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The Retro Podcast Massacre

Val Thomas

28 episodes

7 months ago

The Retro Podcast Massacre is finished! But here's episode 1 of the new podcast - The Big Screen Biograph! If you liked it, please subscribe to the new show at any of the sites below... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-big-screen-biograph/id1554434636 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3UPwd9wrA5ewwSNuZXNLDm Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdGhlLWJpZy1zY3JlZW4tYmlvZ3JhcGg Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/612a4b5c-6e...

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The Retro Podcast Massacre is finished! But here's episode 1 of the new podcast - The Big Screen Biograph! If you liked it, please subscribe to the new show at any of the sites below... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-big-screen-biograph/id1554434636 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3UPwd9wrA5ewwSNuZXNLDm Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdGhlLWJpZy1zY3JlZW4tYmlvZ3JhcGg Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/612a4b5c-6e...

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Episodes (20/28)

The Retro Podcast Massacre

Welcome to The Big Screen Biograph

The Retro Podcast Massacre is finished! But here's episode 1 of the new podcast - The Big Screen Biograph! If you liked it, please subscribe to the new show at any of the sites below... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-big-screen-biograph/id1554434636 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3UPwd9wrA5ewwSNuZXNLDm Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdGhlLWJpZy1zY3JlZW4tYmlvZ3JhcGg Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/612a4b5c-6e...

4 years ago

1 hour 13 minutes

The Retro Podcast Massacre

Episode 25 - The Rings: Sadako and Samara and ****ing Aidan

THIS EPISODE INCLUDES FULL SPOILERS FOR THE RING In this episode, Val watches as many Ring films as he can possibly stand (all but one). We look at the entire plot of the original Ring movie, to see how it compares to the American remake. Is the original better, or are those who claim the remake is worse just farty cinema snobs? No hints as to Val's opinion, but yes, totally. They are. Val also runs through the sequels - and there are LOT of them. From the Japanese...

4 years ago

49 minutes

The Retro Podcast Massacre

Minisode - The Roly Poly Man - The Strangest Film You've Never Seen

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS Join Val for a short episode on the little-seen, little-known, criminally-underappreciated Australian splatter comedy, "The Roly Poly Man". A film SO obscure we could find out almost NOTHING about it. So Val does his best to explain the movie's INCREDIBLY strange plot and tells you why you NEED to track this film down! Featuring giant Amazonian leeches, the murder of a giant TV bear, huge testicles, horny nuns. several horrible children and a hors...

4 years ago

15 minutes

The Retro Podcast Massacre

Episode 24 - SPLAT! The Savage Humour of Peter Jackson

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS Kia ora koutou, Willing Participants! Come to New Zealand with us, for this very Kiwi episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre! Val takes a look at the splatstick years of Peter Jackson, from building models and effects in his dad's shed and cooking up aliens in his mum's oven for "Bad Taste" through to bringing us debauched, filthy puppets in "Meet The Feebles" and then on to THEEEE GORIEST FILM IN THE WORLD EVAH - "Braindead" ak...

4 years ago

48 minutes

The Retro Podcast Massacre

Episode 23 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Genius or Bollocks?

WARNING: This episode contains significant spoilers for the film Halloween III. In this episode, Val looks back on the troubled history of the film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. It was a sequel that John Carpenter and Debra Hill didn't want to make. But they found inspiration in one of Carpenter's horror heroes - British science-fiction writer, Nigel Kneale. In an audacious move, they decided to make a film unlike any other in the Halloween franchise. "Not a knife movie, but a pod mo...

4 years ago

45 minutes

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Episode 22 - Hogmanay Special: Tales of Old Edinburgh

HAPPY NEW YEAR! In this festive episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre, Val takes you back to Edinburgh. A medieval city, where past links to the present. We focus on two tales from famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Body Snatcher. Val's old friend Dougal stops by for a dram or two, and to share with us the real-life inspiration for both stories. The dastardly Deacon Brodie, who lived by night as "Sir Lluyd" - a criminal who insp...

4 years ago

1 hour

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Episode 21 - Stephen King's Night Shift: The Movies

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY MILD SPOILERS In this episode, Val looks back at Stephen King's first collection of short stories, "Night Shift" published in 1978. This slim volume contained enough material to inspire movies, sequels, tv show episodes, segments in anthologies and even a Bollywood movie! Val will look at seven of the feature film adaptations in turn before talking about the great man's awesome Dollar Baby programme which encourages young film-makers to adapt his work. We'll fea...

4 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Episode 20 - EVIL TWINS in Horror Movies or "Attack of the Clones"

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY MILD SPOILERS In this dramatic episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre, the podcast is taken over by Val's EVIL TWIN Hal, who is determined the turn the Willing Participants into an army of unthinking drones! But first, Hal reviews three horror films which feature twins. The first is 1981's "Madhouse", directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis, featuring a spooky old house and a terrifying twin sister, hell-bent on REVENGE! Then we look at Brian de Palma's brilliant thriller...

5 years ago

48 minutes

The Retro Podcast Massacre

Minisode - BRRRM-SPLAT! The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Dissected

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS ONLY Our first minisode! It turned out almost as long as a regular episode. Eff's sake. Join Val as he goes over the history of Tobe Hooper's horror masterpiece. The inspiration for the movie, the writing of the movie and the trauma of shooting the movie. Also find out how Tobe Hooper wanted to make the world's first ever PG-rated cannibal chain saw movie, and why the bemused British censors found it completely unrateable. We'll also talk about setting...

5 years ago

33 minutes

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Episode 19 - Black and White Nights or "An Appointment With Fear"

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this episode, Val's family stops by to reminisce about their days of staying up late to watch the Friday Night Horror at grandad's on his old black and white tv set. We'll take a look at some family favourites from back in the day, including... - Robert Wise's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic novel, "The Haunting" - Jacques Tourneur's terrifying and atmospheric "Night of the Demon" - Heaps of rollicking fun with Charles Laughton and...

5 years ago

50 minutes

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Episode 18 - Telekinesis in Horror Movies or "Carrie White Burns in Hell"

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS Join Val once again as he digs through the back catalogue for films about telekinesis! We start with a visit to the World Telekinesis Championships to see what would happen if you pitted a Firestarter against a Scanner! With that out of the way, Val then discusses what makes Carrie such an outstanding and influential horror movie, before discussing some of the films that followed in its wake. First of all, the campy, silly, funny tv film "Th...

5 years ago

49 minutes

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Episode 17 - Hammer's Karnstein Trilogy or "Carmilla Comes A Cropper"

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS Greetings, Willing Participants! Come and join us for this wildly-Gothic, atmospheric episode of RPM! This time Val delves into the blood-soaked world of Hammer films, to look at their Karnstein trilogy. Tales of female vampires who want to seduce you before draining your blood. We open with Val's puerile and smutty tribute to Hammer movies, as he visits a Hammer tavern and talks to the barkeep about rude vampire ladies who may or may not look lik...

5 years ago

50 minutes

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Episode 16 - Anthony Perkins and Norman Bates: Psycho and Sequels

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS OF THE FILM "PSYCHO". LIKE YOU HAVEN'T ALL SEEN IT ALREADY. THERE ARE ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS OF THE FILMS, PSYCHO II, III AND IV. In this episode, we look back over the four Psycho films which star Anthony Perkins and completely ignore Psycho 1998 because seriously, eff that film. Val recounts the theory by critic Donald Spoto as to what Psycho 1960 is really all about, then moves swiftly on to the overlooked classic sequel Psycho II. Anthony Perkins...

5 years ago

45 minutes

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Episode 15 - The Terror Films of Pete Walker

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this episode, Val invites you to step into the TIME VORTEX as we travel back to the sleazy, swinging world of seedy London in the early 1970's, full of permissive young people and disapproving old folk. Val takes you into a 1970's flea-pit cinema where we talk through the "Terror Films" of Pete Walker. He was a British director who wanted his movies to inspire TERROR through their reality. No vampires or ghosts for him. His films feature insane o...

5 years ago

36 minutes

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Episode 14 - Early David Cronenberg: The "Squishy" Years

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this episode, Val explores the crazy, sticky, scary and maybe-misogynistic world of David Cronenberg. We open at the Van Nostrand Institute for Scary Science Fiction Ideas where a bunch of science nerds have invented Oblivio-Cast, the next generation in podcasting which may or may not cause sexual insanity and/or head explosions. With that silliness out of the way, Val reviews the first three films from the King of Body Horror. In "Shivers"...

5 years ago

41 minutes

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Episode 13 - Occult Cults: Sinister Satanists at the Cinema

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this episode, Val delves into the world of red capes and cloven hooves with a look at Satanic cult films. We open with an inside look into a meeting of the Satanic Order of Despair and Debauchery (East Cheam Chapter) and witness first hand their weird rituals and diabolic doings! Then Val reviews The Brotherhood of Satan from 1971, in which creepy children appear to be murdering their own parents with Satanic toys. Following this, a look ...

5 years ago

43 minutes

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Episode 12 - Early John Carpenter Movies: The Night Before He Came Home

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this special episode we look at the pre-Halloween films of horror maestro John Carpenter. It was with "Halloween" in 1978 that John Carpenter changed the course of horror for at least ten years, and ushered in a decade of masked killers chasing sensible virgins around. But this episode eschews all of that stuff. We take a look at the films that allowed John Carpenter to define his signature style, the look, the themes and the characters tha...

5 years ago

32 minutes

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Episode 11 - Snuff, Spanish-Style: Alejandro Amenábar's "Tesis"

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS HONEST NO REALLY WE PROMISE NOT TO TELL YOU WHO DID IT In this week's episode, Val gets to talk about a horror film about horror films! "Tesis" is a film about why we like horror. Why stories of violence and death attract us, rather than repel us. Val gives us an overview of the plot and compares it to the Found Footage, Torture Porn and Giallo sub-genres. This gives Val the opportunity to go off on an irrelevant bloody tangent and give...

5 years ago

29 minutes

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Episode 10 - The Exorcist Saga, Part 2: The Gemini Killer Lives!

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS In this episode, Val pays a heartfelt tribute to director Renny Harlin before recapping the troubled history of the sequels to The Exorcist. After his book "Legion" became a bestseller, William Peter Blatty returned to adapt the novel as "The Exorcist III" which is surprisingly great despite huge amounts of studio interference. Inspired in part by a letter from a real-life serial killer, the original cut of The Exorcist III invokes the spirit ...

5 years ago

32 minutes

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Episode 9 - The Exorcist Saga, Part 1: Howdy

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS OF BOTH FILMS In this episode, we pay a brief tribute to legendary actor Max Von Sydow. Then, we visit Val as he time-travels back to 1973 in an attempt to cast evil spirits out of Linda Blair, and Katie Miller has fun with sound effects. There follows a chat about The Exorcist, and the effect this film had on Val the first time he saw it. Why it works so well for some people, while leaving others cold. And Val explains why this film scares him so...

5 years ago

44 minutes