Video Junkyard Podcast
Do you ever get a flash of a memory of a movie you saw as a child, but can’t remember the name? Perhaps you caught it on TV while staying up later than you should have. Or maybe you never saw it, but you recognize the cover art from the neighborhood video store around the block. At the Video Junkyard, we dig up these forgotten films and franchises and see if they still hold up in the digital age. Hosts Erik Gulbrandsen, Joe Peterson and Ryan Steiskal will look at the best, the worst, and the best of the worst.
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Episodes
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Come along with us as we shrink ourselves for a ride through Martin Short's body. That's right it's the 1987 sci-fi comedy "InnerSpace" starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan. Remember this one where Quaid spends most of the movie drinking and sawing tiny holes in Short's internal organs. That's not a great synopsis but neither was the one on the back of the DVD box, so there.
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, we take a look through time and space at the 1985 sci-fi comedy "My Science Project" written and directed by Jonathan R. Betuel and starring John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, and Dennis Hopper. When high school senior and gearhead Michael Harlan needs a science project to graduate, he sneaks into a junkyard at a military base (you know, like ya do...) and discovers an extraterrestrial engine that can manipulate time (and space). When the device starts opening portals around town, Michael and his friends must race against time (and space) to stop the onslaught of creatures out of time (and space)...you get the idea.
Released against other sci-fi films like Back to the Future, does this one hold up well, or does it belong back in the junkyard? Check out this weeks episde of the Video Junkyard Podcast to find out!
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
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Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
This week we pay tribute to the late William Hurt by watching Ken Russell's 1980 psyche-thiller "Altered States", which also happens to be Hurt's debut feature.
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Are we really reviewing this movie or is this some kind of sick joke? Turns out it's both. Join us for our review of the classic slasher/mystery thriller "April Fool's Day". That is very appropriate, isn't it? About time we nailed one of these holiday episodes. Have a listen.
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Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, we start our two-part run of Holiday Slashers starting with 1981's "My Bloody Valentine". Directed by George Mihalk, this cult classic tells the story of a local tragedy and legend of a murderous miner that has haunted a town for decades. When the murders start again, is it local legend come true? Check out this cult classic and join us on the Video Junkyard Podcast for the review!
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
This week on the Video Junkyard Podcast we continue our exploration into offbeat/misfit/team-up/sci-fi/comedy films that are kinda/sorta like Ghostbusters, or "Does it Ghostbust?" with an entry from The Man himself, Mr. Ivan Reitman. On Episode 192 we discuss Evolution (2001) starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Sean William Scott, and Julianne Moore. When a meteor crashes in Arizona and oozes out a form of rapidly-evolving alien life, its up to two community college professors, a government doctor, and a firefighter flunky to stop the extraterrestrial menace before it takes over the world!
Sound familiar?
Kinda/sorta, right?
Check out the latest episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast to see how it shapes up!
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
With the recent release of a new film in the Ghostbusters franchise and the unfortunate passing of director/producer Ivan Reitman the nostalgia for all things, Ghostbuster is at an all-time high. We asked "what is it that makes Ghostbusters such a special movie?" and "Are there any other films that have the same ingredients and the same effect?" And so we bring you the first of the "Kinda like Ghostbusters" series and we're watching 1997's "Men In Black".
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Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
The VJP returns from the land down under and we've brought back souvenirs! The most important of which is the 2003 Spierig Brothers zombie comedy/thriller "Undead". This more recent Oz-sploitation outing pairs zombie movie shenanigans with an alien invasion aesthetic for a combination that's very unique. If you missed this one in 2003 or haven't ever heard of it now is your chance to check it out on Tubi and join us as we prepare for the invasion!
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Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
On this episode of the Video Junkyard Podcast, Erik and Joe review the 1976 Australian exploitation/biopic "Mad Dog Morgan", directed by Phillipe Mora and starring Dennis Hopper, Frank Thring, and David Gulpilil. Mad Dog Morgan tells the story of Daniel Morgan, an Irish gold panner living as a bushranger in the Australian outback in the 1860s. Violent, drunk, and wild, Morgan evades capture from the Government of South Wales and leaves a trail of blooshed in his wake. Dennis Hopper brings Morgan to life (sort of?) in this particularly bizarre film from down under. Check out the movie on PlutoTV for free and join us for the breakdown on the Video Junkyard Podcast!