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Monday Nov 24, 2014
Monday Nov 24, 2014
John Carpenter is easily one of my favorite filmmakers. He has made more than five movies that I hold to be of such enduring quality that I have lost count of the number of times I have watched them. Even in his weakest movies I can find lots to love and the film under discussion in this episode is NOT a weak one. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 was only the second feature Carpenter directed but it shows his skill and abilities off brilliantly. I could go on and on but we'll get into that in the show!
In this episode I'm joined once again by my friend John Hudson who last sat down with me to talk about Carl Kolchak. This time out we dig into this film and use it as a reason to touch on other Carpenter movies was well. I'm proud to say that we were able to stay mostly on topic so there weren't as many barely related things discussed this time out. Of course, that doesn't keep either of us from relating some very odd analogies among the actual information so you have been warned.
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
After much behind the scenes wrangling we have finally produced an episode on Godzilla! And boy, have we found a way to come at this great character in a way guaranteed to confuse fans and confound listeners. That's right- we're going to talk about the stranger movies in the Big G's list of credits and what more bizarre place to start than this oddity also known as GODZILLA'S REVENGE. This will be the first in a series of shows Troy and I will be doing over the course of the next year focusing on the less well admired movies in the long running series. The series will be labeled Controversial Kaiju and we think it will be of interest to both major monster fans and those with a casual curiosity in the giant radioactive lizard.
Troy is a hard-core fan of the genre and Godzilla in particular while I am an untutored fan of the films with little knowledge to inform my appreciation. Luckily, for me, Troy has read extensively on the subject and brings his familiarity with the facts to our discussion. Hopefully he will be able to increase your appreciation of the film at hand as well as the genre as a whole.
If you have any information of your own to impart drop us a line at thebloodypit@gmail.com and let us know what your favorite or least favorite Godzilla film might be. We should be back in the Spring with another Controversial Kaiju entry!
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
Wednesday Oct 01, 2014
It's that time of year again - The Merry Month of Halloween! Yes, I love this time of year for many reasons, from the crisp Autumn weather to the pumpkin flavored everything to the joy of a horror novel or the illicit chill of a creepy movie flickering across a screen nearby! October brings all that spine-tingling, goosepimply fun to the everyone's attention for thirty one fantastic days. I love every minute of it!
To help get you in the spirit I present this little audio gift of fun, scary music mixed with amusing trailers and other tidbits. Listen to it to get yourself primed for Halloween night, while you're searching for the perfect costume or when carving a Jack O'Lantern to scare the kiddies. Everyone is due one good scare at this time of year, huh?
1. Zacherly - Coolest Little Monster
2. Arctic Monkeys - Red Right Hand
3. Bobby Bare - Vampira
4. trailer - From Beyond the Grave
5. The Ghastly Ones - BansheeBeach
6. The Fog ghost tale
7. Midnight Syndicate -Lurking Fear
8. Frank N. Stein & the Creatures - Mostly Ghostly
9. Peggy Lee- Bewitched
10. Jack Marshall -Munster's Theme
11. trailer- Hunchback of the Morgue
12. Gregory's Funhouse- It Only Happens on Halloween!
13. The Shades- Strollin' After Dark
14. Daikaiju Attack
15. The Meteors - The Corpse Grinders
16. Loving it!
17. Redd Kross- Dracula's Daughter
18. Alice Cooper -Ghoul's Gone Wild
19. trailer - Horror Express
20. Dark Moor- The Bane of Daninsky
21. Castleberry's BBQ
22. Weird Al - Nature Trail to Hell!
23. Zombina and the Skeletones - Something Weird
24. trailer- Caltiki
25. The Addams Family Theme
26. Lord Luther - Teenage Monster
27. trailer - Godzilla
28. Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
29. trailer- Yog
30. Josie Cotton- Green Slime
31. Take It Easy on Our Ghosts
32. Matthew Sweet - Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Sunday Aug 03, 2014
Sunday Aug 03, 2014
If you’ve never read one of the Man of Bronze’s adventures this podcast can serve as an introduction to him and his world. Although the character is not very well known these days, Doc Savage has a long and storied history. Born out of the fertile imagination of the great Lester Dent in the Depression of the 1930’s he is the perfect heroic man meant to exist as a beacon of nobility for people to aspire to emulate. An adventurer and righter of wrongs with an unbreakable code of ethics, Savage was the type of pulp fiction hero that could be enjoyed by readers of any age looking for fast action and wild plots. Yes, the violence often gets brutal in a Doc Savage novel but the bad guys will always be the ones that end up on the unfortunately placed sharp stick or at the bottom of that undiscovered deadly pit.
In this episode Doc Savage super-fan Brain Lindsey joins me for a conversation about all things Doc that ranges from the character’s background; his use of incredibly prescient gadgets; his five amazing companions; the best and worst of the novels and even the unfortunate 1975 George Pal produced film. As it appears that writer/director Shane Black is pushing to revive Doc as a film project in the near future we even speculate on who we’d like to see cast in the title role – we can be such conventional geeks! We also get into the details of the elements that make these books so much fun and pick apart some of the things that are a little questionable as well. If you’ve heard of The Shadow but never heard of Clark Savage, Jr. now is the time to let us escort you to the 86th floor of the EmpireStateBuilding and introduce you to one of the most impressive American fictional heroes of all time. I guarantee thrills and smiles aplenty!
If you want to drop us a line here at the podcast just write to thebloodypit@gmail.com and let us know what you think. Thank you very much for downloading and listening.
