Blood and Black Rum Podcast - A Cult Film / Horror Podcast

Continuing our So Creepy It's Carpenter Halloween series, we tackle a surprisingly successful offfering from Carpenter, and also one of the best Stephen King film adaptations: Christine. This is a tough story to adapt for the big screen because of its limited scope and with the primary antagonist being an inanimate object. However, we talk about the successful use of emotional stakes and tension throughout to keep things interesting even for a 110 minute long film. We also discuss Carpenter's excellent theme, the '80s sociopathic bully antics, and a whole lot more. We're also drinking Fidens' The Butcher double IPA!

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Join us all Halloween season for more Carpenter films! Next up: Prince of Darkness.

Hey, we knew we'd have to do the crappy stuff too when we were doing a Carpenter series for Halloween. That brings us to Ghosts of Mars, probably Carpenter's worst film. It has a lot of poor decisions that lead to a really boring, awful movie - and quite possibly the lowest rating Ryne has ever given on the show. We talk about the wipes and fades (you know what we mean), the terrible neo-noir dialogue, have a disagreement about the choreography, and so much more. Be ready to laugh with us about this turkey.

Oh yeah, we're also drinking Druthers Brewing Co.'s Oktoberfest!

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Tune in all Halloween season long for more Carpenter film coverage!

Continuing our Halloween season spent with John Carpenter's filmography, we turn to the moody mistiness of 1980's The Fog, one of Carpenter's better films and yet still falling somewhere in the middle of his best output. We're disappointed with the lack of Tom Atkins mustache; we query whether Jamie Lee Curtis or Adrienne Barbeau tops the hotness meter; we dish out some fire at the founders of Antonio Bay who couldn't stand to live even a mile away from a leper colony. And we have a lot of fun talking about the film over the course of an hour, and we hope you enjoy our coverage.

Oh yeah, we're drinking Leinenkugel's Collaboration Lager, and amber lager in collab with Hofbräu München! 

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Tune in all Halloween season for more Carpenter faves (and not-so-faves)!

All Halloween season we will be bringing you the So Creepy It's Carpenter series, a look at John Carpenter's filmography including both the good and the bad. For our first spotlight, we start right in the middle of that divide with Vampires from 1998, one of Carpenter's better late-career movies. We talk about the KNB effects, James Wood (an asshole), the Carpenter western-tinged soundtrack, the lack of a directorial signature, and more! No specific beer talk this week, it's just good to be back again (remotely).

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Check in with us weekly all Halloween season for new Carpenter flick episodes.

Red Hot '80s Action summer is sweating along and we are taking a look at Reb Brown's masterpiece, his opus, Strike Commando. If you've never seen the film, think First Blood: Part II but with a lot lower budget and with some extremely interesting dialogue choices. We're having a laugh at the whole plot, admiring Reb Brown's muscles, and yelling "JAKODAAAA!" a lot. Expect some good fun at the film's expense here.

Also, we're drinking Ommegang's Neon Neon Rainbows Double NEIPA!

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On our new episode for Red Hot '80s Action Summer, we are talking about the inestimable Chuck Norris in one of his classic terrorist shoot-em-up films, Invasion U.S.A. We touch on the sheer ridiculousness of the film, Chuck's fabulous red mullet, the inferiority of the US National Guard, and the homoerotic undertones at play here. We're also drinking Ommegang's Sleeveless Tea!

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Continuining our hot '80s action summer, we're taking a look at perhaps Jackie Chan's finest film Police Story - subbed, not dubbed! Here, we marvel at Chan's ingenuity with the stunts while also commenting on the simplicity of the film's plot. We talk Hong Kong drugs, the various stunt sequences, rate our favorites, and also comment on the odd inclusion of some misogyny in Chan's character. Also, we're drinking DuClaw Brewing's Lil Sour Me America, just in time for July 4th!

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Next up on Red Hot '80s Action Summer: Invasion U.S.A!

We're starting our Red Hot '80s Action Summer off with a jungle-tinged bang! Arnie's quotable film Predator is on the docket, and as we rewatched this John McTiernan action/sci-fi/slasher hybrid we couldn't help but feel disappointed with our rose-colored glasses view of this nostalgic classic, because it just doesn't hold up as well as we thought. We talk about those criticisms and joke about the soundtrack, the dialogue, the mystical Native American trope, and which form of Predator we'd rather... well, you know. 

We're also drinking Beer Tree Brewing's Layered: Maple, Brown Sugar, Blueberry Parfait Sour.

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It's summertime, and of course we need to visit the island of Summerisle for a quick jaunt to a cult led by Christopher Lee. We talk about the excellent casting in the film, the heavy religious themes, Britt Eklund's booty dance, the missing deleted scene, Lee's hair(piece?), and the shocking finale. We're definitely fans of this crazy slow-burn movie, and I think you can hear in this episode. Let us know what you think!

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We've done every other Saw film (1-7 in a marathon), so it was inevitable that we'd have to head out to the theater to see Spiral: From the Book of Saw. And for the most part, we liked this one okay - it's definitely better than Jigsaw, though its writers are the same, and Chris Rock is really doing the best he can with what he's got. The traps are cool, but there are still some major issues. Listen to the whole thing and let us know what you thought of this new reboot of the series!

A note: we recorded remotely (for the last time) and we did have some issues near the end of the recording where the remote recording cut out some content and caused some skips and pauses. For the record, Ryne rated this a 7/10 creepy little marionette dolls.

We're also drinking Founders' All Day Vacay Session Wheat Ale.

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