Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 46 - Mysteries of the Unknown

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 46

Mysteries of the Unknown

In this Episode, Adam and Mark discuss their mutual love and lifelong fascination for all things unknown, supernatural and unexplained and discover that they both owned a particular series of books from their childhood back in the late seventies/ early eighties - Mysteries of the Unknown by Usborne Books. Mark had it in separate issues, which have long disappeared, But, Adam dug into the studio archives and uncovered his copy which featured all issues in one book….. and as Mark said “the memories they came flooding back!!”

From flying saucers and Sasquatch, to alien encounters and famous fakes, these classic titles trace UFOs, Ghosts and Monsters throughout history. First published in 1977, these books are for anyone who has shivered at shadowy figures in the dark, heard strange sounds in the night or felt the presence of a mysterious 'something' from the unknown.

Revisiting the pages, Adam and Mark note that these children's books were actually quite gruesome and bloody with graphic artwork, full of detailed info, interesting facts and stories on Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs. and even finishes up with a section on monsters from movies, featuring Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s Monster, Godzilla, and Jaws to name a few.

On reflection, they come to the conclusion that they had just rediscovered what could be best described as the original wastelands playbook. The collection that started them on their b grade, punk rock, street trash journey and whose influence is still evident today in who they are, what they do and what they create.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 45 - Were back!!!

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 45

Were Back!! Live from Studio Obscenito

Wastelands is back After a bit of a break over the down under summer where Mark made the trip up north to sunny Brisbane to join Adam in person at Studio Obscenito.

This episode kicks of 2021 with the first episode of a series of live recorded micro podcasts.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 44 - VHS Vault - Puppet Master, Ator, Nudist Colony of the Dead

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 44

VHS Vault - Puppet Master, Ator, Nudist Colony of the Dead

In this episode Adam dives back in to the Studio Obscenito VHS Vault to pull out three random tapes to discuss with Mark- O. This time round its Charles Band’s Puppet Master form 1989, Italian Conan Knock off - Ator the Fighting Eagle from 1982 starring Sabrina Siani and the totally ridiculous comedy horror zombie musical Nudist Colony of the Dead from 1991.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 42 - Fiend

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 42

Fiend - 1980 - Don Dohler

In this episode Adam and Mark discuss the 1980s Don Dohler schlocker – Fiend. Listen in as they talk about the first time they watched it, digging it out to watch again, how after several attempts to re-watch it, it almost broke Adam and how they both have developed a new appreciation for what Don Dohler was trying to achieve as an independent D.I.Y film maker.

Fiend is a 1980 American B movie science fiction horror film directed and written by low-budget filmmaker Don Dohler, shot in Perry Hall, Maryland and starring Don Leifert, Elaine White, Richard Nelson, and George Stover. The film had U.S. theatrical release in September 1980.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 41 - Halloween Extra Episode

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Episode 41

Halloween Extra Episode

In this super quick micro 9 minute episode, Mark asks what movies will be screening in obscene household. So Adam reaches in to the VHS vault for some inspiration.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 40 - Halloween Special - Metal in Horror

Episode 40

Halloween Special - Metal in Horror

In this episode Adam and Mark celebrate the spookiest time of the year - Halloween. Join them as they talk about horror movie classics, second rate sequels and the metal artists and tracks that made 80's horror so awesome.

• Kipp Lennon - Bud the Chud - from C.H.U.D II - Bud the Chud

• Motorhead - Hellraiser - Hellraiser III - Hell on Earth

• W.A.S.P - Scream Until You Like It - Ghoulies 2

• Megadeth- No More Mr Nice Guy - Shocker

• Dudes of Wrath - Shocker - Shocker

• Dokken - Dream Warrior - Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - Dream Warrior

• Anvil - Straight Between the Eyes - Sleepaway Camp 2 - Unhappy Campers

• Bruce Dickenson - Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter - Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - Dream Child

YouTube Playlist / Spotify Playlist

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 39 - From the 085c3n3 Vault

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 39

From the 085c3n3 VHS Vault

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about reorganising and cataloguing Adam’s media collection and dig out some schlocky gems that are randomly sitting on the shelves together.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 38 - Best Worst Worst Best of tubi

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Episode 38

Best Worst Worst Best of tubi

In this episode Adam and Mark discuss the rabbit hole of good bad movies - tubi. Still stuck in the Melbourne lockdown, Mark fill us in on the best worst finds on the free movie streaming platform. and it’s just the tip of the ice berg.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 37 - Lostener Request - Slipstream

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 37

Lostener Request - Slipstream

In this episode Adam and Mark, at the request of long time lostener Baron Von Borg, dive head first into the 1989 b-grade craptacular mess that is Luke Sykwalker (Mark Hamill) from Star Wars, come back movie – Slipstream.

In the future, natural disasters (earthquakes, floods) have ravaged Earth, leaving a world where pockets of communities live within canyons while a violent wind known as the "slipsteam" is the only means of transport, via airplanes. Matt Owens the poor man’s Snake Plisskin played by Bill Paxton is a nomadic bounty hunter who kidnaps a prisoner Byron played by Bob Peck of two violent law officers, one of which is Luke Skywalker,  so he can claim the bounty for himself. Traveling across the wind swept landscape, Matt and Byron become best mates and  are relentlessly pursued by the officers, and Matt finds Byron isn't what he appears to be (he’s a robot) as they travel from community to community and encounter pockets of strange societies that live beyond the slipstream lead by Sir Ben Kingsley and Hagrid.

Unfortunately, the film has its problems. The plot suffers from some cheesy moments, the music is overbearingly loud, and while it is well orchestrated and very majestic, it's often a bit too majestic for what's going on. There are also some long scenes that could have been shortened or even cut to the benefit of the film. Not to say it's BAD, it's just that half of it is 10-minute montages of gliders flying around. However, the performances by Hamill and the Peck the convict save it from all of the WEIRD choices made by the director and scriptwriter. For example...is this an action movie, or a story of a man's journey of discovery? I don't know, but love scenes in museums with montages (again) of stuffed animals with quick cuts to long focuses on Christmas lights don't give me any better of an idea. Still, it's while just to see Hamill looking cool. Director Steven Lisberger, who did Tron, stated that this movie is like a conventional road movie, but instead of cars, people are in airplanes. Says it all really!!

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 36 - Mockbuster - I am Omega

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 36

Mockbuster - I am Omega

In this episode Adam and Mark discuss a movie set in post apocalyptic LA that is being rampaged by zombie like cannibals humans that have some kind of genetic infection. A local man is forced to live a daily struggle as he tries to locate radio signals and find a cure. Sounds familiar losteners?? Well its not the 2007 blockbuster I am Legend. Its the clone of Will Smith’s flick….. the Asylum’s mockbuster - I am Omega

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 35 - WASTELANDS One Year ON

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 35

One Year on and Wastelands recommends

In this episode Adam and Mark celebrate the wastelands one year of lurking in the darkest corners of your podcast feed by launching the wastelands merch store, running a merch giveaway and talking about two records that they have on high rotation. Ho99o9’s United States of Horror and Fetish’s World Eater.

Giveaway - go to the wasteland Instagram account - here follow it, like the merch post and tag a friend to be in the running for a Wastelands merch sack including -

• wastelands zines,

• 085c3n3 slap pak,

• a selection of wastelands toxic toys and

• a hot of the rack wastelands truckers cap

Winner drawn 02 October 2020

H09909

United States of Horror

Ho99o9 is an American hip hop/hardcore punk group founded by the OGM and Eaddy in 2012 in Newark, New Jersey. They relocated to Los Angeles in 2014. This duo mix the ferocious sounds of hardcore and punk with politically charged hip-hop.

United States of Horror is the debut studio album released in May 2017 under Deathkult Records. the record features singles "City Rejects," "War Is Hell" and the title track. Their unique sound and potent live performances recall DC legends Bad Brains, and earned praise from Rolling Stone, NME, Noisey and fellow musicians like Kirk Hammett of Metallica.

Ho99o9 (Horror) - STREET POWER film clip

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Fetish

World Eater

 The members of Fetish have quite a bit of hardcore street cred. Comprised of former Poison Idea members Steve 'Thee Slayer Hippy' Hanford and Eric 'Vegetable' Olson, and later-era Poison Idea guitarist Brandon Bentley, but it also includes 3 of the members of the Portland punk rock machine that is LONG KNIFE, Colin Jarrell, Scott Goto, and Chris Reid. 

World eater is full of the kind of gnarly hardcore that still manages to sink melodic hooks into your heart despite the brutality of it all Stand out tracks are Take The Knife and In the Basement.. It was released in September 2019 on Blackhouse Records, House Of Tain and Skrammel Records

Fetish - Take The Knife - film clip

World Eater - Spotify

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VALE TOOTS

Your music will live on forever Fredrick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert

8 December 1942 - 11 September 2020

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 34 - Mockbuster Video

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 34

Mockbuster Video

In this episode Adam and Mark dive head first in to the mystical world of the mockbuster. A Mockbuster is a movie created with the intention of exploiting the publicity of another major motion picture with a similar title or subject. Mockbusters are often made with a low budget and quick production to maximize profit.

