S02E04 Boxer's Omen (1983) #214

Regional DIY SOV horror at its finest: BMX kids dig up a cursed gargoyle, a mullet brigade faces demonic puberty, and a new Movie Melt Saint ascends. Plus: we uncover what nobody else has about director Chuck Lang's secret Vegas empire. ALSO: Battle of the Bands and lost films from Down Under. Join our Patreon if you can! ollow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We hit the Shaw Brothers jackpot with the most insane film they ever produced — Kuei Chih-Hung’s The Boxer’s Omen (1983)! What starts as a simple boxing revenge flick spirals into flying severed heads, throat eels, Buddhist black magic battles, and crocodile strippers. Top-shelf mind-melting insanity. PLUS: Battle of the Bands: Crocodile Edition, What We’ve Been Watching, and so much more!! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Back-to-school means we get educated with Cybela Clare’s female-led vanity project on ancient aliens, clones & parrots! Bird's Eye View: An ET's Solution for Humanity (2020) PLUS: Battle of the Bands + our very special guest, queer hip hop king AUNTIE BOY. Class is in session! 🎒👽🦜 Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Movie Melt’s cheer squad is back on the megaphone for the booger-sugar-fueled camp comedy Gimme an ‘F’. Expect pom-poms, pee-pee-filled balloons, saucy Mad Max role-play, new wave cheerleaders, the Jan Hammer soundtrack, and enough dazzling dance routines to knock your pom-poms off.This criminally underseen gem’s got male cheerleaders breakdancing-in-wet-tightie-whities-while-doing-Gymkata-on-the-water-pipes — for a full five minutes — during a shower scene!! Give me a B! Give me an O! Give me an N-E-R! What’s that spell? BONE… errr, never mind! Plus: What We've Been Watching, our favorite documentaries, And More! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

A wrestler, a madman with a super-powered rubber glove, and a space princess with an Ewok sidekick walk into a neon-lit fever dream. What do they find? Chubby motorcycle luchadores, bald men with ponytails, and an El Santo movie tailor-made for the early ’90s. This week, CDR beams with national pride as pleather-clad Canadian hero Vampiro sinks his fangs into the role he was genetically engineered to play: himself! Plus: – Battle of the Bands – Listener feedback – And so much more!! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We’ve name-dropped him dozens of times… and yet this is our first actual Fred Olen Ray episode?! Unbelievable, but true. Carlo stays up way past his bedtime to tell us all about Evil Toons (1992)—a movie full of unkept promises. It definitely does have a haunted book, Monique Gabrielle, and 45 seconds of a bad scary wolf that’s animated though! Plus: Gary Coleman news, Heather rearranging magnets on her fridge in an effort to not lose her mind, what we’ve been watching, and so much more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Too much gay crashed Matt’s hard drive (yes, another one!), and so our final 2025 Pride episode is dropping on the 4th of July. Fitting, because what’s more American than repressed senators dating twink heirs to a popcorn fortune? Just like this week's movie: Traveling to Olympia (2001), a queer shot-on-video headscratcher set in the Pacific Northwest—the Wakanda for Gays, apparently. We follow Johnny, a traumatized twink with a duffel bag and one facial expression, as he washes dishes, processes trauma, and parties at gay cowboy bars—with beautiful musical interludes from the PNW greatest crooners. This is a weird one! Follow Gerald's horrorslumberparty Follow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Happy Pride! We get probed by Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker (1996)—the queer, trippy, E.T. sci-fi oddity about interdimensional lust, alien contact, and sexual awakening in the Arizona desert. Plus: A gay Battle of the Bands, Auntie Boy (!), orgone energy, what we’ve been watching, and more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Possibly the greatest vanity project ever made... again! We’re revisiting GetEven (aka Champagne & Bullets, aka Road to Revenge)—a redux of Episode 3 where we first stumbled into one of the most tippy-top-shelf vanity projects in existence. This episode’s a three-fer. It puts a temporary end to our evil "feel-bad" movie streak. It gives us a chance to revisit a film we love. And it continues our tribute to the patron saint of the podcast, Wings Hauser. This one’s got heavy hitters—William Smith, Pamela Bryant, Wings—and at the center of it all, a man with an ego... err... dream, trial lawyer John Isaac De Hart III. Plus: Battle of the Bands, what we’ve been watching, slick stuff, neat stuff, etc.! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Carlo takes us into the cosmic void with Rat Scratch Fever (2011)—Jeff Leroy’s creature-feature about mutant rats from Mars that rip through Los Angeles using every special effect known to man: CGI, practical gore, puppets, stop-motion, green screen, etc. It’s an ambitious no-budget feat that must be seen to be believed! Plus: what we’ve been watching, 20,000 calorie meals, coochie rats, and more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!