Matt is joined by Devin Bruce and Andrew Shaw to discuss TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE, a shot-on-video horror anthology from 1987. This flick plays like a Tales from the Dark Side episode that was locked in a hot car during a heatwave: loopy Casio themes, cam-mounted spotlights, and non-professional actors make for a one-of-a-kind viewing experience. Devin does Scotch and Comics : https://scotchandcomics.wordpress.com/ Andrew writes Cul-de-Sac : https://www.comixology.com/Culdesac/digital-comic/7...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 19 min
The great screenwriter and director Larry Cohen left this earthly realm on March 23rd of 2019. The Hollywood Theatre in Portland dedicated a showing of Q: The Winged Serpent in his honor. Jacob Balcom and Matt got mic-ed up and attended the screening and then broke down the crazy later on Skype. Starring: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree and NYC
May 22, 2019•52 min
Jason Farrell and Joey Cruz join Matt to celebrate Walpurgisnacht/Hexennacht (or what we just call 'Halloween in April') by watching Hack-o'-Lantern a much sought-after VHS horror flick starring Hy Pyke as the satanic pumpkin-farming grandfather of the Drindle family. It's Halloween Night and Grandpa's been grooming grandson Tommy to dedicate his life to the Dark One (like a Satanic confirmation?). Meanwhile, someone in the coven's robes wearing a mask is dispatching folks, willy-nilly....
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 43 min
TCTT goes to the movies! Joined by JB from The Broken Plane Podcast, we ventured out to Joy Cinema to see A*P*E, a 3-D quickie aimed at beating Dino De Laurentiis' big-budget and much-hyped remake of KING KONG to the screen. Shot in South Korea on a budget of $23,000 in 14 days, this one doesn't quite measure up to the Jeff Bridges one, but does that one have King Kong flipping the camera off? No, I didn't think so. How many 3-D snakes are thrown at and knock over the camera? Zero? Hard pass. JB...
Apr 07, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Matt is joined by Jacob Balcom and his cousin Seth Garon to discuss Michael J. Murphy's DEATH RUN. If Jacob were writing for TV Guide, his description would read "The grown-up kid from H.R. Pufnstuf and his girlfriend wake up in post-apocalyptic England to fight a Nazi and cannibals." Do we need to say more about this super-8 doozy? Check out this and more from the incredible world of MJM on the official (fre) YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHnjYjZiA6uVzQi0iCpI8A...
Mar 25, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 85
Matt is joined by Gordie Adams and Rolito Galagate to discuss D'Wild Wild Weng, a western comedy adventure starring the 2' 9" martial arts film star of the Philippines Weng Weng. Mr. Weng and Gordon are sent to the Mexican region of the Philippines to investigate the death of the mayor of Santa Monica, a town that has been taken over by the evil Sebastian and his horde of Mexican stereotypes along with Ku Manchu and his samurai (ninjas). Yep. (http://gordomatic.libsyn.com/)
Mar 12, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Matt invited Joe & Jacob over for dinner and a movie. The food was good. The movie...not so much. Joe and Jacob were subjected to AFTER LAST SEASON, a film by Mark Region, that threw us all into an existential crisis. What are we doing? Why are we here? Why are dry wall and wallpaper scraps acceptable set dressing? Why is Cthulhu's toilet running in the background of every scene? Think Dreamscape meets Lawnmower Man meets Inception as directed by someone who hates their job making safety vid...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 18 min
Kyle and Adam talk with Matt about this action movie: Canadian militiamen face the twin furies of Canadian kickboxers after kidnapping their girlfriends from Twin Island.
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Matt's love affair with the filmography of Renee Harmon continues. Joe and Jacob are back to talk about this 1986 shot-on-video movie that's got mad science, gaslighting, pool parties, a hooded killer, and a ghost. Directed by Felix Girard.
