Bloody Pit of Rod

Monday, June 17, 2024

Poster Art for THE TIME MACHINE (1960)

It might be time to watch this one again!

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Video - Great Molasses Disaster by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

I've been a fan of the band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for a while now but I struggle to choose my favorite of their songs. Although I love their attention to Lovecraft and Lovecraftian themes I have to admit that it is when they stray away from those subjects that I find myself more intrigued. Take this blast of a song about a terrible historical event that happened in 1919. You can read the details on this Wikipedia page but the video above does a good job of laying out some information from the newspaper headlines of the times.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Wild, Wild Podcast Season 7: Ep 6 - FENOMENAL AND THE TREASURE OF TUTANKAMEN (1968)

In this phenomenally good episode, Rod and Adrian get to grips with a film that makes very little sense whichever language you watch it in. Yes, it's that dastardly master of crime/ vigilante hero (delete as appropriate, we couldn't work it out) Fenomenal! Thrill as he kicks drug dealers into the sea! Gasp as he climbs walls very carefully! Worry in case he bumps into the furniture with that mask on! Giggle as we wonder how anyone could NOT know who Fenomenal actually is! Is there more than one choice?

You can see the whole film for yourself on YouTubeYouTube.

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Sunday, June 09, 2024

The Bloody Pit #196 - SONS OF STEEL (1988)

John Hudson and Bobby Hazzard join me for a raucous discussion of this bizarre Australian oddity. Are we able to figure out the story? What do we think of the main character? Do we maintain our sanity before the invisible chimp rears his furry head to fling poop everywhere? Thank goodness for the laughing audience in the room to keep us on track and aware of how silly we can be.

SONS OF STEEL (1988) is a film built out of bits & pieces of earlier movies but without the budget necessary to pull it off. It seems to be assembled from random parts of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Max Headroom and a little barbarian imagery for texture. The film follows Black Alice, a pompous singer strutting around a dystopian near-future momentarily mourning his dead girlfriend and trying to become a rock star. Strangely, he is also somehow an environmental peace activist – or at least we are told this by agents of the Oceana government. (Did I mention that 1984 is ripped off as well?) The movie is a series of music videos struggling to tell a tale of revolution, love and violence but the most memorable moments are the very 80’s songs scattered across the soundtrack. In Spiritus Wank’em!

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