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| The metaphorical moustache: Dog Soldiers (2002) | 23 Sep 2024 | 01:11:51 | |
We're in the Scottish Highlands and something is about to pop off. Could it be werewolves, special forces, or just awkward football banter? Do your bit:
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| Buffet of madness: House (1977) | 16 Sep 2024 | 01:11:33 | |
We get deep on Hiroshima, subverting cinematic conventions and Sam's childhood game called JACKIE CHAN! on this week's episode all about HOUSE. Do your bit:
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| Coco for coocoo puffs: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) | 15 Jul 2024 | 01:07:59 | |
"You're what the French call les meta slasher" Slasher tropes, Home Alone quotes, and cameos under the microscope this week. Do your bit:
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| Perfection is horrible: Possession (1981) | 08 Jul 2024 | 01:21:58 | |
This week, we talk love, loss, and try to imagine what a life without mental illness might look like. Side question: Are matadors problematic? Do your bit:
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| Ask a proctologist: Arachnaphobia (1990) | 01 Jul 2024 | 01:14:29 | |
Are spiders edible? Are crickets less scary? Is John Goodman in the right movie? All these questions and more are answered in this episode. Do your bit:
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| Cum detective: Angel Heart (1987) | 24 Jun 2024 | 01:07:52 | |
Is it just me or is there something weird about Robert De Niro? Film noir, misdirection, jorts, windsurfing - this episode has it all Do your bit:
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| All mounties are bastards: Pontypool (2008) | 17 Jun 2024 | 01:24:01 | |
Look to the north! Is it a bunker movie? Is it a zombie movie? No, it's Pontypool! Do your bit:
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| Jaws IV on land: Maniac (1980) | 10 Jun 2024 | 01:03:43 | |
Does Frank Zito like Cannibal Corpse? Would you rather watch Austin Powers or Ace Ventura? Was Jamie the absolute worst in college? Do your bit:
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| Courtesy of the Terenzi Brothers: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) | 03 Jun 2024 | 01:24:11 | |
Did you know that coulrophobia is the fear of being chloroformed by a cool clown? Do your bit:
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| In Defence of Home Alone: The People Under the Stairs (1991) | 27 May 2024 | 01:25:37 | |
We have never disagreed this hard on a movie before. One of us thinks this is a classic and one of us thinks it is a pile of old bunk. Can you guess which one goes which way? Do your bit:
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| Sam claps when the plane lands: Psycho Goreman (2020) | 20 May 2024 | 01:29:51 | |
Jamie spends his birthday trying really hard to draw some positivity out of Sam. Sam gets his revenge for Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Do your bit:
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| The Doppler Chopper: Late Night with the Devil (2024) | 13 May 2024 | 01:18:00 | |
Join us as we break down what the kids are referring to as "the Ramones of modern horror". It's only bloody brand new Shudder original, Late Night with the Devil. This episode is spoiler-free until around 30 mins in with plenty of warnings. Do your bit:
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| Faxing it in: Waxwork (1988) | 09 Sep 2024 | 01:00:51 | |
Does Waxwork have the requisite number of nuggets to buff? Find out now. With apologies to Zack Galligan, David Lynch, Brion James, David Warner, and the Marquis de Sade. Do your bit:
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| Leave it to Sex Machine: Day of the Dead (1985) | 06 May 2024 | 01:50:35 | |
Jamie lays out the negatives while Sam gushes for two hours. We accidentally left the recording running and captured a normal conversation about whether skeletons are zombies. Do your bit:
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| Chekhov's Flamethrower: The Hidden (1987) | 29 Apr 2024 | 01:08:10 | |
Find out what we think about The Hidden, Heat, and Motley Crue. Do your bit:
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| The Plums of Madison County: Bone Tomahawk (2015) | 22 Apr 2024 | 01:20:23 | |
We talk about Westerns and welcome a very special guest to the Final Transmission family. Do your bit:
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| Slasher slash slacker: Intruder (1989) | 15 Apr 2024 | 01:22:48 | |
