Grindbin Podcast - Grindhouse and Exploitation Films

Join your hosts Mike and Bobby as they delve into the world of grindhouse and exploitation films from the 1970's, 1980's and beyond. The movies they discuss range from the funny to the downright bizarre but they are always fascinating and often forgotten gems.

374 - The Alien Factor (1978) 04/11/2024

374 - The Alien Factor (1978) Yobo, Fern, Bobby, and Mike discuss the winner of a recent Patreon poll. A town is flipped upsidedown when a space ship crash lands near Baltimore. It's low budget filmmaking at it's finest. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/30776843

373 - The Manitou (1978) 04/04/2024

373 - The Manitou (1978) Bobby, Fern, Julie, and Mike discuss the Tony Curtis horror film about his lady friend growing a strange tumor that births a 400 year old demonic Native American spirit. Tony plays a psychic yet somehow didn't see this one coming. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/30676088

372 - Fast Break (1979) 03/27/2024

372 - Fast Break (1979) Tanner, Luke, Bobby, and Mike celebrate March Madness by discussing the Gabe Kaplan EPIC about college basketball. You ever wanted to watch extended on ball drills in your movie? Did you ever want to see the team win by 40 and never trail? Then this is the sports movie for you! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/30561123

371 - Sonny Boy (1989) 03/13/2024

371 - Sonny Boy (1989) Vaughn, Lee, Bobby, and Mike discuss a family film about a kidnapped boy who has his tongue cut out and is raised to be a criminal by his adopted parents David Carradine and Paul L. Smith. It's as wild as it sounds and is a movie (and an episode) worth checking out. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/30352628

370 - Non Stop Trouble With My Double (1984) 02/28/2024

370 - Non Stop Trouble With My Double (1984) Bobby, Fern, and Mike discuss a request from a listener and... we would like to formally apologize Germany. Not only did we not enjoy this movie, we've found a new Tentacles. For whatever reason, if you love this movie, this might be one you want to skip. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/30146973

369 - The Exterminator (1980) 02/20/2024

369 - The Exterminator (1980) Bobby, Wick, Chef Robby, and Mike are jacked like hell to see Grindbin all stars James Glickenhaus (Shakedown, McBain) and Robert Ginty (White Fire) return to the bin but all they can think about is how Christopher George (Pieces, Enter the Ninja) cooks a hot dog... Seriously, we are still thinking about it... everyday. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/30028818

368 - The Last Match (1991) 02/06/2024

368 - The Last Match (1991) Chris in Miami, Jeff, Bobby, and Mike get ready for the big Super Match this Sunday by discussing the lost "football" movie starring Ernest Borgnine, Oliver Tobias, Henry Silva, and Charles Napier. The backstory for this movie is legendary but a guest's personal connection to this film uncovered during the episode is mind blowing. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/29819538

367 - Uninvited (1988) 01/24/2024

367 - Uninvited (1988) Chuck, Tim, Bobby, and Mike discuss the unforgettable Greydon Clarke classic featuring George Kennedy pissed off on a boat with a killer cat. This movie has everything you could ever want: complicated crime plans, maritime law, and paperwork!!!! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/29624598

366 - Freebie and the Bean (1974) 01/03/2024

366 - Freebie and the Bean (1974) Bobby, Chef Robby, Jersey James, and Mike break down the proto-buddy cop movie starring James Caan and Alan Arkin as two San Francisco cops who spend most of the time beating the hell out of people; especially if they didn't commit any crimes. try /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/29321018

365 - Death Machines (1976) 12/28/2023

365 - Death Machines (1976) Yobo, Matt, Terry, and Mike discuss one of the greatest Grindbin movies yet! Death Machines has EVERYTHING you could ever want from a bin movie: overly complicated criminal plans, milk toast characters who you don't want to root for, excessive paperwork as a plot device, and more! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/29250458

364 - Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) 12/20/2023

364 - Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Wick, Yobo, Chris in Miami, and Mike celebrate the holiday season with the classic Santa slasher, Silent Night, Deadly Night. When little Billy's grandpa tries to warn him about the evils of Santa, the kid doesn't listen and his whole life is destroyed. It's a movie, and episode, full of very valuable life lessons just like catatonic Grandpa used to tell you. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/29162243

363 - Fake-Out (1982) 12/14/2023

363 - Fake-Out (1982) Pia Zadora finally returns to the bin! Yobo, Bobby, new guest Jeff, and Mike discuss this Pia Zadora, Telly Savalas crime caper in Las Vegas. Despite being financed by Pia's then husband, filmed at his hotel (The Riveria), and simply a vehicle for more Pia screen time, this is a strangely enjoyable movie! So grab a Pia-tina and enjoy extended scenes of Telly gambling and grabbing butts. This episode featured some technical difficulties in our first hour. If you're interested in seeing and hearing the almost four hour cut (including live watches of Telly Savalas music videos) check out our . /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/29074158

362 - Xanadu (1980) 12/06/2023

362 - Xanadu (1980) Yobo, Steve, Matt, and Mike discuss the ill-fated Olivia Newtown John and ELO musical. Featuring hot and sandy popcorn at the beach, maybe our most elaborate and nonsensical movie scam yet, guys rubbing themselves Xanadu in the Getty, and the hardest takes Yobo has ever had on interior design and rollerskating club logistics. With more than double the runtime of the movie, this is an epic episode of the bin that shouldn't be missed. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28951983

361 - Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star (1982) - Camvember 2023 11/30/2023

361 - Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star (1982) - Camvember 2023 Steve and Izzy from EILFM join Bobby, Mary, and Mike as Camvember 2023 comes to a close with the adult film Cameron didn't know he starred in... allegedly. Dixie Ray, eventually cut into an R rated film called "It's Murder Baby" is a noir thriller that features some of the most uncomfortable, exposition laden sex scenes, and a very, very drunk Cameron. It's the perfect, akward way to end 2023's Camvember. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28858268

360 - Slaughter (1972) - Camvember 20223 11/22/2023

360 - Slaughter (1972) - Camvember 20223 Camvember 2023 continues with J.M. Brandt returning to talk the original Slaughter with Bobby and Mike. Surely there are lots of outstanding questions we had from the second movie that are answered here, right? There has to be incredibly backstories for characters we met in the second film, right? There is at least a super computer at this Mexico (South America) base, right?! Find out the answers to these questions (probably not)... and more! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28766108

359 - The Last Reunion (1980) - Camvember 2023 11/16/2023

359 - The Last Reunion (1980) - Camvember 2023 Yobo, Daniel, Matt, and Mike talk about the reunion of Cameron Mitchell and Leo Fong! It's a Camvember miracle, right? right?! Featuring Cameron drooling over a teppanyaki, extended talk about Necco wafers, and Daniel's new rap persona. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28666088

358 - Jack-O (1995) - Camvember 2023 11/02/2023

358 - Jack-O (1995) - Camvember 2023 Bobby, Chef Robby, Terry, and Mike kick off Camvember with the unforgettable, Fred Olen Ray produced, direct-to-video slasher, Jack-O. Cameron's performance is brief but memorable in this one as he does something NO Grindbin all-star has ever done before! Also featuring a long dead John Carradine, the most uncomfortable nude scene of Linnea Quigley's career, and an bunch of pumpkins Fed kept in his garage for six months before filming started. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28494608

357 - Contraband (1980) 10/25/2023

357 - Contraband (1980) Bobby, Faustus, Vaughn, and Mike talk about the Lucio Fulci cigarette smuggling movie Contaband. Two brothers have made a nice life for themselves smuggling in Marlboros to Naples until a mysterious drug smuggler appears and the bodies start piling up. Will Luca stop the flow of heroin into Italy, or more importantly, will he ever find out who's responsible for tire mountain?! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28417331

356 - Frankenhooker (1990) 10/18/2023

356 - Frankenhooker (1990) Tanner, Wick, Bobby, and Mike discuss the Frank Henenlotter classic, Frankenhooker (1990). When a "medical student" looses his fiance in a tragic lawnmower accident, Jeffrey pieces her back together with a bunch of sex worker parts and a little lightning, what could possibly go wrong?! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28352675

355 - The New York Ripper (1982) 09/27/2023

355 - The New York Ripper (1982) Bobby, Terry, Candice, and Mike discuss the Lucio Fulci classic, The New York Ripper. When an enigmatic quackster starts dialing up the ladies, and the body count starts stacking like ducklings in a row, it's up to an NYPD detective and a guy he hires to solve the case for him to waddle their way to justice. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28155056

354 - Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) 09/20/2023

354 - Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) Vaughn, Lee, Bobby, and Mike discuss the Jimmy Wang Yu classic that puts a shiv into the Shaw Brothers. A one-armed kung fu expert brings his students to a martial arts contest where a blind assasin with a blade hat starts beheading every one-armed man he can find. Chaos ensues, will our teacher survive? Is this murder spree actually because people didn't pay their restaurant bill? Find out on this action packed episode of the bin... which is also a sequel and Vaughn messed up the scheduling. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28090148

353 - Corvette Summer (1978) 09/13/2023

353 - Corvette Summer (1978) Chef Robby, Chuck, Matt Anderson, Doug Wortel (from ), and Mike talk about Corvette Summer. This coming-of-age "comedy" starring Mark Hamill (fresh off the set of Star Wars) and Annie Potts is one of the more disturbing movies we've seen on the bin in a long time. Mark Hamill loves to build strange cars and pose on the hood like Tom Savini in Knightriders. When his latest creation is stolen during a High School shop class field trip to Van Nuys Blvd, Mark takes off to Vegas in search of the Corvette. On the way he meets Annie Potts, a teenaged-sex-worker-in-training who helps him try to track it down between giving herself swirlies in gas station men's rooms. It's a laugh riot!!! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/28018434

352 - Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987) 09/07/2023

352 - Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987) Summer Sequel Month 2023 comes to a close with the Patreon poll pick. Matt, Vaughn, Bobby, and Mike rent some tuxes, get a limo, reserve a table at the local Olive Garden, and take eachother to prom while discussing the supernatural sequel that has nothing to do with the first Prom Night movie. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27966261

351 - Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) 08/25/2023

351 - Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) Summer Sequel Month 2023 continues with an absolute banger! Bobby and Mike are joined by and to discuss the Jim Brown classic featuring a sex guy Ed McMahon, the Red Baron ruining picnics, all the chicken livers you can eat, and maybe the most confusing crime yet in a Grindbin movie. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27847236

350 - Penitentiary II (1982) 08/16/2023

350 - Penitentiary II (1982) Summer Sequel Month 2023 continues with another trip to the Penitentiary. Yobo, Terry, Bobby, and Mike are shocked to find a cheaper, weirder, and funnier? sequel to the prison boxing drama Penitentiary. The guys discuss all the important aspects of the movie like if you can actually swim in a crochet bikini, small TV placement during a murder, what the rate of inflation is for buying "services" during a prison boxing match, and whether or not Bee Movie is about a woman trying to have relations with a bee or a bee trying to have relations with a woman. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27767307

349 - Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) Summer Sequel Month 2023 08/09/2023

349 - Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) Summer Sequel Month 2023 The Kaiju Krew is back to talk about Gamera Vs. a Giant Street Shark. When two kids stumble upon a flying saucer that takes them to a strange planet with pretty space girls and mom's donuts, only one space turtle can save them... as long as he doesn't have any cuties in the queue. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27699546

348 - Muscle Beach Party (1964) - Summer Sequel Month 2023 08/02/2023

348 - Muscle Beach Party (1964) - Summer Sequel Month 2023 Summer Sequel Month 2023 kicks off with a trip back to the beach with The Grindbin Beach Party Crew! The second in the Beach Party movies finds the gang renting a love shack on the sand next to a stable of human-trafficked bodybuilders managed by Don Rickles. Incredibly bad surfing montages, Dick Dale, a very pissed off Anette, and NO ERIC VON ZIPPER make for an entertaining, if slightly infuriating, trip back to the beach. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27599238

347 - Tommy (1975) 07/26/2023

347 - Tommy (1975) Can you see us? Can you hear us? The Grindbin has returned! Bobby, Yobo, Mike Rat, and Mike discuss the epic merging of Ken Russell and The Who in 1975's rock opera, Tommy. If you ever wanted to hear Yobo sing, this is the episode for you! /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27569463

346 - Hardbodies (1984) 07/05/2023

346 - Hardbodies (1984) Bobby, Mann, Eddie and Mike oil up and hit the beach to talk about a recent Patreon Poll winner, Hardbodies (1984). Based off a Penthouse letter (not a joke) Hardbodies is about the laziest movie you could ever imagine... and it's amazing. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27379896

345 - Black Tight Killers (1966) 06/28/2023

345 - Black Tight Killers (1966) The other Tim, Bobby, Steve and Izzy, and Mike discuss the winner of a recent Patreon Poll, The Black Tight Killers from 1966. Hondo is on a flight home from the fireworks war and befriends a flight attendant, only to find out she is kidnapped and now he is apparently tasked with finding her. An incredible hidden gem, BTK is perfect Grindbin fare. /episode/index/show/grindbin/id/27308319

Grindbin Podcast - Grindhouse and Exploitation Films

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