Cadaver Dogs

Bad acting. Bad scripts. INCREDIBLE effects. The Cadaver Dogs take a schlock-tastic voyage during their analysis of two international cult classics. What makes these movies so bad they’re good? Or, so bad they’re… well, bad? 

By stripping down to the bare bones of Stuart Gordan’s DAGON (2001) and Umberto Lenzi’s NIGHTMARE CITY (1980), you see the necessities of a horror film. The Dogs analyze the creature design, film direction (what an odd approach to dubbing), and fear tactics that have made these films “guilty pleasures” for horror fans. During their dive into Dagon, an adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft, they talk xenophobia and fear of the other. While Nightmare City makes them question the boundaries of exploitation films and if action horror should be a considerable genre.

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Up Next: THE INVITATION (2015)  / THE SACRAMENT (2013)

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Cover art by Omri Kadim. Theme by Adaam James Levin Areddy. Music featured in this episode: Krao - Onjuri.

Announcing next week's films: 

DAGON (2001, dir. Stuart Gordan) - available on Tubi, Vudu, and Roku

NIGHTMARE CITY (1980, dir. Umberto Lenzi) - available on Apple and Amazon

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It's the end of the world and it's brought on by schlocky horror? Lol no, it's xenophobia! Next week, the Cadaver Dogs will break down two cult apocalypse films and try to figure out just what the filmmakers are trying to tell us. We're talking special effects makeup, H.P. Lovecraft, Italian horror cinema, and why it's so bad it's good.

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Cover art by Omri Kadim. Music featured in this episode: 80s Synth by White Bat Audio. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

I want to play another game.

It’s been a while since our last Cadaver Trivia, but we’re back! David once again leads the contest as Brucker Nourse from Autopsy of a Horror Movie competes with co-hosts Devin and Rob. We’ve got werewolves. We’ve got slashers. We’ve got Spanish surrealists. But unlike Mr. Ghostface, we won’t kill you if you get an answer wrong (or will we?).

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Want a date? But with whom? What are the ideals and standards of perfection that men hold women to in modern society? The Cadaver Dogs are pulling back the curtains on the unrealistic expectations we hold in relationships, and the destructive – sometimes explosive – consequences.

There have been many interpretations of Takashi Miike’s AUDITION (1999) over the years, and oh boy do we have thoughts! On the total opposite of the spectrum lies FRANKENHOOKER (1990), the title and plot of which writer-director Frank Henenlotter improvised during a pitch meeting. But the Dogs will also seek to answer: Are these movies truly sexist, or are they secretly feminist? Or neither?

Up Next: DAGON (2001) / NIGHTMARE CITY (1980)

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“Digging Deep: Frankenhooker (1990),” by Mr. Bones (Morbidly Beautiful)

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Cover art by Omri Kadim. Theme by Adaam James Levin Areddy. Music featured in this episode: Come Play With Me by Kevin McLeod, Cicada by Vivek Abishek.

Announcing next week's films: 

AUDITION (1999, dir. Takashi Miike)

FRANKENHOOKER (1990, dir. Frank Henenlotter)

What's your ideal of the perfect woman? How bout one that cuts out your tongue? Or one that isn't even really alive but a reanimated corpse? These are the punishments that befall the protagonists in next week's episode. We'll be talking male gaze, the dangers of a narrow perspective, and how these movies successfully walk a thin line between feminism and misogyny. 

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Even with all the release push back, this year's produced some pretty incredible horror films. We've seen another resurgence of sequels and remakes of classics like Halloween, Candyman, Wrong Turn, Escape Room, The Quiet Place, Don't Breathe, The Purge, The Conjuring, Spiral... dear lord this list is long! But did any of these make the Cadaver Dogs' list of their top 3 horror films of 2021? 

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Praise films and silence the voice(s) speaking inside your head for the very first Cadaver Dogs episode of the New Year!  Devin, David and Rob are getting spiritual with last year's SAINT MAUD, the first feature by promising new filmmaker Rose Glass. The film follows a young medical aid who believe she has direct communication with God himself, and it is her duty to share this gift. What's better than voices in one person's head you ask, why it's a union of voices born of a marriage gone awry upon an isolated island. In Ingmar Burgman's HOUR OF THE WOLF, we attempt to understand something about this strange horror story by the film master.  

Stick around horror hounds while we discuss religion, the value of pain, and whole host of interpretations in these metaphor lanced insanity flicks. 

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"The Tumult Breaks Loose" by Ethan Warren

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Announcing next week's films: 

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SAINT MAUD (2019, dir. Rose Glass)

HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968, dir. Ingmar Bergman)

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As filmmakers themselves, the Cadaver Dogs tend to get quite wrapped up in awards season, and although the Critics Choice Awards have been postponed due to COVID (uh-oh) and the Golden Globes will no longer be on the air, we are nonetheless in countdown mode toward the Academy Awards. Too bad the Oscars tend to ignore our favorite genre… David and Devin team with A.J. of Destination 180° Podcast to list our Top 3 favorite performances in horror!

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“They’re he-e-e-e-ere!!” Why is it that every possible line is a lot scarier when uttered by a child? There’s no one on this planet who was not a kid at some point, and most kiddos are perfectly innocent bundles of joy. And yet… Rob and David team up with guest star Brandon Christensen, writer/director of Shudder exclusive SUPERHOST, to countdown their top 3 children of horror! 

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Watch SUPERHOST on Shudder:

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