Death By Video

We're back! It's our first episode of 2021!!! And we're covering the far out Italian odyssey: Paganini Horror! It's a classical tale of an 80s soft rock band who purchase the lost final composition of violinist Paganini, and use it for their new pop single which they're film a music video for in the actual house where Paganini sold his soul to the devil! What could possibly go wrong? Find out on our episode on Paganini Horror!

They guys are back to discuss the rest of the films that watched during this year's Spooky Season. Films discussed are: Never Hike in the Snow, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hellbound-Hellraiser II, The Convent (2000), the Amityville Horror, Witchboard, The Monster Squad, Subspecies, Cabin in the Woods, & Poltergeist (1982).

Our intrepid hosts are back to discuss the film that kicked horror in the 1980s in the butt and made Hollywood sit up and take notice. They discuss the origins of the film as well as the difficulties in getting the film to the screen. Plus they try and force metaphors about mattresses, and nails! It mostly works. All this and more in. the 87th episode of Death By Video!

Just when you thought it was safe to put up your Christmas decorations! We're back to discuss the final films we watched during the spooky season! Films discussed are: The Cleansing Hour, Fade to Black, Creep, Creep 2, Haunt (2019), The Island of Dr. Moreau, Return of the Living Dead, Hell House LLC, Hell House LLC 2, Hell House LLC 3, Night of the Demons, Ghoulies, The Shining, Doctor Sleep, The Brood, and Kung-Fu Zombie!

The march towards Halloween continues with a dive into the transgressive slasher movie: Sleepaway Camp!!! The guys discuss the short shorts and cropped tops that adorn the male actors in the film and the creepiness of many of the camp's older employees. Plus we get Kit's unprepared reaction to the infamous reveal that happens during the film's climax! So, pack some hiking boots and join us on a trip to Sleepaway Camp!

It's part 3 of our special series about all the spooky movies we're watching this Halloween season! Films discussed this episode are: Long Weekend, The Ring, Let's Scare Jessica To Death, Friday the 13th Part 3, The Evil, Twice Dead, The Purge, Deathgasm, Demonia, Lake Bodom, The Creature With The Atom Brain, and The Beach House!

We're back with another special episode celebrating the spooky season! Here's a rundown of the films that are discussed: Driller Killer, The Witch, Vampires vs The Bronx, Ghostbusters 2, Survival of the Dead, Night of the Living dead, Scary Movie (1991), Paranormal Activity 3, Deadline, The Ghost & Mister Chicken, and The Haunting of Bly Manor. We also talk about Joker at the beginning, but who cares about that movie?

We dive into the bizarre world of 70s Spanish horror films with the hard to find classic Demon Witch Child! Listen in as we discuss this tale of one child's journey from happy-go-lucky kid to the double-possessed Demon Witch Child. As in she gets simultaneously possessed by a demon and a witch! It's the perfect way to kick off your Halloween season!

Join in for the first in a special series detailing the horror films we're watching this Halloween Season. We discuss the films It Follows, C.H.U.D., Blood Feast (2016), and Glenn Danzig's Verotika!

We're back with a dip in to the deep end of 1980s horror films! It's Scott Spiegel's INTRUDER! We discuss Spiegel's adventures in Hollywood involving some of the biggest filmmakers in history and his expert direction of grocery store employees being terrorized by the titular Intruder!

We're baaaaaaaaaack! After an extended hiatus we return with the heavy hitter that is George Romero's Day of the Dead!!! We discuss the circumstances under which the film was made, the cast's connections to previous Living Dead films, and the hurdles that horror filmmakers in the 1980s had to jump over to get their films seen!

In honour of Albert Pyun's recent birthday we decided to take a trip to Eastern Europe for his Bratislava odyssey: Crazy Six! Featuring a star studded cast featuring Rob Lowe, Ivana Milicevic, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, and Burt Freaking Reynolds! Will Rob Lowe & Co be able to defeat Ice-T's gang of drug smuggling nuclear arms dealers, while simultaneously trying to kick a meth habit? Tune in to find out!!!

We're back with the hip-hop not-so-classic film BELLY!!! Starring Nad & DMX as low level criminals who attempt to work their way up, and work out the demons inside them. There's a whole lot of stuff going on and very little of it makes sense! But it definitely looks cooler than cool and the soundtrack is great!!!

We're back with a dive into the abyss of 1980s genre cinema with our episode on SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!!! Join Phil, Kit & Graham as they discuss the plot (or lack there of) and how one gang of goose-stepping surfers take over the beach only to be thwarted by an unexpected foe! They also discuss some of the films they've been watching during this current period of quarantine and how they think Surf Nazis Must Die could make an incredible remake today!

We're back! We're quarantined! And we're still watching insane movies! Listen in as the guys watch Enzo G. Castellari's swan song to the spaghetti western genre with the psychedelic freakout: KEOMA! Starring the legendary Franco Nero, along with Woody Strode and Olga Karlatos! There's shootouts! There's flashbacks! There's plague mines! There's an attempt at a socialist uprising! There's singing! So much singing! All this and more in Death By Video Episode 79: KEOMA!!!

We're back with an episode dedicated to the oft-overlooked sci-fi film Trancers! It stars Tim Thomerson as Jack Deth; a Trancer Hunter from the year 2247, sent back in time to 1985 to stop the creator of the trancers from killing the ancestors of the City of Angels justice council. Along the way he falls in love with 1980s punk rocker Helen Hunt! We sincerely hope that everyone is safe and healthy right now and that our silly podcast can serve as a distraction from the seriousness in the world at this time.

We're back with our take on Re-Animator! Our intrepid hosts have to record remotely due to the current goings on in the world, but that doesn't stop them from digging the groovy grave robbing exploits of Herbert West in Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator! They also discuss the late Stuart Gordon's career as a filmmaker, as a theatre director, and his impact on cinema, literature, and stage production!

Phil, Kit & Graham are back to discuss the 1990s surf-tastic masterpiece POINT BREAK!!! (not the 2015 remake) They discuss the radness this movie exudes and marvel at Keanu Reeve's command of the English language. They discuss the oeuvre of director Kathryn Bigelow, and the insanity that is Patrick Swayze doing all of his own skydiving stunts! Plus Gary Busey just annihilating the scenery as a drunk-uncle/loose cannon FBI agent!!! All this and more in the latest episode of Death By Video!!!!!

Graham & Kit take a trip to the cinema to check out this weekend's hit smash: the surprisingly charming Sonic The Hedgehog!!!

The whole gang is back to try and understand the lunacy that is Tammy & The T-Rex!!! Starring Denise Richards, Paul Walker (RIP), and Terry Kiser it's the classic tale of boy meets girl, girl's exboyfriend causes trouble, mad scientist kidnaps boy and puts his brain into a robotic Tyrannosaurus Rex! Luckily she's not just into him for his body. All this and more in DBV 74: Tammy & The T-Rex!!!