Hello, my name is Justin the Cluiter, here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to get incredibly

mixed up. We may even turn into a zombie because we're talking about Ray, Dennis, Steck.

Boy, I tell you, Justin, every once in a while in this

podcast, we pick a subject that I get so excited for, just the idea of unleashing this subject

on an unsuspecting listenership. The fact that we have a captive audience now who is forced

to listen, well, they're not forced, but they force themselves now to listen

to whatever we put out. Have we got a filmmaker for you? Ray Dennis Steckler, the director of such

movies as Rat Finkaboo Boo Boo, Bloodshack, Wild Guitar, and of course, the incredibly strange creatures

who stopped living and became mixed up

zombies.

But I would say that since we started this podcast, anytime I brought Steckler up, which is not

a filmmaker that I was an expert on by any stretch of the imagination, you always reacted

with a little bit of trepidation where you're like, yeah, we could do him, but it would probably be a bit of a

slog, Justin. Yes, I did say that. And there have also been times when even I have thought,

yeah, maybe we could do Ray Dennis Steckler. But I've always been sort of interested in Ray Dennis

Steckler because he was fly by the seat of his pants, true independent spirit, making genuinely strange movies.

And, you know, I've, I had seen most of his films at some point before this week.

But whenever I referred to him on this podcast in the past, I feel like I've always referred

to him a little bit derisively as being like, huh, well, that's a guy who, you know.

Yeah, he didn't know what he was doing.

Any scrap a usable footage he would put in a movie. I mean, I even saw that in some of the early reviews we were writing on Letterbox this week. And then by the end, you're like, yeah, four and a half stars so good. I know, I know. You can see that. I went on a Steckler deep dive this week. and, you know, like I watched the thrill killers. And I was like,

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