Podcast: The Evil That Men Do (1984)

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Your Stupid Minds “celebrates” to release of Eli Roth’s Death Wish with a review of... not a Death Wish movie. Rather, prime yourself with our Death Wish 3 review and dig in to a non-Cannon Charles Bronson classic: The Evil That Men Do.

Based on a not-so-good R. Lance Hill novel of the same name, Clement Molloch (Joseph Maher) is a war criminal and torture expert known as “The Doctor.” He contracts out himself to brutal dictatorships and enacts creative and gruesome ways to murder people. When he kills dissident journalist Jorge Hidalgo (Jorge Humberto Robles), ex-CIA assassin Holland (Charles Bronson) takes the case of revenge.

And, so you don’t miss it, here’s the infamous penis-twisting scene with Miguel Ángel Fuentes, a.k.a. Vadinho from The Pumaman:

Some Notes:

• Great dummy work in this film.
• #1 is pee pee. #2 is poo poo. #3 is knifing a guy in the throat and draining his body in the shower.
• "Crack kills!" "It's actually not crack it's just cocai-UGHGHGH."
• Directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, King Solomon's Mines, Cape Fear).

Podcast: Death Wish 3 (1985)

Charles Bronson plays Batman with a gun in this third installment of the five-part movie series about elderly architect turned vigilante Paul Kersey, who returns to New York to wage war on a 1980s gang of reverse mohawked punks who use unlimited resources to hassle poor old people in an inner-city neighborhood.

Inspired by the recent death of director Michael Winner, and a fabulous commentary track on the Hot Fuzz DVD wherein Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino discuss almost 200 movies (including this one), we indulge in our own Bronson (or Sarcastic Clerk from The Simpsons) imitations and posit our theory on why violent video games actually reduce homicides.

Also Roger Ebert has some weird White Man's Burden suggestions as to how the racial politics should have played out. Enjoy!