Dan and I are joined tonight by our pal the extreme movie genius Carmelita Valdez McKoy, and the fantastic Mr. Dirk Marshall, host of the great VH US podcast (one of the best cult film podcasts you can get your grubby lil mits on). We are here to talk about DECODER the beloved West German film from 1984, adjacent topics, the music and cast from the film and our own personal experiences when it comes to bitchin music and movies.

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Dirk's VH US website the VH US twitter/x

For this episode we are joined by our pal author, smart movie guy and possible cage dancer at your local after hours Industrial club, Paul Grammatico! to discuss, these four films here, and much-much more:

about our guest:

Paul Grammatico can be found on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/paulwriteshorror.bsky.social

and on the Twitter https://x.com/PaulGGramm and FB: https://www.facebook.com/paulgramm66

and you can get his readin stuff here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Grammatico/author/B0DRWCJL6L?ref_=ast_author_cp&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=e49ac198-9bcc-47fd-93d0-960a3186f633

The FLILMS

these are the main four, you can see a list of alll the films discussed or mentioned on this episode over at our free Patreon

• Fingers (1978) - Directed by James Toback; stars Harvey Keitel as a pianist torn between music and mob collections.

• Ferat Vampire (1982) - Directed by Juraj Herz; a Czechoslovakian vampire car movie.

• Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture (1973) - Directed by Teruo Ishii; a violent pink film starring Reiko Ike.

• Frisk (1995) - Directed by Todd Verow; based on the Dennis Cooper novel and features Craig Chester and Alexis Arquette.

Join us as we talk about Ken Russell's masterpiece THE DEVILS with our friend, genius and film scholar Heather Drain. We have covered The Devils a few times, and always with fresh eyes. This time we talk about (not to an annoying degree hopefully, but just a bit) about some of the themes of THE DEVILS; power, corruption, obsession, religion, politics, sex, horniness and more.... And we did all of this, for over 2 1/2 hours

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Heather Drain and all things MONDO HEATHER can be found here: https://linktr.ee/mondoheather she also has a swell Patreon that you should definitely check out.

finally you100% need to check out Heather's Substack https://mondoheather.substack.com/ and her Youtube Channel - especially this great Phantom of The Paradise video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIdd-I3aFCk