The New World Pictures Podcast

Bonus Episode: Interview with director Brian Trenchard-Smith (ESCAPE 2000/TURKEY SHOOT, DEAD END DRIVE-IN)

July 31, 2025 00:50:38

A lot has happened over #SciFiJuly Presents: Dystopian Summer 2: Dystopian HARDER. For one, we celebrated our 150th New World Pictures title with ESCAPE 2000 aka TURKEY SHOOT and now we close out the month with an interview with the film’s director, Brian Trenchard-Smith, who returns to the show! We get into the beginnings of…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with director Brian Trenchard-Smith (ESCAPE 2000/TURKEY SHOOT, DEAD END DRIVE-IN)

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Ep. 150: Escape 2000 aka Turkey Shoot featuring Austin Trunick

July 25, 2025 01:42:37

We celebrate the end of #SciFiJuly Presents: Dystopian Summer 2: Dystopian HARDER and our 150th New World Pictures title with director Brian Trenchard-Smith’s ozploitation classic ESCAPE 2000. Or, as it was originally titled, TURKEY SHOOT. Joining us for this episode is returning guest and Cannon Film Guide author Austin Trunick! How does this compare to…

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Ep. 150: Escape 2000 aka Turkey Shoot featuring Austin Trunick

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Nearly New World: Wheels of Fire

July 16, 2025 00:51:36

We are coming in hot (think wearing leather pants in the desert hot) for #SCI-FI-JULY Presents: Dystopian Summer 2: Dystopian HARDER. This week, we talk about WHEELS OF FIRE, a nearly New World movie directed by the famous/infamous Cirio H Santiago and starring Gary Watkins (Hunter), Laura Banks (Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan)…

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Nearly New World: Wheels of Fire

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Ep. 149: Firecracker featuring Chris Iannacone

June 26, 2025 01:28:28

We close out #JuneBOOM with 1981’s FIRECRACKER, advertised by New World to be “the first erotic martial arts thriller.” How true is this statement? And is the film erotic enough in the way that middle aged folks would like? We examine with the help of Get Me Another Podcast co-host Chris Iannacone, who also watched…

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Ep. 149: Firecracker featuring Chris Iannacone

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 2 with Elle Schneider

May 22, 2025 01:33:25

For our second episode in the “Corman Graduates: Jack Hill” series, we talk with director, writer and cinematography, Elle Schneider (THE FOOD THAT BUILT AMERICA, PLEDGE NIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROGER CORMAN, BLISS BLUE, THAT GUY DICK MILLER), about Jack Hill’s MONDO KEYHOLE and PIT STOP. In addition to being friends with Dick Miller and…

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 2 with Elle Schneider

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5th Annual Roger Corman Birthday Celebration

April 3, 2025 00:57:48

For the fifth year in a row, the New World Pictures Podcast celebrates the work of director/producer Roger Corman by watching his past work and sharing what we loved and what we hated.As you might recall from our first Roger Corman Birthday Celebration, we all planned to watch the same movie but one of us…

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5th Annual Roger Corman Birthday Celebration

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Barbara Pokras (SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS, FADE TO BLACK)

March 26, 2025 01:07:03

We close out #PrisonMarch 2: Second Offense with an interview with someone who there at New World from the very beginning: editor Barbara Pokras! After graduating from USC (where she went to school with Dan O’Bannon with whom she would work on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Barbara found her way to Roger Corman’s newly-formed…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Barbara Pokras (SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS, FADE TO BLACK)

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Ep. 142: The Big Bust-Out featuring Chris Iannacone

March 13, 2025 01:40:08

That’s right, #PrisonMarch is back for Prison Marc H 2: Second Offense! Once more, we plumb the depths of the women-in-prison movies released by New World Pictures, this time with an Italian knock-off created after New World’s THE BIG DOLL HOUSE became a huge success! Yes, plenty of studios were making knock-offs by 1973, but…

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Ep. 142: The Big Bust-Out featuring Chris Iannacone

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Ep. 141: The Tin Drum

February 27, 2025 01:08:56

We close #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February) with an Academy Award winner! Director Volker Schlöndorff’s 1979 adaptation of THE TIN DRUM! Based on the book of the same name by Günter Grass, the film shows the rise of authoritarianism in Europe prior to World War II through the life of self growth stunting, drum banging and…

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Ep. 141: The Tin Drum

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Ep. 140: The Harder They Come

February 19, 2025 01:09:06

Do you know how much reggae is played in San Diego? Marc and Ryan do, and Erica sort of does, which makes the NWPP the perfect podcast to discuss Jamaica’s first film, 1972’s THE HARDER THEY COME, as we continue #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February)! A foreign film where the only language used is English? You…

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Ep. 140: The Harder They Come

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