Jan 13, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 81
Matt & Joe give the gift that keeps on giving: A Christmas short riffed for your Yuletide pleasure. Thanks to all of our wonderful listeners out there. We thank you for your support. Happy holidays to you and we hope you have a wonderful new year.
Dec 19, 2018•17 min
The Broken Plane Podcast's JB & TK return for another Thanksgiving slasher special. Filmed in 1983 (but unreleased until 1987), BLOOD RAGE stars Louise Lasser as a mother of twin boys, one of which, when they were children, brutally murdered an amorous teen at a drive-in 10 years earlier and has been locked up ever since. He escapes on Thanksgiving Day and returns home...blood is spilled and horrible truths revealed. Follow JB & TK's football adventures: @TheBrokenPlane https://thebroken...
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 35 min
A troubled Vietnam vet cleans up the streets by blowing scum up...wait, what?!? Matt is joined by Jesse and John Morgan to discuss this James Bryan (Don't Go Into the Woods Alone) directed, Renee Harmon (Frozen Scream) written bit of vigilante sleaze. - There is no Part I, by the way. - I don't think PTSD-sploitation has been officially coined yet...so "dibs!" - Starring Chris Mitchum, Renee Harmon, and Aldo Ray. Jesse provided a haiku poem: the grenade slips down use the gun, never bullets tran...
Nov 03, 2018•1 hr 33 min
Our 2nd Halloween mix made special for the greatest podcast listeners in the podosphere: YOU! Featuring: The Giallo Flames, Goblin, Alfred Hitchcock, William Thompson, Dean Gitter, The Poets, Vincent Price, William Conrad, Lenny & Squiggy, and many more.
Oct 20, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Guests Jason Farrell and Devin Bruce join the show to discuss a shot-on-video obscurity from 1989. Ginger Lynn Allen takes on Beelzebub himself via his wife/her sister. Ol' Scratch is so worried, he needs his jester to distract him with 2 stories about awesome sinners. Argento & Bava's light palettes are stolen and incompetently aped...voices are demonically incomprehensible...sad clowns kick the bucket...and holy warriors are white ninjas? Hoo-boy. Devin Bruce: http://apocalypsekow.com/moo/...
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 56 min
The third installment of Ghosts of Hanley House! This is what it's all been building up to. You'll be talking about this one for ages.
Oct 03, 2018•27 min
We're back at Hanley House with more riff fun. If you missed the first part, go check it out form the feed or on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgDvZ3a8sRQ) . The skinny: Dick dares Hank to spend the night in the purportedly haunted Hanley House. Hank ends up w/ Dick, his cousin Sheila, local medium Gabby, and an old dude named Margan (?) for company when strange phenomena start to occur.
Sep 11, 2018•30 min
It's time for another Neil Breen joint! Sarah and Adam are back to talk about Breen's I AM HERE....NOW ('09), wherein Breen plays a messianic character (gasp) who created Earth and its creatures and He's disappointed with what we've done with the place in His absence. This is another corker from the ego-trippin' Las Vegas architect-cum-auteur Neil Breen.
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 4 min
As a special gift for subscribed listeners, we're A) releasing the first part of movie riff early and B) giving it to you in the form of a keepsake video file to be cherished & watched anywhere!* The other 2 episodes will be coming out in the feed in the coming weeks.You can see a higher-quality version on this ep on YouTube HERE . PLOT: A young man accepts a bet to stay in a house, with some friends, where several murders occurred. But the house may be haunted, or the original murderer may ...
Aug 26, 2018•31 min
Joe and Jason joined Matt and his wife Renee for some homemade chili and an endurance challenge: who will be the last to tap out during this SOV POS? "Russell has two passions: watching television and farting! He also loves Heather. Heather HATES farting. The eternal triangle! One day she warns him, 'if they ever allow farting on television, you'll never leave the house!' One evening he goes to sleep in front of the TV, and 'it' happens. Virtually everything on TV is fart-related, from sitcoms a...
