Skirting dangerously close to serious film podcasting again with Inhuman Kiss(2019). Set in Thailand in the 1940s, young Sai finds herself in a love triangle with two of her childhood friends, while trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. On top of that, she's been cursed to transform every night into a Krasue, roaming the village to feast on the local livestock and terrorize her neighbors. A horror/romance that balances multiple storylines, both paranormal and universal, Inhuma...
Oct 28, 2021•33 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing the Horror theme with this zombie/body horror film from 2008. Two couples trapped in a gas station in the middle of nowhere must survive the night against a fungus that takes over your body and consumes you from the inside while controlling you to infect others. It's a tense, creepy roller coaster of a film that squeezes everything out of it's premise, setting, and budget. Join host Wyndham Jennings as he dissects this under appreciated indie horror and answers The Most Important Ques...
Oct 21, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Comedy legend Eddie Murphy and Horror Legend Wes Craven team up for this 1995 vampire film! So why didn't it do better at the box office?Murphy, in his only villainous role, plays Maximillian a Caribbean vampire who comes to New York in search of a bride to stop his death at the next full moon. Angela Bassett plays the NYPD detective investigating the murders Maximillian commits, and may be the one he's searching for. Host Wyndham Jennings takes a look at the film, its production, the stars invo...
Oct 14, 2021•33 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast What do Angela Bassett, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Billy Zane have in common? Tiny, fur covered, voracious aliens trying to devour them. This week we're talking about Critters, the franchise that launched some of Hollywood's biggest stars, writers, and directors. Seen by many as a Gremlins(1984) ripoff, host Wyndham Jennings traces the links between these films, E.T., an unproduced Spielberg script, and an actual UFO case in Kentucky. They say a franchise is out of ideas when it goes into space, but...
Oct 07, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast The age old tale of a man who gets murdered in a formerly Communist nation, only to wake up with another murdered man's brain grafted onto his! Now they must work together to solve their murders before the medical miracle that saved them fails, and they die for good. Oh, and the wife of one of them gets murdered as well, and goes on a rampage after having her brain put into a robot body. Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) wrote, directed, and starred in this Syfy channel film, an homage, and send up of ...
Sep 30, 2021•26 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever woke up and thought: A. I need a film that makes me think I'm on drugs. B. I need a film to watch while tripping on something. C. I need more naked William Hurt in my life. Congratulations! Have we got a film for you! Altered States tells the story of Eddie Jessup, who searches for the origin of humanity and consciousness through a combination of hallucinogens and sensory deprivation. Things start to spiral out of control when his hallucinations begin to change him physically and l...
Sep 23, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Blazing Saddles is often cited as a film that couldn't get made today, but truthfully it almost didn't get made then. Wyndham Jennings takes a dive into one of the funniest movies ever made, detailing the inspiration behind the film, the obstacles it overcame, and the records it set. He also discusses what other films he's watched between episodes, and teases his first guest appearance on another podcast, Men Talking Movies. Men Talking Movies: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nPQEgoVg0L8...
Sep 16, 2021•47 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Taking a look at the not-a-werewolf film Wolfen this week. Following the death of a prominent real estate developer and his wife a New York City cop and a criminal psychiatrist discover a pack of wolves preying on the city. With near human levels of intelligence, and senses far sharper than ours, what chance do our heroes stand against these pack hunters? Join host Wyndham Jennings as he talks about the film, the book it's based on, the dystopian landscape of 70s New York City, and more. Does th...
Sep 02, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Martin is Dr. Hfuhruhur (It's pronounced just like it's spelled.) a world famous brain surgeon and inventor of the Screw Top Zip Lock brain surgery. After accidently hitting a woman, played by Kathleen Turner, and saving her life with his radical surgical techniques, Dr. Hfuhruhur falls in love with her. Married life doesn't agree with him, as she's a femme fatale with a string of dead husbands and he's next. Enter Ann Uumellmahaye, who's a perfect match for the Doctor, but with one small ...
Aug 26, 2021•45 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast This week is all about one of my all-time favorite films, The Family Fang. I talk about performance art, Jackass, YouTube, Jay-Z and more related to this dark comedy about a dysfunctional family of artists and the fallout from the parent's disappearance. Are they dead? Is this just a new "piece"? That mystery, and the relationship between siblings Child A(Nicole Kidman) and Child B(Jason Bateman) form the heart of this film. Join Wyndham Jennings for another look at an underappreciated film and ...
