Wild, Wild Podcast

Phantom of Death (Off Balance, Ruggero Deodato, 1988) featuring Luigi Cozzi and Ottaviano Dell'Acqua

Have you been feeling tired and listless lately? Has your hair started falling out? Have you found yourself befriending shaggy old dogs in the park and taking them home?

Double Target ( Bruno Mattei, 1987)

Double targets can only mean double trouble for Rod and Adrian! Come with them back to the jungles of Vietnam/ the Phillippines for some exciting action and hair-raising

Django Strikes Again (Django 2 - Il grande ritorno, Nello Rossati, 1987)

We always knew he would be back, and this time he is - back! Yes, he may have had his hands brutally mangled twenty years ago, but after a long convalescence, some qualit

Specters (Spettri, Marcello Avallone, 1987)

Archaeology is a dangerous business, as we discover the hard way in this latest episode where we are taken deep into the catacombs underneath Rome. Donald Pleasence's Pro

Warrior Queen (Chuck Vincent, 1987)

Slave auctions, lavish orgies and gladiatorial combat at the dinner table; no, it's not the Tory Party Conference, it's American adult film director Chuck Vincent's strai

Cobra Mission (Fabrizio De Angelis, 1986)

We've all been bored at a family wedding before, but it's unlikely that we've decided to leave early and head off to Vietnam to rescue some guys who got left behind, with

Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1984)

An ill wind is blowing in the Swiss Alps, and it's going to take the combined might of a psychic teenager, a Scotsman in a wheelchair and a chimpanzee called Inga to do s

Pumaman (Alberto De Martino, 1980)

When the gods delivered a golden mask to the Aztec people on a mountain plateau thousands of years ago, little did they know that one day a man in black leather would ste

StageFright (Michele Soavi, 1987)

In this final episode of our Women in Italian Cinema mini-season, we focus on the unsung hero of Filmirage, Donatella Donati. She worked for many years with Joe D'Amato a

The Year of the Cannibals (I cannibali, Liliana Cavani, 1969)

In a dystopian Milan, a failed revolution has left the Fascists in charge and the streets littered with dead rebels. Antigone (Britt Ekland) seems to be the only sane per

Rita the Mosquito (Lina Wertmüller, 1966)

Italian star Rita Pavone is a mischevious schoolgirl with a confusing crush on her sleepy music teacher, who is living a double-life as a singer in a beat band. Can she s

Bonus Episode: Ranking the Rapiers and the Ruffles

Join Rod and Adrian as they agonise over how to rank the films from the Rapiers and Ruffles season. Will they agree, or will there be rapiers at dawn? If you have been w

Zorro in the Court of England ( Franco Montemurro, 1969)

They seek him there, they seek him there, they seek the mysterious masked hero everywhere - but they will never find him thanks to his cunning use of a luxurious moustach

Zenabel (Ruggero Deodato, 1969)

Wild, Wild Podcast have jumped forwards in time from the safe, family-friendly adventures of the early 1960s to the hedonistic, anything goes year of 1969 to meet Zenabel

Zorro and the Three Musketeers (Luigi Capuano, 1963)

What is Zorro doing in Spain, thousands of miles away from home? Why are they called the Three Musketeers when there's actually four of them? Why does the King of Spain s

The Invincible Masked Rider (L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato, Umberto Lenzi, 1963)

Who is that mysterious masked hero? Sarge? No. Rosemary, the telephone operator? No. Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? Could be! Then again, it could also be Robin Hood,

The Women of Devil's Island (Le prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo, Domenico Paolella, 1962)

It's adventure on land and on sea as we chart a course to Devil's Island! It's the time of the French Revolution and tempers are running high, quite literally, as we visi

The Executioner of Venice ( Il boia di Venezia, Luigi Capuano, 1963)

Grab your carnival mask, strap on your rapier and jump into a passing gondola, so that you can travel with us through 17th century Venezia, where evil schemes are afoot,

The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (Il colpo segreto di d'Artagnan, Siro Marcellini, 1962)

Wild, Wild Podcast is back from the commentary track-induced wilderness to talk about another fine film in our Rapiers and Ruffles season. This time we're in France as we

Bonus Episode: An Interview with Thorsten Benzel of Creepy Images

In this special episode Adrian talks with publisher and writer Thorsten Benzel about his magazine Creepy Images and his new books Giallo Movie Posters, as volume 2 has ju