Genre Grinder Gabe Powers

COVER VERSIONS OF YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES! NOW AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES FROM MULTIPLE COUNTRIES!
 
Don’t worry, you didn’t select the wrong language track on your DVD Player, you’re just watching familiar movies with an unfamiliar twist. You’ve seen plenty of Hollywood remakes of Hollywood hits – The Ring, The Grudge, One Missed Call, Pulse, other examples that aren’t Japanese horror movies – but what about the opposite thing? Join Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster for a look at the Turkish version of Rocky, the Niger version of Purple Rain, the Bollywood Silence of the Lambs, the Russian version of 12 Angry Men, the Hong Kong version of Cellular, the Chinese version of Blood Simple, and the Japanese version of Unforgiven. This one went a little longer than usual, but it was worth it!
 
00:00 Intro
07:15 Çetin Inanç’s Black Lightning (Turkish Kara Simsek, 1985)
23:48 Christopher Kirkley’s Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (Tuareg: Akounak tedalat taha tazoughai, 2015)
38:06 Tanuja Chandra’s Sangharsh (1999)
58:27 Nikita Mikhalkov’s 12 (2007)
1:21:16 Benny Chan’s Connected (Cantonese: Bo chi tung wah, 2008)
1:43:23 Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop (Mandarin: San qiang pai an jing qi, 2009)
1:56:24 Lee Sang-il’s Unforgiven (Japanese: Yurusarezaru mono, 2013)



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SHARPEN YOUR STRAIGHT RAZORS AND POLISH YOUR BLACK LEATHER, WE’RE NOT QUITE DONE WITH ITALIAN THRILLERS JUST YET!!
 
Welcome back to Genre Grinder’s look back on the gialli of 1971. In part one, Gabe (the fan) and Patrick (the skeptic) covered Sergio Martino’s The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Italian: Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh), Dario Argento’s Cat O’ Nine Tails (Italian: Il gatto a nove code), Lucio Fulci’s Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna), Enzo G. Castellari’s Cold Eyes of Fear (Italian: Gli occhi freddi della paura), and José María Forqué’s Eye of the Hurricane (Spanish: El ojo del huracán).
 
Part two (of two) features even more giallo goodness, including Luigi Bazzoni’s The Fifth Cord (Italian: Giornata nera per l'ariete), Emilio Miraglia’s The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (Italian: La notte che Evelyn usci’ dalia tomba), Umberto Lenzi’s Oasis of Fear (aka: An Ideal Place to Kill; Italian: Un posto ideale per uccidere), Mario Bava’s A Bay of Blood (Italian: Ecologia del delitto; aka: Twitch of the Death Nerve), Duccio Tessari’s The Bloodstained Butterfly (Italian: Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate), Paolo Cavara’s The Black Belly of the Tarantula (Italian: La tarantola dal ventre nero), and Aldo Lado’s Short Night of the Glass Dolls (Italian: La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro).
 
00:00 – Intro
01:37 – The Fifth Cord
22:29 – The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave 
40:04 – Oasis of Fear
1:00:00 – A Bay of Blood
1:09:02 – The Bloodstained Butterfly
1:22:01 – Black Belly of the Tarantula
1:34:29 – Short Night of the Glass Dolls
1:55:11 – Outro
 
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MAD KILLERS! ANXIOUS WOMEN! TWISTED CRIMINAL PLOTS! CHIC INTERIOR DECORATING! PSYCHEDELIC FLASHBACKS! NEEDLESSLY LONG TITLES!!
 
Giallo – plural gialli – so-named for the cover color of pulp crime novels in Italy is a stylish world of psychosis and murder that has existed in some capacity since the early 1960s, but it wasn’t until Dario Argento’s 1970 classic, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, became a worldwide hit that the giallo fad really took the country by storm. The following year, 1971, was arguably the biggest in the genre’s history, with a total of more than 40 films, several of which would become classics. Join super-fan Gabe and relatively apathetic returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned and Uptown Song Club as they explore a total of 12 titles in a two-part series.
 
