The Savage Beast, Season 2, no.5: Shooting the Savage Sh*t

In this latest episode we take a look at a whole slew of films, including

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
• Reflections in a Dead Diamond (2025)
• Good Boy (2025)
• Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
• VHS 1994 (2021)
• VHS 1985 (2023)
• VHS Beyond (2024)

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The Savage Beast, Season 2, no.4: Thou Shalt Worship Craven Idols

In this latest episode we take a look at a that most nebulous Master of Horror, Wes Craven.

Films discussed include

• Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
• The Serpent and The Rainbow (1988)
• Deadly Friend (1986)

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Kick back for this special Halloween 2025 episode of The Savage Beast filled with recommendations for what to watch (and what to avoid) this spooky season. Films discussed include:

• Freaky Tales
• Thanksgiving
• The Haunted Palace
• V/H/S Halloween
• Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
• Evilspeak

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The Savage Beast S2:2 – THE SAVAGE BEST: THE RAID 2

In this episode, we're adding another film to our personal canon, the SAVAGE BEST. This time it's

THE RAID 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014)

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We discuss the following archetypes

THE TOUGH GUY

THE METHODIST

THE VIBE

THE HAM

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On this episode, we discuss the recent Superman (Janes Gunn, 2025). Up, up and away!

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The Beast Must Die, Lord Nuneaton Savage and Gary Lactus gleefully jump back into Batman and the Outsiders #8 on behest of The Drifting Reviewniverse.

There's mysterious adverts, there's adverts that pull the brave reviewmonauts down plastic rabbit holes and there's the rest of the comic too! This masterfully told story breaks heads in all directions! The impressive! The absurd! The amusing! The Traumatic!

THANK YOU, OH BEAUTIFUL REVIEWNIVERSE!

The next episode of SILENCE! is already on our Patreon alongside around three-hundred exclusive episodes.

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The Drifting Reviewniverse gifts The Beast Must Die, Lord Nuneaton Savage and a rather muffled Gary Lactus the hands down, straight up, no word of a lie best comic so far in this chance-led odyssey, Batman and the Outsiders #8. The fearless reviewmonauts pour over every page until they run out of time. Part 2 is already on our Patreon .

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The drifting Reviewniverse brings Gary Lactus, Al To Astonish and His Bleak Majesty Douglas Noble in close contact with Ex-Mutants #3 (vol. 2) from Malibu, 1993. Synergy! Action sass! Batteries! Bottoms! Dive in!

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HOW WAS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?! Well, it's done now. Ghost Rider 11 has been fully digested by Gary Lactus, Maid Of Nails and Al To Astonish, who accurately said after recording, "I feel like I have advert poisoning".

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It's the Drifting Reviewniverse #3 and Gary Lactus, Al To Astonish and Maid Of Nails are supposed to be examining Ghost Rider #11 (Marvel, 1975). Unfortunately Maid Of Nails has gone missing and the adverts are far too interesting to concentrate on the comic itself. Despite this and quite amazingly, what you have here is an hour and a half of enthusiastic dissection that covers less than half the comic! We're going to have to dive back in for Part 2 next week. OMGR!!!!!!!

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This week (ahem), the Drifting Reviewniverse takes Gary Lactus and TT into everyone’s least favourite Chuck D, Charles Dixon’s Marc Spector: Moon Knight #12.

CURSE YOU, FATE! Your hosts do their best to choke it down and describe the experience. It’s a fun chat about a comic that wasn’t enjoyed by either of them.

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You hear that? Of course you do, it's startling, nigh on deafening! It's the NEW HIGH CONCEPT ALARM! 

Unfortunately the new thing doesn't know what it's called. Drifting Reviewniverse? Random Reviewniverse? Adventure into Indeterminacy? Let's read with Ian Determinate? The idea is simple. A random English language comic from the last 90 years or so is chosen, read and talked about. This episode it's Here's Howie #9 and it's talked about by Gary Lactus and Al To Astonish

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Gary Lactus is joined by Al To Astonish as they do their best to reconstruct the SILENCE! To Astonish! panel at this year's Thought Bubble in lieu of a usable recording. Worst Christmas gift ever? YOU DECIDE!

