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The New World Pictures Podcast

The New World Pictures Podcast

The New World Pictures Podcast is dedicated to every movie released by New World Pictures. We talk about the things we loved and the things we hated along with the detailed history of each film"s history and production. Founded by the infamous Roger Corman, New World Pictures was responsible for the greatest genre and exploitation films of the 1970"s and 1980"s. Remember all those movies that lived proudly in the Action, Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi isles of the video store? Titles like Death

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Ep. 144: Nick Knight featuring Dirk Marshall

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/04/09

It's that time again: VAMPril! Specifically VAMPril 2: Double Suck! Once again we return to the world of bloodsuckers for another month! And there's no better way to start than with NICK KNIGHT, a movie-length TV pilot starring Australian rock star Rick Springfield! And joining us is returning guest Dirk Marshall from the VH US podcast (https://www.vh-us.com/), who we knew would be equally impressed with the surprisingly good soundtrack!Detective Nick Knight is in trouble. Not just because some

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57:48

5th Annual Roger Corman Birthday Celebration

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/04/03

For the fifth year in a row, the New World Pictures Podcast celebrates the work of director/producer Roger Corman by watching his past work and sharing what we loved and what we hated. As you might recall from our first Roger Corman Birthday Celebration, we all planned to watch the same movie but one of us (Marc) didn't read the email and watched an entirely different movie. This year, we decided to try something different. Ryan, Erica and Marc each watched a movie directed by Roger Corman in

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66:44

Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Barbara Pokras...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/03/26

We close out #PrisonMarch 2: Second Offense with an interview with someone who there at New World from the very beginning: editor Barbara Pokras! After graduating from USC (where she went to school with Dan O'Bannon with whom she would work on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Barbara found her way to Roger Corman's newly-formed New World Pictures, where she went to work dubbing voices and assisting director Stephanie Rothman on New World's first ever movie, THE STUDENT NURSES. From there, Barbara

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Ep. 143: The Big Bird Cage featuring Ali Davis

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/03/19

Listen up, #PrisonMarch is back this week for more of Prison MarcH 2: Second Offense! This week's women-in-prison movie released by New World Pictures is 1972's THE BIG BIRD CAGE written and directed by Jack Hill and starring NWPP favorites Pam Grier, Sid Haig, and Vic Diaz. Returning again for the fifth time to dish out her thoughts on this flick is the fantastic Ali Davis! You may remember Ali from one of her four previous episodes with the New World Pictures Podcast such as COVER GIRL MODELS,

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99:58

Ep. 142: The Big Bust-Out featuring Chris Iannacone

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/03/13

That's right, #PrisonMarch is back for Prison Marc H 2: Second Offense! Once more, we plumb the depths of the women-in-prison movies released by New World Pictures, this time with an Italian knock-off created after New World's THE BIG DOLL HOUSE became a huge success! Yes, plenty of studios were making knock-offs by 1973, but only Roger Corman would popularize a subgenre and then also release a knock-off of the very thing he popularized!Returning to discuss this Italian version of a Corman movie

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77:57

Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Alan Toomayan...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/03/05

Everyone has a different path at New World Pictures, but Alan Toomayan may have had one of the strangest! From driving RVs on movie sets to working as a Production Assistant on New World's GRAND THEFT AUTO and driving Ron Howard around to moving into the editing room for SATURDAY THE 14TH and working with producer Julie Corman, Alan has done it all! Moving on from New World, Alan worked on THE HOWLING where he met director Paul Bartel and would work on Bartel's EATING RAOUL, THE LONGSHOT, NOT FOR

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68:56

Ep. 141: The Tin Drum

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/02/27

We close #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February) with an Academy Award winner! Director Volker Schlöndorff's 1979 adaptation of THE TIN DRUM! Based on the book of the same name by Günter Grass, the film shows the rise of authoritarianism in Europe prior to World War II through the life of self growth stunting, drum banging and screaming Oskar (David Bennent), whose ability to shatter glass with his voice is no comparison to his ability to shatter lives! We dive into the drumming of it all (there's

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69:06

Ep. 140: The Harder They Come

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/02/19

Do you know how much reggae is played in San Diego? Marc and Ryan do, and Erica sort of does, which makes the NWPP the perfect podcast to discuss Jamaica's first film, 1972's THE HARDER THEY COME, as we continue #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February)! A foreign film where the only language used is English? You bet! But, if you think you won't need subtitles, you'd be wrong (or from Jamaica)!Jimmy Cliff stars in this musical crime film as Ivanhoe Martin, based on a real figure from Jamaican history,

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Ep. 139: The Story of Adele H

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/02/12

Welcome to Foreign film February! This month we will explore some of the foreign films of New World Pictures! FFF, as it's affectionately known, starts off with A LOT of heart (maybe even a little too much heart) with the tragic STORY OF ADELE H directed by Francois Truffaut. Set in 1863 - oh la la mon ami a period piece - we follow a young woman (Isabelle Adjani, POSSESSION) in her absolute QUEST in pursuit of her love interest Lieutenant Pinson (Bruce Robinson, director of WITHNAIL AND I). Using a

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90:28

Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor/Director James...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/02/06