Part one includes Sergio Martino’s The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Italian: Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh), Dario Argento’s Cat O’ Nine Tails (Italian: Il gatto a nove code), Lucio Fulci’s Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna), Enzo G. Castellari’s Cold Eyes of Fear (Italian: Gli occhi freddi della paura), and José María Forqué’s Eye of the Hurricane (Spanish: El ojo del huracán). The original plan was to do 6 per episode, but I have COVID-19 and ran out of energy. But stay tuned for a longer part two soon!
 
00:00 – Intro
09:45 – The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
27:05 – Cat O’ Nine Tails 
44:26 – Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
58:23 – Cold Eyes of Fear
1:11:24 – Eye of the Hurricane
1:28:07 – Outro
 
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CALLING ALL CARS! CALLING ALL CARS! BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POINTED PROFANITY, SUGGESTIVE NUDITY, AND RIDICULE OF THE CLERGY! 
 
Before the MPAA ratings board, there was the Production Code and, before that, there was the Hays Code, which was more of a series of nagging demands than an actual code. Film historians tend to refer to the five-year period between the widespread adoption of sound (1929) and the harsh implementation of the Production Code in July of 1934 as the “Pre-Code Era.” Gabe and returning guest Arianny Pilarte take a look at four such films, all of which fall into the crime genre, including two gangster classics – William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931) and Howard Hawks’ Scarface (1932) – and two salacious melodramas from a feminine point-of-view – Mervyn LeRoy’s Three on a Match (1932) and Stephen Roberts’ The Story of Temple Drake (1933).
 
 
00:00 – Intro
08:07 – The Public Enemy
36:30 – Scarface
1:10:11 – Three on a Match
1:33:16 – The Story of Temple Drake
1:55:34 – Outro
 
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THERE’S A CHILL UPON THE AIR AS THE WIND CARRIES THE CRIES OF A WEEPING WOMAN. MIS HIJOS! MIS HIJOS! 
 
Once upon a time, there was a poor woman who murdered her children after being slighted by her wealthy lover. Or was it an indigenous woman who had her child stolen by colonizers? Or maybe it was an accidental pregnancy that was secretly terminated? However the story goes, the woman died and her ghost now wanders the night in search of new children. To avoid her wailing spirit, take a listen to Gabe and returning guest Kristine Fisher as they talk about movies starring that most popular of Latin American ghosts, La Llorona, including Ramón Peón’s La Llorona (1933), René Cardona’s La Llorona (1960), Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (1961), Miguel M. Delgado’s Santo and Mantequilla Napoles in The Revenge of the Crying Woman (1973), Rigoberto Castañeda’s Kilometer 31 (2006), and Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (2019).
 
00:00 – Intro
04:34 – La Llorona (1933)
14:33 – La Llorona (1960)
27:21 – The Curse of the Crying Woman
41:18 – The Revenge of the Crying Woman
57:32 – Kilometer 31
1:15:43 – La Llorona (2019)
1:28:50 – Outro
 
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Between canceled episodes, personal scheduling conflicts, and a secret project, we here at Genre Grinder have been very busy. But we don’t want to shirk our spooky season music mix responsibilities, so, please, enjoy this special all Goblin experience. Every one of the songs and sound effects used to create this moody mix (with one exception) were produced by some iteration of Italy’s great prog-rock horror pioneers, Goblin. No Simonetti solo music, Daemonia, or the Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante pairing.
 
Please enjoy, have a happy Halloween, and we’ll see you again for a standard episode of Genre Grinder soon.
 
Here is the complete track mix: 
Ai margini della follia (ALT)/Zombi (The Living Dead’s Voices Bonus Track) – Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) OST La caccia – Zombi (Dawn of the Dead) OST Patrick (ALT)/Vibrazoni – Patrick OST Snip Snap – Patrick OST (and Roller) Buio Omega (Titoli) – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST Memoria – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST Buio Omega (M32) – Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness) OST Withy – Contamination OST Connexion – Contamination OST The Carver – Contamination OST Wampyr (Finale) – Wampyr (Martin) Alternate Italian ST Sequence 2 – La via della droga (The Heroin Busters) OST School at Night (Celeste version)/Death Dies – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Mad Puppet – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Profondo Rosso – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Mad Puppet – Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) OST Roller – Roller Yell – Amo non amo (Together?) OST Witch – Suspiria OST Markos – Suspiria OST Suspiria – Suspiria OST The Gonk by Herbert Chappell