Midnight Video 13 (Skeletons, La Antena and Prayer of the Rollerboys)
In which we avoid going Bulgarian in Skeletons, search for our voices in La Antena and dust off our inline skates for Prayer of the Rollerboys.
View ArticleMidnight Video 14 (Baron Prasil aka. Munchausen, IP5 and Boom!)
In which we surf cannonballs with Baron Brasil, get lost in the forests of IP5 before dicking around with Liz in Boom!
View ArticleMidnight Video 15 (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The Case of the...
In which we go jelly jar hunting with The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, don our Trilby hat and rubber gloves for The Case of the Bloody Iris before succumbing to the serenades of a cat in The...
View ArticleMidnight Video 16 (Tarzan Triumphs, Hardcore and Z.P.G.)
In which we swing over the SS in Tarzan Triumphs, get our own back with a big black phallus in Hardcore before being subjected to an inquisition by a library computer.
View ArticleMidnight Video 17 (Dick Tracy, Goodbye Gemini and Time of the Apes)
In which we polish off our Tommy guns for Dick Tracy, swing out with siblings in Goodbye Gemini, before we discover the missing link between temperature and time travel in Time of the Apes.
View ArticleMidnight Video 18: Soundtracks Special (Side A)
In which we swap our video players and tapes for record players and vinyl (figuratively) for our own spin on Desert Island Discs with the discs in question being our favourite soundtracks. This...
View ArticleMidnight Video 18: Soundtracks Special (Side B)
In which we flip the record over and continue with our soundtracks shenanigans.
View ArticleMidnight Video 19 (Safety Last, The Orchestra and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull)
In which we hang about for Safety Last, tune up for The Orchestra and find ourselves in Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
View ArticleMidnight Video Head Cleaner: Wild At Heart Commentary Track
In which we accompany viewers of Lynch's Palme d'Or winning movie with our dulcet tones.
View ArticleMidnight Video Frightfest Special Part One
In which we do something a bit different (again) and review some new films that we saw at Frightfest 2011 including: Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, The Theatre Bizarre, The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry,...
View ArticleMidnight Video Frightfest Special Part Two
In which we carry on where we left off as we round up our Frightfest shenanigans, which include: Kidnapped, The Divide, The Innkeepers, Saint, Kill List and A Night In The Woods.
View ArticleMidnight Video 20 (Izo, Who? and On The Silver Globe)
In which we scream and chop through time and the universe in Izo, investigate the truth behind the man with the metal face in Who? before contemplating the fate of our world and another in On The...
View ArticleMidnight Video 21 (The Formula, Quest For Fire and The Phantom Carriage)
In which we ditch the search for Nazi gold, and hunt down their synthetic fuel instead in The Formula, before an even better invention gains our attention in the Quest For Fire. And then to wind down...
View ArticleMidnight Video 22 (Pulgasari, Night Of The Eagle and Space Is The Place)
In which we stand in the shadow of North Korea's answer to Godzilla in Pulgasari, attempt some witchcraft-influenced ornithological studies in Night Of The Eagle before finally strapping on our moon...
View ArticleMidnight Video Halloween Special (House Of Frankenstein, Horror Express, The...
A bonus bumper episode of Midnight Video that sees us tackle some seasonal fare for your listening pleasure. Some familiar voices pop up too as we knock on the door of the House Of Frankenstein, get...
View ArticleMidnight Video 23 (The Red Tent, Radioactive Dreams and The Navigator: A...
Show 23 sees us braving arctic conditions and a weight lifting Sean Connery in The Red Tent, before swapping our furs for Trilbys and red wigs in Radioactive Dreams and we round things off with a...
View ArticleMidnight Video 24 (Princess Iron Fan, Black Legion and Demons of the Mind)
In which we journey to the west and stop monkeying around with Princess Iron Fan before succumbing to the wiles of the bottle and questionable fraternities in the Black Legion. And then we round off...
