Tracks Of The Damned

"Guy N. Smith wrote his first horror novel, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974 published by New English Library (NEL). It spawned two direct sequels. However, he states it was Night of the Crabs, published in 1976, that really launched his career as a writer. Spawning 11 sequels, the latest of which was published in 2019, the series chronicles invasions of various areas of the British coastline by giant man-eating crabs." "A lifelong pipe smoker, Guy N. Smith won the British pipe smoking championship in 2003." "Oh, no, the professor died. I saw this movie in a little theater in West Texas when I was just a kid back in the late 1950s. It was in the winter and cold as ... well, as cold as it can get in the Panhandle. There was very little heat in the theater and my whole family sat shivering and with our jackets on, we but didn't want to leave. If you ever saw "The Last Picture Show" that will give you an idea of what it was like. But, good memories nonetheless." - @gilbertodominguez5212 3 years ago

"If I do not receive blood within four chronoctons of time, I will have no need of emotion."   "I wear my sunglasses at night So I can, so I can Watch you weave then breathe your story lines" Charles B. Griffith starts to spread his wings. 

Charles B. Griffith stumbles upon a new scenario to endlessly repeat for Roger Corman. Turns out, it's the same as the old scenario. In the meantime Beverly Garland cooks, Dick Miller finds his voice and we all listen to a lot of steel guitar.

The shoot was rough on everyone. Alison Hayes, a very witty, humorous actress, came up with the best line of all. "Tell me, Roger," she said, soaking wet and cold, "who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?" - How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood (And Never Lost A Dime) by Roger Corman with Jim Jerome The end of the Corman western pushes the Corman woman to the fore, while horrible weather pushes everyone indoors.

"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself." - Paul Nelson "[raising her rifle] You think you're gonna make a slave of the world... I'll see you in Hell first!" - Claire Anderson "I ate a hot dog It tasted real good Then I watched a movie From Hollywood" - Frank Zappa Roger Corman has arrived.  

https://brightlightsfilm.com/she-gods-gangsters-and-gunslingers-the-new-woman-in-the-early-films-of-roger-corman/ In my haste I don't think I actually say the name of the writer of this essay, Catherine Essinger. Apologies to Catherine Essinger, thank you Catherine for writing this.

Not as Russ Meyer as you may hope but still, at heart, a bondage fetish film about tough broads with great gams pointing guns at each other and looking at stock footage of alligators. Featuring the incredible eyes of Marie Windsor.

"I just can't help it, I have this uncontrollable urge to eat meat. Red... raw... meat." Post-apocalyptic radioactive bat-moth mutants with doodle boppers and angry eyebrows terrorize a found family of a fascist, a gangster, a stripper, a gold prospector, the guy from Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a young woman pining after a portrait of Roger Corman. What results is the first Corman classic and kind of crummy at the same time.

"The movie has been called one of Corman's dullest films." Roger Corman month continues with a low-wattage western murder mystery about a white man who teaches a biracial woman how to love by manhandling her and killing her brother. Dick Miller is in it but you have to wait 64 minutes before he shows up.

A commentary track for Five Guns West (1955). We're doing something stupid for November. One Roger Corman-directed movie a day. Why? Get action, do things, be sane. 

for nathaxnne walker "The Devil is dope" - The Dramatics Beyond the darkest depths of imagination, the outer rim of human experience, the forbidden rites thought forgotten, rediscovered. The annual tradition of the Halloween mix corrupted, made sinister, clawed loose from the crypt and into the stark sunlight of reality. Italian soundtracks to 1930's jazz to darkwave to stoner metal to house to folk to garage psychedelia and beyond. Remember: when you look Satan in the face, he looks back at you, with one eye open and one eye closed. *1. The Devil is Dope - The Dramatics *2. Headless - Tearist (Live on KXLU) 3a. "AKA Dr. Satan" (House of 1000 Corpses excerpt) *3b. House of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie 4a. Drive-In Movie Radio Spot - Night of the Living Dead & Blood and Black Lace (1968) *4b. In The Room Where You Sleep - Dead Man's Bones 5a. "Satan, our Lord and Master" (Alucarda excerpt) *5b. Main theme (from Beyond the Darkness) - Goblin 6a. "The great devil's advocates of the past..." (Anton LeVey i

FIGHT BACK AGAINST TRANSPHOBIC ATTACKS ON THE CHILDREN OF TEXAS: Resources For Transgender Youth in Texas: https://www.txtranskids.org/ Transgender Education Network of Texas: https://www.transtexas.org/services Equality Texas: https://www.equalitytexas.org/ ---------- Whether it's a complicated layered confession from the man who introduced blockbuster filmmaking into the water supply, turning his fellow New Hollywood icons into endangered species or just the best monster movie of the 90s, Jurassic Park (1993) is a beloved institution that will never go away, that children around the world will never stop enjoying, that will never stop influencing the world of populist popcorn cinema. So why does everyone seem to get it wrong? To dig into the minutae of what makes this highly sophisticated machine tick and also just reminisce about being kids in the 90's when this came out, Patrick Ripoll and Regina Linn hold onto their butts and ask the big questions like: Is this movie actually a good demonstration of chao

A special Halloween treat: a unique performance of the classic HP Lovecraft short story by Patrick Ripoll and Regina Linn.