It's time for another New World interview, this time with editor/director James Melkonian, who started as an intern at New World Pictures before climbing the ladder all the way to VP of Post-Production! James spent five years at New World, toiling away on a wide range of projects - GODZILLA 1985 (Ep. 108), THE PUNISHER (Ep. 121), REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS (Ep. 81) - just about everything at New World, especially once he took over the Post-Production department from Tony Randel (HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II,

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Ep. 138: God Told Me To

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/01/30

We wrap up #FANuary - where listeners chose what we watched across all our social media accounts - with Larry Cohen's 1976 classic GOD TOLD ME TO! Independently financed then released by new world Pictures, Cohen's strange odyssey of a New York police detective whose investigation yields way more than he ever bargained for is truly a genius piece of cinema that only Larry Cohen could have created! Filled with an incredible cast (Academy Award winner Sandy Dennis, Andy Kaufman, Deborah Raffin,

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Ep. 137: Tax Attack 87

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/01/21

Welcome to #FANuary, where we talk about the movies you, the listener, asked us to discuss. Our first entry in #FANuary is 1987's TAX ATTACK 87, a Learning Corporation of America production staring comedian Robert Klein (SNL). Learning Corporation of America was owned by New World Pictures and focused on educational videos like In the FOR SAFETY'S SAKE: IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD starring Gary Coleman. By the way, if you haven't listened to our episode on that video, do yourself a favor and check it

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3rd Annual Worldies and Our Running Top/Bottom 5 2024...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2025/01/15

It's that time again, the most wonderful time of the year: award season! And no award show is more prestigious than the Worldies, the only show that covers all the movies we covered last year! It's a celebration! And joining us to hand out these very real and important awards are a few of our former guests and NWPPVIPs like We invited former guests and NWPPVIPs to help us present these prestigious awards including: Erin Dawn, host of the Manic Movie Monday Podcast Jason "Neumie" Neuman

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Nearly New World: Chopping Mall

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/12/21

We are wrapping up the merry month of #DIEcember II: Slay Bells Ring with a well-known cult classic: 1986's CHOPPING MALL aka KILLBOTS. This Nearly New World film was written and directed by Jim Wynorski in his first film for Roger and Julie Corman following working at New World in the publicity department. Join us as we fangirl on malls, robots, and snacks! We discuss the Sherman Oaks Galleria, Erica's work history, and we introduce new sponsorship opportunities for Better Cheddars. You

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Ep. 136: The Initiation

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/12/12

We continue #DIEcember 2: Slay Bells Ring with another obscure slasher, 1984's THE INITIATION. This one is filled with family secrets, sharp hand rakes, and hot - temperature hot - sex. It's a movie about the power of dreams or at least the power of attraction that comes from participating in a sleep study. It's about a mother's sacrifice, and how, no matter what you do, it doesn't matter. It's about real dads and fake dads and dressing up like a penis to a party, only to get murdered in an empty

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Ep. 135: Mountaintop Motel Massacre featuring Ryan...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/12/05

We kick off #DIEcember 2: Slay Bells Ring with everyone's character rich slasher, 1983's MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE. Or, if you'd prefer, MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL. Or, as we would call it, "MOTEL MASSACRE NOT ON A MOUNTAIN". Staring Bill Thurman (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW), Anna Chappell (THE MAN IN THE MOON), and Major Brock, a guy who was working as a baggage handler for Delta before director Jim McCullough found him and put him in this movie. We spend quite a bit of time on this subject

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Ep. 134: Queenie

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/11/26

We end #NOvember, where we watch movies with originally said "no" to, with QUENNIE, a 1987 TV Miniseries made by New World Television and, later, released by New World Video. An adaptation of a novel by Michael Korda which told the story of his real-life aunt, the actress Merle Oberon. Now, Korda's aunt may be real, but the story is, well, let's just say Michael had fun filling in the details. What true and what's not, we may never know, but we do our best to sort it out.The series starred Mia

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71:56

Bonus Episode: Interview with Writer/Director John...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/11/19

John Penney returns to the podcast! Following our TORMENT reunion episode alongside his cohorts Earl Ghaffari (WAYNE'S WORLD) and Scott Alexander (ED WOOD), John is back to discuss his time working as an assistant editor for New World movies BODY ROCK, GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, and THE STUFF (as well as RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD) before writing RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III and becoming a director with 2006's ZYZZYX RD! John talks about working for Academy Award-winning editor Richard Halsey

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Ep. 133: Eat and Run

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/11/11

It's #NOvember, where we talk about all the movies we previously said "no" to, and we're kickstarting it with 1986's EAT AND RUN, written by the father/son team of Stand and Christopher Hart and directed by Christopher. it stars Ron Silver as a Detective on the trail of an alien who is eating Italian people in New York City! The poster proclaims it's a "comedy with taste," but where did Marc, Erica, and Ryan fall in their opinions about it? You'll have to listen to find out! Enjoy this trip

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97:56

Audio Commentary: Adventures in Babysitting with...

The New World Pictures Podcast ·

2024/11/07

We were shocked to discover that 1987's Adventures in Babysitting doesn't have a DVD or Blu Ray audio commentary. After interviewing screenwriter David Simkins in 2022, we asked if he would be willing to record an audio commentary for Adventures in Babysitting and to our delight he agreed. David shares funny and insightful behind-the-scenes stories and talks about how the movie came together including working with Debra Hill and Lynda Obst. We discuss the challenges of shooting both in Chicago

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