Episode 807: Massacre Time (1966)

Guest Co-Hosts: Spencer Parsons, Joe Odber

Western month begins here. Lucio Fulci's Massacre Time (1966)) arrived in the wake of Django riding a wave of Italian genre fever, and it announced something different lurking inside the spaghetti Western: a director with a genuine appetite for cruelty. Franco Nero plays Tom Corbett, a gold prospector summoned back to a hometown now wholly owned by the Scott family — their name on every building, their violence on every street corner. Waiting for him is his brother Jeff (George Hilton), drinking himself to death, and Junior Scott (Nino Castelnuovo), a white-suited sadist with a bullwhip and nowhere near enough supervision.

Mike White, Spencer Parsons, and Joe Odber dig into Fulci's pre-horror career, Fernando Di Leo's crime-inflected screenplay, the film's feudal vision of capitalism, and the charged dynamics of the Scott family — Oedipal, theatrical, and deeply strange. They also trace Junior's lineage forward to a certain plantation dandy in a white suit.

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Music:
"A Man Alone - Sergio Endriga

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Episode 53: The Visitor (1979)

Special Guests: Lance Henriksen, Paige Conner
Guest Co-Host: Josh Hadley

The battle between good an evil gets worked out via an all-star cast in The Visitor, a crazy Italian/American hybrid. Cue the music....

In the Projection Booth this week is Josh Hadley of the Lost in the Static, Radiodrome, and What the F*ck podcasts.

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Buy The Visitor on UK DVD (where Mike wrote the liner notes)
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Get Lance Henriksen's biography Not Bad for a Human
Visit Josh Hadley's official website
Buy The Visitor on DVD
Interview with Joseph Maddrey of Not Bad for a Human

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