Genre Grinder

TIGHTEN YOUR STRAITJACKETS AND SNUGGLE UP IN YOUR FAVORITE RUBBER ROOM, IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT PSCARY PSYCHIATRIC PHACILITIES!

Mental health can be scary, but do you know what's even scarier? The archaic asylums of the bygone era, where we used to lock up the mentally ill. Gabe and returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of the Your Favorite Monsters podcast take a look at four tales of cursed mental health institutions, including Mark Robson's Bedlam (1946), Juan López Moctezuma's The Mansion of Madness (1973), Brad Anderson's Stonehearst Asylum (2014), and Jung Bum-shik's Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

• 00:00 – Intro

• 07:27 – Bedlam

• 30:13 – The Mansion of Madness

• 53:31 – Stonehearst Asylum (and Shutter Island)

• 1:16:23 – Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

• 1:43:18 – Final thoughts/outro

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ALIEN INVADERS, MIND-ALTERING SPACE SLUGS & BLACK MAGIC MADMEN ARE COMING TO STEAL YOUR CORPOREAL FORM & USE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!

Welcome back for a more typical episode of Genre Grinder. Gabe's finally done talking about SOV horror movies and is joined by Now Playing Network & Director's Club co-host Jim Laczkowski to take a long, very nearly complete look at Body Snatcher Movies. Specifically, science fiction – or at least sci-fi adjacent – movies that feature usually alien, sometimes human, and almost always malevolent entities that possess human bodies, stealing identities, and/or creating automaton doppelgängers (pod people, robots, zombies, et cetera).

Given the scope of the discussion this time around, the discussion has been loosely broken down into an introduction and four categories (note that we cover more than the movies listed and the time spent on each movie varies):

• 00:00 – Intro: Invaders from Mars (1953), literature & television

• 14:08 – Part 1, The Official Invasion of the Body Snatchers Canon: Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers (1993), and Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Invasion (2007).

• 54:02 – Part 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers Successors and the Unofficial Representatives of Each Decade: John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), Larry Cohen's The Stuff (1985), Robert Rodriguez' The Faculty (1998), Edgar Wright's The World's End (2013), and Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017).

• 1:16:12 – Part 3, Alien Slug Parasite Movies: Bruno VeSota's The Brain Eaters (1958), Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps (1986), Stuart Orme's The Puppet Masters (1994), Lawrence Kasdan's Dreamcatcher (2003), and James Gunn's Slither (2006), including Gene Fowler Jr.'s I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).

• 1:47:43 – Part 4, Unique Variants and Final Thoughts: Hajime Sato's Goke the Body Snatcher from Hell (1968), Gary Sherman's Dead and Buried (1981), and everything else.

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ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END AS MUST ALL BAD THINGS AND ALL THINGS RECORDED ON OBSOLETE HOME VIDEO MEDIA!

Welcome to the home stretch! After dozens of movies and six hours of podcasting, we've come to the end of Genre Grinder's shot-on-video horror retrospective. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, yet again, did most of the research) drag and claw their way through a final 16 SOV oddities; nine of which one or both of them were able to watch, including Mark Shepard's Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990), Carl Denham's Shreck (1990), and J.R. Bookwalter's Kingdom of the Vampire (1991). The list is shorter this time, but we both had a lot to say about some of these movies, especially Carl J. Sukenick's mind-bending Alien Beasts (1991), Olaf Ittenbach's gut-wrenching The Burning Moon (1992), and Scooter McCrae's genuinely great The Shatter Dead (1994).

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Again, people have asked for a list of the films covered in the description, so here you go. All of the movies that at least one of us has seen are marked with a †, while the others are discussed based on available information/reviews:

• Bimbos B.C. (1990)

• Attack of the Hideopoid (1990)

• Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990) †

• Gorgasm (1990)

• Shreck (1990) †

• Crystal Force (1990)

• Attack of the Killer Refrigerator (1990) †

• Honeymoon Murders (1990)

• Kingdom of the Vampire (1991) †

• Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence (1991) †

• Alien Beasts (1991) †

• The Burning Moon (1992) †

• Scary Tales (1993) †

• Savage Vengeance (1993)

• Vampires and Other Stereotypes (1994)

• Shatter Dead (1994) †

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Welcome to an extra special BONUS EPISODE of Genre Grinder. What you are about to hear is a digital mixtape compiled and mixed by Tracks of the Damned creator Patrick Ripoll. It includes themes, complete songs, and various clips from the films we've been discussing throughout Genre Grinder's shot-on-video horror series. Be aware that, in most cases, Patrick or myself had to rip the audio from the films themselves, so the sound quality will be uneven to say the least. Then again, that's kind of the point isn't. So, sit back, relax, and let the SOV horror vibes take you away.

