at the chance to participate in the 3rd Hammer-Amicus Blogathon and chose something a little different: Amicus' 1st production from 1962...a musical comedy about the then-popular fad of digging 1920's traditional jazz music. This was legendary director Richard Lester's ( A Hard Day's Night , Help!) film debut. Thankfully, he was smart enough to pepper some pop stars in amongst the Dixieland. With guests Devin Bruce ( Apocalypse Kow ) and Jacob Balcom . Check out the Blogathon HERE ....
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 116
Matt makes up for only getting one WINGS HAUSER episode out this June by having Joe and Jack ( Rogue Riffers ) on to talk about 1989's BEDROOM EYES II, a neo-noir erotic crime thriller co-starring Linda Blair and Veronica Hart. With eyes clearly on Hitchcock and DePalma, this hypnotic mess falls far short but definitely entertains. Rogue Riffers: https://rogueriffers.wordpress.com/author/rogueriffers/
Jul 31, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 115
We celebrate Wings Hauser month by watching a TV movie that was a pilot for an action series. A ragtag group of misfit cops are handpicked to form a domestic crime strike-force. Our buddy Wings is the short-fuse hothead who drinks Scotch-and-milks.
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Before Mind, Body, and Soul (1992), Wings Hauser & Rick (Hobgoblins) Sloane collaborated on Marked for Murder , a 'thriller' featuring the children of Martin Sheen & Robert Mitchum, where a couple of hapless TV station employees get caught up in a high-stakes game of drugs, videotape, and death.
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 113
Matt is joined by Kyle and Jacob to discuss the new film from Joe Badon, Sister Tempest . We reviewed his God Inside My Ear back in Ep67 and were chomping at the bit to get back inside his wild, cinematic mind. We discuss the film w/o spoilers in the beginning and provide a spoiler-break point to stop the show, so you can wait until you see it before hearing the whole shebang.
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Matt is joined by Andrew Shaw and Devin Bruce to discuss the newly released horror film Archons , the second film from the director of Black Mountain Side (2016), which Matt became a big fan of after seeing it at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Archons is the story of falling-from-grace rock group half a decade after the release of their hit single, as they travel deep into the Canadian wilderness on a spirit journey....
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 111
Dear listeners, we're wrapping up the return of the show w/ this extra bonus Wings Hauser Month episode. It was a great comfort to talk to friends old & new during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully, we entertained you a bit, too. but for now, we don't have anything else planned. Matt was joined by Joe (who dropped out due to technical issues) and Pete (an old friend from the band Ex-Hustlers ) to discuss Norman Mailer's film adapted from his hardboiled noir book. It's, uh, something else....
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 49 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Kyle & Jacob join Matt to talk about this movie written and directed by and starring Wings Hauser along w/ Linda Blair. Wings plays a drunken ex-LAPD cop in self-imposed exile in Mexico who returns to L.A. seeking answers and revenge after his gay son is brutalized by skinheads.
Jun 21, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 9
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz (Jeffrey Combs) teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger, like the gun, (Wings Hauser) to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive. Jason Farrell & Andrew Shaw join Matt to discuss this 'movie.' Andrew's Cul-de-Sac: https://www.comixology.com/Culdesac/digital-comic/701881 This Nightmare Kills Fascists: https://awbw.com/product/this-nightmare-kills-fascist...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 58 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Jacob Balcom and Seth Garon join Matt to talk about Michael J. Murphy's Atlantis , a movie we'd discussed reviewing since we watched Death Run / Mutant City a couple years ago, Murphy had a sprawling, ambitious vision for his antediluvian saga about the great lost civilization of legend...and a few thousand pounds sterling and a rented psych-hospital outbuilding.
May 26, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Joe & Ben join Matt to talk about a movie starring one of Matt's favorite '70s genre actors: Jim 'Black Belt Jones' Kelly in DEATH DIMENSION, directed by beloved schlockmeister AL ADAMSON. Also featuring Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata & George 'One-n-Done James Bond' Lazenby. Evil crimelord "The Pig" aims to sell new freeze-bomb technology to the highest bidder, but Lt. Det. J. Ash aims to put stop to it w/ punches, kicks, and nunchuks.
