The SAVAGE BEAST podcast no.11
March 5th, 2021
The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).
The Savage Beast No.11: Checking Out – Hotel films
In this eleventh episode, we take a look at the liminal world of hotel-baseed horror films. Films discussed include:
- The Beyond (Lucio Fulci, 1981)
- The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011)
- Motel Hell (Kevin Connor, 1980)
- Barton Fink (Ethan & Joel Coen, 1991)
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SILENCE! #290
February 28th, 2021
I ASKED THE ICE, IT WOULD NOT SAY BUT ONLY CRACKED OR MOVED AWAY
Daddy, I don’t want to write the blurb.
But you said you wanted to write the blurb.
I don’t want to write the blurb. I want to play with the train track.
Okay, I’ll set up the train track for you… There you go.
Daddy I don’t want to play with the train track.
But I just made the train track for you.
But I don’t want to play with the train track!
What do you want to do, then?
I want to write the blurb.
We said it would happen and here it is! SILENCE! 290!
<ITEM>Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die kick off this momentous recording with some of the finest chat on Earth, forged in the white hot heat of aimlessness then cooled in the pure waters of lockdown boredom then tempered with the hammer of pointlessness on the anvil of stretched metaphors. That is to say, they talk about John Cooper Clarke’s autobiography, I Wanna Be Yours, the Stan Lee biography, True Believer, Richard Herring’s Ball, King Rocker and Birds Of Prey. Oh, and they totally forget to mention any sponsors but do remember to plug their new, Patreon-only podcast, Dan and Fraser’s Starlight Adventures!
<ITEM>BANG! AAAAARGH! Gary opens a Lorne Bomb!
<ITEM>Come with us to Reviewniverse, with Deadline, Keif Llama: Vectors, Huntress, Kraven The Last Hunt, Si Spencer and Grave Horticulture of course!
<ITEM>Listening time!
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This edition of SILENCE! is proudly sponsored by the greatest comics shop on the planet, DAVE’S COMICS of Brighton. It’s also sponsored the greatest comics shop on the planet GOSH! Comics of London.
The SAVAGE BEAST micro-reviews 2
February 19th, 2021
In case you’re not following The Savage Beast on twitter (@SavBeastPod”), we write film micro-reviews there. Here’s a repository of them so far for your convenience…
The SAVAGE BEAST podcast no.10
February 8th, 2021
The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).
The Savage Beast No.10: Bloodlines – Family films
In this tenth episode, we take a look at the disfunctional world of cinematic families. Films discussed include:
- Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)
- Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, 2019)
- Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, 2010)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Tobe Hooper, 1986)
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SILENCE! #289
January 27th, 2021
THE GAME WILL NEVER BE OVER BECAUSE WE’RE KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE
Oh my goodness gracious! Ugh! What’s that unholy stench? Oh, I see. It’s bloody Gary Lactus writing the blurb. Why’s HE writing the blurb? He’s crap at writing the blurb, (and he smells). Huh? It’s The Beast Must Die’s birthday?! And Gary’s special gift to his best pal is writing the blurb for him? Man, that’s a shit present! Is that literally all he’s doing for him? What a chundering arsehole! I’m glad I don’t have a “friend” like Gary Lactus.
Welcome dearest of listeners to the closest thing The Beast Must Die will get to a birthday Party. Here’s a special podcast for a very special boy.
<ITEM>There’a a luxuriously long preamble where your main characters talk merrily about Big Train, Look Around You and The Geesin Family Output, The Lovecraft Investigations, The Beef And Dairy Network and Petscop. Oh, and The Beast reviews Gary Lactus’s Journey To The Surface Of The Earth #2, still interminably available from FraserGeesin.com
<ITEM>Eventually they get round to talking about some comics. What are those comics? These are those comics: Batman Annual #5, Judge Dredd: Crusade, Dog Man, Deathshead: Body In Question and Jim.
<ITEM>As promised last week, The Beast takes Gary on the start of a choose-your-own adventure! This could be the start of something beautiful.
<ITEM>Time to listen!
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This edition of SILENCE! is proudly sponsored by the greatest comics shop on the planet, DAVE’S COMICS of Brighton. It’s also sponsored the greatest comics shop on the planet GOSH! Comics of London.
SILENCE! #288
January 9th, 2021
BILLY THE KID DID WHAT HE DID AND HE DIED
Boy did you see that? That was something wasn’t it? It sure was something. What do you mean what was it? I have no idea. I just know it was something. Yes sir, it sure was. Something, that is. Couldn’t say for sure exactly what, but let me tell you I know that it was *something*. I know what it wasn’t though. It sure wasn’t a BLURB.
<ITEM> New Year, New SILENCE! New Year, New Podcast! New Year same old sad sacks of mince Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die!
<ITEM> It’s a packed episode, designed to fill the howling voids of uncertainty in your brains. First up SILENCE! Cos I’m Watching The Telly! wherein the Beast talks up the myriad pleasures of the Doom Patrol TV show. Then the pair have a good old natter about Feels Good Man, the strange and depressing descent of Pepe The Frog.
<ITEM> Take a hop, skip, slip and plunge into the Reviewniverse. Happy talky talky happy talk, talk about things you like to read….The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Midnight Men, Howard Chaykin Bingo, Pirate Corp$, 2000AD Xmas special, Judge Dredd: Book Of The Dead, World Judges and a lot (not much) more
<ITEM> I’m tired. Go away please.
<ITEM> Just kidding, I kiss.
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This edition of SILENCE! is proudly sponsored by the greatest comics shop on the planet, DAVE’S COMICS of Brighton. It’s also sponsored the greatest comics shop on the planet GOSH! Comics of London.
The SAVAGE BEAST Office Xmas Party
January 3rd, 2021
The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).
The Savage Beast Office Xmas Party
In this special holiday episode, we load up on egg-nog, rest our hands on our sated bellies and talk through some of the films we’ve watched over the festive periofd. Films discussed include:
- The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Jim Cummings, 2020)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)
- Fritz The Cat (Ralph Bakshi 1972)
- Happy Feet (George Miller, 2006)
- Freeway (Matthew Bright, 1996)
- Whistle and I’ll Come To You (Jonatham Miller, 1968)
- Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (Alexandre O. Phillipe, 2019)
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987)
- Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
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The SAVAGE BEAST podcast no.9
December 27th, 2020
The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die).
The Savage Beast No.9: Red Snow – Winter Horror Films
In this ninth episode, we close the curtains, stoke the fire and keep the cold away with some of our frightful frosty favourites Films discussed include:
- Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
- Pontypool (Bruce McDonald, 2008)
- Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
- Last Winter (Larry Fessenden, 2006)
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ELEVEN PAST MIDNIGHT podcast no.1: The Siege of Nakatomi Plaza
December 21st, 2020
Welcome to Eleven Past Midnight, the new show from Team Diane where we investigate fictional crimes. Our first case is a festive spectacular, the Christmas crime caper DIE HARD.
Join us for heroic catharsis, midwinter bloodbaths, the meaning of the office party and a definitive and surprising answer to the question: is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
Yippy-ki-yay listeners
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