Just when you thought it was safe to look at the calendar again. After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must…
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A galactic adventure beyond your wildest dreams! A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete…
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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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We are kicking off #vampril with 1989’s TEEN VAMP. No, this isn’t a sequel to 1986’s VAMP. Instead, TEEN VAMP is a coming-of-age story set in a very 1980’s looking 1950’s about a nerdy teenager who hires a prostitute that looks like Patricia Morrison from The Sisters of Mercy and turns out to be a vampire. …
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For our 100th episode, we explore an area of New World Pictures’ history that we’ve never discussed: when other companies had to release their movies because they were broke! Such is the case with 1989’s WARLOCK, despite the presence of director Steve Miner, who had made some of New World’s biggest hits, and Executive producer…
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When a movie title combines two words together like “death” and “stalker” it’s imperative to determine the proper pronunciation. Is it “Deaths Talker”? Or, is it “Death Stalker?”. Also, how does one acquire the name “Deathstalker”? We dare to ask these tough questions while talking about boners more here than in any other NWPP…
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58 movies into our journey, and some of us are starting to question whether watching EVERY New World Pictures movie was a good idea. However, the Board won’t budge so we continue with 1985’s TRANSYLVANIA 6-500 starring the ever-delightful Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr. leading an incredible cast of comedic actors! (Also, Michael Richards.) …
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Dirk Marshall (VH US Podcast) joins us to discuss the 1986 Canadian film THE GREAT LAND OF SMALL! We do our best to make sense of this weird and underseen kindertrauma, one that has disturbed Dirk since seeing it as a child in his father’s video store! From its New York tree-climbing moms, to a…
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In honor of Roger Corman’s birthday last Sunday, we present to you, Sorceress. If the phrase “girl children” was not in your vocabulary before, it will be now. Enjoy the bonus episode!
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We’re skipping right over the original House to talk about House 2: The Second Story. We are a house (ahem) divided as some of us love at the New World Podcast love this movie while others do not. Let’s dive in and find out why.
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