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We spill our guts all over your ears, and Daisy the Galacticat does something similar.

We talk about:

Dan McDaid, Pricks, Summer Holidays, Sequent'Ull, Alex Potts, Gareth Hopkins' Rainlight Cope Aesthetic, Lily Williams' Digging, Freaky Deakies, Insomnia and the 1989 Batman film.

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At last! It's time for The Big Pivot! Welcome to the SILENCE! Sportscast! All the Action! All the balls! More kicks and hits than you could reasonably kick or hit! Who's winning? YOU! 

Unfortunately the sports chat gets somewhat derailed by talk about gigs and the 90s before Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die get sucked into The Reviewniverse where they find Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography, Elf Quest, Cerebus, Viz (Gary's got a strip in it!) and Proustian comics in general.

Following that, there's a lovely bit of SILENCE! (Because The Film's Started) in which The Beast Must Die has seen The Flash.

All sport is finally forgotten as the hosts reckymend Comfort Blanket, Allan Quartermain and the Spear of Destiny, Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson and Gary just won't stop going on about his Patreon. At this point in the blurb we usually say, "AND MORE!".

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Listen to The Mighty Crusaders Number Four Supplemental at https://www.patreon.com/SILENCE

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Somehow climbing out of a river of turds that flows from broken window in Hell, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die convene to just try and have some fun for once. It's all here! Talking! Life! Poor sound quality! Fraser Geesin's Patreon! Cats knocking over microphones! Excuses! Comics! Great news inside!

Covered within this soup are such titles as Monster Fan Club, The Green Lantern, Guy Gardener: Warrior, It's Lonely At The Centre of the Earth and more!

Oh, and if you weren't aware, we lost a good friend. Help provide support for his family here

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Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are back to play whilst the cat’s away, listen now as happily they squeak about things such as how  Cindy and Biscuit is doing, (no idea), Andrew O’Neill, Duncing, Passiondale and Small Press Day before scuttling into The Reviewniverse

Here we find Handlebar Gumbo, Friday, Torse, Jack Kirby’s 2001, Spider-Men: Double Trouble, Looshkin and Evan Dorkin’s adaptation of Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey.

WARNING: Contains two songs for the self indulgent hell of it.

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Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are tired and they want you to know it. Thankfully our heroes catch a mighty wind of South London Comic and Zine Fair and before you know it, they’re plugging their own Duncing and Cindy and Biscuit and soaring majestically into The Reviewniverse

Chloe Green’s A Crying Shame, Bizarre Boys, David Ziggy Greene’s Jam Bookshop, Garbage Pail Kids, Dan and Sam and Blackest Night get talked about. There’s also tribute paid to Chris Reynolds.

It’s a good episode, see what you think.

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Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die crawl back into your skull and deposit a number of topics.  The big news is dropped in a very special edition of Inside The Wanker's Studio in which Gary Lactus conducts a hard hitting, no punches pulled interview with a name that's about to be shouted so loud by so many that it will echo down the ages, Dan White.  Dan's big book of Cindy and Biscuit is to be published on August 15th 2023 so get ready to buy copies for everyone you know.

The Beast rejoins Gary as the pair enter The Reviewniverse with Unstoppable Doom Patrol, Garth Marenghi Live, Zero and Michael Kupperman's Patreon.

Then it's off to SILENCE! (Because The Film's started) where The Beast has seen Guardians of the Galaxy III and has thoughts expressed in words about it.

After that it's massive relation, moths and away...

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We also talk about Comics and Beer, The Sheild G-Man Club Fanzine, The Watchmen RPG and Bob Burden’s Robot Comics.

Oh, and both your hosts will be exhibiting at All About The Ink this month.

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He’s back! The good one is back!

The Beast Must Die is back and we all get to hear what he’s been up to. He’s been watching Grange Hill and almost nothing else. Let’s not beat around the blurb, let’s read a list of some of the things talked about on this episode that aren’t Grange Hill:

His Dark Materials, The Apprentice, Traitors, Batman Year Two, DC on screen, At Home With Rick Geary, 200AD Prog 503, Chatabix, 60 Songs To Explain The 90s.

GO!

