Midnight Video

This week it's literally a race against the (Doomsday?) clock as we go undercover in one of the toughest Australian biker gangs ever to have graced the silver screen in Sandy Harbutt's frank and refreshing tale of camaraderie and two wheels: Stone.

Another minute bites the dust as we bring you another instalment of the Doomsday Clock.

Pretty much universally panned the world over, Neil Labute's 2006 remake of cult British classic The Wickerman gets the Midnight Video treatment, but can we overcome the general consensus and find anything remotely positive about this Cage-rage vehicle?

It's now 11 minutes to Midnight and this episode sees us boil and blister as our tiny egos are put through the wrangler by psychoplasmic maestro Dr Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) in David Cronenberg's familial chiller: The Brood.

The Doomsday Clock is finally here and it's ticking.
Over the next 12 weeks we will be dissecting a dozen films that have some links to previous shows, in particular our listener's vote.
Beginning the countdown to the film apocalypse is Brian De Palma's extraordinary musical twist on classical horror literature: Phantom of the Paradise.

Here it is folks as promised, the flipside of the Midnight Video mixtape.
More sonic oddities extracted from some of the cinematic gems that we've covered on the show over the last year.
I have to admit that even I was surprised by some of the audio discoveries that I made in order to compile side B, a case in point being the Dick Tracy OST which features a swinging 90s hip hop track from non other than Bodycount vocalist Tracy Lauren Marrow aka. Ice-T.
And also of note is Dominic Frontiere's score for Lesley Steven's Bergmanesque, Shatner-starring, Esperanto-garbled curiosity Incubus. Of course Frontiere went on to score what could be considered the compositional jewel in his crown; The Stunt Man but it's interesting to see the lineage from his The Outer Limits work to the excellent and unsung Richard Rush movies.
So once again, sit back relax and be thankful you have another opportunity to be free of our gibbering gobbledygook.

The second instalment in our Headcleaner series sees us making up for Jim's untimely holiday which means that show 30 won't be available for a few weeks, but fear not, auditory cinematic diversions are still available although we've done something a little different here.

Some of you may be aware that I like to compile mixtapes and this time I've turned my hand to a Midnight Video mixtape that encompasses music and samples from some of the films that we've covered on the show.

So sit back relax and just be thankful you don't have to listen us droning on and on for a few weeks.

Due to our attendance at Frightfest we were unable to supply a new episode 'proper' of Midnight Video but we did end up recording a commentary track a few weeks ago for David Lynch's Palme d'Or winning Wild At Heart. So this week we offer you the opportunity to watch Lynch's movie accompanied by our voices and thoughts on one of his most divisive films.

In which we run through our cinematic highlights of the year and bring some news about the future of the show.

Well folks, show 39 sees us tackle a trio of films from the (in)famous Red Triangle series on the UK's Channel 4 back in the mid 80s.
Cro-Magnon consternation in 70s Paris with Themroc, bored housewives and sexual frustration in Sweden with Montenegro before we round things off with familial hiccups in Dennis Hopper's Out Of The Blue.
Also show 39 marks the end of volume one of Midnight Video as Phil leaves the UK for France and the impending introduction of his second sprog into this crazy, crazy world.

This show's filling between the sci-fi bread is the winner of the listener's vote poll; Martin Scorsese's After Hours. One man's descent into a night of mares and a great way to finish the vote.

The upper slice of bread is Konstantin Lopushansky's post-apocalyptic A Visitor to the Museum - a Soviet metaphysical musing upon some of the big questions in life, but does it have any answers?

Completing this delicious sandwich of cinema we brave the Alan Smithee cut of Dune with a 10 minute prologue and 30 mins of extra footage, does Smithee's cut attempt to fill in the gaps that Lynch deigned to leave out?