35:17 – Schlock Express is back with a no-frills lockdown episode. From plastic bikinis and clunky robots to space heroes with drawn on moustaches, we take a look into the wild world of Italian Star Wars knock offs.
Kicking off with The Humanoid and its cast of James Bond veterans, we move on to possibly the high point of this sub-genre with the magnificently surreal Starcrash before plumbing the depths with Alfonso Brescia’s poverty stricken space opera, Star Odyssey.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com Released May 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
30:51 – The Schlock Express is back to look at cinematic portrayals of the Devil and all his works. We kick off with a continental excursion to get ‘Nude for Satan’, followed by some home counties deviltry with ‘Satan’s Slave’, before winding up by looking into ‘The Eye of Satan’, another ultra low-budget outing from Cliff Twemlow and his merry Manchester direct-to-video crew.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com Released February 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
28:57: Travel back in time with the Schlock Express to examine a trio of swinging sixties psychedelic heist movies. Watch silver fox Stewart Grainger battle killer nuns as he tries to get to the bottom of ‘The Trygon Factor’! Thrill to the psychedelic antics of Italian anti-hero Diabolik as he robs the establishment and keeps it all in his far out hideout! Finally, gasp as middle aged drop out ‘Duffy’ conspires to commit a sea going groovy bullion heist! Along the way, we’ll ruminate over how the swinging sixties mythologised itself and the morality of movie heroes!
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Released September 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
33:28 – The Schlock Express goes on a continental summer excursion to take in the sights of classic Italian exploitation movies. Watch as beautiful women are urged to Strip Nude for Your Killer in possibly the sleaziest Giallo ever made, while the Doc muses on the sexual politics of seventies slasher movies. Rogue cops, meanwhile, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man as the ‘polizioteschi’ genre goes psycho. Finally, The Wild Beasts, the bastard mutant offspring of the Mondo movie and, well, God knows what, sees drugged up zoo animals invade the streets of Frankfurt in some of the most irresponsible film making in the history of exploitation!
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Released August 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
37:00 The Schlock Express is back on the rails, taking a look at London’s Soho in the sixties through a Mondo lens, courtesy of three classic ‘shockumentaries’. First stop is a trek through the ‘West End Jungle’ and its clip joints, photography ‘clubs’ and escort agencies. We also see ‘London in the Raw’, with its vista of East End pubs, West End clubs, meths drinkers, drug addicts, cat food eating beatniks and hair transplants. Finally, we confront ‘Primitive London’ and its tribes of mods, rockers and beatniks, horrible murders and factory farming.
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Released January 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio
(33:42) The Schlock Express is back on the rails and heading back into the seventies to explore the evolution of British horror movies. From the prehistoric terrors to be found of the ‘Horror Express’, through the freak shows and experiments of ‘The Mutations’ to the brain eating, electric drill brandishing cannibal grannies of ‘Frightmare’, we take a journey from English Gothic horror traditions, through sex, nudity and Soho to urban gore and the proto slasher movie. It’s all here: Telly Savalas chewing up the scenery, Tom Baker as you’ve never seen him before and little old ladies’ cracking open skulls to get at the brainy goodness within! So jump aboard the Schlock Express now!
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39:18 – The Schlock Express takes a journey back in time, to the so-called ‘Swing London’ of the late sixties and early seventies. But did London really swing? Italian ‘Mondo’ movie ‘Naked England’ gives us an outsider’s look at ‘Swinging England’ – free drugs, transvestites, violence, happenings and lots and lots of nudity – before we turn to three of the titans of British celluloid sleaze to give us the gutter level view of the era. Sex killers stalk the swinging scene in Lindsay Shonteff’s ‘Night, After Night, After Night’, teenagers find themselves ruthlessly exploited in the groovy capital city in Pete Walker’s ‘Cool it Carol’ whilst the ‘Groupie Girl’ uncovers the seedy side of the pop scene in Derek Ford’s sexploitation classic
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Released December 2016 on The Overnightscape Underground(onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio emissions.
36:06 – Join the Schlock Express as it journeys into the dark world of occultism and black magic. This time around we take a look at the way witchcraft has been portrayed by exploitation cinema. Along the way we’ll see Ian McShane hallucinating that he is a bear in an obscure seventies fable of witchcraft among the jet setters, learn the naked truth about the dark arts in an over earnest faux documentary, before watching cinematic magic as Italian occult Mondo gold is transmutated into all American witchcraft Schlockumentary!
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Released May 2016 on The Overnightscape Underground(onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio emissions.
41:01 – The Schlock Express journeys back to seventies Britain to investigate the evolution of the British sex comedy. From the ‘ripped from the headlines’ of the ‘Sex Clinic’, we join Scotland Yard’s investigation into the nefarious activities of ‘The Sex Thief’ before getting ‘Spaced Out’ in a tale of alien abduction by tinfoil spaceships. Along the way, we uncover 007’s sex film connections and Bob Saget’s ‘appearance in a sex comedy.
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Released February 2016Â on The Overnightscape Underground(onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio emissions.
36:06 – To celebrate the release of a new James Bond movie, we look into the world of 007 knock offs, with the Schlock Express making a dangerous journey to wherethe spies are. From sun drenched Portugal, where TV’s Dr Ben Casey battles porn obsessed villain Hammerhead and his crew of British character actors, via a global quest to discover whether Jaguar Lives, we wind up in Italy to check whether it’s OK Connery as we follow the excapades of Sean’s plastic surgeon, hypnotist, secret agent and jobbing builder brother. Along the way, we’ll try to ascertain just what it is that makes the real Bond, well, Bond.
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Released November 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio emissions.
36:06 – To celebrate the release of a new James Bond movie, we look into the world of 007 knock offs, with the Schlock Express making a dangerous journey to wherethe spies are. From sun drenched Portugal, where TV’s Dr Ben Casey battles porn obsessed villain Hammerhead and his crew of British character actors, via a global quest to discover whether Jaguar Lives, we wind up in Italy to check whether it’s OK Connery as we follow the excapades of Sean’s plastic surgeon, hypnotist, secret agent and jobbing builder brother. Along the way, we’ll try to ascertain just what it is that makes the real Bond, well, Bond.
