Lawrence.com Podcasts: Punditocracy

Clairvoyants vomiting otherworldly ooze, teenage delinquents succumbing to the evils of reefer, hepcat aliens in search of a happening beach party-some will call it "degenerate," others "corrupting," and still more will label it "hoodlum-izing." Julia Zinn and Lauren Kimball-Brown, two Lawrence hop-heads with a taste for extreme cinema, prefer to call it "Nife Fite." Zinn and Kimball-Brown have been making freaky flicks together since their teens, but in the last three years while studying film-at the University of Chicago and Boston , respectively-have focused their efforts on recreating the sordid '60's underground genre of exploitation films. Marked by cheap production values and taboo sensationalism, notable gems in this distinguished movement of American filmmaking include "Diary of a Swinger," "Blood Feast," and "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" Amassing a gang of like-minded connoisseurs, Zinn and Kimball-Brown have been making their own, updated contributions to the exploitation cannon under the co