MBDS Showcase #56 - Mortal Kombat (1995)

Jess Manzo (French Toast Sunday) returns to the show to talk about David Lynch's Blue Velvet as the discovery of a human ear leads a college student to discover the dark underbelly of his hometown. We look at the iconic performances, the legacy of the Lynch-verse and why Dennis Hopper's Frank might be the scariest villain ever! Letterboxd: Elwood / Jess For more reviews check out From The Depths of DVD Hell

Elwood and Greg kick off a new season looking at William Friedkin's Sorcerer who sadly passed away a few weeks after we recorded this episode. The film following four criminals exiled to a small village in South America who are offered a chance of escaping their current situation by transporting a shipment of highly unstable nitro-glycerine 200 miles through the jungle to an oil well. We look at the insane production and how Friedkin managed to pull off some of the films more spectacular moments and more!! Follow Elwood on Letterboxd Follow Greg on Letterboxd Take on the MBDS list

Alice Taylor Matthews joins me to look at Sam Rami's splatter classic "Evil Dead 2" as we talk DIY film making, favourite horror weapons and trade bookseller war stories and more!

Stephen Palmer my Asian Cinema Film Club co-host returns to the podcast to talk about American Movie A cult documentary following aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt and who alongide loyal  best friend Mike Schank set out to finally finish the short horror film he started years earlier, with the hopes it will help provide funding for his feature movie dream 

Mortal Kombat superfan Jeanette Ward (The Mundane Adventures of A Fangirl) joins me to discuss not only the ultimate sleepover movie but arguably the greatest video game adaptation ever. There's also plenty of geeking out over the games as Jeanette talks favourite characters, fatalities and colour palette swap ninjas and more!!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my all time favourite shows and while I might podcast with a bunch of super talented folks sadly none of them are Buffy fans. Thankfully Emily (Why This Film Podcast) is a fellow super fan of this iconic show and joins me for this episode as we each countdown our top seven episodes aswell as looking at what it was about the show which continues to resonate with it's fans. 

Wrapping up this years Alternative Christmas specials we have the cult classic Jack Frost as a serial killer resurrected as a killer snowman proceeds to wreck havok on a small town while hunting down the sheriff who finally caught him.  I'm joined on this episode by Emily Slade (Why This Film Podcast) to talk Christmas snacks, essential festive viewing aswell as trying to figure out what the hell Festive Spice is supposed to be and more!!

Eight years after she washed ashore a New Jersey beach, schoolteacher  Samantha (Geena Davis) still has no idea who she was prior to washing up on  the beach. However after a car crash unlocks skills she never knew she  had, she set out with private detective Mitch (Jackson) to find out the  truth about who she really is. However there are those keen to make sure  she never remembers. Jeanette Ward (The Mundane Adventures of a Fangirl) joins me to discuss this festive action thriller directed by Renny Harlin and scripted by Shane Black (hence the Christmas setting) while we also look at female action heroes, why everyone should check out "Unreal" and intense eye make up plus more!!

Nick Rehak (French Toast Sunday) joins me to look at the David Cronenberg's cult classic Videodrome. Here body horror blends with our love of technology into one nightmarish vision as Max Renn (James Woods) stumbles across a rogue tv stream called Videodrome which he feels will be perfect for his trashy TV channel only to soon find himself drawn into a much darker path as he uncovers the secrets behind Videodrome. We also look at visionary directors, David Lynch and the return of Twin Peaks and how streaming services are changing our cinematic consumption plus much more. 

Back for another season of cult cinema watching, the journey through the Mad, Bad and Downright Strange movie list continues with Alex Cox's cult classic "Repo Man" as I'm joined once more by Greg Sahadachny (Debatable Podcast) as the hunt for a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu and the mysterious contents of it's trunk is waged through a truly unique vision of L.A.