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Sunday, May 5, 2019

LADY IN WHITE: A Nightmare & Schlockscapes Spotlight

Welcome to Nightmares and Schlockscapes, where movies that go bump in the night are dragged from beneath your bed and into the spotlight. The Gothic classics of yesteryear, the bodacious B-grades, and those celluloid chillers best watched through your fingers.


A great equalizer among cultures, small towns, and tight-knit communities throughout the world are the multitudes of fables and folklore that spring up within them. Some vastly different from one another, but many share surprisingly common traits. One such locality specific legend centers around a ghostly apparition known by the moniker "The Lady In White," and it feels like there's nary a quietly quaint town that doesn't have their own. But growing up in Rochester, New York, Writer-Director Frank LaLoggia knew only of one: The White Lady who roamed Durand-Eastman Park, never at rest, searching for her murdered daughter. A tragically lovelorn concept that LaLoggia recontextualizes, and builds upon, for his 1988 ghost tale, LADY IN WHITE. A stark, contemplative gem that was drowned out among it's more chaotic and rock n' roll horror brethren usually found in cinemas.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

SHOCKER: A Nightmares & Schlockscapes Spotlight

Welcome to Nightmares and Schlockscapes, where movies that go bump in the night are dragged from beneath your bed and into the spotlight. The Gothic classics of yesteryear, the bodacious B-grades, and those celluloid chillers best watched through your fingers.


Horror. It's versatility and the importance of it's tropes to other genre spectrum's make it transcend tone, becoming a language all it's own. Beside the great Greek masks of Sock and Buskin that represent the pillars of storytelling - Comedy and Tragedy, respectively - there should be a third with barred fangs and splattered blood. Horror can be thrilling or unnerving, inducing cheers or screams. It may expand your mind with philosophical waxings on life, society, and the psyche. Or, you know, maybe just have a hockey mask wearing super-fiend beat someone to death against a tree. All shapes, all sizes. It's the oldest form of storytelling, and be it grandiose rumination or splatter-punk, it tingles that primitive part of our brains. There's one variety of fright flick I have a particular soft spot for, and it shares a namesake with the title of this feature: Schlock. A term that carries with it... mixed connotations. Many negative, for sure. But, when used in the context of a certain breed of horror film, it can be quite endearing.

So, it's only fitting to start this series with the film that birthed this love of schlock. Wes Craven's SHOCKER is a frenzied, nutso, tonally whiplashed delight. It is also, sadly, a near ignored entry in the late horror maestro's filmography. Craven placed the unmitigated definition of over-the-top into a stew pot, poured a sizable helping of earnest melodrama so thick it could choke you on top, stirred in a pinch of spit in your face pop culture, and what brewed was a film born to be rented on V/H/S over and over again.

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

BLADE 2

You have no idea what podcast you are [messing] with! If that censored for TV version of a badass one-liner didn't tip you off, we're continuing our trip down bloody memory lane with our BLADE series retrospective, and we've reached the main course: Guillermo Del Toro's BLADE 2! In which, this time, our fave Daywalker must team-up with Ron Perlman and his cool vampire buddies to stop some vagina mouthed mutant bloodsuckers. There's other vagina stuff, too. Also, things in jars. Lots of things in jars. All the Del Toro staples are here, folks! Plus, Norman Reedus! So, how has the character of Blade evolved between entries? What makes Nomak one of the best villains in comic filmdom? Why isn't the fact Donnie Yen was totally a vampire ninja once brought up more!? The BOP Crew is here to answer these questions the Del Toro way -- with a graphic autopsy!

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Monday, August 20, 2018

BLADE

Some podcasts are always trying to ice skate uphill. But, thanks to SPF9000, the BOP Crew can Walk like a Daywalker to sink their fangs into all things BLADE! On this anniversary year for the Marvel movie that started it all, we're taking a look back at how a niche' goggle sporting Tomb of Dracula character became the baddest mother fu*ker on the planet. All the strengths of the action-horror genre, none of the weaknesses! Beginning with the time the writer of David Hasselhoff's Nick Fury TV movie and an untested British director teamed with that guy from Major League to burst the jugular vein of cinema, with 1998's BLADE.

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