Midnight Video

Side B of the second volume of the Midnight Video Head Cleaner mixtape is comprised of songs, samples and scores from the Doomsday Clock specials. Enjoy.

Here’s an opportunity to have a rest from our dulcet tones. This is the first part of another mixtape which is comprised of song, scores and samples from the films we've covered on the show.  Enjoy.(Out of the Blue)Michael Kamen - Main Theme (The Dead Zone)Joe Hiasishi - Painters (Hana-Bi)(The Night Tide)Vangelis - Bitter Moon Suite (Bitter Moon)Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme (Dune)(Blue Collar)John Carpenter and Jim Long - Axe Man (In The Mouth of Madness)Sting - Narration (Brimstone and Treacle)Fidelquartet Telc - Opening Theme (Woyzeck)Viktor Kisin and Alfred Schnittke - Title Theme (Positel Muzeya)(The Rebel)Goblin - Sleepwalking (Phenomena)Luc Ferrari - excerpts from Chronopolis(The Shout)Howard Shore - 9pm (After Hours)Prince - Do you Live (Under the Cherry moon)Elizabeth Welch - Lazy Lady (Death at Broadcasting House)(Identikit aka. The Driver's Seat)Abba - I do, I do, I do (Montenegro)Peter O' Toole and the cast - Dem Bones (The Ruling Class)Pino Donaggio - Telescope (Body Double)(Do or Die)Karel Gott and Jan Rychlik - So Far (Lemonade Joe)Neil Young - Hey, hey, My, my - (Out of the Blue)

BOOM!!! This is it folks. The clock has struck midnight and the last instalment of the Doomsday Clock resonates in harmony with our first ever show. We've gone full circle and are rounding off things... for now, with another William Peter Blatty film: The Exorcist III aka. Legion.

Bruce Dickinson told us there was two minutes to midnight, but he might have been sketching out Lord Iffy Boatrace at the time. Fortunately for us, Richard Stanley upped the ante after his marvellous HARDWARE with this extremely unique and visually sumptuous flick. This ain't no hand-held hoover, this is a DUST DEVIL.

We're now in double figures and Doomsday Clock 10 is comprised of arm envy, oedipal rage and Al from Quantum Leap's brother. Oh yeh, and it's directed by someone called Alejandro Jodorowsky. It's bloody and could be considered holy, it's Santa Sangre!

In the Mouth of Madness was the winner of the listener's choice in our poll, but a close second was this classic slice of Hong Kongesque hokum from Carp and Kurt. With just three minutes left until midnight, we chop sockey towards Doomsday in the company of Jack Burton and Egg Sheng as they cause Big Trouble in Little China.

Before he became obsessed with a bespectacled child with a scar on his head, Rafe, sorry, Ralph Fiennes starred in a Kathryn Bigelow (with a little help from her now ex, James Cameron) film, which was a dystopian vision influenced by the 'then-times' riots and Rodney King killing in LA. So, as the clock ticks ever onwards to Doomsday, so do we witness the countdown to a new year to remember in Strange Days.

Although time is irrelevant to the undead, we find ourselves celebrating the minute hand striking the 6th minute to Midnight on our Doomsday countdown by taking a look at intrepid and idiosyncratic Bavarian film maker Werner Herzog's remake of F. W. Murnau's iconic Nosferatu.

Verdant, viridian and violently pink: Tears of the Black Tiger is a Thai genre mash up that defies expectations. A musical, western, melodrama with more than touch of the ol' ultraviolence a la Peckinpah; it marks the 7th minute to midnight on our Doomsday Clock countdown.

As luck would have it Dario Argento is the special guest at this year's Frightfest and like the planets aligning, Midnight Video brings into orbit the moon of Tenebrae casting it's shadow across the face of 80s Rome like the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock.

This week it's literally a race against the (Doomsday?) clock as we go undercover in one of the toughest Australian biker gangs ever to have graced the silver screen in Sandy Harbutt's frank and refreshing tale of camaraderie and two wheels: Stone.

Another minute bites the dust as we bring you another instalment of the Doomsday Clock. Pretty much universally panned the world over, Neil Labute's 2006 remake of cult British classic The Wickerman gets the Midnight Video treatment, but can we overcome the general consensus and find anything remotely positive about this Cage-rage vehicle?

It's now 11 minutes to Midnight and this episode sees us boil and blister as our tiny egos are put through the wrangler by psychoplasmic maestro Dr Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) in David Cronenberg's familial chiller: The Brood.

The Doomsday Clock is finally here and it's ticking.Over the next 12 weeks we will be dissecting a dozen films that have some links to previous shows, in particular our listener's vote.Beginning the countdown to the film apocalypse is Brian De Palma's extraordinary musical twist on classical horror literature: Phantom of the Paradise.

Here it is folks as promised, the flipside of the Midnight Video mixtape.More sonic oddities extracted from some of the cinematic gems that we've covered on the show over the last year.I have to admit that even I was surprised by some of the audio discoveries that I made in order to compile side B, a case in point being the Dick Tracy OST which features a swinging 90s hip hop track from non other than Bodycount vocalist Tracy Lauren Marrow aka. Ice-T.And also of note is Dominic Frontiere's score for Lesley Steven's Bergmanesque, Shatner-starring, Esperanto-garbled curiosity Incubus. Of course Frontiere went on to score what could be considered the compositional jewel in his crown; The Stunt Man but it's interesting to see the lineage from his The Outer Limits work to the excellent and unsung Richard Rush movies.So once again, sit back relax and be thankful you have another opportunity to be free of our gibbering gobbledygook.

The second instalment in our Headcleaner series sees us making up for Jim's untimely holiday which means that show 30 won't be available for a few weeks, but fear not, auditory cinematic diversions are still available although we've done something a little different here.Some of you may be aware that I like to compile mixtapes and this time I've turned my hand to a Midnight Video mixtape that encompasses music and samples from some of the films that we've covered on the show.So sit back relax and just be thankful you don't have to listen us droning on and on for a few weeks.

Due to our attendance at Frightfest we were unable to supply a new episode 'proper' of Midnight Video but we did end up recording a commentary track a few weeks ago for David Lynch's Palme d'Or winning Wild At Heart. So this week we offer you the opportunity to watch Lynch's movie accompanied by our voices and thoughts on one of his most divisive films.

In which we run through our cinematic highlights of the year and bring some news about the future of the show.

Well folks, show 39 sees us tackle a trio of films from the (in)famous Red Triangle series on the UK's Channel 4 back in the mid 80s.Cro-Magnon consternation in 70s Paris with Themroc, bored housewives and sexual frustration in Sweden with Montenegro before we round things off with familial hiccups in Dennis Hopper's Out Of The Blue.Also show 39 marks the end of volume one of Midnight Video as Phil leaves the UK for France and the impending introduction of his second sprog into this crazy, crazy world.

This show's filling between the sci-fi bread is the winner of the listener's vote poll; Martin Scorsese's After Hours. One man's descent into a night of mares and a great way to finish the vote.The upper slice of bread is Konstantin Lopushansky's post-apocalyptic A Visitor to the Museum - a Soviet metaphysical musing upon some of the big questions in life, but does it have any answers?Completing this delicious sandwich of cinema we brave the Alan Smithee cut of Dune with a 10 minute prologue and 30 mins of extra footage, does Smithee's cut attempt to fill in the gaps that Lynch deigned to leave out?