#234 - The Value of Something Weird
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan. |
| 0:10.7 | And this week, we're getting weird on the important cinema club. |
| 0:14.8 | Paula, I may be a bitch, but I'll never be a butch. |
| 0:18.3 | Well, I don't know what that is a reference to. |
| 0:20.6 | You know better than the woman who sells herself to ach. Well, I don't know what that is a reference to. You know better than the |
| 0:21.7 | woman who sells herself to a man. Now, you see, this is, we've already highlighted a crucial difference |
| 0:28.5 | between me and you because I grew up watching the Image Entertainment special editions that were |
| 0:33.6 | put out by the company we're talking about today, Something Weird Video, which always |
| 0:38.2 | opened with this two-minute trailer advertising all of their releases. You'd see clips from |
| 0:43.9 | movies with titles like The Curious Doctor Hump, the smell of honey, the swallow of brine, |
| 0:50.0 | teaserama with Betty Page, a ton of other films, mysterious films, strange-looking films, |
| 0:55.6 | full of all these bizarre moments of audio from these movies. |
| 1:01.7 | Like, have you ever heard of an Egyptian feast? |
| 1:05.4 | Well, I know that's from Blood Feast, right? |
| 1:07.3 | Exactly, exactly. |
| 1:08.8 | And, you know, that opening two-minute trailer for me, and perhaps for some |
| 1:12.5 | listeners, always felt like a doorway into another world, a portal into a land of infinite possibility. |
| 1:19.1 | So when did you start watching, I assume, tapes and or the image distributed DVDs of the company |
| 1:26.4 | something weird? I remember when I was a young man, like in the early 2000s, I would go to HMV or Sam the |
| 1:33.5 | Record Man downtown, and they had these DVDs that had something weird video on them, and |
| 1:39.1 | there were titles like Bad Girls Go to Hell and Another Day, Another Man. |
| 1:44.0 | And I looked at those and thought wow that looks |
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