Cinema Shock

Guest Todd Davis is in the studio with us again this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of cult sports film SLAP SHOT!

SYNOPSIS: To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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This week on the show, we're diving into the world of gallo with Dario Argento's seminal Italian classic DEEP RED! Joining us in the studio is special guest DJ Wilson.

Synopsis: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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This week, we welcome special guest Todd Davis to the show with his nominee for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame, the little-seen 1979 (or '82, depending on who you ask) kung fu exploitation film THE CRIPPLED MASTERS.

Yes, THE CRIPPLED MASTERS. It's about exactly what you think it's about.

Synopsis: Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn to combine their martial arts skills and seek revenge against the evil master.

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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We're celebrating John Carpenter's birthday this week by nominating the biggest commercial flop of his career for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame!

Synopsis: When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang’s fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for an immortal sorcerer named Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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This week, things are back to normal (mostly) as we nominate another film for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame: Alfonso Cuanón's 2006 sci-fi dystopian film CHILDREN OF MEN.

Synopsis: In the year 2027, eighteen years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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This week, we're introducing a new show theme: the Movie Redemption!

In these periodic episodes, we'll discuss a film that's has a reputation of being... well... bad and one -- or both -- of us will argue as to why we believe that the film deserves to be seen in a better light!

For our first movie redemption, we also welcome our first guest to the show, Will Benton to discuss Ridley Scott's 2012 ALIEN prequel PROMETHEUS!

Synopsis: A team of scientists and explorers travels to the darkest corners of the universe searching for the origins of human life. Instead they find a dark, twisted world that hides a terrifying threat capable of destroying them...and all mankind!

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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This week's nominee for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame is the 1990 cult classic and video store staple TREMORS!

SYNOPSIS: Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground!

Will TREMORS be good enough to make it into the Psychotronic Hall of Fame?

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Wes Craven's SCREAM so what better time to nominate it for our Psychotronic Hall of Fame?

SYNOPSIS: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Does SCREAM deserve to live among the greatest genre films of all time in the Psychotronic Hall of Fame?

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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We're continuing our Christmas celebration this week with another holiday-themed nominee for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame: the 1974 proto-slasher BLACK CHRISTMAS!

SYNOPSIS: Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

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Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com

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It's Christmas time at the Psychotronic Film Society and to celebrate, we're spending this week (and next!) nominating some psychotronic Christmas films, beginning with the 2010 Finnish horror fantasy film RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE.

SYNOPSIS: In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up! This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

Does RARE EXPORTS belong on the list of the greatest psychotronic films of all time?

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