Episode 92: Alice, Sweet Alice. Next stop on the regional horror tour is Patterson, New Jersey. Filmed in 1976, Alice, Sweet Alice is a period piece set during the Kennedy administration in 1961. Packed with: Roman Catholicism, family issues, rapey landlord with cats, Brook Shields, whodunits, creepy kid masks, and dead bodies. Alice, Sweet Alice plays like a family melodrama packed with murder.

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Episode 91 Criminally Insane 1972. This week Alec and Derek watch Nick Millards compact grindhouse nasty Criminally Insane aka Crazy Fat Ethel. Priscilla Aldean is Ethel Janowski a mentally unstable woman with a compulsive eating disorder who unleashes her appetite for destruction after being released from a sanitarium, and is placed on a forced diet by her well meaning grandmother leading to her brutal murder. The bodies pile up in the San Francisco townhouse as nasty relatives and unfortunate delivery boys make the deadly mistake of crossing Ethel’s doorway. Though barely an hour in length, Criminally Insane would inspire multiple sequels and live as a scuzzy grindhouse classic.

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Episode 90: (H.B. Halicki: The Car Crash King) Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), & The Junkman. H.B. Halicki was a actor/director/stuntman like no other. He didn't need Hollywood. He built his empire in Long Beach, California owning a junk yard and collecting cars. So, when he had a half baked idea about making his own movie, he didn't need financial backing, or the Hollywood Machine to make his movie. He shot his films in his own backyard, getting the city behind him, crashing his own cars, performing his own stunts, and directing his own pictures. He bet on himself, and he hit the jackpot with his first feature: 1974's Gone in 60 Seconds. Making millions by playing in drive-ins across the country for the next decade it gave Halicki validation and a bottomless pit of cash to make his next film, 1982's: The Junkman. Both are available for free to watch on you tube.

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Episode 89: Burt Reynolds Bootleg Double Feature

This week, we pay our respects to the stud of 70’s car chase movies Burt Reynolds with two of his most entertaining roles as bootleggers leaving the law in his dust in the hit films White Lightning and Smokey and the Bandit. First up we see the more dramatic performance as the sweat-drenched underdog Robert “Gator” McKlusky a convicted Arkansas bootlegger who is released from prison to assist the feds in taking down the corrupt Sherrif J.C. Connors (Reynolds Deliverance co-star Ned Beatty), who is responsible for the murder of his younger brother. Next up Burt is driving “Eastbound and Down” as the devilishly charming Bo “Bandit” Darville, running blocker in a candy red Trans Am to distract the police from a truck filled with 400 cases of bootleg Coors from Texas racing its way to Georgia in 28 hours. Along the way Bandit picks up sexy runaway bride Carrie (Sally Field) and attracts the attention of the blustery Sherrif Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason). The result is one of the infectiously crowd pleasing films of the 1970’s. So crack open a cold one and 10-41 to Psychotronicast!

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Episode 88 (Drive In-sanity Double Feature) Peter Fonda is once again behind the wheel, and this time as Larry Rayder who with mechanic Deke Sommers (Adam Roarke) are a couple NASCAR hopefuls who’s execution of a supermarket heist is thrown into jeopardy by Larry’s clinging and chaotic one night stand Mary Coombs (Susan George). Forced to team up, our heroes lead a high speed pursuit in both a souped up ‘66 Impala and ‘69 Charger while the pursuing Capt. Everett Franklin (Vic Morrow) takes the chase into the sky in a Bell JetRanger Helicopter in the classic vehicular chase film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Next up we leap to the dystopian future in Roger Corman and Paul Bartel’s action packed pitch black comedy Death Race 2000! The totalitarian American regime stationed in Moscow and Beijing have found a way to pacify the masses with a bloody Transcontinental Road Race featuring five theatrical drivers Machine Gun Joe (Sylvester Stallone), Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov), neo-Nazi Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins), Nero the Hero (Martin Kove), and the Masked and disfigured national hero Frankenstein (David Carradine) who must try to survive a race from coast to coast, and splattering blood of civilians all over the national highways, while dodging the sabotaging resistance lead by Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin) as well as the overbearing media hosts Junior Bruce (Don Steele) and Grace Pander (Joyce Jameson). Who will survive these films? Listen to find out!

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Episode 87 (Satanic Panic: Hell on Wheels double Feature) This week we watch a couple drive in classics featuring satanic threats on the open road. First up is the classic Race with the Devil starring Peter Fonda and Warren Oates as a couple dirt bike riding friends who trek out on a ski trip to aspen with their wives Loretta Swit and Lara Parker in the newest Vogue motorhome, along the way they disturb a satanic sacrifice and kick off a rip-roaring chase across the backwoods of Texas! Next up we have The Car starring James Brolin as Chief Deputy Wade Parent a single father who investigates a string of deaths in a small town attached to a driverless Lincoln Continental (designed by the legendary George Barris) that just so happens to be possessed by Satan. So buckle your seat belts, light your black candles and join us!

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Episode 86 (Chang Cheh: Grandmaster part 4) This week we conclude our Chang Cheh series with three of his most outlandish and entertaining films. First up is The Crippled Avengers. The Venom Mob return with head spinning choreography, for this action packed dose of violence and revenge. A group of maimed villagers train to work around their disabilities and to avenge the brutal warlord who inflicted their afflictions. Next up we get The Masked Avengers, a group of warriors seek to discover the identities and quash of a gang of trident carrying masked menaces, who have been terrorizing the countryside, and bringing their victims to a secret torture party palace. Finally we watch Five Element Ninja’s an extravaganza of action packed lunacy featuring kung fu students who are forced into an existential battle with a series of ninjas trained in methods representing various elements. Cheh turns things up to 11 with this film featuring some of the most insane violence and costuming of his career. Five Element Ninjas stands as one of his last great masterpieces.

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Episode 85 (Chang Cheh Grandmaster part 3) This week the guys check out a couple of Shaw Brothers classics that would each kickstart their own Kung fu franchises. Adapting Louis Cha’s popular Condor Trilogy novels Chang Cheh and his newest protégé superstar Alexander Fu Sheng delivered The Brave Archer an action classic that seems to pack in everyone and everything that could possibly fit into its 2 hour run time with the notable exception of actual archery! Second up is the film that he is probably the most remembered for in the west, the wildly popular 5 Venoms (aka 5 Deadly Venoms) featuring a group of wildly costumed Peking Opera alumni collectively known as The Venom Mob that would blast their way into a series of deliriously entertaining films that continue to amaze for their guignol laced violence as much as their jaw dropping choreography.

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Episode 84 (Chang Cheh: Grandmaster part 2) Continuing our trip through Chang Cheh’s career at the Shaw Brothers studio, Alec and Derek watch a trio of triad gangster films starring Kung fu stars David Chiang, Ti Lung and Chen Kuan-tai, beginning with 1970 film Vengeance a stylish and brutal revenge tale reminiscent of John Boorman’s neo-noir Point Blank. David Chiang plays Guan Xiao Lou a man with a single minded drive to avenge the people responsible for killing his brother and Peking Opera dance partner Ti Lung. Next up The Duel sees Ti Lung and David Chiang face off in a series of crosses and double crosses setting up a number of unhinged fight scenes that clearly foreshadow the mayhem of The Crazy 88. Concluding this episode with The Boxer from Shantung starring Kung Fu legend Chen Kuan-Tai in his first leading role as Ma Yongzhen a lowly laborer who climbs his way up the ranks from the gutter to triad gang leader only to be met with increasing bloodshed ending in one of the most spectacularly relentless battles in film history.

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Episode 83 (Chang Cheh: Grandmaster) Alec and Derek begin a journey through the career of one of the undisputed masters of action films and one of the greatest directors of the famous Shaw Brothers Studio, Chang Cheh. Beginning with the film that started it all 1967s The One-Armed Swordsman. Following the success of King Hu’s Wuxia classic Come Drink with Me, and taking influence from Rebel Without A Cause, Cheh and star (Jimmy) Wang Yu present a brooding teenaged swordfighter who’s coming of age is complicated by the need to kill a horde of trained killers while defending the very people who cut off his arm. With its vivid color palate and displays of graphic violence, The Shaw Brothers had their first million dollar smash hit, lighting the fuse for the Kung Fu craze of the 1970’s, ensuring Hong Kong cinemas would never be the same. Only four years later Cheh would reboot the idea with The New One-Armed Swordsman this time with stars David Chiang and Ti Lung (more about them later) and would amplify the melodrama and violence to dizzying heights creating a film even more memorable (and homoerotic) than its beloved predecessor. All of the films we will be discussing in this series are currently streaming on Amazon Prime and we encourage our listeners to watch along and share their thoughts!

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