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On this loosey goosey episode of Yapping With My Cat, we take a peek into the early 90's Video Rental scene of my youth. Grab your bowl of cat treats and get ready to "be kind and rewind"!

Until the next proper episode of Movies with My Cat comes out, here's a less proper episode about the first movie to turn on the horror switch in my little kid brain. Brains… BRAAAIIINNNSSSS!!!!  Oh, BTW, that clip from BigHead's first horror movie was from an incredible movie by J.R. Bookwalter called Ozone, check it out if you like gooey things. 

Work is a drag, but somebody's gotta do it. Thing is, the working week is putting a bit of a hamper on our pursuit of shining a light on less appreciated horror movies. So, we find ourselves in a pickle. We can give up, admit defeat, and allow our favorite movies to be mocked and/or forgotten, or we can adjust the format of the show a bit and continue on. So now, maybe the dive is a little less deep, but the call to arms in defense of underappreciated films is as loud as ever. The format of the show may be changing, but the goal remains the same: illuminate the dark edges of cinema hell. And what better place to continue that mission than with a movie about a snake possessed by Satan. That movie is 1981's Jaws of Satan, filmed in and around central Alabama. Sssssss. Sssssss, indeed.

Here at Movies With My Cat, simplicity is often at the core of our favorite stories. Killdozer has that. Six men stranded on a desolate island doing battle with a sinister force. Simple. It also has tractors fighting against a bulldozer possessed by an otherworldly entity. Who doesn't wanna see that? Get your hardhats on and rev up your big yellow baby (that's a tractor) with KILLDOZER!!!   #Killdozer #KillerTractor #ClintWalker #NevilleBrand #D9Caterpillar #MadeForTVMovie #cats #movies #podcats #lesspopularmovies #HorrorMovies #podcastwithmycat #SupportYourLocalCat #catsandhorror #catpodcast #kittypodcast #independentpodcast #independentpodcats #underappreciatedhorror

If we told you that, Scary Movie, sat around for nearly thirty years before being rediscovered and properly released, you'd call me a liar. And you'd be right, if in fact we were talking about the Wayans brothers' horror spoof from 2000. But that's not the movie we're talking about. Instead, we're talking Daniel Erickson's 1991 ode to Halloween spookhouses, Scary Movie, a film that did in fact sit around for nearly thirty years before being properly released. Unfortunately, by the time it was released, a different "Scary Movie" had cast a pretty huge shadow over it. Join us as we stalk every dark corner of this unsung regional horror film (from Texas!) starring a young pre-Golden Globe John Hawkes.

Could it be that "sploitation" is the most fun suffix in all of cinema vocabulary? Nunsploitation (sexy movies about nuns), Ozsploitation (wonky Australian movies), Vansploitation (movies about vans), Brucesploitation (movies with actors who either looked like or were similarly named like Bruce Lee hoping to fool people into thinking Bruce Lee was in the movie). Yeah, "sploitation" is up there for sure. But here at, Movies With My Cat, our favorite "sploitation" portmanteau is easily METALSPLOITATION, cinema's rockin'est horror romps. Take a casual jaunt through some of our favorite examples on this special episode of Movies With My Cat!

Black Roses, John Fasano, 1988

Not all underappreciated movies are underappreciated because they're badly made. Sometimes they simply slip through the cracks and they don't get the veiwership they deserve. We believe 1990's creepy ghoul flick, The Boneyard, falls in that category. Not that plenty of people don't have bad things to say about it, they do. It's just that those same people can't help but also say something nice about, The Boneyard.

Get ready to soak your socks in the murky swamp water of Fred Olen Ray's 1980 zombie (or possibly alien) classic, The Alien Dead. Filmed in central Florida with a bluegrass soundtrack, The Alien Dead is just the right amount of dumb fun, even if its creator doesn't think so.

I've often found that the simplest stories find a way of sticking with me. That's part of the appeal of, Bats, a 1999 film starring LDP (that's Lou Diamond Phillips for the uninitiated). It's not going to change your world view, or inspire you to greatness. Or maybe it will, I don't know, maybe you're in just the right kind of fragile state. The point is, Bats won't blow your mind, because it doesn't need to. It's got fun on it's side and simple fun should always be good enough for anyone to enjoy anything, especially Bats. 

Nathan and BigHead wander through the muck and goo of 1987's, The Soultangler. There's gonna be a brain-snail, a chain smoking newspaper reporter, friends and family in place of actors, Fred's Fish Fry patties, and lots of soultangling, which is worse than tangling your fishing line, but not as bad as untangling Christmas lights. Plus, we meet a new friend of BIgHead's from the creek. 

On the inaugural episode of, Movies With My Cat, Nathan and his kitty pal, BigHead, explore 1978's under-the-radar less-than-cult monster movie, Spawn of the Slithis. There's turtle races, slow motion frisbee tossing, burned out high-school journalist teachers, and one amazing monster suit with a guy rubber cemented into it whether he likes it or not. 

Are you sick and tired of your friends and family making fun of the movies you love just because the plots make zero sense and the special FX look like they all came from the Dollar Tree? Do you stare agape in angry confusion that your favorite movie only has a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes? Do you talk to your cat? If you said yes to any of that, check out Movies With My Cat, the show where me and my cat pal, Bighead, will make you feel right at home.