We jumped at the chance to participate in the 3rd Hammer-Amicus Blogathon and chose something a little different: Amicus' 1st production from 1962...a musical comedy about the then-popular fad of digging 1920's traditional jazz music. This was legendary director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night, Help!) film debut. Thankfully, he was smart enough to pepper some pop stars in amongst the Dixieland. With guests Devin Bruce (Apocalypse Kow) and Jacob Balcom.

Check out the Blogathon HERE.

Matt makes up for only getting one WINGS HAUSER episode out this June by having Joe and Jack (Rogue Riffers) on to talk about 1989's BEDROOM EYES II, a neo-noir erotic crime thriller co-starring Linda Blair and Veronica Hart. With eyes clearly on Hitchcock and DePalma, this hypnotic mess falls far short but definitely entertains.

Rogue Riffers: https://rogueriffers.wordpress.com/author/rogueriffers/

Joe & Ben join Matt to talk about a movie starring one of Matt's favorite '70s genre actors: Jim 'Black Belt Jones' Kelly in DEATH DIMENSION, directed by beloved schlockmeister AL ADAMSON. Also featuring Harold 'Odd Job' Sakata & George 'One-n-Done James Bond' Lazenby. Evil crimelord "The Pig" aims to sell new freeze-bomb technology to the highest bidder, but Lt. Det. J. Ash aims to put stop to it w/ punches, kicks, and nunchuks.

Matt's wife Renee and their friends Sarah & Mike joined the show for a double-date night, pandemic-style: a movie over a shared Zoom screen and a review after words.
We watched a screener of the new found-footage true-crime movie Murder Death Koreatown (2020)...not sure if we'll be sent screeners anymore. We talk about all things found footage, the good and the (mostly) bad.

We wanted to participate in the Vincent Price Blogathon this year, so we picked a pulpy sci-fi horror movie from Amicus that was new to us and talked about it with guests Rob Hafferman and Devin Bruce. Vincent is joined by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, sort of, to tell an odd little tale about body-part farming and composite people in the highest levels of government.

Devin sings! https://apocalypsekow.com/moo/
Rob paints! https://roberthafferman.com/

Friend of the show Andrew picked up Scalps on blu-ray and another buddy, Ben, joined us to discuss this $15k '80s slasher...er...scalper...about archaeology students on a dig who face the angry spirit of Black Claw, the sorcerer of a massacred tribe of Native Americans. Andrew writes comics, like Culdesac.

The revival continues with an '80s action-er custom-made for Kyle and Adam. Another Peter O'Brian (Ep08 - The Stabilizer) joint! O'Brian stars as Alex 'Rambu' Trambuan, an all-around hero who can't seem to catch a break. A mix-up w/ the local drug cartel starts a downward spiral into justice and vengeance that requires lots of fists and bullets.
WATCH IT HERE: https://youtu.be/caChFgVEonQ

*For our sanity, we're reviving the show during the pandemic to give us an excuse to talk together and have a much needed laugh.

Matt is joined by Joe Kincher and Jason Farrell to discuss NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR, an infamous anthology film from 1985 that hacks 3 unrelated feature films into a delirious mess. God and Satan ride a train together and determine the fate of the characters from some weird-ass movie made even more weird-ass by hatchet-job editing. Check it out!

Matt is joined by the core TCTT gang: Jacob, Joe, and Kyle to watch & review Neil Breen's 5th film Twisted Pair together for the big 100th episode finale. These 100 episodes have been a blast to create over the last 6.5 years and we want to thank all the wonderful people who gave of their time and sanity to explore the psychotronic world with us. We'll still be kicking around the 'Net and may do something for fun here or there, but for now, it's time to move on. Do us a favor, will ya? Stay trashy.

