Daily Grindhouse Podcast Daily Grindhouse
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- TV & Film
Daily Grindhouse roams the off-roads and back-alleys of movies and popular culture. If it's too weird or too crazy for anyone else, we'll investigate. Occasionally we get sincere, and that's when we're the most trouble.
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Vampsploitation
Heather Drain (@MondoHeather) joins Jon & Freeman to talk about underrated vampire movies! ANKLE BITERS! SUBSPECIES! COUNT YORGA! MARTIN! THE TRANSFIGURATION! THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES! BLADE! THE HUNGER! NEAR DARK! VAMPIRE DOG!
Also: Heather's adventures at pro-wrestling events; everyone's love for Roddy Piper, Christopher Lee, and George Romero; the unsung talents of John Amplas, Robert Quarry, William Smith, and James Lorinz; hopping vampires, DRACULA en español. and Jonny's stunningly off-topic discussion of his highly secret, completely stupid superpower. -
Hiatusploitation
Mike, Jon, and Freeman apologize for ghosting on you, our beloved listening audience, for so long, and then return to talking about movies, with a vengeance. Discussed herein: THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE, THREE BILLBOARDS, MOLLY'S GAME, LOWLIFE, MOHAWK, THOR: RAGNAROK, ELIMINATORS (1986), and for some reason, THE MANITOU (1977).
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Live From Fantastic Fest, 2017
Daily Grindhouse assistant editor Mike Vanderbilt is joined by news editor Matt Wedge, contributors Johnny Donaldson and Raul Benitez, Trey Hilburn of iHorror, and Fantastic Fest mainstay, Alyssa Vidales to discuss their favorite films from the first half of this year's Fantastic Fest.
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Sam-Cast
On this episode Freeman and Jon are joined by Danny Bowes (@bybowes on Twitter) to talk about the loss of Sam Shepard, as great an actor as he was a writer. And all three of us saw VALERIAN & THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS this past week, so we get into that whole song & dance too, just to lighten things up.
Please join Daily Grindhouse in remembering our friend Dustin Pace, and please contribute to the GoFundMe for his family if you can.
Links:
https://twitter.com/duddyinmotion?lang=en
https://www.gofundme.com/dustin-pace-memorial-fund
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CLERKS Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1994
This week, Mike invites collaborator (and one of his best friends) Pat O'Sullivan into the basement to explore the soundtrack to Kevin Smith's feature debut, CLERKS. O'Sullivan is an award winning independent filmmaker and musician from Chicago who's films have played TROMADANCE & Chicago's world famous MUSIC BOX THEATER; he also contributes blurbs to horror fansite, BLOODY DISGUSTING.
Released on October 11, 1994, the album features songs from Love Amongst Freaks, Golden Smog, Soul Asylum, Bash & Pop, as well as alternagrunge luminaries, Alice In Chains. The hosts discuss their favorite songs on the record as well as provide historical context for the songs that Miramax chose to include on the collection of tunes. -
A Tribute To George Romero
Mike, Jon, & Freeman share their memories of seeing NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for the first time. The hosts also discuss the maligned KNIGHTRIDERS and arguably Romero's finest work, DAWN OF THE DEAD.