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This week's pick is the 1977 supernatural horror film Suspiria. Suzy is the new student at a prestigious German dance school and a series of mysterious deaths and strange occurrences begin with her arrival. Can Suzy find out what is going on in this visually stunning, richly colorful, and violent classic Dario Argento film?

This week's pick is the 1975 blaxploitation film Bucktown. After his brother's death, Duke travels to a small Southern town to organize the funeral. During his stay, he decides to revive his brother's nightclub. However, this venture quickly uncovers the thinly veiled racism and corruption that run rampant in the town. Duke faces demands for bribes and violence from the police. With the arrival of Duke's pal Roy, the situation only escalates. Featuring Carl Weathers as Hambone.

This week's pick is the 1980s Don Dolher low-budget horror flick Fiend. A small town is terrorized by a resurrected violin teacher possessed by a supernatural entity that glows red sometimes.

This week's pick is the serious and well-made 1977 vetsploitation film Rolling Thunder. A Vietnam veteran who returns home after years in a POW camp is treated as a hero, but his family proves to be distant. When thugs invade his home to steal silver coins that he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him, his wife and son for dead. He survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Now wielding a hook for a hand, he sets out on his mission of vengeance.

This week's pick is the 1974 Jack Hill film Foxy Brown starring the always awesome Pam Grier. Foxy Brown's boyfriend is gunned down and she infiltrates the bad guy's enterprises to bring them down.

This week's pick is the 1974 action-ish movie Savage Sisters. Three women of three races join forces to get one million dollars from, and revenge on, a double-crossing Revolutionary. It is kind of like a wacky caper with bad acting, bad fight scenes, and Sid Haig's over-the-top stereotyping of Mexicans.

This week's pick is the 1985 film Gymkata. The trailer makes it look like a lot more fun than you end up getting, but there are some decent gymnastics fighting scenes, multiple questionable hairstyles and loads of ugly people. Friend of the show Mike Spada joins in on the disappointment.

This week's pick is the 1975 British horror film I Don't Want to be Born. A woman is cursed by a dwarf after she rejects his advances, then has an enormous baby possessed by the evil spirit of the dwarf. It seems the child will stop at nothing to exact the dwarf's revenge. It sounds a lot better than it actually is, but at least you get to see a baby murder multiple people.

This week's pick is the 1972 Golden Harvest film One Armed Boxer. Jimmy Wang Yu wrote, directed and starred as the titular character who seeks revenge on the fighters that killed his master.

This week's pick is the 1977 kinda-sorta action movie Bare Knuckles. A bounty hunter in Los Angeles tries to track down a serial killer that likes to hiss like a cat. Sloppy fight sequences, mustaches everywhere and an ok but lengthy chase scene make this potentially tolerable, depending on your mood.

This week's pick is the 1980 Lucio Fulci supernatural horror film the City of the Living Dead. A reporter and psychic that had been prematurely buried (whoops!) head to a hard-to-find Massachusetts town where a clergyman has recently hanged himself to prevent the gates of Hell from opening. Special guest Mike Neel joins us.

This week's pick os the 1981 slasher flick Night School. According to IMDB, "Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled." Featuring a turtle nibbling on a decapitated head.

This week's pick is the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite, starring a pre-Sesame Street Gordon, Roscoe Orman. This movie has the absolute best outfits of any movie we have covered so far and is pretty great to boot.

This week's pick is the 1981 Indonesian horror-ish movie Wolf aka Srigala. Treasure hunters and three youths at a supposedly cursed lake begin to get picked off one by one. To our dismay, it was barely a Friday the 13th rip-off like we'd heard about. Special guest Mike Neel returns to power through it with us!

This week's pick is the 1977 Italian crime film the Heroin Busters. An Italian cop goes under cover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring with help from an Interpol agent. Featuring pissed pants and some fine airplane stunt work.

This week's pick is the 1982 Australian action movie Turkey Shoot. In a dystopian future, captured rebels held in re-education camps are offered freedom if they manage to survive as the prey in a hunt. Featuring a werewolf in a top hat!

This week's pick is the 1977 film Nurse Sherri. Taking place on a scant few poorly lit sets, this possession horror movie offers wooden acting, "comedy", and ugly aesthetics.

This week's pick is the 1981 Canuxploitation film the Pit. A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers by luring them into a pit of violent creatures in a secluded part of a forest that nobody else knows about.

This week's pick is the 1978 Spanish Satanic horror tale Satan's Blood. Annie and Andy are easily lured to an isolated home inhabited by a Satanic coven for oily sex rituals and a complete lack of self preservation.

We kick off season 3 with the legendary Sonny Chiba kicking all kinds of ass and making all kinds of faces in the 1974 classic the Street Fighter. X-ray punch!

This week's pick is the 1976 Shaw Brothers goofy horror/revenge movie Oily Maniac. A crippled man uses black magic to transform himself into an oil monster that deals out violent justice to bad people.

This week's pick is the 1984 revenge flick Savage Streets. Linda Blairs stars as Brenda who is out for violent revenge on a local, jolly gang called the Scars for assaulting her deaf sister and tossing her best friend off a bridge. Special guest Kevin Crook (Wicked Horror Show) joins us!

This week's pick is the 1983 post-apocalyptic action movie the New Barbarians. After the nuclear holocaust in the year 2019, small bands of survivors are terrorized by the Templars, who seek to eradicate the remnants of mankind. Scorpion, Nadir and an unlikeable child to the rescue! Special guest Edwin Callahan (Castaigne Publishing) joins us!

This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Baby. Social worker Ann Gentry is fascinated by the case of Mrs. Wadsworth and her fully-grown son who has the mind and behavior of a baby. Her interest fast becomes obsession and leads to a bizarre and violent conclusion.

This week's pick is the 1981 Ozploitation thriller Roadgames. It is if Rear Window was set in the Australian Outback with an affable American truck driver and new his hitchhiking lady pal track a man they believe is killing ladies and dispersing their body parts throughout the territory.

This week's pick is the bonkers 1983 Shaw Brothers film Holy Flame of the Martial World. A brother and sister seek vengeance for the death of their parents through using the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame kung-fu technique. Featuring Golden Snake Boy, snake bladder induced finger lasers, and the deadly Ghostly Laugh!

This week's pick is the 1975 slasher the Love Butcher. After being pushed around too much, crippled gardener Caleb transforms into the suave, yet volatile Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.

This week's pick is the 1974 blaxploitation action film Three the Hard Way, starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. A record producer, a PR man and a black belt in karate foil a racist plot to poison the drinking water supply of several major cities by the evil Monroe Feather.

This week's pick is the absurd 1981 Spanish revenge film Mad Foxes. Hal gets revenge on a biker gang that assaulted him and his girlfriend by having martial artists attack them. The biker gang then gets revenge on Hal by killing his parents. Hal then gets revenge on the same biker gang himself. Featuring pubes, penises, an intimate scene in what is potentially a bathtub full of urine, and so much more with the best kind of terrible overdubbing with occasional songs by Krokus.

This week's pick is the brain-melting 1981 Taiwanese martial arts/fantasy film Thrilling Bloody Sword. Featuring a cyclops demon, giant floating heads in a hell cave, a dwarf with a mini bagel necklace, flying body parts that resemble raw meat, and a near indestructible warrior getting stabbed in the asshole, amongst other very confusing things set to a synth soundtrack.

This week's pick is the 1974 Bob Clark-directed slasher Black Christmas. As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Soon, one of the sisters goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.

This week's pick is the 1984 Xmas slasher SIient Night, Deadly Night. An orphan raised by a strict nun after witnessing his parents being killed by a criminal dressed like Santa Claus grows up to be a killer toy-store Santa Claus himself. Special guest Ben Scrivens (Fright Rags) joins us with his extensive knowledge of actors from this film that also appeared in the Halloween franchise.

This week's pick the the 1980 holiday horror type movie Christmas Evil. A toy factory worker, who is obsessed with Christmas and was mentally scarred as a child after seeing "Santa Claus" (aka his dad) being intimate with his mom on Christmas eve, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work and being disgusted with his fellow co-workers and bad boy Moss Garcia, and embarks on a mix of sincere Yuletide celebration and murder!

