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Hello and welcome back to Wildside, the official Monda Macabra Podcast.

I am Ryan Verrel here with my co host mister Chris Haskell.

Chris, welcome back.

How we doing?

Hello, Happy December slash whenever you're listening.

Hopefully hopefully soon, because we got some fun stuff to talk about.

Because also with the two of us is the one and only mister Jared Honor.

Hi, Jared, that's me, Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

It's the end of the year twenty twenty five, which means, as per usual at the end of the year, there's a couple things true.

We got a year of film to talk about, and we're all still waiting on a Halloween shipment for Mondo.

Macabre, waiting and waiting and waiting.

So we'll get an update on that in a little while.

But first, Jared, how's how's the year been?

Because it's it's been very busy.

It's been busy, it's been not as busy as maybe it could have been, and we had originally planned it to be.

I think we had to eventually at some point we dropped one of the pre order blocks.

Yeah, and sort of shifted things around, so we didn't really get as many things out this last year as we wanted to.

So it makes it a bit of a more of a quiet year for us, I think, than than the last couple of years before that.

But the thing is is hopefully what we're planning on doing is making up for that in twenty twenty six.

But I think we'll talk about that a little bit more later on.

Yeah, we had a lot of exciting talk to stuff to talk about in twenty twenty six.

Sounds like a prepare yourself sort of year because it's going to be busy.

From Ono Macabro, seems like this was a year leading up to a larger year, which is very exciting.

How's your year been.

You've been kind of globe trotting and busier than ever.

It feels like, yeah, no, it's been okay.

Thanks.

The time between like August or September and about a week ago is all like one day in my mind.

There was multiple weeks where I was working like sixteen seventeen hour days, yeah, and plus traveling and stuff.

So I've put a lot of hours on actually like logging into plane Wi Fi and working, which I try not to do if I don't have to.

But no, I'm alive and excited to talk about this year.

I think from a quantity perspective is what y'all were kind of talking about.

But from a quality perspective, this has just been a banner year for Mondo.

I feel like like every like the titles that did ship and did come out of just been incredible.

So I can't wait to dig into it a little bit more.

But like, there is a there was a thread going Jared.

I don't know how closely you watched the discord on Vininger Syndrome, but there was a thread just yesterday where somebody was having a bad day, they saw a movie they hated, and somebody recommend they put on Bohachi Bishido to cleanse the taste in their mouth.

And they wrote back about two hours later and they're like, yep, that did it.

That did it worked, wonders, Yeah, now that would be that would be a great movie to put on, And you're right, yeah, there's been We've done a lot of great stuff this year.

I mean, I mean, I'm biased, but I think everything we do is sure pretty damn interesting.

So yeah, so it's right while we have not released a ton of titles.

Every one of them is something unique and something that is worth people checking it for sure.

That specifically is one thing I was going to bring up as noticing from this year.

I've never asked you about this.

Do you follow Reddit closely all, Jared?

Do you monitor what have said about Moda Macauro there?

I don't really No.

I check out Reddit for other reasons occasionally other things that I'm interested in, but I haven't really looked into this soul the sort of physical muni physical metai community there.

So there is a subreddit that most of these types of releases are found on.

It is the Boutique Blu Ray subreddit, and it is a great community.

They're accepting of all kinds of tastes.

They promote and discuss and show pictures of labels from all over the world.

And one thing that happens often, as in a community as large as this, you can just come to expect it.

At least once or twice a month, somebody comes in there and says, hey, I'm new to this.

What is your favorite X?

Whether it be genre, whether it be label, whether it be director, what have you.

There are large discussions that seem to spur off from these new be sort of questions, but consistently, I am so proud to say, like some of the labels that I am closest to and have an affinity for seem to always be near the top of the highest upvoted of those lists, and Manda Micabro consistently is usually up there for most curated is one that comes up like people ask, what is what is the label that feels like of a mind when they're putting something out.

It feels like this was planned from the very beginning.

The highest consistency I see associated with Monda Micabro often some of those terms over the last like twenty five years.

What do you always love to see associated with Mondam Micabro because it's such I mean the name of the podcast is wild Side, because it's so off the wall.

What are you proud to see associated with the brand?

Well, I mean, I think that's it especially is I mean that makes me great to say to hear that people actually do are catching on to that, and you know, I think we've talked about it in our many discussions over the years.

Is that that is something we do, is we are curating the films that we put out that it's a passionate thing for us, is that we're pursuing movies that we love and sometimes things come up that, you know, we look for something and we find something else, maybe that Pete and I weren't even all that aware of, and we find it.

It's something that's you know, does fit our brand anyway.

But and occasionally, very occasionally we just find stuff that goes well, maybe we can just sell some of these, but for the most part, it really is something that we strive to achieve, is that sense of a broad spectrum of films that somehow some intangible quality they are Monda macabre films.

You know, it's it's there's not a lot that connects.

Maybe, like just looking at some stuff we did this year, like Cafe Flesh, Bahachi Bashido, you know, I Hate my Body, Like those are all very different sorts of films, but man, they're all Manda macabre movies, you know, absolutely, And if people are catching onto that that and I think they have and they I mean, we've been around forever, so it helps that we've have these sort of years and years and years of brand building behind us.

But even new people can coming into it seemed to catch on to that it's it's it's it's it gives me hope for the future.

You can continue to do this because that's what we want to do, and that people seem to appreciate what.

You know, it's interesting.

Kind of building on what you just said, there's this discussion that's kind of bubbling up more and more and to the point where it's almost becoming a pattern where people are saying that we're just on the cusp of another generation discovering cinema.

Like you know, there's these sort of gaps where everybody who goes through film school kind of just gets older, and then there's another generation coming up behind them.

And there's a lot of discussion I'm seeing in different parts of the internet around that next generation who hasn't seen anything, like they haven't seen Back to the Future yet, let alone you know Mona macover.

And I feel like that's exciting for y'all, right, because then as you're getting this reputation, then there's that new like layer of people that say, Okay, you know, Shashan Credemption is not the best movie ever made, Like what's what else is there?

And like they just start digging and digging in.

Then it doesn't take them long to discover something like Cafe Flesh or we'll hawd you beshido if they get the Japanese cinema or whatever.

And I don't.

I think that's exciting too.

