Movie Melt! Podcast - Psychotronic and Outsider Cinema
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
The show for VHS hoarders, cinephile weirdos, people on the spectrum, and the psychotronic fringe. Unearthing hidden gems and celebrating cult classics every two weeks.
Episodes
- Is The Match Stick Flame the Best Modern Action Trilogy? | MSF 3: Red Mafia (2026)
The Movie Melt! Podcast reviews the third installment of Craig Bruss and Vineeta Prasad's action film series, Red Mafia. The episode discusses the trilogy's blend of action and romance, alongside other segments like CDR's return and Battle…
- Camp Fear (1991) | A Cheerleader Camp Sequel With Bikers and Druids??
This episode of Movie Melt! Podcast discusses Camp Fear (1991), noting its spring break setting, earthquakes, bikers, and druids, and that it was intended as a Cheerleader Camp sequel. The hosts also touch on the director, Waffle House Rec…
- BLACK COUGAR (2002) | New Jersey’s Greatest Superhero?
Movie Melt! Podcast discusses the 2002 film "Black Cougar," analyzing the character of Sylvio, his protective actions, and the film's ambiguous nature as a potential superhero movie or outsider art piece. The episode also touches on other…
- The Episode They Nuked Mid-Stream | The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005)
The Movie Melt! Podcast discusses The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005), a spoof comedy about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The episode covers the film's production, its perceived merits, its existence, and the mysterious mid-stream removal of it…
- MMTV#1 W.A.V.E Productions Extended Universe - Pamela Sutch's GENETICS (2008)
Movie Melt! Podcast episode MMTV#1 covers Pamela Sutch's 2008 film GENETICS, a body-swap vanity project. The discussion extends to the W.A.V.E. Productions universe and New Jersey DIY films, referencing Gary Whitson's influence. The episod…
- S2E11 Bank (2016) We HEART Belize
It's our casual 10-year celebration of the show with more vanity project insanity from a man who calls himself Jah and his gangster-buddy-heist passion project. Things get contentious (and kinda thirsty) when we discuss our fashion red lin…
- S02E10 Baron Against the Demons (2006)
It’s a full-on wiener roast as we nerd out with The Baron Against the Demons, a Spanish fantasy oddity that plays like The Dark Crystal colliding with the Star Wars prequels and an all-consuming fertility obsession. It’s puppets, miniature…
- S02E09 Sheitan aka Satan (2006) #219
We're pouring ourselves a nice warm cup of Sheitan (2006) — the nasty French holiday horror where twitchy Satanist Vincent Cassel plays the backwoods host-with-the-most, throwing a group of Parisian club kids the most aggressively uncomfor…
- All-Nut BROvember: Midnight Dragon (1995) S02E08 #218
MIDNIGHT DRAGON (1995) Another All-Nut BROvember This week on Movie Melt, we dive into Midnight Dragon, a VHS-era vanity project overflowing with seizure-inducing effects, one-of-a-kind transition wipes, and audio that can only be decipher…
- All-Nut BROvember: Penitentiary III (1987) S02E07 #217
It’s All-Nut BROvember, and to celebrate raw, uncut, vein-bulging alpha-male friendships, we dove into Jamaa Fanaka’s Penitentiary III — a tale of brotherhood forged between a dungeon-dwelling, crack-addicted little person and a champion b…
- S02E06 Sleepy Hollow High (2000) #216
For Hallweenus we venture into the black hole of early-2000s DTV — where a melodramatic group of mid-thirtysomething “teens” are haunted by a pajama-wearing Headless Horseman who looks like a Phish tourhead. Everything is spared in this bi…
- S02E05 Soul of the Demon (1991) SOV Halloween #215
Regional DIY SOV horror at its finest: BMX kids dig up a cursed gargoyle, a mullet brigade faces demonic puberty, and a new Movie Melt Saint ascends. Plus: we uncover what nobody else has about director Chuck Lang's secret Vegas empire. AL…
- S02E04 Boxer's Omen (1983) #214
We hit the Shaw Brothers jackpot with the most insane film they ever produced — Kuei Chih-Hung’s The Boxer’s Omen (1983)! What starts as a simple boxing revenge flick spirals into flying severed heads, throat eels, Buddhist black magic bat…
