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Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975) / Ep. 13

February 4, 2022 projexionist

Nick and Dan find out you truly can't go home again with a look at Jamaa Fanaka's Welcome Home Brother Charles from 1975, a blaxploitation classic about systemic & individual racism, and America's disillusionment about its own penal fixation. TIMECODES 00:00:00 / Intro 00:02:14 / Theme Song 00:03:33 / Episode Start 00:05:35 / Film discussion:… Continue reading Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975) / Ep. 13

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Death Race 2000 / Ep 1

August 20, 2020September 8, 2020 projexionist

Remember, the car is not named "Frankenstein." The driver is. Common mistake. Welcome to the inaugural episode of Projexploitation! We kick off this podcast with a classic, DEATH RACE 2000 from director Paul Bartel and producer Roger Corman. Following the main review on the film, we also debut a new segment: The A-List! Timecodes: 00:00:00… Continue reading Death Race 2000 / Ep 1

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Projexploitation is a podcast that looks back at films from the grindhouse era of exploitation filmmaking. Violence and sleaze, with a little slice of cheese.

Dan and Nick give each other one present early: a new yuletide Projexploitaiton episode! Listen for a very Christmassy discussion of the superb French thriller 3615 code Père Noël (aka Deadly Games, or Dial Code Santa Claus, and many more names…)

TIMECODES

00:00:00 / Intro (“Auguries Of Innocence” by William Blake, read by Spencer Parks)

00:02:11 / Theme Song

00:03:30 / Episode Start

00:06:16 / Film discussion: 3615 code Père Noël (1989)

01:02:20 / Intermission

01:04:04 / Film discussion continues

02:10:27 / Segment: The A-List

NOTES/LINKS

Crucial thanks to Spencer Parks for providing the wonderful & winning spoken performance of William Blake’s immortal “Auguries Of Innocence”. He also has 2 weirdly addictive podcasts that are well worth your attention: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-dictionary https://www.stitcher.com/show/when-im-high

Spencer is also the producer of the show “Whores Talk Horror”, in which Sharon (not a whore) & Mindy (also not a whore) discuss new & classic horror films as well as urban legends, ghost stories, horror-themed Americana, etc: https://www.stitcher.com/show/whores-talk-horror

Spencer (& his lovely & amazing wife Sharon) are also also in the midst of producing the film “Unplugged: A Survivor’s Story”, based upon Paul McComas’ novel: https://linktr.ee/unpluggedfilm Point is, people, Spencer is involved in a cornucopia of awesome stuff.

For more information on the annual & much beloved “Christmas Carol” that The Riverfront Playhouse puts on, click here: https://www.riverfrontplayhouse.com/ To listen to “Old Guys Who Love Things”, featuring firebreather extraordinaire Shawn Dooley (& his worthy & clinquant co-host Eric Peter Schwartz), click here: https://www.stitcher.com/show/old-guys-who-love-things

To read more about “36.15 Code Père Noël” & other spine-tingling Christmas-tinged horror cinema, check out Spectacular Optical’s brilliant book “Yuletide Terror” here: http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/store/product/yuletide-terror-christmas-horror-on-film-and-television-2/

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