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Record City (1977)
AIP Production #7714

Jeff and Cheryl track a day in the life of the weirdest and wackiest purveyors of popular music in the Greater Los Angeles area in Record City.

Directed by Dennis Steinmetz
Written by Ron Friedman
Produced by James T. Aubrey and Joe Byrne for The Aubrey Company
Music by Freddie Perren

Starring
Jeff Altman as Engineer
Leonard Barr as Sickly Man
Ed Begley Jr. as Pokey
Sorrell Booke as Coznowski
Dennis Bowen as Danny
Ruth Buzzi as Olga
Michael Callan as Eddie
Jack Carter as Manny
Rick Dees as Gordon
Kinky Friedman as Himself
Stuart Getz as Rupert
Alice Ghostley as Worried Wife
Tony Giorgio as Mr. F
Frank Gorshin as Chameleon
Maria Grimm as Rita
John Halsey as Priest In The Fetus Brothers
Joe Higgins as Doyle
Ted Lange as The Wiz
Alan Oppenheimer as Blind Man
Isaac Ruiz as Macho
Harold Sakata as Gucci
Wendy Schaal as Lorraine
Larry Storch as Deaf Man
Elliott Street as Hitch
Timothy Thomerson as Marty
Susan Tolsky as Goldie
Deborah White as Vivian
Hart Wiliams as Razzie Pee Willie
Pamela Zinszer as Surfer Girl
Joe Abdullah as Arab Sheik

Produced by The Aubrey Company and released under American International Pictures. Find this movie streaming on MGM+ or on Prime Video.

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View the Record City trailer here.

Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)

The B-Movie Cast is back! This episode Mary and Nic are joined by special guest film maker Michael Worth! The gang takes a look at the 1987 modern day vampire western “Near Dark” starring Bill Paxton, Lance Henricksen, and Tim Thomerson. As a special treat, Michael did an interview with Tim Thomerson just for the B-Movie Cast and we’ve included it, in it’s entirety in this episode! So grab a beer and some sunscreen and get ready for the coolest vampire movie that never says the word vampire: “Near Dark”.

The B-Movie Cast is back! This episode Mary and Nic are joined by special guest film maker Michael Worth! The gang takes a look at the 1987 modern day vampire western “Near Dark” starring Bill Paxton, Lance Henricksen, and Tim Thomerson. As a special treat, Michael did an interview with Tim Thomerson just for the B-Movie Cast and we’ve included it, in it’s entirety in this episode! So grab a beer and some sunscreen and get ready for the coolest vampire movie that never says the word vampire: “Near Dark”.

Movie Meltdown - Episode 562

This episode we head back out into the world as we visit the Lexington Comic & Toy Convention. And after looking at all the toys, we then sit down to discuss the Full Moon Feature Dollman directed by Albert Pyun and starring Tim Thomerson, Jackie Earle Haley and Kamala Lopez.

And as we decide who our favorite American Gladiator is, we also cover... Near Dark, Trancers, Billy Wirth, Cobra, as fun as murderous gangs can be, Romeo is Bleeding, shared universe, Charles Band, desolate buildings and rubble, VHS boxes, Marc Singer, full-length mirrors, Helen Hunt, Death Wish, VideoZone, special effects, Jane Austen's Mafia!, Rip Torn, he plays skeezy, you gotta be oily, hot and ripped, I hate when my sarcophagus is sore, Trancers II, Sledge Hammer!, Megan Ward, post-apocalyptic landscape, Crying Freeman, this is the wrong kind of weird, Buck Rogers, safety precautions, Morgan Fairchild and are you into anime?

Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for the 1991 release Dollman. So watch it beforehand for spoiler-free listening.

“I was very interested at this point… I was concerned for his well-being… I wanted to know what was going on.” 

For more on "Lexington Comic and Toy Convention", go to: http://www.lexingtoncomiccon.com/

The B-Movie Cast is back… sort of. We recorded a few episodes in preparation for Mary going off the air for 6-8 weeks during the nuclear plant shutdown she works at called ‘the outage’. What we didn’t know when we put these episodes ‘in the can’ was that Mary would be opting out of doing the outage this year due to health concerns. Don’t worry, she’s fine, she wanted to stay fine so she’s staying home with Kitty her cat. That said, we still have a few pre-recorded episodes and this is one of them!

The last pre-recorded episode was Nik Havert’s “Monster Music Cast” and now Mary and Nic back and we’re joined once again by Brian Cunningham, filmmaker, and co-owner of Thoughtfly Studios in Louisville Kentucky. The gang is checking out another 80s flick. This time it’s “Trancers” from 1985! This is a definite ‘Nic-pick’ film but that’s OK because everyone enjoyed it… even if Nic does end up spending half the cast defending the merits of this 80s ‘mockbuster’ of “The Terminator”.

By the way, what’s even better than doing a podcast on a time travel movie? Time-traveling during the time travel cast! Well, we did it! Mary, Nic, and Brian got together again to record the feedback and the contest sections of the cast. That’s right we visit the past during this episode! I don’t think we changed the future… we’ll see.

So don’t be a squid! Grab a drink, a TV dinner, and your long-second watch and check out the “Trancers” episode of the B-Movie Cast!