Emanating from their studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, The History of Bad Ideas sees hosts Jason, Jeff and Blake talk about all things geeky on their podcast. Whether it’s rumours of the latest comic book movies, debating who really is the worst villain of all time, discussing the latest comic issues or just wondering about life in general, you are sure to have a fun time with them! In theory.
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Episode 477: Brad is Still in the Basement!
The Hobi gang welcomes Brad of the Cinema Guys Podcast into the studios as we taste test Peeps flavored Pepsi, Canadian syrup cookies, discuss the latest Last of Us episode and debate the worst disaster film!
If you haven’t listened to the show before – why not? – you can check out previous episodes of The History of Bad Ideas podcast on iTunes and look out for new episodes here on Nerdly each and every week…
Episode 477: Brad is Still in the Basement!
The Hobi gang welcomes Brad of the Cinema Guys Podcast into the studios as we taste test Peeps flavored Pepsi, Canadian syrup cookies, discuss the latest Last of Us episode and debate the worst disaster film!
- 3/2/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
To say Herschell Gordon Lewis‘ and Jeremy Kasten‘s respective The Wizard of Gore releases pushed me to my limits is correct for all the wrong reasons. My choice to stack the 1970 original and 2007 remake back-to-back stands as one of my least favorite Revenge of the Remakes double-bills thus far. I’ve no objection to gore-forward perversions that assault audiences with repugnant visuals, unless their storytelling devolves from nonsense to unintelligible drivel from one title to the next. Even worse when one of the films can’t even sustain its titular “Gore” effects.
Lewis’ legacy as the Grandfather of Grossouts and Sorcerer of Sadistic Splatter isn’t lost on The Wizard of Gore, unlike Allen Kahn‘s screenplay, hacked apart and reassembled to maximize the grotesque kill sequences using sheep carcass guts. Kasten’s remake didn’t have to attain Kubrickian levels of storytelling to surpass its inspiration’s narrative cohesion,...
Lewis’ legacy as the Grandfather of Grossouts and Sorcerer of Sadistic Splatter isn’t lost on The Wizard of Gore, unlike Allen Kahn‘s screenplay, hacked apart and reassembled to maximize the grotesque kill sequences using sheep carcass guts. Kasten’s remake didn’t have to attain Kubrickian levels of storytelling to surpass its inspiration’s narrative cohesion,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Matt Donato
- bloody-disgusting.com
Image Source: Pol Kurucz
Surprise! Saweetie and H.E.R. have a new song together. On Feb. 10, the artists dropped a collab titled "Closer." In the sultry, feel-good track, Saweetie and H.E.R. sing about wanting to get more intimate with their partners, singing, "Hold me closer / It's the freak in me, I wanna show ya / It feels so good don't want it to be over."
Between Saweetie's playful lyrics and H.E.R.'s catchy hook, you won't be able to get the song out of your head. Luckily for us, the duo dropped the accompanying music video on Valentine's Day, which sees the singers traveling the world on Icy Airlines, with stops in Paris, the Philippines, and Tokyo. "Closer" will be featured on Saweetie's debut album, "Pretty B*tch Music."
Saweetie and H.E.R.'s collaboration comes on the heels of their exciting Grammy nominations. Saweetie, one of this year's first-time nominees,...
Surprise! Saweetie and H.E.R. have a new song together. On Feb. 10, the artists dropped a collab titled "Closer." In the sultry, feel-good track, Saweetie and H.E.R. sing about wanting to get more intimate with their partners, singing, "Hold me closer / It's the freak in me, I wanna show ya / It feels so good don't want it to be over."
Between Saweetie's playful lyrics and H.E.R.'s catchy hook, you won't be able to get the song out of your head. Luckily for us, the duo dropped the accompanying music video on Valentine's Day, which sees the singers traveling the world on Icy Airlines, with stops in Paris, the Philippines, and Tokyo. "Closer" will be featured on Saweetie's debut album, "Pretty B*tch Music."
Saweetie and H.E.R.'s collaboration comes on the heels of their exciting Grammy nominations. Saweetie, one of this year's first-time nominees,...
