Podcast: City of the Living Dead (1980)

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A halloween spooktacular so good you’ll puke your guts out! It’s Lucio Fulci’s 1980 movie City of the Living Dead!

A New England priest (Fabrizio Jovine) hangs himself in order to open a portal to hell and unleash an army of the undead. Mary (Catriona MacColl) discovers his plot during a New York seance and travels with a reporter (Christopher George) to stop the zombie horde on All Saint’s Day through… means.

Meanwhile, the denizens of Dunwich, Massachusetts notice strange happenings in the town, including, but not limited to, earthquakes, make out hauntings, 30% of the population dying of fright (according to the coroner), skull smashings, organ pukings, and a perverted gas station attendant with a blow up doll.

Some Notes:

• Available on Amazon Prime.
• Nick erroneously states that Fulci probably put "100 pounds of maggots into a snowblower" to do the maggot storm scene. It was actually 20 pounds. He regrets the error.
• Reportedly, the original ending shot was destroyed, which is why the ending on the film sucks beans.

Podcast: House of the Dead (2003)

Stock up on quarters and let's head down to the arcade. It's Uwe Boll's first foray into the video game movie with 2003's House of the Dead! Special guest Nathan Smith joins us as we dig in to one of our favorite bad movies.

A group of teenage 20-something 30 year olds bribe a cartoonish fisherman (Clint Howard) and a grizzled U-Boat captain (Jürgen Prochnow) into taking them to an island in the Pacific Northwest for the most awesomest daytime rave coastal British Columbia has ever seen! They're attacked by zombies and an insane Spanish scientist who wants to be immortal by living forever.


Some notes:

• This is arguably the best of the Uwe Boll horrible video game movies.
• At 35:25 Nick makes an EGREGIOUS Tolkien error and never hears the end of it.
• Followed up immediately at 36:02 where we discuss a troubling confrontation with a comic book vendor and our piss-poor knowledge of obscure comic book characters.
• Not included: the gritty behind the scenes documentary exposing the seedy underbelly of  corporate sponsored raves