56:17- Another edition of the best podcast you’ve never bothered listening to! This time around you’ll be missing some ruminations on circuses without animals, unnecessary movie remakes and the madness of King Trump. You’ll also miss Doc Sleaze’s musings on when a hermit becomes a recluse, some hauntingly insane exploitation films and the wild, wild world of tabloid hate. Plus, invaluable advice on how to tell if your neighbour is a witch, while Little Miss Strange has her own celebrity experience and more. So go on, break the habit of a lifetime and actually give it a listen! Includes:
The Circus Comes to Town! ¦ Total Bollocks with Little Miss Strange ¦ The Wild, Wild World of Tabloid Hate ¦ Movies in Brief – ‘The Uninvited’ (1944) inc trailer ¦ Have You Been Shagged by a Spy? ¦ A Hermit’s Life for Me ¦ Commercial Break – Accidents4U ¦ Avoidance Tactics ¦ Celebrity Bollocks with Little Miss Strange ¦ The Madness of King Trump ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘The Black Cat’ (1989) inc trailer ¦ Is Your Neighbour a Witch? ¦ Unnecessary Remakes ¦ Closedown
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 2025 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.
48:03 – Just what are Elon Musk’s plans for his phallic rocket ships? Under what circumstances would political assassination be legitimate in a democracy? Just how do they decide when to start the Christmas TV ads? Doc Sleaze attempts to answer all these questions, plus a look at a couple of lesser known Giallos, a wild, wild and utterly obscure low budget abomination and how they could make them like that back then. Includes:
Sex and Rockets ¦ ‘Fish With the Eyes of Gold (1974) Main Theme ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘The Fish With the Eyes of Gold’ (1974) ¦ ‘Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ (1982) Trailer ¦ ‘They Couldn’t Make it Nowadays…’ ¦ ‘Naked You Die’ (1968) Trailer (in Italian) ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Naked You Die’ (1968) ¦ ‘I’d Like to Thank…’ ¦ Fat Boy Has Fallen ¦ ‘Curse of the Alpha Stone’ (1972) Opening ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Curse of the Alpha Stone (1972) ¦ Selection of UK Christmas TV Commercials from 1990/91 ¦ The Season is Upon Us, Apparently ¦ ‘Still Too Early…’
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 Nov 2024 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.
42:28 – Whilst pondering as to why we subject ourselves to particular viewing tortures, Doc Sleaze meanders into looking at some seventies killer rat movies, the origin of some movie model trains and contemplates the cinematic problems of bringing vampires into the modern world. Includes:
Faded Thrills ¦ Random Movie Trailer – The Psychopath (1966) ¦ Rats on Film – Willard (1971) and Ben (1972) (including trailers) ¦ Movie Model Trains ¦ Random Movie Trailer – Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) ¦ Thoroughly Modern Vampires – Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) and The Return of Count Yorga (1971) (including trailers)
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 Jul 2022 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.
56:04 – Just how did Satan become the big bad of seventies horror films? A seasonal look at Satanic cinema, taking in some forgotten devilish gems and a couple of randomly selected diabolical trailers, including:
A Little Less Time For Satan ¦ Forgotten Film: God Told Me To (1976) ¦ Random Movie Trailer: The Devil’s Plaything (1973) ¦ Forgotten Film: The Legacy (1978) ¦ Random Movie Trailer: Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) ¦ Forgotten Film: Beyond the Door (1974)
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 Oct 2021 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.
46:18: It’s the ‘Silly Season’ when Britain’s press is traditionally full of tales of UFOs, Nazis and Nessie, so we take a look at the rise and fall of the ‘Season of Silliness’ before taking in various oddments of pop culture, ranging from more bat-shit crazy Japanese video strangeness, Nazi zombies, gardening serial killers and more. Includes:
Rise and Fall of the Silly Season ¦ Polk County Pot Plane (1977) Trailer ¦ Pot Planes, Car Chases and Regional Cinema ¦ Star Virgin (1988) Theme Song ¦ Forgotten Film: Star Virgin (1988) ¦ Absurd (1981) Trailer ¦ The Ideal Exploitation Family ¦ Hatchet (2007) Trailer ¦ Hacked Off ¦ Zombie Lake (1981) Trailer ¦ Guaranteed No Nazi Zombies?
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 Aug 2021 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.
13:42 – The eighth day of Christmas is New Year’s Day – a time for looking forward, to the future. And what better way to do this than through the medium of Italian science fiction movies? Includes:
Forgotten Film: ‘Escape From Galaxy Three’ (1981) ¦ Excerpt from ‘Escape From Galaxy Three’ ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘Argoman, The Fantastic Superman’ (1967)
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 Jan 2021 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.
17:13 – We reach the half way point of this ill-advised venture and go supersonic with a look at that disaster of a disaster movie Airport 79…The Concorde, plus a quick mention of its Italian knock off, SOS Concorde, (featuring the French trailer, warning, there are no sub-titles on this broadcast). Includes:
‘Airport 79…The Concorde’ Trailer (1979) ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Airport 79…The Concorde’ ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘SOS Concorde’ (1979) Trailer (in French) ¦ SOS Concorde
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 Dec 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.
1:25:01 – It’s a movie marathon as Doc Sleaze reveals his successive lost weekends of schlock, join him in drowning in a tsunami of sex and horror, including:
Schlock Weekend ¦ Forgotten Film – Requiem for a Vampire (1971) ¦ Forgotten Film – Orloff Against the Invisible Man (1970) ¦ Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982) Trailer ¦Another Lost Weekend of Schlock ¦ Forgotten Film – Evil Town (1987) ¦ The Last Shark (1981) Trailer ¦ Italian Style ¦ Forgotten Film – Night Killer (1990) ¦ Nightmare in Wax (1969) Trailer ¦ Schlock of the Old ¦ Forgotton Films Double Bill – I Drink Your Blood/I Eat Your Skin (1970)
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 Oct 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.
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.