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.
(1:52:57)* A deep look into the world of conspiracy and cinema (not all schlock) and life with the funny, brilliant and incomparable Doc Sleaze (and his *contagious* laughter.)
*Worth every minute of the 1 hour and the 53.
contents:
Intro .. Doc as a regular Overnightscape Central contributor .. why does sleaze interest the Doc? .. Soho .. spanking films .. Tom Baker .. Timothy Spall .. Piggate .. non-sleazy podcasts .. the JFK assassination .. Jack Ruby .. the ‘magic bullet’ .. Oswald .. banking conspiracies .. Paul McCartney .. billionaires .. crackpot conspiracies .. road signs removed to confuse Nazi convoys .. a conspiracy: limo with Churchill and Roosevelt followed to ancient stone circle – they get naked and sacrifice a child in order to defeat the Nazis .. history re-written .. anti-semitism .. ‘everything is fake’ conspiracy .. BBC and FOX news/Network (film) .. chrisspivey.org .. Doc’s education background .. non-teaching teacher .. Midnight Citizen .. favorite ‘B’ and schlock films .. ‘Blood Beast from Outer Space’ aka ‘The Night Caller’ .. John Saxon .. Alfred Burke .. director John Gilling .. Italian schlock films .. ‘Strip Nude for Your Killer’ aka ‘Nude per l’assassino’ .. ‘Opera’ aka ‘Terror of the Opera’ .. Ed Wood loved making films .. ‘Ed Wood’ (the film) .. Wood films are enjoyable .. Bela Lugosi .. early Hollywood and schlock .. ‘Reap the Wild Wind’ .. One-Shot Bodine .. ‘Gone With the Wind’ .. C.B. DeMille .. serials .. Errol Flynn .. ‘Robin Hood’ .. ‘Dodge City’ .. Tasmania .. greatest move star of all-time .. Raoul Walsh and Michael Curtiz .. swashbucklers .. ‘The Magnificent Seven’ .. heroism .. John Sturges .. Sturges’ Westerns .. Robert Ryan .. ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ .. French directors and films .. Jean-Pierre Melville .. ‘The Red Circle’ aka ‘Le Cercle Rouge’ .. ‘The Samurai’ .. ‘Bob the Gambler’ .. remade in 1990’s where Nick Nolte sings .. fated .. UFO’s: most have rational explanations .. subjective or objective .. waters muddied by fake material .. ghost rockets .. air ships .. chariots in the sky .. documented story of descending rope caught on a gravestone .. inconclusive .. ‘random thoughts’ episodes .. inspired by Shambles’ ‘Tapestry’ shows .. Schlock Express .. the U.K. version of PQ Ribber .. listened to PQ’s ‘Bug Out‘ and became obsessed .. Vic and Sade .. Jean Shepherd .. Bob and Ray .. PQ’s musical talent .. pop culture .. PQ’s ‘natural voice’ .. anxiety of long-distance flying .. ‘Them!’ .. ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ .. ‘Stranger From Venus’ .. approach things without ridicule .. approaching satire by being serious but let it become absurd .. people (readers/listeners) who take satire seriously .. Bob Geldof’s Porn for Africa satire .. the value of things .. schlock television: ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea‘ .. show became outlandish .. paper bulkheads on submarine .. ludicrous monsters .. the Mayan mummy .. Jason King .. Peter Wyndgarde .. ‘Howard’s Way‘ .. ‘Baywatch Nights‘ .. ‘Anaconda 3‘ .. David Hasselhoff .. supposed reality shows .. ‘Lizard Lick Towing’ .. ‘South Beach Towing’ .. ‘Storage Wars’ and ‘Storage Hunters U.K.’ .. ‘Made in Chelsea’ .. ‘Storage Hunters U.K.’ filmed close to Doc .. Doc’s website! (excellent!) .. Doc’s Daily Diary (excellent!)
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Jimbo and Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
(45:35) Join the amusing and satirical Doc Sleaze as he delves into the sleazy world of a mid-70’s Italian exploitation film, the devil’s bathroom, ‘art imitating life’ in Italian zombie films – which hints at Neo-realism, how Americans can defeat zombies and much more.
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Produced by Doc Sleaze, 2012
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.
