Wastelands Radio Show - EP 101 - Predator

August 28, 2022 by adam lewczuk in podcast, music, film, collectables, art

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, and trashy treasures.

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about one of the greatest 80’s Oily Walnut Action Adventure Sci fi Comedies ever. Buckle in and get to the Chopper - Cause they're doing Predator!!

Predator is a great example of Arnold’s golden years of action movies. He spouts one liners at a rate that makes no sense. He hangs out in a really non-sexual/really sexual way with a bunch of total oily walnut bros. . Also fun fact, a lot of guys in this movie became state governors after making this movie.

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Really do yourself a favour and go rent this movie now! You’ll have fun, and all your dreams will come true. Predator is the standard to which all action movies are held to, and you are also held to that standard.

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 100 - Unorthodox Comfort Movies - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome & An American Werewolf in London

August 21, 2022 by adam lewczuk in podcast, film, music, collectables, art

Episode 100

Unorthodox Comfort Movies - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome & An American Werewolf in London

In this episode Mark and Adam celebrate the finale of series 3 with the 100th episode of the show. Its a massive 100 minute double episode featuring deep dives into the their unorthodox comfort movies - Marko’s An America Werewolf in London from 1981 and Adam’s Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome from 1985.

HOT TIP - Keep listening after the first outro for the 100 episode bonus afterparty.

Adam and Mark keep the tape rolling and continue chatting about Mad Max and Werewolves, and go further down the rabbit hole, discussing everything from The Walking Dead, Rob Zombie, Stephen King,

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 99 - E.T. Turns 40

August 14, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, music, collectables, art, podcast

Episode 99

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial turns 40

In this episode, Adam and Mark look back fondly on the Steven Spielberg 1982 classic E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial and celebrate the landmark movies 40th anniversary by talking about the weird toys and movie knock offs it inspired.

Director Steven Spielberg’s iconic sci-fi fable, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," celebrated its 40th anniversary in June this year and you’d be hard-pressed to name another Hollywood movie that’s more universally beloved than this crowd-pleaser about a stranded alien and a young California boy who rescues and befriends it.

Originally released by Universal Pictures on June 10, 1982, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is that rare entertainment commodity whose appeal spans all ages, genders, and creeds. Starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, C. Thomas Howell, Seen Frye, and K.C Martell, "E.T." was a sensation straight out of the gate with its gentle tale of a friendly creature from outer space and a lonely boy named Elliott who helps him return to his own planet three million light-years away.

And of coarse a movie so massive would spawn an industry of knock offs and boot legs…..here is a few of our favs.

Nukie is a 1987 South African science-fiction film directed by Sias Odendaal and Michael Pakleppa. The film stars Anthony Morrison, Steve Railsback, Ronald France, and Glynis Johns. The plot concerns an alien, Nukie, who crash lands on earth and seeks help from two children to reunite with his brother, Miko, who has been captured by the US government.. The film d is also considered one of the worst movies ever made.

Mac and Me is a 1988 American comic science fiction film co-written (with Steve Feke) and directed by Stewart Raffill. Starring Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, and Tina Caspary alongside Lauren Stanley and Jade Calegory, the film centers on a "Mysterious Alien Creature" (MAC) that escapes from nefarious NASA agents and befriends a wheelchair-using boy named Eric Cruise. Together, Eric and MAC try to find MAC's family, from whom he has been separated.

The film flopped at the box office and was universally panned by critics, partly due to plot lines similar to E.T., as well as its elaborate product placement of McDonald's and Coca-Cola. The film was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards, and won Worst Director and Worst New Star (for Ronald McDonald). While regarded as one of the worst films ever made, it has become a cult film.

Homoti is a 1987 Turkish Comedy Science fiction film directed by Müjdat Gezen. It is the second Turkish E.T. rip-off, this time centring around a tabloid photographer tasked with taking photos of "UFOs" by throwing pot lids in the air, but low-and-behold a real-life space ship crash lands just as he's taking the photos! Out comes Homoti, the gay crash-landed alien, and he takes the alien home to his apartment complex where his mother, their gay neighbour, and various other friends and acquaintances interact with Homoti.

The infamous E.T. toy finger light from Knickerbocker that was recalled from sale in 1983.