John Morgan and Ben McClure return to talk about NIGHT KILLER by "Clyde Anderson" (Claudio Fragasso), an erotic psycho-thriller with some Bruno Mattei slasher inserts inserted after the fact. Peter Hooten (Orca & the TV pilot for Dr. Strange) gives a fevered performance that is something to behold, but the whole film is a wild ride!

Matt is joined by regular guest Jacob Balcom and his cousin Seth Garon returns to talk about DEMON COP, the Blood Meridian or The Sound and the Fury of psychotronic auteur films. Demon Cop seems to be the tragic story of a widower who becomes the host of a demon of retribution & changes into a beast with the moon to stalk the members of Denver/Aurora Hills gangs. A virtually impenetrable web of exposition, non-sequitur scenes, and kaleidoscopic plot.

The last Halloween mix of the TCTT podcast series. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends. Happy Halloween!!!

We celebrate Wings Hauser month by watching a TV movie that was a pilot for an action series. A ragtag group of misfit cops are handpicked to form a domestic crime strike-force. Our buddy Wings is the short-fuse hothead who drinks Scotch-and-milks.

Joseph Dufresne, creator of local horror-host extraordinaire Uncle Eerie Lee Shivers, joined us to talk about horror hosts, GuignolFest, Halloween horror movie favorites, and Mark Polonia's HALLOWEENIGHT from 2009.

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Matt and his guest Joseph Dufresne (a.k.a. Uncle Eerie Lee Shivers) had a great chat so chock full of content for the Halloween episode, that some had to be cut for time. Here's a short bonus ep wherein the current "horror renaissance" is discussed.

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Here's the links to our full movie riffs. Please download and share!

BLOODY PIT OF HORROR: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mZZOA56NAYFySLg1ZDfb54DHriTyHUVr

INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q0Hy6SP3qHlsN5rC_OxFAWlYuZlnE_Nz

CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE: https://drive.google.com/open?id=19Kwo27JAO0swl0z7hONnrSWLIa18rKlE

WILD GUITAR: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11Uh92KE8XB1ze1kzSvDT_3wMZAN8id8Y

Matt is joined by Matt Mair Lowery, writer of Dark Horse Comics' LIFEFORMED, and Jason Farrell to talk about Matt's 2nd volume of his YA alien invasion opus and all things comics...and Fred Olen Ray's 1980 cinematic train wreck ALIEN DEAD, where a houseboat in a Florida Swamp meets a meteorite that creates flesh-eating zombies...that look like last-minute Halloween costumes. We've said it before and we'll say it again: ED WOOD GOT SCREWED

Adam & Kyle return to review DRAGON HUNT, the canuxploitation sequel to TWIN DRAGON ENCOUNTER, sees the villain Jake return w/ a new metal hand & an armada of mercenaries. He wants the heads of Mick & Marty McNamara for revenge against losing battle (and his hand) to them in the first one. Ninjas, poachers, beast-masters...oh, my!

We had regular guests Joe Kincher & Jacob Balcom and their wives Jolie and Alicia join us for dinner and screening of Howling: New Moon Rising (a.k.a. Howling 7), a film by writer-producer-director-star Clive Turner. After we finished the film, we tried to make sense of it. It takes place in Pioneertown, CA, and takes place in Pappy + Harriet's western saloon. There's footage from other Howling films, and two guys working for the church to stop the lyncathropic curse...we think. This was a mess.

Jason Farrell and Joe Kincher join us to discuss Victor Salva, the director of Clownhouse, who was convicted for raping the child star this film from 1988, and how and why he has continued to have a film-making career over the last 30 years. This was a springboard to a larger discussion about the matter of separating the art from the artist.

European assassin & kung-fu master Linda Allen (Renee Harmon) kicks, punches, and licks her way through LA's underworld, assassins, and the FBI to avenge her sister's death.

Matt tries to make sense of James Bryan & Renee Harmon's glorious grindhouse mess LADY STREET FIGHTER with guests John Morgan (a decorated TCTT veteran of Bryan/Harmon's THE EXECUTIONER, PART II) and first-time guest Ben. We had a blast picking up the pieces of our minds.

