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Pure Cinema Podcast

Something Weird Video

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Movies, Elric, Critics, Arts, Rupertpupkinspeaks, Horror, Cinema, Saur, Visual Arts, Film, Brian, Tv & Film

4.8737 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Elric and Brian are joined by Mr. Dan Budnik to do a little tribute to the wonderful Something Weird Video label (which celebrates 30 years this year). Dan is a writer who has worked on books such as Bleeding Skull!: A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey and 80s Action Movies On the Cheap and podcasts like Made-For-TV-Mayhem and Eventually Supertrain and is well versed in Something Weird cinema. 

https://www.somethingweird.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Your attention, for those of you, for those of you with heart conditions, we ask that you turn around in your seats.

0:20.0

Thank you. Since I was really young, I collected.

0:24.6

Seattle's Mike Vrainie and Lisa Petrucci are just your typical couple.

0:28.6

It's like a little museum in here.

0:30.6

Typical couple who own the world's largest archive of weird movies,

0:34.6

create internationally renowned art, and share a passion for-ups from the middle of the last century.

0:39.8

That is, one of their collections, the National Treasure.

0:43.3

Lesbians.

0:44.8

Sword fighting.

0:46.8

You see, Mike and Lisa are the owners of Something Weird Video, a library that includes thousands of films with titles like Traitor Horny and...

0:56.0

Color, me, blood, red.

0:58.0

It's just a movie. It's just a movie.

1:01.0

It's girls with giant hairdos and guys in their underwear.

1:05.0

Mike first discovered his life's ambition as a high school dropout

1:09.0

running the graveyard shift film projector at an adult theater.

1:12.6

I'm afraid our Arthur wasn't quite the sweet boy we thought he was.

1:15.6

He wondered why so few of the charmingly sleazy, offbeat movies he loved were making it onto video.

1:22.6

There needed to be someone to come along a resurrect at all.

1:25.6

Mike made it his mission to find forgotten or unwanted films

1:29.3

and give them new life.

1:30.3

You're damaged merchandise, and this is a fire sale.

1:34.3

If a movie is low budget or a B movie, these movies were under the barrel.

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