This week we're talking about supermarket own brand bourbon, the origin of stubby beers, and playing chicken with a box crusher - it could only be our Intruder episode. Is this underrated slasher just bang average stabs or is it something much more special? Is it better than Bradley Cooper's farts? Find out now. Do your bit:
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| D.N.Aviators: Eden Lake (2008) | 08 Apr 2024 | 01:15:12 | |
Join us at the portaloo in Bognor Regis as we chat about terrifying children and bad decisions - it's Eden Lake. British, unflinching, horrible. And that's just Sam. Do your bit:
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| Jamie hates Goonies: The Gate (1987) | 01 Apr 2024 | 01:21:26 | |
Find out what we think of the classic, kid-led, demon flick, The Gate - along with other kid adventure flicks like Goonies, Explorers, Adventures in Babysitting, and loads more. Do your bit:
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| Sam dreams of flying: Doctor Sleep (2019) | 25 Mar 2024 | 01:29:39 | |
We dig into Doctor Sleep and all of Stephen King's movies, novels, and general nonsense. Do your bit:
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| Meet me in the bin: Friday the 13th VII: The New Blood (1988) | 18 Mar 2024 | 01:36:13 | |
It's Sam's birthday so, for a very special treat, we're taking a trip to Crystal Lake to discuss the seventh installment of the slasher franchise (and everything that came before and after). Take the bad news cruise with us as we chat censorship, telekinesis, donuts, and classic slasher tropes in what is likely to be our only episode on the Friday the 13th franchise. Do your bit:
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| David Lynch's Jersey Girl: Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) | 11 Mar 2024 | 01:15:56 | |
We're back in Italy for a classic of the zombie-surrealist-meta-necro-arthouse genre, Dellamorte Dellamore (or Cemetery Man, if you're American). It's a deep dive into Italian auteur cinema, with some stops on the way to chat about Type O Negative, comic book movies, TSOL's Code Blue, and loads more.
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| Puckering hell: The Borderlands (2013) | 04 Mar 2024 | 01:20:18 | |
It finally happened, we finally disagreed on a movie. Find out which one of us didn't love The Borderlands and which one of us would die for this movie. We also get into modern theology, pagan gods, found footage acting, and the idiocy of spelunking. Do your bit:
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| More Cushing for the pushing: Dracula (1958) | 02 Sep 2024 | 01:21:55 | |
An argument between two people who love this movie for very different reasons. Do your bit:
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| Interdimensional Alcatraz: Neon Maniacs (1986) | 26 Feb 2024 | 01:08:06 | |
In honour of the second season of Steven Scarlata's excellent documentary podcast series, In The Shadow of the Neon Maniacs, we're deep diving into this daft, ensemble slasher. We rank the maniacs, offer some theories for where they came from, unveil a new sponsor, and ask the ultimate question: would Oscar Wilde have liked Neon Maniacs?
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| The cheese is worth the sniff: Martyrs (2008) | 19 Feb 2024 | 01:28:13 | |
We get deep, dark, and downright philosophical when talking about Pascal Laugier's trauma-fuelled nightmare, Martyrs. Do your bit:
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| Indiscriminate Chomp Machine: Alligator (1980) | 12 Feb 2024 | 01:15:29 | |
This week we're talking Lewis Teague's giant alligator in the sewers, monster romp classic. We stop along the way to sprinkle some hate on Scorsese, Tarantino, and Ryan Gosling. We also pitch our Syfy original movies and do a deep dive on synonyms for boobs. Do your bit:
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| #ReleaseTheBerlingerCut: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) | 05 Feb 2024 | 01:12:45 | |
Three questions that will be answered as we discuss Joe Berlinger's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2:
One question that we will not and could not answer:
Jamie popped around to our pals at Shoot the Hostage to talk about the original Blair Witch Project. Go. Listen. Do your bit:
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| The coolest dead guy you know: You're Next (2011) | 29 Jan 2024 | 01:05:19 | |
Jamie died and You're Next. Listen as the guys go deep on horror movie masks, final girl tropes, blender deaths, and why Sam hates Dead Alive. Do your bit:
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| Ewoks, ET, Football and Phone Sex: 976-Evil (1988) | 22 Jan 2024 | 00:53:55 | |
Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger himself, took the time to make this movie so it would be insane for us to not talk about it. So we do. Here it is. If you want to hear pontification on Englund's childhood or his boob preference, this is the perfect episode for you. Do your bit:
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| Melodrama and wire saws: Audition (1999) | 15 Jan 2024 | 01:24:34 | |
Join us this week as we desperately try to navigate talking about the Takashi Miike classic, Audition, without saying anything inappropriate. We almost make it. We also discuss sex comedies, nazis, Promising Young Woman, and the Japanese breakthrough movies of the late-90s/early-2000s. Audition was chosen by one of our Patreons - if you want to influence future picks and get access to loads of additional content, join us in The Wasteland Resort now. Do your bit:
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| A nazi with no nuts: Green Room (2015) | 08 Jan 2024 | 01:12:21 | |
Nee naw, nee naw, here comes the punk police and we're investigating Jeremy Saulnier's punks-in-a-bad-situation nightmare, Green Room. Hear some of our own tour stories and scary interactions with sketchy folk, learn how to correctly pronounce Guerilla Poubelle, and ask yourself if this truly could take place in the holodeck. Do your bit:
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| Foetus in the moonlight: Pumpkinhead (1988) | 01 Jan 2024 | 01:17:28 | |
This week, we go hard on the genius of Lance Henriksen, Stan Winston, and classic creature features of the 80s and beyond as we discuss the era-defining, underappreciated joy that is Pumpkinhead. Along the ride, we also discuss Michale Graves-era Misfits, Insane Clown Posse, and somehow end up plotting out our alternative take on Home Alone 2. Do your bit:
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| Too many murders for Christmas: Black Christmas (1974) | 25 Dec 2023 | 01:29:17 | |
It's Christmas so we're digging into a classic of the festive horror canon, Bob Clark's Black Christmas. We get into it on holiday horror, phrogging, unreliable narrators and also Goonies. If you ever wondered which classic 70s punk band represents Black Christmas - this episode is for you. Do your bit:
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| Prude Mutant from the Planet Nobhead: Frankenhooker (1990) | 26 Aug 2024 | 01:15:46 | |
WANNA DATE? We're back in grimy old New York to talk about Frank Henenlotter's goofy horror comedy Frankenhooker! Only the highest-brow cinematic fayre for you guys. Do your bit:
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| Giving sermons and laying pipe: The Devils (1971) | 18 Dec 2023 | 01:20:14 | |
This week we're talking about Ken Russell's church and state fever dream The Devils. A very silly serious movie about real issues that straddles so many different lines. It's a fun one. We also talk about Elvis, Barbie, and Randy Quaid as Frankenstein. Three questions we ask ourselves this week:
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| The brain equivalent of body horror: Bug (2006) | 11 Dec 2023 | 01:22:08 | |
This week, we're getting truly weird in a tiny hotel room with Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd, as we talk Bug. Things get all kinds of nuts as we dig into people's theories about the subtext, Sam gives us a different read on Titanic, and we pose the question: what happens when you get between daddy and daddy? Three kinds of people get ripped to shreds in this episode:
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| Up, up, up the depravity: Street Trash (1987) | 04 Dec 2023 | 01:28:50 | |
Right folks, chug the last of that Tenafly Viper and let's get anarchic. We're talking Street Trash, a gooey, icky, melty, mucky slice of New York underground filmmaking. Filled with iconic gore effects and dubious character choices, the big question is: is it any good? We'll tell you, slowly over the course of 90ish minutes. Also, drinking stories. Do your bit:
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| Patreon sneak preview: What scared us as kids? | 30 Nov 2023 | 01:09:22 | |
Get a sneak peek at the content you could be getting over at the Wasteland Resort for as little as £3 per month. We release a minimum of two extra episodes per month with content ranging from bonus reviews to shooting-the-shit episodes where Sam and Jamie rail on a topic for an hour. In this Patreon episode, we take you on a tour of our twisted psyches as we discuss the things that terrified us as little whippersnappers. | |||
