Death By Video

We're back with one of the strangest love stories ever committed to film! It's the age old tale of a man who meets a woman, who then meets her giant ape companion! There's vine swinging! The cheetah twirling! There's six different kinds of monster movie mayhem! All this and more in our episode on The Mighty Peking Man!

We're back with the final instalment in Herschel Gordon Lewis and David Friedman's "Blood Trilogy." It's a beatnik run amok in this 1960s art scene freakout! Listen in as we discuss the totally in efficient way that the murderous painter uses his victims' blood on his canvas! Hear us marvel at the cringy beatnik couple that wear matching wigs and dress shirts! The art world will never see it coming!

Yeehaw! We take a trip to the deep deep south only to run into Two Thousand Maniacs!!! It's the second part in our David F. Friedman/Herschell Gordon Lewis series! It's also the second part in their notorious "Blood Trilogy!" There's barrel rolling, there's horse racing, there's rock falling, and a whole lot of blood and guts in this southern fried freak out!

Listen in as we dive into the first "gore" film in history. It's Herschell Gordon Lewis' BLOOD FEAST!!! We explore the exploitation film environment that birthed this movie that shocked audiences coast to coast! There's Egyptian lectures, inept cops, haphazardly composed scenes, and a big helping of gore and viscera! This is the first part in our four part look at the partnership between director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman!

We're back with what is probably the most controversial film we've ever covered! Or is it? We innocently dive into Dasha Nekrasova's The Scary of Sixty-First! It's a tale of madness, murder, and Manhattan! Listen in as Phil & Kit try to explain what the "dirtbag left" is to Graham and what it has to do with this whacky movie!

Happy New Year! Listen in as your humble hosts take stock on the year that was and the films they watched! We discuss Censor, Dune, Titane, The French Dispatch, The Forever Purge, Power of the Dog, and a whole lot more!

It's the Christmas season and we dive into the overlooked Christmas horror film: To All A Goodnight! Directed by notorious actor David Hess (Last House on the Left, Hitch-Hike, House at the Edge of the Park)! It tells a tale that suspiciously sounds a lot like another Christmas horror film: several university students are left alone at their sorority house over Christmas and a mysterious killer arrives to cause mayhem! All this and more in Death By Episode One Hundred and One!

We made it to 100 episodes!!!!! To celebrate we watched an all time classic: Repo Man! It's the punk rock, muscle car, sci-fi, cult classic that put Los Angeles on the map! Directed by DBV all time favourite Alex Cox (even though this is the first film of his we've covered). Listen in as Phil & Graham wax poetic about their genuine admiration for this film, as Kit slowly joins the cult of Repo Man! Plate of shrimp.

We're back with the rattastic Canadian rat movie: Of Unknown Origin!!! It's Peter Weller (Robocop himself!) versus a giant rat that has invaded his family home in the French Canadian section of New York City! There's an all star cast of Canadian supporting actors! Listen in as our hosts describe in great detail their distaste for rats and their jubilation at watching Robocop eliminate a whole family of said rats!

Hey! You're favourite slow to update podcast is back with a Halloween Special on the classic Japanese shocker: EVIL DEAD TRAP! The spooky season is in full bloom so we traveled back to the old abandoned video store only to find it torn down so we found an even older video store to hang out in and discuss all the frights and scares in Evil Dead Trap!

After a bit of a break we are back with an episode on the Canadian cyberpunk not so classic: Johnny Mnemonic! Listen in as we point out the local Toronto landmarks that appear in this film set in New Jersey, USA! Hear as we describe the terrifying vision of the future technology known as... the internet! All this and our terrible Keanu impressions in this episode of Death By Video!

It's the real Bruce Lee! Finally! We dive into the film he wrote, directed, choreographed and starred in! It's a fish out of water tale as Bruce Lee travels to Rome to take down the Mafia that's shaking down some Chinese restaurants! Fists and feet fly as we discuss Bruce Lee's lesser known magnum opus! This also marks the first appearance on our show of 7 time world karate champion Chuck Norris! (In the movie, not as a guest).

We bring our Bruceploitation series to a close with The Dragon Lives Again aka Bruce Lee Goes to Hell! Listen in as we dissect the distastefulness of film producers not only depicting Bruce Lee's real death, but then having the character of "Bruce Lee" go to hell where he has to team up with Popeye, Kwai Chang Kaine, and the One-Armed Swordsman to face off against the forces of evil: Zatoichi, James Bond, The Exorcist, The Godfather, Emmanuelle, Clint Eastwood and Dracula! All this and more on Death By Video Episode Ninety-Six!

Hey what's better than Bruce Lee? Three Bruce Lees!!!! Well... in theory. Phil, Kit & Graham are back to discuss one of the most distasteful subgenres of films: Bruceploitation! We dive into the film that tells the tale of what happens when you clone the recently deceased Bruce Lee! Spoiler alert: not a whole lot. Listen in as we discuss which Bruce is better: Bruce Lee 1, Bruce Lee 2, or Bruce Lee 3!!!

Whooo! It's our most divisive episode! We tackle the wild, wacky, and wickedly fun movie: Psycho Ape! Listen in as Phil and Kit try and tear down the mighty Psycho Ape, while Graham just enjoys the chaotic/kinetic energy of the film and defends it valiantly!

We're back with a dive into the revenge fueled Spaghetti Western: Django The Bastard! Listen in as we discuss the Django westerns produced in Italy that had nothing to do with the original Django! Hear us describe the ghostly manner in which Django stalks the men who wronged him... from beyond the grave!

We're (finally) back! And we're spreading the good word about Night of 1000 Cats! It's the tale as old as time about a man, his helicopter, his 1000 cats, and the people he feeds to said 1000 cats! Listen in as Phil, Kit & Graham discuss the film that could best be described as a hypnotic lava lamp, soundtracked by the smoothest music this side of Loggins and Messina!

Hey! The guys get together for an informal chat about all the movies they've been watching lately! Films discussed: Trash Humpers (sigh), Den of Thieves (double sigh), Psycho Goreman (!), The Irishman, Venom, Vampire's Kiss, Affliction, Miami Vice, Hard Core Logo, The Black Cat, The Brady Bunch Movie, Wes Craven's Shocker, Burn After Reading, Mission Impossible 2, De Palma, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, and the AGFA Horror Trailer Show!

We're back with a trip to the land down under for a rollicking good time with BMX Bandits. Make yourself a Vegemite sandwich, open up a can of Fosters, and kick back as we take you through this tale of bank robberies, walkie talkies, waterslides, and BMX Bikes!

We're back with another slice of cinematic insanity!!! We're joined by special guest Krissy Foley to discuss the 1970s crime odyssey: MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE! Produced, written, directed, soundtracked, and starring the immortal Duke Mitchell (Gone With The Pope). Listen in as we decipher the meandering story of a 31 year old mafioso who decides to take down the Los Angeles mob one gangster at a time!