May 07, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Season 2Ep. 106
Matt's wife Renee and their friends Sarah & Mike joined the show for a double-date night, pandemic-style: a movie over a shared Zoom screen and a review after words. We watched a screener of the new found-footage true-crime movie Murder Death Koreatown (2020)...not sure if we'll be sent screeners anymore. We talk about all things found footage, the good and the (mostly) bad.
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 5
We wanted to participate in the Vincent Price Blogathon this year, so we picked a pulpy sci-fi horror movie from Amicus that was new to us and talked about it with guests Rob Hafferman and Devin Bruce. Vincent is joined by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, sort of, to tell an odd little tale about body-part farming and composite people in the highest levels of government. Devin sings! https://apocalypsekow.com/moo/ Rob paints! https://roberthafferman.com/...
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 44 min
Friend of the show Andrew picked up Scalps on blu-ray and another buddy, Ben, joined us to discuss this $15k '80s slasher...er...scalper...about archaeology students on a dig who face the angry spirit of Black Claw, the sorcerer of a massacred tribe of Native Americans. Andrew writes comics, like Culdesac ....
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 3
The revival continues with an '80s action-er custom-made for Kyle and Adam. Another Peter O'Brian (Ep08 - The Stabilizer) joint! O'Brian stars as Alex 'Rambu' Trambuan, an all-around hero who can't seem to catch a break. A mix-up w/ the local drug cartel starts a downward spiral into justice and vengeance that requires lots of fists and bullets. WATCH IT HERE: https://youtu.be/caChFgVEonQ
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 2
*For our sanity, we're reviving the show during the pandemic to give us an excuse to talk together and have a much needed laugh. Matt is joined by Joe Kincher and Jason Farrell to discuss NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR, an infamous anthology film from 1985 that hacks 3 unrelated feature films into a delirious mess. God and Satan ride a train together and determine the fate of the characters from some weird-ass movie made even more weird-ass by hatchet-job editing. Check it out!
Mar 28, 2020•2 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 101
Matt is joined by the core TCTT gang: Jacob, Joe, and Kyle to watch & review Neil Breen's 5th film Twisted Pair together for the big 100th episode finale. These 100 episodes have been a blast to create over the last 6.5 years and we want to thank all the wonderful people who gave of their time and sanity to explore the psychotronic world with us. We'll still be kicking around the 'Net and may do something for fun here or there, but for now, it's time to move on. Do us a favor, will ya? Stay ...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 51 min
John Morgan and Ben McClure return to talk about NIGHT KILLER by "Clyde Anderson" (Claudio Fragasso), an erotic psycho-thriller with some Bruno Mattei slasher inserts inserted after the fact. Peter Hooten ( Orca & the TV pilot for Dr. Strange ) gives a fevered performance that is something to behold, but the whole film is a wild ride!
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 49 min
Matt is joined by regular guest Jacob Balcom and his cousin Seth Garon returns to talk about DEMON COP, the Blood Meridian or The Sound and the Fury of psychotronic auteur films. Demon Cop seems to be the tragic story of a widower who becomes the host of a demon of retribution & changes into a beast with the moon to stalk the members of Denver/Aurora Hills gangs. A virtually impenetrable web of exposition, non-sequitur scenes, and kaleidoscopic plot.
Nov 17, 2019•1 hr 53 min
The last Halloween mix of the TCTT podcast series. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends. Happy Halloween!!!
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Joseph Dufresne, creator of local horror-host extraordinaire Uncle Eerie Lee Shivers, joined us to talk about horror hosts, GuignolFest, Halloween horror movie favorites, and Mark Polonia's HALLOWEENIGHT from 2009. UNCLE EERIE: SHIVER SHOW Facebook YouTube GuignolFest2019...