The climax of the career of the greatest horror star of all time and also a miserable failure critically and commercially, The Devil Commands was the product of a hungry up and coming director, Edward Dmytryk, being paired with material best described as "Lovecraftian" decades before that word meant anything to anybody. In this episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, host Patrick Ripoll tackles the second horror boom of the 40s and asks the big questions like: is that matte painting haunted? Time-Stamps: 0:00 - 0:37  -  Apology Concerning My Thoughtless Words 0:38 - 2:47  -  Intro 2:48 - 1:10:05  -  Commentary 1:10:06 - 1:53:58  - Ten Must-See Karloff Performances 1:53:59 - 1:57:54  -  Outro

The year was 2007, we were all drinking Four Loko, playing Super Mario Galaxy, listening to MIA's "Paper Planes" and taking to our Livejournals and message boards to argue about "torture porn" films. Were they pumped up cinema sadism designed to please craven adolescent creeps? Or angry political works calling back to horror's glory days of the 70's?   The better question was, perhaps, were they torture porn at all? To answer all that and more on the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary track podcast, Patrick recruited Gabe Powers of Genre Grinder to take a look at Hostel: Part Two (2007), the ambitious and oft-ignored follow up to Eli Roth's breakthrough film. We get into the influence of Tarantino, the history of Elizabeth Bathory in horror films, it's connections to Italian genre films and how Eli Roth made up for certain short-comings as a writer with one particularly brilliant piece of casting. Let's go!   0:00 - 4:16  -  Intro 4:17 - 1:51:51  -  Commentary 1:51:52 - 1:57:16

In a world full of rip-off artists the key is how you rip something off. Sean S. Cunningham, the director of two separate Bad News Bears knockoffs, was not the first guy to go "Hey, this Halloween movie is real popular and seems cheap to make" but he was the guy who did it the exact right way at the exact right time to change the world of horror forever. On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned Patrick finally returns to the one that started it all (the uncut version!) and talks about why critics despised it, why it was so successful and just what kind of winding road one takes from pornography to deep sea sci-fi movies. 0:00 - 5:18 - Intro 5:19 - 1:41:55 - Commentary 1:41:56 - 1:44:25 - Outro 1:44:26 - 1:48:23 - ???

It's cold, meat is carved and you're thankful it exists. That's all the justification we need for a special Thanksgiving episode of Tracks of the Damned where Patrick & Jim sat down and did an impromptu, research-free commentary track for The Evil Dead. You may not get to be with your family this year but sit down next to the hearth (don't forget the screaming claymation Necronomicon) and warm your bones with us and Bruce Campbell. That ain't cranberry sauce! Ash gets the stuffing beaten out of him. And a third Thanksgiving joke. 0:00 - 2:43 - Intro 2:44 - 1:30:39 - Commentary 1:30:40 - 1:43:07 - Outro

We've cut off heads, double impaled lovers, went 3D, we ended things, we began them again, we went Frankenstein, we went Carrie, we went to Manhattan, we went to Hell, we went to Space we went Kaiju, what the hell is left to do? Do it all again! How do you remake a movie when the things the fans love about the series don't actually exist in that movie? By remaking the entire series. As ambitious as it is divisive, Friday the 13th (2009) may not be a great film but it is a great example of the problem solving inherent to writing a remake. It's got perfect reference placement, baby. 0:00 - 2:25 - Intro 2:26: - 1:46:30 - Commentary 1:46:31 - 1:49:33 - Outro

"Remember last year, when we were worried that Halloween in 2020 wouldn't feel like Halloween? 'We can't bob for apples, the season is ruined!' Well now some time has passed, it's October again and I haven't even seen an apple in 7 months." - Micah Bravo, host of Tracks of the Damned You think this year was a clusterfuck, you ain't see nothing yet. Live, from the radio station of the third most prestigious community college in the greater Baton Rouge area, DJ Micah Bravo (Regina Linn) surveys a decimated post-nuclear landscape and does what they do every Halloween: get high and party with another great mix of weird and wild spooky tunes. The pumpkins may have mutated a new skin that's impervious to knives but Halloween will never die! ACT ONE 1. What Lurks On Channel X? by Rob Zombie 2. Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani in G Minor, FP 93: I. Andante by Francis Poulenc 3a. Troma Team Title Music 3b. Clip #1 of The Masque of the Red Death read by William S. Burroughs 3c. Silver Shamrock Jingle by Joh

It took 17 years, three god-awful sequels, 18 spec scripts and meetings with every person who ever worked in Hollywood but we got here, we have arrived, grab your shit from the overhead bin because the plane has landed, Freddy Vs. Jason is upon us. A stupid idea inspired by only the most juvenile among the fanbases somehow, some way, turned out to be one of the best entries in either series, a well-crafted and energetic bit of party cinema, grab your gummi bears and throw them at the screen, shouting is enouraged! And in that spirit join Patrick as well as Genre Grinder's Gabe Powers for a rollicking good time commentary that dares to ask: When did horror movie soundtracks become heavy metal mixtapes? Where did Kane Hodder go? And who the hell approved that original ending that caps off a decades-awaited monster mash with Freddy committing sexual assault? All that PLUS we pitch our own Freddy Vs. Jason ideas on this latest episode of Tracks of the Damned! 0:00 - 5:12 - Intro 5:13 - 1:50:57 - Commentary 1:50: