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Genre Grinder

Genre Grinder is a podcast devoted to the weirdest, most unique, and painfully specific film genres. Every month, your host, Gabe Powers, and a special guest will talk about movies that (hopefully) you"ve never heard of.

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01:58:05

Episode 28: Weird Stephen King Adaptations, feat....

Genre Grinder ·

2022/03/07

SURE, YOU’VE SEEN THE SHINING AND PET SEMATARY, BUT HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF THE DOLLAR BABIES? THAT FAMOUS FAILED BROADWAY SHOW? THAT MOTION COMIC SPONSORED BY A MOBILE COMPANY? It would be futile to think anyone would come to us at Genre Grinder for a Stephen King episode, especially considering how many fantastic podcasts are already devoted exclusively to the author’s work, but what about those oddball adaptations that didn’t get an international theatrical release? Join Gabe and returning guest

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01:39:39

Episode 27.5: Alternative American Horror of the...

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2022/02/06

COME WITH US AS WE CONTINUE OUR CROSS-COUNTRY TREK THROUGH THE DARKEST BOULEVARDS AND ALLEYWAYS OF THE ‘ME DECADE’ UNDERGROUND! After Night of the Living Dead (1968) and before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audiences for their

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01:29:36

Episode 27: Alternative American Horror of the 1970s,...

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2022/01/02

WELCOME TO THE END OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE AND THE BEGINNING OF A COUNTERCULTURE DEATHTRIP THAT WILL SCARE YOU TO DEATH! After Night of the Living Dead (1968) and before the slasher boom of the early ‘80s, American horror went through one of its most creative and influential eras. But, for every Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Carrie (1976), and Halloween (1978), there were dozens of under-the-radar oddities that took years – sometimes decades – to be recognized by cult audiences for their unique

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01:50:29

Episode 26: Heaven Can(t) Wait Movies, feat. Tyler...

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2021/12/05

LEAVE THE SPOOKY SIDE OF DEATH BEHIND THIS MONTH AND JOIN US ON A JOURNEY INTO THE ROMANCE, COMEDY, AND BUREAUCRACY OF THE AFTERLIFE. We’ll get back to scary things next month, because this month is all about the wholesome possibilities of death stories. Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster explore a surprisingly prevalent subgenre of romantic comedies concerning the processes of the afterlife. Avoiding movies that focused too much on haunting or possession, we still ended up with a list of seven

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01:28:36

Episode 25.5: Year in Horror: 1960, feat. Patrick...

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2021/11/03

RETURN TO THE GREATEST YEAR IN HORROR HISTORY FOR MORE IRONIC PUNISHMENTS, FIERY INFERNOS, CURSED TOWNS, BLOODTHIRSTY WITCHES, AND SEXY LIBRARIANS! Happy Halloween hangover, everyone! Welcome back to 1960 and a deep dive into three more stone cold classics. Well, more like two classics and a movie that has an awful lot in common with some stone cold classics. Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned had already talked about Georges Franju’s Eyes without a Face, Michael

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01:30:47

Episode 25: Year in Horror: 1960 feat. Patrick Ripoll...

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2021/10/18

PSYCHOPATHS! PEEPING TOMS! CRUMBLING HOUSES! EYELESS FACES! CITIES OF THE DEAD! LITERAL HELL! Happy Halloween! It’s time to settle some schoolyard arguments and decide once and for all the most incredible year in horror cinema history. Our world’s greatest scientists, historians, and statisticians have compiled all the pertinent data and come to the following conclusion: 1960 was the best year for horror movies. Gabe and returning guest Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned parsed 32 of the

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BONUS EPISODE: Halloween Music Mix 2021

Genre Grinder ·

2021/10/01

Time to sit back and vibe with more spooky music and movie clips. I’ve decided to put the Halloween mix onto the main podcast stream this year, instead of SoundCloud. I tried to dig deep into my archives to include songs, themes, and remixes that I’ve never used for another Halloween mix. Please enjoy and have a happy Halloween! Here is the complete track mix: 1. Martha & the Horses by Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman (Ravenous OST) 2. Die Klapperschlange by The Splash Band (1984 disco remix of John

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01:43:53

Episode 24: Monster Lovers, feat. Arianny Pilarte of...

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2021/09/01

DEAR BIG SEXY MONSTER, DO YOU LIKE ME, A SMALL, NORMAL HUMAN? [_] YES [_] NO Does your significant other sport a lush fur coat and fangs? Does your boyfriend have razor sharp talons, instead of feet? Is your wife the legendary chupacabra? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a Monster Lover. Or perhaps “love” is too serious a word for it. Maybe you’re just a down ‘n dirty Monster F#©ker? Either way, boy, have we got the episode of Genre Grinder for you. Join Gabe and

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01:46:20

Episode 23: Food-Themed Movies, feat. Kristine Fisher

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2021/07/27

TAKE A SEAT, PUT YOUR NAPKIN ON YOUR LAP, AND UNDO YOUR BELT – YOU’RE IN FOR A VERITABLE BANQUET OF MOVIES ABOUT FOOD! Prepare yourself for the most mouthwatering, scrumptious, toothsome, and downright yummy episode of Genre Grinder yet. Gabe and returning guest/his significant other/food buddy, Kristine Fisher – who knows a thing or two about cooking – chow down on six courses of food-themed movies that mostly fit the concept of magical realism, including Jûzô Itami’s Tampopo (1985), Gabriel Axel’s

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02:07:36

Episode 22: Afrofuturism & Black Sci-fi/Fantasy,...

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2021/06/27

CATCH A TRIP INTO THE AFROFUTURE ABOARD A SHIP PILOTED BY SPACE-AGE PROPHETS, PHAROANIC JESTERS, METEOR MEN, AND OTHER BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER PLANET! What might the world look like in a universe where Africa hadn’t been colonized? What might the race relations of our world look like to a visitor from outer space? What if Superman was a Black nerd from D.C.? What if malevolent aliens crash landed in the London projects? These questions and more will be answered in Genre Grinder’s look at Afrofuturism

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01:58:17

Episode 21: Most Dangerous Game Shows, feat. Luana...

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2021/05/24

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED AND IT WILL BE BROUGHT TO YOU EXCLUSIVELY BY MING TEA! TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP DEAD! Psychotic games and sadistic reality television are on the docket this month. Gabe and returning guest Luana Saitta of Monster Island & Movie Lobby Commentaries check out three politically-charged classics about televised death sport, including Elio Petri’s The 10th Victim (Italian: La decima vittima, 1965), Paul Bartel’s Death Race 2000 (1975), and Paul Michael Glaser’s

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01:54:24

Episode 20: Asylum Horror, feat. Betsy Jorgensen of...

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2021/04/16

TIGHTEN YOUR STRAITJACKETS AND SNUGGLE UP IN YOUR FAVORITE RUBBER ROOM, IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT PSCARY PSYCHIATRIC PHACILITIES! Mental health can be scary, but do you know what’s even scarier? The archaic asylums of the bygone era, where we used to lock up the mentally ill. Gabe and returning guest Betsy Jorgensen of the Your Favorite Monsters podcast take a look at four tales of cursed mental health institutions, including Mark Robson’s Bedlam (1946), Juan López Moctezuma’s The Mansion of

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02:12:06

Episode 19: Body Snatcher Movies, feat. Jim...

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2021/03/18

ALIEN INVADERS, MIND-ALTERING SPACE SLUGS & BLACK MAGIC MADMEN ARE COMING TO STEAL YOUR CORPOREAL FORM & USE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER! Welcome back for a more typical episode of Genre Grinder. Gabe’s finally done talking about SOV horror movies and is joined by Now Playing Network & Director’s Club co-host Jim Laczkowski to take a long, very nearly complete look at Body Snatcher Movies. Specifically, science fiction – or at least sci-fi adjacent – movies that feature usually alien,

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01:27:48

Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, Part Four, feat....

