Final Transmission

It's time to charge up your secret armpit wanger because we're getting down and dirty with some classic early Cronenberg. This week, we're talking Rabid (1977).

We dig into the casting choices and solve the riddle of this oddball zombie flick with the most unlikely tool: emotional maturity! Fuck yeah!

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Here we are again and this time we're covering Wolfen from 1981 - starring Albert Finney as a down and out detective investigating a series of animal attacks.

We take a huge bite out of this underappreciated classic as well as (sort of) settling the age-old question: Which 1981 werewolf movie is the best?

We also talk cinema snacks, our favourite film noir tropes, and the decimation and subjugation of indigenous peoples,  Y'know, the usual.

 

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This week we're getting creepy AND crawly as we get up close and personal with Ticks (1993).

It's gooey, it's icky, and we have a lot of fun discussing it.

We also discuss sitcom stardom, nepo babies, sequel setups, and a whole bunch about Clint Howard.

 

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Okay, we're getting classy this week with James Whales The Old Dark House, based on the novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley.

We delve into the queerness, the horniness and the weirdness of this classic Universal Horror.

Have a potato.

 

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Well, I guess it's time to get completely horrible because we're talking about Cannibal Holocaust - the dick-choppingest, head-smashingest, most hyper-realistic jungle cannibal nightmare flick going. 

Things of note this week:

• The audacity of comparing this movie to Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo
• Jamie describes his favourite movie penis mutilations
• The phrase: "blapped in the noodle"
• Sam's special childhood game

Content warning: We discuss this movie in full so there's talk of animal cruelty, sexual violence and shonky depictions of indigenous folks. We didn't make it, we only watched it.

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What has Daddy sent this month? Why it's our review of XTRO (1982) of course!

It might be the grottiest, squelchiest, weirdest sci-fi horror to come out of 1980s England but does it hold up? And what was the cocaine budget?

 

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It's time to chill yourself right out because we're giving Toby Wilkins' 2008 genre-smashing, low-budget, pulse-pounding creature feature Splinter the full Final Transmission treatment.

Important questions this week:

Could we cast this movie better?

Will we agree on where the goo came from?

Who is more disturbed by the breezeblock scene?

All these questions, and so many more, are answered on this week's Final Transmission

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It's party time so we're diving straight into Trick or Treat - a classic of the niche subgenre devoted to heavy metal horror. Featuring brief turns from Ozzy and Gene Simmons, a glam-tinged soundtrack from Fastway, and one of Michael Jackson's backup dancers, Trick or Treat has a little something for everyone.

Featuring digressions including Jamie's favourite X Files episodes, our correspondence with our heroes, that terrible Smiths movie from a few years back, and the posters we had in our childhood bedrooms.

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