Movie Melt! Podcast - Psychotronic and Outsider Cinema

It's officially Mini Monster Month here at Companeros! For our first choice, we take a look at the shot-on-8mm, limited to only 200 VHS copies, piece-of-trash known as 'Beasties' from 1989! Plus, Catch and Release, Songs on Trial, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, What Movie is This?, James Best, and much much more!

The Companeros like our vanity projects (movies produced, written, directed, and starring the same person), and Empire of the Dark (1990) is no exception! Don't be fooled, Director/Star Steve Barkett may look like he's full of hot dogs, but he's also full of surprises and talent. Also: Songs On Trial, What Movie Is This?, James Best's Best Movies Ever, Listener Feedback, and fast times at Companeros high! SOT: Bigod 20 - Like a prayer Modern-Soul-Band ‎–Heut' Spielt Hier 'Ne Soul-Band "Macho Man" Randy Savage - Tear It Up Denise LaSalle - Lick It Before You Stick It The Frogs - These Are The Finest Queen Boys (I've Ever Seen) Crispin Hellion Glover - Auto-Manipulator

Bad Manners (1984) is a serious contender for the most inappropriate kids movie ever captured on film. We do our very best (FOR YOU, Dear Listener) to wrap our heads around this amazingly entertaining miscreation. LEAVE US AN ITUNES REVIEW/VOICEMAL AND WE'LL READ/PLAY IT ON THE SHOW!! Also: Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Songs On Trial, In Search of the Perfect Podcast, James Best!, and crazy tunes for your irritainment! SOT: Safe Sex - Bad Manners (1987) Viper - You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack (2008) Ariel Pink - Time To Meet Your God (2017) The Clap - Disco Jesus (1980) Bob Carly - Jam Me Maybe (2016) Amanda - Concrete Nipples (1989)

The Companeros go intergalactic (on the cheap) with the Canadian SOV alien movie made for only $250 -- Phobe! Plus: Catch and Release, Fun Film Fact, Songs On Trial, In Search of the Perfect Podcast, James Best, Listener Feedback, and songs about space!!! SOT: Jimmy Ross - Chocolate Ice (1982) Silicon Dream - Everything Is Relative (1988) Legendary Stardust Cowboy - I took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship (1969) Bhad Bhabie - Heaux (2017) The Ran-Dells - Martian Hop (1963)

Join us on our journey into the far-out, fantastical world where cats and fashionable garbage-bag attire finally unite! This week we watched The Carrier (1988)!! Plus: Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, Song On Trial, songs about cats, and so much more! Drop us a line or leave us an iTunes review and we'll read on the show y'all! Smooches...

We're back with another riveting shot-on-shitteo horror anthology classic -- 1987's Tales From The QuaDead Zone! Plus: Catch & Release, Songs On Trial, What Movie Is This?, Listener Feedback, and Weaponized Autism! Thank you all so much for the new iTunes Reviews, messages, and Letterboxd delights!

Shea and Heather team-up to chat with the Godfather of Shot-On-Video Gore - Tim Ritter! This is a sister episode to our feature presentation on #32 Killing Spree. Enjoy!

This time we venture back into Dr. Snuggles favorite genre -- 'boobs save the thing' -- with 1979s Gas Pump Girls! Plus: Catch and Release, Songs on Trial, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, What Movie Is This?, gassy tunes, and so much more!!!

33 episodes down and summer is in full effect, so we decided to take it easy on this one and skip the feature presentation. However, we still got tons of shit for your enjoyment -- including TWO mini-movie reviews requested from our listeners! Also on the agenda: Catch and Release, Songs On Trial, Fun Film Fact, What Movie Is This?, and so much more!

It's Shea's super Birthday Breakdown, and her choice -- Tim Ritter's 1987 low-budge Horror/Comedy 'Killing Spree'! Plus: Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, Songs On Trial, What Movie Is This?, songs about rage, and Jake tries to sneak an Anime for his next pick!