This week's pick is the 1985 Erik Estrada action movie Light Blast. A crazed professor invents a death ray and threatens to destroy San Francisco unless he is paid a hefty ransom. Cue the melting people!

This week's pick is the 1980 flick the Exterminator. After his war buddy is left paralyzed by a New York gang, a Vietnam vet sets out to rid the streets of crime by becoming a vigilante. Featuring a discussion on how to cook a hot dog with electricity!

Season 7 starts with our latest additions to the TD Hall of Fame followed by a spooky discussion about the 1983 horror type film Mortuary. TD legend Christopher George's last film before passing features a young Bill Paxton terrorizing a young lady who is investigating her's father's death.

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This week's pick is the 1981 high school slasher Graduation Day. A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race. Featuring Linnea Quigley and Vanna White.

This week's pick is the 1980 action horror film Cannibal Apocalypse. Mentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten. John Saxon stars with a cameo from a hint of pubes.

This week's pick is the 1973 blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones. U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs. A fun action film with colorful characters with names like Doodlebug, Mattingly, Plug, Pickle, and Shelley Winters as a racist drug lord named Mommy!

This week's pick is the 1977 exploitation film Too Hot to Handle. Cheri Caffaro and her nudity star as a sadistic assassin being pursued and simultaneously dated by Domingo, the Chief of Detectives, in Manilla. A slovenly Vic Diaz co-stars.

This week's pick is the gritty 1980 slasher flick Maniac. A serial killer with serious mommy issues is on the loose in New York City. Witness strangulations, scalpings, Tom Savini's head exploding, sweaty grunting, and more!

This week's pick is the 1978 vampire "comedy" Nightmare in Blood. People that are either directly or very loosely involved with a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep winding up dead and often missing vital organs. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping them. Featuring the vampire hunter The Avenger!

This week's pick is the very bloody 1980 samurai flick Shogun Assassin. Re-edited from the first two Lone Wolf and Cub movies originally released in 1972, when the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death. Very awesome violent death. And a synth soundtrack!

This week's pick is the 1976 sharksploitation film Mako: the Jaws of Death. A man learns that he has a mystical connection with sharks after being given a medallion by a shaman. Becoming increasingly alienated from society, he develops an ability to communicate with sharks and sets to destroy anybody who harms them. Starring Richard Jaeckel (Mr. No Legs), Buffy Dee and Harold "Odd Job" Sakata.

This week's pick is the 1981 killer kid horror flick Bloody Birthday. As their 10th birthday approaches, three children, born prematurely during a complete solar eclipse, turn murderous. Guest JR (JR's Spooky Shack) joins us to discuss the film, be disappointed in Bill for losing his connection twice during the recording, and agreeing to be the daughter in our My 2 Dads reboot.

This week's pick is the 1978 Australian psychological thriller Long Weekend. A bitter married couple teetering on the edge of divorce take a camping trip to heal the rift between them. As the weekend progresses, the selfish pair engage in reckless behavior that demonstrates an increasing disrespect for their natural surroundings. When they become the targets of a series of inexplicable animal attacks, it becomes clear that an angry Mother Nature has come to exact her revenge.

This week's pick is the 1983 Shaw Brothers horror revenge film Seeding of a Ghost. A cab driver inadvertently curses himself by hitting a sorcerer with his cab. This leads to adultery, assault, murder, revenge, magic battles, and the violent birth of a very rude baby.

We kick off season 2 with the 1976 South African/American martial arts flick Kill or Be Killed. An ex-Nazi commander who lost a karate match to a Japanese opponent in a factually inaccurate past Olympic Games organizes a martial arts tournament to seek revenge while Chico the midget does cartwheels and offers $5,000 plus expenses to fighters. Our friend Mike Spada returns for this discussion.

This week's pick, and our season one finale, is the extremely fun and excellent Shaw Brothers 1975 superhero film Inframan. If Sid & Marty Krofft tried to make Kamen Rider with the best 70s futuristic sets and costumes while having night terrors, then the result would likely look something like China's first superhero movie. Change! Inframan!

This week's pick is the 1982 movie Class of 1984. A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school. Featuring a young and doughy Michael J. Fox, Roddy McDowall, and the guy from Meatballs that wins the hot dog eating contest.