Decayed Tapes: An SOV Horror Movie Podcast

Join our hosts, Max Booth III and Miguel Myers, as we explore the under-appreciated world of shot-on-video horror sleaze created by low-budget filmmakers and sometimes genuine psychopaths.

Winterbeast 12/12/2024

Winterbeast On the latest episode of DECAYED TAPES, we cracked open Vinegar Syndrome's Homegrown Horrors Vol. 1 boxset and watched 1992's WINTERBEAST, a movie that has nothing to do with winter. Come for the insane stop motion monsters, stay for the gratuitous porno mags. Or maybe come for those, too. It's your decision. /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/34418335

Scary Tales 08/23/2024

Scary Tales On this week's episode of DECAYED TAPES, we're talking about the Baltimore-set shot-on-video horror anthology SCARY TALES! Watch the video version of the episode on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/32714182

The Beauty of SOV Horror (LIVE @ Ghoulish Book Festival 2024) 05/14/2024

The Beauty of SOV Horror (LIVE @ Ghoulish Book Festival 2024) Tune in to this LIVE episode recorded at this year's Ghoulish Book Festival in San Antonio. We discussed the under-appreciated world of shot-on-video horror sleaze created by low-budget filmmakers and sometimes genuine psychopaths. Featuring: Miguel Myers, Jason Krawczyk, Daniel Kraus, and Max Booth III. Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/31290927

Debbie Does Damnation 03/14/2024

Debbie Does Damnation On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we watched the absolutely delightful Super 8 claymation masterpiece DEBBIE DOES DAMNATION from 1999. The devil needs his horns, and it's up to a recently deceased naked woman named Debbie to track them down somewhere in the underworld. Sword fights! Gratuitous nudity! Spider skulls! Bat skulls! Reanimated dismembered corpses! Plus: Hilarious dubbing! Penises with faces! Bondage! This movie has it all, including the incredible line, "You've graduated from asshole to being dead." Also, did Avenged Sevenfold steal their infamous logo from one of the creatures here? Quite possibly! Watch the video version of the episode on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/30375963

Black Past 03/05/2024

Black Past On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we watched Olaf Ittenbach's debut SOV feature film, BLACK PAST, a delightful 1989 German splatter fest of blood, guts, and severed limbs that felt like the deformed love child of EVIL DEAD, DEMONS, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. It is a nihilistic annihilation of the human body that we couldn't help but adore. We love practical effects and gosh darn it we love this movie. Watch the video version of the episode on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/30230763

Sledgehammer 02/20/2024

Sledgehammer On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're talking about David A. Prior's SLEDGEHAMMER from 1983, the very first SOV horror movie released straight-to-video. A two-roomed slasher that gets creative with seances and spooooky ghost shenanigans? Sign us up! Just please, for the love of god, prepare yourselves for an atrocity of slow-motion editing effects. Also: which one of us once destroyed an entire couch with a sledgehammer so it'd fit into their trash cans? Tune in and find out! Video version available on our Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/30036423

City of the Vampires 01/15/2024

City of the Vampires On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're talking about the 1993 shot-on-video snoozefest CITY OF THE VAMPIRES, written and directed by Ron Bonk. We hope you like very long scenes of guys driving and walking around to fill run time, because this thing is jampacked with them. So load up on some garlic and kick back for a slightly delirious conversation about vampires, snowballing, and...well, mostly those two things, honestly. Video version available on our Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/29487503

Bloodfeast!: The Adventures of Sgt. Lunch 01/02/2024

Bloodfeast!: The Adventures of Sgt. Lunch On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're talking about the 1992 shot-on-video science fiction action movie BLOODFEAST!: THE ADVENTURES OF SGT LUNCH, which was recently re-released by Vinegar Syndrome's partner label Saturn's Core. How did nobody get court-martialed while making this? The cast was definitely using real firearms, right? Also, would TERMINATOR 2 have been a better movie with an extended basketball sequence? We attempt to answer all of these questions and more. Tune in and enjoy. Support us on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/29310708

Blood Lake 12/03/2023

Blood Lake On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're talking about the disappointingly mundane 1987 shot-on-video snoozer BLOOD LAKE. Is this the lamest killer ever featured in a slasher? Who allowed these children to be on set? Is this the only movie with a special effect credited to An Act of God? Support us on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28908653

How to Get... Revenge 11/14/2023

How to Get... Revenge On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're talking about the utterly unhinged 1989 educational video HOW TO GET... REVENGE, hosted by Linda Blair from THE EXORCIST. How does this exist? Who is this for? How many of these tips would land you in prison? All questions we badly attempt to answer. Support us on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28643833

The Resurrection of Michael Myers 10/31/2023

The Resurrection of Michael Myers On this year's special Halloween episode, we watched The Resurrection of Michael Myers 1 and 2, which are two insane Swedish fan films from the late 1980s starring Michael Myers, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and the clumsiest skateboarder you've ever seen. Miguel also recaps his recent experience attending Halloween: 45 Years of Terror in Pasadena, California. Hubba hubba! Support Decayed Tapes on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28472042

Decayed Interview: Gary P. Cohen 10/30/2023

Decayed Interview: Gary P. Cohen On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we were lucky enough to interview Gary P. Cohen about making VIDEO VIOLENCE 1 & 2 and CAPTIVES. We talked about DIY filmmaking, working for the theater, and what it felt like to discover his movies had developed a cult-following decades after releasing them. Join the Video Violence Facebook group: Watch the unedited video version of this episode on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network. Get ghoulish at /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28458641

Captives (AKA Mama's Home) 10/23/2023

Captives (AKA Mama's Home) On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're wrapping our Gary P. Cohen marathon up with his final feature-length SOV production: CAPTIVES! Originally butchered by Majestic Home Video and released under the title MAMA'S HOME in 1988, this movie has it all: bigamy, home invasions, arson, dogs drowned in fish tanks, gratuitous cocaine abuse, incestual relationships, Max Headroom posters, rude paperboys, and even baby-smothering. There's something for everybody in this one. Stream Captives: Content warnings for Captives: Support Decayed Tapes on Patreon: Decayed Tapes is part of the GHOULISH Podcast Network: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28390124

Video Violence 2 10/15/2023

Video Violence 2 On this week's episode of Decayed Tapes, we're continuing our Gary P. Cohen marathon with VIDEO VIOLENCE 2. This time, Eli and Howard are making snuff films live on their renegade public access show, and boy howdy is it horrendous to watch. ALSO: have you ever discovered a rodent in your soda bottle? You may be owed monetary compensation from Pepsi. By the way, how often does your spouse think of Lorena Bobbitt? The answer may shock you. Support Decayed Tapes on Patreon: Stream Video Violence 2: Video Violence 2 trigger warnings: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28321928

Video Violence 10/08/2023

Video Violence On the debut episode of Decayed Tapes, we watched Gary P. Cohen's masterful VIDEO VIOLENCE from 1987—a movie about an entire town helplessly addicted to snuff films. Join us for a fun, bizarre conversation about filmmaking, video stores, salisbury steak, and defecating ourselves in public. Support us on Patreon: /episode/index/show/af702397-74d5-4878-9df3-2a57143b3a4d/id/28260074

Decayed Tapes: An SOV Horror Movie Podcast

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