42nd Street Forever

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The staff of Grindhouse Cinema Database and guests discuss a variety of classic exploitation films that played in grindhouses on The Deuce in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

  1. 11/01/2025

    I Drink Your Blood & The Hills Have Eyes at the Times Square

    On Episode 19, Pete & Seb celebrate SHOCKTOBER 2025 with a classic grindhouse horror double bill that played the Times Square in October 1979. First, a cross country family road trip becomes a horrifying fight for survival in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes THEN a small town is terrorized by a rabid satanic cult in I Drink Your Blood.

    55 min

  2. 07/19/2025

    Master Killer and Duel of the Iron Fist at the Times Square

    On Episode 18, Pete & Seb discuss a classic Shaw Brothers grindhouse kung fu double bill that played the Times Square in July of 1979. First Ti Lung and David Chiang star in DUEL OF THE IRON FIST a bloody kung fu gangster mashup from Chang Cheh, Then Gordon Liu must pass through the tricky obstacle filled 36 chambers of shaolin in Lau Kar Leung's MASTER KILLER.

    57 min

  3. 04/26/2025

    Walking The Edge and Low Blow at the Selwyn

    On Episode 17, Pete & Seb hit The Selwyn for an 80s crime thriller double bill that played in April 1986: FIRST Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan must evade a gang of criminals out for blood in WALKING THE EDGE. Then low budget Martial Arts legend Leo Fong is a San Francisco private detective who infiltrates a deranged religious cult in LOW BLOW.

    1h 4m

  4. 01/25/2025

    Psychic Killer and Circle of Iron at CINE 42

    On Episode 16, Pete & Seb stop into CINE 42 to watch an eclectic double bill that played in January 1979. FIRST Jim Hutton stars as a man with deadly telekinetic powers in PSYCHIC KILLER then David Carradine (fresh off of the Kung Fu TV series) stars in CIRCLE OF IRON a mystical martial arts fantasy based on a story by Bruce Lee.

    59 min

  5. 11/02/2024

    Foxy Brown and Truck Turner at the Harris

    On Episode 15, Pete & Seb discuss a Baadasss Blaxploitation Double Bill from AIP that played at The Harris in October of 1974. FIRST, Pam Grier stars as a chick with drive who don't take no jive in FOXY BROWN, THEN Isaac Hayes stars as TRUCK TURNER, the last of the bounty hunters. Grab your popcorn and get ready for a supercool, super fly grindhouse cinema experience!

    1h 2m

  6. 10/28/2023

    Rolling Thunder at CINE 42

    On Episode 14 Pete and Seb discuss a film released in October of 1977 which premiered at CINE 42 on The Deuce. William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Haynes star in John Flynn’s classic revengeamatic ROLLING THUNDER.

    58 min

  7. 10/07/2023

    Sabata and Payment in Blood at the Lyric

    On Episode 13, Pete and Seb discuss a spaghetti western double bill that played at the Lyric theater in September of 1970. FIRST, Lee Van Cleef stars as The Man With Gunsight Eyes in the Gianfranco Parolini classic SABATA. THEN Edd "Kookie" Byrnes sets out to find a lost Confederate treasure with a gang of maniacal marauders in Enzo G. Castellari’s 1967 directorial debut PAYMENT IN BLOOD.

    1h 7m
  8. Brutal Justice at the Selwyn

    07/30/2023

    Brutal Justice at the Selwyn

    On Episode 12, Pete and Seb discuss one of their favorite poliziotteschi/Eurocrime films that played at the Selwyn theater in July of 1978, Umberto Lenzi’s BRUTAL JUSTICE aka The Tough Ones starring Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian.

    1h 21m
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The staff of Grindhouse Cinema Database and guests discuss a variety of classic exploitation films that played in grindhouses on The Deuce in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

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  • Creator
    Grindhouse Cinema Database
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Grindhouse Cinema Database
  • Show Website
    42nd Street Forever