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Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 24: LeprechaunHappy St. Patrick's Day!And what film pairs better with a pint of Guinness and some cottage pie than the cult classic, Leprechaun! Warwick Davis gives an iconic horror performance as the titular villain, terrorizing Jennifer Aniston (yes, THAT Jennifer Aniston, in her first feature film leading role) as he searching for his stolen pot of gold.This horror comedy went on to become a surprise hit when it was released and spawned many sequels...and we intend to get to them all! For now, we're breaking down the...2025-03-131h 00
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 23: Cinderella 2000It's the final stop (for now) on our journey into the year 2000! Come along to the mythical fantasy realm of Detroit where in the year 2047 sex has been outlawed by an authoritarian government! That, of course, does not stop basically everyone from having sex anyway, for those who abstain are fraught with a horrible affliction: The Hornies!Also, this is a retelling of Cinderella.Also, it's a musical.And...actually a really good one! Ryan and Cassie are both adamant that if this were...2025-03-021h 04
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 22: Cherry 2000We continue our podcast journey into the year 2000!Like a mission ripped right out of an Obsidian RPG, Melanie Griffith plays bounty hunter E. Johnson, who takes desperate lover Sam Treadwell on a fetch quest to post-apocalyptic Las Vegas to replace his sex robot, Cherry 2000. On their way, they run into a gang of Dads on permanent vacation who would love to get their hands on a Cherry 2000, as well.It's a premise executed with seriously awesome stunt work (including a stunning sequence involving a 1965 Ford Mustang, a large...2025-02-221h 01
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 21: Escape 2000 (Turkey Shoot)In the first Ozploitation film we've featured on the show, Escape 2000 - aka Turkey Shoot - presents us with a dystopian future (or present?) where dissenters against a fascist government are sent to death camps with only one way out: participating in the turkey shoot. The turkey shoot, of course, is an event where a bunch of rich people bring a bunch of insane weapons into the Australian bush and hunt the prisoners for sport.Will Olivia Hussey's character survive the ordeal? And will the real Olivia Hussey survive the truly harrowing experience of...2025-02-151h 11
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 20: Death Race 2000In the year 2000 hit and run driving is no longer a felony. It's the national sport!Roger Corman's incredible cult classic puts soon-to-be screen legends Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine behind the wheel of trans-American racing machines designed to do two things: go fast and kill pedestrians! Death Race 2000 is a hilarious and bloody satirical look at sports and media culture in America, that deftly trades barbs with the viewers, mocking their obsession with celebrity culture and their belief that the triumvirate of government, religion, and mass media ever has their best interest in...2025-02-091h 10
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 19: Crackerjack 3It's the thrilling conclusion to the Jack Wild trilogy! Except it's not about Jack Wild anymore! And doesn't appear to have any connection to the first two films! Or does it?...Ryan thinks so. Cassie isn't so sure. In this third Crackerjack adventure, Jack is now an old man (played by Bo Svenson!) who runs a department in the CIA. After retiring he's roped back into the action by his analyst, Kelly (played by former WWE Diva Amy Weber) to stop some terrorists from detonating a neutron bomb at the G7 Summit. To get the job done...2025-01-311h 03
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 18: Musical MutinyHey everybody! It's a mutiny!And just what is a musical mutiny? Well...it's a free concert. Orchestrated by the ghost of a pirate. At Pirates World amusement park in Dania Beach, FL in 1970, featuring Iron Butterfly performing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. The whole song.And this psychedelic musical journey is part of the Pirates World cinematic universe! If you recall from our last episode on Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, we introduced you to Pirates World, a wildly ambitious amusement park in Florida that produced a bunch of low-budget films in the late 60's and early 70...2025-01-1955 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 17: Santa and the Ice Cream BunnyIt's one of the strangest films ever made, a delirious slice of incomprehensible Christmas cinema. In the beginning of the episode a new motto is proposed: "The podcast that tests the theory, there is no such thing as a bad movie." That sentiment is immediately put through the ringer as we analyze Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.Shot at the now defunct Pirates World amusement park in Dania, Florida, this film tells the tale of Santa Claus stuck in the sand, crash-landed on the beach with no reindeer around to help him out. Using telepathy, Santa...2024-12-191h 08
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 16: Dial Code Santa ClausDid John Hughes and Christopher Columbus rip off this film when they made Home Alone? That's the million dollar question we seek to answer on this episode!Because one year before Home Alone, France released its own home invasion Christmas film, complete with a boy genius fending off the intruder with makeshift traps and gadgets. Director René Manzor is absolutely convinced that Home Alone's filmmakers got the idea for their holiday hit after his film screened at Cannes in 1989...but we're not so sure. We're breaking down our reasoning over the course of our study of this i...2024-12-1550 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 15: Black ChristmasO' come let us adore...the original slasher! And right now you can adore it on the big screen! Black Christmas is returning to theaters for its 50th Anniversary from December 7-22 in a wonderful new 4K restoration.So as a primer for its return to theaters, we're here to celebrate the season by celebrating the film that started it all, the film woefully overshadowed by Halloween as the slasher progenitor. And that said, we're examining it with a very specific restriction: we won't be comparing it to Halloween at all. Because there's a thousand articles that...2024-12-041h 03
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 14: Deep RisingJoin us as Ryan presents one of his favorite movies of all time, Deep Rising! This movie holds a very special place in his heart, and he'll explain why on this first-ever 4-person episode!We're joined by regular guest, cinematographer Ryan Kroboth, who walks us through the challenges of shooting an action film almost entirely around and underwater! And we're super excited to welcome new guest, director Brad Grimm! Brad has tons of industry experience, and lends his expertise to conversations about how difficult this movie would be to pitch and finance today, as well as how...2024-11-271h 13
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 13: Arabella Black Angel"Is this giallo, or is this porn?" That's the critical question we seek to answer by the end of this new episode about a late-80's scissor-killing sleazefest!Arabella is a nymphomaniac. Which is going just fine for her until every single guy she sleeps with starts to wind up dead, mutilated by a pair of scissors. All of this is captured in cinematography typical of the giallo genre, which is to say nearly every gorgeous shot could be framed a hung in a gallery. But in this one's case, a real kinky gallery for someone who...2024-11-2159 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 12: The Hottie and the NottieFamously torpedoed as one of the worst films of all time, we're here to tell you...we kind of liked it! Consider this a redemption episode, as we submit ourselves to a film that critics have called "a film of monumental dreadfulness" as well as "excruciatingly, painfully, horribly, terribly awful" and come out the other side the better for it, with lots of soul searching to do, asking a wealth of questions about feminism, body image, mental health, maternal abuse, and farts.Ryan's mantra throughout this show so far has been that "there are no bad movies...2024-11-1552 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 11: Bloody BirthdayDuring a solar eclipse that obscures Saturn, three children are born, cursed without empathy, fated to be murderous psychopaths when their tenth birthdays arrive! This very early slasher swaps out monstrous masked killers with the villains you'd least suspect - three cute little kids with a craving for carnage.Listen, this movie is absolutely insane and we're taking it on from all angles, from the emotional aspect of having to root against children (and just how effectively CREEPY those kids are), to placing it in a literary context by comparing its imagery to The Illiad and Dante's...2024-11-1156 min