Complete track listing:

1a. WREX Station Identification

1b. 20/20 Report: "VCR Horrors"

1c. Sledgehammer (1983) opening credits

2. Tales From the Quaddead Zone (1987) score

3. Shreck (1990) score

4. "Angel Fire" from Demon Queen (1987)

5a. Body Count (1986) trailer

5b. Heavy Metal Massacre (1989) opening credits

5c. "Carl Sukenick narration" from Alien Beasts (1991)

6. Spine (1986) score

7. "Animal/Cannibal" from Possibly in Michigan (1983)

8. Terror Eyes (1989) opening credits

9. The Ripper (1985) trailer

10. "Book of Love" from Brainblast (1987)

11. Video Violence (1987) opening credits

12. Witchdoctor of the Living Dead (1986) score

13. "Rock n Roll Music" from Blood Lake (1987)

14. Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984) opening credits

15. The Tower (1985) score

16. Attack of the Killer Refrigerator (1990) score

17. "Scream Dream" from Scream Dream (1989)

18. Blood Cult (1985) trailer

19. Hollow Gate (1988) end credits

20. "Beat My Meat" from Trashcans of Terror (1985)

21. "The Brainsucker" from The Brainsucker (1988)

22a. Attack scene from Black River Monster (1986)

22b. "Hearts" from Night Ripper! (1986)

23. Video Violence (1987) score

24. "Suffer Little Children" from Suffer Little Children (1983)

25a. Dip Monologue from Redneck Zombies (1989)

25b. Redneck Zombies (1989) End Credits

26. Revenge (1986) trailer

27. Night Feeder (1988) end credits

28. Scary Tales (1993) score

29. Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990) score

30. "If" from Cannibal Campout (1988)

31. Sledgehammer (1983) end credits

LISTEN IN TERROR AS WE CONTINUE TO BE STRANGLED BY THE GNARLED, RIPPLING TENTACLES OF DEAD ANALOG MEDIA!

Part three of our epic (seemingly never-ending) FOUR-PART look back on the insane world of shot-on-video horror movies from the pre-digital era. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, again, did most of the research) trudge through an additional 32 movies, 12 of which one or both of them were able to watch, including D3's Death Row Diner (1988), Wally Koz' 555 (1988), Herb Robins' The Brainsucker (1988), Jim Whiteaker's Night Feeder (1988), Dean Alioto's The McPherson Tape (1989), and Eric Parkinson, Michael Rissi & Steve Sommers' Terror Eyes (1989).

Again, people have asked for a list of the films covered in the description, so here you go. All of the movies that at least one of us has seen are marked with a †, while the others are discussed based on available information/reviews:

• Death Row Diner (1988) †

• The Hackers (1988)

• Hollow Gate (1988)

• Hollywood's New Blood (1988)

• Shadows of Blood (1988)

• Twisted Issues (1989)

• Woodchipper Massacre (1988)

• Mama's Home (1988)

• Cannibal Campout (1988) †

• 555 (1988) †

• Phantom Brother (1988) †

• Almohadón de Plumas (1988)

• Night Feeder (1988) †

• Dinastía sangrienta (1988)

• Blind Faith (1989)

• Witchfinder (1989)

• Black Past (1989) †

• Fatal Images (1989) †

• Las Vegas Bloodbath (1989)

• Satan's Storybook (1989)

• Scream Dream (1989)

• Sleepover Massacre (1989)

• The McPherson Tape (1989) †

• Violent Shit (1989) †

• Zombie Rampage (1989)

• Redneck Zombies (1989) †

• Pieces of Darkness (1989)

• Houseboat Horror (1989)

• The Nutzoids at Cannibal Cove (1989)

• Heavy Metal Massacre (1989) †

• Terror Eyes (1989) †

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ENJOY EVEN MORE TALES OF THE TAPE AS WE DELVE FURTHER INTO THE INSANE DEPTHS OF THE MOST NEOPHYTIC MOVIES EVER TO GRACE A VIDEO RENTAL STORE!

