This week, I'm talking about two of the movies by Norman Thaddeus Vane, The Black Room and Club Life. So many of his movies were based on his absolutely wild life and these are no exceptions.

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You can get The Black Room from Vinegar Syndrome.

You can watch Club Life on YouTube.

Hidden Films referenced article on the life of Norman Thaddeus Vane and an interview with the director.

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We're going to the September Drive-In Monster-Rama! If you are, stop and say hello. Listen to the show on the way there or the way home. If you can't make it, use the show to feel like you're there.

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Theme song: Strip Search by Neal Gardner.

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I love Stallone. Yet when I love someone, I often make fun of them a lot. It's loving, trust me. And man, in the middle of the 80s, Sly made some rough ones. Here's a deep dive into Staying Alive and Rhinestone. Are you brave enough to watch them with me?

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It's Cannon Month! That means in addition to talking all about Cannon Pictures on the site, there will be two episodes all about Menahem Golan And Yoram Globus. And you know who else?

David Mendenhall, that's who.

Get ready to learn more about Over the Top, The Secret of the Ice Cave, Going Bananas and one non-Mendenhall movie, the absolutely baffling and mind breaking Too Much. Can you handle this much Cannon?

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What if Maxwell Caulfield was a secret agent superhero that is being trailed by Linda Blair shows up as a cop, supplied with weapons by Paul Bartel and works for Stacy Keach? Then you'd have this week's movie, Prey for the Jaguar. 

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You can watch this movie on ⁠YouTube.⁠

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Michael Winner didn't just make violent movies and try to live only on steak tartare. He also made this comedy about the Golden Age of Hollywood. Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood is one of the mid 70s movies that tries to put as many cameos in as possible and hopes that you won't notice the movie isn't all that great. Why am I doing an episode about it? Because these kind of movies are the ones I get obsessed about.

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Skullduggery (also known as Warlock and Blood Puzzle) is a 1983 slasher where the devil uses a role-playing game and a cursed boy named Adam to kill people. Everyone works in a costume story and is involved in community theater. It came out on VHS from by Media Home Entertainment and Video Treasures.

Igor and the Lunatics was financed by Troma Entertainment and they disliked the movie so much that they did extensive reshoots. Just think -- a movie too poor for Troma! A cult made up of Paul, Igor and Bernard go to jail and when they get out, they start killing all over again.

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You can watch Skullduggery on Tubi.

You can watch Igor and the Lunatics on Vudu.

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Sally Ross (Lauren Bacall) is a Broadway star who is about to star in a new musical and is working on reconciling with her ex-husband Jake Berman (James Garner). What she doesn't know is that the biggest problem in her life are the letters from obsessive fan Douglas Breen (Michael Biehn). Soon, Sally and Douglas will meet and many people will die. Directed by Ed Bianchi, The Fan is a stalker with actual stars and plenty of wild moments.

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Jing hun feng yu ye is a 1982 Hong Kong horror film that steals liberally from several movies, most notably Halloween. Known as Devil Returns, it's not available commercially outside of the gray market. Yet even though it's taking so many things from so many films, it has a pretty even handed discussion of post traumatic stress and postpartum depression within it, as well as an awesome karaoke scene.

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Umberto Lenzi and Lucio Fulci made four movies for Italian TV. Well, that was the plan, because The House of Lost Souls, The House of Witchcraft, The House of Clocks and The Sweet House of Horrors were way too gory. While they were released on home video, it wasn't until Cauldron Films re-released these this year that the U.S. has had a high quality version of these movies. This episode gets into all four of the movies in a short burst that will help you decide whether you should buy this set.

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You can buy the Houses of Doom set from Cauldron Films and on Diabolik DVD.

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