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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.

This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick.

As we've discussed before on the show, a great B movie,

or even a bad movie, a so bad it's good movie, has to believe in itself absolutely. It has to

feature some mix of genuine talent, effort, and enthusiasm. It has to leave you saying,

man, look at what they attempted, or look at

at least in places they actually pulled off. There's always an audacity to film that a movie

reaches any state of completion and finds even a modicum of an audience is an amazing accomplishment.

And today's selection, I think, is a testament to all of this,

because we're going to talk about a film that is an amazing achievement. Steve Barquette's

1991 Northern Californian Odyssey, Empire of the Dark. I mean, I want to burst into a round of

applause, just hearing you say those words. This movie is an amazing achievement.

I absolutely loved it. Yeah, yeah. I feel like this one exists excitingly, somewhere between

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