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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss 1976’s “Rock'n'Roll Wolf,” also known as “Mama.” It’s a Romanian–Soviet–French co-production and a live-action adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats.” (originally published 12/13/2024)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:11.6 | This is Rob Lamb, and oh, we have a fun one here for you today. |
| 0:15.0 | We're going to be talking about the 1976 film Rock and Roll Wolf, also known as Mama. It is a Romanian-Soviet French co-production |
| 0:25.1 | and a live-action adaptation of the Brothers Grim Tale, The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. It is weird, |
| 0:33.2 | it rocks, and it originally published 12, 13, 2024. Let's jump in. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:51.6 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. |
| 0:53.9 | This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:55.0 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we are going to be discussing the 1976 Romanian-Soviet French co-produced psychotropic children's fairy tale musical Mama, aka rock and roll Wolf, directed by the Romanian filmmaker Elizabetha |
| 1:15.2 | Bostan. And I really mean it when I say this movie has everything. It is so much, so fast, |
| 1:23.4 | and so wonderful. Infectiously lovable music. |
| 1:27.8 | Russian ballet dancers dressed up like spiders and or sparrows. |
| 1:32.9 | Nearly just nonstop locomotive energy. |
| 1:36.1 | Maybe flags a little bit in the second half of the movie, |
| 1:38.6 | but at least the first half is like it is a freight train. |
| 1:42.4 | It does not stop. |
| 1:44.0 | It's got diverse frolicing theromorphs in a secret village in the deep woods. |
| 1:49.5 | It's got rooftop seesaws, bridges over nothing, goat boy levitation, ice-based wolf traps, |
| 1:56.9 | strawberries coated in honeydew, a rainbow parrot with like mad auctioneer energy, plaintive donkey solos, |
| 2:05.1 | pendulum beds, secret passwords, red squirrel acorn rituals, a dangerously handsome bad boy wolfman, |
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