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Writing these blurbs can be worse than pulling teeth. Lucky for you, I ran out of teeth ten minutes ago so here we are

Shall we welcome Tom Oldham and Douglas Noble back? Okay then. Do you want to hear a blow-by-pulse-pounding-blow account of Tom’s trip to Angouleme? Fine. That’s what this is. Along the way we talk about:

Julie Doucet, Sammy Harkham, Coffee, Druillet, Aien Worlds, Richard Corbyn, Jonathan Ross, Midnight Tales, Junji Ito, Bill Brandt, Sarah-Louise Barbett and Kit-Kats.

How close do you feel to death?

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Press play to hear Mark Stafford talk to a completely naked Gary Lactus about Ronald Searle, Empusa, The Comic Creators Guild, Brian Talbot, Cherubs, The Man Who Laughs, David Hine, Liphook, the strange tale of Magdalena Solis, The Bad Bad Place, Mark's Emerald Helicopter of Success, the upcoming Salmonella Smorgasbord and why oh why can't we all just call comic books and graphic novels Irresponsible Pictures instead. 

This is THE podcast for all of your Mark Stafford needs.

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Well, well, well if it isn't Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die crawling back on their knees, begging forgiveness for missing a week of the world's otherwise most reliable podcast.  Angry hoards of ex listeners have verbally and physically assaulted the punctual pair, blaming them for all manner of important, missed appointments because they set their watches to SILENCE!'s famous regularity.

Thankfully, that's all over now and the two men are back to perform that most incredible feat, talking about stuff.  Stuff like Small Press Day at Gosh, and people like Sean Azzopardi, Molly Stocks, Mark Stafford, Douglas Noble and Fraser Geesin and Dan Cox's comic, Jeff.

Gareth Hopkins' kickstarter, Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors gets a shout too.

Then it's off to The Reviewniverse, with Counterfeit Girl, Geezer, John's Worth and Marvel's adaptation of Dune

Wrapping up, The Beast has watched The Boys and She Hulk and Gary has been listening to The Blindboy Podcast

There's probably more that I've forgotten but you can find out what that is by listening... NOW!

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The Savage Beast podcadst: The Savage Best #1

In this short sharp shock of an episode we discuss the first entry in the Saveg Beast official canon:

The Ritual (David Bruckner, 2017)

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No blurb this week as we're all swarming around the centre of the hive, desperately hoping to mate with the Queen.

As we all know, some weeks are longer than other weeks and it really has been a particularly long week since last week's episode.  Despite this and even though The Beast Must Die has covid we still managed a pod like particularly brave soldiers.

Soldier Gary Lactus sliced his thumb quite badly but still managed to get to Who Am I Now, the exhibition of paintings by Glyn Dillon.

Soldier The Beast Must Die saw Doctor Strange: Marble Madness!. He didn't like it and on the podcast he doesn't like it for a long time. Delicious!

Let's go now to Reviewniverse, with Captain Britain, Light Brigade, Statics and Omege The Unknown of course.

Seeing us out it's a reckymend of Paul O'Connell and Rhys Wooten's No Garnish podcast and The Beast Must Die's experience at Steve Walsh's Memorial.

Farewell, friends.

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The Savage Beast no.21: Wizards of Gore

In this latest episode we're discussing a topic very near ot our collective heart - GORE! In a truly epic episode, we're discussing a whole plethora of visceral treats and filmic grue, based around the following newly minted cateGOREies:

• Kinder-Gore
• Devastating gore
• Fist-pump Gore
• Surreal Gore
• Transform-a-Gore

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Another week, another blurb. People often ask, "Hey! How do you keep your blurbs so fresh and new, week in, week out? It's amazing! You're amazing! How can I be like you?". Well, we here at SILENCE! Blurb Inc. are tired of this question. So tired in fact that we're now offering our SILENCE! Blurb Writing Masterclass. Learn from the best to realise your potential in the lucrative field of Blubcraft. Packed with high profile contributions from Todd Carty on how to find inspiration, Danny Dyer on the impact of brevity and Neil Gaiman on the power of blurbs. Send your £500 to the usual address.