- S02E03 Bird's Eye View (2020) w/ Auntie Boy
Back-to-school means we get educated with Cybela Clare’s female-led vanity project on ancient aliens, clones & parrots! Bird's Eye View: An ET's Solution for Humanity (2020) PLUS: Battle of the Bands + our very special guest, queer hip hop…
- S02E02 Gimme an F (1984) #212
Movie Melt’s cheer squad is back on the megaphone for the booger-sugar-fueled camp comedy Gimme an ‘F’. Expect pom-poms, pee-pee-filled balloons, saucy Mad Max role-play, new wave cheerleaders, the Jan Hammer soundtrack, and enough dazzlin…
- S02E01 Vampiro: Warrior of the Night (1993) #211
A wrestler, a madman with a super-powered rubber glove, and a space princess with an Ewok sidekick walk into a neon-lit fever dream. What do they find? Chubby motorcycle luchadores, bald men with ponytails, and an El Santo movie tailor-mad…
- MM#210 Evil Toons (1992)
We’ve name-dropped him dozens of times… and yet this is our first actual Fred Olen Ray episode?! Unbelievable, but true. Carlo stays up way past his bedtime to tell us all about Evil Toons (1992)—a movie full of unkept promises. It definit…
- MM#209 Traveling to Olympia (2001)
Too much gay crashed Matt’s hard drive (yes, another one!), and so our final 2025 Pride episode is dropping on the 4th of July. Fitting, because what’s more American than repressed senators dating twink heirs to a popcorn fortune? Just lik…
- MM#208 Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker (1996)
Happy Pride! We get probed by Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker (1996)—the queer, trippy, E.T. sci-fi oddity about interdimensional lust, alien contact, and sexual awakening in the Arizona desert. Plus: A gay Battle of the Bands, Auntie Boy (!), org…
- MM#207 GETEVEN aka Champagne and Bullets (1993)
Possibly the greatest vanity project ever made... again! We’re revisiting GetEven (aka Champagne & Bullets, aka Road to Revenge)—a redux of Episode 3 where we first stumbled into one of the most tippy-top-shelf vanity projects in existence…
- MM#206 Rat Scratch Fever (2011)
Carlo takes us into the cosmic void with Rat Scratch Fever (2011)—Jeff Leroy’s creature-feature about mutant rats from Mars that rip through Los Angeles using every special effect known to man: CGI, practical gore, puppets, stop-motion, gr…
- MM#205 Street Asylum (1990) aka Wings Hausersode #1
We hit the filthy, scum-ridden streets of Los Angeles alongside our late patron saint and cult icon, Wings Hauser, in Street Asylum (1990). It’s got all the things we love—Wings Hauser, fascistic police brutality, and G. Gordon Liddy havin…
- MM#204 Menahem Golan's DEATH GAME (2001)
The Sensitive Boys™ are back to discuss Menahem Golan’s attempt at Cannon Films 2.0! It’s sleazy, brainless, and probably funded by the Russian mob—a pants-falling-down, mid-slam-dunk spectacle starring Billy Drago, Joe Lara, and Richard L…
- MM#203 Bride of Frank (1996)
A DIY film made by New Jersey truckers on the clock over four years, starring a formerly homeless man on a quest for love and giant bewbs?! Bride of Frank is John Waters meets Giuseppe Andrews with rubber wieners and black as the blackest…
- MM#200 Water Power (1977)
We made it! Episode 200: The Big Deuce! 🎉💩 This week, the gang dives into one of the wildest adult films ever masquerading as art—Shaun Costello's Water Power (1977), starring the one and only Jamie Gillis. Plus, we listen to your voicem…
- MM#202 Go For Broke! (1985)
Chef CDR takes us on a journey where a quiet Japanese campus turns into a blood-drenched battlefield! Hell goes to school as a desperate student council finds itself terrorized by the ruthless Yagyu biker gang. The students want to fight b…
- MM#201 Dominator (2003)
This week the gang goes to CGI HELL with Dominator (2003) – a film that’s basically a Jackson Pollock painting of demons, Nintendo 64 graphic tiddies, and poser metal! AND it has voice work from Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth and Repo Man d…
- MM Horny Holiday Special!
The gang gets pretty deep in their cups as they try to horn up the holidays a bit with the aid of the bizarre Ukranian Christmas classic(?) about Vakula the dwarf, his deal with the devil, and his quest to retrieve the Russian Empress’ bej…
- MM#199 Killer Condom
The gang dives into the suprisingly copetent, and dare I say touching German film about a condom that bites dingdongs off. Plus it has special effects by Nekromantik's Jörg Buttgereit and designs by HR Giger! PLUS: Billionaire Battle of th…
- MM#198 Stripper (1985)
The gang dives into a documentary (sort of) about six ladies and their journey to the First Annual Stripper's Convention in Las Vegas. Directed by Jerome Gary the Producer of Pumping Iron! Booties will be shaken not stirred in this surpris…
- MM#197 The Badge, The Bible, and Bigfoot (2019)
Synopsis: In a small coastal town Bigfoot is sighted, and children go missing. The towns Police Chief is fired, leaving only the Sheriff. When the Sheriff goes missing, the towns only hope is in the disgraced and fired Chief Harrison to ba…
- MM#196 Swamp Ape (2017)
The Belgian "Florida Man" Carlo takes us deep into the swamp for a zany tale about friendship, life-saving Cheetos, and shiny monster dong with Swamp Ape (2017). Squatchtober lives! PLUS In Search of the Perfect Podcast Returns! Join our P…
- MM#??? Playing With Fire (1985) [UNLOCKED]
[UNLOCKED PATREON] Hopefully, for CDR's sake, the statute of limitations for terrorism crimes has run out in Canada, because we’ve got some scandalous confessions from that rascal. PLUS, and more importantly, we dive into the previously lo…
- MM#195 Club Lingerie (2014)
Synopsis: To revive the once-famous nightclub she inherited, 77-year-old Renae and a few younger women work as lingerie models to attract customers, but also catch the attention of a dangerous killer. Wormy blesses us with his breakdown-de…
- MM#194 Slaughter of the Innocents (1994)
A heatwave kills Matt's AC and sanity, and to make matters worse CDR chose a psychotic fever-dream of a film -- James Glickenhaus' Slaughter of the Innocents (1994) . Then, Matt actually dies from heat exhaustion on air. RIP Matt. Condolen…
- MM#193 Frost: Portrait of a Vampire (2003)
Jeremiah breaks down our first Gary Busey Feature Presentation (I think), and TBH the movie skimps on the Buseynator. On the other hand, our episode overflows with Gary Busey cameos, offering wisdom on all sorts of topics from hobbits to o…
- MM#192 Razor Sharpe (2001)
IMDB Synopsis: An actor is hired to work on a film that turns out to be a murder and robbery. Jeremiah brings us another sweet sweet vanity project from the impossibly accomplished martial artist and stunt man Troy N. Ashford. The man can…
- MM#191 L.A. Streetfighters (1985)
The gang is back with a lovely companion piece to everyone's favorite cult classic Miami Connection! LA Streetfighters was directed by the same guy (Richard Park), and is equally off the rails. Plus: A battle of the bands, what we've been…
- MM#190 The Art of Cruising Men (1996)
Oops! Thought June had 31 days, but whatevs, #HappyPride in July! 🌈 In this episode, the gang dives into "The Art of Cruising Men" (1996), a sexy and educational instructional film about how to get laid—hosted by two sassy CGI holograms!…
- MM#189 Honorable Men [?] (2004)
The gang dives into the most misguided and baffling vanity project yet -- Garrett Stewart Sayre's Honorable Men -- a film where the hero is a 48 year old racist cop who is simultaneously dating two teenagers. It's the king of bad ideas! Pl…
- MM#188 Run and Kill (1993)
The gang dives into the 1993 Hong Kong Category III thriller "Run and Kill" (烏鼠: 機密檔案), directed by Billy Tang. Cheung ‘Fatty’ Kau Ng is a happy-go-lucky family man whose life spirals into chaos after he accidentally orders a hit on his un…
- MM#187 Blood Angels AKA Thralls (2005)
The gang dives into a 2005 a film that reeks of Canadians, Christian ravers, and Lamas (Lorenzo Lamas!!). Get ready for White Trash Vampires, CGI Buttholes, Titty Snakes, and Limewire-Virus-Infected-CDs, as we scratch our heads pver this f…
- MM#PP Urine: Good Health (1999) [Unlocked]
We've started a piss cult. Join us. "Urine: Good Health is "the" documentary about the unconventional and controversial practice of using one's own urine for a myriad of health benefits. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2000 Atlant…
- MM#186 Getting Lucky (1989)
The gang delves into the bizarre sex comedy where an alcoholic Leprechaun shrinks a nerd down and he gets stuck inside a cheerleader's panties. And, I'm not kidding. Welcome to the strange world of Director Michael Paul Girard with Getting…
- MM#185 Creatures From the Abyss (1994) AKA Italian Florida Man
CDR helms the ship for a crazy one - a late 90's Italian production shot in Florida. We'll meet some idiotic teens who board a hyper-technological party boat, which may previously belonged to horny Scientists banging fish-hybrids . What co…
- MM#184 Mr. Majestyk (1974) Bronson's Watermelons
It's Jeremiah's maiden voyage breakdown of the Bronson movie where all he wants to do is harvest his melons, but the mob and local law enforcement just won't let him... at their peril! Plus: A Bronson Themed What Movie is This?, ABDL Spas,…
- MM#183 Profile In Anger (1984)
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- MM#182 Alien Blood (1999)
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and we’re counting down to Y2K with aliens wearing Zuba pants, piss-pants vampires, and Men In Black with hydrating masks. This may be the most incomprehensible movie we’ve ever watched for the show…which is reall…
- MM#181 The Disease That Stole Christmas (1995)
Tonight for our feature presentation: We dive into the baffling 1995 public access cable Christmas special – The Disease That Stole Christmas – our very first stage production in Movie Melt history! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why no…
- MM#180 Teenage Bonnie & Klepto Clyde (1993)
The gang tackles the bizarro adolescent spin on the "Outlaw Couple" trope with Menahem Golan’s Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde from 1993! Join our Patreon if you can! Hey, why not call us on our hotline? (724) 246-4669!