Bring on part two of three! Wait, of three? That can't be right. Oh, yeah, this is a four-part epic now. Gabe and special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who did most of the research) break down 21 more shot-on video horror movies; nine of which one or both of them have been able to actually see, including 'classics,' like the Polonia Brothers' Hallucinations (1986) & Splatter Farm (1987), Jeff Hathcock's Night Ripper! (1986), Chester Novell Turner's Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987), and Gary P. Cohen's genuine cult classic, Video Violence (1987).

Some people have asked for a list of the films covered in the description (which I failed to do last time), so here you go. All of the movies we were able to watch are now marked with a †, while the others are discussed, based on available information/reviews:

• Hallucinations (1986) †

• Night of Terror (1986)

• Spine (1986) †

• Splatter: Architects of Fear (1986)

• Black River Monster (1986)

• Night Ripper! (1986) †

• Blood Lake (1987) †

• Brainblast (1987) †

• Video Violence (1987) †

• Cannibal Hookers (1987)

• Channel 13 (1987)

• Cemetery Sisters (1987)

• Criminally Insane 2/Fat Ethel II (1987)

• Crowley (1987)

• Demon Queen (1987)

• Doctor Bloodbath (1987) †

• Death Nurse (1987)

• Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987) †

• The Newlydeads (1987)

• Venus Flytrap (1987)

• Splatter Farm (1987) †

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TAKE A TRIP BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF WTF DIY HOME VIDEO HORROR! I REALLY WISH I HADN'T USED UP MY 'ADJUST YOUR TRACKING' REFERENCE ON THE FOUND-FOOTAGE HORROR DESCRIPTION!

Strap in for part one of a three-part look back at an era when three teenagers with a camcorder could shoot a horror movie without a script and sell it to video rental stores across the country. Gabe and special guest/co-host Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned do their best to parse the mind-melting world of shot-on-video (SOV) horror movies. Their total list came dangerously close to 100 titles and, while they were only able to watch around half of those between them, Patrick did enough research to at least describe some of the unobtainable obscurities we weren't able to stream, buy, or even pirate. Part one includes 21 movies, 11 of which we cover in-depth. Part two will be available early next month and part three (hopefully) two weeks after that.

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DIG THE OLD CAMCORDER OUTTA STORAGE, DIM THE LIGHTS, AND RELIVE YOUR FAVORITE FRIGHTENING HOME MOVIES! REMEMBER TO ADJUST YOUR TRACKING!

We all know that found footage and mockumentary horror is the scourge of straight-to-streaming media these days, but there are some good movies out there, assuming you're willing to endure a lot of very bad ones. Returning guest Betsy Jorgensen has taken it upon herself to cull through hundreds, nay, thousands of found footage horror movies. She has separated the gems from the muck using the finest fine-toothed comb and is here to talk about the best of the best. Or at least three of them – André Øvredal's Trollhunter (2010), Joel Anderson's Lake Mungo (2008), and Stephen Cognetti's Hell House LLC (2015).

Your humble host, Gabe Powers, does his best to find what we might consider the first found footage horror film, we try to parse the difference between "found footage'' and "mockumentary," and both of us pepper additional recommendations throughout the entire podcast.

00:00 – Intro/earliest examples of found footage & mockumentary horror

19:54 – Trollhunter

39:06 – Lake Mungo

1:02:56 – Hell House LLC

1:21:06 – Other recommendations, dream films, and outro

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Movies based on video games. Absolutely nobody enjoys them, right? Well, they wouldn't keep making them if someone wasn't watching them. Who is that someone? It's actually two someones, your humble podcast host Gabe and his friend, video game player, chronicler, critic, and all-around enthusiast, Justin Clark. Join them on their co-op mode adventure through four classic and, erm, not-so-classic motion pictures – James Yukich's Double Dragon (1994), Paul W.S. Anderson's Mortal Kombat (1995), Christophe Gans' Silent Hill (2005), and Takashi Miike's Ace Attorney (2012). We also take some side-quests to talk about other early movies, Anderson and Uwe Boll's dominance in the field, and wonder which games would make good movies in the future (and vice versa). As always, remember: don't blow air into your cartridges; instead, clean them by gently swabbing the area with alcohol.