It’s always exciting when I get a review copy of a film I almost covered for a podcast. It’s extra exciting when I get a review copy of a film I almost covered on multiple episodes of the podcast. Donald Farmer’s Scream Dream (1989) was initially going to be included on the four-part podcast Patrick Ripoll and I recorded about Shot-on-Video (SOV) Horror Movies (listen to part one here). Then it was going to be included with our two-part SOV Addendum podcast (listen to part on

BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES AS WE TAKE A DIVE INTO THE MORE BUDGET-FRIENDLY VERSION OF THE DARK AND BRINY!! Gabe and Patrick Ripoll are back with another look at the Deep Sea Sci-fi/Horror movies of the year 1989 (and 1990, if we’re getting technical). We talked about three studio-backed productions in part one. Now, part two covers the four indie releases: Mary Ann Fisher’s Lords of the Deep, Antonio Margheriti’s Alien From the Deep (Italian: Alien degli abissi, aka: Alien from

Sold as a softcore curiosity in the midst of the Porno Chic boom (“Women will understand…Men will be shocked,” cried the adline), Theodore Gershuny’s Sugar Cookies (1973) was a commercial and critical flop, and would’ve been little more than a forgotten oddity, had it not been for the uncommon confluence of cult stars that made it.

In early 2023, perennial Genre Grinder podcast co-host Patrick Ripoll and I recorded a two-part piece on the giallo movies released during the genre’s peak year (in terms of theatrical output), 1971 (listen to it here and here). Of the 40-plus gialli and giallo-adjacent films I researched, we covered 12, which I picked based on their accessibility, familiarity of the filmmakers, and particular thematic qualities that I hoped would paint the most complete picture of the genre