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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema: Thrilling Bloody Sword

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1981 Taiwanese fantasy adventure “Thrilling Bloody Sword.” This relentlessly psychotronic adventure isn’t easy to find, but rewards the seeker with bumbling dwarves, rampaging monsters and face-melting magic.

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0:00.0

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

0:04.5

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

0:10.1

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

0:12.6

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.

0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

0:26.6

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

0:28.4

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.4

The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee.

1:19.4

Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour.

1:32.9

Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:39.4

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

1:46.4

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lam.

1:56.4

And this is Joe McCormick and whoo, I'm going to go ahead and apologize if I am not at my best today because I just finished watching today's movie.

2:05.4

And it is like it fired a poison dart straight into my prefrontal cortex. This movie is awesome. It's one of my favorites we've ever watched for this show.

2:15.4

But I feel like I have a significant impairment in my ability to speak.

2:21.4

Yes, thrilling bloody sword will have that effect on you. You should not drive after viewing thrilling bloody sword.

2:29.4

You shouldn't attempt any kind of complicated paperwork scenario. You just have to let it finish doing what it's doing to your brain.

2:38.4

Yeah, if you watch this movie, you should schedule nap time for afterwards.

2:43.4

Yes, the recovery time is required. After I saw it the first time, I was rather proud of myself for thinking like this is the first time I've watched a movie that I would describe as face melting, which is usually how we might describe certain things.

2:58.4

I've described certain metal tracks and so forth. But then I've started looking around online. I saw other people had the exact same reaction and described it with the exact same terminology, which means I wasn't as original.

3:11.4

But this film is having the same impact on so many people. There's just something about it that just utterly destroys and remakes you.

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