The Retro Podcast Massacre

The Retro Podcast Massacre is finished! But here's episode 1 of the new podcast - The Big Screen Biograph! If you liked it, please subscribe to the new show at any of the sites below... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-big-screen-biograph/id1554434636 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3UPwd9wrA5ewwSNuZXNLDm Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdGhlLWJpZy1zY3JlZW4tYmlvZ3JhcGg Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/612a4b5c-6e...

THIS EPISODE INCLUDES FULL SPOILERS FOR THE RING In this episode, Val watches as many Ring films as he can possibly stand (all but one). We look at the entire plot of the original Ring movie, to see how it compares to the American remake. Is the original better, or are those who claim the remake is worse just farty cinema snobs? No hints as to Val's opinion, but yes, totally. They are. Val also runs through the sequels - and there are LOT of them. From the Japanese...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS Join Val for a short episode on the little-seen, little-known, criminally-underappreciated Australian splatter comedy, "The Roly Poly Man". A film SO obscure we could find out almost NOTHING about it. So Val does his best to explain the movie's INCREDIBLY strange plot and tells you why you NEED to track this film down! Featuring giant Amazonian leeches, the murder of a giant TV bear, huge testicles, horny nuns. several horrible children and a hors...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS Kia ora koutou, Willing Participants! Come to New Zealand with us, for this very Kiwi episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre! Val takes a look at the splatstick years of Peter Jackson, from building models and effects in his dad's shed and cooking up aliens in his mum's oven for "Bad Taste" through to bringing us debauched, filthy puppets in "Meet The Feebles" and then on to THEEEE GORIEST FILM IN THE WORLD EVAH - "Braindead" ak...

WARNING: This episode contains significant spoilers for the film Halloween III. In this episode, Val looks back on the troubled history of the film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. It was a sequel that John Carpenter and Debra Hill didn't want to make. But they found inspiration in one of Carpenter's horror heroes - British science-fiction writer, Nigel Kneale. In an audacious move, they decided to make a film unlike any other in the Halloween franchise. "Not a knife movie, but a pod mo...