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Wastelands Radio Show -EP 98 - The Cane Punk Chronicles Part 2 - Disrupt Youth // Punk Party 1

August 08, 2022 by adam lewczuk in music, film, collectables, art, podcast

Episode 98

The Cane Punk Chronicles Part 2Disrupt Youth // Punk Party 1

In this episode Adam and Mark embark on the second instalment of the cane punk chronicles and talk about the Sunny Coast underground punk scene in the early 90s, Disrupt Youth and first all ages Punk Party at Diddillibah hall back in March 1995.

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Wastelands Radio Show- EP 97 - Karate Warrior 2

July 31, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, podcast, music, collectables, art

Episode 97

Karate Warrior 2 - The NO Scrubs Challenge

In this weeks episode, after enduring 1987’s Karate Warrior earlier this year, Adam challenged Mark to take another step down the Karate Warrior rabbit hole and I watch the 1988 follow up, Karate Warrior 2… without scrubbing.

After studying martial arts in the Philippines and defeating his opponent Quino, Anthony Scott heads back to the U.S. to attend college and makes a new friend named Luke. Making the promise to his teacher that he will not fight, Anthony finds himself the target of the Tigers, a local martial arts gang led by bully Dick. When Dick constantly attempts to fight Anthony, Anthony refuses. Meanwhile, Anthony starts going out with Patty, the ex-girlfriend of Dick, which causes him to harass her. However, Anthony will fight under the condition that it will be a fair fight. When Dick resorts to dirty tactics, Anthony uses his special move, The Dragon Strike, to defeat Dick. Upset at his loss, Dick decides to get even through the Tigers' real leader, Dick's father, the ultimate killingmachine, Mark Sanders. Mark, in order to get Anthony to fight in another match, tries to kill Luke. Anthony informs his master, Kimura, that he has been forced into a fight, but only this time, it focuses on life or death! Kimura retrains Anthony for the ultimate battle!Karate Warrior 2 is filled with elements that should make you despise the film. But much like the original, You can’t help enjoy this movie… even with the bad dubbing and a protagonist who comes across as an asshole. Unless like Marko you don’t……. then SCRUB away.

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 96 - Hobgoblins

July 24, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, podcast, music, collectables, art

Whats this one all about? I hear you ask. Well it’s about a group of tiny lethal alien creatures that after escaping from a vacant movie studio vault, go on a rampage making peoples wildest fantasies a reality. As a consequence their victims die in what is literally too much of a good thing will kill you type of situation. It’s a film that is widely shit canned, considered to be one of the worst of all time and made for only 15 grand, but too be totally honest.... these two have seen worse.

Wastelands Radio Show - EP 95 - From the VHS Vault

July 17, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, podcast, music, collectables, art

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about another random VHS tape selection from the shelves of Studio Obscenito.

Suburban Commando / Robot Jox / Houseboat Horror

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 94 - Mark Talks Tolkien

July 10, 2022 by adam lewczuk in art, collectables, film, music, podcast

In this episode Adam asks Mark on the spot to explain his recent obsession with J.R.R.Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Novels

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, intended to be Earth at some distant time in the past, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling books ever written, with over 150 million copies sold….. SO why did it talk Marko so long to get in to them??

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 93 - Karate Warrior

July 03, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, music, collectables, art, podcast

Episode 93

Karate Warrior - Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro

In this Episode Adam and Mark talk about a flick featuring a young American kid visiting his dad in the Phillipines who gets on the wrong side of the local gangster and get beaten up and left for dead. He is saved by an old monk who teaches him the ways of martial arts so he can go back and fight the gangster in a karate tournament. from 1987, Karate Warrior.

With Italian genre film-makers always mustard keen to capitalise on financially successful film trends, opportunistic producer/director Fabrizio De Angelis formulated his very own version of the Karate Kid. A movie that spawned 5 sequels. Does this one try to tie a story together.....Yes. Does it work? Not really and our so called hero spends most of his time as a human punching bag. The training scenes with Casio Keyboard background music are a highlight. A karate tournament is held in a boxing ring and it looked that the public were invited as extras. It's hard to side with our "hero" and you can't blame the gangster for blowing up after taking a kick to the nuts. OUCH!! The logic withering dubbed dialogue is flawed and confusing, but what is lost in translation is definitely gained in unintentional hilarity. For example the karate kid here is Anthony Scott, a 17 year-old American with a dubbed 30 year-old voice that sounds like it’s coming from an alien trying to translate from its native language in real time. If you don’t approach this movie too seriously and don’t expect Karate Kid quality you're going to laugh and enjoy this low blow, B-grade karate romp….maybe.