Aug 19, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast The last film in our Dollar Bin movie series! (There was one more but the disc was scratched.) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is our first Terry Gilliam film, and I can't believe it took this long to talk about him. Coming off the failure to finish his Don Quixote adaptation Terry Gilliam spins a modern fairy tale about an immortal storyteller who has three days to get out of a deal with the Devil, or lose his daughter forever. The arrival of a dark stranger could be the advantage he needs,...
Aug 12, 2021•34 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing Dollar Movie Finds with this British Crime caper starring Sam Rockwell. A London lawyer hires two American criminals to help pull a job for a British gangster. When it doesn't go as planned she enlists them to get revenge on the man instead by stealing a priceless gem from under his nose. Join host Wyndham Jennings on a walk through the ups, downs, and double crosses of this film. He dives into the cast, production, and more, discussing what works, and what doesn't in this off kilter ...
Aug 05, 2021•31 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing the Dollar Movie Finds with Rehearsal For Murder(1982), an early television movie role for Jeff Goldblum, about a playwright who gathers people together for a readthrough of his latest work. They soon discover his real motivation is trying to discover which one of them killed his fiancé last year. And because there wasn't a whole lot to say about that film you get a bonus movie this week, Dead and Buried(1981). Everyone who passes through a small Maine town are brutally murdered by th...
Jul 29, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing our Dollar Movie Finds, this week Wyndham talks about the Australian Crime Comedy, Kill Me Three Times. Starring Simon Pegg as a hitman who discovers he's not the only one trying to kill his target the film tells the story from three different perspectives, revealing new details and twists every time. Alice Braga, and Teresa Palmer co-star in a tale of murder, insurance fraud, infidelity, and crooked police in small town Australia. We dive into the film, dissect whether Pegg can play ...
Jul 22, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing the Dollar Movie Finds with Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010). An adaptation of the Italian comic book series sees Brandon Routh as the titular paranormal investigator, retired since the death of his fiancé, being drawn back into New Orleans supernatural side to investigate the murder by werewolf of an antiquities dealer. A mix of noir, horror, and comedy with vampires, zombie support groups, and demon summoning artifacts that could end the world. Join Wyndham Jennings as he dives into ...
Jul 15, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the dark story of last week's film (High Rise) we need something light and fluffy, a palate cleanser if you will. Do we find it in this coming-of-age story set in small town Virginia circa 1982? Maybe? When Jim(Rainn Wilson) retires from the Air Force and moves to a small town he throws the entire family into chaos. Jeanne(Patricia Arquette) must become the breadwinner after years of being at home, and daughter Aurelie(Kira Mclean) finds that fitting in is made impossible because of a botc...
Jul 08, 2021•30 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing our Dollar Tree Movie Find series with High Rise (2016). A Tom Hiddleston film about the residents of a new apartment building in 70s Britain that descend into madness, violence, and class war after a prolonged power, and water, outage. Directed by Ben Wheatley (Kill List) and adapted from the J.G Ballard novel by Amy Jump (A Field in England) it is a brutal, bleak, and shocking film that's not afraid to make you uncomfortable or make the protagonist likeable. Join Wyndham Jennings as...
Jul 01, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kicking off our Dollar Movie series with this Blu-Ray. Didn't know Dollar Tree sold movies? Neither did I until I saw a bin full of them and fished through to find several for the podcast. God Bless America stars Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr as Frank and Roxy, a pair of spree killers out to cleanse America of those who make other people's lives miserable. An over-the-top satire written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait as a Christmas present for his wife, does it live up to expectations? Wynd...
Jun 24, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast The 1986 musical film is a strange one. An adaptation of an Off-Broadway musical, based on a Roger Corman film from 1960 about a nerdy florist and his talking, killer plant. Throw in a cast of 80s stars, a Motown legend, and the man behind Miss Piggy AND Yoda, and you get one of the cheeriest, brightest stories of poverty, greed, murder, and alien invasion set to film. You'll die...of laughter. So join Wyndham Jennings on a journey from b-movie to Off Broadway to cult classic with Celluloid Feve...
Jun 17, 2021•50 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast One of the most controversial films of all time. Banned in several states, and the United Kingdom! Vilified for it's visuals! Hated! Feared! Blamed for various catastrophes, and seen as a sign of the End Times! It's Tod Browning's Freaks, and it's this week's film. The story of a circus performer and a sideshow performer who fall in love and get married. Only the Aerialist wants to bump off her dwarf hubby so she and her boyfriend can live it up. When the rest of the performers find out, there's...