This episode is rated PG-13 for peripheral violence...you'll see what I mean. Crazy shit goes down next door as we get into the breakdown. Zoey does her first breakdown of eye-candy auteur's 2016 delight "The Love Witch"! Plus: Songs on trial, Witchy Songs, What Movie Is This?, a mini-movie review, and one memorable episode for the cast. Give us a review on iTunes or leave us a voicemail! We want to hear from you! http://clintonstreetrecordandstereo.com

This time Dr. Snuggles punishes us with the golden-globe winning, pro-incest classic 'Butterfly' (1982) starring Pia Zadora, Stacy Keach, and Orson Welles! However, the gang gets even and punish Alistair right back! This one goes FULL rascality. Yikes! Plus... Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, Songs On Trial, What Movie Is This?, and so much more! http://clintonstreetrecordandstereo.com

***Leave us voicemail or an iTunes Review and we'll feature it on the show!*** This time Heather takes the reins, as we venture into the subversive world of Shot-On-Shitteo, with the bisexual black-comedy, BLONDE DEATH (1984)! Plus, Catch & Release, Fun Film Fact, Songs On Trial, Listener Feedback, songs about hair, and rascality all over the place! Thank you Clinton Street Records Jared for the songs on trial! visit his store!!

It's our one year anniversary, and what better way to celebrate than with Disco, demons, PCP, and Rudy Ray Moore?! This episode's movie "Disco Godfather" (1979) has all those things! Plus, we dive deep into the rabbit hole of drug songs for Songs On Trial, Alistair tells us about a surprising celebrity that starred in a spanking fetish film, Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Jake and Matt exchange xmas gifts, and tomfoolery abounds in this very special episode! Thanks for listening and PLEASE send us voicemails and/or good iTunes reviews and we'll put them on the show! Make good choices!

Companeros love vanity projects and this one is no exception! Phillip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice fame stars in this anti-PCP PSA from 1978. This movie is totally insane! It even effected our computers and Skype. Also, on this very special episode... Catch & Release, Songs On Trial, Fun Film Fact, songs about drugs, and so so so much more! Light up that shirm cig and get down with the whack!

This episode we venture into the Cynthia Rothrock super sequel Martial Law 2 (1991), guided by the shaman of confusion, Jake! Plus, INSANE tunes from Clinton Street Record's Jared, PG BOOBS, Companeros Fun Film Fact, Songs about Martial Arts, and shenanigans galore!

This week we explore the cinema of Racine, Wisconsin in the very first found footage film ever from 1991 -- America's Deadliest Home Video! Plus: Only one girl?! A different recording studio?! Squeaky, Shea, Heather, and Anna all missing?! A new guy named Jared?! Danny Bonaduce?!?!?! YES! ALL THIS AND: Catch and Release, Songs On Trial, Fun Film Fact, James Best's Best Movies Ever! Welcome to the Companeros Twilight Zone! This is a weird one!

In this episode's movie 'Vice Academy' (1989), everything goes wrong in all the right ways. And the same goes for this bizarro episode! Crazy shit goes down all over the place! Mucho Caliente, Gracias! PLUS: Catch and release, PG Boobs, Dr. Snuggles Fun Film Fact, an especially raucous Songs On Trial, celebrity voicemails/Listener Feedback, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and rompin' rascality turned up full blast! Good times delivered to your ears!!!

So Rick Sloane directed next episode's movie VICE ACADEMY (1989) which due to our server's monthly limitations, won't be posted until April 1st (no April fooling). Rick Sloane not only directed SIX (!!!) Vice Academy movies, the legendary Hobgoblins (1988), TWO Wings Hauser films, and a shitload more. If you were a fan of USA Up All Night, strap in, because you're gonna like this interview.

Oh my goodness!This movie kicks so much ass! And so did this episode!! We watched 1972s marvelous mafia masterpiece - "The Italian Connection"!! Good choice, Squeaky. Send us voicemail on our Facebook or gogocompaneros.com! We want to hear from you. Write us a iTunes review, and we'll read it on the show. Companeros!!! We love you, so make good choices!