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 92 - Return to Frogtown

June 26, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, podcast, music, collectables, art

In this episode Adam and Mark revisit Frogtown and dive into the stinking swamp that is the so called sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown. A Mutant-Frog leader kidnaps some Texas rocket rangers and a professor to make a serum that will turn everyone into Frogs, enter Sam Hell (not Rowdy Roddy) who has to have to save the day.

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Directed by Don G Jackson we find Sam Hell (now played by Robert Z’Dar) and Dr. Spangle (now played by Denice Duff) as Texas Rocket Ranger order to sneaking into Frog Town to find and save a downed rocket pilot, named John Jones (played by Lou Ferrigno the Hulk). by Captain Delano (played by Charles Napier) The leader of Frog Town Czar Frog Meister (played by Brion James), has kidnapped a professor (played by Brion James), and makes him develop a special serum that mutates humans into frogs. They capture humans, as well, in order to test the serum. Sam Hell rescues these humans as well. and defeats the Frog Meister with the help of a fog hand puppet and a geriatric rocket ranger. This one will leave with one burning question……..WHY?????

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 91 - Munchies

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June 19, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, collectables, art, music, podcast

In this episode Adam and Mark revisit an 80’s classic about a boy who inadvertently breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. sounds like gremlins right?….. nah its Munchies

This 1987 Roger Corman produced comedy could be labeled as the greatest Gremlins rip-off of all time. Well, it is. The Munchies are short little dudes who multiply rapidly and are into creating mischief and wreaking a little havoc. Sound familiar? The funniest thing about the movie is all the Gremlins references. There's a newspaper with Gremlins on the cover, Robert Picardo (of Gremlins 2) stars in the film, and the absolute highlight is the Munchies driving around in a Gremlin with the number plate OH GIZMO. It’s even directed by Tine Hirsch who was an editor on the original Gremlins in 1984. Truly some classic stuff. Other stars of the film include Summer Camp Nightmare's own Charles Stratton and Nadine Van Der Velde from Critters. If you want to see the extremely poor man's version of Gremlins, that is fun and in no way takes itself seriously, watch Munchies here on youtube,

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Wastelands Radi Show - EP 88 - Dudes

May 29, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, collectables, music, art, podcast

In this episode, Adam and Mark talk about revisiting old film favourites from the 80’s and how this have changed. This week they look at the 1987 cow punk coming of age road movie Directed by Penelope Spheeris, complete with killer soundtrack, cringeworthy racial stereotypes and starring Jon Cryer, Lee Ving, and Flea.– DUDES

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Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie. Along the way, they enlist the help of a young woman who runs a wrecking service.

Grant, Biscuit, and Milo are punks living in Queens. Bored with their lives, they decide to move to Los Angeles, and set out on a cross-country drive. In Utah they assist Elvis impersonator "Daredelvis" with getting his trailer unstuck. Later, Grant sees a mirage of a cowboy on horseback. While camping in the Arizona desert they are attacked by a gang of vicious rednecks, and Milo is murdered by their leader, Missoula. Grant and Biscuit escape and collapse in the desert, where Grant again sees a vision of the cowboy.

The local sheriffs do not believe the boys' story, having no record of Missoula or his gang and being unable to find Milo's body as evidence of the murder. Grant resolves to track down the gang and avenge Milo's death, despite Biscuit's reservations. Heading back into Utah, they find one of the gang's trucks overturned and several of the members dead. Before dying, one of them reveals that they planned to turn themselves in but were killed by Missoula, who is headed north through Wyoming to Montana. The boys also meet Jessie, a young woman who runs a gas station and towing business.

Catching up to Missoula's truck, Grant and Biscuit engage in a high-speed shootout with Missoula and his buddy Blix, but swerve off the road and crash. They are rescued by Jessie, who teaches Grant how to shoot and ride a horse and strikes up a romance with him. Meanwhile, Biscuit has a dream in which he is part of a Native American tribe who are slaughtered by Union Army soldiers led by Missoula. Upon awakening, he begins to imitate a Native American warrior and insists on resuming the pursuit. Jesse outfits the pair in exaggerated western costumes and gives them use of a beat-up 1959 Buick Invicta complete with bull's horns mounted to the hood.

