Genre Grinder

MAD KILLERS! ANXIOUS WOMEN! TWISTED CRIMINAL PLOTS! CHIC INTERIOR DECORATING! PSYCHEDELIC FLASHBACKS! NEEDLESSLY LONG TITLES!!

Giallo – plural gialli – so-named for the cover color of pulp crime novels in Italy is a stylish world of psychosis and murder that has existed in some capacity since the early 1960s, but it wasn't until Dario Argento's 1970 classic, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, became a worldwide hit that the giallo fad really took the country by storm. The following year, 1971, was arguably the biggest in the genre's history, with a total of more than 40 films, several of which would become classics. Join super-fan Gabe and relatively apathetic returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned and Uptown Song Club as they explore a total of 12 titles in a two-part series.

Part one includes Sergio Martino's The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Italian: Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh), Dario Argento's Cat O' Nine Tails (Italian: Il gatto a nove code), Lucio Fulci's Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna), Enzo G. Castellari's Cold Eyes of Fear (Italian: Gli occhi freddi della paura), and José María Forqué's Eye of the Hurricane (Spanish: El ojo del huracán). The original plan was to do 6 per episode, but I have COVID-19 and ran out of energy. But stay tuned for a longer part two soon!

00:00 – Intro

09:45 – The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

27:05 – Cat O' Nine Tails

44:26 – Lizard in a Woman's Skin

58:23 – Cold Eyes of Fear

1:11:24 – Eye of the Hurricane

1:28:07 – Outro

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Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://atlsolidarity.org/

Equality Florida: https://www.eqfl.org/

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CALLING ALL CARS! CALLING ALL CARS! BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POINTED PROFANITY, SUGGESTIVE NUDITY, AND RIDICULE OF THE CLERGY!

Before the MPAA ratings board, there was the Production Code and, before that, there was the Hays Code, which was more of a series of nagging demands than an actual code. Film historians tend to refer to the five-year period between the widespread adoption of sound (1929) and the harsh implementation of the Production Code in July of 1934 as the "Pre-Code Era." Gabe and returning guest Arianny Pilarte take a look at four such films, all of which fall into the crime genre, including two gangster classics – William A. Wellman's The Public Enemy (1931) and Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932) – and two salacious melodramas from a feminine point-of-view – Mervyn LeRoy's Three on a Match (1932) and Stephen Roberts' The Story of Temple Drake (1933).

00:00 – Intro

08:07 – The Public Enemy

36:30 – Scarface

1:10:11 – Three on a Match

1:33:16 – The Story of Temple Drake

1:55:34 – Outro

If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid: https://mylegalaid.org/support-our-work/giving

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Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

THERE'S A CHILL UPON THE AIR AS THE WIND CARRIES THE CRIES OF A WEEPING WOMAN. MIS HIJOS! MIS HIJOS!

Once upon a time, there was a poor woman who murdered her children after being slighted by her wealthy lover. Or was it an indigenous woman who had her child stolen by colonizers? Or maybe it was an accidental pregnancy that was secretly terminated? However the story goes, the woman died and her ghost now wanders the night in search of new children. To avoid her wailing spirit, take a listen to Gabe and returning guest Kristine Fisher as they talk about movies starring that most popular of Latin American ghosts, La Llorona, including Ramón Peón's La Llorona (1933), René Cardona's La Llorona (1960), Rafael Baledón's The Curse of the Crying Woman (1961), Miguel M. Delgado's Santo and Mantequilla Napoles in The Revenge of the Crying Woman (1973), Rigoberto Castañeda's Kilometer 31 (2006), and Jayro Bustamante's La Llorona (2019).

00:00 – Intro

04:34 – La Llorona (1933)

14:33 – La Llorona (1960)

27:21 – The Curse of the Crying Woman

41:18 – The Revenge of the Crying Woman

57:32 – Kilometer 31

1:15:43 – La Llorona (2019)

1:28:50 – Outro

If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid: https://mylegalaid.org/support-our-work/giving

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Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

Between canceled episodes, personal scheduling conflicts, and a secret project, we here at Genre Grinder have been very busy. But we don't want to shirk our spooky season music mix responsibilities, so, please, enjoy this special all Goblin experience. Every one of the songs and sound effects used to create this moody mix (with one exception) were produced by some iteration of Italy's great prog-rock horror pioneers, Goblin. No Simonetti solo music, Daemonia, or the Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante pairing.

Please enjoy, have a happy Halloween, and we'll see you again for a standard episode of Genre Grinder soon.

Here is the complete track mix:

• Ai margini della follia (ALT)/Zombi (The Living Dead's Voices Bonus Track) – Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) OST
• La caccia – Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) OST
• Patrick (ALT)/Vibrazoni – Patrick OST
• Snip Snap – Patrick OST (and Roller)
• Buio Omega (Titoli) – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST
• Memoria – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST
• Buio Omega (M32) – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST
• Withy – Contamination OST
• Connexion – Contamination OST
• The Carver – Contamination OST
• Wampyr (Finale) – Wampyr (Martin) Alternate Italian ST
• Sequence 2 – La via della droga (The Heroin Busters) OST
• School at Night (Celeste version)/Death Dies – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST
• Mad Puppet – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST
• Profondo Rosso – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST
• Mad Puppet – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST
• Roller – Roller
• Yell – Amo non amo (Together?) OST
• Witch – Suspiria OST
• Markos – Suspiria OST
• Suspiria – Suspiria OST
• The Gonk by Herbert Chappell

FORTIFY THE TORNADO SHELTER, STAY CLEAR OF THE WINDOWS & STOCK UP ON FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, IT'S DISASTER-O-CLOCK!

Do you hear earthquakes and lightning? Do you hear hurricanes blowing and fear the rivers overflowing? Well, don't we all – it's called climate change. The end is coming for us all. Why not spend what time you have left listening to Gabe and returning guest Justin Clark chat about the spectacular disaster movies that predicted our current predicament? Join us for a look back at new and classic catastrophic cacophonies, including John Guillermin's The Towering Inferno (1974), Shiro Moritani's Japan Sinks (aka: Submersion of Japan, 1973), Roger Donaldson's Dante's Peak (1997), Roland Emmerich's 2012 (2009), and Dean Devlin's Geostorm (2017).

00:00 – Intro

02:48 – The Towering Inferno

31:51 – Japan Sinks

54:10 – Dante's Peak

1:13:40 – 2012 (and other Roland Emmerich movies)

1:41:37 – Geostorm

1:52:53 – Outro & other recommendations

If you are in a position to make the world a better place, please consider the following fundraisers:

UNHCR Pakistan Flood Relief: https://tinyurl.com/2kkaac4p

Donations 4 Abortions (state by state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state

National Network of Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH! OUR BLOODSTREAMS ARE ANALOG DATA! OUR SKIN IS TEXTURED PLASTIC! OUR INTESTINES ARE RIBBONS OF MAGNETIC TAPE!!

Welcome back to SOV hell! Your hosts Gabe and Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned and Uptown Song Club have nine more movies to talk about, seven of which at least one of them was able to see. This includes a homemade homage to Italian horror, a surprisingly sophisticated slasher shot in Gabe's hometown, two J.R. Bookwalter films (one good, one not so good), and one genuine transgressive horror classic. Don't worry, though, this isn't our "good-bye" to SOV Horror, it's "see you later."

Part 2 includes:

• Paura il Diavolo (Darren Ward, 1992) †
• Evil Night (Todd Jason Cook, 1992)
• Humanoids from Atlantis (J.R. Bookwalter, 1992) ∆
• Death Magic (Paul Clinco, 1992) †∆
• Hellspawn (Mark & John Polonia, 1993)
• America's Deadliest Home Video (Jack Perez, 1993) ∆
• Red Spirit Lake (Charles Pinion, 1993) †∆
• Ozone (J.R. Bookwalter, 1994) †∆
• Jungle Trap (James Bryan, 2016) ∆

† Seen by Gabe∆ Seen by Patrick

If you want to catch up with the complete SOV Horror podcast collection, please check out Patrick and Gabe's original four-part podcast on SOV Horror, Patrick's SOV Horror Mixtape, and the first part of the Addendum wherever you listen to podcasts.

Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:Donations 4 Abortions (state-by-state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state

National Network of Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

YOU THOUGHT WE WERE DONE EXPLORING THE DEPTHS OF DO-IT-YOURSELF ANALOG HORROR? YOU FOOL!!Remember when Gabe and always special guest Patrick Ripoll spent almost eight hours talking about the weird, wonderful, and horrible world of Shot-on-Video (SOV) Horror? Well, there have been some developments since then. More of these movies have been dug up by boutique home video labels and maniacs on YouTube and now we have to make an addendum episode. Make that TWO addendum episodes, because there is still so much to discover. Or maybe not DISCover. Maybe we're TAPEscovering. Man, I'm funny.

Part 1 includes:

• Demon Queen (Donald Farmer, 1987) †∆
• Sexandroide (Michel Ricaud, 1987) †∆
• Conton (Japanese: Jûshin densetsu; Takuro Fukada, 1987) †
• Hollywood's New Blood (James Shyman, 1988) †
• Halloween Party (Dave Skowronski, 1989) ∆
• Dream Stalker (Christopher Mills, 1991) †∆
• The Butcher (Maik Ude, 1991) †
• Holy Moly (Lance Ozanix, 1991) †∆
• Vampire Trailer Park (Steve Latshaw, 1991)
• Neighbor Hoodz (Lemy Hassan & James Adam Tucker, 1991)
• Way Bad Stone (Archie Waugh, 1991)
• Death by Love (Alan Grant, 1991)
• Hellroller (Gary J. Levinson, 1992) †∆

† Seen by Gabe∆ Seen by Patrick

If you like what you're hearing and can't wait a couple of weeks for Part 2, please check out Patrick and Gabe's original four-part podcast on SOV Horror, as well as Patrick's SOV Horror Mixtape, wherever you listen to podcasts (Episode 18, Parts 1-4 and BONUS EPISODE: VCR Horrors).

Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:Donations 4 Abortions (state-by-state abortion funds): https://donations4abortion.com/funds-by-state

National Network of Abortion Funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

IT'S WRANGLERS VS. DINOSAURS, BUCKAROOS VS. WEREWOLVES, AND DISGRACED SOLDIERS VS. WESTWARD EXPANDING CANNIBALS!

Howdy, cowpoke, did you just hear a spooky coyote howl? Catch a glimpse of a ghostly cow, maybe? That's probably because Gabe and returning guest Luana Saitta are talking about westerns with a horror slant this month. Well, that was the idea, at least. We ended up covering classic dino "Weird Western," The Valley of Gwangi (directed by Jim O'Connolly, 1969), an arty frontier bodice ripper with a werewolf twist in Martin Donovan's Mad at the Moon (1992), one gen-u-ine western horror classic – Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999). Have you guys seen Ravenous? Because it's really good.

Note: I didn't notice that Luana's mic was a bit hot and that mine was echoing until I was in the process of editing. I tried to fix both issues to the best of my abilities. Please excuse our occasional crackle and echo.

00:00 – Intro

04:51 – The Valley of Gwangi

33:22 – Mad at the Moon

56:40 – Ravenous

1:30:09 – Final thoughts and outro

Listen to Luana and Travis Defend a Trash Movie: https://anchor.fm/trashmoviepod/episodes/The-Black-Cauldron-1985-e1iuube

Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:

Equality Texas (trans youth resources): https://www.equalitytexas.org/

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund: https://www.transgenderlegal.org/

New Voices for Reproductive Justice: https://newvoicesrj.org/about-us/

DON A BIG, BLINKY SCI-FI HELMET, DIVE INTO THE NEAREST SENSORY DEPRIVATION TANK, AND GIRD YOURSELF FOR A TRIPLE-FEATURE EXPERIENCE THAT WILL BEND THE MIND AND REALITY WITH IT!

What if you could change your physical form with the power of your mind? What if you knew a guy that could alter reality with his dreams? What if you could record your life and death to a virtual reality cassette tape? Worry not, dear friends, because, this month, Gabe and returning guest Jim Laczkowski of the Director's Club Podcast watched three movies that will answer these and many more questions – Ken Russell's Altered States (1980), David Loxton & Fred Barzy's Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Douglas Trumbull's Brainstorm (1983). Then Gabe found a cool sounding phrase to describe the whole thing: Existential State Manipulation. It only ended up applying to two of the movies, but just go with it, alright? Cool.

00:00 – Intro

06:32 – Altered States

43:03 – Lathe of Heaven

1:12:52 – Brainstorm

1:41:07 – Outro

Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:

Equality Texas (trans youth resources): https://www.equalitytexas.org/

North Texas Giving Day Trans Kids and Families: https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/transkidsandfamiliesoftexas

Alight (Afghan refugee fund for the MPLS/SP area): https://wearealight1857.ac-page.com/alight-welcome-home-landing-pg

International Rescue Committee Ukraine Crisis Action: https://www.rescue.org/article/ukraine-russia-crisis-what-happening

SURE, YOU'VE SEEN THE SHINING AND PET SEMATARY, BUT HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF THE DOLLAR BABIES? THAT FAMOUS FAILED BROADWAY SHOW? THAT MOTION COMIC SPONSORED BY A MOBILE COMPANY?

It would be futile to think anyone would come to us at Genre Grinder for a Stephen King episode, especially considering how many fantastic podcasts are already devoted exclusively to the author's work, but what about those oddball adaptations that didn't get an international theatrical release? Join Gabe and returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of Your Favorite Monsters podcast as they take a look at four truly unique King adaptations, including John Woodward's Disciples of the Crow (one of the earliest of King's Dollar Babies, 1985), Michael Gore/Dean Pitchford's Carrie: The Musical (or at least a combination of filmed versions), a 25-episode motion comic micro-series based on Stephen King's N. (2008), and Anurag Kashyap's surrealistic, Bollywood black comedy No Smoking (2007).

00:00 – Intro

06:31 – Disciples of the Crow (and other Dollar Babies)

30:27 – Carrie: The Musical

1:12:05 – Stephen King's N.

1:33:31 – No Smoking

1:53:09 – Outro

Check out Shawn S. Lealos' book Dollar Deal: The Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers.

Please consider donating to the following charities/fundraisers if you have any spare cash:

Equality Texas (trans youth resources): https://www.equalitytexas.org/

Alight (Afghan refugee fund for the MPLS/SP area): https://wearealight1857.ac-page.com/alight-welcome-home-landing-pg

International Rescue Committee Ukraine Crisis Action: https://www.rescue.org/article/ukraine-russia-crisis-what-happening