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Grindhouse Institute

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Grindhouse Institute episodes

  • Ep 79 - History of the Worlds feat. Dani Abraham

    History of the World: Part I (1981), & Spaceballs (1987)

    ALL MOVIES SPOILED

    In this film block, Dani Abraham, takes Jeremy and Brian on a journey through space and time to some of Mel Brooks’ finest films from the 80’s.


    Check out Dani’s movie:

    • Murder, Anyone?

    • Follow Dani here:

      • Instagram

      • Where to watch:

        • Be Kind Video (Burbank)
        • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
        • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
        • History of the World: Part I (Blu-Ray)
        • Spaceballs (4K Blu-Ray)

        • Other films referenced:

          • Young Frankenstein
          • Casper (1995)
          • 2001: A Space Odyssey
          • Ben-Hur (1959)
          • Spartacus (1960)
          • The Ten Commandments (1956)
          • Blazing Saddles
          • Dark Star
          • Star Wars
          • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
          • Hocus Pocus 2
          • Disenchanted
          • Top Gun: Maverick
          • Alien (1979)
          • The Elephant Man
          • First Blood
          • The Serpent and the Rainbow
          • Ruthless People
          • Murder, Anyone?
          • 1 hr 2 min
          • Ep 78 - Toronto Thrillers feat. Jesse Hawken

            Dead Ringers (1988), Exotica (1994), & Stone Cold Dead (1979)

            ALL MOVIES SPOILED

            In this film block, Canadian film whisperer, Jesse Hawken, takes Jeremy and Brian deep into the seedier part of Toronto where they’ll see sights like Yonge Street, Dundas Street and a Steak n’ Burger.


            Follow Jesse here:

            • Twitter
            • Instagram
            • Junk Filter Podcast

            • Where to watch:

              • Be Kind Video (Burbank)
              • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
              • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
              • Stone Cold Dead (Blu-Ray)
              • Dead Ringers (Blu-Ray)
              • Exotica (Blu-Ray)

              • Other films referenced:

                • Blade Runner
                • The Silent Partner
                • Stone Cold
                • Dirty Harry
                • Peeping Tom
                • Taxi Driver
                • The Batman
                • Back to the Future
                • Phantom of the Paradise
                • The Muppet Movie
                • Groundhog Day
                • The Last Waltz
                • Scanners
                • Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
                • The Kidnapping of the President
                • Enter the Dragon
                • Disorderlies
                • 52 Pick-Up
                • Small Town Girls (1979)
                • Mighty Aphrodite
                • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
                • The Fly (1986)
                • Shivers (1975)
                • Rabid (1977)
                • Reversal of Fortune (1990)
                • Annie Hall
                • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
                • Beetlejuice
                • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
                • Zodiac
                • The Thin Red Line
                • Malarek
                • Incendies
                • Enemy (2013)
                • 1 hr 24 min
                • BONUS - Everything Everywhere All at Once feat. Michelle Chung

                  Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

                  ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                  In this bonus episode, Michelle Chung, the lead makeup artist on Everything Everywhere All at Once, takes Jeremy and Brian on a behind the scenes tour to see how the sausage fingers were made.


                  Follow Michelle here:

                  https://www.instagram.com/michellechung13

                  https://www.instagram.com/michellechungmakeup


                  Articles about Michelle:

                  https://vogue.sg/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-make-up/

                  https://variety.com/lists/varietys-10-artisans-to-watch-2022-scad-savannah-film-festival/michelle-chung/


                  Where to watch:

                  • Be Kind Video (Burbank) 
                  • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena) 
                  • Cinefile (Santa Monica) 
                  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Blu-Ray)

                  • Other films referenced:

                    • Gung Ho (1986)
                    • Perfect (1985)
                    • The Bad Batch (2016)
                    • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
                    • Hatchet (2006)
                    • Stand by Me
                    • A Clockwork Orange
                    • In the Mood for Love
                    • Contagion
                    • Monster (2003)
                    • Big Trouble in Little China

                    • 1 hr 2 min
                    • Ep 77 - Everything Everywhere All at Once feat. Adam Feuerberg

                      Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

                      ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                      In this Midnight Movie, Adam Feuerberg does some weird stuff to activate his jump pad and take Jeremy and Brian deep into the multiverse in search of a bagel with everything on it, and maybe some cream cheese, depending on if the universe still has cattle or not.


