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Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 27: Thunder RunBuckle up for perhaps the wildest ride to ever hit the road out of Laughlin, Nevada! When shipments of military plutonium become the target of terrorists, there's obviously only one thing to do - hire a retired trucker, have his grandson and college friends build a bunch of makeshift weapons, and transport the plutonium across the desert in a proto-Fury-Road battle of automotive carnage.We dive into this forgotten car chase classic, a film devised by special effects specialists, the sole purpose of which seems to be the film's central stunt - an 18-wheeler jumping over a...2025-08-0459 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 26: Urotsukidōji: Legend of the OverfiendIt might not get more incredibly strange than this one. A late entry into our first annual Ani-May, Legend of the Overfiend is the original animated video nasty, the first animated film to ever receive an NC-17 rating from the MPAA...and that was the American cut. On today's episode we're tackling the entire original uncut triple-OVA version of the film, a 2:26 tentacle hentai apocalyptic epic that features wall-to-wall horrors that cannot be unseen.We're actually posting this one with a trigger warning - it's impossible to discuss Legend of the Overfiend without talking about its rampant...2025-06-021h 11
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 25: RedlineIt's a new yearly tradition on Incredibly Strange Video - we're celebrating ANI-MAY! Which is when we take all of May to break down cult and unusual anime films! Today's film, Redline, falls into the former category. A major financial failure for its studio after a grueling 7-year-long production, this action/racing smorgasborg of adrenaline-fueled violence has since become a cult classic in the anime world.And since this is the first anime we've ever covered on the show, in addition to breaking down the film, we'll be doing some learning ourselves along the way, asking questions...2025-05-251h 10
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 searches 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
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 10: The Chill FactorYou've likely seen slashers in many different settings, but have you ever seen one in the snowy wilderness of northern Wisconsin? Featuring multiple snowmobile action sequences? Well, if not, then boy are you in for a treat! Because The Chill Factor is an incredibly unique piece of regional horror that's a ton of fun to watch and dissect!We'll fill you in on what regional horror even is (as it's...a whole thing) and then jump into a contentious analysis of the film's final minutes, which ends up necessitating a live rewatch and shot-by-shot breakdown to decipher...2024-11-0754 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 9: Guinea Pig: Mermaid In a ManholeOn this episode we're trying our best to stomach a film that frequently appears on lists of the most disgusting films ever made! What happens in this movie that made Cassie leave the room at one point? Start streaming our discussion to find out!Once again we're back at it with cinematographer Ryan Kroboth to analyze the visuals of this film - beyond just the incredibly, ridiculously graphic body mutilation and gore. Because Mermaid In a Manhole is a film with a surprising amount of important things to say about humanity and suffering and tackles those issues...2024-11-0254 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 8: Girls Nite OutIt's Halloween week so there's no better time to enjoy a "slashic" - and in our opinion, the more obscure the better! And this one certainly is! Criminally underseen when it was first released and only recently resurrected by Arrow Video, this forgotten gem features a surprisingly loveable cast of characters and one of the creepiest killers in slasher history!We're picking this one apart from every angle. We propose a theory using Jungian psychology to better understand the symbolic meaning of the killer bear mascot, discuss how the radio DJ provides a clever (and banging) soundtrack...2024-10-2948 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 7: ViyGet ready for spooky season with this ancient Soviet haunted feature! The first horror film ever produced by the USSR is a folktale about a Ukrainian religious student who has his faith tested over the course of three crazy nights locked in a church with a vengeful witch! Featuring absolutely incredible practical special effects and a manic energy reminiscent of cult-fan-favorite House, Viy is a woefully overlooked symphony of horrors and visual splendor.We welcome our friend, cinematographer Ryan Kroboth, back onto the podcast for this one to discuss this film's spectacular visuals, and pick apart its...2024-10-2549 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 6: Microwave MassacreOften maligned as "the worst horror film ever made", we think that nothing could be further from the truth! We dig into how this ultra-low-budget horror comedy has a lot to say about dangerously unchecked masculine ideals, and has cinematography that effectively makes the viewer uncomfortable. By investigating the history of microwaves as a cultural artifact, we're able to view Microwave Massacre as a film with critical messages about understanding yourself and your own mental health.We also celebrate a completely unhinged performance by lead actor Jackie Vernon, and challenge you the audience to figure out where...2024-10-2159 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 5: Crackerjack 2We return to the Crackerverse for the mystifying sequel that changes up all of the actors and all of the lore from the first film. Why? Ryan posits that it's all the work of an uncredited editor who sought to create films that are expressions of Jack Wild's tortured subconscious. Meanwhile, Cassie finds joy in Kateřina Brožová's crazy terrorist outfit and the fact that Jack uses a floppy disk camera during his investigations. Together they parse out the details of potentially creating an imaginary bank on a satellite to launder money. And in the Thoughts From Let...2024-10-1755 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 4: CrackerjackChristopher Plummer as Hans Gruber has taken over a ski resort with his German mercenaries. The only hope for those held captive: the bad guy from Karate Kid III. This is Crackerjack, the incredibly entertaining direct-to-video Canadian action film that we're discussing on this episode!Sure, it's a pretty blatant Die Hard rip off, but there's so much to love about this crazy little movie, from the completely unhinged performance of Thomas Ian Griffith in the titular lead role, to the legitimately great miniature work in the large scale action scenes, to the most hilarious "flashback to...2024-10-1149 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 3: Ninja AcademyOn this episode we jump into the oddball comedy, Ninja Academy, part of the new-ish Nico Mastorakis collection on Arrow Player! Imagine Police Academy, but instead of police, it's ninja's. That's the long and short of the plot here, plus you've got super powered mimes, a member of Her Majesty's Secret Service, nude volleyball, and oh so much more!In addition to celebrating the hilarity of this film, we also look at it through the lens of Buddhism to better understand its spiritual threads, we invoke the great American melting pot to study Ninja Academy as a...2024-10-0743 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 2: Flaming EarsOn our second episode we're shifting gears and trying to decipher the puzzling underground sci-fi film, Flaming Ears! This Austrian, lesbian arthouse mindbender is chock full of aliens eating armadillos, religious terrorists, vampires, cacti, and of course a whole lot of pee. Not to mention some wild stop motion animation and tons of elaborate miniature sequences. What does it all mean? Well...we're not really sure but we're gonna try our darndest to figure it all out anyway!And to watch the film, look no further than Criterion Channel, where you can stream it with a subscription...2024-10-0346 min
Incredibly Strange VideoEp. 1: Brain DamageIn our very first episode, we are joined by cinematographer Ryan Kroboth to break down this woefully underrated 80's splatter flick! We take a deep dive into how the film serves as a metaphor for addiction and how the filmmakers' use of color and camera tricks take the film to the next level, making critical observations and statements about society's relationship with the darker side of humanity. We also explore the film's crazy production - from shooting some of its most iconic scenes guerrilla style without permission, to the reason why one of the main characters didn't want to...2024-09-2950 min