Cultpix Radio Ep.19 - Something Weird Movie Madness

If Cultpix Radio was Jeopardy, then the subjects in this episode would 'Misogyny', 'Coney Island', 'Shockumentary' and 'Double Bills'. Listen to Django Nudo and Smut Peddler go head-to-head in obscure film trivia knowledge! First there is celebrating that the Cult Tuesday season with Everyman Cinemas in the UK has got off to a great start, screening "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) restored in 4K in four cities. Three more films are coming this autumn and on Monday 27 Sep there is the second screening at Stockholm's Bio Aspen, this time Kult för Kids. We have a hoard of new films from our friends at Something Weird Video this week, kicking off with a gory double bill of "Carnival of Blood" (1970) and "Curse of the Headless Horseman" (1972). The former is what happens when a porno director decides to make a gore film set in Cooney Island, while the latter is like a hippie gore version of Scooby-Doo. Both seem to have ad-libbed dialogue.Shockumentary double bill: "It's a Sick, Sick, Sick World" (1965) is an Italian style mondo film: Queers! Drag queens! Spanking! Hookers! Strippers! Addicts! Strange habits! the narrator solemnly intones. Sick! x3. Then the most famous film of Finnish transexual Ansa Kansas! Half Man! Half Woman!! in "I Was a Man" (1967), a rare films about trans that might shock but actually has a happy ending. More misogynistic is "Censored" 1965, which claimed to be a compilation film of the bits that censors had cut out of films. Barry Mahon had in fact shot all the clips, claiming that they are what would have been cut out. It might also contain the first proto-Nazisploitation film clip. "All Women Are Bad" (1969) was never going to win awards for a balanced contribution to the gender debate. Sample dialogue: " “I don’t like these women! They’re bad! Evil! Degenerate!" Watch a man fed up with women drift through a seedy New York and ending up in Coney Island. Finally there is "The Big Snatch" () where expat Swede Uschi Digard is kidnapped and roughed up together with her friend Jane Sentas. Watch a different kind of 'clam' bake. As SWV writes, "Distributed by DAVID F. FRIEDMAN, The Big Snatch is a must-see for all card-carrying deviates."  A quick shout out to "Li'l Abner" (1940), based on the famous hillbilly comic and with an un-PC cameo by Buster Keaton as a Native American, as well as to the last film ever produced by Nordisk Tonefilm, "Tofflan" (1967). This title could be translated as either "Henpecked" or "Pussy whipped", though  we went with the former as the later might conjure up a sick, sick, sick film.  Finally D.N. and S.P. take turns in reading out the full list of films and clips that feature in compilation film "Twisted Sex 12" (1960s-70s). As always we play clips and music from all the film for your pleasure and delight. 

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