It happened. Dr. Snuggles chose the shittiest movie yet. Congratulations Alistair. 1995s aggressively flaccid 'Cyber Bandits' starring Grace Jones, Adam Ant, and every other 90s star you vaguely remember. Yet, it still sucks. Royally. Somehow this episode went unscathed, and there are good times to be had by all. Phew! That was close! Thanks to Jared from Clinton Street Records for the tunes for Songs On Trial! http://clintonstreetrecordandstereo.com

This episode the gang dives into the almost X-rated movie from the Director of HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER - a kooky, body-swapping murderous alien - The Borrower! Plus, a very special guest AMANDA REYES from Made For TV Mayhem!! (Check out her epic book on TV movies here: http://tinyurl.com/companerosbook!) We also have Catch and Release, Songs On Trial, Voicemails, Mini Movie Review, Fun Film Fact, PG BOOBs, and rascality all over on this one! thanks Jared at Clinton Street Records for sending us songs! http://clintonstreetrecordandstereo.com

In this 20th episode spectacular, the Compañeros dive into the Indonesian classic 'Lady Terminator,' where folklore, mysticism, and gore abound! PLUS: Catch and Release! Songs on Trial! Did the dude from Creed finally write a good song?! James Best watches the longest movie ever made...twice! All this, and so much more on our kooky adventure to the East!

Here's a weird one, folks! Listen in confused amazement, as Jake does the most "unique" breakdown in Compañeros history for Dragonslayer (1981)! Not only that, we have Catch and Release, Songs On Trial, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and buffoonery abounding on this one! Jeepers Creepers!

That's right! Dr. Snuggles scored an interview with the director of last week's movie, Turkey Shoot (oh, and The Man From Hong Kong, Dead End Drive-In, Night of The Demons 2, Stunt Rock, Leprechaun 3 & 4, and like 40 other movies). Enjoy!!

This week the Compañeros dive into the batshit insanity of an ozploitation classic - Turkey Shoot (1982)! Also, Catch and Release, Matt has a prophetic dream about Corey Feldman, Songs On Trial, PG BOOBS, Compañeros Fun Film Fact, Jake Tries To Convince Matt To Like Anime, Anna gets hangry, James Best's Best of the Best, and mischief all over the place! Phew! Submissions for Songs On Trial from: Questionable Music!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACihQ6zn0kc Clinton Street Records: http://clintonstreetrecordandstereo.com

What's more Christmassy than Neo-Nazis, ancient demons, and a recently sober Grizzly Adams chain-smoking cigarettes? Nothing. This week we dive into the instant Christmas classic, 1989s Elves! Plus Catch & Release, Songs on Trial, PG Boobs, Rambo re-writes Santa's mythology, and James Best's Best Movies Ever. Enjoy the whackiest holiday season show ever podcasted!

This time the gang explores the intergalactic, with the demented kids movie "Star Kid" (1997)! Not only that, we have Catch & Release, Songs On Trial, PG BOOBs, Fun Film Fact, a Mini-Movie Review of Scarecrows (1988), James Best's Best Movies Ever, and a whole lotta mischief and rascality!!! This one gets FAR OUT!

In a very special episode of the Compañeros, Heather interviews the infamous king of low-budget awesomeness, Director Greydon Clark. Black Shampoo, Satan's Cheerleader's, The Uninvited, Joysticks, Final Justice, Without Warning, just to name of a few! This guy rules.

This week the posse dives into the lurid underbelly of drive-n schlock with 1977's kooky horror/comedy -- Satan's Cheerleaders! Not only that, we also have Catch and Release, Songs On Trial, PG Boobs, Jake's Skype goes totally bonkers, Compañeros Fun Film Fact, Compañeros Mini Movie Review, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and nonstop antics!

This episode our posse tries to comprehend the incomprehensible -- 2012's attempted arthouse-action movie, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning. Plus, Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Companeros Fun Film Fact, Companeros Mini Movie Review, James Best's Best Movies Ever, Rasta Rudi & Mischa, and hijinks galore!!

In our spookiest episode ever (fatefully #13), the gang dives into 1983's delicious low-budget T&A horror-comedy -- Microwave Massacre!!! Plus, Catch & Release, Song On Trial: Cult Leader Edition, PG Boobs, Fun Film Fact, Mini Movie Review, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and total macabre mayhem!

This week the gang dives into Frank Tashlin's archeological sex farce Bachelor Flat (1962)! We also have Catch & Release, another Celebrity Edition of Songs on Trial, Compañeros Fun Film Fact, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and Dachshunds galore!

This episode comes howling out of the VHS Vault with 1989s 'Terror Eyes'! A Vivian Schilling Horror Anthology, guest-directed/written by college students! Plus, Catch and Release, PG Boobs, Songs on Trial (Celeb Edition), Compañeros Fun Film Fact, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and hijinks galore! Not to mention, Heather almost dies multiple times ON AIR!

