Separating the ART from the ARTIST: Clownhouse (1988)

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.

The Executioner, Part II

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 
 

 

The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher

Around 1970, Ray Dennis Steckler went from making cheap, weird horror movies to cheap, sad X-rated ones. Apparently, he got nostalgic and made this sleazy affair. Marvel at the lack of any synced audio! Wonder at the lack of any plot! Shower after watching!
Link HERE and on iTunes.

Blood Island (coda)

Matt bids a fond farewell to the Blood Island with this mini-episode that covers the Romero/Ashley films made *after* the Blood Island movies: The Beast of the Yellow Night and The Twilight People and shares his final thoughts on the series, as a whole. Goodbye, cow intestines for gore scenes! Goodbye, gratuitous nudity! Goodbye, papier-mâché and tempera-paint monsters!
Episode available from iTunes and here.

YOU elect the Ted V. Mikels film!

We're saddened by the news that director Ted V. Mikels (The Astro-Zombies, The Doll Squad) has passed away. We're going to discuss one of his films in an upcoming episode, but we can't decide which one...
We had a poll on our Twitter account (@thats_trash) to pick between THE CORPSE GRINDERS and BLOOD ORGY OF THE SHE-DEVILS for the episode and it's currently a tie!  
Go vote on Twitter OR tell us in the comments which of the 2 you'd like for the episode and we'll announce the winner soon. 

DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS (you can open this now, though)

Well, the BLOODY APES episode has been indefinitely postponed. If only someone would pay us to watch and chat about movies! Well, stiff upper lip and all that...
Now for your present (or pressie, as they would say in this movie): We got you a Christmas episode! Surprised? I knew you would be. Does it fit? Great! It's DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS, a nasty little piece of work from the 1984 England. Someone's murdering Santas in London. Matt is joined by Jason Farrell and Gordie Adams (Gordcast) for this yuletide treat.
Will New Scotland Yard and the UK version of David Cassidy as a street flautist be able to get to the bottom of this grisly mystery? Will there be boobs? Sort of and yes! HERE'S THE LINK

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM US TO YOU!

KYLE

Kyle's returning to the show for the 1st time in a year (time flies). We'll also have our friend Andrew (from the Houseboat Horror episode) join us to discuss René Cardona's infamous NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES. You can watch it here and be all ready for the next episode, you lucky devil!

SLEDGEHAMMER!

I rounded up some folks to make a get-well-Scott episode and we had too many people for one episode. This one features Jason Farrell (from the Mystics in Bali & Death Bed: The Bed That Eats episodes) and Rob Hafferman (from the Star Crash episode). We discussed the recently deceased David A. Prior's first movie, the SOV SLEDGEHAMMER (1983). Ten years after a terrible mother and her lover are slaughtered in remote farmhouse and her child is never seen again. Because this is a movie and it was the '80s, a van full of exuberant twenty-somethings brings lots of food and alcohol to this site. The consequences are dire. Episode available from our iTunes feed or HERE.

Seriously, do these pants give me "mom butt" or what?

That summer Mike Love got really into steroids and face-licking...

These masks always upset me...

Next up: KYLE, JOE, and DEVIN will be on to talk about the 1970 Brad F. Grinter (BLOOD FREAK) movie FLESH FEAST starring Veronica Lake...wait, WHAT?

We Need to Talk About Jamie...or, THE PIT (1981)

Matt & Scott talk about the 1981 horror movie The Pit about young Jamie, who is troubled by bullies and librarian lust. In this tender coming-of-age story, we follow Jamie as he faces the trials and tribulations of adolescence the same we all did: with the help of a bunch of hairy, hungry creatures in a hole in the woods. Get the episode through iTunes or download it here.

I miss my old Thinkin' Hole.

"Uhhh...we're not doing anything in here...but don't come in!"

Before 'Mac and Me' there was...THE PIT!

NOTE: We'll be taking a brief break from regular episodes. Busy schedules force us to fall back on sporadic podcasting for the coming summer. We'll be focusing more on episodes with guests, Matt will do some mini genre-overview spotlights, and we'll be talking about even wackier movies than what we've done before. We're always available on Twitter.

TOYS IN THE ATTIC

We discuss THE SINFUL DWARF. You can get it through iTunes or here.

This is this guy at about a 7. Like somebody filled Jack Black full of blow and put him in a trash compactor.

"I can't seem to get these toys to make baby-toys, no matter how much I mate them!"

Ugh, now you've put me off fruit.

NEXT TIME: We discuss Star Wars knockoff STAR CRASH with our pal Rob.

WE HAVE BEEN REBORN!

Matt and Scott are joined by Matt's super-cool neighbor Justin to discuss THINGS (Canada, 1989). You can get the episode on iTunes or from here (right-click and Save As).
This movie would leave most casual viewers shivering, huddled in a blanket next to an ambulance, drinking tea or cocoa, so it was nice that Justin was not catatonic and was able to show us on the doll where this movie touched him. Mere words cannot describe this one, folks. It's a low-budget film made by horror fans, but beyond that, it's psychoactive psychotronica all the way. Plots are jettisoned, time has no meaning, porn stars deliver the news from another dimension...it must be seen to be believed.
Unfortunately, this movie is not available for free online (unless you really know how to look), but we wholeheartedly agreed this is worth the ticket price...plus, after you've seen it, you can show it to your friends and enjoy their reactions!