Aug 15, 2018•56 min
We decided June should be Wings Hauser month and were joined by several other movie podcasts to do our 2nd podcrawl. Matt is joined by Joe and Jacob to discuss Rick "Hobgoblins" Sloane's 1992 movie MIND, BODY & SOUL. With a plot that can only be inspired by the Satanic Panic of the late '80s, adult film star Ginger Lynn Allen, plays a girl who's sucked into the omnipresent satanic underworld and fights to escape with her mind, body and soul intact.
Jun 25, 2018•1 hr 15 min
Joe and Matt discuss 1977's CHERRY HILL HIGH, the sexy comedy that's not really sexy or funny, about five recent high-school graduates who embark on a bicycle trip with their former teacher and enter into a contest to see which of them can lose her virginity in the most far-out way. Directed by Alan E. Goitein.
Jun 25, 2018•1 hr 33 min
Matt is joined by Robert Hafferman and Jason Farrell to try to parse the lunacy of SHAITANI DRACULA, a movie from India made somewhere between 1906 and 2006 with old Halloween masks, rolling chairs, and dime-store fangs. You are not ready.
May 30, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Matt is joined by Alan White ( The Power Principle ) and Andrew Shaw ( Cul-de-sac ) to discuss the new film by Joe Badon : THE GOD INSIDE MY EAR, a film that defies easy categorization, but is part horror, absurd comedy, paranoid conspiracy, and psychedelic trip. Look for it at a festival near you!...
May 16, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Matt, Joe, and Kyle discuss the singular vision of John de Hart: GETEVEN. Drama, romance, narcotics, kung-fu and Satanism combine for a surreal experience from the mind of a first-time filmmaker (now a lawyer). Co-stars Wings Hauser, William Smith, and Pamela Bryant.
May 07, 2018•1 hr 57 min
A brief review of Ray Dennis "Wolfgang Schmidt" Steckler's 1979 sleazefest that begs the question, is this a movie or ickiness that collected on celluloid while no one was looking. The title says it all: a sicko posing as a shutterbug strangles nudie cutie models in Hollywood while a sullen, greasy bookstore cashier murders winos in alleys.
Apr 19, 2018•21 min
Matt is joined by a couple of friends from work to discuss his newest cinematic passion: Neil Breen...specifically, the hacker-y, mystical wonder that is FATEFUL FINDINGS. It really defies explanation and you won't regret purchasing or renting it. #makeMineBreen
Apr 03, 2018•1 hr 27 min
We tried something new. This episode was recorded live and in person and we talked about a TV show instead of movie. Bizarro World, right ? Matt's joined by Joe and Jacob Balcom to discuss one of the oddest sitcoms of the 1980s: Small Wonder , the story of the Lawson family and their little girl robot Vicki, who must be kept secret from the rest of the world, despite talking like a Commodore 64. We watched the pilot episode and one from season three (!) where Vicki's evil counterpart Vanessa is ...
Jan 26, 2018•1 hr 43 min
Matt is joined by Kyle and Matt Mair Lowery, author of the new Dark Horse comic Lifeformed: Cleo Makes Contact . We talk comics a bit and then dive into our Christmas film: ELVES, starring Dan Haggerty. If you like your Christmas movies to have Nazis and upright vermin, this is the film for you.
Dec 18, 2017•1 hr 32 min
Matt concludes his tour of Blood Island by visiting 2 Romero/Ashley movies produced after the series proper ended: The Beast of the Yellow Night and The Twilight People.
Dec 02, 2017•16 min
Matt is joined by Jay & Tim from The Broken Plane Podcast for this Thanksgiving spectacular. The guys watched and review 1981's "Home Sweet Home" a little-known slasher film set on the turkiest of holidays. The movie stars a young Jake "Bodies by Jake" Steinfeld as a PCP-fueled escaped mental patient who's headed for a group of folks who just want to enjoy the game and their bird. Havoc ensues. There's a mime. Directed by Nettie Peña. The Broken Plane Podcast https://thebrokenplanepodcast.bl...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 60
