The Wild, Wild Podcast, a show about Italian cult cinema, is the latest addition to the Film Stories Podcast Network. Links and details here:
A new year, the first of many new exciting podcasts to grace the Film Stories Podcast Network, or rather in this case join it as we welcome aboard the Wild, Wild Podcast.
In this entertaining and informative podcast, co-hosts Rod Barnett (of The Bloody Pit and NachsyCast) and Dr. Adrian Smith (historian and writer) explore Italian cult cinema with themed seasons, and have so far covered science fiction, police thrillers, erotic comedies, comic adaptations and more. Favourite directors of the podcast include Antonio Margheriti, Mario Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino and Luigi Cozzi, the latter having featured in a mini-season of his own which culminated in an interview with the maestro live from his Dario Argento museum in Rome (even the podcast theme is based on John Barry’s fantastic score for Cozzi’s space epic Starcrash).
Adrian describes the podcast as “an alternative to the many podcasts out there dedicated to Italian horror. I love those films too of course, particularly gialli and gothic horror, but other people are already doing a great job at that, so we wanted to do something different.”
Rod added, “We try to shine a light on the less explored areas of Italian exploitation film, and most of the time we are covering movies that even serious fans of Euro-Cult cinema have rarely seen.” Adrian agrees: “My favourite thing is to discover when a film we are talking about was never released outside of Italy or only has one review on the IMDB from twenty years ago.”
Wild, Wild Podcast has been releasing regular episodes for more than three years now, and the presenting duo have also been commissioned several times by boutique labels to provide commentary tracks for new blu ray releases, so they clearly know their stuff by now!
Having just completed a mini-season on 1960s psychedelia, they will shortly begin their next season looking at films dubbed by Rod as “Rapiers and Ruffles” ā swashbuckling adventure films of the fifties and sixties featuring evil dukes, imperiled princesses and brave heroes.
Find all the episodes here on Spotify, Apple or via your podcast player of choice, such as Spotify below: