The Retro Podcast Massacre
A one-man scripted show about horror movies from the VHS era. Reviews say, "Funny and insightful", "Film history with a soothing voice" and "Densely informative". Subscribe away!
Episodes
28 episodes
Welcome to The Big Screen Biograph
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/...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:13:22
Episode 25 - The Rings: Sadako and Samara and ****ing Aidan
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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49:00
Minisode - The Roly Poly Man - The Strangest Film You've Never Seen
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 NOTH...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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15:21
Episode 24 - SPLAT! The Savage Humour of Peter Jackson
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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48:35
Episode 23 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Genius or Bollocks?
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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45:47
Episode 22 - Hogmanay Special: Tales of Old Edinburgh
HAPPY NEW YEAR!In this festive episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre, Val takes you back to Edinburgh. A medieval city, where past links to the present. We focus on two tales from famed Scottish author Robert Louis St...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:00:20
Episode 21 - Stephen King's Night Shift: The Movies
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY MILD SPOILERSIn this episode, Val looks back at Stephen King's first collection of short stories, "Night Shift" published in 1978.This slim volume contained enough material to inspire movies, sequels, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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1:05:03
Episode 20 - EVIL TWINS in Horror Movies or "Attack of the Clones"
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY MILD SPOILERSIn this dramatic episode of The Retro Podcast Massacre, the podcast is taken over by Val's EVIL TWIN Hal, who is determined the turn the Willing Participants into an army of unthinking drones!...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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48:17
Minisode - BRRRM-SPLAT! The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Dissected
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS ONLYOur first minisode!It turned out almost as long as a regular episode. Eff's sake.Join Val as he goes over the history of Tobe Hooper's horror masterpiece. The inspiration for the m...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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33:27
Episode 19 - Black and White Nights or "An Appointment With Fear"
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSIn this episode, Val's family stops by to reminisce about their days of staying up late to watch the Friday Night Horror at grandad's on his old black and white tv set.We'll take a look a...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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50:10
Episode 18 - Telekinesis in Horror Movies or "Carrie White Burns in Hell"
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSJoin Val once again as he digs through the back catalogue for films about telekinesis!We start with a visit to the World Telekinesis Championships to see what would happen if you pitted a...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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49:53
Episode 17 - Hammer's Karnstein Trilogy or "Carmilla Comes A Cropper"
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSGreetings, Willing Participants! Come and join us for this wildly-Gothic, atmospheric episode of RPM!This time Val delves into the blood-soaked world of Hammer films, to look at their Kar...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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50:12
Episode 16 - Anthony Perkins and Norman Bates: Psycho and Sequels
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS OF THE FILM "PSYCHO".LIKE YOU HAVEN'T ALL SEEN IT ALREADY.THERE ARE ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS OF THE FILMS, PSYCHO II, III AND IV.In this episode, we look back over the four Psycho films...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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45:15
Episode 15 - The Terror Films of Pete Walker
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSIn this episode, Val invites you to step into the TIME VORTEX as we travel back to the sleazy, swinging world of seedy London in the early 1970's, full of permissive young people and disapproving...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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36:42
Episode 14 - Early David Cronenberg: The "Squishy" Years
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSIn this episode, Val explores the crazy, sticky, scary and maybe-misogynistic world of David Cronenberg.We open at the Van Nostrand Institute for Scary Science Fiction Ideas where a bunch of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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41:36
Episode 13 - Occult Cults: Sinister Satanists at the Cinema
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSIn this episode, Val delves into the world of red capes and cloven hooves with a look at Satanic cult films. We open with an inside look into a meeting of the Satanic Order of Despai...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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43:05
Episode 12 - Early John Carpenter Movies: The Night Before He Came Home
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSIn this special episode we look at the pre-Halloween films of horror maestro John Carpenter.It was with "Halloween" in 1978 that John Carpenter changed the course of horror for at least ten y...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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32:26
Episode 11 - Snuff, Spanish-Style: Alejandro Amenábar's "Tesis"
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS HONEST NO REALLY WE PROMISE NOT TO TELL YOU WHO DID ITIn this week's episode, Val gets to talk about a horror film about horror films! "Tesis" is a film about why we like horror. Wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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29:20
Episode 10 - The Exorcist Saga, Part 2: The Gemini Killer Lives!
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERSIn this episode, Val pays a heartfelt tribute to director Renny Harlin before recapping the troubled history of the sequels to The Exorcist.After his book "Legion" became a bestseller, Willia...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:13
Episode 9 - The Exorcist Saga, Part 1: Howdy
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ONLY LIGHT SPOILERS OF BOTH FILMSIn this episode, we pay a brief tribute to legendary actor Max Von Sydow. Then, we visit Val as he time-travels back to 1973 in an attempt to cast evil spirits out of Linda Blai...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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44:13
Episode 8 - Terror in the Wilderness: Rituals and Just Before Dawn
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS LIGHT SPOILERS ONLY FOR BOTH FILMSIn this episode, Val travels into the forest with an unwitting Willing Participant for a good old backwoods barbecue. But he's forgotten to pack any sausages...Then we revi...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:41
Episode 7 - Hong Kong Horror: The Eyes Have It
In this episode Val dips a toe into Asian horror, by taking a look at The Pang Brother's 2002 film, "The Eye" from Hong Kong.We'll talk about that first wave of J-Horror that took Hollywood by storm in the late 90's/early 2000's. How it...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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21:52
Episode 6 - Dead & Buried: A Video Nasty Revisited
This episode contains light spoilers only. In this episode, Val visits the quaint little town of Potter's Bluff where something distinctly EERIE, yet also GORY, BLOODY, ICKY and MURDER-EY is also happening. The locals ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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20:20
Episode 5 - The Stepfather 1 & 2: "I JUST WANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOU!!"
This episode contains light spoilers only.In this episode Val revisits the 1987 slasher movie The Stepfather, only to discover that it's not really a slasher at all. There's a lot of love for the star of the movie, Terry O'...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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18:59
Episode 4 - Ghostwatch: The Play That Traumatised A Nation
This episode contains light spoilers for "Ghostwatch".In this episode Val discusses the infamous BBC tv play "Ghostwatch" which generated panic and alarm in Britain when it aired nearly 30 years ago, causing cases of PTSD and even one s...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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23:51