View ArticleMidnight Video 25 (Dr Heckyl And Mr Hype, Fellini's Casanova and Bluebeard)
In which we admire Oliver Reed's duality in Dr Heckyl and Mr Hype, take notes from Donald Sutherland's guide to recognising your mistresses and sharpen our miniature guillotines for Richard Burton in...
View ArticleMidnight Video 26: Christmas Special (The Great Silence, My Favourite Year...
In which we recieve bountiful gifts from the listeners in the form of cinematic crackers. Snowy Spaghetti Western; The Great Silence, the golden era of 50s US TV in the shape of My Favourite Year and...
View ArticleMidnight Video 27 (Alice In Acidland, Lisztomania and The Island)
In which we turn on, tune in and wiggle it all about with Alice In Acidland. Then we double the dose and trip the light fantastique with Our Ken's Lisztomania, before we round things off with Maurice...
View ArticleMidnight Video 28 (Dr. Plonk, Sexmission and Running Out Of Luck)
In which we skip through time with the silent exploits of Dr. Plonk before waking up in a future that most men would dream of, but is it really a nightmare in Sexmission? And then we round things off...
View ArticleMidnight Video 29 (Do Or Die, The Linguini Incident and The Headless Eyes)
In which we observe Mr Miyagi apply a different oriental body technique in the silicone enhanced Do Or Die. Before donning our shimmering silver shirts and fighting our way out of a big bag in the...
View ArticleMidnight Video Headcleaner: Midnight Video Mixtape Vol. 1 Side A
Our first (and only other Headcleaner) to date, was our Wild At Heart commentary, which judging by the numbers seems to have proved quite popular. Whilst Jim is currently on holiday it means that we...
View ArticleMidnight Video Headcleaner: Midnight Video Mixtape Vol. 1 Side B
The flipside of the first Midnight video Mixtape showcases some of the lesser-known musical oddities from some of the films that we've covered over the last year.
View ArticleMidnight Video 30 (Night Tide, The Driver's Seat and Brimstone And Treacle)
In which we sing a song to Frank Booth's siren in Night Tide. Oversee Liz Taylor's wardrobe and her co-star's macrobiotic diet in The Driver's Seat, before succumbing to an Englishman (not) in New...
View ArticleMidnight Video 31 (Chronopolis, Blue Collar and Phenomena)
In which we climb up to see the wand-wielding immortals in Chronopolis, before falling back to earth and donning our joke shops masks and joining the factory line in Blue Collar. We then round...
View ArticleMidnight Video 32 (Lemonade Joe, Body Double and Smallcreep's Day)
In which jump on the wagon and hone our sharp shooting skills in Czech Western Lemoade Joe before venturing into voyeuristic fantasies in reality warped Body Double. And finally we jump on, off and...
View ArticleMidnight Video 33: Birthday Special
In which we celebrate our first anniversary by reviewing no films at all! Instead we stare down the barrel of 007's Walther PPK and get behind the scenes of Live And Let Die through Roger Moore's...
View ArticleMidnight Video 33 1/3: The Dead Zone
In which we wake from our extended nap and tackle Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's novel.
View ArticleMidnight Video 34: The Shout, Woyzeck and Powder
In which we point our bones and unleash our teror shouts in The Shout. We then stock up on peas and sharpen our cut-throats somewhat erratically for the winner of the listener's Herzong vote: Woyzeck...
View ArticleMidnight Video 35 (Death At Broadcasting House, In The Mouth Of Madness and...
In which we clear out throats and polish the wireless for whodunnit; Death At Broadcasting House before delving into the overlapping realities of paperback horror fiction for the Listener's John...
View ArticleMidnight Video 36: The Rebel, Fausto 5.0 and Bitter Moon
In which we stretch our canvasses and tilt our berets for The Rebel before we do a deal with a gutless devil in Fausto 5.0. Then we round things off with our listener's vote Polanksi winner; the toast...
View ArticleMidnight Video 37 (Death Bed, Hana-Bi and Under the Cherry Moon)
In which we catch 40 winks with Death Bed- The Bed That Eats, break out our berets and paint bruihes with Takeshi Kitano in Listner's Choice winner Hani-Bi (AKA-Fireworks) and bust some slick moves...
