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The Carnage Report Episode 107: Touch Me

On this episode of the podcast, Julie and Nick take a look back at director Addison Heimann’s extraordinarily horny alien movie, Touch Me, now streaming on Shudder. Plus, the pair discuss trailers galore for Her Private Hell, SOULM8TE, Practical Magic 2, and more (all of which you can check out in the show notes). All this and Julie and Nick share their weirdest arguments they’ve ever had with friends and suggest some other freaky and tentacle-y movies.

This is last episode of The Carnage Report before the show’s annual summer break. Keep an eye on the show’s socials to see when they’ll be back and what they’ll be covering. Until then, have some fun at the pool, see a good concert, and try to stay cool.

Cinema Smorgasbord – Wild in the Streets – Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

This week on Wild in the Streets, Doug and Liam are familiarizing themselves with Er Monnezza (aka Garbage Can), Tomas Milian’s foul mouthed criminal with a heart of.. uh.. gold who teams up with Claudio Cassinelli’s hard-nosed cop to track down a kidnapped little girl being held hostage by the evil Henry Silva in 1976’s FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP (aka TOUGH COP). Grab some J&B and grab a brick because on this episode we’re out for BLOOD!

Cinema Smorgasbord – Serpent’s Path: The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot (1996) & Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (1996)

SERPENT’S PATH: THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA returns, and we dive into the third and fourth entries of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s crime-comedy V-cinema series: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot (1996) (Katte ni shiyagare!! Ôgon keikaku) and Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (1996) (Katte ni shiyagare!! Gyakuten keikaku). Once again we follow low-level criminals Yûji (Sho Aikawa) and Kôsaku (Kôyô Maeda) as they find a treasure map(!), win big at the track, get in trouble with yakuza (of course) and maybe, just maybe, learn a little about themselves. Or not! We look at how Kurosawa’s style is developing, where he’s moving to in his career, and look forward to some VERY interesting developments. CHECK IT OUT!

Cinema Smorgasbord – How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? – Lonesome Jim (2005)

On a returning HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we are stepping back behind the camera to look at a film directed by the man himself: 2005’s LONESOME JIM. Written by Jim Strouse and starring Casey Affleck as a depressed, failed novelist who returns to his Indiana hometown and connects with a local nurse (played by Liv Tyler), LONESOME JIM got a bit lost in the cavalcade of sad-sack dude movies in the mid 2000s, but is it worthy of discovery? Let’s find out.