- 2/14/2022
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
When Charlie Chaplin passed away on Christmas Day in 1977, aged 88, he left the screenplay for a last unfinished film titled “The Freak,” a passion project about a young woman with wings named Serapha who is exploited in all kinds of ways.
Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna archives, which have long been in charge of the preservation and restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s oeuvre, has just published a book that for the first time unearths the final version of Chaplin’s complete “The Freak” script. The book also comprises previously unseen materials, such as preparatory notes, drawings, photos and stills from filmed rehearsals of the film that Bologna archives chief Gianluca Farinelli calls Chaplin’s “artistic testament.”
Born to a couple of British missionaries, Serapha winds up in Patagonia, where she becomes an angel-like figure at a pilgrimage site for invalids seeking to be cured; she is then kidnapped and brought...
Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna archives, which have long been in charge of the preservation and restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s oeuvre, has just published a book that for the first time unearths the final version of Chaplin’s complete “The Freak” script. The book also comprises previously unseen materials, such as preparatory notes, drawings, photos and stills from filmed rehearsals of the film that Bologna archives chief Gianluca Farinelli calls Chaplin’s “artistic testament.”
Born to a couple of British missionaries, Serapha winds up in Patagonia, where she becomes an angel-like figure at a pilgrimage site for invalids seeking to be cured; she is then kidnapped and brought...
- 12/25/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Carlton Williams, Tom Brittingham, Karen Maurise, Edward Terry, Joan Roth, Stacy Haiduk, Thomas Mils, Jerry Clarke | Written and Directed by Carlton J. Albright
“A movie with a fowl bite!”
When Luther (Carlton Williams, in his only role) was a young boy, he witnessed a group of rowdy locals egging on the local Geek (Tom Brittingham, also in his only role) to bite the head off a chicken. This combined with him getting his teeth accidentally knocked out by one of said locals in the ruckus leads young Luther to develop a taste for blood. Naturally, this turns him in to a bloodthirsty psycho and paves the way for a life of crime. After serving 20 years and thanks to prison board member Mrs. Butler (Karen Maurise, Dark Skies), a much older and balder Luther (Edward Terry, The Children) is set free. Armed with a set of homemade metal teeth, Luther...
“A movie with a fowl bite!”
When Luther (Carlton Williams, in his only role) was a young boy, he witnessed a group of rowdy locals egging on the local Geek (Tom Brittingham, also in his only role) to bite the head off a chicken. This combined with him getting his teeth accidentally knocked out by one of said locals in the ruckus leads young Luther to develop a taste for blood. Naturally, this turns him in to a bloodthirsty psycho and paves the way for a life of crime. After serving 20 years and thanks to prison board member Mrs. Butler (Karen Maurise, Dark Skies), a much older and balder Luther (Edward Terry, The Children) is set free. Armed with a set of homemade metal teeth, Luther...
- 3/5/2016
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
January 19th has some really unique home entertainment releases that should make fans of cult cinema happier than Jason Voorhees on the first day of summer camp. Scream Factory is debuting William Friedkin’s The Guardian on Blu-ray this week and one of my personal favorites from my childhood, The Ice Pirates, is also getting an HD overhaul, courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection.
Vinegar Syndrome is also keeping themselves busy with a duo of cult classic releases, Nightmare Weekend and Luther the Geek, and for those of you sci-fi TV fans, season one of 12 Monkeys as well as the final season of Continuum arrive on Blu and DVD this Tuesday as well.
The Guardian (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
William Friedkin, the Academy Award winning director of The Exorcist, delivers a new kind of fairy tale for adults. A handsome young couple finds the perfect live-in babysitter to look after their newborn child.
Vinegar Syndrome is also keeping themselves busy with a duo of cult classic releases, Nightmare Weekend and Luther the Geek, and for those of you sci-fi TV fans, season one of 12 Monkeys as well as the final season of Continuum arrive on Blu and DVD this Tuesday as well.
The Guardian (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
William Friedkin, the Academy Award winning director of The Exorcist, delivers a new kind of fairy tale for adults. A handsome young couple finds the perfect live-in babysitter to look after their newborn child.
- 1/19/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The Children deals with the disintegration of the family unit, and the decay of modern society. Just kidding! The Children is about radioactive kids who like to give hugs and burn people up real good. Some horror films do have subtext, with layers peeled back to reveal inner truths about ourselves and the world. And some horror films are content to just show children having their hands cut off with a samurai sword.