I think it's it's really exciting.

It's the most exciting thing I think about being in the business of releasing older films is that you don't want to just be selling films to the same people forever, right, you know I I really it excites me in a way that I can't even really describe, thinking that there might be generations after generations that will continue to discover the films like we did, you know, Like I mean it was, you know, I was like eighteen or nineteen, and I just you know, when I first started watching a Kira Krasawa and that just blew up into Japan, you know, all kinds of Japanese.

I think that, you know, you just you start with one place and it leads you to this, It leads you to that, and it leads you to that, and just that sort of idea that that is continuing, that there's this just sort of chain of discovery that goes back, and you know, there's probably with the availability of things.

I mean, there's probably kids who are hopefully like thirteen fourteen years old who are discovering you know, maybe not Cafe Flesh, let's say, or I hate my body but you know, or the Punishment.

I could go on and on, but are discovering, you know, weird films that you know, eventually when they are ready, they you know, they can find some of the more salacious or weird stuff when they're a bit older.

But like, you know, if there are like thirteen year old kid who are discovering a care of Corrosawa or Martin Scorsese's film from the seventies or something something else that really excited me when I was a major, you know that that is is tremendously hopeful for the future of cinema because I think us a lot in the last you know, a few months.

I mean, I know you guys have seen it too.

Just this the endless discourse, because we're at a crisis moment in cinema right now, especially when in regards to theatrical distribution and physical media too.

I mean, people keep wanting to write off physical media.

It's not going anywhere.

Though, and I don't think theatrical will either.

But it's with all that discourse, it's good to know that there are still always going to be people discovering movies.

Yeah, there's endless movies to discover.

Yeah, and I think just the last thing, I mean, that's kind of the perfect way to end it.

But I just think movies like like our directors, like Taro Shi, once you get down to that level, then it actually helps, it kind of goes cycles back and helps you watch Krisawa differently because.

No absolutely, yeah, yeah, you see.

You just see cinema differently, which is exciting, right, Yeah.

I think for me because I just you know, I watched all those Crosawa Samurai movies when I was a teen.

You didn't really watch them for years and years because you go on to Qinji Fukusaku and you go Takashi, you know, Takashi, Miikekashi Ishi, you know all these guys.

But then a few years ago I went back and watched a bunch of Korosawa stuff and found that not only the films held up, but they were enhanced by my increased knowledge of Japanese cinema history and culture.

All the things I've learned and all the things I've watched, the films were richer than so.

Absolutely yeah, and I think everyone will everyone who gets into cinema goes through that phase.

They start somewhere and then it just and you don't even know it leads you into all different kinds of places.

And that's you know, one of the things that I think Mona Macabre wants to do is we want to be one of those one of those entities that will shepherd people into places that they didn't expect to go, because that's what's really exciting, right It's finding shit you didn't even know about.

How exciting it is that to be like, oh man, I've never even heard of this.

This is so exciting.

And I think we all go through that every year.

I mean just basically all of us have like lists of our favorite discoveries of each year.

There's endless stuff to find out.

There's no end to it, from all years, all decades, going back to the beginning right up till now.

I think the way that you summed up that context of discovering things, then making that appreciate newer versions of those derivative films, and then going back to the classics like that is the perfect summation of physical media.

So many of these supplemental features are here to contextualize that cycle and that history and allow you to enhance your knowledge on those things.

And a lot of that is found on every single mount of Macobro disc So yeah, that is absolutely a perfect way to state it.

Yeah.

Yeah, and we try.

I mean that is another thing too, is you know, try to put things in context.

I think that's another thing we've probably talked about several times here is But it's true that, you know, context is everything for these movies.

You can watch something out of context and it's fun, but the experience is richer when you have the context.

And that can be just the context of watching a bunch of other movies from the same time and place, you know, and then going back, like we were just saying, you know.

Well, let's talk some context on twenty twenty five.

So films released by Monda Micabro in twenty twenty five or A Cafe Flesh Beautiful, four Kba Hachi Bushido, Mind Blowing Incredible Release, Girl Slaves and Morgano, Lea Fey, The Punishment, The even Man Double Feature, the Greek films double feature Forbidden Game of Love, I Hate My Body and Power of Darkness as a sort of Mando Macabro wrapped.

Which one of these flew off the shelves fast.

Which one was like the fastest selling by far.

Well Cafe Flash by far Cafe Flashes is our biggest tit of the last few years.

I think, probably even a little bit bigger than Doctor Khaligari from a couple of years ince it sold.

It's the thing that's sold the fastest.

I mean, we had a two thousand limited edition.

It sold out in like a week or two something like that back in yeah, when it went on.

Sale, although we did have the.

Retail has done bonker stuff, especially when we finally put out the retail uhd.

Yeah, it's you know, I sold a ton during the sale.

We had that four k that sold out super quick last year.

But there's only like five hundred of those, right.

Oh, that was from a couple of years ago.

The Death Squad, the French film.

Yep, they're just out of my my now slightly blurry in my wall from here vision range.

You should have the Mando Macabre collection front and center.

Right next to the desk.

Yes, I think that that was the That was.

The French exploitation film Death Squad a couple of years ago, and that was a big controversy because we could only do seven hundred and fifty uhds, which I thought, oh, yeah, this will sell out in like a week, and it sold that in like fifteen minutes or something, right.

Like absolutely insane.

And then people sent me death threats about it.

So, let's say, other than Cafe Flesh, what of the rest of the titles from this year, do you feel like got the most discussion going.

What's the one that you've heard about the most.

I mean, I think Bahachabashido has definitely gotten on some discussion and excitement about it.

I think even Man is something that is it's not sold in absolutely huge quantities, but the people who have checked it out seem to really appreciate it for a multitude of reasons.

So that's one that I think has been talked about in a lot and I think deserves to be talked about it.

It's a really interesting release of some really fun movies.

I think one of the ones that hasn't gotten talked about enough and I would like to see a little bit more is Power of Darkness.

That is a really interesting movie.

Again the sort of historical context of it being Argentinian during a time of May, during a time of a right wing dictatorship, and the film is kind of just just full of a sort of dark paranoid vision.

You know.

It's it's it's a low key film for us.

It's not like a wild film necessarily, but something just so off the beaten path of most of you know, of what you're gonna find from a lot of other labels.

