This week we take a look at one of the standout features of the 70's blaxploitation age, William Crain's seminal vampire movie, Blacula, starring William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, and Thalmus Rasulala. Blaxploitation is a troubling topic to take on as the bad movie outnumber the good movies three to one and definitely play up the worst black stereotypes but for a little while there blaxploitation movies and their arty cousin, the LA Rebellion, pushed forward black power narratives and power fantasies that spotlighted black talent and provided black audiences with great characters that reflected their values and dreams.

Blacula as a horror movie is also a standout picture, being every bit as riveting and spooky as Hammer's best outings. William Marshall absolutely dominates the screen as doomed Prince Mamuwalde and Vonetta McGee is hard to take your eyes off of. Give this episode and listen and do chill out. Bryan realized too late that yes, All The Colors of the Dark is a Sergio Martino movie and What Have You Done To Solange was by Massimo Dellamano.

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This week's episode is a look at the egregious ripoff of The Thing (or the novel Who Goes There, depending on who you ask). It's the first in a series of episodes resulting from the power trio of director David Nutter, and writers Glenn Morgan and James Wong.

This episode sees Mulder and Scully accompany a team of scientists to a remote arctic science outpost in Alaska to investigate the sudden disappearance of the team that was conducting ice core drilling there and unexpectedly released something ancient, deadly, and likely from another planet.

This week Bryan and Dave take a trip back to Rome to check in with Enzo G. Castellari and Mark Gregory on their sequel to the 1982 action movie that exploited the popularity of The Warriors. This time they're exploiting the popularity of John Carpenter's outstanding, Escape From New York. We get more Trash and more Bronx gangs but this time we're joined by the absolute massive screen presence of Antonio Sabato and the movie's appeal rests entirely on the outrageous shoot-y, burn-y, explode-y violence that ups the ante and cranks the volume.

Escape From The Bronx has practically zero plot to speak of and is an incredibly dumb movie at heart but it's a lot of fun and some of the best action that Italy had to offer in the twilight of their once-great exploitation movie industry. Let us break it all down for you.

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This week Bryan and Dave take a look at a nasty little indie from New Jersey that can't help but get a little on ya. Alfred Sole's Alice, Sweet Alice is a vicious movie with a real bone to pick with the Catholic church.

Following his actual excommunication from the church having, Alfred Sole pulled together every resource he could, with a script co-written by Rosemary Ritvo and heavily, heavily inspired by Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now, it pits a community of deeply repressed middle-class Catholics against a killer who brutally murders a child in a church. Is it the deeply disturbed problem-child Alice? All signs point to yes but it's complicated, of course.

Perverse and dark in the extreme, Alice, Sweet Alice stands alone in the 1970's as a truly original, truly mean piece of horror with a hell of a cast and some seriously nasty special effects.

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This week's episode is a look at the egregious ripoff of The Thing (or the novel Who Goes There, depending on who you ask). It's the first in a series of episodes resulting from the power trio of director David Nutter, and writers Glenn Morgan and James Wong.

This episode sees Mulder and Scully accompany a team of scientists to a remote arctic science outpost in Alaska to investigate the sudden disappearance of the team that was conducting ice core drilling there and unexpectedly released something ancient, deadly, and likely from another planet.

Hey! Hey! Hey! BIM's on the way! This week Bryan and Dave take a good long look at the abyss and the abyss stares back when they watch the movie that launched The Cannon Group into the American imagination, a movie musical so poorly received that it nearly drove its director to leap from his hotel balcony at the premier. The Apple is what happens when a producer knows that he wants to make a big musical that's sure to capture some of the excitement that Grease generated but without really knowing what makes a musical work. It's a movie so profoundly bad, with bad acting, bad characters, and the worst thing a musical can have: bad music. Nothing about this baffling movie works and it is plainly obvious for anyone to see. It's simply amazing that the director, Menahem Golan was so caught off guard by its failure.

Some movies are so bad that they end entire careers. This one almost ended Golan's life.

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This week Bryan and Dave find themselves comfortably back in the pocket with 1980's high-gothic haunted house picture where we're expected to believe that old man George C. Scott was also a father to an 8 year old girl. Based on the extremely dubious "true story" of the film's writer, The Changeling is a frustrating experience that combines compelling haunted house filmcraft with a clumsy script that can't decide where it's going or what it's trying to do.

Held aloft by horror fans for years as a truly spooky and unsettling haunted house/ghost mystery movie, we break it down and find that it may not be the movie that we remember. That said, is it good? Does any of this mess work? You'll have to listen to find out!

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In yet another dog of a Gansa/Gordon episode, Mulder and Scully are called in for a hail Mary play by a lousy past-colleague Mulder's faces down a killer smart home system. This being the 90's and the writers having no idea how computers work, it ends up wobbly as their last outing, Conduit.

We also take a look at what was happening around Halloween in 1993 and the headlines and pop culture hits are every bit as weird as you likely don't remember. Take a trip back in time with us as we tackle it all!