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This week we begin Schlocktober with the world of Kojo Suziki, the Well & the VHS Tape. Lindsay & Gabe travel that small volcanic island to visit Sadako. It's a Double of Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998) & The George Iida' Spiral (1998). Both released on the same day in 1998. One an atmospheric adaption of Suziki's novel that focuses on the visual metaphors of a horror storytelling. The other tries to be more faithful to Suziki's more philosophical science fiction novels. One blew up, helping to create a new horror genre, the other a forgotten curiosity. But both important to the tale of The Ring. You have seven days......   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

On this S&A Presents MWHK we look at a legend from a land of legends. The East End of London and the story of the Kray Twins, who ruled the 1960s like an iron fist with The Firm, a brass knuckle and a well tailored suit from Savile Row.  Lindsay & Nadine will be sitting down for a Double of Peter Medak's The Krays (1990) & Brian Helgeland's Legend (2015) This is all about the family   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

And thus Schloctober 2026 begins! Before we get into the main event it is time for a Triple Feature. Because Demons come out at night. Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon (1957), James C. Wasson's Night of the Demon (1980) & Kevin S. Tenney's Night of the Demons (1988) - we have to end on a party! This is a triple witchcraft, curses, bigfoot, cults, possession & lipsticks. When you go looking for a Demon you often find it.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.

On his special Schlock & Awe - Lindsay finally finished editing Lindsay, Nadine & Kahn's MIFF coverage part three. In this episode we look at Josephine, Spanish Movies The Beloved & Bitter Christmas, Yellow Letters. Also Clarissa, Mouse, Fox & Ah Girl Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This Week on S&A Lindsay & Unholy Terrors Podcast's Pat Brennan hear the loud yell of the Yukuza. It's a Double of Kazuya Shiraishi's Blood of the Wolves (2018) & Juzo Itami's Minbo: The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992). This is a Double that looks breaking down the mythology and aggrandizement of the Yukuza. One of these movies have tragic real world consequences. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This week on S&A it's a Twinning Titles. Lindsay & Bede are a City on Fire. Literary and Fugitively. Alvin Rakoff's City on Fire (1979) & Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1978). This is a Double of two movies not alike in stature, but both very entertaining. And both examples of genres of which they were born. The Disaster Movie and The Hong Kong New Wave. Both incredibly influential genres.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform.

On S&A it's a Melbourne International Film Festival Round Up Part 2. There was too much to cover. Lindsay, Nadine & Kahn talk more movies. On this episode they discuss Fatherland, Blue Heron, Big Girls Don't Cry, Marama and La Gradiva. All chewy movies with a lot to say. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This week on S&A we take a look a the 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). The largest in the Southern Hemisphere - over 250 movies over a two and a half week period. Lindsay, Nadine and Kahn tried to see as much as they could. In Part One we cover, Wicker, La Bola Negra, All of a Sudden, Coward, Maddie's Secret & I Want Your Sex.  There was so much to say about these movies. Keep an eye out for MIFF Part Two Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This week on S&A Lindsay and Justin Anderson will take a martini shaken not steered. I'm Bond James Bond. A Double of Terence Young's From Russia From Love (1963) & Michael Bay's The Rock (1996). This is a double of how not only James Bond the character has developed and has influenced film history but also how action as a genre and Sean Connery's career has evolved.  Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock and Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This week on S&A Lindsay & Andrew Shaw look at Baby's First Body Horror Double. Steve Barron's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Movie (1990) & David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). A secret of the ooze double. But more than that - how a specific generation was brought up. There is a through line from Jim Henson - Steven King - David Cronenberg. And we are the way we are because of it. Warning Episode does contain - Back in my day ..... Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

On this Murderers We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take a look at another Crime of the Century. The murder of New York Architect Stanford White by Philadelphia Millionaire Harry Thaw. All seeming about The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Richard Fleischer's The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing (1955) & Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981). These movies are set during a specific time of innovation and progress. Yet both movies go into how are human nature does not change.   Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay and Carmelita Valdez McKoy go for a triple feature of epic proportions and sexual awakening. Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) & José Ramón Larraz's The Coming of Sin (1978) & Tony Richardson's The Taste of Honey (1961). This Triple goes into so many directions, sex, exploitation, queerness, growing up. To grow into a women there is a lot going on Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast platform

This week we go to Springfield where they did story telling first. Lindsay & Bede Jermyn look at reference and story telling convention with a Double of The Simpsons Tree-house of Horror II (1991) & Curry Barker's Obsession (2026). Not only was Lisa 's Nightmare The Monkey Paw one of Barkers inspiration for his Obsession but it also show how our stories are often change, manipulated and re-told into different formats. Please feel free to rate, review & subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your preferred podcast app

This week on S&A Lindsay & Genevieve Radosti of Movie Jawn & CineFilth Podcast have to choose a Messiah but we change the channel. It's a Double of Hal Ashby's Being There (1979) & Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). This is a double of a Jesus Figure who loves television. And more importantly a portrait of 1970s America and where they are heading to into the 1980s and well today. Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe to Schlock & Awe on your favourite podcast platform

On this Murders We Have Known Lindsay & Nadine take on another kill duo. This time Raymond Fernandez & Martha Beck - The Lonely Hearts Killers. The Double Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts (2006) & Leonard Kastle The Honeymoon Killers (1970). One a period piece set in the time appropriate time of the late 1940s, the other set in contemporary America. And everything is just a bit shit, whether that is the over arching theme or just literal construction of the movie. Just always beware of the toupee   Please feel free to rate, review and subscribe Schlock & Awe Podcast on your favourite podcast platform