The Gauntlet

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) / Some Call it Loving (1973)

Once upon a time we woke up sleeping beauty with James B. Harris and set sail for the island of Colossa with Ray Harryhausen…

The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) / Six O’Clock News (1996)

This week we’re broadcasting live from the martian invasion with Piotr Szulkin while Ross McElwee takes us beyond the confines of the nightly news

Điện Biên Phủ (1992) / I Am a Sex Addict (2005)

This week we’re taking the L as we parachute into Dien Bien Phu with Pierre Schoendoerffer and crash land on Caveh Zahedi’s minefield of memories

Zig-Zag aka Snakes and Ladders (1980) / Avalon (2001)

This week we’re playing games as we roll the dice with Raúl Ruiz’s cartographic nightmare and try to level up in Mamoru Oshii’s drab dystopia

The Ghost & Mrs Muir (1947) / La Maldición de la Llorona (1963)

This week we’re renting a pair of drafty houses as we try to reverse the curse in Rafael Baledón’s haunted hacienda and unexpectedly fall in love with Joe Mankiewicz’s seaside cottage

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 5

A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET

From Double Dooley to Nostalgia

Music and Sounds from Episodes 41-50

Stage Door (1937) | Entranced Earth (1967) | The Family Jewels (1967) | Hell in the Pacific (1968) | The Mattei Affair (1972) | The Dion Brothers aka The Gravy Train (1974) | The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) | Take a Hard Ride (1975) | News From Home (1977) | A Perfect Couple (1979) | Gas Pump Girls (1979) | The Five Heartbeats (1991) | Miami Blues (1991) | The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) | Serial Mom (1994) | Death and the Compass (1996) | Escape From L.A. (1996) | Platform (2000) | Men and Chicken (2015)

Batwoman (1968) / Flash Gordon (1980)

This week we’re going from strip to screen as we head to Acapulco to solve some very fishy crimes with Batwoman and try to save the universe with Flash Gordon

109 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) / The Commitments (1991)

This week we’re looking on the bright side as we form a soul band in Dublin with Alan Parker and save Pittsburgh with dunks, disco and Dr. J

Insiang (1976) / Out of the Blue (1980)

This week we’re mad as hell and out for revenge as we claw our way through the slums of Manila with Lino Brocka and rebel against everything with Dennis Hopper

The Silent World (1956) / The Rift (1990)

This week we’re taking a dive down to the great depths as we descend into the not-so-silent world of Jacques Cousteau and battle mutants on a salvage mission with JP Simon