Episode 120: Lost Films and Crazy Movies You Never Saw with Roxanne Guarino S. A. Bradley

The 96th Academy Awards Ceremony is upon us, but we fans know that the only award that matters is if you recommend a horror movie to your friends and they love it!
In reality, 2023 was such a good year for horror movies that I needed two episodes to cover my favorites!
Join me as we celebrate PART TWO of the "Killer Elite," a list of horror movies that surprised me and that I recommend to horror fans!
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies Covered:
The Sacrifice Game(2023)
In My Mother’s Skin (2023)
Huesera: The Bone Woman (2023)
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
No One Will Save You (2023)
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
When Evil Lurks (2023)
Talk to Me (2023)
Against the Grain (documentary) (2023)

The 96th Academy Awards Ceremony is in a few weeks, but the annual outrage over the lack of horror movie nominations is in full swing. We fans know that the only award that matters is if you recommend a horror movie to your friends.
In reality, 2023 was a damn good year for horror movies, with diverse styles and subgenres to satisfy any horror fan's tastes, and I have so many recommendations I needed two episodes to cover them!
Join me as I celebrate the "Killer Elite," a list of horror movies that surprised me and I recommend them to horror fans!
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies covered: 
Cobweb (2023)
The Outwaters (2023)
We Might Hurt Each Other (2023) 
Suitable Flesh (2023)
Thanksgiving (2023)
Destroy All Neighbors (2023)
 

It's Time for our annual Christmas Ghost Story!
 
We return to the Grandfather of the modern ghost story, M.R. James.
 

Join me as I read his classic short story, A View From a Hill, and find out what a "Borgia Box" is!

Happy Holidays to everyone!
 

I hope you enjoy the show!
 

Story: A View From a Hill from the collection A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925)

 

 

Horror movie collectors live to find those rare movies that eluded us. These are the movies that are so obscure and bizarre that it becomes a quest to see them and pass them on to other fans.
Join our guest, Roxanne Guarino (Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo), author of the new zine The Craziest Movies You Never Saw, as we discuss the growing lost media culture, legendary "Holy Grails" of horror and cult, and our own favorite cinematic lost causes.
Follow Roxanne on Instagram: @basement_mind_meds
Dare to go down the lost media rabbit hole of the Lost Media Wiki: https://lostmediawiki.com/Home
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies, Books, and TV Shows Discussed:
The Story of Vampires by Thomas G. Aylesworth (1977 Children's book)
Big Bad Beetleborgs (TV Series, 1996-1998)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Short Films by Short People, “Attack of the Giant Vulture” (TV-Nickelodeon, 1995)
Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (1973) aka Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
Sesame Street Episode 847- with Margaret Hamilton (TV-1976)
Sesame Street Short- “Cracks (aka Crack Master)” (TV-1975)
Rock Odyssey (1987)
Heidi’s Song (1982)
Mean Parents Suck/aka For Parents Only (1991)
Plan 10 From Outer Space (1995)
London After Midnight (1927)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (Anime-2007)
Freaks: Deleted Scenes (1932)
Nighty-Night: Midnight Nightmares (1986)
Happy Mother’s Day, Love George/ aka Run, Stranger, Run (1973)
Twice Upon a Time (1983)
 

 

Welcome to "Tape Two" of S.O.V. (shot on video) movies that prove that Horror is the Punk Rock of Cinema!
For decades, fans made movies without Hollywood, money, or distribution deals. Following the DIY ethos, regional horror movies sprung up everywhere and told crazy, original, and personal stories and created a subculture.
Just like punk rock did! 
Join me as I curate a list of movies that show the diversity of SOV movies, how filmmakers worked out personal traumas by creating, and how SOV gave a legendary director one last chance to be heard!
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies Discussed:
SAVAGE HARVEST (1994) Dir. Eric Stanze
SCRAPBOOK (2000) Dir. Eric Stanze
THE BURNING MOON (1992) Olaf Ittenbach
HALLUCINATIONS (1986) Dirs. John Polonia | Mark Polonia | Todd Michael Smith
SPLATTER FARM (1987) Dirs. John Polonia | Mark Polonia | Todd Michael Smith
TWISTED ISSUES (1988) Dir. Charles Pinion
POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983) Dir. Cecelia Condit
BENEATH THE SKIN (1981) Dir. Cecelia Condit
EACH TIME I KILL (2007) Dir. Doris Wishman
LIMBO (1999) Dir. Tina Krause

Horror is the Punk Rock of Cinema, and S.O.V. (shot on video) movies prove it!
For decades, fans made movies without Hollywood, money, or distribution deals. Following the DIY ethos, regional horror movies sprung up everywhere and told crazy, original, and personal stories and created a subculture.
Just like punk rock did! 
Join me on "Tape One," where I discuss the long history of renegade moviemaking outside the system, some of my favorite SOV movies, and make a confession about my own SOV film from 1993! 
("Tape Two," a discussion of ten more SOV movies, will drop on Black Friday!)
I hope you enjoy the show!
Movies Discussed:
LET'S GET DEAD (1993) Dir. Scott Bradley
SLEDGEHAMMER (1983) Dir. David A. Prior
BOARDINGHOUSE (1982) Dir. John Wintergate
DARKNESS (1993) Dir. Leif Jonker
SHATTER DEAD (1994) Dir. Scooter McCrae
SIXTEEN TONGUES (1999-released 2005) Dir. Scooter McCrae
WEASELS RIP MY FLESH (1979) Dir. Nathan Schiff 
KILLING SPREE (1987) Dir. Tim Ritter
THE PACT (1995) Dir. Brad Sykes
LIST OF EARLY REGIONAL INDIE MOVIE MAVERICKS DISCUSSED:
William Grefe in Florida (MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH, STANLEY)
Larry Buchanan in Texas (THE EYE CREATURES, MARS NEEDS WOMEN)
Bill Rebane in Wisconsin (THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION)
 Long Islander Andy Milligan (THE GHASTLY ONES)
Martin Folse in Louisiana (TERROR IN THE SWAMP)
 J.R. Bookwalter in Ohio (THE DEAD NEXT DOOR)
 Herschell Gordon Lewis in Florida (BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!)