Cinema_PSYOPS_EP321: The Corruption of Chris Miller 1973 (Main Feed) Abandoned by their husband/father, a traumatized woman and her disturbed stepdaughter hire a drifter handyman at their secluded estate while a series of murders begins. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts 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://w...
Oct 10, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Ep 321•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP320: Baby Blood 1990 (Main Feed) A snake-like parasite crawls into the uterus of an abused woman and circus performer named Yanka. The parasite demands human blood from Yanka who is first reluctant, but then finds that the only relationship that she has is with the parasite. Yanka commits murders to devour the victims’ blood in order to nurture the parasite. The parasite tells her that it is a creature that will replace man as the dominant species on the planet in five million ye...
Oct 03, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Ep 320•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP319: The Attic Expeditions 2001 (Main Feed) Trevor Blackburn (Andras Jones) is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith (Beth Bates), in a brutal ritual. He’s sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk (Jeffrey Combs), who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients (Seth Green, Alice Cooper) start to disappear, Trevor begins to won...
Sep 26, 2021•2 hr•Ep 319•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP318: Hitcher in the Dark 1989 (Main Feed) A disturbed young man with sexual desire for his dead mother gives a ride to a hitchhiker who bears a striking resemblance to her. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts 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-psyops Android: ht...
Sep 19, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Ep 318•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP317: Ice Cream Man 1995 (Main Feed) Children (Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee) alert the police to a disturbed vendor (Clint Howard) who blends human parts into his frozen confections. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts 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-psyops And...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep 317•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP316: The Fear 1995 (Main Feed) A group of college seniors spending a weekend at a cottage for a psychological experiment called “fear therapy” find a human-sized wooden figure called Morty, which triggers everyone’s deepest and darkest secrets and emotions. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops/id1037574...
Sep 05, 2021•2 hr 35 min•Ep 316•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP315: Jennifer 1978 (Main Feed) Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes! Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-psyops...
Aug 29, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Ep 315•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP314: Emanuelle in America 1977 Hedonistic photojournalist Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) goes undercover to expose the seedy lives of rich and powerful sex cultists and snuff film peddlers in America and Europe. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts 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/...
Aug 22, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Ep 314•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP313: Coffy 1973 As a nurse, Coffy (Pam Grier) has seen the ill effects of drugs up close, but it isn’t until her little sister becomes addicted to heroin that she finally decides to wage a one-woman battle. Disguised as a prostitute, Coffy goes on a killing rampage, at first going after street dealers and pimps such as sleazy King George (Robert DoQui), then gradually working her way up to bigger honchos. She’s shocked, however, when she discovers that her politician boyfriend (B...
Aug 15, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Ep 313•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP312: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm V: Ravager 2016 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Concludes! Small-town friends Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), and Jody (Bill Thornbury) continue in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) and his armada of killer Sentinel Spheres. This time, the fight becomes a multi-dimensional battle across multiple timelines, alien planets and altered realities, where no less than the fate ...
Aug 08, 2021•2 hr 55 min•Ep 312•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP311: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm IV: Oblivion 1998 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Continues! With a hearse as his escape vehicle, Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) flees from the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), who wants to enslave him as an undead servant. Along the way, he investigates the origins of his enemy. Elsewhere, Mike’s friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) searches for him in a variety of dimensions, all the while battling mysterious spheres, including the ones he’s discovered in the...
Aug 01, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep 311•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP310: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead 1994 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Continues! The evil alien known as the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) has infiltrated the minds of Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) and Reggie (Reggie Bannister). The two friends embark on a journey to find and kill him, only to discover that he has destroyed town after town, leaving zombies in place of the living. Along the way, Mike and Reggie meet several characters who share their goal, including...
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep 310•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP309: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm II 1988 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Continues! Years after surviving his encounter with the sinister Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), Mike Pearson (James LeGros), now a mental patient, still has nightmares about the evil gaunt mortician. Upon being released from the institution, Mike and his friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) set out to track down the Tall Man and end his murderous and macabre practices. Also involved is Liz Reynolds (Paula Irvine), ...
Jul 18, 2021•2 hr 40 min•Ep 309•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP308: Full Franchise Fest: Phantasm 1979 The Phantasm Full Franchise Fest Begins! The residents of a small town have begun dying under strange circumstances, leading young Mike (Michael Baldwin) to investigate. After discovering that the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), the town’s mortician, is killing and reanimating the dead as misshapen zombies, Mike seeks help from his older brother, Jody (Bill Thornbury), and local ice cream man Reggie (Reggie Bannister). Working together, they try t...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep 308•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP307: Full Franchise Fest: Leatherface (2017) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! A violent teen and three others kidnap a young nurse while escaping from a Texas mental institution. Pursued by a vengeful sheriff, the disturbed young man embarks on a murderous rampage that shapes him into a legendary killer known as Leatherface. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDsRomBgiowA0WWOA Ap...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep 307•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP306: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Decades ago, residents of Newt, Texas, long suspected that the Sawyer family was responsible for the disappearances of many people. When their suspicions finally were confirmed, vigilantes torched the Sawyer compound and killed every member of the family — or so they thought. Much later, a young woman named Heather (Alexandra Daddario) learns that she has inherited Texas property from an unk...
Jun 27, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Ep 306•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP305: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Before being sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends take one last road trip, but when they get into an accident, a terrifying experience will take them to a secluded house of horrors, with a chainsaw-wielding killer. Legion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LegionPodcasts/posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0PhshKRtKhh4ESfKhrer6s?si=7M_fLKDs...
Jun 20, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep 305•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP304: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake (2003) The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! In this remake of the horror classic, a group of young travelers — including Erin (Jessica Biel), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) — comes across an isolated rural home while driving through Texas. Unfortunately for them, the decrepit house is the residence of a family of deranged backwoods killers, most notably a hulking masked brute known as Leatherface (Andrew B...
Jun 13, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Ep 304•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP303: Full Franchise Fest: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation 1994 The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! After leaving their prom early, innocent Jenny (Renée Zellweger) and three other teenagers crash their car in the backwoods of Texas. In their search for help, they run into Vilmer Slaughter (Matthew McConaughey), a vicious psychopath with a mechanical leg, and his twisted family, including the serial killer Leatherface. As the group of friends struggle to survive th...
Jun 06, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Ep 303•Transcript available on Metacast Cinema_PSYOPS_EP302: Full Franchise Fest: Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw III 1990 The TCM Full Franchise Fest Continues! Driving through Texas, young yuppie couple Michelle (Kate Hodge) and Ryan (William Butler) stop at the Last Chance Gas Station, but after they witness the owner attacking a hitchhiker named Tex (Viggo Mortensen), they panic and flee. In their hasty departure, they get lost and soon find themselves pursued by the chainsaw-toting maniac known as Leatherface (R.A. Mihailoff). While ...
May 31, 2021•2 hr 55 min•Ep 302•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 