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2021/02/18

ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END AS MUST ALL BAD THINGS AND ALL THINGS RECORDED ON OBSOLETE HOME VIDEO MEDIA! Welcome to the home stretch! After dozens of movies and six hours of podcasting, we’ve come to the end of Genre Grinder’s shot-on-video horror retrospective. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, yet again, did most of the research) drag and claw their way through a final 16 SOV oddities; nine of which one or both of them were able to watch, including Mark

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BONUS EPISODE: VCR Horrors – An SOV Mixtape by...

Genre Grinder ·

2021/02/03

Welcome to an extra special BONUS EPISODE of Genre Grinder. What you are about to hear is a digital mixtape compiled and mixed by Tracks of the Damned creator Patrick Ripoll. It includes themes, complete songs, and various clips from the films we’ve been discussing throughout Genre Grinder’s shot-on-video horror series. Be aware that, in most cases, Patrick or myself had to rip the audio from the films themselves, so the sound quality will be uneven to say the least. Then again, that’s kind of the

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01:31:36

Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, Part Three, feat....

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2021/01/28

LISTEN IN TERROR AS WE CONTINUE TO BE STRANGLED BY THE GNARLED, RIPPLING TENTACLES OF DEAD ANALOG MEDIA! Part three of our epic (seemingly never-ending) FOUR-PART look back on the insane world of shot-on-video horror movies from the pre-digital era. Gabe and returning extra-special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who, again, did most of the research) trudge through an additional 32 movies, 12 of which one or both of them were able to watch, including D3’s Death Row Diner (1988), Wally Koz’ 555

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01:35:58

Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, Part Two, feat....

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2021/01/08

ENJOY EVEN MORE TALES OF THE TAPE AS WE DELVE FURTHER INTO THE INSANE DEPTHS OF THE MOST NEOPHYTIC MOVIES EVER TO GRACE A VIDEO RENTAL STORE! Bring on part two of three! Wait, of three? That can’t be right. Oh, yeah, this is a four-part epic now. Gabe and special co-host Patrick Ripoll (who did most of the research) break down 21 more shot-on video horror movies; nine of which one or both of them have been able to actually see, including ‘classics,’ like the Polonia Brothers’ Hallucinations

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01:56:42

Episode 18: Shot-on-Video Horror, feat. Patrick...

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2020/12/14

TAKE A TRIP BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF WTF DIY HOME VIDEO HORROR! I REALLY WISH I HADN’T USED UP MY ‘ADJUST YOUR TRACKING’ REFERENCE ON THE FOUND-FOOTAGE HORROR DESCRIPTION! Strap in for part one of a three-part look back at an era when three teenagers with a camcorder could shoot a horror movie without a script and sell it to video rental stores across the country. Gabe and special guest/co-host Patrick Ripoll of Tracks of the Damned do their best to parse the mind-melting world of shot-on-video

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01:34:02

Episode 17: Silent Era Slapstick, feat. Kristine Fisher

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2020/11/13

DUST OFF YOUR PORK PIE HATS, FLAPPER SKIRTS, AND ROUNDED GLASSES, YA DEWDROPPERS, AND SHUT YER YAP FOR A HOTSY-TOTSY TRIP THROUGH PRE-TALKIE ANTICS! Let us journey way back in time, before sync sound was easy to record and people still thought a pie in the face was the height of comedy with Gabe and today’s guest, his girlfriend Kristine. Kristine has the knowledge and Gabe has the will to learn as they look at a handful of classic films and shorts. Today’s sockdoglar includes Henry Lehrman’s

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01:47:52

Episode 16: Found Footage Horror, feat. Betsy...

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2020/10/09

DIG THE OLD CAMCORDER OUTTA STORAGE, DIM THE LIGHTS, AND RELIVE YOUR FAVORITE FRIGHTENING HOME MOVIES! REMEMBER TO ADJUST YOUR TRACKING! We all know that found footage and mockumentary horror is the scourge of straight-to-streaming media these days, but there are some good movies out there, assuming you’re willing to endure a lot of very bad ones. Returning guest Betsy Jorgensen has taken it upon herself to cull through hundreds, nay, thousands of found footage horror movies. She has separated

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