In Wyoming, the boys find Daredelvis working at a rodeo and enlist his help to capture gang member Wes, from whom they recover Milo's stolen jacket, but Wes is killed by a bull without revealing Missoula's location. On the way to a ghost town where Missoula is rumoured to be hiding, Grant once again sees the mysterious cowboy, but Biscuit dismisses it as an illusion. Finding the town empty, the pair get drunk and have a vision in which they meet the cowboy, named Witherspoon, accompanied by a trio of Native American warriors from Biscuit's dream. Witherspoon magically transports Grant back in time to when the town was populated and raucous, while the Native Americans similarly transport Biscuit back in time to participate in a tribal gathering.

Awakening hung over, Grant finds a matchbook in Milo's jacket that leads them to a saloon in a Montana town where they find Missoula and Blix. Trailing them into a movie theatre, Grant and Biscuit open fire on the pair, but Grant hesitates and a shootout ensues; Missoula and Blix escape, while Grant and Biscuit are arrested and jailed. Missoula and Blix murder two sheriff's department officers and invade the jail in an attempt to kill the boys, but Jessie arrives just in time to break them out. Grant manages to kill Blix and wound Missoula, and pursues him on horseback to an abandoned building, where he tackles Missoula off a high ledge. Missoula shoots Grant in the arm and Grant returns fire, killing him. Grant once again sees Witherspoon and the Native American warriors, now accompanied by Milo, who ride off into the distance and disappear in a cloud of dust just before Biscuit and Jessie arrive.

Soundtrack

“Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" (originally performed by Rose Tattoo) - Keel
"Urban Struggle" (1987 recording) The Vandals
"Show No Mercy" (from "W.A.S.P.", 1984) W.A.S.P.
"Vengeance Is Mine" - Simon Steele and the Claw
"These Boots Were Made for Walkin'" (originally performed by Nancy Sinatra) Megadeth
"Time Forgot You" - Legal Weapon
"Jesus Came Driving Along" (from Lust Games, 1986) – Leather Nun
"Mountain Song" (1986 recording) - Janes Addiction
"Lost Highway" – Little Kings
"Dudes Showdown" - Charles Bernstein & Co.
"Amazing Grace" (traditional) – Steve Vai

Dudes Soundtrack playlist on Spotify Here

Watch the full movie here on Youtube

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 87 - R.O.T.O.R

May 22, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, collectables, art, music, podcast

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about a murderous robot super cop of the future on a rampage - A prototype intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage. sound familiar? Well this flick is one part Robocop, one part Terminator, and all parts cheese. From 1987 it’s R.O.T.O.R - Robotic Officer Tactical Operations Research.

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R.O.T.O.R. (also known as Blue Steel and R.O.T.O.R.: Police Force) is a 1987 American science fiction action film starring Richard Gesswein, Jayne Smith and Margaret Trigg. The film has been described as a low-budget copy of The Terminator and RoboCop with some elements taken from Judge Dredd. The movie is well known in Argentina as the origin of the name of the Argentinian rock band Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado (He killed a motorcycle cop).

Corrupt Division Commander Earl Buglar orders his subordinate Dr. J. Barrett C. Coldyron, a leading scientist in the field of police robotics, to rush development of an experimental police robot. Buglar wants the prototype – dubbed R.O.T.O.R. (Robotic Officer of the Tactical Operations Research/Reserve Unit) — ready in sixty days so that Senator Donald D. Douglas can take public credit for the project and use it to catapult himself into the White House.

Coldyron warns Buglar that the prototype is several years away from completion but is forced to resign and is replaced by his incompetent assistants, Dr. Houghtaling and his robot Willard. In Coldyron's absence, R.O.T.O.R. is inadvertently activated and put on duty. The robot executes a motorist for speeding and terrorizes his young fiancée, Sonya, who the robot views as an accomplice in her boyfriend's infraction. Upon learning his creation has escaped, Coldyron enlists the help of his colleague Dr. Corrine Steele, who designed the unit's combat chassis. Together, Steele and Coldyron track down the rampaging robot and attempt to stop it from killing again.

You've heard the phrase "so bad it's good!" Well, most of the time it isn't true. It's so bad, it's just bad. But this movie truly IS so bad it's good. The dialog is horrendous and sometimes nonsensical. And they really did try to be clever with it, for instance, there's a scene where the hero is giving a presentation on his robot to some scientists - each scientist's last name, along with the name of the place they work, is the name of a Beach Boy, and the dialog in the scene is full of really laboured Beach Boys song references.Once the robot starts following one woman and she calls the police, none of the decisions made by the hero make any sense at all.

Truly a prize turkey.

