The Schlock and Awe Podcast

This week on S&A Lindsay & Preston Mitchell are fiends for Mojitos. The sun is out and the ennui is high. It is a Double of William Fredkin's To Live and Die in LA (1985) & Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006).  We live in a world of concrete and steel under the hot sun. Corruption is high but the drinks are cheap. Live by the Job Die by the Job. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This week on S&A Lindsay and film critic Kahn celebrate the Spanish, Queerness and Maximalism with a Double of Pedro Almodóva's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) & Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi's LA Bola Negra (2026). This is a celebration not just of Spanish Film but of Queer Culture and being able to make art in the most Maximalist way possible. This is a Double that is fulled with tradition and history. Of fighting against Fascism by being yourself and going large. Feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast plaftform 

Happy All Hallows Eve! And we finish off our J & K Horror Series with a heavy hitter. Jun-On. Lindsay and Mark enter the murder house and slide the murder tape into the VHS Player. It's Ju-On The Grudge 2 & Sadako vs. Kayako. We are building up the mythology and then smashing it to pieces. Let Them Fight Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.

On this Schlocktober Lindsay and Holy Terror's Pat look at Vampires in Japan. And it is all about the D. With Michio Yamamoto's Vampire Doll (1970) & Toyoo Ashida's Vampire Hunter D (1985). This is a double looking how Japanese film makers took the Vampire and molded it into what this Double is. Magical, Dark and completely berserk. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.  

On this Schlocktober Lindsay & Bede of Bede vs The Living Dead Podcast go over to South Korea and take in a Double from one the Korean Trio Kim Jee-woon. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) & I Saw the Devil (2010). Both movies show case his signature style as well as Lee Mo-gae's cinematography. And they are awesome.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.   

This time around on S&A Presents Murderers We Have Know Lindsay & Nadine head over to France to look at World War One French Serial Killer Henri Desire Landru. With Charles Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947) & Claude Charbol's Bluebeard aka Landru (1963). This is a Double that looks at the notion of chivalry, war profiteering and Charbol's bizarre taste in interior design. Please feel free to rate, review or subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.

This week on S&A Schlocktober Lindsay and It Didn't Go Platinum Podcast Host Tim take a look at J Horror's Scream Queen Eihi Shiina. With Takashi Miike's Audition (1999) & Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police (2008). Gore is a King and Eihi is all over it.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform. 

This week on S&A Schlocktober J Horror Series. Lindsay and VH US Podcast Host Dirk head to both Japan and South Korea for a hellish double. Jung Bum-shik's Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) & Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku aka Sinners in Hell (1960). Truly a Double Feature about creating your own hell, one movie using modern film techniques and the other a pioneering abstract horror movie that also defined the special year that was 1960.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.        

On this S&A Schlocktober Lindsay and Andrew sit down for a Japan DIY Horror with Shinichi Fukazawa's Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995 aka 2009) & Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo The Iron Man (1989). What starts of as a double looking at two independently made Japan Horror Movies, and Lindsay getting the works Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell in all kinds of configuration. It turns into a discussion on the joys of finding these kinds of movies. Whether it is someone handing you a blank VHS and saying you need to watch this, hearing about it in conversation or a snip-it on tv one night then hunting for it. Independent and DIY Movies isn't all always about the budget, it can be about the hunt. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.

This week we begin Schlocktober with the world of Kojo Suziki, the Well & the VHS Tape. Lindsay & Gabe travel that small volcanic island to visit Sadako. It's a Double of Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998) & The George Iida' Spiral (1998). Both released on the same day in 1998. One an atmospheric adaption of Suziki's novel that focuses on the visual metaphors of a horror storytelling. The other tries to be more faithful to Suziki's more philosophical science fiction novels. One blew up, helping to create a new horror genre, the other a forgotten curiosity. But both important to the tale of The Ring. You have seven days......   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform