Terrible Delights
Terrible Delights
Terrible Delights
A podcast celebrating the good, bad and ugly that are grindhouse films. If it’s ‘sploitation, we want to watch it! New episodes every Wednesday.
Terrible Delights #50: Oily Maniac
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.
Feb 21, 2024
59 min
Terrible Delights #49: Savage Streets
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!
Feb 14, 2024
1 hr 18 min
Terrible Delights #48: the New Barbarians
This week's pick is the 1983 post-apocalyptic action movie the New Barbarians. After the nuclear holocaust in the year 2019, small bands of survivors are terrorized by the Templars, who seek to eradicate the remnants of mankind. Scorpion, Nadir and an unlikeable child to the rescue! Special guest Edwin Callahan (Castaigne Publishing) joins us!
Feb 7, 2024
1 hr 14 min
Terrible Delights #47: the Baby
This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Baby. Social worker Ann Gentry is fascinated by the case of Mrs. Wadsworth and her fully-grown son who has the mind and behavior of a baby. Her interest fast becomes obsession and leads to a bizarre and violent conclusion.
Jan 31, 2024
1 hr 5 min
Terrible Delights #46: Holy Flame of the Martial World
This week's pick is the bonkers 1983 Shaw Brothers film Holy Flame of the Martial World. A brother and sister seek vengeance for the death of their parents through using the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame kung-fu technique. Featuring Golden Snake Boy, snake bladder induced finger lasers, and the deadly Ghostly Laugh!
Jan 24, 2024
55 min
Terrible Delights #45: the Love Butcher
This week's pick is the 1975 slasher the Love Butcher. After being pushed around too much, crippled gardener Caleb transforms into the suave, yet volatile Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
Jan 17, 2024
1 hr 5 min
Terrible Delights #44: Three the Hard Way
This week's pick is the 1974 blaxploitation action film Three the Hard Way, starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. A record producer, a PR man and a black belt in karate foil a racist plot to poison the drinking water supply of several major cities by the evil Monroe Feather.
Jan 10, 2024
1 hr 18 min
Terrible Delights #43: Mad Foxes
This week's pick is the absurd 1981 Spanish revenge film Mad Foxes. Hal gets revenge on a biker gang that assaulted him and his girlfriend by having martial artists attack them. The biker gang then gets revenge on Hal by killing his parents. Hal then gets revenge on the same biker gang himself. Featuring pubes, penises, an intimate scene in what is potentially a bathtub full of urine, and so much more with the best kind of terrible overdubbing with occasional songs by Krokus.
Jan 3, 2024
1 hr 1 min
Terrible Delights #42: Thrilling Bloody Sword
This week's pick is the brain-melting 1981 Taiwanese martial arts/fantasy film Thrilling Bloody Sword. Featuring a cyclops demon, giant floating heads in a hell cave, a dwarf with a mini bagel necklace, flying body parts that resemble raw meat, and a near indestructible warrior getting stabbed in the asshole, amongst other very confusing things set to a synth soundtrack.
Dec 27, 2023
58 min
Terrible Delights #41: Black Christmas
This week's pick is the 1974 Bob Clark-directed slasher Black Christmas. As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Soon, one of the sisters goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.
Dec 20, 2023
1 hr 9 min
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