                      Adam’s stand-up special:

                      • King of the Jews

                      • Follow Adam here:

                        • https://www.adamfeuerberg.com
                        • Twitter
                        • Instagram
                        • Facebook

                        • Where to watch:

                          • Be Kind Video (Burbank)
                          • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                          • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                          • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Blu-Ray)

                          • Other films referenced:

                            • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
                            • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
                            • Dr. Strangelove
                            • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
                            • The Goonies
                            • Police Story 3: Super Cop
                            • Big
                            • Ratatouille
                            • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
                            • Birdman
                            • Kill Bill: Vol. 2
                            • Edge of Tomorrow
                            • In the Mood for Love
                            • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

                            • 54 min
                            • Ep 76 - The Future is 2022 feat. Andrew Aiello

                              Soylent Green (1973), The Purge (2013), & No Escape (1994)

                              ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                              In this film block, cinematographer, Andrew Aiello, leads Jeremy and Brian into our dystopian future waiting for us in the year 2022.


                              Follow Drew here:

                              • https://www.drewaiello.com
                              • https://www.instagram.com/drewaiello_dp

                              • Where to watch:

                                • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                                • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                                • Be Kind Video (Burbank)
                                • Soylent Green (Blu-Ray)
                                • No Escape (Blu-Ray)
                                • The Purge (Blu-Ray)

                                • Other films referenced:

                                  • Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits
                                  • The Usual Suspects
                                  • World on a Wire
                                  • The Parallax View
                                  • A Clockwork Orange
                                  • The Omega Man
                                  • The Dirty Dozen
                                  • Papillon (1973)
                                  • Planet of the Apes
                                  • Waterworld
                                  • GoldenEye
                                  • Casino Royale (2006)
                                  • The Foreigner (2017)
                                  • Pulp Fiction
                                  • Forrest Gump
                                  • The Shawshank Redemption
                                  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
                                  • Battlefield Earth
                                  • Dune (2000)
                                  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
                                  • Aliens
                                  • The Matrix
                                  • Barton Fink
                                  • The Tree of Life
                                  • Ghostbusters (1984)
                                  • Toy Story
                                  • The ’Burbs
                                  • Night of the Living Dead
                                  • Johnny Mnemonic
                                  • Total Recall (1990)
                                  • Poltergeist (1982)
                                  • Scream (1996)
                                  • Deuce Bigalow
                                  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
                                  • Igby Goes Down
                                  • Brazil (1985)

                                  • 1 hr 19 min
                                  • Ep 75 - Val Lewton Horror feat. Eileen Jones from Filmsuck

                                    Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), & The Body Snatcher (1945)

                                    ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                    In this film block, film critic, Eileen Jones, leads Jeremy and Brian into the friendly dark of the horror cinema of Val Lewton.


                                    Follow Eileen here:

                                    • Twitter
                                    • Instagram
                                    • Facebook
                                    • Filmsuck Podcast
                                    • Film Criticism
                                    • Filmsuck USA by Eileen Jones

                                    • Where to watch:

                                      • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                                      • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                                      • Be Kind Video (Burbank)
                                      • Cat People (Blu-Ray)
                                      • I Walked with a Zombie (DVD)
                                      • The Body Snatcher (Blu-Ray)

                                      • Other films referenced:

                                        • Frankenstein
                                        • Dracula
                                        • The Bride of Frankenstein 
                                        • Ed Wood
                                        • Anchorman
                                        • The Curse of the Cat People
                                        • Gone with the Wind
                                        • The Bad and the Beautiful
                                        • The 7th Victim
                                        • Valley of the Dolls
                                        • Citizen Kane
                                        • White Zombie
                                        • Day of the Dead (1985)
                                        • Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
                                        • Black Swan
                                        • The Wrestler
                                        • The Magnificent Ambersons
                                        • The Leopard Man
                                        • Isle of the Dead
                                        • Cat People (1982)
                                        • 1 hr 19 min
                                        • Ep 74 - Call Me Snake feat. Ryan Hitchcock

                                          Escape from New York (1981), Escape from L.A. (1996), & Lockout (2012)

                                          ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                          In this film block, Ryan Hitchcock puts on a sneer and an eyepatch and leads Jeremy and Brian behind the walls of an island prison with a mission to recover a MacGuffin and a president, all before the time-bomb goes off in his neck. A movie so nice, they remade it twice…unofficially.


                                          Pack Theater:

                                          https://www.packtheater.com


                                          Follow Ryan here:

                                          • Letterboxd
                                          • Twitter
                                          • Instagram

                                          • Where to watch:

                                            • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                                            • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                                            • Be Kind Video (Burbank)
                                            • Escape from New York (Blu-Ray)
                                            • Escape from L.A. (Blu-Ray)
                                            • Lockout (Blu-Ray)

                                            • Other films referenced:

                                              • Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
                                              • Godzilla (1954)
                                              • Batman (1966)
                                              • Big Trouble in Little China
                                              • The Thing (1982)
                                              • Overboard
                                              • Captain Ron
                                              • The Fog (1980)
                                              • Starship Troopers
                                              • RoboCop (1987)
                                              • Easy Rider
                                              • Back to the Future
                                              • They Live
                                              • Sanjuro
                                              • Yojimbo
                                              • Shaft (1971)
                                              • Straight Time
                                              • Captain Voyeur
                                              • The Warriors
                                              • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
                                              • Mad Max: Fury Road
                                              • Lawrence of Arabia 
                                              • Taken (2008)
                                              • Snatch
                                              • 1 hr 18 min
                                              • Ep 73 - Horror Anthology 301

                                                Tales from the Hood (1995), Creepshow 2 (1986), & Tales of Terror (1962)

                                                ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                                In this episode, Jeremy and Brian are visited by the Ghoul of the Grindhouse and taken on a tantalizing tour of tinsel town’s terse terrifying talkies! Mahahahaha!

                                                Where to watch:

                                                • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena) 
                                                • Cinefile (Santa Monica) 
                                                • Tales of Terror (Blu-Ray)
                                                • Creepshow 2 (Blu-Ray)
                                                • Tales from the Hood (Blu-Ray)
                                                • Other films referenced:

                                                  • The Raven (1963)
                                                  • The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
                                                  • Tales from the Crypt (1972)
                                                  • Psycho (1960)
                                                  • Creepshow
                                                  • Amadeus
                                                  • Spaceballs
                                                  • Two Evil Eyes
                                                  • Boxcar Bertha
                                                  • Who’s That Knocking at My Door
                                                  • Tales from the Darkside
                                                  • Martin
                                                  • Knightriders
                                                  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
                                                  • Day of the Dead (1985)
                                                  • The Princess Bride
                                                  • Donovan’s Reef
                                                  • Road to Bali
                                                  • The Hurricane (1937)
                                                  • The Evil Dead
                                                  • Maximum Overdrive
                                                  • Storm of the Century
                                                  • The Gift (2000)
                                                  • Pulp Fiction
                                                  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
                                                  • Nightmares & Dreamscapes
                                                  • Do the Right Thing
                                                  • Army of Darkness
                                                  • The Omega Man
                                                  • The Parallax View
                                                  • 12 Monkeys
                                                  • Legend (1985)
                                                  • Batman (1989)
                                                  • 1 hr 38 min
                                                  • Ep 72 - Vamps feat. Adam Feuerberg

                                                    Lifeforce (1985), Vamp (1986), & Innocent Blood (1992)

                                                    ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                                    In this film block, Adam Feuerberg takes Jeremy and Brian through a feast of female-led vampire films from the 80’s and 90’s. Gory bites. Red eyes. And a barrel of laughs.

                                                    Follow Adam Feuerberg here:

                                                    • https://www.adamfeuerberg.com
                                                    • Twitter
                                                    • Instagram
                                                    • Facebook

                                                    • Where to watch:

                                                      • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena) https://www.vidtheque.com
                                                      • Cinefile (Santa Monica) https://www.cinefilevideo.com
                                                      • Lifeforce (Blu-Ray)
                                                      • Vamp (Blu-Ray)
                                                      • Innocent Blood (Blu-Ray)

                                                      • Other films referenced:

                                                        • Nosferatu 
                                                        • Loie Fuller 
                                                        • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
                                                        • Bram Stoker’s Dracula
                                                        • Poltergeist (1982)
                                                        • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
                                                        • Alien
                                                        • Big Trouble in Little China
                                                        • The Thing (1982)
                                                        • Halloween III
                                                        • 2001: A Space Odyssey
                                                        • Ed Gein
                                                        • The Stunt Man
                                                        • Helter Skelter (1976)
                                                        • Masters of the Universe
                                                        • Over the Top (1987)
                                                        • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
                                                        • Dr. Strangelove
                                                        • Carrie (1976)
                                                        • The Last Man on Earth
                                                        • Night of the Creeps
                                                        • After Hours
                                                        • From Dusk Till Dawn
                                                        • Pulp Fiction
                                                        • Psycho (1960)
                                                        • A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2
                                                        • Weird Science (1985)
                                                        • The Fifth Element
                                                        • Out of Sight
                                                        • Creepshow
                                                        • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
                                                        • Near Dark
                                                        • The Breakfast Club
                                                        • Sixteen Candles
                                                        • What’s Love Got to Do with It
                                                        • Bullets Over Broadway
                                                        • 55 min
                                                        • Ep 71 - Killer TV feat. Lauren Scharf

                                                          Poltergeist (1982), Videodrome (1983), & Stay Tuned (1992)

                                                          ALL MOVIES SPOILED

                                                          In this film block, Lauren Scharf joins Jeremy and Brian in the living room to spend some quality time around the TV. What could go wrong? And you’ll finally learn what “TV” actually stands for.

                                                          Follow Lauren here:

                                                          • Twitter
                                                          • Instagram
                                                          • TikTok 
                                                          • YouTube 

                                                          • Where to watch:

                                                            • Vidéothèque (South Pasadena)
                                                            • Cinefile (Santa Monica)
                                                            • Poltergeist (Blu-Ray)
                                                            • Videodrome (Blu-Ray)
                                                            • Stay Tuned (Blu-Ray)

                                                            • Other films referenced:

                                                              • Halloween III
                                                              • Evil Dead II
                                                              • Raiders of the Lost Ark
                                                              • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
                                                              • The Burbs
                                                              • ET
                                                              • Lifeforce
                                                              • Predator
                                                              • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
                                                              • Ghostbusters II
                                                              • The Return of the Living Dead
                                                              • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
                                                              • Tales from the Darkside
                                                              • Hercules (1997)
                                                              • The Ring (2002)
                                                              • Ringu
                                                              • John Adams
                                                              • House Party
                                                              • Monsters, Inc.
                                                              • Wayne’s World
                                                              • Beetlejuice
                                                              • Driving Miss Daisy
                                                              • Poltergeist II
                                                              • Trading Places
                                                              • Poltergeist (2015)
                                                              • Annabelle
                                                              • 1 hr 7 min

                                                              About Grindhouse Institute

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                                                              A cinema geek podcast by Jeremy Floyd and Brian Foster. Each episode we program a triple feature movie night and explore how the films connect.