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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast CinePsyEP271: Paganini Horror 1989 Luigi Cozzi makes a trippy film that tells the story of a largely female rock band who acquires an unpublished score by composer Niccolò Paganini and decides to record it. When the band films a music video for the song in Paganini’s ancient home, it awakens the spirit of the deceased composer and unlocks a portal to Hell. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-ps...
Oct 25, 2020•2 hr 42 min•Ep 271•Transcript available on Metacast CinePsyEP270: Revenge of the Living Dead Girls 1987 In France, the CEO of a chemical company looks to cheaply dispose of their plant’s chemical waste. He and his secretary come up with the idea to dump it illegally. When the secretary contaminates a milk tanker, it causes several deaths in the town. The toxic waste, illegally dumped in a nearby graveyard, then causes the recently dead townspeople to rise as ravenous zombies, who seek revenge on the unscrupulous company and its employees. Except ...
Oct 18, 2020•2 hr 37 min•Ep 270•Transcript available on Metacast CinePsyEP269: Spasmo 1974 Christian (Robert Hoffman) and his girlfriend are taking a walk on a deserted beach when they discover a woman’s body lying. A closer look proves that she’s alive. The next day Christian meets her again at a yacht party and they fall in love. Later at a nearby motel, something weird happens as they prepare to go to bed together: An intruder breaks in and starts beating Christian who accidentally shoots him with his own gun. A few hours later they find out that the corps...
Oct 11, 2020•2 hr 33 min•Ep 269•Transcript available on Metacast CinePsyEP268: Tenement 1985 A South Bronx gang rape and kill the residents of an isolated tenement. The tables turn and the surviving residents viciously despatch the gang. Follow Cinema PSYOPS on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Stitcher , Pandora , iHeartRadio , Podchaser , and Google Podcasts . And catch up on every episode right here. Email feedback to Matt: psyopmatt@gmail.com. Cort : cinemapsyopscort@gmail.com Find on twitter Cort: @Cort_PSYOP Matt: @psyopmatt Join the FaceBook group: https://ww...
Oct 04, 2020•2 hr 39 min•Ep 268•Transcript available on Metacast CinePsyEP267: The Nest 1988 The sheriff of this small island town called North Port has a roach problem in his house. According to the local exterminator Homer (played by Stephen Davies), it turns out the whole town is about to have a big roach problem. Pets, and then people, begin to disappear or turn up dead and mutilated. Although Sheriff Richard Tarbell (played by Frank Luz) is dating Lillian, the owner of the local eatery, his high school sweetheart Elizabeth Johnson returns to the island a...
Sep 28, 2020•2 hr 41 min•Ep 267•Transcript available on Metacast 
