CLOCKWORK CARDIAC BAD MOVIE RETREAT Professor Stanton Gearhardt

Sometimes in life, you have to take the bad with the good....sometimes you encounter a movie that is utter garbage but still entertaining, and sometimes you get a movie like this one, 1977's War of the Planets, an Italian Star Wars ripoff that could have given even the crew of the Satellite of Love a run for their money... Episode 005 - War of the Planets

Sorry about the skipped week there...life got in the way.  I'm going to try to keep this weekly/biweekly for as long as I can.  Anyway, this week in the lab we explore one of the more notorious disembodied-head films, which started life in 1963 as "Madmen of Mandoras" but after some Frankensteining in of (painfully-obvious) extra footage, was reborn circa 1973 as the TV-movie "They Saved Hitler's Brain"  And when the pickled head of Der Fuehrer does the best acting in the film, you know you're in trouble... http://archive.org/download/ClockworkCardiacBadMovieRetreatEpisode004TheySavedHitlersBrain_201404/Clockwork_Cardiac_Bad_Movie_Retreat_Episode_004_They_Saved_Hitlers_Brain.mp3

This week in the lab, we review the first of hopefully many Roger Corman films with his early classic, 1960's horror/comedy "Little Shop of Horrors"...while it later spawned a popular musical, the original also has a lot going for it, including a brief-but-memorable performance from a very young Jack Nicholson!  The tweaks to the format continue, as I try to break up my own droning commentary with more clips from the film to help tell the story.  Enjoy! http://archive.org/download/ClockworkCardiacBadMovieRetreatEpisode003LittleShopOfHorrors/Clockwork_Cardiac_Bad_Movie_Retreat_Episode_003_Little_Shop_of_Horrors.mp3

I know I said originally I was going to make this a bi-weekly podcast, but I just couldn't resist putting up a new episode...I'll be doing some tinkering with the format over the next few shows, so please bear with me. Anyway, for this episode we check out a bit of classic drive-in fare from 1959 called "The Killer Shrews" starring James Best of later "Dukes of Hazzard" fame, Ken Curtis from "Gunsmoke", and a whole slew of dogs in drag...enjoy! http://archive.org/download/ClockworkCardiacBadMovieRetreatEpisode002TheKillerShrews/Clockwork_Cardiac_Bad_Movie_Retreat_Episode_002_The_Killer_Shrews.mp3

Okay, this is going to be the first episode, so be kind...I may ramble on a bit, and I'm still getting used to the recording app.  Anyway, I talk a little about what you can expect from this podcast and then we get right into a dissection of the 1953 Phil Tucker classic "Robot Monster"  Enjoy! http://archive.org/download/ClockworkCardiacBadMovieRetreatEpisode001IntroductionAndRobotMonster/Clockwork_cardiac_bad_movie_retreat_episode001_introduction_and_robot_monster.mp3