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From the Files of Schlock & Awe: Join Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain, as they delve into the criminally neglected world of the straight-to-video erotic thriller.

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United Kingdom

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From the Files of Schlock & Awe: Join Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain, as they delve into the criminally neglected world of the straight-to-video erotic thriller.

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@thedavewain

Language:

English


Episodes
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The Dark Side of Love: Part One

4/9/2023
They’re back! Finally, after what seems like a lifetime, Matty and Dave continue their erotic thriller excavation with the first of two episodes dedicated to the mighty Gregory Dark, one of the form’s greatest talents. Featuring MIRROR IMAGES, NIGHT RHYTHMS, ANIMAL INSTINCTS and more!

Duration:01:47:56

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A Jag Mundhra Film

2/26/2022
In episode three of their DTV erotic thriller celebration, Matty and Dave dissect the work of one of the form’s most fascinating creative voices. From LAST CALL to TAINTED LOVE and all that falls in between, come listen as your intrepid hosts explain why there’s no sweeter title card in cinema history than “A JAG MUNDHRA FILM”!

Duration:01:52:26

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Sex Lives of the Security Men: The NIGHT EYES Franchise

10/30/2021
In the second episode of their DTV erotic thriller crusade, Matty and Dave don the requisite polyester rent-a-cop outfits, and pull a shift for NIGHT EYES security. Featuring a spun-out spread of Stevens, a titillating twofer from Tweed and a ropey romp from Roberts.

Duration:01:14:18

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A Fatally Attractive Foursome: The BODY CHEMISTRY Saga

6/18/2021
In the premiere episode of their DTV erotic thriller exploration, Matty and Dave examine the form’s crowning achievement: the Roger Corman-produced BODY CHEMISTRY saga. Featuring Pescia praise, Peterson plaudits, Adam Simon adoration, and Jim Wynorski worship!

Duration:01:05:04

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Flesh Noir: An Introduction

6/3/2021
From the Files of Schlock & Awe... First, they did creature features. Now join your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain as they dive into the criminally neglected world of the straight-to-video erotic thriller.”

Duration:00:10:25

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A Nu Breed Of Predator: LARVA, MOSQUITO MAN, SHARKMAN & SNAKEMAN

11/3/2020
The grand finale of Matty and Dave’s beast-lined odyssey is here! But don’t be sad: it’s less a teary goodbye, and more a perky ‘ta-ta for now’ as your hosts tussle with a mostly very good quartet of monstrous tomfoolery from an impressive, SyFy-backed partnership between Nu Image and Active Entertainment. Featuring parasites and men of the mosquito, shark, and snake persuasion! What a way to go!

Duration:01:24:25

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That Fin You Do: The SHARK ATTACK Trilogy

8/30/2020
Before Sharknado... Before all the mega ones and the ones with numerous heads there was... The SHARK ATTACK Trilogy! And without it, direct-to-video and made-for-cable creature features wouldn’t be the same. So get your armbands on and join Matty and Dave as they go for a swim with Nu Image’s iconic triptych.

Duration:01:00:18

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On a Wing and a Scare: BATS & BATS: HUMAN HARVEST

7/26/2020
After a brief lockdown hiatus, your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain return with a look at the inadvertently topical BATS (1999) and its made-for-SyFy sequel, BATS: HUMAN HARVEST (2007). Warning: contains gushing enthusiasm, exasperated disappointment, and tongue-in-cheek paranoia.

Duration:00:48:12

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SyEnce FyCtion Double Feature: WEBS & BUGS

5/10/2020
A global pandemic! An invasion of murder hornets! Since we seem to be living in the plot of one, this month, your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain take a gander at a pair of SyFy Originals, giving the lowdown on the 2003 twosome of WEBS and BUGS. Recorded remotely because, well, we ain’t fucking idiots

Duration:00:27:58

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AIP Reborn!: SHE CREATURE, HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, EARTH vs. THE SPIDER, TEENAGE CAVEMAN & THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED

4/1/2020
Join Matty and Dave as they dive into a Stan Winston presented world of reimagined Samuel Z. Arkoff programmers. They’re Creature Features but not as we know them...

Duration:01:08:57

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The Auteurs: VENOMOUS, LEECHES! & DEADLY STINGERS (feat. special guest Fred Olen Ray)

3/1/2020
Things get personal in this latest stroll down creature feature alley as your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain get gushy over VENOMOUS, LEECHES!, and DEADLY STINGERS: three rock solid schlockers by three of their all-time favourite filmmakers. Featuring a bonus interview with Venomous director Fred Olen Ray!

Duration:01:32:10

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Double Roacharound: THEY NEST & THEY CRAWL

2/1/2020
After spending the last few months tangling with all kinds of giant, mutated beasties, your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain dramatically reduce the size of their monsters with THEY NEST and THEY CRAWL: a pair of cockroach-strewn creepers of wildly varying quality.

Duration:00:42:02

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Slither, Slither! Snake, Snake! THE PYTHON / BOA LEGACY

1/3/2020
We’re going on a snake hunt, and we’re gonna catch a big one... Well, five big ones in fact as your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain turn their attentions to the mighty PYTHON-BOA legacy: a quartet of scintillating serp-schlockers from Phillip Roth’s Unified Film Organization. IlGK1aGfosOtHVabLpKX 7qBPhXuKtqpj4f5Bg96D

Duration:01:16:07

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Fantastic Beasts and How We Found Them: ARACHNID & ROTTWEILER

12/1/2019
Your intrepid hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain journey to Spain in the fourth stop on their straight-to-video creature feature quest, dissecting a pair of Castilian creepers from Re-Animator producer Brian Yuzna: Jack Sholder’s giant spider shocker ARACHNID and Yuzna’s own robo-pooch romp, ROTTWEILER.

Duration:00:51:08

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Tri and Tri Again: KING COBRA & BLOOD SURF

11/1/2019
The millennial direct-to-video creature feature crusade continues, and for episode three your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain find themselves battling a thirty foot KING COBRA and hitting the waves for a croc-tastic BLOOD SURF.

Duration:00:46:53

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In With the Nu Two: Spiders 2, Octopus 2 & Crocodile 2 (feat. special guest Sam Firstenberg)

9/19/2019
The creatures are ready for seconds... Continuing their millennial, direct-to-video creature feature crusade, your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain are once more fending off tentacles, teeth, and eight-legged terrors, with their attention drawn to Nu Image’s shuddersome sequels of Spiders 2, Octopus 2, and Crocodile 2 in this second episode of Natural Selection. Featuring a bonus interview with Spiders 2 (and American Ninja, Cyborg Cop, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo) director Sam Firstenberg!

Duration:02:05:38

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In With the Nu: SPIDERS, OCTOPUS & CROCODILE (feat. special guest Stephen David Brooks)

8/23/2019
All the creatures are stirring... And when it comes to beginning their millennial, direct-to-video creature feature crusade, your hosts Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain are fending off tentacles, teeth, and eight-legged terrors, offering their takes on Nu Image’s holy trinity of Spiders, Octopus, and Crocodile in this debut episode of Natural Selection. Featuring a bonus interview with Spiders scripter Stephen David Brooks!

Duration:01:14:44