Oct 26, 2019•2 hr 22 min
Matt and his guest Joseph Dufresne (a.k.a. Uncle Eerie Lee Shivers) had a great chat so chock full of content for the Halloween episode, that some had to be cut for time. Here's a short bonus ep wherein the current "horror renaissance" is discussed. UNCLE EERIE'S SHIVER SHOW
Oct 23, 2019•40 min
Here's the links to our full movie riffs. Please download and share! BLOODY PIT OF HORROR: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mZZOA56NAYFySLg1ZDfb54DHriTyHUVr INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q0Hy6SP3qHlsN5rC_OxFAWlYuZlnE_Nz CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE: https://drive.google.com/open?id=19Kwo27JAO0swl0z7hONnrSWLIa18rKlE WILD GUITAR: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11Uh92KE8XB1ze1kzSvDT_3wMZAN8id8Y...
Sep 30, 2019•27 min
Matt is joined by Matt Mair Lowery, writer of Dark Horse Comics' LIFEFORMED , and Jason Farrell to talk about Matt's 2nd volume of his YA alien invasion opus and all things comics...and Fred Olen Ray's 1980 cinematic train wreck ALIEN DEAD, where a houseboat in a Florida Swamp meets a meteorite that creates flesh-eating zombies...that look like last-minute Halloween costumes. We've said it before and we'll say it again: ED WOOD GOT SCREWED
Sep 13, 2019•2 hr 10 min
Adam & Kyle return to review DRAGON HUNT, the canuxploitation sequel to TWIN DRAGON ENCOUNTER, sees the villain Jake return w/ a new metal hand & an armada of mercenaries. He wants the heads of Mick & Marty McNamara for revenge against losing battle (and his hand) to them in the first one. Ninjas, poachers, beast-masters...oh, my!
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 28 min
We had regular guests Joe Kincher & Jacob Balcom and their wives Jolie and Alicia join us for dinner and screening of Howling: New Moon Rising (a.k.a. Howling 7), a film by writer-producer-director-star Clive Turner. After we finished the film, we tried to make sense of it. It takes place in Pioneertown, CA, and takes place in Pappy + Harriet's western saloon. There's footage from other Howling films, and two guys working for the church to stop the lyncathropic curse...we think. This was a m...
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Jason Farrell and Joe Kincher join us to discuss Victor Salva, the director of Clownhouse, who was convicted for raping the child star this film from 1988, and how and why he has continued to have a film-making career over the last 30 years. This was a springboard to a larger discussion about the matter of separating the art from the artist.
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 57 min
European assassin & kung-fu master Linda Allen (Renee Harmon) kicks, punches, and licks her way through LA's underworld, assassins, and the FBI to avenge her sister's death. Matt tries to make sense of James Bryan & Renee Harmon's glorious grindhouse mess LADY STREET FIGHTER with guests John Morgan (a decorated TCTT veteran of Bryan/Harmon's THE EXECUTIONER, PART II) and first-time guest Ben. We had a blast picking up the pieces of our minds.
Jul 11, 2019•1 hr 18 min
In the aftermath of the Central Park Jogger case, two L.A. cops (demi-god Wings Hauser & Joey Travolta) clash with disaffected and detached teens of their city who are on a violent rampage. Jack & Lad from the Rogue Riffers join us to discuss this important message film ripped from yesterday's headlines...and more importantly, Wings Hauser. Rogue Riffers: https://rogueriffers.wordpress.com/author/rogueriffers/...
Jun 21, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Our 2nd annual Wings Hauser Month starts with a bang: Jacob Balcom and Joe Kincher are back to discuss STREET ASYLUM: a quasi sci-fi tale about b-modded cops wilding out on the criminal scum of the not-at-all-future L.A. Featuring Nixon Watergate thug G. Gordon Liddy as a fascist ex-police running for mayor. In Portland? Check out Joe's show at SUM Gallery: http://www.sumgallery.com/current.html Have ears? Check out Jacob's album: https://jacobbalcom.bandcamp.com/...
Jun 07, 2019•1 hr 32 min
