PsychotroniCast

PsychotroniCast is BACK with a 1950’s science fiction quadruple feature! Kicking it off with a Rod Serling feeling masterpiece, The Incredible Shrinking Man. Followed by this campy 65 minute blast with one of the greatest posters in movie history, Attack of the 50 foot woman. The penultimate in this black and white rocket ship is, I Married a Monster from Outer Space and closing out the episode we have the bleak Big Bear monster himself: The Werewolf!

What happens when you throw: Phantom of the Opera, the legend of Faust, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the devil, rock n’ roll, and voyeurism in a blender and have a young ambitious Brian De Palma feed it to you thru a straw because you’ve had all your teeth pulled? You get the Rock n’ Roll masterpiece: Phantom of the Paradise! PsychotroniCast cranks The Juicy Fruits for episode 130 and dives deep into the genius and madness of this 1974 cult classic!

PsychotroniCast concludes it’s 70’s John Waters Series with 1977’s Desperate Living. Dreamlander Mink Stole plays Peggy Gravel, a psychotic house wife who, with the help of her maid, Grizelda Brown (Played by Jean Hill) murder her husband and embark on a journey to their new lives that await them in Mortville. John Waters really lets his freak flag fly with Mortville. An off the grid society populated by homeless burnouts who are ruled by a fascist queen named Carlotta, played by Dreamlander Edith Massey whose leather daddy gestapo rule with an iron fist! Sadly, with the death of David Lochary prior to the production of Desperate Living, plus the absence of Devine due to scheduling conflicts, Waters casts Liz Renay and Susan Lowe to provide the filth. Their valiant effort does not go unnoticed, but the absence of the two most important Dreamlanders is felt.

PsychotroniCast continues it's 70's John Waters Series with possibly the greatest coming of age story ever put on film! When a teenage Dawn Davenport doesn't get her cha cha heels for Christmas, the world suffers... as it should! We follow Dawn on her journey through life as: a mother, cat burger, prostitute, and fashion model. Where it all ends up, is purely John Waters gold. Female Trouble also gives us one last look at the brilliant and insane David Lochary, whose death would follow shortly after the release of this film. This is the Dreamlanders last ensemble piece. What an electric way to go out!

49 years ago today, John Waters and his troop of Dreamlanders unleashed what is undoubtedly the filthiest movie in the world. Lead by a legendary star making performance from Divine who proves she will go to lengths unimaginable to achieve the perfect scene. Accompanied by her son Crackers (Danny Mills), glamorous traveling companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce) and her mother The Egg Lady (Edith Massey), Divine will combat her greatest adversaries Raymond and Conny Marble (David Lochary and Mink Stole) in a shocking battle to prove who is truly the filthiest person alive! On its way to becoming one of the biggest midnight movies in history and one of the most memorable of cult films Pink Flamingos would challenge censorship around the globe (and usually losing), but that hasn’t stopped it from triggering, traumatizing, and tickling depraved audiences for nearly half a century, while managing to lose none of its shock value or hilarity over the years.