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35: My Bloody Valentine (Bonus) Feb 14, 2024

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Listen up, hosers! Dave and Bryan love you and have sent you this Valentine's Day love letter to 1981's Canadian slasher movie classic, My Bloody Valentine. It's better than you expect it to be, with a cast of people that you actually grow to like. Sure, it's another slice and dice picture from the golden age of slashers but not too many of them paid this much attention to the craft of telling a story. How does this movie hold up to modern standards? You're going to have to listen to find out.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWvLgL5tdkc

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99CR 05: Ganja & Hess Feb 12, 2024

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This week, Dave and Bryan celebrate Black History Month with a look at Bill Gunn's delirious 1973 vampire movie, Ganja & Hess, which stars Gunn, Marlene Clark, and Duane Jones from Night of the Living Dead. It's a sleepy, dreamy art film about black identity, gender, class, and the loneliness of a man without ancestry as damaged people deal with themes of blackness in America through the gauzy lens of a vampire movie. Often lumped in with blaxploitation movies like Blacula and Shaft, it is anything but.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEM9oEKC1Ow

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33: X-Ray w/guests Jonny Atkinson and Aileen Clark Feb 05, 2024

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This week Bryan and Dave are joined by Jonny and Aileen from the Uy Que Horror podcast for a maddening breakdown of the Cannon Films deep cut, X-Ray (aka Hospital Massacre), starring Barbi Benton as a woman who just needs to pick up her check-up results and spends the rest of the day in a Franz Kafka nightmare, navigating a hospital staffed by intense, antagonistic hospital staff and a masked murderer from her past. This whole movie is bonkers.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfB3HOY5Ze0

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99CR 04: Phantom of the Paradise Jan 29, 2024

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Dave and Bryan take a look at a staple of the cult movie circuit, Brian De Palma's bizarre pop music opera and riff on gothic horror, Phantom of the Paradise. It's a wild ride through the nostalgia wave of the 1970's, standout performances from a bright cast, and the music of the movie's villain, Paul Williams, whose hair is just magnificent!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9yof8cwli4

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32: Fright Night w/guest Peaches Christ Jan 22, 2024

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Bryan and Dave are joined this week by drag performer extraordinaire, Peaches Christ, to talk about the arch-80's vampire classic from 1985, Fright Night, starring William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, and Chris Sarandon (making his second appearance on the pod). It's an awesome movie that could have been even better for reasons we get deep in the weeds over.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRH0RIEjnc

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99CR 03: Polyester Jan 15, 2024

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This week Bryan and Dave take a trip to Baltimore for a look at John Waters' transitional picture, Polyester, bridging the gap between his combative, confrontational midnight shockers of the 1970s and his commercial breakthrough in the 1980s. This tour de force let the world know that Divine was more than just an art terrorist in drag but a real, capable comedic actor. When it comes to Polyester, it's the best of both worlds for John Waters fans: An overwrought domestic melodrama in the style of Douglas Sirk and the pure movie chicanery of William Castle. See it in Odorama!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNlEp5qH3E

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31: New Year's Evil Jan 08, 2024

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This week Bryan and Dave kick off the new year and hit peak holiday horror movie burnout when they go deep with the 1980 slasher movie, New Year's Evil. Cannon Group wasn't exactly known for horror movies and it'll take them a few years before they work it out but these nascent attempts to get a piece of the action during the golden age of the slasher turned out some really weird misfires and New Year's Evil is leading the charge. More like a giallo than anything else, it seems to possess a profound misunderstanding of what audiences were expecting from a slasher movie and delivers some seriously silly murder setpieces.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tivSU9zQXfs

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99CR 02: Delivery Boys Jan 01, 2024

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Amid the 2023 summer frenzy of Barbie-fever we discovered a movie made by the Ken doll's namesake, Ken Handler. It's a vanity project that seeks to exploit two of the mid-80's most exploitable trends: the raunchy sex comedy and the breakdance movie and commits to neither of these things. Instead, it serves as light-hearted comedic confession of Handler's classist kink for exploiting smooth, poor, and young men desperate enough to do *anything* to rise above their station in life. Join us, won't you?

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99CR 01: 1990: Bronx Warriors Jan 01, 2024

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In the inaugural episode of 99 Cent Rental, brothers Bryan and Dave take a deep dive into the world of Italian exploitation movies with what is ostensibly the perfect specimen of spaghetti apocalypse movies, 1990: The Bronx Warriors. As well as being one of the better examples of the genre, it's also the debut of one of Italy's most peculiar (and tragic) stars, Mark Gregory, a young man of exceptional physique who couldn't possibly be less interested in being in movies.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utYcZ2RxC1s

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30: Black Christmas Dec 25, 2023

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Agnes, it's me, Billy! Bryan and Dave close out their holiday season series with a real deep dive into Bob Clark's masterpiece, Black Christmas. It's the prototype for the slasher movies that followed. It's a movie stuffed with a diabolical eye for detail and unbearable tension. There's a killer so twisted and weird that you reflexively turn away. There's a cast so likable and fleshed out that you hate to see them killed. Happy holidays, from us to you. Here's a real close examination of an especially dark horror movie.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfeVysYBYE

It's Me, Billy fan film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHthNuEapos

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