Bring Me The Axe! Horror Podcast

This week, Bryan and Dave take a trip back to 1984 for a look at one of the top box office draws of 1984 and one of the most toyetic pictures of the decade, Gremlins. It's one of Chris Columbus's first movies produced and Joe Dante's first feature with Steven Spielberg. It's got adorable little cuddly guys, nasty little monsters, Phoebe Cates, gleeful puppet carnage, and a powerhouse score from Hollywood's musical swiss army knife, Jerry Goldsmith. In a year packed with some of American pop cultures most enduring classic titles, Gremlins is among the most iconic of the decade.

It's not all fuzzy feelings, though. As much as it's a lot of Loony Tunes fun and mayhem it's a movie that hasn't exactly aged well and we'll tell you all about it; the good and the bad.

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Bryan and Dave go Belgian this week for a look at the extremely artsy vampire sleeper, Daughters of Darkness. Where Jess Franco and Jean Rollin both released signature lesbian vampire movies in 1971, Harry Kumel snuck in and delivered his own interpretation of sleazy euro-trash horror through the lens of The French New Wave. The film stars the absolutely radiant Delphine Seyrig and her many outrageous costumes.

We break down the film's attempt to make a statement about the gender dynamics between men and women in a patriarchy and Dave goes to great lengths to illustrate the ways in which gay women are treated differently than gay men. In the process you get a crash course in radical feminism and, more specifically, radical lesbianism and the two of us do a lot of lousy cartoonish French accents.

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This week in X-Files history we take a look at the monster-of-the-week episode, Fire, in which Scully has to do all the work to stop a serial killer who is somehow burning members of the British parliament and nobility class alive. Mulder is too busy to help, being mopey about the reappearance of his English ex-girlfriend, a psychotic Scotland Yard agent who adds a solid dose of misogyny to an otherwise okay episode.

We also take a walk down memory lane as we look at the headlines and pop culture notes for December 17, 1993. It's a real desert of music, TV, and movies and the contemporary events of the day aren't so hot, either.

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This week we take a trip back to October 8, 1993, for a look at the fifth episode of the first season of The X-Files as Mulder takes it to the streets of Atlantic City in search of a murderer who might be the legendary cryptic of New Jersey but is actually a family of feral humans living in the wilds of the Jersey Pine Barrens, bumping up against the edge of civilized society. We have lousy witness sketches of the killer, Scully's magnificent fashion sense and social life, and a rundown of what was happening in America in October of 1993.

Bryan and Dave of the Bring Me The Axe! horror podcast are pleased to announce their new show, 99 Cent Rental, a podcast dedicated to the trashy, cheesy weirdness that choked video store shelves. If you like movies with hunky action star lookalikes, dubious martial arts, or breakdancing you're in the right place!

Episodes drop every other monday, opposite Bring Me The Axe episodes. Listen to the announcement to hear which three movies we're kicking the podcast off with.