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The show goes Cropsey-Turvy this week with two films based on the New York urban legend of Cropsey: First up is THE BURNING (1981) featuring early career performances by Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter. Then MADMAN (1981) gives us the legend of Madman Marz, as well as one sweet, sweet theme song.

Pack your sleeping bags and don’t stand with your back to a window because it’s time for Sean S. Cunningham & Victor Miller’s FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) to prove that a movie capitalizing on a trend can become a trendsetter in its own right.

We then look at how FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981), directed by Steve Miner, altered the trajectory of the franchise and overall trend.

Our post-apocalyptic summer climaxes with Kevin Costner’s THE POSTMAN, a movie that plays with and goes beyond the conventions of the genre in a wonderfully bizarre way.

Does Costner perform Shakespeare with a mule? Yes. 

Are there clips from Universal Soldier and The Sound of Music in the film? You bet your bippy. 

Was it unfairly maligned and gave us the feels anyway? Tune in to find out! (But also, yes.)

Join us as we enter a world where the polar ice caps have melted and studio film budgets have no meaning. That’s right, we’re not done with the post-apocalypse yet. It’s time for WATERWORLD, the fourth collaboration between star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds.

Special Guest Max Evry (A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY: DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE. AN ORAL HISTORY.) helps us dissect this much maligned action film. Will we decide to trade it for a few ripped out sheets from an old National Geographic? Or do we discover faith in the myth of dry land and set sail?

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Justin Beahm stops by for our final Mad Max episode to discuss two films with female protagonists: CHERRY 2000 (1987) starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews and TANK GIRL (1995) directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, and Ice-T.

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Strap in for a wild one as we enter the mind of writer/director Donald G. Jackson for two films that include: roller-skating nuns, frog people, a male chastity belt rigged with explosives, and horny puppets. That’s right, it’s time for ROLLER BLADE (1986) and HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) starring Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman.

Special Guest Dirk Marshall of the VH US podcast joins us as we stand on our heads for two post-apocalyptic westerns featuring Brion James. First up is STEEL DAWN (1987) starring Patrick Swayze in a Shane-influenced search for water. Then we switch gears to STEEL FRONTIER (1995) as mysterious gunslinger Johnny Yuma battles the Death Riders.

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It’s time to go B-A-N-A-N-A-S, BANANAS...for post-apocalyptic sports week! Johnny Halladay, Karen Allen, and Jürgen Prochnow play the most dangerous game…no, not that one. It’s driving a truck powered by AI across the TERMINUS (1987). Then we slam dog skulls onto spikes with the Juggers in David Webb People’s THE BLOOD OF HEROES (1989), a.k.a. THE SALUTE OF THE JUGGER starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo, and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Austin Trunick, the author of THE CANNON FILM GUIDE, helps Chris scan a Cannon Films double feature that totally nukes the post-apocalyptic genre: AMERICA 3000 (1986) with Chuck Wagner and Laurene Landon, as well as Albert Pyun’s CYBORG (1989) starring the “Muscles From Brussels,” Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Meanwhile, Rob is lost in the vortex of tomorrow…

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This week, we set the Wayback machine to “1983” and continue discussing the Italian wave of post-Mad Max films. 

First up, we race against the Eurac Monarchy to find a fertile woman in Sergio Martino’s 2019, AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK, starring Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis, and George Eastman. 

Then we penetrate the Wall of Illusion with the Rider in WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD, starring Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasance, and Fred Williamson. 

We finish up protecting our water from Alien in EXTERMINATORS OF THE YEAR 3000.