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 86 - The Cane Punk Chronicles - Disrupt Youth

May 15, 2022 by adam lewczuk in music, podcast, film, collectables, art

Episode 86

Cane Punk Chronicles - Tales of the Sunny Coast’s Punk Underground - Part One - DISRUPT YOUTH

This Episode sees the kick off of the long awaited Wastelands sub series / the Cane Punk Chronicles - Tales of The Sunny Coast Punk Underground - This week hear Mark-O-Mark talk about how and why he started the notorious hardcore/ street punk band Disrupt Youth.

Disrupt Youth played a perfect blend of HXC mixed with a snotty UK punk sound. Their songs lyrically talked about politics (such as the OJ Simpson BS) and about everyday social problems. Originating on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia where they slogged it out in the local scene before moving to Brisbane.

In Brisbane where they enjoyed a loyal following which resulted in Disrupt supporting such bands as The Misfits and Propagandhi.After releasing 2, 7 inches between 1996 -97, they released their debut album Look'n for Answers on October 10, 2000 on Beer City Records from the States. Disrupt disbanded at the end of 2000 and are currently on an extended break.

links -Disrupt Youth - Disillusioned - Mooloolaba Pub - 1996

Disrupt Youth - 49 Dollars - USC - 1997

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The origins of cane punk

The origins of cane punk is as murky and mysterious as the individual misfits, weirdos & kids that claimed the title and celebrated their individuality in the face a culture less, harsh, beige and often violent mainstream coastal mentality.

The world wide Punk movement of the late 70s and 80s traditionally had a particular urban flavour. Generally city kids feeling disconnected from the metro monstrosities that housed them, ignited a revolutionary fired music fashion and culture that screamed independence from the main stream.

The pre internerd punk kids of the late 80s early- 90s that happened to find their sorry asses in the culturally void rural region know as Queensland's Sunshine Coast, had a different yet no less lobotomising cultural challenge. These young coastal dwellers still shared the disconnectedness felt by the city kids, but their experience was compounded by the physical isolation that resulted in residing with in a rural community...lack of transport, employment, entertainment and opportunities to express themselves ....that and being surrounded by rednecks and footy boof heads.

So what did they do... lay down, conform and try to fit in?... Hell no. Much like their city cousins, they organised against bland oppression, they formed bands, made zines, organised punk shows, held markets, opened alternative shops and generally made a stand!!

So why's it called cane punk then I hear you ask... We'll curious reader, the primary industry on the Sunshine Coast (prior to its utter collapse in the late 90s) was sugar cane farming. Local cane punk folk law recalls a night in Woombye when the term was hurled as abuse at the punk kids during a violent altercation outside a gig between the punters and a bunch of drunk footy players that should have know better. We can only assume the taunt was based on the fact that a lot of the punk kids grew up on, in or around sugar cane. The sugar cane industry may have disappeared but the name stuck. So basically speaking the worlds' cities may be responsible for the invention of punk, but.....Sunshine Coast put the cane in it!!

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 85 - Boar

May 08, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, art, collectables, music, podcast

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about another hog-wild tale about a beast of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. - modern Ozploitation ripper from 2017 - Boar

In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before. Now coming face to face with the giant bloodthirsty killing machine, teens on a hiking trip will have the beast in order to en its reign of terror.

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A number of the cast have appeared in notable Ozploitation (Australian exploitation) movies of the past. Chris Haywood co-starred in the original 1980's Aussie wild boar action-thriller 'Razorback' (1984); Roger Ward appeared in both 'Mad Max' (1979) and 'Turkey Shoot' (1982); Steve Bisley was in both 'Mad Max' (1979) and 'The Chain Reaction' (1980); Simone Buchanan was in 'Run Chrissie Run!' (1984); whilst John Jarratt stars in the 'Wolf Creek' film franchise and was in both Aussie gigantic croc monster movies - 'Rogue' (2007) and 'Dark Age (1987).

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 84 - Razorback

May 01, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, podcast, art, collectables, music

In this episode Adam and Mark relive a hog-wild tale of terror from the Australian outback. It’s Nine hundred pounds of marauding tusk and muscle! - the Ozploitation classic from 1984 - Razorback

The film revolves around the attacks of a gigantic wild boar terrorising the Australian outback, killing and devouring people. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child's granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but acquitted. The next victim is an American TV-journalist. Her husband Carl gets there and starts to search for the truth. The local inhabitants won't really help him, but he is joined by a hunter and a female farmer to find the beast.

There is no denying that Razorback's basic plot premise is pretty ridiculous. In short, a giant boar (a Razorback) goes on a killing spree in a small outback town. This is about as unlikely as a giant shark terrorising swimmers ("Jaws") or a wet Japanese woman climbing out of a television set ("The Ring"). My point is that even the most ludicrous storyline can be overcome by excellent film-making and this is certainly the case with Razorback. Razorback was the film that launched Russell Mulcahy's film career after making a name for himself directing music video clips for AC/DC, Queen and Duran Duran. Razorback reflects the same sensibilities that Mulcahy brought to his best video clips: frenetic pacing, flashy camera angles and stylish visuals. These qualities are almost disorientating during the film's action and horror sequences, making them all the more suspenseful and eerie.

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 83 - Highlander 2: the Quickening

April 24, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, music, podcast, collectables, art

Episode 83

Highlander 2: The Quickening

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about one of the most controversial sequels ever made - so wildly out of sync with its predecessor that years later the director Australian Russell Mulcahy reedited in an attempt to right its filmic wrongs forced upon the film by financiers.- Highlander 2: The Quickening.

The second "Highlander" movie, again with Christopher Lambert and Sir Sean Connery. It's the year 2024, and all of the ozone above Earth is gone. To protect people from dying, MacLeod helped in the construction of a giant "shield", several years ago. But, since there isn't anyone left who's Immortal after MacLeod's victory in the previous movie, he has stopped being an Immortal. Now he is just an old man, until one day some other Immortals arrive on our planet. You see, the Immortals now come from another planet???

According to legend, the Director Russell Mulcahy walked out in disgust just 15 minutes into the movie’s premiere. He reportedly wanted to take his name off the film and have it replaced with the industry-mandated pseudonym “Alan Smithee” but was contractually forbidden to do so. Stars Michael Ironside, Christopher Lambert, and Sean Connery also added to the worldwide chorus of jeers that greeted the movie by publicly criticizing it and what appeared to be a surreal and deeply unpleasant experience filming it in a corruption-plagued Argentina.

Years later, Mulcahy released his own edit of the film on home video as “The Renegade Version.” The Renegade Version falls somewhere between a corrective for the original and a public apology for being associated with a motion picture so staggeringly incomprehensible. It has to make more sense than the theatrical cut, if only because it would seem impossible for it to make any less sense.

Watch the theatrical version here on youtube

Watch the renegade version here on Tubi

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 82 - Beaster Day - Here Comes Peter Cotton Hell

April 17, 2022 by adam lewczuk in film, art, music, podcast, collectables

Episode 82

Beaster Day - Here Comes Peter Cotton Hell

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about the movie they chose to blind watch for the easter long weekend. It’s a full tilt gore, nude easter bunny fest - Beaster Day - Here Comes Peter Cotton Hell.

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After a series of gruesome deaths, the local dog-catcher in a small- town finds that his target is not the rabid dog that's suspected of the crimes when he learns a monstrous 50 ft rabbit is responsible instead and sets out to put an end to its rampage through town once and for all. No explanation as to why it is 50ft tall is given, but then that does not seem important here. Difficult to rate this one. On the one hand it's simply awful, in particular the "special" effects yet it is also hilariously and stupidly funny. It's fast paced with kills every 4 minutes and they are pretty gory plus it has some gratuitous nudity. There is also a crazy Mayor, with a nod to Jaws.

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Wastelands Radio Show - EP 81 - Eve of Destruction

April 10, 2022 by adam lewczuk in art, collectables, film, music

In this episode Mark and Adam talk about the 1991 film featuring a nuclear armed android named EVE gone amok while being field tested and the lead actors stunning resemblance to his parents real estate agent with the same name.

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An anti-terrorist (Gregory Hines) hunts a walking bomb made by a scientist (Renée Soutendijk) in her own image, with all of her hang-ups. When Eve, the sentient android, gets damaged during a bank robbery, it turns into a killing machine. Colonel McQuade (Hines) must work with Dr Simmons (Soutendijk), the creator of Eve (Soutendijk), to stop it from wreaking havoc.

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Wastelands Radio Show - Ep 80 - The Hitcher

April 03, 2022 by adam lewczuk in art, collectables, film, music, podcast

In this episode Adam and Mark talk about the 1986 road thriller film directed by Robert Harmon staring Rutger Hauer - The Hitcher.

While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.

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