| Back Door Wicker Man: Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) | 27 Nov 2023 | 01:06:25 | |
Sam and Jamie are back and this week they're taking a visit to rural England in search of missing brothers, ancient witches and horror icons in Curse of the Crimson Altar. It's your classic folk horror story told through a very swingin' 60s lens, with plenty of smutty, goofy charm. Some questions for this week include:
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| Headbanger Face Rip: Hatchet (2006) | 20 Nov 2023 | 01:36:27 | |
This week Sam and Jamie are talking about Hatchet, the most 2006 throwback slasher there will ever be. Questions asked and, maybe, answered this week include:
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| Stick Around For Pepperoni: Demons (1985) & Demons 2 (1986) | 13 Nov 2023 | 01:57:47 | |
Join Sam and Jamie as they rip through your speakers for a double dose of Italian splatter with not one but two Demons movies. The boys get delirious as they hit Berlin's Metropol cinema and a nearby apartment block to discuss classic art, Nostradamus, and discover if these gore movies are more high-brow than the bulging eyes and claws would have you believe. Do your bit:
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| Thirst Traps From Tom Savini: Night of the Living Dead 1990 | 06 Nov 2023 | 01:16:46 | |
This week, Sam and Jamie are back in potential desecration territory with the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Tom Savini has a go at reanimating the classic and we decide whether it should have stayed dead.
We answer all of these questions and more, right here on Final Transmission.
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| Sweet Child O No: Bad Dreams (1988) | 30 Oct 2023 | 01:23:14 | |
This week, Sam and Jamie are joining Unity Field and getting fired up about Bad Dreams. Did you ever see that movie where a burned up guy terrorises the beautiful and bad Jennifer Rubin in a facility for troubled youths? Not that one, the other one...
We answer all of these questions and more, right here on Final Transmission.
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| The Movie That Drove Away: Baskin (2015) | 23 Oct 2023 | 01:26:04 | |
Sam and Jamie get deep down and dirty with this Turkish nightmare as they try and figure out what the *hell* is going on. If you've ever told the cops to go to hell, then this is the perfect movie for you.
We answer all of these questions and more, right here on Final Transmission. Do your bit:
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| Hornet with a bugle: Suspiria (1977) | 19 Aug 2024 | 01:09:25 | |
Is Suspiria the greatest movie ever made, a load of self-indulgent nonsense, or something in-between? Do your bit:
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| The Loneliest Sandwich in Cinema: Psycho II (1983) | 16 Oct 2023 | 01:25:55 | |
This week, we're talking legacy sequels and sacred cows with Psycho II. Norman Bates is back and this time, he's sane! Or is he? Two questions: 1. Is it appropriate to make a sequel to Psycho? 2. Why is it so good? We answer both of these, and much much more.
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| Clive Barker Drinks Merlot: Nightbreed (Director’s Cut, 1990) | 09 Oct 2023 | 01:43:57 | |
This week, we talk about everything Nightbreed and so much more. From the Cabal Cut to the Cradle of Filth record, it's all here laid out mawkishly by a nostalgic man and his good friend Sam. Digressions include the girl's toilets at Satan's Hollow, Paul Giamatti, Beach Boys, Munchie and loads more. Do your bit:
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| Big Bite of the Cronenburger: Rabid (1977) | 02 Oct 2023 | 01:03:52 | |
It's time to charge up your secret armpit wanger because we're getting down and dirty with some classic early Cronenberg. This week, we're talking Rabid (1977). We dig into the casting choices and solve the riddle of this oddball zombie flick with the most unlikely tool: emotional maturity! Fuck yeah! Do your bit:
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| The Battle of Wolf 1981: Wolfen (1981) | 25 Sep 2023 | 01:31:25 | |
Here we are again and this time we're covering Wolfen from 1981 - starring Albert Finney as a down and out detective investigating a series of animal attacks. We take a huge bite out of this underappreciated classic as well as (sort of) settling the age-old question: Which 1981 werewolf movie is the best? We also talk cinema snacks, our favourite film noir tropes, and the decimation and subjugation of indigenous peoples, Y'know, the usual.
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