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Welcome to our new bonus episode series, Psychotronic Weekly (or PFS Weekly if ya nasty).

On this new series, we'll be offering our off-the-cuff views on a variety of subjects, whether that be a roundup of recent psychotronic news, Top 10 lists, interviews, or... well, pretty much anything else we want that's not related to our main episodes.

These episodes will be unscripted, with minimal editing, so if you ever really wanted to hear our opinions on the state of current psychotronic cinema, these minisodes are for you!

This week, we're taking a look at a lot of really cool movie news from the last week.

This week's news items:

• Idris Elba to Play New Character In SUICIDE SQUAD: https://www.thewrap.com/suicide-squad-sequel-cuts-deadshot-as-idris-elba-takes-on-new-character/

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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A new month brings a new theme, and for the month of April we're celebrating Easter by watching four movies that four totally different points of view on the life of Jesus Christ.

We're kicking the month off with Martin Scorsese's controversial 1988 portrayal of the life of Jesus, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.

We'll track LAST TEMPTATION's evolution from a novel (which was nearly as controversial as the film) through nearly a decade of development to a big screen adaptation. And you can't talk about this film without talking about the massive amount of controversy that it spawned, including pickets, boycotts, and in some cases, violent attacks.

There's a lot to unpack in this film, so we'll discuss whether that controversy was justified and just how we think the film treats the subject of Jesus Christ. This is one of our deepest discussions yet, but as usual, we still manage to keep things fun.

We've also nominated THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame, so we'll need your help in voting to let us know if it deserves a spot!

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WZRRF9K

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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On the conclusion of our Time Travel series, we're taking a look at what's probably the most obscure entry in the series so far, but one with a small cult following nonetheless, Nacho Vigalondo's 2007 Spanish language time travel thriller TIMECRIMES!

TIMECRIMES, possibly even more than the rest of the movies we've covered on the series, spawns a lot of discussion regarding the rules of time travel, and how those rules are used differently by different filmmaking, depending on their goal.

Vigalondo uses rules not unlike those in PRIMER (see episode 118), but with far different results.

We'll delve (a bit) into the inspiration behind the film's screenplay, and discuss our thoughts on it and whether or not we see this as a potential Psychotronic Hall of Famer. Let us know what you think by voting in our poll!

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6ZCGZ3C

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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For the next entry in our Time Travel series, we decided to lighten things up a bit after a couple of pretty heavy weeks, and what better direction to go than with fan favorite BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE?!

Starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE tells the story of a couple of non-heinous dudes who have to travel back in time to kidnap a bunch of historical figures so that they can save the future through the power of rock n' roll! Ya know what? It doesn't matter.

BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE is one of the most popular films of its era and has spawned sequels, comics, video games, and cartoons, so naturally we had to discuss it on the show. As always, we'll take a deep dive into its creation and, for this one, we're nominating it for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame. 

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XGJDDLH

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It's week three of our Time Travel series! When we started telling people we were gonna start covering time travel movies, we had countless requests for this week's film.

This week, we're taking a look at a film that's widely regarded as one of the most realistic portrayals of time travel ever committed to film, 2004's PRIMER!

PRIMER is regarded not only for its innovative portrayal of time travel, but also for the inventive ways that it tells its story on an incredibly low budget! We'll get into how that was achieved by writer/director/producer/editor/composer/star Shane Carruth as we dive into the making of the film.

We'll also discuss whether PRIMER has a big enough cult following to get it into the Psychotronic Hall of Fame, a decision that we always leave up to our listeners, so let us know what you think!

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8CHNDGC

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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Our Time Travel series continues this week with one of the most popular time travel films of all time, and one that started one of the biggest film franchises in the world, James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR!

This is the film that birthed Gary's hangups with time travel films in general. Has he softened on it or is he standing his ground?

As usual, we'll discuss the origins of the project, from Cameron's early days as a set painter for Roger Corman to the creation of the film itself and how it catapulted its star into the Hollywood A-list!

We also get into the film's legacy, the huge media franchise that it spawned, and how it effected the face of sci-fi cinema! 

And all of this leads into that one big question: Is THE TERMINATOR good enough for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame? Let us know by voting in this week's poll!

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GJHB6HT

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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We're starting a new series on the show this week: TIME TRAVEL! We'll be spending the next month(-ish) taking a look at some of our favorite time travel films, tearing them apart, analyzing them, and deciding if they're worthy additions to the Psychotronic Hall of Fame!

We're kicking the series off with a listener suggestion: Terry Gilliam's popular 1995 dystopian sci-fi flick 12 MONKEYS.

This is the movie that helped (along with PULP FICTION) to revitalize Bruce Willis' career and was part of a series of films released in 1994-95 that solidified Brad Pitt as a Hollywood A-lister. It also ended up being the most successful film of Gilliam's career. Pretty impressive considering how unapologetically weird and un-Hollywood the film is.

We'll dive into just how this film ended up getting made, its origins as a remake (of sorts) to a French art film from the 1960s, and how Gilliam, Willis and Pitt all came to be involved with it.

We're also nominating this one for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame, so we need your votes to let us know if it should go in!

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3X8BN6V

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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Last week we started counting down our favorite psychotronic films of 2018, and we're continuing that countdown this week, with the our Top 5!

Myles Griffin of The More You Nerd podcast is back this week to give us a hand!

Just as was the case last week, we're also featuring several voicemails from friends, listeners and fellow podcasters on this show this week as they give us a rundown on their favorite genre films of the year!

What made our Top 5? What was our favorite genre film of the year? Give it a listen to find out!

And at the end of our countdown, we'll reveal the winner of our People's Choice award, chosen by you, our listeners!

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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It's that time of year again, loyal listeners! It's time for the Psychotronic Film Society to take a look back at the previous year in film and discuss our favorite genre films that were released.

2018 was a banner year for genre films with some huge hits in all of the genres that we cover, but especially in the horror genre with some films being embraced by the cultural zeitgeist, while others proved divisive, but well worth discussing.

In this first part of our look back at 2018, we'll begin our countdown, as well as a discussion of some of our honorable mentions that didn't quite break the Top 10.

We're joined this week by Myles Griffin of The More You Nerd podcast to help us with our countdown!

And thanks to everyone who called in with their picks! We'll be playing all of the voicemails we received this week and next.

Come on back next week for the final part of our countdown, our look at our biggest disappointments of the year, and the announcement of the 2018 People's Choice Award, as chosen by you!

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

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We're coming up on the time of year where we release our Best of 2018 episode, looking back on our favorite genre films from the past year. But before we do that, we want to look back on one of our favorite films of 2017 that we've yet to do a full episode on: Jordan Peele's GET OUT. 

There's a lot to get into with this movie, with its scathing social commentary and Peele's homages to classic horror, plus we'll discuss just how and why it works so well as a horror film, tracing its origin and discussing how the film came about.

We're joined this week by a special first time guest: Kyle Coleman!

We've also nominated GET OUT for inclusion in the Psychotronic Hall of Fame! Do you think it should make it in?

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/753MSFX

Speaking of our Best of 2018 episode, you've only got a couple more days to vote to let us know what your favorite genre film of the year was. The People's Choice winner will be discussed in its own full episode in the future and will be considered for induction in the Psychotronic Hall of Fame!

VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LRD6FTZ

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Contact us at any of the social media accounts listed below, or be a part of the show by calling us at (864) 371-9931 and leaving us a voicemail of 3 minutes or less and we'll use it on our next episode!

Visit our website at www.psychotronicfilmsociety.com. There you'll find all of our past episodes and our full list of Psychotronic Hall of Famers!

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