Movie Melt! Podcast - Psychotronic and Outsider Cinema

It’s All-Nut BROvember, and to celebrate raw, uncut, vein-bulging alpha-male friendships, we dove into Jamaa Fanaka’s Penitentiary III — a tale of brotherhood forged between a dungeon-dwelling, crack-addicted little person and a champion boxer named Too Sweet. Two men. One bond. Infinite testosterone. PLUS: Battle of the Bands — Handsome, financially dominant male actor edition! "Penitentiary 3" FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LEAVE US APPLE PODCAST AND SPOTIFY REVIEWS TO COMBAT THESE HORRID SMEAR CAMPAIGNS Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

For Hallweenus we venture into the black hole of early-2000s DTV — where a melodramatic group of mid-thirtysomething “teens” are haunted by a pajama-wearing Headless Horseman who looks like a Phish tourhead. Everything is spared in this bizarre attempt to cash in on Tim Burton’s hit… except their lives! Sharpen your Excalibur sword and zip up those Dave Matthews pants — class is in session at Sleepy Hollow High! Plus: listener feedback, a Halloween Battle of the Bands, and Heather unleashed! 🎃 Join our Patreon 📼 Follow Cory’s Self-Help YouTube Mixtapes: Hope This Helps 💀Shout out to HalloweenShindig.com – Home of the Horror Fan’s Halloween Playlist! 📞Call the Movie Melt Hotline! (724) 246-4669

Regional DIY SOV horror at its finest: BMX kids dig up a cursed gargoyle, a mullet brigade faces demonic puberty, and a new Movie Melt Saint ascends. Plus: we uncover what nobody else has about director Chuck Lang's secret Vegas empire. ALSO: Battle of the Bands and lost films from Down Under. Join our Patreon if you can! ollow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We hit the Shaw Brothers jackpot with the most insane film they ever produced — Kuei Chih-Hung’s The Boxer’s Omen (1983)! What starts as a simple boxing revenge flick spirals into flying severed heads, throat eels, Buddhist black magic battles, and crocodile strippers. Top-shelf mind-melting insanity. PLUS: Battle of the Bands: Crocodile Edition, What We’ve Been Watching, and so much more!! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Back-to-school means we get educated with Cybela Clare’s female-led vanity project on ancient aliens, clones & parrots! Bird's Eye View: An ET's Solution for Humanity (2020) PLUS: Battle of the Bands + our very special guest, queer hip hop king AUNTIE BOY. Class is in session! 🎒👽🦜 Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Movie Melt’s cheer squad is back on the megaphone for the booger-sugar-fueled camp comedy Gimme an ‘F’. Expect pom-poms, pee-pee-filled balloons, saucy Mad Max role-play, new wave cheerleaders, the Jan Hammer soundtrack, and enough dazzling dance routines to knock your pom-poms off.This criminally underseen gem’s got male cheerleaders breakdancing-in-wet-tightie-whities-while-doing-Gymkata-on-the-water-pipes — for a full five minutes — during a shower scene!! Give me a B! Give me an O! Give me an N-E-R! What’s that spell? BONE… errr, never mind! Plus: What We've Been Watching, our favorite documentaries, And More! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