In the aftermath of the Central Park Jogger case, two L.A. cops (demi-god Wings Hauser & Joey Travolta) clash with disaffected and detached teens of their city who are on a violent rampage. Jack & Lad from the Rogue Riffers join us to discuss this important message film ripped from yesterday's headlines...and more importantly, Wings Hauser.

Rogue Riffers: https://rogueriffers.wordpress.com/author/rogueriffers/

Our 2nd annual Wings Hauser Month starts with a bang:
Jacob Balcom and Joe Kincher are back to discuss STREET ASYLUM: a quasi sci-fi tale about b-modded cops wilding out on the criminal scum of the not-at-all-future L.A.
Featuring Nixon Watergate thug G. Gordon Liddy as a fascist ex-police running for mayor.

In Portland? Check out Joe's show at SUM Gallery: http://www.sumgallery.com/current.html

Have ears? Check out Jacob's album:
https://jacobbalcom.bandcamp.com/

Before Mind, Body, and Soul (1992), Wings Hauser & Rick (Hobgoblins) Sloane collaborated on Marked for Murder, a 'thriller' featuring the children of Martin Sheen & Robert Mitchum, where a couple of hapless TV station employees get caught up in a high-stakes game of drugs, videotape, and death.

Matt is joined by Devin Bruce and Andrew Shaw to discuss TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE, a shot-on-video horror anthology from 1987. This flick plays like a Tales from the Dark Side episode that was locked in a hot car during a heatwave: loopy Casio themes, cam-mounted spotlights, and non-professional actors make for a one-of-a-kind viewing experience.

Devin does Scotch and Comics: https://scotchandcomics.wordpress.com/

Andrew writes Cul-de-Sac: https://www.comixology.com/Culdesac/digital-comic/701881?ref=c2VyaWVzL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9ncmlkTGlzdC9BbnRob2xvZ2llcw

The great screenwriter and director Larry Cohen left this earthly realm on March 23rd of 2019. The Hollywood Theatre in Portland dedicated a showing of Q: The Winged Serpent in his honor. Jacob Balcom and Matt got mic-ed up and attended the screening and then broke down the crazy later on Skype.

Starring: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree and NYC

Jason Farrell and Joey Cruz join Matt to celebrate Walpurgisnacht/Hexennacht (or what we just call 'Halloween in April') by watching Hack-o'-Lantern a much sought-after VHS horror flick starring Hy Pyke as the satanic pumpkin-farming grandfather of the Drindle family. It's Halloween Night and Grandpa's been grooming grandson Tommy to dedicate his life to the Dark One (like a Satanic confirmation?). Meanwhile, someone in the coven's robes wearing a mask is dispatching folks, willy-nilly.

TCTT goes to the movies! Joined by JB from The Broken Plane Podcast, we ventured out to Joy Cinema to see A*P*E, a 3-D quickie aimed at beating Dino De Laurentiis' big-budget and much-hyped remake of KING KONG to the screen. Shot in South Korea on a budget of $23,000 in 14 days, this one doesn't quite measure up to the Jeff Bridges one, but does that one have King Kong flipping the camera off? No, I didn't think so. How many 3-D snakes are thrown at and knock over the camera? Zero? Hard pass.

JB & TK: https://thebrokenplanepodcast.blogspot.com/

Matt is joined by Jacob Balcom and his cousin Seth Garon to discuss Michael J. Murphy's DEATH RUN. If Jacob were writing for TV Guide, his description would read "The grown-up kid from H.R. Pufnstuf and his girlfriend wake up in post-apocalyptic England to fight a Nazi and cannibals." Do we need to say more about this super-8 doozy?

