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CC: The Blob Retrospective (review)

A shapeless creature terrorises the locals after crashing to earth. In this episode we’re looking at one of the well known, but often overlooked, monster movie franchises from the 1958 original, through the Larry Hagman helmed sequel and on to the underrated 1988 remake… Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid …

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Ramblaholic Live: Eraserhead Watch-along

Ramblaholic Live Watch Along. We’ll be watching David Lynch’s Eraserhead. You must have a copy, or access to the film to watch along. The movie will not be shown as part of the stream for copyright reasons obviously.

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Ramblaholic Live: Mad Foxes Watch Along Stream

Please note: THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAIN THE MOVIE MAD FOXES. It is to be played alongside the film. Watch along starts shortly after the 09:00 mark. Ramblaholic Live Watch Along. We’ll be watching Mad Foxes, a bat shit insane action flick where a guy and some Nazi’s get in …

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CC: Carnage (Review)

Andy Milligan is back with this super low budget haunted house movie. Made mate in his career, has Milligans extensive experience shown fruits yet? Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i…

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Ramblaholic Live: Hot Rambly Talk 2 – Electric Rambaloo!

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TNR Commentary Track: Cannibal Ferrox

It’s notorious in the most notorious of genres, Cannibal Ferox has the reputation and delivers the fore in a way that impacted on the Nasties scare prominently. Lets go through the movie together. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i…

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TNR Commentary Track: Blood Feast

Fuad Ramses has a very special recipe in mind but the ingredients are criminally difficult to get your hands on. This commentary track dives into one of the most influential films in the horror genre that spawned the splatter sub genre. Blood, murder and dubious recipes, lets look at a …

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TNR Commentary Track: Expose

Udo Kier plays a writer with some personal problems. Struggling to write his ‘latest’ novel he hires in an assistant to help out but with the lightening of the load comes a pile of bodies… This commentary track is based on the uncut version of the film rather than the …

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Tron Vs Tron

Tron, despite it’s box office failure, changed the game for cinema. In this video we look at the film, the good and the bad, and stand it up against the 2010 soft reboot… Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i…

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TNR Commentary Track: Gestapos Last Orgy

More uncomfortable exploitation with this shockingly straight faced video nasty that kinda parodies the worst of humanity with a total lack of taste. It’s not a pleasant film but does it do anything other than try to shock? Lets take a feature length look at one of the most infamous …

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Ramblaholic Live: Marvel(ous)?

Random movie chat, beer and stinky tofu!

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IE: Grotesque

*CONTAINS FLASHING IMAGES* Back to Japan for a film that has a familiar feel. Grotesque, banned by the BBFC in the UK, follows the ordeal of a young couple who are kidnapped by a mad doctor intent on testing their devotion to each other to sate his urges. This Guinea …

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The Thing: S3 Commentary Track

It’s a track of commentary…. The film is The Thing, the good one… Watch it alongside the film and pictures flash up to make sure you’re more or less in sync. You can listen to it without the film if you really want. Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written …

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TNR Commentary Track: Evilspeak

One of the big ones, a title that appeared in the news papers on several occasions and also one of the best loved of the Nasties… Eric Weston’s horror staring Clint Howard is a brutal, creepy and really well made film that stirred up some of the Satanic Panic from …

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Monkey 0108: Pigsy Woos a Widow

PIgsy tries to work his way into the affections of a widow who the gang have rescued but the widow only has eyes for the one member of the group who won’t do anything about it. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/index/cat/4/  

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CC: Cut and Run

Deodato kinda-sorta revisits the movie that made his name in this Amazon based action adventure that features natives, reporters and Jim Jones wannabes. Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/index/cat/4/

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Monkey 0107: The Beginnings of Wisdom

Review: A water monster is holding a town to ransom, demanding the souls of the young boys in exchange for meagre resources the people need to live. Out of sons and resorting to handing over the last remaining child the town is out of options and the gang have to …

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CC: The Return of the Living Dead

Review. The Return of the Living Dead, a film that started out as a sequel to Night of the Living Dead but became its own thing. Part dark comedy and all horror, this crazy, over the top film is a great example of Dan O’Bannons handling of a simple story …

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FP: The Castle of Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu is back for one last outing. Threatening to freeze the worlds oceans (using opium?!) we find Neyland Smith back on the oriental ones trail. As Fu Manchu kidnaps scientist and doctors to help finalise his evil plans he uses and betrays people at will to consolidate his position …

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Monkey 0106: Even Monsters Can Be People

Monkey is being framed. When the group are attacked by demons, only Monkey sees them for what they are. The misunderstanding that Monkey just killed two old folks and a child leads Tripitaka to banish him from the pilgrimage but as the Demons, Red, Yellow and Blue begin to fight …

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CC: Caligula

One of the most strange films to star cinematic heavyweights comes under scrutiny here. The reign of the most notorious Roman emperors is sexed up to the max and a lurid off screen story eclipses the barmy on screen one. https://cynicalcelluloid.com   <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/288781038″>CC: Caligula</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user22400453″>Glenn Criddle</a> on …

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FP: The Bloody Judge

Christopher Lee stars as the historical Judge Jeffreys, a man on a legal mission to rid the country of rebels to the Crown. Part historical, part exploitation, let’s look at Franco’s answer to The Witchfinder General. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/index/cat/4/

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FP: Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (Red Lips Series Part 2)

Faced with a chance to ditch their prison sentence, two strippers take on an undercover job for the government to take down a sex trafficking operation. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/index/cat/4/  

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CC: Savage Vengeance

A bit of a revisit to a lost episode. Savage Vengeance (erroneously spelt Vengance in the title card) is a sorta, kinda sequel to the notorious I Spit on your Grave that exists because Camille Keaton was attached to another project by the same director and thought this extra film …

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Monkey Ep 0104: Monkey Swallows The Universe

There’s cannibals in them thar hills… The gang run into some very bad people, Pigsy is cock teased into a trap and Monkey has to pull out some extraordinary tricks to save the day. Just another day in the journey to the west. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: …

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CC: Porno Holocaust

Joe D’Amato brings us one of the strangest cross genre pieces of adult entertainment with this less than subtly titled riff on Cannibal Holocaust and Zombie Flesh Eaters. Often derided and certainly pre-judged, let’s take a look at this little slice of madness from the guy that brought us Anthropophagus …

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FP: Love Camp

The women are back in prison in this unusually low key take on the genre. A group of women are kidnapped to work for the revolutionary forces as sex slaves but when one of the prisoners takes the eye of the commander of the camp things are looking like they’re …

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CC Commentary Track: Aliens

James Cameron picks up Ridley Scotts mantle in this sequel that pits muscle and machine guns against the xenomorph. Lets look at the good, the bad and the ugly in the second instalment of H.R.Gigers universe of perverse looking aliens. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: …

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CC: Equinox

An ultra-low budget feature film that is surprisingly inventive and showy. Equinox, considered by some to be an influence for Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, is one of those films that shows just what you can do with very little money, a camera and some very talented and resourceful people around …

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The gang are finally brought together in this episode and fight off their first enemy as a team. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i&#8230;

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CC: Flesh Eater (Zombie Nosh)

Bill Hinzman basically reprises his role in Night of the Living Dead for this low budget zombie film of his making. Does it live up to the legendary film that made his name? Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/index/cat/4/  

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FP: Dracula’s Daughter

What happens when your Giallo is twisted into a Hammer film? Franco’s Dracula’s Daughter happens, that’s what. It’s a stylish mess of a movie that isn’t one thing or the other, but is it enjoyable at least? Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i&#8230;

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CC Commentary Track: Alien

Ridley Scott’s classic horror film spawned a number of sequels and copycats. This exercise in suspense and visceral horror was a game changer to say the least, featuring the iconic style of H.R Giger’s bizarre alien imagery and one of the big screens most iconic heroines. Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk …

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Monkey 0102: Monkey Turns Nursemaid

Our heroes continue to come together as we get to know the heart of the group, Tripitaka… Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i&#8230;

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CC: Torso

A group of beautiful young students find themselves the target of a killer with a grudge. After their friends are murdered they decide o head for the hill and hide in a villa but the killer isn’t likely to be deterred by a car drive to keep his secret. Patreon …

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TNR Commentary Track: Night of the Bloody Apes

Bloody Apes! Coming over here and taking our women! Patreon http://patreon.com/user?u=2335731 Paypal: cynicalcelluloid@hotmail.co.uk Website: https://cynicalcelluloid.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CynicalCelluoid Written Articles: http://franklygreenbay.com/category/i&#8230;

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