"This is Amber Lynn, coming to you live from the this-guy's-mom's-utility-room-in-the-basement studios."

Our hero, sort of...I guess?

This is how my wife found me in the garage after watching this movie.

A still from the interminable pulling-the-guy-up-to-the-bridge scene.

Next up: we have some '70s dreck for you featuring Tony Curtis & Burgess Meredith! It's the infamously bad The Manitou: A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Sounds fun, right?! Plus, it's from the director of the blaxploitation Exorcist rip-off Abby!

For Your (Compound) Eyes Only!

We did it! We riffed the HELL outta the '70s sex sci-fi movie The Invasion of the Bee Girls. We are putting a few finishing touches on it and it will available through Rifftrax in a week or so. We think you're really going to dig it. Here's a preview:

Here's a great article about the film including an interview with star William Smith!

Enemy Gold...and next at bat!

We had way too much fun discussing Andy Sidaris' bullet-n-boob fest ENEMY GOLD. Please give it a listen and tell us what you think: Libsyn (Right-click to download). You can also find it on iTunes (P.S. we'd love for you to leave a review of the show there, too). Enjoy!
NOTE: We had an issue with our iTunes feed, but it has been corrected. The episode should be available there now, too.

 "Becky, how do you expect to bust up a drug ring with all of those sleeves?!"

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Next up: Sir Herschell Gordon Lewis' (a.k.a. "The Godfather of Gore") 1972 splatter-sleaze delight THE GORE GORE GIRLS.

A word of warning, The Gore Gore Girls contains lots of crude violence. It's neither suitable for work or for watching with your family. The FX are juvenile, but still disturbing.

New episode & we boldly step into the '90s!

Our LADY TERMINATOR episode is now available on iTunes and Libsyn. We were joined by old friend and other Scott, Scott E. Please download and enjoy, and as always, spread the word and leave a review. It would be very much appreciated!

"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the Z-Team."

NEXT UP:
For our next assignment, we are headed into new territory: the 1990s. We'll be watching the Andy Sidaris film ENEMY GOLD. I feel confident in saying this is NSFW.

VIDEO LINK REPAIRED. Thanks for the heads-up, listeners!

https://youtu.be/v-rAUqUdNnE

Up Next: LADY TERMINATOR (Pembalasan ratu pantai selatan)

We've got a wonderful Indonesian cash-in on Cameron's wildly popular Terminator. Pretty sure there's nothing NOT to like in this one:

WATCH THE FILM HERE!

Electronic Phantasmagoria

A wonderful mix of electronic music from '60s & '70s soundtracks from The Ghost of the Weed Garden, custom-made by the blogger. Highly recommended Moog deliciousness to skew any boring old day from the commonplace to the sinister & strange.

Tasty Riffs

We here TCTT™ are very excited about offering you a movie with riffs à la the comedy brains of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax. We were so excited to get started, we picked a public domain movie, Bloody Pit of Hell, without checking to see if it had been done...it has.

Not to be discouraged, we decided to press on (without seeing the RT version) and treat this movie as a "pilot." The film should be available by the end of February. The thing is, we've had so much fun getting ready for it, we already know we want to do more. We're hoping to join the RiffTrax "iRiff" family and offer our second video through their site. So, without further ado, our next movie for download with riffs will be CATHY'S CURSE (a.k.a. Cauchemares), 1977. 

And, following that, in the Spring, we'll riff the sexy Invasion of the Bee Girls!

R.I.P. Mike Vraney, founder of SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO

Mike Vraney was a personal hero of mine. His company "Something Weird Video" released countless legendary movies that were previously unavailable commercially (which, in the  pre-YouTube days, meant they were unavailable, period.)
Mike Vraney, founder of the Seattle-based exploitation boutique home video company Something Weird, has died at the age of 56, following a long struggle with lung cancer. A true friend to underground movie cultists and pop-culture history buffs everywhere, Vraney worked as a teenage projectionist at drive-ins and porno theaters, ran a comic-book store, and managed punk bands before starting Something Weird in 1990, at the apex of the VHS age...
Read the rest of the story here

HAPPY NEW YEAR & a Peek at What's Coming Up in 2014...

We want to wish you all a happy new year and thank you for your support. 
As always, we would love to grow our audience. If you know someone who'd dig the show, spread the word. Follow us on Twitter and RT often. Reviews on iTunes are a great way to get some more ears on what we're doing.

We have had a lot of fun doing the show and have lots of great things planned for the coming year:

• In January we'll be joined by a listener to discuss their movie request: They Saved Hitler's Brain

• In February we will be releasing our 1st video (vidcast) of a feature, Bloody Pit of Horror, with riffs included!

• We're working on some contests and interactive games to make your experience even more rewarding

To get you psychotronic fans out there drooling for the coming months, here's a sneak peek at what's in store for the winter. Remember, you can always request films either here or through Twitter (@thats_trash).

a.k.a. Bloody Pit of Horror

Happy Thanksgiving...and next up!

We are happy to share our first holiday outing with you: Blood Freak
It is available on iTunes and here on our Archive page.

Next up:
1986's Eliminators