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Terrible Delights

Terrible Delights hosted by Scott and Bill

A podcast celebrating the good, bad and ugly that are grindhouse films from the 70s through the mid-80s. If it’s ‘sploitation, we want to watch it! New episodes every Wednesday.

tv & film film reviews

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01:02:41

Terrible Delights #68: Hitch-Hike to Hell

Terrible Delights ·

2024/07/03

This week's pick is the sleazy 1977 film Hitch-Hike to Hell. Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.

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01:29:56

Terrible Delights #67: the Funhouse

Terrible Delights ·

2024/06/26

This week's pick is the 1981 Tobe Hooper directed horror (not slasher) film the Funhouse. Four teenagers sneak into a sketchy carnival funhouse and plan to stay the night when they witness some bad doings by the owner and his deformed son. Can they escape before getting killed off within the funhouse walls? Special guest Mike Neel joins us.

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01:10:10

Terrible Delights #66: Rolling Thunder

Terrible Delights ·

2024/06/19

This week's pick is the serious and well-made 1977 vetsploitation film Rolling Thunder. A Vietnam veteran who returns home after years in a POW camp is treated as a hero, but his family proves to be distant. When thugs invade his home to steal silver coins that he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him, his wife and son for dead. He survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Now wielding a hook for a hand, he sets out on his mission of vengeance.

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01:11:12

Terrible Delights #65: Foxy Brown

Terrible Delights ·

2024/06/12

This week's pick is the 1974 Jack Hill film Foxy Brown starring the always awesome Pam Grier. Foxy Brown's boyfriend is gunned down and she infiltrates the bad guy's enterprises to bring them down.

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01:06:31

Terrible Delights #64: Savage Sisters

Terrible Delights ·

2024/06/05

This week's pick is the 1974 action-ish movie Savage Sisters. Three women of three races join forces to get one million dollars from, and revenge on, a double-crossing Revolutionary. It is kind of like a wacky caper with bad acting, bad fight scenes, and Sid Haig's over-the-top stereotyping of Mexicans.

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01:05:30

Terrible Delights #63: Gymkata

Terrible Delights ·

2024/05/29

This week's pick is the 1985 film Gymkata. The trailer makes it look like a lot more fun than you end up getting, but there are some decent gymnastics fighting scenes, multiple questionable hairstyles and loads of ugly people. Friend of the show Mike Spada joins in on the disappointment.

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01:15:32

Terrible Delights #62: I Don't Want to be Born

Terrible Delights ·

2024/05/22

This week's pick is the 1975 British horror film I Don't Want to be Born. A woman is cursed by a dwarf after she rejects his advances, then has an enormous baby possessed by the evil spirit of the dwarf. It seems the child will stop at nothing to exact the dwarf's revenge. It sounds a lot better than it actually is, but at least you get to see a baby murder multiple people.

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00:58:43

Terrible Delights #61: One Armed Boxer

Terrible Delights ·

2024/05/15

This week's pick is the 1972 Golden Harvest film One Armed Boxer. Jimmy Wang Yu wrote, directed and starred as the titular character who seeks revenge on the fighters that killed his master.

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01:07:02

Terrible Delights #60: Bare Knuckles

Terrible Delights ·

2024/05/08

This week's pick is the 1977 kinda-sorta action movie Bare Knuckles. A bounty hunter in Los Angeles tries to track down a serial killer that likes to hiss like a cat. Sloppy fight sequences, mustaches everywhere and an ok but lengthy chase scene make this potentially tolerable, depending on your mood.

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01:18:07

Terrible Delights #59: City of the Living Dead

Terrible Delights ·

2024/05/01

This week's pick is the 1980 Lucio Fulci supernatural horror film the City of the Living Dead. A reporter and psychic that had been prematurely buried (whoops!) head to a hard-to-find Massachusetts town where a clergyman has recently hanged himself to prevent the gates of Hell from opening. Special guest Mike Neel joins us.

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01:18:50

Terrible Delights #58: Night School

Terrible Delights ·

2024/04/24

This week's pick os the 1981 slasher flick Night School. According to IMDB, "Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled." Featuring a turtle nibbling on a decapitated head.

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01:23:01

Terrible Delights #57: Willie Dynamite

Terrible Delights ·

2024/04/17

This week's pick is the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite, starring a pre-Sesame Street Gordon, Roscoe Orman. This movie has the absolute best outfits of any movie we have covered so far and is pretty great to boot.

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01:06:37

Terrible Delights #56: the Heroin Busters

Terrible Delights ·

2024/04/10

This week's pick is the 1977 Italian crime film the Heroin Busters. An Italian cop goes under cover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring with help from an Interpol agent. Featuring pissed pants and some fine airplane stunt work.

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01:12:31

Terrible Delights #55: Turkey Shoot

Terrible Delights ·

2024/04/03

This week's pick is the 1982 Australian action movie Turkey Shoot. In a dystopian future, captured rebels held in re-education camps are offered freedom if they manage to survive as the prey in a hunt. Featuring a werewolf in a top hat!

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01:07:37

Terrible Delights #54: Nurse Sherri

Terrible Delights ·

2024/03/27

This week's pick is the 1977 film Nurse Sherri. Taking place on a scant few poorly lit sets, this possession horror movie offers wooden acting, "comedy", and ugly aesthetics.

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01:11:30

Terrible Delights #53: the Pit

Terrible Delights ·

2024/03/20

This week's pick is the 1981 Canuxploitation film the Pit. A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers by luring them into a pit of violent creatures in a secluded part of a forest that nobody else knows about.

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01:10:11

Terrible Delights #52: Satan's Blood

Terrible Delights ·

2024/03/13

This week's pick is the 1978 Spanish Satanic horror tale Satan's Blood. Annie and Andy are easily lured to an isolated home inhabited by a Satanic coven for oily sex rituals and a complete lack of self preservation.

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01:14:52

Terrible Delights #51: the Street Fighter

Terrible Delights ·

2024/03/06

We kick off season 3 with the legendary Sonny Chiba kicking all kinds of ass and making all kinds of faces in the 1974 classic the Street Fighter. X-ray punch!

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00:59:35

Terrible Delights #50: Oily Maniac

Terrible Delights ·

2024/02/21

This week's pick is the 1976 Shaw Brothers goofy horror/revenge movie Oily Maniac. A crippled man uses black magic to transform himself into an oil monster that deals out violent justice to bad people.

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01:18:41

Terrible Delights #49: Savage Streets

Terrible Delights ·

2024/02/14

This week's pick is the 1984 revenge flick Savage Streets. Linda Blairs stars as Brenda who is out for violent revenge on a local, jolly gang called the Scars for assaulting her deaf sister and tossing her best friend off a bridge. Special guest Kevin Crook (Wicked Horror Show) joins us!

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