View ArticleMidnight Video 38 (A Visitor to the Museum, After Hours, Dune: Alan Smithee Cut)
In which we squeeze into our high heels and communicate in metaphors for A Visitor to the Museum, before finding ourselves on the run from crazed ice-cream van owners and Joni Mitchell fans in After...
View ArticleMidnight Video 39: Red Triangle Special (of sorts) (Themroc, Montenegro and...
The final show of Midnight Video volume 1 is a rose-tinted look back at a period in the 80s when fledgling UK TV channel; Channel 4 would broadcast films with distinctly arthouse sensibilities. The...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 1: Phantom of the Paradise
And so the countdown begins. The first minute ticks by in the countdown to midnight as we dissect a dozen films over the next 12 weeks. Up first is Brian De Palma's audacious musical melange of...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 2: The Brood
The minute hand draws ever nearer to it's chronolgical crisis. In this episode we bare all for Dr Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) as he experiments on our feeble minds with his experimental method known as...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 3: The Wickerman (2006)
As the clock continues to countdown things begin to get a little scary as we uncover the bear suit amongst the bees in Neil Labute's universally panned remake of The Wickerman. Can Midnight Video's...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 4: Stone
This week it's literally a race against the (Doomsday?) clock as we go undercover in one of the toughest Australian biker gangs ever to have graced the silver screen in Sandy Harbutt's frank and...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 5: Tenebrae
As luck would have it Dario Argento is the special guest at this year's Frightfest and like the planets aligning, Midnight Video brings into orbit the moon of Tenebrae casting it's shadow across the...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 6: Tears of the Black Tiger
Verdant, viridian and violently pink: Tears of the Black Tiger is a Thai genre mash up that defies expectations. A musical, western, melodrama with more than touch of the ol' ultraviolence a la...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 7: Nosferatu (1979)
Although time is irrelevant to the undead, we find ourselves celebrating the minute hand striking the 6th minute to Midnight on our Doomsday countdown by taking a look at intrepid and idiosyncratic...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 8: Strange Days
Before he became obsessed with a bespectcled child with a scar on his head, Rafe, sorry, Ralph Fiennes starred in a Kathryn Bigelow (with a little help from her now ex, James Cameron) film, which was a...
View ArticleMidnight Video: Doomsday Clock 9: Big Trouble in Little China
In the Mouth of Madness was the winner of the listener's choice in our poll, but a close second was this classic slice of Hong Kongesque hokum from Carp and Kurt. With just three minutes left until...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 10: Santa Sangre
We're now in double figures and Doomsday Clock 10 is comprised of arm envy, oedipal rage and Al from Quantum Leap's brother. Oh yeh, and it's directed by someone called Alejandro Jodorowsky. It's...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 11: Dust Devil
Bruce Dickinson told us there was two midnights to midnight, but he might have been sketching out Lord Iffy Boatrace at the time. Fortunately for us, Richard Stanley upped the ante after his...
View ArticleMidnight Video - Doomsday Clock 12: The Exorcist III
BOOM!!! This is it folks. The clock has struck midnight and the last instalment of the Doomsday Clock resonates in harmony with our first ever show. We've gone full circle and are rounding off...
View ArticleMidnight Video Headcleaner: Mixtape Vol. 2 Side A
To keep your iTunes subscriptions ticking over and an opportunity to have a rest from dulcet tones, here is the first part of another mixtape which is comprised of sogs, themes and samples from the...
View ArticleMidnight Video Headcleaner: Mixtape Vol. 2 Side B
Side B of the second volume of the Midnight Video Headcleaner mixtape is comprised of songs, samples and scores from the Doomsday Clock specials. Enjoy. Tracklist: Popul Vuh - On The Way (Nosferatu)...
View ArticleMidnight Video: 2012 Round Up Special
In which we run through our cinematic highlights of the year and bring some news about the future of the show.
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