It's you know, I wish and it's just a good movie too, So I just wish more people.

Maybe we're talking about that one.

Forbidden Game of Love is one that sold pretty well for us right out of the bout Eloy de Glicia.

He's sort of a popular auteur, more appreciated every year, I think, mostly because Severin has released a bunch of stuff.

So that's another you know, everything, everything we've done has done well enough and have people have seemed to appreciate it, you know.

Chris, any any thoughts from the year, any other questions on the catalog.

Okay, So for anybody that likes like hammer movies or classical horror, but it's okay with a little bit of darker content.

I can't really recommend Girl Slaves of morgana La Fay enough.

Like I think it's got that that that mood.

It's it's very focused on, you know, the the vibe and the mood of those old kind of classic horror films.

Obviously the subject matter is a little more extreme than a lot of them.

But beautiful movie though, and the four K it just looks incredible, Like I think it's that's it's such a perfect example to me of how the content of a movie can sometimes overshadow the fact that the quality of it is equal to anything that was produced in that year, like whatever year it came out, I can't remember, but like I'm sure if you could, if you didn't have any morality attached to your viewing of like oh, this is extreme content or whatever, I think that would have been up for awards, and that would have been a movie that's spoken about very highly because it's just a beautifully shot film and it's interesting and like there's I don't know, it's a it's a film that should be celebrated, I think a lot more.

I agree entirely.

It is definitely one of the best movies overall that I think we released this last year and a key film in the whole Monda Micabre discography.

That's something that predates even Monta Micabre.

Pete's dealing with it.

Pete Toombs.

He released it on VHS and maybe DVD through his Pagan label in the UK in the nineties, and then on DVD from Monda Micabre in the two thousands, and now this new four K release and is one of his personal favorite films.

So that's so that's very close to our hearts collectively as Monta Macabroo and the and the movie is just it's a dream it it really is.

I mean it has a lot of sort of that Gothic seventies Gothic.

Is the word I was looking for, yes, right right, but.

It it kind of takes that Gothic feel into a dreamier territory, I think, and that's why it might have I mean, there's lots of naked ladies and maybe some whippings and things like that in the movie, but it never feels exploitative or salacious or cheap or trashy.

And I don't have anything you know, I love cheap, trashy, exploitative films I do, but there's just something about it's sort of almost meditative quality.

Maybe some people might think, oh it's sleepier, it's slow, but I think it's dream like, you know, like the like the best of genre long which it sort of sometimes a little bit unfairly gets compared to, just because the French films from the same era and they have like ladies and see through gowns wandering through castles.

So maybe it is kind of a lot like genrel On, but it has its own feel.

It doesn't it doesn't quite feel the same genre.

Lan is one of the kind, and girl Slaves of Morgan Is I think one of a kind.

Yeah, I think so too.

And the other one I want to try to point people to.

You mentioned it, but just to put a little more context around it.

So there's a Argentinian guy speaking of Argentinia who ended up directing a lot of movies in Europe and Italy and Spain named Neil Leon Klamowski.

He's just a super fascinating guy.

And I think I Hate My Body is such a cool movie and one that the deep dive on who Leon Klamowsky is, and like his career, he's just a dentist that loved movies and then ended up having this like amazing film Careerly, it's just a cool story, So I would I would say that for the going back to that discovery process, whether or not you love the movie I hate my Body, although I think anybody that watches it will like it a lot.

It triggers that piece in the brain of like, oh, this is an interesting guy, a guy directing movies in Europe called Leon Klomowsky.

Who is this person?

And then it just kind of history is way more interesting than even the name.

And anyways, it's just a one I wanted to call out.

No, and I'm glad you did.

I'm a hugely un Klimowsky fan.

Sure, he's one of my very favorite directors of the sort of classic Spanish horror boom era.

All the movies he did with Nashi are just are just phenomenal.

They're you know, one or two the I mean, because he was just churning stuff out.

I mean, he was not a poet, but his movies often at their best have a sort of poetic quality to them.

You know, where will Shadow is something that is again sort of dream like we sort of I think I can over used that metaphor of movies being like dreams, but it's an act comparison, I think, and his films are as well sort of dream like.

They feel like, you know, with what do they call the hypnagogic state, like it feels like when you've watched a movie that it's something that you just imagined on that cusp between being awake and being asleep, you know, ye, And you're right, his career is interesting.

He was an interesting person.

Obviously, a family who I can't remember where they came from.

Were they Ukrainian Jews or something like that?

His family, I don't know that detail.

Maybe I should, but.

Because a lot of there were a lot of Eastern Europeans who migrate, especially Eastern European Jews who migrate to Latin America in the early part of the twentieth century, I think that that was his story.

And you're right.

He was a dentist and started working in the Argentinian film industry, and anyone has seen any of that.

There's been some really interesting Argentinian films from like the fifties and sixties that have been released or restored in recent years, and nothing that he did.

I don't think but he was sort of part of that same same milieu that was active a very robust film industry in Argentina, and then when it became less robust, he went is when he went to Spain and obviously had a lot of success there, Like I say, one of my personal favorites from that era, So I was very happy.

I mean, we've released a couple of his films, you know, I think Severin has got stuff out or coming out by him, So I'm really glad that he is getting represented in this era right.

Now takes sense.

One thing I love especially about labels like Monta Micabre or Def Crocodile or some of the more obscure like some of the newer Criterion stuff even is some of these films that you'll see like on letterbox, where all of us that movies, most of us are on letterbox to some degree at least, and you'll see a film go from I don't know, like eight hundred and fifty views on letterbox to a physical media release coming out and within three months suddenly it's at like twenty five hundred, and you're like, oh, this is incredible, Like people are discovering great movies and it's even more true for those smaller labels like Monda Micabre and Death Crocodile because many of these films people have never heard of it before.

And I just as a special moment on the podcast and the year, wanted to shout out some of these that specifically were because Monta Micabro affected their cinema and now you guys can respond to those.

So this first one is by letterbox user Tamo tan tam O t An, and it says it has been just over two years since I watched Bohachi The Villain and I learned that there was another film starring Tetsuro Tanaba.

I've wanted to see Bohachi Bushido Cod of the Forgotten eight ever since, and thanks to the Mono Micabre recent Blu ray release, I finally have.

