This might be called an "old school" podcast; you know the kind we used to listen to 10 years ago in which a couple slightly (or very) drunk dudes chat it up about a topic they barely know for over 2 hours. These depended (and depend) on the charm and chemistry of the speakers.
Well this pod certainly has that - the guys crack each other up, have nice turns of phrase, keep it moving if on a rather slow rambling pace, especially in the chatting first 45 min or so.
The main problem I have here is the guys don't really seem to know more than the bare minimum of the genre. They get names wrong, pull from sometimes slightly mixed memories, don't always make the connections and give little more insight than a couple of your friends yammering on the couch. ("Isn't she that chick from ...") That's the vibe, I get it, but when they often resort to simply describing the plot of the film scene by scene you have to reconsider if this is worth 3 hours of your time.. This might be good for people who have never watched the film.
A secondary problem is they are often dismissive of things they don't understand or like. A carefully constructed procedural like Blood-Stained Butterfly is dismissed as unclear when to any careful viewer it's anything but. They also have unkind nicknames for Susan Scott/Nieves Navaro and Anita Strindberg, two impressive and important figures in 70s gialli (for various reasons). Come on guys, really, you're going to body-sham or dismiss two important female figures in a genre that often prided itself with depicting progressive (and sensualized) versions of female agency (and usually in a horror context)? Isn't there something worth talking about besides their looks?
A little too adolescent, a little too thin on insight.
