The Pro Wrestling Roundtable Episode 69 – Royal Rumble Rambles

We’re doing the Rumble for the Pro Wrestling Roundtable. Check it out.

The Assignment: Horror Podcast is on iTunes

The Assignment: Horror Podcast is on iTunes. You can download the show and listen on the go. You can also rate the show there.

The Assignment: Horror Podcast- Fistful of Brains

This week’s assignment was a little different than the so far usual format. Not only was Richard a first time viewer, but John as well. Oh, and there was also a guest. This week’s show takes a look at a 2008 independent film from North Carolina, award winning independent filmmaker Christine Parker’s zombie western Fistful of Brains. Joining John, Becca, Richard, and, due to mid-show technical difficulties on his end, a disappearing Jerry is Bill Mulligan, award winning North Carolina filmmaker and FX artist. 

ESO Does John Waters

Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. The Earth Station One crew conclude their look at John Waters this week. For those of you who missed them, here are the prior two installments along with the latest one.

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The Assignment: Horror Podcast Social Media and Blog Info

The Assignment: Horror Podcast can now be found on its own blog and on Facebook as well as still being found on Soundcloud and iTunes.

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Blood in the Wind and a Guest with a Fistful of Brains

On this weekend’s Assignment Horror, we ended the show by teasing the next show’s topic as The Night Stalker. This is no longer going to be the case. my favorite monster hunter has been bumped a show or two down the road. However, I’m actually really cool with this. 

The Assignment: Horror- THEM!

The movie this time around is THEM! selected by John which is one of his favorites from the 1950’s. The gang takes a look at the movie while discussing how less is more and why some current movies get things wrong. Richard is dragged out of the dudgeon and if John hadn’t have told him wouldn’t have known this movie was about giant ants.

Don’t Be a Donald

The Intruder (1962)

By 1962, Roger Corman was well on his way to creating the film resume that unfortunately earned him such nicknames as “The King of Schlock.” He’d found low budget success with such films as The Wasp Woman, A Bucket of Blood, Little Shop of Horrors, It Conquered the World, Sorority Girl, and Teenage Doll among many others.

How much success had he found? It depends on what you consider successful. After being burned by the nature of the studio system, Corman struck out on his own to make the movies he wanted to make. None of them were the comparative financial successes that Star Wars, Jaws, or Avatar would be for others in later years. You certainly won’t find them regularly listed in the top ten or top twenty box office winners for the years in which his films were released. But, one thing Roger Corman could for the longest time say about his films is that they earned a profit at the box office. For decades, Roger Corman could make a claim that few others in the business could; even those who had made far less than the 400+ films Roger Corman has directed and/or produced. He could for a very long time say that he had made hundreds of films and never lost a dime on any of them.

Well, except for one film in 1962. It’s something of a shame that The Intruder was for decades the only film Roger Corman lost money on, because, in some ways, it was one of the best films he’d made at that point in his career.

The Difference Between 1988 and 2018