Movie Melt! Podcast - Psychotronic and Outsider Cinema

News reports warn of missing children as a mysterious young man named Sylvio appears wherever kids are in danger. Nobody seems especially alarmed except Sylvio, a quiet drifter with frosted tips and unclear motives who spends his time watching over local playgrounds. At home, Sylvio lives with his elderly father in a tiny blue room with a clown door, where memories are hazy and answers are scarce. Spray paint, cryptic conversations, and strange encounters hint at a hidden purpose behind Sylvio’s obsession with protecting children. Is BLACK COUGAR a superhero movie, outsider art experiment, or something else entirely? We break down Sylvio DiSalvatore’s obscure DIY oddity scene by scene. PLUS: Battle of the Bands What We’ve Been Watching Listener feedback Subscribe for weekly deep dives into cult films, regional oddities, and Psychotronic delights! BlackCougar #CultFilm #ObscureCinema #DIYFilm #Superhero #MovieMelt #VHS #Psychotronic #vanityproject Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

YouTube tried to erase us — but they can’t kill the tape Halfway through our live breakdown of The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005), the broadcast suddenly disappeared with zero warning while we were still on air, still talking, still laughing at the mysteriously empty viewer count. No strike notice. No explanation. Just gone. So here it is — the full, resurrected episode. We finally dig into one of the strangest spoof comedies ever made: an Airplane-style gag movie about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Directed by music-video veteran Marc Klasfeld and starring Snoop Dogg, Emilio Estevez, and T.K. Carter, the film plays like ZAZ chaos dropped straight into one of the most combustible moments in modern American history. We break down how it got made, what works (if anything), what absolutely doesn’t, and why this thing even exists — plus what actually happened when the original stream vanished mid-recording. PLUS: Battle of the Bands, What We’ve Been Watching, and the content YouTube was TOO AFRAID to air.----- Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Subscribe to Movie Melt TV On Youtube - I WANT MY MMTV!! Before we’ve even covered a straight-up W.A.V.E. movie, in true Movie Melt fashion we went the deep-cut route — diving into the W.A.V.E. Productions extended universe through one of their oldschool regulars who went on to make her own fascinating work: Pamela Sutch. We went LIVE on YouTube to discuss Pamela’s GENETICS (2008) — a SOV body-swap vanity project extraordinaire. We also get into other New Jersey DIY films that refuse to die, and Gary Whitson’s W.A.V.E. influence in the mix. Recorded LIVE with listeners in the chat as it happened. PLUS: Gowing Pains &Technical SNAFUs Galore, Battle of the Bands, What We’ve Been Watching, C-Bear turns 40! Subscribe to our YouTube channel @moviemeltpod and jump into the comments next time. If you want more live episodes, that’s where they’ll be. Subscribe to our Youtube Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

It's our casual 10-year celebration of the show with more vanity project insanity from a man who calls himself Jah and his gangster-buddy-heist passion project. Things get contentious (and kinda thirsty) when we discuss our fashion red lines in the sand, and somehow it all comes back to deez nuts. Plus a battle of the bands! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669! Klon's Podcast THE LATE LIST

It’s a full-on wiener roast as we nerd out with The Baron Against the Demons, a Spanish fantasy oddity that plays like The Dark Crystal colliding with the Star Wars prequels and an all-consuming fertility obsession. It’s puppets, miniatures, foam-muscle warriors, green screens, archaic CGI, and body horror pushed as far as $200 can possibly go. PLUS: How Have You Been, Battle of the Bands, and so much more! we think we should be given Free Money so join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We're pouring ourselves a nice warm cup of Sheitan (2006) — the nasty French holiday horror where twitchy Satanist Vincent Cassel plays the backwoods host-with-the-most, throwing a group of Parisian club kids the most aggressively uncomfortable Christmas they've ever been trapped at. Drink it hot. Drink it fast. Because it's a mean cup of Sheitan! PLUS: Battle of the Bands: Holiday Edition, Russian-Dub Karaoke, and way too much eggnog! CHECK OUT KLON'S AWESOME NEW PODCAST ON SOMETHING WEIRD FILMS Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

MIDNIGHT DRAGON (1995) Another All-Nut BROvember This week on Movie Melt, we dive into Midnight Dragon, a VHS-era vanity project overflowing with seizure-inducing effects, one-of-a-kind transition wipes, and audio that can only be deciphered with the power of AI. Our hero Youfonso Martindale karate-chops and side-kicks his way through a plot that technically exists somewhere under all the noise… and we are the only podcast manly enough to take it on. Plus: a high-value-male, top-1% male specimens celebs Battle of the Bands. CHECK OUT KLON'S AWESOME NEW PODCAST ON SOMETHING WEIRD FILMS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

It’s All-Nut BROvember, and to celebrate raw, uncut, vein-bulging alpha-male friendships, we dove into Jamaa Fanaka’s Penitentiary III — a tale of brotherhood forged between a dungeon-dwelling, crack-addicted little person and a champion boxer named Too Sweet. Two men. One bond. Infinite testosterone. PLUS: Battle of the Bands — Handsome, financially dominant male actor edition! "Penitentiary 3" FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LEAVE US APPLE PODCAST AND SPOTIFY REVIEWS TO COMBAT THESE HORRID SMEAR CAMPAIGNS Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