The tired dads return and Gary's been selling off parts of his collection! Both Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die have been guesting on Shelf Dust Presents The War Effort.  The Beast has been enjoying Paul Morley's biography of Tony Wilson and the surprisingly heavy inclusion of Kieron Gillen therein.  There's a non-review of The Eternals and chitter-chatter regarding the SILENCE! Juniors' emergent relationship with super heroes and Gary's quest for space.  

Sadmin.  The tragic loss of Steve Walsh and Garry Leach.

The chaps pick themselves up with the exciting birth of Dark and Golden and the peculiar pleasure of comics speculation.

Off, down and away into The Reviewniverse with Mek Memoirs, Kamen Rider, The X-Cellent, Orphan and the Five Beasts, Step By Bloody Step, a comic called Uncanny X-Men and The Sharkfighters of course.

Then with a yawn we learn that Fraser Geesin will be at the Brighton Illustration Fair on Sunday 1st May, The Beast went to the London Comic Mart and that finding your own comics for sale secondhand really makes you feel like you've made it.

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The Savage Beast no.20: Man Vs Nature

In this latest episode we take a look at a selection of films looking at the eternal conflict between mankind and that big green mother that's red in tooth and claw, nature. Films discussed include

• Rituals (Peter Carter, 1977)
• The Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978)
• Wild Beasts (Franco E Prosperi, 1984)
• Hold The Dark (Jeremy Saulnier, 2018)

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You have passed the final test. Welcome… to TEAM BASTARD FORCE!  We are an elite team of men, dedicated to protecting the patriarchy at any cost!  Over there is The Ab, whose might always makes right!  This is the mysterious Explaino!  Who knows where from where his opinions hail but they are always right!  Be careful now, don’t get too close to the surly Incedible Sulk, who can slowly crush any opponent’s will to live.  I am your heroic leader, Mister Right.  I sit on my all-powerful Testosterthrone and direct proceedings.  Now, new recruit, I am entrusting you with the highest responsibility a man can shoulder… you shall be… PROTECTOR OF THE BLURB!!!

YOU WANT A PODCAST WHERE TWO PALS TALK ABOUT COMICS AND CHILDREN’S BOOKS FRO THE 70s IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OVER THREE NONCONSECUTIVE DAYS?!  YOU GOT A PODCAST WHERE TWO PALS TALK ABOUT COMICS AND CHILDREN’S BOOKS FRO THE 70s IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OVER THREE NONCONSECUTIVE DAYS!!

The men kick off with a couple of separate pond adventures and some mourning over Ian Kennedy and Neighbours.

Into the Reviewniverse with Dave Cooper’s Mud Bite, A Walk Through Hell, Good Boy Magazine, Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey, Hannah Berry’s Livestock and Deathlok of course!

The Beast Must Die gets the telling-off from Pat Mills that comes to everyone in time.

Then it’s time for the brand new podcast-within-a-podcast, Men On Men.  This week, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die look at the first two Mr. Men books, Mr. Tickle and Mr. Greedy.

See you next week!

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Hi, come this way, that's right, just through here.  Now, our first exhibit is this collection of bricks.  As you can see there's five in total.  Two of them are the same and one of them is made of latex.  That's right! It's a stunt brick!  Then over here we have a wooden duck painted like Superman, right next to this wide-necked plastic bottle with some piss in it.  Well that's it.  I hope you've enjoyed your tour of the Museum of Gary Lactus.  Oh, I almost forgot, here we have a classic blurb written by the human disappointment himself.

Two men!  One pod!  Some saucy innuendo!  Some sentences ending in exclamation marks!  After a break, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die reacquaint themselves with a bit of chat about Douglas Noble and pal's A Pocket Chiller series, not doing comedy and an imaginary space battle between billionaires.

Then it's off to a bumper Reviewniverse with Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone, Jack Teagle's Collected Madness, Fight! and Teagle Comics, Cinema Purgatorio, Nick Edwards' It Had To Be You, Doctor Tom Brent - Young Intern, Battle, Walls' Chill, Sean Azzopardi, Orphan and the Five Beasts, Mr. Men and Battle Action Force of course.

Then it's away but not before you are urged to buy John McRea's stuff to help him through a pretty devastating bout of long covid.

See you next week!

