Blood on Tape

     Joined by intrepid guest Lucas, the crew takes a the sights of a 1970s art film and a South Korean-Japanese co-production that totally overlooks the countries complicated and brutal history with each other.

     The only Bill Gunn film to get any kind of release before being quickly pulled and butchered by opportunistic distributors who had zero concept of the beauty they held. When an ancient dagger gives Dr Hess Greene a bad case of blood addiction, he takes pretty well to his new life until the estranged wife of a former associate enters his life. A brilliant meditation on cultural imperialism, African American assimilation, addiction, social structures, and more than a passing eye at organized religion... it's not a surprise that it didn't take off even at the height of New Hollywood. Bill Gunn lays so much of his soul bear through Ganja & Hess.

     Seventeen years ago two children saw their friend run over by a car speeding around a blind turn. Today one of them is killing people in an effort to resurrect their dead friend on the orders of an unknown god. Deciding an article written by his fellow witness is the sign he has been waiting for, he lures her and a cameraman to an abandoned apartment building to witness his last two murders and an act of true love.  J-horror vet Kōji Shiraishi, better known for more fantastical monstrous women, delivers something far more grounded and brutal with A Sweet Record of Murder.

     All that and Lucas thinks six moves ahead, Tyler stumbles into a trap fully unaware, Dave doesn't get it, and Kevin sees his tentacled Elder God master in the gaps between time and space. Join us, won't you?

Episode 141- Blood on Tape