For Hallweenus we venture into the black hole of early-2000s DTV — where a melodramatic group of mid-thirtysomething “teens” are haunted by a pajama-wearing Headless Horseman who looks like a Phish tourhead. Everything is spared in this bizarre attempt to cash in on Tim Burton’s hit… except their lives! Sharpen your Excalibur sword and zip up those Dave Matthews pants — class is in session at Sleepy Hollow High! Plus: listener feedback, a Halloween Battle of the Bands, and Heather unleashed! 🎃 Join our Patreon 📼 Follow Cory’s Self-Help YouTube Mixtapes: Hope This Helps 💀Shout out to HalloweenShindig.com – Home of the Horror Fan’s Halloween Playlist! 📞Call the Movie Melt Hotline! (724) 246-4669

Regional DIY SOV horror at its finest: BMX kids dig up a cursed gargoyle, a mullet brigade faces demonic puberty, and a new Movie Melt Saint ascends. Plus: we uncover what nobody else has about director Chuck Lang's secret Vegas empire. ALSO: Battle of the Bands and lost films from Down Under. Join our Patreon if you can! ollow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We hit the Shaw Brothers jackpot with the most insane film they ever produced — Kuei Chih-Hung’s The Boxer’s Omen (1983)! What starts as a simple boxing revenge flick spirals into flying severed heads, throat eels, Buddhist black magic battles, and crocodile strippers. Top-shelf mind-melting insanity. PLUS: Battle of the Bands: Crocodile Edition, What We’ve Been Watching, and so much more!! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Back-to-school means we get educated with Cybela Clare’s female-led vanity project on ancient aliens, clones & parrots! Bird's Eye View: An ET's Solution for Humanity (2020) PLUS: Battle of the Bands + our very special guest, queer hip hop king AUNTIE BOY. Class is in session! 🎒👽🦜 Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Movie Melt’s cheer squad is back on the megaphone for the booger-sugar-fueled camp comedy Gimme an ‘F’. Expect pom-poms, pee-pee-filled balloons, saucy Mad Max role-play, new wave cheerleaders, the Jan Hammer soundtrack, and enough dazzling dance routines to knock your pom-poms off.This criminally underseen gem’s got male cheerleaders breakdancing-in-wet-tightie-whities-while-doing-Gymkata-on-the-water-pipes — for a full five minutes — during a shower scene!! Give me a B! Give me an O! Give me an N-E-R! What’s that spell? BONE… errr, never mind! Plus: What We've Been Watching, our favorite documentaries, And More! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

A wrestler, a madman with a super-powered rubber glove, and a space princess with an Ewok sidekick walk into a neon-lit fever dream. What do they find? Chubby motorcycle luchadores, bald men with ponytails, and an El Santo movie tailor-made for the early ’90s. This week, CDR beams with national pride as pleather-clad Canadian hero Vampiro sinks his fangs into the role he was genetically engineered to play: himself! Plus: – Battle of the Bands – Listener feedback – And so much more!! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

We’ve name-dropped him dozens of times… and yet this is our first actual Fred Olen Ray episode?! Unbelievable, but true. Carlo stays up way past his bedtime to tell us all about Evil Toons (1992)—a movie full of unkept promises. It definitely does have a haunted book, Monique Gabrielle, and 45 seconds of a bad scary wolf that’s animated though! Plus: Gary Coleman news, Heather rearranging magnets on her fridge in an effort to not lose her mind, what we’ve been watching, and so much more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Too much gay crashed Matt’s hard drive (yes, another one!), and so our final 2025 Pride episode is dropping on the 4th of July. Fitting, because what’s more American than repressed senators dating twink heirs to a popcorn fortune? Just like this week's movie: Traveling to Olympia (2001), a queer shot-on-video headscratcher set in the Pacific Northwest—the Wakanda for Gays, apparently. We follow Johnny, a traumatized twink with a duffel bag and one facial expression, as he washes dishes, processes trauma, and parties at gay cowboy bars—with beautiful musical interludes from the PNW greatest crooners. This is a weird one! Follow Gerald's horrorslumberparty Follow Cory's Self-Help Youtube Mixtapes Hope This Helps Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Happy Pride! We get probed by Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker (1996)—the queer, trippy, E.T. sci-fi oddity about interdimensional lust, alien contact, and sexual awakening in the Arizona desert. Plus: A gay Battle of the Bands, Auntie Boy (!), orgone energy, what we’ve been watching, and more! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!

Possibly the greatest vanity project ever made... again! We’re revisiting GetEven (aka Champagne & Bullets, aka Road to Revenge)—a redux of Episode 3 where we first stumbled into one of the most tippy-top-shelf vanity projects in existence. This episode’s a three-fer. It puts a temporary end to our evil "feel-bad" movie streak. It gives us a chance to revisit a film we love. And it continues our tribute to the patron saint of the podcast, Wings Hauser. This one’s got heavy hitters—William Smith, Pamela Bryant, Wings—and at the center of it all, a man with an ego... err... dream, trial lawyer John Isaac De Hart III. Plus: Battle of the Bands, what we’ve been watching, slick stuff, neat stuff, etc.! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!