SLEAZOIDS
SLEAZOIDS
Welcome fellow SLEAZOIDS!!! Come along as hosts Josh Lewis and Jamie Miller (and, occasionally, guests) go down the rabbit hole of 20th century genre fare from the most influential canon classics to the the trashiest exploitation films we can get our hands on. Each week is a double feature—grindhouse style—where we discuss two films loosely related by subject, genre, actor, filmmaker or franchise and at the end of each episode, along with our HONORARY SLEAZOIDS (click on over to our patreon to become one), we decide on ratings and rankings for each film that's covered. Join us as together we work to uncover the best genre films of 20th century.
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Dec 17, 2023 • 2h 37min
307 - REAL LIFE (1979) + DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991) ft. Michael Chau
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Michael Chau discuss legendary American comedian Albert Brooks (as an actor and a director): his debut satirical feature REAL LIFE (1979) that darkly, prophetically satirized reality TV ethics and sociopathy before it was anywhere near as popular as it is now + his attempt to tone down the post-modern cynicism and deliver a warmer, more gentle (yet still existential and witty) romantic comedy with DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (1991) co-starring Meryl Streep.
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (1972) and HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (1972), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast
Intro // 00:00-13:15
REAL LIFE // 13:15-1:21:33
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE // 1:21:33-2:34:45
Outro // 2:34:45-2:37:06
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Dec 10, 2023 • 7min
306 Teaser - WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) + MATILDA (1996) [FULL EP ON PATREON]
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Dec 2, 2023 • 2h 21min
305 - NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) + NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980) ft. Cameron Fetter
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Cameron Fetter (of Podcast About List and Monster Crazy) resume regularly scheduled programming with a B-horror double feature of two very different styles and eras of dorky professors vs. hairy monsters both titled NIGHT OF THE DEMON: legendary Val Lewton collaborator Jacques Tourneur's 1957 elegantly stylized, eerie old-school Hollywood mix of slow-burn Noir procedural and malevolent, occult folk horror and 70s queer porno director James C. Wasson's 1980 pure Video Nasty Bigfoot-sploitation grindhouse slasher trash.
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) + MATILDA (1996), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast
Intro // 00:00-13:22
NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) // 13:22-1:14:54
NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980) // 1:14:54-2:14:19
Outro // 2:14:19-2:21:06
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WEBSITE: www.sleazoidspodcast.com/
Pod Twitter: twitter.com/sleazoidspod
Pod Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/SLEAZOIDS/
Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl
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Jamie's Twitter: twitter.com/jamiemilleracas
Jamie's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jamiemiller

Nov 26, 2023 • 7min
304 Teaser - TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) + L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) [FULL EP ON PATREON]
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Nov 23, 2023 • 7min
Bonus Transmission 50 Teaser - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, WHEN EVIL LURKS + THE KILLER (Spoilers)
LISTEN TO THE FULL BONUS EPISODE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93413786
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Nov 18, 2023 • 3h 4min
303 - KISS ME DEADLY (1955) + THE MAN WHO STOLE THE SUN (1979) ft. Casey (@MinovskyArticle)
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Casey (aka @MinovskyArticle) continue Noirvember 2023 with a double feature of strange, bleak, apocalyptic, and nuclear anxiety-fueled (sort of sci-fi) crime thrillers with a double feature of Robert Aldrich's masterfully blunt and nasty adaptation of Mickey Spillane's pulp paperback P.I. Mike Hammer KISS ME DEADLY (1955) and Kazuhiko Hasegawa's deranged, genre-bending mix of atomic bomb satire and hardboiled cat-and-mouse procedural THE MAN WHO STOLE THE SUN (1979).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) + LA CONFIDENTIAL (1998), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast
Intro // 00:00-13:19
KISS ME DEADLY // 13:19-1:39:08
MAN WHO STOLE THE SUN // 1:39:08-3:00:46
Outro // 3:00:46-3:04:22
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WEBSITE: www.sleazoidspodcast.com/
Pod Twitter: twitter.com/sleazoidspod
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Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl
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Jamie's Twitter: twitter.com/jamiemilleracas
Jamie's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jamiemiller

Nov 11, 2023 • 7min
302 Teaser - MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) + BLAST OF SILENCE (1961) [FULL EP ON PATREON]
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Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl
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Nov 4, 2023 • 2h 12min
301 - THE SOUND OF FURY (1950) + SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950) ft. Hesse (@ZeroSuitCamus)
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Hesse (of Seeking Derangements and Movie Mindset) kick off Noirvember 2023 with a double feature of underseen 1950s Turner Classic Movies programmers with Cy Endfield's bleak, post-war mob violence/blacklist-era message picture THE SOUND OF FURY and Pat Jackson's strange, pulpy child endangerment B-thriller SHADOW ON THE WALL.
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on procedural hitman noirs: MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) and BLAST OF SILENCE (1961), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast
Intro // 00:00-14:06
THE SOUND OF FURY // 14:06-1:17:15
SHADOW ON THE WALL // 1:17:15-2:04:06
Outro // 2:04:06-2:12:04
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WEBSITE: www.sleazoidspodcast.com/
Pod Twitter: twitter.com/sleazoidspod
Pod Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/SLEAZOIDS/
Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl
Josh's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/thejoshl
Jamie's Twitter: twitter.com/jamiemilleracas
Jamie's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jamiemiller

Oct 28, 2023 • 7min
300 Teaser - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) + WISHMASTER (1997) [FULL EP ON PATREON]
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Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl
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Oct 22, 2023 • 2h 39min
299 - CREEPSHOW (1982) + BLACK SABBATH (1963) ft. Rob Franco
Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Rob Franco continue Spooktober 2023 by discussing a Halloween Mindset double feature of spooky, anthology horror films: George Romero and Stephen King's colorfully-exaggerated, comically mean-spirited throwback to gruesomely zany EC Comics CREEPSHOW (1982) and Mario Bava's meticulously-stylized, decadent gothic horror BLACK SABBATH (1963).
Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) and WISHMASTER (1997), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast
Intro // 00:00-14:27
CREEPSHOW // 14:27-1:40:27
BLACK SABBATH // 1:40:27-2:35:00
Outro // 2:35:00-2:38:44
MERCH: www.teepublic.com/stores/sleazoids?ref_id=17667
WEBSITE: www.sleazoidspodcast.com/
Pod Twitter: twitter.com/sleazoidspod
Pod Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/SLEAZOIDS/
Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl
Josh's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/thejoshl
Jamie's Twitter: twitter.com/jamiemilleracas
Jamie's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jamiemiller