Jun 10, 2021•33 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Hard to believe this is our 25th episode! 25 years of movies. Seems like 6 months ago. This week's movie is from Toho, and Rankin/Bass, King Kong Escapes (1967). That's right the people behind Godzilla, team up with the people behind Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, to bring you a Kaiju film with a giant robot ape! When villainous Dr. Who (Not that one!) tries to gain access to 10 thousand tons of the radioactive Element X, he builds Mechani-Kong, a robotic duplicate of King Kong, to mimic the gia...
Jun 03, 2021•37 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Do you want a film with mystery, psychic phenomenon, and Leonard Nimoy fist fighting an old woman in a wheelchair? Have I got a movie for you! Baffled! is a failed television pilot where Nimoy plays a professional race car driver who develops psychic powers in the middle of a race. Teaming up with a paranormal investigator they fly to England to stop his visions of murder from coming to pass. A mix of Agatha Christie mystery and Hammer style horror, the duo must save a mother's life, a daughter'...
May 27, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kwaidan (1964) is a Japanese anthology horror film with four stories. Based on a 1904 book of the same name, this film won the Jury Prize at Cannes. It's a beautifully shot film that plays with color, and silence, to evoke a mood, and draw the audience in. This week host Wyndham Jennings talks about each vignette, and how they stack up against each other, as well as the historical background of each tale. So join him, and see if he can make a film you haven't seen into a new favorite.
May 20, 2021•56 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Wrapping up our Retraux series with Turbo Kid (2015) a post-apocalyptic story of an orphaned young man becoming a superhero and saving Canada from an evil warlord. Robots! Arm Wrestling! BMX Bikes! This film has everything, including Michael Ironside as the main villain! We'll talk about the influences on the film, a brief look at other apocalyptic stories, and what death means to a robot. (and a few tips on how to avoid it if you happen to be a robot.) So join Wyndham Jennings for a rad ride ac...
May 13, 2021•45 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing our Retraux series with the 1980s inspired The House of The Devil (2009). Starring Jocelin Donahue (Doctor Sleep) as Samantha, a broke college student who takes a babysitting job in a creepy old house and finds herself the target of a Satanic cult. Host Wyndham Jennings will break down the film, it's influences, and the actual Satanic Panic that gripped the nation during the 80s. So grab a seat, pop some 'corn, and visit The House of The Devil for some throwback scares.
May 06, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have a new word for the type of films we're discussing in this series, Retraux! A combination of Retro, and Faux, it perfectly describes this week's film, Black Dynamite. An homage to the Blaxploitation era starring Michael Jai White, Black Dynamite is a former CIA agent/Vietnam vet who must clean up the streets and avenge his brother's death. A tight comedy that embraces all the tropes, and flaws, of the genre Black Dynamite is an under appreciated film that deserves a wider audience. We'll ...
Apr 29, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast No episode this week, due to family emergency.
Apr 15, 2021•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you're having trouble finding love, why not try witchcraft? What could possibly go wrong? In this week's film, our main character Elaine uses witchcraft to try and find true love, leaving a trail of broken marriages and dead bodies across a small California town. This is the second of our Pastiche films for April, a horror/tragedy/comedy that is a beautiful recreation of the Technicolor films of the late 60s. Drawing inspiration from Hitchcock's The Birds, Hammer's Dracula Prince of Darkness,...
Apr 08, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast To celebrate our move to Thursdays, and April Fools, we're doing a theme month. Every episode featuring a different film that imitates the style and tropes of an earlier decade, Pastiche films in other words. For our first episode this month we're talking about The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) a loving sendup of low budget 50s sci-fi and horror films. This film has it all. Aliens! Mutants! Psychic Skeletons! Science! Amish Terrariums! Made in some of the same locations as films like Robot Mon...
Apr 01, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Warning: This weeks film contains a scene of attempted sexual assault. I briefly discuss the scene in this episode, so if you find these things upsetting or triggering, then feel free to skip this week. We'll be talking about Lost Skeleton of Cadavra next week. She Beast (1966) is this weeks film. The story of a woman possessed by a 200 year old witch. Her husband and a witch hunter must stop the witche's rampage through the Transylvanian countryside without the authorities finding out, and with...
Mar 24, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