Released in June of 1980, The Children was actually quite a success for a low budget film – according to Producer Carlton J. Albright (Luther The Geek) it earned $8 million dollars within its first year, playing to theaters and drive-ins alike. Not too shabby for a truly bizarre, high concept scare fest.
Okay, here we go: Two workers at a nuclear plant get a reading that there’s a malfunction. After a quick glance around the facility, and spent...
Released in June of 1980, The Children was actually quite a success for a low budget film – according to Producer Carlton J. Albright (Luther The Geek) it earned $8 million dollars within its first year, playing to theaters and drive-ins alike. Not too shabby for a truly bizarre, high concept scare fest.
Okay, here we go: Two workers at a nuclear plant get a reading that there’s a malfunction. After a quick glance around the facility, and spent...
- 5/9/2015
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
It's not often that I enter a room and have one of my interviewees refer to titles like Pumpkinhead , Basket Case and Luther the Geek , but that's exactly what Ken Marino did. The actor was out promoting Bad Milo , the horror-comedy now available on VOD, with co-star Gillian Jacobs ("Community") last week and we had a chance to speak to the duo. The interview turned out to be a blast as we discussed the film's influences, the potential name of Jacobs' "ass monster" and what it was like working with a practical creature. Bad Milo focuses on a fella (Marino) with intense stomach trouble who learns to his horror that he has a demon living in his intestines. When he gives it permission to come out during a therapy session, the man names it Milo and tries to...
- 9/3/2013
- Comingsoon.net
It's not often that I enter a room and have one of my interviewees refer to titles like Pumpkinhead, Basket Case and Luther the Geek, but that's exactly what Ken Marino did.
The actor was out promoting Bad Milo, the horror-comedy now available on VOD, with co-star Gillian Jacobs (Community) last week and we had a chance to speak to the duo. The interview turned out to be a blast as we discussed the film's influences, the potential name of Jacobs' "ass monster" and what it was like working with a practical creature.
Bad Milo focuses on a fella (Marino) with intense stomach trouble who learns to his horror that he has a demon living in his intestines. When he gives it permission to come out during a therapy session, the man names it Milo and tries to live a life in which he, not his demon, is in charge.
The actor was out promoting Bad Milo, the horror-comedy now available on VOD, with co-star Gillian Jacobs (Community) last week and we had a chance to speak to the duo. The interview turned out to be a blast as we discussed the film's influences, the potential name of Jacobs' "ass monster" and what it was like working with a practical creature.
Bad Milo focuses on a fella (Marino) with intense stomach trouble who learns to his horror that he has a demon living in his intestines. When he gives it permission to come out during a therapy session, the man names it Milo and tries to live a life in which he, not his demon, is in charge.
- 9/2/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Luther The Geek is an odd experience to say the least. The film is very low budget, with some huge plot holes, and bad special effects, yet it's still fun to watch, and keeps your attention though the short running length. It's one of those movies that I shouldn't like, but yet I find myself quite drawn towards it, like a fly to a bug zapper. The film starts with a mob of people, complete with torches, break into a barn to see a caged up geek b…...
- 3/26/2012
- Horrorbid
Troma sounds a lot like trauma and without knowing how they came up with the name I can't but help think it's on purpose. After all they've spent more than thirty years making sure there was something to offend somebody in virtually every movie they've made. Maybe that's why Troma is still around thirty years later. They bring a smile to the face of anyone who likes seeing sacred cows splattered even if at the end you feel a little messy yourself.
Lloyd Kaufman has made a living out of being able to brand that particular sentiment even when Troma's movies have been truly awful. In fact at times the studio has been so well known because of it’s boob baring antics that it itself has threatened to become a bigger product than any of it's films. This despite there having been some real classics, movies that I would...
Lloyd Kaufman has made a living out of being able to brand that particular sentiment even when Troma's movies have been truly awful. In fact at times the studio has been so well known because of it’s boob baring antics that it itself has threatened to become a bigger product than any of it's films. This despite there having been some real classics, movies that I would...
- 6/18/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Dave Canfield)
- Fangoria
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