Film
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Episode 719: A Conversation about Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce (1985) with Shawn McKee!
Episode 719 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, John King and Shawn McKee dig down into the mysteries of taste and the effect a lot of nudity can have… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi The Wicker Man UK 1973 Director: Robin Hardy Cast: Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Assorted Naked Pagans Warning: Deleterious Kukurbit, as I call him, did not write this month’s column. I did. My name is Mr Sozzled Scribbler. You may call me SS. Mr Kukurbit is off-colour and he asked me… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #372: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
A Happy 4th of July to all the many patrons of the Museum of Schlock. We’ll be having an outside prize fight between Edwige, my kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, and a gorilla named Morrie on loan from a local crypto bro. We’ll have free firecrackers for the kids. Buy one, get one… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #370: Syndicate Sadists
How about Nic Cage as “the Spider”? Yes, it’s cool that we have a Spider-Man set in 1930s New York and played by Nic Cage who spends more time getting sloshed rather than wearing the mask. I even like the fact that you can watch this show in black and white. So, yeah, Spider-Noir is a winner.… Continue reading
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101 Movie Horror Nights
101 Horror Movie Nights with Dmetri Kakmi The Other USA 1972 Director: Robert Mulligan Cast: Uta Hagen, Martin Udvarnoky, Chris Udvarnoky, Diana Muldaur Long-term readers of this terrifying column will have gathered I have a liking for the doppelgänger. Whether dead or alive, real or imagined, I am drawn to the evil twin, the unsavoury other,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #378: Time Bandits
The things we watch as kids. Oliver! often made the rounds in my parents’ VCR. It taught me many things such as not asking for more gruel from a portly man wearing a Napoleon hat. He will sing a song about how awful you are in front of the other orphans. Then he’ll take you out in… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Sisters USA 1972 Director: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Lisle Wilson, Jennifer Salt, William Finney Brian De Palma is my favourite American filmmaker. I have been kneeling at his blood-drenched altar ever since I saw Carrie (1976) at a local drive-in. My eternal adoration was solidified with Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981). The only… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Daughters of Darkness Belgium 1971 Director: Harry Kümel Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Andrea Rau, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Fons Rademakers Be still my beating heart. We now speak in reverential tones about one of my favourite horror movies and the best vampire movie in existence. I speak about the swoon worthy, deliciously perverse… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi The Blood on Satan’s Claw England 1971 Director: Piers Haggard Cast: Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice, the Beast My first encounter with this low-budget gem was on late-night television. Bad print, censored and strewn with ads, it left little to no impression. Years later I saw the beautifully restored… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #359: Hypnotic
I walked through the aftermath of the fentanyl cloud, searching for Edwige, my kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America. I feared for the worst as I came upon the bodies of the Goose Lord Gang, littered across the marina. A figure slumped toward me. It was the Goose Lord. Whatever was left of… Continue reading
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