Our penultimate episode of VIDtober, our celebration of the movies released by New World Video, is also our 100th New World movie! Appropriately, we’re discussing Donald G. Jackson’s I LIKE TO HURT PEOPLE, a documentary? Sports film? Slasher? Whatever it may be, it contains a lot of wrestling! Even PRINCESS BRIDE actor Andre the Giant…
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We continue our journey through the hardest fought hashtag, #VIDtober, in New World Pictures Podcast history with a rare gem(?) – 1985’s TERROR IN THE SWAMP or, as it’s known in some circles, NUTRIAMAN: THE COPASAW CREATURE. If you’re from Louisiana or spent any time in a Southern swamp, you’ve got the advantage with…
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This months starts #VIDtober, where we exclusively discuss the movies released by New World Video! We being back guest Dirk Marshall of the VH US Podcast to help us break down 1987’s Canadian tax shelter movie ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE! Adam West headlines a movie filled with so many choices, he doesn’t even show up for 45…
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In this episode we bid adieu to #SEXtember with 1985’s Breaking All the Rules directed by James Orr. We are joined by special guest Erin Dawn from the Manic Movie Monday podcast, and together we make our way through the Fun Park on the last day of summer, in search of love, sex, a dance…
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Writer/performer Ali Davis returns to the podcast as we continue #SEXtember with 1975’s COVER GIRL MODELS! This Cirio Santiago-directed film follows the exploits of three models and the sleazy photographer they are friends with for no good reason as they travel to Hong Kong for musical montages of photoshoots, a runway show, a dance contest,…
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Jessica Young (co-host of the Rants ‘n Raves podcast) returns to the podcast as we continue our tawdry journey through #SEXtember with 1987’s Nice Girls Don’t Explode – a movie that is everything and nothing you’d expect with the title, “Nice Girls Don’t Explode”. For a movie that explores a young woman’s tendency to spontaneously…
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Happy Labor Day indeed! We kick off #SEXtember by talking about 1974’s CANDY STRIPE NURSES written and directed by Alan Holleb (SCHOOL SPIRIT). In typical NWPP fashion, we start covering New World’s NURSES series with the final one in the series, and dig deep into what it takes to be a private eye in Los…
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To end out #AuGHOST, a celebration of the ghost films released by New World Pictures, we talk about a movie that started a franchise (albeit one New World only half participated In): HOUSE! The film about a haunted house taken over by a deceased owner’s nephew with his own strange history brought director Steve Miner…
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Our #AuGHOST month continues with our most terrifying selection yet (that is, if you find local theater terrifying): 1986’s SHADOW PLAY! The directorial debut of writer/director Susan Shadburne, this features plenty of star power in the form of Dee Wallace Stone and Cloris Leachman, as it explores a playwright who loses her fiance to suicide…
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We kick off #AUGHOST with 1987’s PRISON. Directed by Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT) and written HALLOWEEN producer Irwin Yablans, PRISON is a curious partnership between New World Pictures and Empire Pictures. And who’s the beneficiary of this partnership? We all are. Don’t let the title fool you. The Prison in PRISON…
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