Check out this and more from the incredible world of MJM on the official (fre) YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHnjYjZiA6uVzQi0iCpI8A

Matt is joined by Gordie Adams and Rolito Galagate to discuss D'Wild Wild Weng, a western comedy adventure starring the 2' 9" martial arts film star of the Philippines Weng Weng.
Mr. Weng and Gordon are sent to the Mexican region of the Philippines to investigate the death of the mayor of Santa Monica, a town that has been taken over by the evil Sebastian and his horde of Mexican stereotypes along with Ku Manchu and his samurai (ninjas).

Yep.

(http://gordomatic.libsyn.com/)

Matt invited Joe & Jacob over for dinner and a movie. The food was good. The movie...not so much. Joe and Jacob were subjected to AFTER LAST SEASON, a film by Mark Region, that threw us all into an existential crisis. What are we doing? Why are we here? Why are dry wall and wallpaper scraps acceptable set dressing? Why is Cthulhu's toilet running in the background of every scene? Think Dreamscape meets Lawnmower Man meets Inception as directed by someone who hates their job making safety videos for school districts.

Kyle and Adam talk with Matt about this action movie:
Canadian militiamen face the twin furies of Canadian kickboxers after kidnapping their girlfriends from Twin Island.

Matt's love affair with the filmography of Renee Harmon continues. Joe and Jacob are back to talk about this 1986 shot-on-video movie that's got mad science, gaslighting, pool parties, a hooded killer, and a ghost. Directed by Felix Girard.

The Broken Plane Podcast's JB & TK return for another Thanksgiving slasher special. Filmed in 1983 (but unreleased until 1987), BLOOD RAGE stars Louise Lasser as a mother of twin boys, one of which, when they were children, brutally murdered an amorous teen at a drive-in 10 years earlier and has been locked up ever since. He escapes on Thanksgiving Day and returns home...blood is spilled and horrible truths revealed.

Follow JB & TK's football adventures:
@TheBrokenPlane

https://thebrokenplanepodcast.blogspot.com/

Matt is joined by Kyle and Jacob to discuss the new film from Joe Badon, Sister Tempest. We reviewed his God Inside My Ear back in Ep67 and were chomping at the bit to get back inside his wild, cinematic mind. We discuss the film w/o spoilers in the beginning and provide a spoiler-break point to stop the show, so you can wait until you see it before hearing the whole shebang.

A troubled Vietnam vet cleans up the streets by blowing scum up...wait, what?!?

Matt is joined by Jesse and John Morgan to discuss this James Bryan (Don't Go Into the Woods Alone) directed, Renee Harmon (Frozen Scream) written bit of vigilante sleaze.
- There is no Part I, by the way.
- I don't think PTSD-sploitation has been officially coined yet...so "dibs!"
- Starring Chris Mitchum, Renee Harmon, and Aldo Ray.
Jesse provided a haiku poem:

the grenade slips down
use the gun, never bullets
transitions are for punks

Our 2nd Halloween mix made special for the greatest podcast listeners in the podosphere: YOU!
Featuring: The Giallo Flames, Goblin, Alfred Hitchcock, William Thompson, Dean Gitter, The Poets, Vincent Price, William Conrad, Lenny & Squiggy, and many more.

Guests Jason Farrell and Devin Bruce join the show to discuss a shot-on-video obscurity from 1989. Ginger Lynn Allen takes on Beelzebub himself via his wife/her sister. Ol' Scratch is so worried, he needs his jester to distract him with 2 stories about awesome sinners. Argento & Bava's light palettes are stolen and incompetently aped...voices are demonically incomprehensible...sad clowns kick the bucket...and holy warriors are white ninjas? Hoo-boy.
Devin Bruce: http://apocalypsekow.com/moo/
Jason Farrell: https://douglasanddragons.wordpress.com/

It's time for another Neil Breen joint! Sarah and Adam are back to talk about Breen's I AM HERE....NOW ('09), wherein Breen plays a messianic character (gasp) who created Earth and its creatures and He's disappointed with what we've done with the place in His absence. This is another corker from the ego-trippin' Las Vegas architect-cum-auteur Neil Breen.

