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The Black Heart Collectors Club 2023
HOLY GUACAMOLEEEE! We Are B.A.C.K.!!!
YES - Split Your Head has finally returned! The first episode is actually technically the last episode of the first season. Okay, bear with me, but we ran into a ton of technical difficulties and ended up actually doing this entire interview twice. So, this is a bit Frankenstein-en and also a bit delirious because I had to ask questions and act like I didn't already know the answer.
Fortunately though, it was all worth…
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Halloween 1978
Happy Halloween! A new episode is LIVE and for this momentous occasion I've got two gnarly dudes on, Christian Michelsen & Goblin O'Riley from Quality Violent Cinema!
QVC is an extreme horror podcast that's been around for a few years now and has been covering some of the wildest stuff to come out of underground horror. On top of that, Christian and Goblin are filmmakers and have recently contributed segments to The Flesh & Blood Collection. So naturally I had to have…
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Curfew 1989
Curfew is an obscure late 80's thriller, resurrected by Vinegar Syndrome for that specific Sunday Afternoon haze. On paper, it packs a real punch: a home-invasion nightmare where two escaped convicts go to their judge's house and terrorize his family. Their antics grow increasingly grim, sleazy, and mean-spirited, real "jumping out of your skin" moments for an otherwise cheesy lacklustre mid-paced creeper.
While there was a handful of great scenes and a decent plot overall, the acting, pacing and score…
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Open Doom Crescendo 2022
Terry Chiu's Open Doom Crescendo is an epic experience, to say the least. A 3 hour waterfall of energy, angst, and abandon, presented through the lens of a cheap camera as if the operator was playing hot potato, then passing that hot object on to every other person involved until the screen writhed on fast-forward through a philosophical diatribe. It's evocative, poetic, and complex, but mostly it's funny, zany, and absurd. It's everything - exploding, imploding, and changing its language…
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Evil Dead Trap 1988
Late 80's Japanese ultra-banger supernatural-slasher industrial-nightmare. Get your hyphens ready, cutie-pie! This one mixes all the right ingredients together for that ultimate brain rot.
Nami, a late night TV host, receives a mysterious VHS tape containing the real deal: a snuff film of a woman's eye getting brutally punctured in an abandoned warehouse. Intrigue levels skyrocket, leading Nami to bring a small production crew out to investigate this decrepit setting where she's certain the filming took place.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Jonathan Glazer's immaculately designed nightmare keeps the visceral chaos simmering behind a wall at all times, letting the pain become the atmosphere and not the central spectacle. Yet, this unique approach to subtly showcasing the horrors of the holocaust is still a gimmick and the lack of spectacle itself then becomes a spectacle, leaving me completely torn on whether it worked or not.
First off, until Glazer's acceptance speech at the Oscars where he denounced the genocide currently happening in…