Mockbusters often use a title with a similar-sounding name to the mainstream feature it intends to piggy-back upon. For instance, the 2006 mockbuster Snakes on a Train traded on the publicity surrounding the theatrically released Snakes on a Plane. Besides the aforementioned film, The Asylum has also released The Land That Time Forgot, Transmorphers, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, The Da Vinci Treasure, Battle of Los Angeles, Atlantic Rim and Paranormal Entity.

Mockbusters have also had legal complications with false advertising. They supposedly tweak the plot lines and the titles just enough to skirt legal trouble and yet ride on the publicity of major blockbusters. Until the Hobbit case, mockbuster production houses have been able to achieve soundalike titling to such an extent that even actors in the movies have been confused about which movie they are starring in

Because mockbusters are deliberately similar to more famous movies, some movie studios have sued mockbuster studios for allegedly tricking consumers into renting or purchasing the wrong movie through intentionally deceptive marketing. Warner Bros. similarly sued The Asylum over their release of Age of the Hobbits. The judge ruled in favour of Warner Bros., writing that "There is substantial likelihood that consumers will be confused by Age Of Hobbits and mistakenly purchase the film intending to purchase The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 33 - Wasteland Idiot Box - Demolition Man

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 33

Wastelands Idiot box - Demolition Man

In this episode Adam and Mark continue to pay homage to the idiot box Monday night movie. This week they caught the 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut - Demolition Man. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. Stallone is John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer, who has a reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work. After a failed attempt to rescue hostages from evil crime lord Simon Phoenix, they are both sentenced to be cryogenically frozen in 1996.

Simon Phoenix, is revived for a parole hearing well into the 21st century. Revived into a society free from crime, Phoenix resumes his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. John Spartan. In 2032, the former cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara have merged into peaceful, utopian San Angeles. Unable to stop him with their non-violent solutions, the police release Spartan to help recapture Phoenix. Now after 36 years, Spartan has to adapt himself to the future society he has no knowledge about.

The story makes allusions to works including Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World, and HG Wells's The Sleeper Awakes.The film earned a worldwide total of $159 million, and was considered a successful film for Stallone.

Factoids

• Wesley Snipes' kicks and punches sometimes look lurchy and awkward. Snipes is an accomplished black belt in real life, and his kicks and punches were so fast that they blurred on-camera. Hence the producers asked him to slow them down.

• Sylvester Stallone wanted Simon Phoenix to be played by Jackie Chan. Chan declined, since Asian audiences don't like the idea of actors who have always played heroes suddenly playing evil characters.

• Sandra Bullock replaced Lori Petty after a few days filming. Petty left due to creative differences.

•  In Kuwait, the Arabic title was "Rambo The Destroyer". Since Rambo movies were very popular, the distributor thought associating Sylvester Stallone to Rambo in the title would sell more tickets.

KPM

Total kills 25 / Run time – 115 min / Kills per Minute – 0.217

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 32 - Wastelands Idiot Box - Escape from LA

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 32

Wastelands Idiot box - Escape from LA

In this episode Adam and Mark pay homage to the idiot box Monday night movie. This week they caught John Carpenter's 1996 follow up to Escape from New York - Escape From LA. The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike.

Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is back, in this 1996 sequel to John Carpenter's Escape from New York.

2013 America has become even more dystopian than it was in the earlier film, having been taken over by a theocratic fundamentalist Christian President (Cliff Robertson).

An airplane has crash landed into the penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel that is Los Angeles post-The Big One.

It had The President's Daughter Utopia (A. J. Langer) on it, and now she has sided with Cuervo Jones, taking the film's MacGuffin super weapon with her.

The President drafts Snake into eliminating her and retrieving said MacGuffin. His reward, should he succeed, will be the antidote to a virus that has been injected into him.

And so he enters the fortified and barbwired city of Los Angeles, a prison with no guards and precious little order. He makes his way through the slums (it's all slums), he gains and loses allies.

Also Starring Steve Buscemi - Map to the Stars Eddie, Pam Grier - Hershe Las Palmas, Stacy Keach  - Cmdr. Malloy, Peter Fonda – Pipeline, Bruce Campbell - Surgeon General of Beverly Hills

Total Kills - 32

  Runtime - 98 minutes

Kills per minute - .327

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 31 - Idiot Box- Double Impact

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 31

Idiot Box- Double Impact

In this episode Adam and Mark pay homage to the idiot box Monday night movie. This week they caught the1991 American action film written and directed by Sheldon Lettich, and written, produced by and starring Jean-Claude van Damme in a dual role as Chad and Alex Wagner. The film marks Van Damme's third collaboration with director Sheldon Lettich (Bloodsport and Lionheart) and second collaboration with Bolo Yeung (the first being Bloodsport in 1988)

Alex and Chad are twins who are separated as babies when their parents are killed by a crime boss. Twenty-five years later, they join forces to exact revenge on the people who killed their family.

Van Damme was reportedly paid $600,000 for the movie. Wanting to breakaway from the martial arts movie genre he had become so popularly known for, he hoped playing the dual role of Chad/Alex would change his image and help him do just that. "[Alex] is violent and [Chad] is not, so audiences [will] see the contrast in my work." Prior to the films release, he had told the Los Angeles Times: "If I stay in martial arts pictures people will get tired of my films.

Director Sheldon Lettich co wrote the script with Van Damme. Inspiration was taken from Alexandre Dumas' The Corsican Brothers; an 1844 novella about twins separated at birth, who find each other in adulthood. Lettich later recalled the concept of Van Damme playing twins "was so successful that other producers wanted him to repeat it." (Timecop, Maximum Risk, Replicant) "Even though it meant a lot more work for Jean-Claude, he enjoyed the challenge of playing two distinctly different characters, showcasing a dark and a more light-hearted side in the same movie."

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 30 - Wastelands Idiot Box - Universal Soldier

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 30

Wastelands Idiot Box - Universal Soldier

In this episode Adam and Mark pay homage to the idiot box Monday night 8:30 movie. This week they caught the 1992 American military science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lungren.

The film tells the story of Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a former U.S. Army soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, and returned to life following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program. However, he finds out about his past even though his memory was erased, and escapes alongside a young TV journalist (Ally Walker). Along the way, they have to deal with the return of his archenemy, Sgt. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), who had lost his sanity in the Vietnam War, and became a psychotic megalomaniac, intent on killing him and leading the Universal Soldiers.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 29 - Be Kind, Rewind

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 29

Be Kind Rewind

In this episode Adam and Mark take a trip back in time as they recount the glory days of growing up in the analogue era of VHS and video stores. Listen in as they look back and reflect on how their experiences as 80’s video shop kids has shaped the way they live their lives today.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 28 - Masters of the Universe

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 28

Masters of the Universe - The Motion Picture

In this episode Adam and Mark take a slight detour from the barbarian theme with the Sci fi fantasy film adaption of the classic 1980s saturday morning cartoon series ‘Masters of the Universe’. Produced by the notorious Cannon films in 1987, for a princely sum of $22 million, Masters of the Universe the motion picture is one part Star Wars, one part Flash Gordon two parts cheese. and even though it missed the mark at the time and was generally canned by fans and critics alike, it still features the mighty Dolph Lundgren as He Man and Frank Langella as Skeletor. Looking at it in 2020, the film kinda stands alone as a fun nostalgic trip back in time to the marvellous 80’s.

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On the planet Eternia, the dark lord Skeletor has taken over Castle Greyskull, and imprisoned the Sorceress, and Skeletor has begun draining the Sorceress' powers as he attempts to claim the powers of Greyskull and become master of the universe. Mighty warrior He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe and his companions: loyal soldier Man-at-Arms, his daughter Teela and a dwarf inventor named Gwildor finds themselves on Earth, by Gwildor's creation, the Cosmic Key, a device that can open portals that lead to anywhere in the galaxy, which Skeletor requires in his goal for universal conquest. But when the Cosmic Key is discovered by Julie Winston and her boyfriend Kevin Corrigan, both unaware that Earth is about to become a battleground, as Skeletor and his vile minions arrives on Earth, as they go in pursuit of He-Man and his companions who are searching for the Cosmic Key so they can return to Eternia and defeat Skeletor.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 27 - The Barbarians

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 27

The Barbarians

In this episode Adam and Mark dive back into the b-grade wormhole of Conan the barbarian inspired sword and sorcery flicks. This week adventure is the 1987 Cannon action comedy - The Barbarians. Directed by the infamous Robert Deodato who was responsible for Cannibal Holocaust in 1980.  Featuring David and Peter Paul as Twin barbarians. It's just like Conan but with two Conan's and everybody's favourite Hills have Eyes creep and wastelands favourite Michael Berryman as the appropriately named Dirt-master and George Eastman.

Twin barbarians seek revenge from the warlord who massacred their tribe and captured them when they were small children. It's completely campy and it doesn't take itself seriously for a moment. Starring former professional wrestling duo the Barbarian Brothers, these actors -- which is a loose description of what they are doing on screen -- look like they are having a ball filming, and it's hard not to share in the fun. It really is a must-see Italian exploitation flick.

Highlights no explanations given – you’ll just have to watch it – Bear creature, man cry, erection dragon and oily walnuts!

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