This episode we tackle the absolutely bonkers, DIY outsider action flick from 1994, Parole Violators! Irresponsible stunt work, incomprehensible dialogue, and porn-level acting abound in this z-grade action romp! Plus we have Catch and Release, Songs on Trial, PG Boobs, Jake tries to convince Matt to like Anime, Jame's Best's Best Movies Ever, and so much more!!!

Summer is almost over, so we review our sleaziest, trashiest, darkest, and bleakest movie yet! 1984s skeezy hillbilly coming-of-age flick, Over the Summer! Not only that, we check out the best and worst releases this week, songs on trial, PG boobs, James Best's Best Movies Ever, songs about summer, Dr. Snuggles the Australian, and so much more! Plus, Squeaky Dave resurrects from the dead to give his two cents about the movie! Nonstop (kinda) Podcast Action!

Summer is in full swing, so what better way to celebrate than with Sean Cunningham's (director of the OG Friday the 13th) awesome teen sex-comedy, Spring Break from 1983!? Plus, the best and worst movie releases of the week, we listen to some of the craziest tunes ever recorded, and Squeaky Dave takes the reigns to do the movie breakdown!! What a gentleman and a scholar, right? Squeaky is the best! Plus: PG boobs, Jake tries to convince Matt to like Anime, songs about Spring, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and hijincks galore!! Whoa Nelly!!!!

In this very special episode we check out 1988s sexually-dysfunctional, anatomically-correct-mannequin-thriller-from-Canada: PIN!!! Also we have the best and worst releases of the week, we listen to some of the worst songs ever recorded, and we break down some kooky phone sex-operator's painfully unsexy podcast! Plus we have legendary underground director Damon Packard (Reflections of Evil, Foxfur, Space Disco One) joins our cast!!! Plus PG boobs, James Best's Best Movies Ever, puppet songs, and some of the greatest podcasting antics of this century!!! Zero Oscars guaranteed! Grind-house, exploitation, z-grade, b-movie, drive-in, sex-comedy, Hollywood disasters, outsider music and kooky antics abound!!!

Sadistic uber-babes on horseback!? YES! This episode we dive into the The Female Bunch!! Cruel and foxy hotties abound in this Z-grade drive-in flick. We also discuss Al Adamson, his murder, and the film's Manson Family connection. Not to mention, we listen to some of the craziest tunes ever written!

This time the gang checks out 1991's homoerotic, buddy-cop, romance-and-revenge flick, Showdown In Little Tokyo! Starring Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, and Tia Carrere! Plus... Catch and Release, Songs on Trial, Jake Tries to Convince Matt to Like Anime, PG Boobs, Tales From the Porn Store, James Best's Best Movies Ever, and Roger finds a tick attached to his body during recording!! Holy Mackerel!!!!

Holy smokes! This episode we check out Dennis Hopper's (or Alan Smithee's) star-studded super-mess with Stockholm Syndrome and saxophones, BACKTRACK! AND... we have catch and release, songs on trial, PG boobs, James Best's best movies ever, an oracle named Squeaky, and our first international guest....Dr. Snuggles from Australia!!!! Life was meaningless until this episode!!!! Get well soon, Anna!

This week we venture into 1994's delusional vanity project of trial lawyer John De Hart, Road to Revenge! It's a surreal, romantic, and (atonal) musical disasterpiece! Truly, one-of-a-kind z-grade schlock with a heart of gold, with the most awkward sex scenes ever filmed. AND starring Wings Hauser?! Plus: matt sounds like he's in a tin can catch and release songs on Trial PG boobs Jake tries to convince Matt to like anime porn store employee face-off and more more more!!!!

This episode we check out 1987s cassette-blasting, uzi-toting, bank-robbing, Ferrari-racing, parasitic-alien-body-swapper...The Hidden! Directed by Jack Sholder. Also, best and worst releases of the week, songs on trial, Jake tries to convince Matt to like anime, PG boobs, James Best's Best Movies ever, and tales from the porn store!! Something this good shouldn't be legal. Laughs galore!

We watch 1986's psychotronic boob-fest wit sock puppets "Nightmare Weekend"!!! Also: Best and worse releases of the week, songs on trial, Jake tries to convince Matt to like Anime, PG-boobs, tales from the porn store, and more!!!! bonus - Jake finds an ATM machine in an alley and takes it home!

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