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Sam Panico

Sam Panico

Writer and host of the B&S About Movies podcast and website, co-hosted with his wife Becca, covering cult, horror, and exploitation films; also a guest on horror podcasts like Nightmare USA.

Oct 9, 2026

42:27
Mm-hmm
42:27
... like, suddenly you're in a movie that has...
42:32
And a lot of them were, like, uh, Taiwanese, what they called, like, black cinema, which is, like, really deep, dark themes, like crime and drug abuse, and stuff like that.
42:42
So they would put one of these movies in, and you're like, "Where do ninjas come in?" 'Cause I've rented Ninja Terminator, and suddenly you're like, "Oh, that's the movie..." The only other person I can think of outside of Godfrey Ho that has that ability to rip so much shit off is Bruno Mattei, who...
42:59
Like, the balls on Bruno Mattei.
43:00
Like, in Cruel Jaws-

1 HR 1 MIN LATER

104:13
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
104:14
It is...
29:53
And then it's slowly time-lapse of the snow increasing on him.
29:58
It really feels like when you played with He-Man figures when you were a kid.
30:02
If someone could give you a budget and then just film the non-sequitur adventures that your figures had, that's what this movie feels like.
30:10
It feels like Cozy's getting all these different toys that he wants to play with, but then turning it into... a full movie.
30:17
And I think that's the joy of it for me.
30:18
It's like, this translates really well as like a lot of his movies do is like almost like a fairy tale.
30:24
And he went on to do the Fatahigo series, which is a whole series, like a battalion TV movies that are, uh, kind of like princess bride type of stories.

1 HR 12 MINS LATER

102:56
doing like and not doing greco roman in Yeah.

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