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Martial Movie Massacre returns for the first part of its 10th episode anniversary. For three years we have presented a tradition of looking at the dramatic fiction medium - movies and sometimes TV - to discuss what we like and dislike about its martial art content. Having spent two years and six episodes going through tropes and cliches in this subgenre, this year I have asked several of my guests to offer their recommendations on not only underrated martial arts movies but also non-martial arts movies that martial artists should watch. Now, it is my turn. Here are my first five selection of 10 movies that meet this criteria. 

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Chapter Three concludes this year's Halloween show with a discussion on the impact created by irrational fears and the real problems at the root of those individuals who commit crimes in the name of antagonistic dieties. We then discuss how fear of witches, teenage violence and
 the development of occult magical practices can provide us with lessons in short-term self-protection, long-term self-protection and martial arts history.

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Chapter Two of our annual Halloween show continues on from the tragic teenage crime of the previous episode and looks further back into history.  Here we go through the philosophical and counter-cultural roots for the hysteria that became the Satanic Panic. Martial arts historians might start to note interesting parallels for the origin of invented traditions whilst self-protection teachers and students will see how bad assumptions can be dangerous in the hands of the learned. 

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Year four of our Halloween tradition takes a look at lessons to be learned from crimes associated with the occult and crimes caused by fear of the occult. There is much to unpack in relation to both self-protection and martial arts. 

Chapter One looks at the bored and wayward teenager Ricky Kasso from Northport, Long Island, who became addicted to drugs, praised Satan and committed murder. 

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My apologies for the disruption but Martial Movie Massacre 10 will now be put back in favour of the annual Halloween edition of this podcast. Thank you for your patience. 

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This episode we continue our annual “Martial Movie Massacre” event with contributions from these really excellent people. There’s Kris Wilder of the Back Channel and Martial Arts & Life podcasts, Mary Stevens founder of the Athena School of Karate and author of the Warrior Monkeys books, fabulous newcomer to the show, Vijay Pathak of Forest School of Karate, new guest but regular contributor to the questions section of the show, Daragh Breahnach of Navan Wing Tsun, Peter Jones founder of Kajuen Ryu Ju Jutus and author of  “Ninja Nurse” returns with another reality check on martial movie injuries, Les Bubka of the Anxious Black Belt podcast and author of the book of the same name, and finally regular questions contributor and founder of Kuroten Karate, Tracey Radley.  

Put down the gloves and pick up the popcorn for: “Son of Martial Movie Massacre”. 

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The annual Martial Movie Massacre event continues with this spotlight on 1980s US martial arts movies, the films that shaped the landscape for what I watched during my early training days.  Using 1988 as our spotlight year and a stand alone comic-strip, we will look into the major changes that took place in the low budget world of US martial arts movies and the four icons that shaped the following decade. 

The 1970s martial arts movie scene had been largely dominated by the Kung Fu genre, mainly imported from Hong Kong. Enter the Dragon, released in 1973, was the first Hollywood Asian martial arts movie and should have paved the way, but instead a huge void was left by the tragic death of Bruce Lee. It was only in the late '70s that some independent film-makers in the west believed they could change the face of western action movies by infusing them with a richer variety of fight choreography.  

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The annual Martial Movie Massacre event takes a shift in direction away from cliches and tropes. This time our guest martial arts teachers discuss under-rated martial arts movies and non-martial arts movies they recocommend to martial artists. 

"Revenge of Martial Movie Massacre" features an interview with Hinnerup Karate's Jan Drachman, "Finding the Truth" podcast's Ben Myers and Andrea Harkins of "The Martial Arts Woman" website, podcast and book fame. There are also cameos from Mary Stevens of "Athena Karate" and Kris Wilder of "The Back Channel" podcast. 

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On this show I finally get a chance to invite my long-time friend, pragmatic karate pioneer and progressive traditionalists, Iain Abernethy, onto the show. Iain's impact on modern martial arts cannot be overstated. There is a good chance shows you listen to on martial arts were inspired and encouraged by this man. Iain had previously interviewed me on his own podcast and it was about time that he came over here. Our discussion centres on progress and evolution in martial arts. We go over a lot of misunderstandings and some great tangents that I found very enjoyable. 

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This episode's special guest, Gretchen Carlson has emerged as a leading critical thinker in the martial arts world. Her podcast, "Martial Journeys", champions science to teach better martial arts.  In her discussion on this show we discuss the dangers of pseudoscience and the frequent misuse of science in the martial arts subculture. 

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