Joe and Jason joined Matt and his wife Renee for some homemade chili and an endurance challenge: who will be the last to tap out during this SOV POS?

"Russell has two passions: watching television and farting! He also loves Heather. Heather HATES farting. The eternal triangle! One day she warns him, 'if they ever allow farting on television, you'll never leave the house!' One evening he goes to sleep in front of the TV, and 'it' happens. Virtually everything on TV is fart-related, from sitcoms and commercials, to newscasts and dramas."

We decided June should be Wings Hauser month and were joined by several other movie podcasts to do our 2nd podcrawl.

Matt is joined by Joe and Jacob to discuss Rick "Hobgoblins" Sloane's 1992 movie MIND, BODY & SOUL. With a plot that can only be inspired by the Satanic Panic of the late '80s, adult film star Ginger Lynn Allen, plays a girl who's sucked into the omnipresent satanic underworld and fights to escape with her mind, body and soul intact.

Joe and Matt discuss 1977's CHERRY HILL HIGH, the sexy comedy that's not really sexy or funny, about five recent high-school graduates who embark on a bicycle trip with their former teacher and enter into a contest to see which of them can lose her virginity in the most far-out way. Directed by Alan E. Goitein.

Matt is joined by Robert Hafferman and Jason Farrell to try to parse the lunacy of SHAITANI DRACULA, a movie from India made somewhere between 1906 and 2006 with old Halloween masks, rolling chairs, and dime-store fangs. You are not ready.

Matt is joined by Alan White (The Power Principle) and Andrew Shaw (Cul-de-sac) to discuss the new film by Joe Badon: THE GOD INSIDE MY EAR, a film that defies easy categorization, but is part horror, absurd comedy, paranoid conspiracy, and psychedelic trip. Look for it at a festival near you!

Matt, Joe, and Kyle discuss the singular vision of John de Hart: GETEVEN. Drama, romance, narcotics, kung-fu and Satanism combine for a surreal experience from the mind of a first-time filmmaker (now a lawyer). Co-stars Wings Hauser, William Smith, and Pamela Bryant.

Matt is joined by Andrew Shaw and Devin Bruce to discuss the newly released horror film Archons, the second film from the director of Black Mountain Side (2016), which Matt became a big fan of after seeing it at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
Archons is the story of falling-from-grace rock group half a decade after the release of their hit single, as they travel deep into the Canadian wilderness on a spirit journey.

A brief review of Ray Dennis "Wolfgang Schmidt" Steckler's 1979 sleazefest that begs the question, is this a movie or ickiness that collected on celluloid while no one was looking.
The title says it all: a sicko posing as a shutterbug strangles nudie cutie models in Hollywood while a sullen, greasy bookstore cashier murders winos in alleys.

Matt is joined by a couple of friends from work to discuss his newest cinematic passion: Neil Breen...specifically, the hacker-y, mystical wonder that is FATEFUL FINDINGS. It really defies explanation and you won't regret purchasing or renting it. #makeMineBreen

We tried something new. This episode was recorded live and in person and we talked about a TV show instead of movie. Bizarro World, right?

Matt's joined by Joe and Jacob Balcom to discuss one of the oddest sitcoms of the 1980s: Small Wonder, the story of the Lawson family and their little girl robot Vicki, who must be kept secret from the rest of the world, despite talking like a Commodore 64.

We watched the pilot episode and one from season three (!) where Vicki's evil counterpart Vanessa is introduced. It's a wild ride.

Get a free download of Jacob's album So Long Everybody on Bandcamp!

Matt is joined by Kyle and Matt Mair Lowery, author of the new Dark Horse comic Lifeformed: Cleo Makes Contact. We talk comics a bit and then dive into our Christmas film: ELVES, starring Dan Haggerty. If you like your Christmas movies to have Nazis and upright vermin, this is the film for you.