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Umberto Lenzi's mad horror film NIGHTMARECITY can be accused of many crimes but it will never bore you. The movie has the forward momentum of a runaway freight train (which makes it a blast to watch) and it also has the brains of a decapitated chicken (making it maddeningly idiotic). But it presents such a spectacle that all critical faculties just seem to melt away in the warm glow of watching a piece of junk cinema just drop all pretense and go for the jugular every few minutes. As a matter of fact, it would seem that the idea in the editing room may have been "Never let more than five minutes go by without something outrageous or violent occurring". If you asked Lenzi in his later years about this movie he would often try to claim that the story had an anti-military or anti-nuclear energy message but we all know that the real thing to be learned here is that murderous, rage-driven, radiation infected killers can only be put down with a bullet to the head! And they are clearly not aliens. And they get you when you sleep. Wait! Wrong movie.
Anyway- I am joined this time by returning podcast partners Troy Guinn and Jeff Nelson. This is the first time the three of us have recorded together since our epic Yor, The Hunter From The Future episode and I think this one is more entertaining. We have a great time talking about our favorite moments in the film and somehow find more than one way to relate NIGHTMARECITY to the classic TV series All In The Family. I am not kidding. We discuss the finer points of running zombies; the question of infected vs undead; the problem of emoting when Hugo; and whether this film is more of a rip-off than other Italian horror movies of the same era. Also, Jeff has once again provided a nice piece of artwork to grace the show for which I am eternally grateful. He always goes out of his way to help us out over on the NaschyCast and his addition to this show only improves the entire affair.
If you wish to comment the email address is thebloodypit@gmail.com so feel free to let us know your thoughts on the episode. Thanks for downloading and listening.
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014
Tarzan is one of the best known characters in all of English language fiction. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs more than one hundred years ago the jungle lord descended from British aristocracy has become one of the most easily recognizable figures in world literature. Along with Dracula and Sherlock Holmes he forms a kind of trinity of classic fiction that is constantly ripe for rediscovery and reimagining. With the huge level of success reached by the ape man novels many, many imitations have been created over the years and even the number of official adaptations are too many to take in easily. There were many attempts to film the story of Tarzan in the silent era but it wasn't until MGM Studio obtained the rights in the early 1930's that a profitable series of movies was produced. Indeed, the MGM series was so successful for so long that there has yet to be a longer, uninterrupted film run for Tarzan onscreen or for a single actor in the title role. Of course, at a certain point RKO Studio took over production of the movies but that doesn't really matter- unless you were concerned about budgets!
The dozen Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films are the way the character was burned into the world's popular consciousness and I honestly doubt that Tarzan would be as famous and well known if not for this hugely popular film series with him as the star. Perhaps the character endures because the black & white images from these films were absorbed into the brains of a generation or two of children hungry for adventure in the trees? Maybe one of the biggest reasons the original 24 Tarzan novels never go out of print is that young boys were inspired to seek out more of the jungle man’s thrilling tales than the films can provide? Regardless, these movies are a large amount of fun for the adventure fan hungry for jungle action.
Joining me to discuss (briefly) all twelve of Weissmuller's run is my buddy Chris Herzog. Chris is a freelance writer and all around nice guy - it was he who proposed the idea of doing this episode of the podcast. In fact, it was all his idea and I wash my hands of it! No, no. Chris was able to convince me this was a good idea pretty easily even though I knew I would have to finally finish watching the series and then refresh my memories of the early entries. That took time but it was great fun. I hope that he and I will be able to collaborate on more shows in the future even if it might only be once a year.
If you have any comments or suggestions please write to us at thebloodypit@gmail.com and we just might incorporate your ideas into a later show. I apologize for the near constant background buzz in the audio but it was either have that noise in the show or fry in the oppressive May heat- we opted for the buzz. Sorry! The show ends with a song from the late, lamented Boston band The Cavedogs called Tarzan and his Arrowheads- the lyrics always struck me as quite ERB inspired. Enjoy!
Saturday Jun 07, 2014
Saturday Jun 07, 2014
STREETS OF FIRE is both the perfect distillation of the action films director Walter Hill had made up to 1984 and a stylish box office disaster. In my opinion it is also a masterpiece of pure cinema combining elements of film noir, musicals, crime stories, romance and tough guy humor into a something not seen on film before. This may not be Hill's best film but it is the best representation of his talent completely unfettered within the Hollywood movie making machine.
I recently rewatched this movie on cable (where I always seem to have seen it) and posted about it on Facebook wondering if I was alone in my love for SOF. I was not! Dozens of people came out of the closet as fans and when Ted Haycraft mentioned that we needed to talk about it I suggested we record our conversation for a show. A few minutes later I asked filmmaker and comic book writer Robert Tinnell if he would join us and he enthusiastically agreed. We had a great time talking about this under seen and under discussed piece of 80's action cinema and we hope you will enjoy hearing us babble.
If you have any comments or if you are a secret fan of STREETS OF FIRE drop us a note at thebloodypit@gmail.com and let us know. Maybe Walter Hill fans should develop a secret handshake or just address each other as Tom Cody! Thanks for downloading and listening.
Thursday Mar 13, 2014
Thursday Mar 13, 2014
With the thirteenth episode it is just me flying solo again. As this podcast features a random assortment of things that interest and/or entertain me I have no fear of zigging around and sometimes talking about things most folks know nothing about. In that vein, this time out I'm bringing you a fun piece of Horror Radio that requires a little explanation. Os, in this short show, I first explain who author M. R. James was; then I point you toward the wonderful literary podcast about his ghost fiction and finally I present one of the odder audio adaptations of his work - all in a day's work for a media magpie such as I am!
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Friday Oct 18, 2013
Friday Oct 18, 2013