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

Pope tribute! We're talking Alice, Sweet Alice on this episode of the show, diving into the religious subtext about Catholic guilt and appreciating the early slasher elements and giallo pairings that Alfred Sole brings to the movie. We're also drinking the Limaveza lime lager from Aldi!

Approximate timeline

0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-17:00 Beer talk

17:00-end Alice, Sweet Alice

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In celebration of the career of Wings Hauser, we're tackling the gritty crime thriller Vice Squad! We talk about the police treatment of sex ring syndicates, the ways this film succeeds in attempting to see both sides of sex work, and the excellent performance of Hauser as Ramrod. We're also drinking Corona's Sunbrew Citrus Cerveza!

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0:00-12:00 Intro

12:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Vice Squad

Next up: Alice, Sweet Alice

Continuing our tribute to late actors, we tackle the excellent Gene Hackman crime thriller The French Connection directed by William Friedkin. Here we take a look at the composition of the film and how its edits and multiple chase sequences add to the film's swift feeling. We also talk about Poughkeepsie, police racism, rooting for Charnier the villain, and a lot more. We're drinking Sloop Brewing Company's collaboration with Marist college, the Red Fox IPA.

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0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end The French Connection

Up next: Vice Squad.

Ah, the sounds of Burt Bacharach... the camaraderie of two gentlemen with nothing between them besides wide open plains... the handsome face of Robert Redford. How can you beat a movie like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Well, you can't, and we talk about all the ways this Paul Newman/Redford vehicle just simply works as a marker in Americana. We're also drinking Tree House Brewing's 10th Canniversary double IPA!

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0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Next up: a Gene Hackman remembrance.

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We may be a little late for Valentine's Day, but that didn't stop this couple from heading to the theater to check out the new holiday-themed slasher film from Josh Ruben. We enjoyed Heart Eyes well enough, but we also talk criticism of some of the ways this film fails to pair rom-com and slasher elements together succinctly. We'e also drinking Paradox x Stewart's Mountain Brew beer!

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0:00-10:00 Intro

10:00-16:00 Beer talk

16:00-end Heart Eyes

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Our goal was to get to some more gialli this year, so we're starting off with Dario Argento's second film The Cat O' Nine Tails. This one is technically a giallo but has a lot more in common with Italian poliziotteschi than anything else, and interestingly it refrains from dealing in most of the common tropes of the sub-genre. We talk about the somewhat mundane plotting of this murder mystery, the pseudo-science of XYY chromosomes, and Argento's beginnings. We're also drinking Ommegang x Other Half's Neon Gleam double-dry hopped IPA!

Approximate timeline

0:00-14:00 Intro

14:00-22:00 Beer talk

22:00-end The Cat O' Nine Tails

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In honor of David Lynch, we present our first episode for one of his films. Blue Velvet is an important movie for a lot of reasons - mainly that it helps set the tone of contemporary quirky neo-noir - but also because it (probably) enlightened a lot of people on the importance of Pabst Blue Ribbon. We're celebrating with a Heineken/PBR comparison, discussion about the surreal dreaminess and male gaze in the film, and a lot more.

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0:00-11:00 Intro

11:00-20:00 Beer talk

20:00-end Blue Velvet

Next we're going back to gialli with The Cat O' Nine Tails.

We finally got out to see Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, and though the theater experience was not necessarily the best, we were still thrilled with this rendition of the classic vampire. We talk about the differences between Nosferatu and Dracula, the history of vampire lore, and then dive deep into what's on screen with conversations about the infamous first meeting with Count Orlock, how Eggers explores his own themes, and a lot more. We're also drinking Treehouse Brewing's Your Mosh Cherished Future Memories Are Happening Right Now, a double IPA with Riwaka and Citra hops.

For our final Festivus episode of 2024, we're taking a look at a film we thought we already did for the show: 2004's Christmas with the Kranks! It also happens to be the 20th anniversary of the film. We're talking all things Kranks, including our drinking game, the spirit of community/communism throughout the movie, and the muddled themes about being coerced into the Christmas tradition. We're also drinking Jack's Abby's Cranberry Chaos lager.

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0:00-15:00 Intro

15:00-25:00 Beer talk

25:00-end Christmas with the Kranks

We hope you enjoyed our Festivus series this year, and we'll be back with more episodes of random cult films in 2025. Merry Christmas, happy holidays, yada yada yada.

We're tackling another classic Christmas horror slasher, this time replacing a killer Santa with a guy who kills Santas. This 1984 English thriller melds slasher with giallo and everything in between, and we talk about what makes this one different from things like, say, Silent Night, Deadly Night besides the killer's motive. We're also drinking Deschutes' Black Butte Porter!

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0:00-7:00 Intro

7:00-15:00 Beer talk

15:00-end Don't Open Till Christmas

Next up: the end of this year's Festivus Series!