Jul 15, 2026 · 58 min · 10 segments
Three episodes in and the WHEEL OF PAIN keeps turning. It’s your favorite cinema degenerates, GHOUL ROULETTE, back with a new episode about Cock Fighter,…
uh focusing more on mild injustices what is our what is our movie we're talking about today
cockfighter i read it do you know the tagline of this film no what is the tagline
I wrote it down.
He came into town with his cock in his hand, and what he did with it was illegal in 49 states.
I like that.
So just picture that.
Right.
And there you go.
You got the
movie.
This is hard to understand in 2026.
In 1974, Roger Corman, who I think had some brilliant moves as a filmmaker, but was also a carny who wanted to make money.
The grifter.
Yeah.
He had the idea, we need to make a cockfighting movie.
Because, unlike now, if we tell anyone we're even watching this movie, they give us a look... like like you know the the response that you get to saying we're talking about cockfighter is similar to response that someone might get if say they shared about a sketchy tattoo right it's like people they're not sure that they don't like that we're watching it but they're a little suspicious like cockfighter huh what what's that about
it's even weird that it's based on a book
Right, but I think in basing it on a book, which by the way was a very popular book, Roger Korn was thinking, I'm going to cash in on this cockfighter thing.
I'm going to get
money.
Yeah, there's a quote where he said, if we can't make money on this, we don't deserve to be making movies or something along those lines.
But I also read an anecdote where...
It didn't
uh focusing more on mild injustices what is our what is our movie we're talking about today
cockfighter i read it do you know the tagline of this film no what is the tagline
I wrote it down.
He came into town with his cock in his hand, and what he did with it was illegal in 49 states.
I like that.
So just picture that.
Right.
And there you go.
You got the
movie.
This is hard to understand in 2026.
In 1974, Roger Corman, who I think had some brilliant moves as a filmmaker, but was also a carny who wanted to make money.
The grifter.
Yeah.
He had the idea, we need to make a cockfighting movie.
Because, unlike now, if we tell anyone we're even watching this movie, they give us a look... like like you know the the response that you get to saying we're talking about cockfighter is similar to response that someone might get if say they shared about a sketchy tattoo right it's like people they're not sure that they don't like that we're watching it but they're a little suspicious like cockfighter huh what what's that about
it's even weird that it's based on a book
Right, but I think in basing it on a book, which by the way was a very popular book, Roger Korn was thinking, I'm going to cash in on this cockfighter thing.
I'm going to get
money.
Yeah, there's a quote where he said, if we can't make money on this, we don't deserve to be making movies or something along those lines.
But I also read an anecdote where...
It didn't
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