This film is wild, colorful, packed to the brim with boobs, and has some crazy theatrics to it that are delightful to see on screen.

Yeah, I mean, what more can you say?

Waldewall boobs?

Yeah?

And well boobs and sword fighting what more?

And drugs?

Yeah?

Yeah, that's great.

I'm so happy that we could provide the experience, you know, the opportunity for him to see that.

Yeah, a couple more for Bahachihido.

This one Sergeant six pack, a first time watch off of the Monto Micabra Blu Ray released great exploitation Samurai that delivers the goods from beginning to end with gore, lots of titties, great photography, and great editing.

Definitely worth the watch.

I'm sensing a theme on about.

The Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, but let's go to the true stuff.

Jeremiah, I really like this one.

If this was how my city enforced their fire suppression policies, I would one hundred percent become an arsonist.

You will never be disappointed in a mono Micabra blind By.

I thought that was a very nice comment at the end.

Oh yeah, that's that's great.

And I definitely hear that.

I hear that a lot people will be nice, you know, people will say nice things like that about us, that it's one of there were one of the few labels that they'll just sort of blind by anything from, which is what where we go for since a lot of the stuff that we do is kind of is very too semi obscure.

Yeah.

And then the other one that I've been recommending all year and Yes, I am putting my thumb on the skill a little bit because these two titles, Bahachibishido and Eva Man Double are my two favorite releases from ATO this year, and so just a handful of things from this Josie shout out to.

Josie says, Ultimately, this is a movie about how trans people are the key to world peace, and some fucking dudes have a problem with that.

Well, this is very much of a time and place and an exploitation film at its core.

It's always nice to see trans women just hanging out and having a good time, even if it's in small pockets throughout.

Yeah.

Yeah, and that's that's true, Yeah, because I mean that movie, those movies are I mean, you just have Eva Robbins and Ajita Will There's scenes of them just like hanging out by the pool and being sexy, you know, and why not and why fucking not?

And absolutely true.

Yeah, they are the absolute key to world peaces if we would just listen to beautiful trans women more than the world's problems.

All three of us tend to like pink films.

Jared, do you know about the two in the pink Ouo podcast?

You know, Dakota and Chris.

I know Dakota.

Yeah, So shout out to Dakota and Chris because they also picked up the Eva Man double features.

So Dakota said about the first film, Eva Man, the future is trans the cast is beautiful, the music is great, softcore and sex painted and such disco panther possibility and glitter.

I also love the T four T of our two icons.

Mona Micabro continues to be that instant pre order like we just said.

And then Chris, the other host of the two in the pink Oo podcast, she is a disco panther, even a gedr iconic.

The new Blu ray from Monto Micabro is stunning, and that brings.

Up one of the other things about Eva Man that I love because I love disco music and that disco panther song is amazing and is in both the films that's a double feature, that's Eva Man and the Return of Eva Man, and they both have the same the same like scene of her singing.

I think one is at the end and the other just puts it right at the beginning or something like that.

But the song is wonderful and so yeah, and and good thing I think I shared that Dakota review on the Mondos.

Dakota is a really interesting guy his work on Roman, Porno and pink films.

I haven't listened to their podcast yet, but I follow He's one of the more interesting people on Letterbox that I do followed.

His reviews are really really good, and he's turned me onto films and maybe even some films hopefully that we might be able to release someday, although I haven't had much luck yet.

But and then Eva Man is a double feature, so I did want to highlight one thing from Return of Eva Man Max Ren eighty two Ren is r E N N one aspect of these that we don't get to cover so much, so I wanted to highlight this.

This is available as the second feature to the original film Eva Man on a loaded Blu ray release from the folks over at Modo Macabro.

Huge thanks to them for not only restoring both the films but releasing them with multiple interviews, essays and audio commentary in the first film and even a short film by Antonio di Agostino.

And that's Metamorpho Metamorphossy And it is nice to see supplements, supplemental features called out.

Nice to see appreciation for things like the audio commentary, and specifically the audio commentary on Eva Man is incredible, bringing on two individuals that are becoming literally like the iconic voices on trans films.

Yeah, they were, they were.

I saw them both on TCM resent.

Yeah, they introduced with films that have hosted on TCM and done a commentary for Amanda Micabro.

Fantastic.

I hope there are more.

I hope that that is a continuing trend.

But no.

Yeah, and that's another thing about no release that we've done in probably the last few years has as many great supplemental features as the eve Man thing.

And I should call out the names too, that's Willow, Kaitlin maclay and Kadan Mark Gardner.

Incredible commentary, well done.

Yes, yes, great, great lovely people and just did a bang up job with that commentary.

Shout out to my pal Ian Higbee too, who did the video essay about the history of the director Di Augustina.

Great great thing.

That was I believe his first sort of shot at doing something like this, and hopefully he gets other opportunities for us and for other people too.

He did a really bang up job.

And just one more shout out from that release.

Their interview with Eva Robbins itself is fantastic, is one of the best like interviews we've had on a disc as just as far as like, I don't think she's not She's not been on any other discs before, you know, so it's just to have her perspective on this and talking about the movies, and you know, she's however old she is and still looks fabulous, you know, it's it's it's it's such so exciting to have her on this just and that's what the whole package, the whole Eva Man package, even if the movies are admittedly kind of slight they're basically European sex comedies, but they're very they're full.

They're just action packed and there's weird and then the whole package of both films plus all these supplements.

I mean, I think it honestly is probably our best release of this last year.

I think I would vote for it as the best release that we did.

Yeah, I mean, you also were able to pull off the greatest heist of the last year and get Labia on the front page of Facebook.

Thank you.

Take quite quite a lot of pride in that.

It's just a line's dress.

What do you mean?

Thank you exactly, Chris.

There's no there whatsoever.

As someone that can empathize with Jared, where both of us have had accounts get fully pulled down because of nudity for like release cover work or trailers and all this bullshit that these online centering has turned to.

I think it's hilarious that the even man poster art was I don't know about you for me, never flagged even once on any social media.

Hi.

What's really funny is that the alternate cover, which has just little cartoon boobs with little like dot nipples on it, they took it down.

They like, they absolutely slapped me down.

And we're like, you know, you're under review, and you know, if you do any further blah blah blah, you'll be suspended or whatever for that.

And you know, having a having a you know, a pussy right there on the.

Well, See, it goes to show that the engineers behind these algorithms have never seen a vagina.

That's all.

That's it, all a bunch of goddamn virgins.

Chris, aren't you glad you don't have to fight any of that censorship bullshit?

Ever?

Yeah?

Right?

I felt bad for Jared so many times where he's like, well, I did post the trailer.

You can never see it now, but I did.

That's constant.

Oh my god, I'm getting started.

That's the thing I have to deal with the point now where I have to tell pe you just don't don't put the tits and the dicks in the trailers anymore.

But we want the the dicks and the trailers because that's what we're coming to see.

You can't do like the Red Band trailer.

Those doesn't exist on YouTube anymore.

I don't know, it's been a while since I've looked at YouTube.

We were on Vimeo for a long time, and then out of nowhere, they just started hitting us and they just took they completely.

They didn't give us any warning they were.

They hit us a couple of times and then just completely took us down.

I think it was the sex Apocalypse trailer, which.

You know there was, there was some stuff, the grand scheme of things.

That sentence was just very funny.

I don't know why we got censored.

I might have been the sex Apocalypse.

Is it one of the best things ever stated?

Yeah, it was sex Apocalypse that did us, and.

Well we all have a lot to look forward to.

One thing that we can all look forward to is Halloween sale packages arriving.

So why don't you tell us about that coming, Jeered, which you immediately got a little sad about what.

I don't what are you talking about?

I don't, No, I know, Yeah, I mean we we sort of have a reputation for the Halloween stuff not being on time fully earned, fully completely earned.

Although I will say throughout the rest of the year we do great and we don't usually put stuff up on sale until it's ready to go, and so there's not that much weight.

It's just however long it takes me to get them in send them out.

Sometimes you know, a month, maybe two months at the most.

The Halloween stuff is different because it's an event.

You know, we do a Halloween sale every year.

We want to have new the big year end lineup of films, they always tend to be a larger lineup of films, bigger projects and all of that, you know, uhd.

All of that equals more complicated.

So there's always issues that arise.

Even when we think, oh, now these are going to be easy, this is all done.

A lot of this stuff is done well, that's of course not.

I mean that's turned out you know, to be there are there's been endless troubles.

There's nothing almost nothing went smoothly.

A couple of things have gone through no problem.

They're fact ready to go.

Essentially, we just still need to get some stuff printed for them, the slipcovers, booklets, et cetera.

Some other things are proving difficult, some restoration issues, some disc issues, but we're working through that.

And so the long and the short of my little spiel here is that it's probably not gonna be till February at the earliest that things will start to ship.

We may get a couple of titles early.

We probably just go ahead and have a couple of things in stock, and I will just send those out to Like one of them is The Mystics in Bali Queen of Black Magic.

That's had no problems.

That's going to be done.

It was the best selling title from this last sale.

Wow, so by far, by far it was.

It's we sold out the fifteen hundred within a you know, a few days or whatever, and that one's fine.

So like I will probably get that in.

I might get that by the end of this by the end of January, and I will probably start sending out orders that I can.

If they just ordered the mystics and Bali plus whatever else happens to be in stock, I will ship those out and then wait for the others.

And then when everything is in, that's when like the bundles will start to go out.

And again, I start at the beginning and end at the end, you know, So I start with the earliest orders and end with the most reason.

So it will and it'll be it'll, you know, take a good three weeks to a month to get everything out.

But you know, everything is being worked on.

There's no I say, you know, I because it stresses me out, but I kind of pretend like, you know, I said, Oh, it's terrible, it's a nightmare.

It's awful.

It's it's actually things are more or less in hand.

There's just a few questions that we need to get a few things we need to get ironed out, and the discs to actually be finished authoring, and then we're we're clear that should be done by no less, no no later than early January.

So so there it is, folks.

You can come at us all you like again.

Halloween titles are going to be late, but hopefully it won't be like April, which has been some of you know the case before, so it won't be like that.

You know, twenty six people did pause the podcast and start cussing.

But I think we're going to be okay.

Yeah right, I know, I know.

And as soon as this gets out, and you know, I'll send out a newsletter too next week at around the same time this comes out, and and you know, and I'll hear about it.

But the thing is is that most people are going to be cool about it.

Most people are going to be nice, you know, because most our fans, I think we have the best fans and the biz the most understanding.

There will be people, because there are always people who will pitch a fit or say something snarky.

O Manda Micabro's always late, which is not fucking true.

It was like I just said, you know, but what are you gonna do?

You can't do anything about that, So we'll just what we're doing.

If anybody wants to complain, send them the link to the VS discord.

Well we'll straighten them out.

Yeah, right, anyone wants to complain.

I have a list of other labels there are also really late, that more than a year.

Late or so well, I guess I should ask has any of the like the major industry industry problem has been a problem for Mondo this year because I know, manufacturing has been backed up for quite a lot of the manufacturers around the world.

There's been art problems, there's been shipping problems from China, tariffs have venter problem this year, There's been God, there's been a couple like in manufacturing, some of the I know seven I think Terror Vision were affected by the same like layer printing problem where a couple of their discs were just fucked when they went to reproduction.

Do you know about any of that or is it affected Mondo at all?

We might be dealing with something like you've just mentioned that we're trying to figure out overall.

I don't think it's hit us that hard.

Things are a bit pricier than they were this time last year.

Yeah, and I you know, you know our replicator, it took a little bit longer on maybe like the last batch to get everything done.

But that but that's it.

I mean, it's not I don't feel that we've been hit too hard with any with anything like that.

And again, knock on wood, because we're you know, we're coming down to the wire and you know, we're putting more stuff, you know, and then next this next year, we'll we'll have a sort of increased output hopefully.

Uh So we'll see, we'll see how it goes if we kind of grown into some of those problems.

The other thing I was thinking about was the four K manufacturing has been behind on a lot of a lot of titles.

There's there's not a ton of plants, I guess the do four K reproduction and some of those have been like months behind for even like studio titles.

That's why some of these larger studio four K discs have been delayed after their initial print run.

Well, yeah, go ahead, Chris, Jared, do you you you would tease a couple of months back that you would not hate the idea of another Buck set in the future.

Have you all been thinking any more about that?

Uh, we don't have anything really currently that we we're containing.

I mean, we've done like multi film sets, you know, like but more like just sort of putting putting in them in a case in a sleep slipcover.

As far as an actual box set, we do have an idea.

We're talking to a licenser.

We've licensed some films from them.

They have some other films that we're continuing to talk to them about and want need to get more information.

There's a set of films from this one licensor that would go together well as a box set like that would be maybe be a neat thing to do in a in a hard case box set, sort of like the Bollywood thing that we do.

Not quite as revolutionary as I feel the Bollywood Horror box set is, but a collection of films that that I think would be fun to do.

So we'll see about that.

That's but that is very that is all, you know, pipe dreams right now, that's all just I take an edible and I think about what I want to do, and that's I fantasize about all the things I want to do.

And that's one of the projects.

That's like that.

So as what does Yeah, as.

One should on Sunday afternoon, it's.

Like, well, we have some things that are less of a pipe dream and more of a sure thing.

What's uh, what do we got going on in Monto Macawber World right now?

Yeah?

Well, I mean after we sort of get through the Halloween stuff, which is still where actively you know, Pete is, I'm sort of waiting on stuff to get done.

Mostly I'm done.

I will help get some stuff printed, but that's about it.

But once, you know, once we get through to that, we do have a very rich and ambitious lineup of films for next year.

So possibly we could have as many as fifteen releases next year, which is a lot for us.

And you know, I say that now and probably sometime in the summer we'll record another episode and I'll be like, yeah, it's that didn't work out, But we're gonna try.

We're going to really try and make this a robust release year for us.

So probably at least every pre order block will have at least three titles wow, and possibly like maybe four every every time.

So we have a lot of stuff, and the really fun thing is is that a lot of it is going to be completely new to disc stuff, not reissues of we do have some reissues.

We do have some upbrates of some stuff, some older stuff, but only a handful and there should be let's say, let me just take it.

I'll just take a quick one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve to thirteen, possibly films that have never been released in any format in the Uses.

That is exciting.

Yeah, yeah, and you know, stuff that's really really off the beaten path, as about as mondo macabre as you can get, and some of it, a lot of it actually fairly like kind of the weirder side of international art house.

So that's sort of a thing we sort of want to explore a little bit more and are so.

Yeah, So I'm really excited about our lineup of films this year.

So one thing that I think everyone should know is Black Magic with Buddha.

We're doing, so I think everyone sort of knows that that was originally going to be a Halloween title from this year, but it just wasn't anywhere near ready and then we thought, well, maybe it'll be hopefully like a February March title.

No, it's not going to be ready then either.

It's the restoration work has got ongoing.

The guy who does the label Cofume, the French label, the Smoking Cat, the Smoking Cat, They are doing the restoration of it, and that guy does like fifteen releases a month or he has this incredibly prolific output.

But so I we're sort of waiting on him to finish and were We also have another project that we're working on with him that I'll keep quiet for now just for fun.

But that project is, as I think I've hinded before, is a is a Peak Passion Project PPP.

So so that'll be really exciting.

Those will probably come out at around the same time, and we're hoping about the springtime April or May.

So, am I hearing right?

You're going to pitch a new sub label from Onto Macaw Road that you're going to brand on the side is PPP, and every single one well very specific new new like responses from Pete of him holding.

What's funny is is that there will be another It's currently on this the Halloween.

It's currently on the schedule for Halloween.

Another title that is a Pete a PPP.

It totally is It's like something he's wanted to do for literally like thirty years, and I was happy I was able to bring that to the table.

It was a licenser I was talking to and saw it on a list and like flipped my fricking lid and then brought it to Pete and he like blew his lid.

It was it was.

It was a lot of amazing what you capture that video for the special features?

Yeah, you know, but it was Pete.

So it's all it's a very polite, contained.

Just stoic saying delightful.

Yes, exactly, Yes, Well that's just one.

He doesn't really sound like you've all heard Pete now because you've been the He doesn't really sound like that.

That's just my bad English.

I hear about multiple European or the wilder side of Art house Cinema coming out, and I hear you talk about a box set coming out.

I'm assuming that you're working on defun two, three, four and five.

I don't know.

Moto original production.

Why why not?

At this point?

Why not?

It's sort of a superhero origin story right there?

Could I'll tell you guys this, this is a slight bit of news.

We are trying to do the fan on four K, so we just we're not there yet.

But yeah, maybe twenty twenty seven.

Yeah sweet, Yeah, this is all exciting.

Any any specific titles so you want to call it?

Let's let's see.

I think I can reveal a few things.

So, like I said, you know, we're released mostly new to disc stuff, but We do have a couple of We do have some upgrades that I'm excited about.

One is The Blood Rose.

So if anyone knows that film that we released that on DVD.

It's a Claude Melow film.

We also released his film Sins of the Flesh.

So, but this is a sort of a very again sort of French seventies gothic horror thing, so again sort of like Slaves or genre lan.

It has this wonderful dreamyeness to it, but it is also very trashy.

It's very uh, very has you know, also has a bit of a Francoe vibe to it.

In fact, is quite is directly descended from Awful Doctor Orloff what do you know?

Is then directly descended from Eyes without a Face, and it has a very similar sort of you know, skin grafting sort of plot, but it goes in very weird directions beyond that.

So you guys, are you guys familiar with that?

Have you have you seen that?

Did you just catch up with our DVD of that?

Whenever?

Yes, I know I have.

In fact, you're you're listening all these other things.

One of the things that reminded me of the most in a couple of the scenes specifically, is more much more modern.

Pedro Almodovar is the skin I live in?

All of those kind of similar similar ilk and storylines.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was just I think, just a thing at the time.

It was something in the air in those like sixties and early seventies.

They loved that plot, you know.

Well, and skin grafting is such a like if you think about it, that's kind of a crazy concept, and we're just like, yeah, this is normal.

Let's just now.

It's completely normal now.

Yeah, yeah, but it's very the idea of it is very falling to me.

Well, yeah, no, totally in fact, isn't this.

Can we go on record on saying blood Rose is a direct influence on Face Off?

I don't know if I'll go on record saying that, but sure, why not.

I'll go yeah, why not?

Well done, Chris?

Yeah, blood Rose solid, solid title to not just upgrade, but like get back in the mindset because that's that DVD.

I don't even remember what year that was released.

That's been quite some time at this Yeah.

I think that would have been maybe two thousand and six, seven somewhere around there.

And you'll still have some complain and say, just re releases.

God damn it.

I know we will, yeah, yeah, I know, hope hopefully not, because I think that will be in the first the first pre order block that will happen in twenty twenty six, hopefully in late February or early March, and it may be as much with three other releases with His and SO four releases with possibly five films throughout SO and all of the other films will be completely new to disc including one one.

I think I can talk about a Spanish film called Morbo nice if anyone has ever released I think on letterbox what do they call it?

They call it Morbidness, which I don't know if it's actually a title.

A title, yeah, I don't think that's anyone has ever actually used in that title.

Maybe that is morbo is that's just what that directly transliterates too.

But this is a Spanish film from Let's see what was it nineteen seventy two with with Hollywood character actor icon Michael J.

Pollard Ohow from Bonnie and Clyde some other stuff.

He's in for the Apocalypse, you know, a very recognizable face.

I remember saying as a kid, I remember him from the Steve Martin movie Rock Sande I saw in the theater as a child.

But it's are you guys familiar without have you ever seen it before?

Isn't this the movie where like there's something like they're in a forest or they're in a van or something, and like the bride gets obsessed with somebody who's potentially like Royer stick with them.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a very it's a very odd vibe movie.

It's sort of a slow burn, not as much of a horror film exactly, although it does have that sort of or you know, sort of euro horror vibe, Gothic vibe to it.

A film that I might compare it to, not exactly in terms of plot, but in sort of the setup and the feel is the Australian film Long Weekend, So if you know, one of the best Australian films ever, but that sort of a couple goes to a secluded location and in Long Weekend it's sort of a nature goes amuck kind of thing, you know, in its own very weird sort of way, and that's not really what is happening in Morbo, but it has a very similar vibe and I think if you're a fan of that film, you will get something out of it.

You will get something out of Morbo too.

It'll be something interesting.

I really really like it a lot.

I think it was one of I first watched it maybe four or five years ago and was on my short list for favorite discoveries.

Wow.

So yeah, really really great, really great interesting movie.

And again, I don't think anyone out there who hears this wants to correct me.

But I don't think this ever.

I don't know if this ever got even a VHS release in the US.

It's certainly not a DVD and certainly not a Blu ray.

So it's always Bruce Holichek.

If you're out there, you always know that stuff.

You can you can, you can write me and then I'll put out a retraction or an apology.

But I don't think it's ever had any any big release.

So that's that's that's.

A cool that's great.

Yeah, that sounds great.

Yeah, yeah, all right, So we.

Got more about to look forward to a couple of upgrades.

There's some exciting stuff and.

I'll talk about a couple of more just and just real quick towards the end of the year.

And this is actually another another another upgrade, Don't come at me, don't come at me.

This is a cool one.

Another upgrade that we're planning on working on.

The plan right now is for it to be part of the Halloween lineup in twenty twenty six.

We'll see how that happens.

But we are going to do a double feature set with the Pakistani Dracula film Living Corpse Zenda Lash, also with the original Mondo Micabro production Hell's Ground from two thousand and seven, which features the same actor.

Oh gosh, what was his name?

Oh gosh, now I can't find it.

What's his name?

I can't find it?

Are you talking about Kunwar Alison?

Yes?

Possibly.

He plays the Dracula part in in Zenda Lash in Living Corpse, and then he's also in Hell's Ground.

So I'm really excited about Hell's Ground because this is something There was his original Mondo micabreo production, but Mondo micabre never released it.

It was sold to a different company.

It was on DVD for a long time, but that went out of print and that company retained the rights for like fifteen years.

But I think they only released gay porn after a certain point.

T La I got, I don't know, maybe I don't know.

Maybe I shouldn't say that I'm not loud, just in case I'm absolutely wrong and they don't.

Release capable either way, the speculation's fun.

Oh yeah, but yeah, it's sort of so it's been in limbo for a really long time and it's sort of like bringing it home.

So the guy who found Zenda Lash found the print of Zenda Lash, which is from the sixties, is Omar Ali Khan and is a longtime friend of Pete's and Mondo Micaber in general, and he directed Hell's Ground or Zibra Kana I think is the Urdu title, and Pete is a writer of the film and produced it pe tunes.

So really excited to bring that home.

And it's a really fun little film, uh and I and I and I love you know.

Living Corpse isn't a masterpiece by any means, but it is a lot of fun.

And if you like our if you like the Bollywood horror stuff, it's very much in that vibe.

It's a little less like it's you know, it was made in the sixties, so it's a little bit more conservative in how it tackles things.

Although it was absolutely huge, a hugely controversial release in Pakistan when it came out initially.

So so those are So that's a release I'm really really excited about.

That's a very bring it all back home kind of mono micabery definitely.

This is this is one that I cannot wait for.

This is a title that I long talked about.

I love the dve on this one.

Yeah, absolutely good title.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it should be fun and we'll have Omar as part of the extras and yeah, it'll be It'll be a lot of fun.

Again, were the plan is right now for Halloween.

We'll see if that happens because we still need to get Living Corpse restored, so we'll see.

We'll see how that goes.

But that is the plan right now.

And if it doesn't happen until twenty twenty seven, then I will also now have reveal the title for twenty twenty seven.

So incredible.

We'll know something ahead of time, kind of like a black magic for Buddha that we've known about for a while.

Yeah, known about it for a while now.

Yeah, all right, any other teases, anything else?

You want to drop some hints on anything?

One more and you know that I I want to talk about just because I really really love the film and it's the thing that I'm most excited about this year is a film from Hong Kong called House of the Loot.

Ooh, yes, I'm nineteen seventy nine.

Are you guys?

Are you Are you familiar with the film?

Chris?

Yeah, definitely, yeah, it's it's not super well known.

I had heard about it for a few years.

I have a strong interest in the Hong Kong New Wave, the films from the seventies and early early eighties, and I've actively wanted to release more films from that era and I and I didn't see I saw it two years ago and it did make my top ten Discoveries list from that year.

Really cool, sort of class conscious horror with a with a strong erotic twist.

Is the lead right, very very very young Simon Yam.

Yeah, maybe his first part in a feature film.

I think maybe he did TV work before that, but if it wasn't, his first film is one one of his very first films.

And he's he's very baby faced in it.

He looks very young.

That's amazing.

Yeah, he's he's one of what's the guy's name, Johnny Till's Favorites Rights.

Is a ton of yeah, and it's been in John Wu movies and just lots of Category three films, a very robust career and still works today.

So we're gonna We're gonna try and see if he'll be interviewed for our release.

I don't know get him, but we're gonna try.

So that's that's.

Something I'm really excited about.

I've always wanted to do more Hong Kong films for Momo Macao.

I think we've talked about that before and have sort of lamented the past how it's sort of gone.

But now we've got Black Magic with Buddha, House of the Loot and an unnamed third one that will also be coming out next year.

Interesting thing in fact, that is the the other PPP that I was mentioned, Pete's Passion Project, So so uh an interesting film also from the nineteen seventies that we'll be doing.

So I can't wait for Blu ray dot Com to make PPPs an actual thing into the lexicon.

You could call him PETEZPPS as well.

Petez PEPs.

I don't he may not appreciate that.

I don't know, but I say, let's do it.

Why not.

All right, lots to look forward to in twenty twenty six, been a robust twenty twenty five, seemingly even bigger year.

Yeah, any anything else, gentlemen, then we want to hype up before the end of the year.

I don't think.

I just you know, I'll take this opportunity just to say thank you to all of the core Mono MiCab I mean everyone, if you've bought a release of ours ever, thank you, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, everything.

I love you.

I want to come to your house and lavish kisses upon you.

No, I won't do that, I promise, but I do.

I am very appreciative everyone who's been very supportive over us, for of us over the last few years, and just that just you know, thank you, And hopefully you guys are gonna stick with us.

I think the whole weird movies on Blu ray market might be shrinking a little bit.

Yeah, but it's certainly not going it away, and we're not going away, so hopefully you'll hang with us.

We've got a really great year coming up.

Well, i'd even argue it seems like we're kind of on the verge of resurgence.

I know that's kind of a cliche to bring up with somebody that loves physical media and we're all working in the industry and all that stuff.

But I truly think with this like the Netflix and Warner Brothers bullshit this year and more of like the anti corporatized feeling of your taking our films back from us and we can't ever access the movies that we actually want to see.

I feel like the tide is I don't maybe not turning fully, but I think it's becoming more of a like at least visible problem that people are solving this way again.

Yeah, I think that people are realizing having a sort of epiphany about the value of physical media, the value not in like a monetary term, but the value of preserving films for yourself right in a physical media copy of the film.

I can tell you it completely anecdotal, but my sister in law apparently, who's not just a normal you know person.

You know, she works, she's got a corporate jobs, she's just whatever.

But like she's I mean, she's not like, you know, one of us, you know what of us.

But she apparently asked my wife, her sister about like what does she recommend about getting a Blu ray player, and that she was interested in, like, oh, if if there's a movie I like, I want to buy a copy and own a copy.

Now that's completely anecdotal, but I mean, I think that's interesting that that just has come up just now, especially after all this stuff about Netflix and Warner Brothers and you know, all that stuff, you know, and this can concerned that everything is going to streaming, except it won't all go to streaming, you know.

So I mean not to not to get into a huge discussion right at the end of the podcast, but I think one of the most interesting things that happened was when Netflix first started, they were the place where all these movies would have gone, right, Like they were the library.

They had everything right.

Media company in a way.

I mean, you know, I started out sending out goddamn DVDs, you know.

Yeah, so funny that now they might actually you know, herald the death of physical media, which is not going to be the case.

It's it's not going to be the death of it.

The thing that worries me the most is if the technical aspects get pulled out from under us, like if like the makers of like they just stopped making machines that sort of thing.

You know, Yeah, I will be most worried if we ever have like a shortage of players or everybody stops manufacturing them.

That's that's the biggest thing.

And I mean we're the point where, you know, the long running myth of there's only one plant in the world that produces blu rays in Mexico has long been dispelled everybody.

There's still like a handful of people that say it as if that's true.

But I have a feeling we're about to see more of those manufacturers pop up, not less.

I think we're truly seeing and not just for any of these niche companies.

I mean, studios can't keep up with demand right now.

That is a crazy, like encouraging sign, even though it's terrible if you want those movies because it's frustrating, But I mean Amazon has slipped on pre orders for almost everything, and we've had releases delayed because there are so many discs in production that people can't keep up with the demand.

We can't see four K releases put out on time because they're so far behind.

That's a good thing for the long range of the hobby, but in the immediate it's going to be like some theoretical growing pains.

I guess, yeah, for sure, it definitely seems like there is growing interest out there.

And like I say, I mean, some of it might be anecdotal, it's just oh, I know this person or whatever.

But it's hard to argue when certain big studio releases sell out or you know, or you know, it's hard to find copies you know, ahead of time.

So it bodes well for the future of everything.

And I'm one of those people that's very much like the health of everyone is the health of everyone.

You know, if we all need big, huge things to be drawing people in, we need the big studio releases, we need the big you know, we need Vinegar Syndrome, and we need arrow and Criterion putting out lots of stuff and putting out big films to draw people in, and then we can sort of be swept up in that wake.

Hopefully that's sort of the idea, And that's just overall, you know, overall, we sort of all rise on that same tide.

You know.

Hopefully I agree.

Year, Thank you for your time.

Hopefully you have a great holiday season.

Hopefully Pete is doing well.

Pete and all of us PPS are just exciting and well and healthy.

I can't wait to see what's all coming in the new year.

And Chris, thank you for your time and attention to all of this, even though you are slightly frozen on the stream right now.

I hope all is well.

And if anybody is needing anything out there, reach out.

This whole thing is a community.

Anybody that we can help bring more enlightenment on any of this.

That's what we want to do.

The whole podcast here is to share the love of the specific label and we're looking to do some more things in the new year with it.

We're already scheduling our next episode, so we cannot wait.

We will see you in the next one.

Merry Christmas to you guys too, and happy New Year and to everyone who's out there, and we'll see you in twenty twenty six.

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