A wrestler, a madman with a super-powered rubber glove, and a space princess with an Ewok sidekick walk into a neon-lit fever dream. What do they find? Chubby motorcycle luchadores, bald men with ponytails, and an El Santo movie tailor-made for the early ’90s. This week, CDR beams with national pride as pleather-clad Canadian hero Vampiro sinks his fangs into the role he was genetically engineered to play: himself! Plus: – Battle of the Bands – Listener feedback – And so much more!! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We’ve name-dropped him dozens of times… and yet this is our first actual Fred Olen Ray episode?! Unbelievable, but true. Carlo stays up way past his bedtime to tell us all about Evil Toons (1992)—a movie full of unkept promises. It definitely does have a haunted book, Monique Gabrielle, and 45 seconds of a bad scary wolf that’s animated though! Plus: Gary Coleman news, Heather rearranging magnets on her fridge in an effort to not lose her mind, what we’ve been watching, and so much more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Too much gay crashed Matt’s hard drive (yes, another one!), and so our final 2025 Pride episode is dropping on the 4th of July. Fitting, because what’s more American than repressed senators dating twink heirs to a popcorn fortune? Just like this week's movie: Traveling to Olympia (2001), a queer shot-on-video headscratcher set in the Pacific Northwest—the Wakanda for Gays, apparently. We follow Johnny, a traumatized twink with a duffel bag and one facial expression, as he washes dishes, processes trauma, and parties at gay cowboy bars—with beautiful musical interludes from the PNW greatest crooners. This is a weird one! Follow Gerald's horrorslumberparty Follow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Happy Pride! We get probed by Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker (1996)—the queer, trippy, E.T. sci-fi oddity about interdimensional lust, alien contact, and sexual awakening in the Arizona desert. Plus: A gay Battle of the Bands, Auntie Boy (!), orgone energy, what we’ve been watching, and more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Possibly the greatest vanity project ever made... again! We’re revisiting GetEven (aka Champagne & Bullets, aka Road to Revenge)—a redux of Episode 3 where we first stumbled into one of the most tippy-top-shelf vanity projects in existence. This episode’s a three-fer. It puts a temporary end to our evil "feel-bad" movie streak. It gives us a chance to revisit a film we love. And it continues our tribute to the patron saint of the podcast, Wings Hauser. This one’s got heavy hitters—William Smith, Pamela Bryant, Wings—and at the center of it all, a man with an ego... err... dream, trial lawyer John Isaac De Hart III. Plus: Battle of the Bands, what we’ve been watching, slick stuff, neat stuff, etc.! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Carlo takes us into the cosmic void with Rat Scratch Fever (2011)—Jeff Leroy’s creature-feature about mutant rats from Mars that rip through Los Angeles using every special effect known to man: CGI, practical gore, puppets, stop-motion, green screen, etc. It’s an ambitious no-budget feat that must be seen to be believed! Plus: what we’ve been watching, 20,000 calorie meals, coochie rats, and more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We hit the filthy, scum-ridden streets of Los Angeles alongside our late patron saint and cult icon, Wings Hauser, in Street Asylum (1990). It’s got all the things we love—Wings Hauser, fascistic police brutality, and G. Gordon Liddy having kinky S&M sex. This is our toilet-humor tribute to the man we love most. Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

The Sensitive Boys™ are back to discuss Menahem Golan’s attempt at Cannon Films 2.0! It’s sleazy, brainless, and probably funded by the Russian mob—a pants-falling-down, mid-slam-dunk spectacle starring Billy Drago, Joe Lara, and Richard Lynch: DEATH GAME! Synopsis: A young man is a growing basketball star in his school. The Mob decides to initiate him and manage him. He likes the presents, money and girls, but his coach does not. When things go too far, only his coach can do what must be done. Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

A DIY film made by New Jersey truckers on the clock over four years, starring a formerly homeless man on a quest for love and giant bewbs?! Bride of Frank is John Waters meets Giuseppe Andrews with rubber wieners and black as the blackest cauldron toenails. Listen as we revel in its joyful depravity Plus: Film Sherpa returns! More celebrity voicemails! Cameos from our friend Marshall! and more! Unapproachable A/V [LINKS](https://linktr.ee/UnapproachableAV) Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We made it! Episode 200: The Big Deuce! 🎉💩 This week, the gang dives into one of the wildest adult films ever masquerading as art—Shaun Costello's Water Power (1977), starring the one and only Jamie Gillis. Plus, we listen to your voicemails, catch up with our good pal Marshall (aka the cereal fart guy), and share what we've been watching. A totally wholesome, family-friendly episode about the enema bandit and his victims. Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Chef CDR takes us on a journey where a quiet Japanese campus turns into a blood-drenched battlefield! Hell goes to school as a desperate student council finds itself terrorized by the ruthless Yagyu biker gang. The students want to fight back but quickly realize they’re too weak and outnumbered. Their solution? Hire a crew of 7 badass babes to train and defend them! Go For Break!! Plus: Johnny Depp's teeth update, fart cereal, what we’ve been watching, more Little Orphan Annie chatter, and so much more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

This week the gang goes to CGI HELL with Dominator (2003) – a film that’s basically a Jackson Pollock painting of demons, Nintendo 64 graphic tiddies, and poser metal! AND it has voice work from Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth and Repo Man director Alex Cox!? 🤯 Satan help us! PLUS: What we've been watching, hijinks, and laffs galore Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

The gang gets pretty deep in their cups as they try to horn up the holidays a bit with the aid of the bizarre Ukranian Christmas classic(?) about Vakula the dwarf, his deal with the devil, and his quest to retrieve the Russian Empress’ bejeweled thong in hopes of winning the love of a hottie who continually humiliates him. Yep we watched “Hutorskie Strasti” (2008) AKA “Hut Village Passions" directed by Aleksandr Parkhomenko. Plus, a battle of the bands X-Mas edition! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

The gang dives into the suprisingly copetent, and dare I say touching German film about a condom that bites dingdongs off. Plus it has special effects by Nekromantik's Jörg Buttgereit and designs by HR Giger! PLUS: Billionaire Battle of the Bands Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!