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The Savage Beast no.19: Bring on the Bad Guys

In this latest episode we take a look at some of our favourite filmic villains.  This time we're taking a look at a whole heap of films, through the prism of  four character archetypes:

• The Bully
• The Pillar of Society
• The Bad Place
• The Corrupted Idealist
• The Disruptor

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The Savage Beast: Get Stuffed!

In this special overfull post-Christmas episode, we look at a selection of films we've been gorging on over the festive period. Films discussed include:

• 50/50 (Charles Martin Smith, 1992)
• Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) 
• The Harder They Fall (Jeymes Samuel, 2021)
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevnin Reynolds, 1991)
• The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971)
• Black Christmas (Sophia Takal, 2019)
• The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020) 
• Predator 2 (Stephen Hopkins, 1990)
• Last Train to Christmas (Julian Kemp, 2021)
• Jake Speed (Andrew Lane, 1986)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
• Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)

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Leaping lizards, it's only our flipping 300th episode specktaklyar! OR IS IT? No it is. OR IS IT? You'll have to listen to find out won't you?

In this firm, festive and juicy edition of the world's first, favourite and indeed only podcast SILENCE!, Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die answer listener questions. That's right it's primo pod-content provided by the loyal SILENCE massive and let me tell you the boys rise to the occasion, like a couple of rum happy castaways bobbing on a raft made of pure hot comic opinions.

Lots of things discussed, all of it delivered in the mighty, meaty, beaty, big and bouncy SILENCE manner. I'm not going to list it all here, that would spoil the fun and it has nothing to do with laziness.

Thanks to all who provided questions, and keep it festive, freaky during the holiday season. Be nice to each other.

END MESSAGE

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The Savage Beast No.18: Fantasy Fusion

In this eighteenth episode, we look at a selection of films where fantasy elbows it's way into the everyday. Films discussed include:

• The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2021)
• The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991)
• Highlander (Russell Mulcahy, 1986)
• Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (Kimiyosha Yasuda, 1968)

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The Savage Beast - Halloween Special

A special episode wherein The Beast Must Die has curated a programme of freaky treats for a perfect Halloween night film marathon. Spookies discussed include

• Tales From The Crypt : All Through The House  (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
• The Hole (Joe Dante, 2009) 
• Apaches (John MacKenzie, 1977)
• Ghostwatch (Lesley Manning, 1992)
• Dumbland (David Lynch, 2002)
• Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 1983)

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Oh cripes! Sorry, yes, erm... of course, yes, no quite right, yes, hmm... Gosh, what to do, what to do... Oh blimey, sorry, I wasn't prepared for this, ah, um, as you can probably tell! Haha! Ahem, right, yes. Okay, right... Ah, yes! Right then, here we go... Blurb.

Forget about the hot shit in your pants, that can wait. THIS can't. It's SILENCE! time!

The two buddy pals, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Be Regretting Not Choosing A Shorter Name By Now are back to talk about whatever they bloody well like as long as it kinda relates to comics (or not).

<ITEM> The usual Thought Bubble preparation, anticipation and panic.

<ITEM> Halloween japes of yore.

<ITEM> Come with us to Reviewniverse, with  Blocks by Oliver East, The Mighty Crusaders, Pride and Joy, Second Coming and The Comics Journal of course.

<ITEM> off to bed, but not before some Reckymends of stuff like Taskmaster New Zealand and podcasts such as The Weird Rap Podcast, the Cartoonist Kayfabe Frank Quitely Interview and good, long enthuse over List Off.

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The Savage Beast No.17: Shootin' the Savage Sh*t

In this seventeenth episode, we take a load off and just talk about some interesting stuff we've seen recently. It's our Summer Holiday Special. Films discussed include:

• Kandisha (Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury, 2020)
• Vampires vs The Bronx (Oz Rodriguez, 2020)
   
• The Reef (Andrew Traucki, 2010) 
• The Descent  (Neil Marshall, 2005)
• Wolf Guy (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1975)
• Host (Rob Savage, 2o19)

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Look, do you want a blurb or a podcast? You can't have both.

Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die are back together. It's a sad occasion as comedian and SILENCE! contributor, Phil Jerrod has passed away.  This month's Patreon money plus extra will be going to Sarcoma UK.  Perhaps you'd consider sponsoring Julie Oliver and Phil Lucas as they run in his memory.

https://justgiving.com/team/teamjerrodtoo

Anyway, there's other stuff here. Gary tells you about his absence, The Beast recommends the One Day In America documentary and both of them decide to maybe think about getting ready for Thought Bubble.  There's a bit of Neighbours chat in there too, sadly and inevitably.

Come with us to Reviewniverse, with Kane & Able, Superman and The Authority, God Of Tremors, The Extreme Self and The Age Of Earthquakes by Douglas Coupland and Room For Love of course.

Stop!  Look!   Listen!

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It's a Very Special Episode! The Beast Must Die is flying solo, with an episode-length exegesis on the myriad pleasures and horrors of the fabled Prestige Format Comic. It's an epic for our times for sure, and when you look at these times that tells you everything you need to know about this epic...

<ITEM>Okay gird your girdles, stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...here we go. The Beast talks about Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, Batman: Holy Terror, Batman: Full Circle, Batman: The Scottish Connection, Batman: Mitefall, Batman: Year 100, Batman: Manbat, Batman: The Cult, Batman: Run Riddler Run, Robin 3000, World's Finest, Catwoman Defiant, Cosmic Odyssey, Legend Of The Green Flame, Blackhawk, Deadman: Love & Death, Deadman: Exorcism, The Horrorist, The Golden Age, Hawkworl, The Books of Magic, Martian Manhunter: American Secrets, Adam Strange: The Man of Two Worlds, Twilight, OMAC, Justice Inc, Black Orchid, The Prisoner: Shattered Visage, Breathtaker, Black Mask, Gilgamesh II, The Nazz, My Name Is Chaos,  Clash, The Psycho, Skull & Bones, Tempus Fugitive, The Griffin, Grendel Vs Batman... sweet christmas... I need a lie down. 

<ITEM> Normal business resumes soon. 

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The Savage Beast No.16: Christ on a bike! - Religious Horror Films

In this sixteenth episode, we immerse ourselves in cinematic religiosity, satanism, green slime, posession, sainthood and madness. Films discussed include:

• Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2020)
• Abby (William Girdler, 1974)
• Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
• The Church (Michele Soavi, 1989)
  
  

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The Savage Beast No.15: E.T. F*CK OFF!

In this fifteenth episode, we take a look at some films about evil aliens. No muss, no fuss. Leave your brains at the door and grab a tentacle.  Films discussed include:

• Psycho Goreman (Stephen Kostanski, 2020)
• Killer Klowns From Outerspace (Stephen Chiodo, 1988)
• Xtro (Harry Bromley Davenport, 1982)
• The Hidden (Jack Sholder, 1987)
   

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Oh my goodness gracious! Ugh! What's that unholy stench? Oh, I see. It's bloody Gary Lactus writing the blurb. Why's HE writing the blurb? He's crap at writing the blurb, (and he smells). Huh? It's The Beast Must Die's birthday?! And Gary's special gift to his best pal is writing the blurb for him? Man, that's a shit present! Is that literally all he's doing for him? What a chundering arsehole! I'm glad I don't have a "friend" like Gary Lactus. Welcome dearest of listeners to the closest thing The Beast Must Die will get to a birthday Party. Here's a special podcast for a very special boy. <ITEM>There'a a luxuriously long preamble where your main characters talk merrily about Big Train, Look Around You and The Geesin Family Output, The Lovecraft Investigations, The Beef And Dairy Network and  Petscop. Oh, and The Beast reviews Gary Lactus's Journey To The Surface Of The Earth #2, still interminably available from FraserGeesin.com <ITEM>Eventually they get round to talking about some comics.  What are those comics?  These are those comics:  Batman Annual #5, Judge Dredd: Crusade, Dog Man, Deathshead:  Body In Question and Jim. <ITEM>As promised last week, The Beast takes Gary on the start of a choose-your-own adventure!  This could be the start of something beautiful. <ITEM>Time to listen!

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The Savage Beast No.3: Swords, Sorcery, Sand and Sleaze

In this third episode, we discuss the unruly pleasures of the Sword & Sorcery genre. Films discussed include:

• Beastmaster (Don Coscarelli, 1982)


• Deathstalker (James Sbardellati, 1983)


• Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)


• Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009)

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