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The Important Cinema Club

#234 - The Value of Something Weird

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week we focus on the film distribution company SOMETHING WEIRD and discuss how important they were in terms of preserving the forgotten corners of cinema history which include the likes of The Curious Case of Dr. Humpp, Space Thing and Bat Pussy. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com Listen to exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Check out Justin's other podcast THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie/ As well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us) Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanEsq Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ

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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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