CELLULOID CEMETERY
Join your host, filmmaker Mark Bessenger (BITE MARKS, NINJA ZOMBIE), and his guests as they delve into the exploitative, overlooked and under-appreciated side of cinema! Each week, Mark picks a film his guests haven't seen, then they watch and discuss it! Will they like it, love it or hate it? Listen and find out!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: SPOILERS!
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Episodes
125 episodes
Episode 124: SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE-MEN
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Celluloid Cemetery! Today, my special guest Sam Park joins me to talk about the first Superman feature film, SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE-MEN, starring George Reeves as the Man of Steel. W...
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Episode 123: BATMAN (1966)
BAM! POW! BIFF! Celluloid Cemetery turns it atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed as film fan/film & astronomy teacher Rob Carl and I travel 13 miles to Gotham City to talk about the coolest, campiest version of the Dark Knight...
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Episode 122: ADULT SWIM YULE LOG
Think the holidays are over? Think again! Because they're about to be over...for good! Celluloid Cemetery watches as a yule log video races from genre to genre, becoming a whirlwind of marriage proposals, slashers, curses, devil worship, ...
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Episode 121: SANTA'S SLAY
This Christmas, Santa enters the ring as wrestling superstar Bill Goldberg plays a Satanic Santa seeking revenge against an angel who tricked him into being good for the last 1000 years. Joining me on this episode of Celluloid Cemetery is...
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Episode 120: THE LEMON DROP KID
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen...Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life and Scrooge and White Christmas...but do you recall, the most forgotten Christmas film of all? Join the one and only Santa Claus as he joi...
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Episode 119: MISTER MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
By George! Mr. Magoo tackles A Christmas Carol...on Broadway, yet! The curmudgeonly near-sighted cartoon character plays Scrooge in a musical adaptation of the Dickens classic, and actors Hunter Evans and Daniel Moser join me to discuss C...
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Episode 118: THE MEAN ONE
The people of Newville liked Christmas a lot, but the Mean One, living high in a cave on a hill...did not. Actor/voice actor Aaron Veach joins me today to spread a little Christmas fear, as we examine a bloody dark take on The Grinch.&nbs...
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Episode 117: JACK FROST (1997)
Grab your scarf and your mittens and get ready for a spot of snowy death as Celluloid Cemetery starts a month of Christmas/wintery films that'll make you return your favorite present! Today, marketing entertainment producer and big horror...
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Episode 116: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982)
Pillow fight! Nothing says slumber party like an all-girls cushion conflict! And a spot of murder! Today, Celluloid Cemetery celebrates the 43rd anniversary of 1982's THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE! Joining me on this episode is the fil...
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Episode 115: GODZILLA 1985
Return with Celluloid Cemetery to 1985 when one of the world's biggest movie stars came out of retirement to appear in a brand new movie! No, not Raymond Burr! Join Big G enthusiast Andrew Ward and me as we talk about GODZILLA 1985!...
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Episode 114: COCAINE BEAR
Does a bear snort in the woods? Find out on this episode of Celluloid Cemetery as voice actor/actor Aaron Veach joins me to talk about whether 'tis nobler in the mind to laugh or scream at such a concept as the one you find in 2023's COCAINE BE...
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Episode 113: DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE TRAVELING SALESLADY?
Did you hear the one about the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter? You did? Well then, I bet you haven't heard this one...Join me and Phyllis Diller historian and impersonator Laurie Ayers as we chat about her life and the only ...
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Episode 112: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A NAKED LADY?
And the final Jeopardy answers are: a. "Oh, my god! Put some clothes on!", b. "The carpet matches the drapes!" and c. "Hey, baby, wanna come back to my place and watch some horror movies?" The question is the title of the film director/wr...
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Episode 111: THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL
Okay, "Hello, Dolly!", it ain't. "Singin' in the Rain", it ain't. It ain't even "Xanadu!" But today, actor Benjamin Lutz and I strip down on Celluloid Cemetery to talk about musical perversions, dancing dildos and a tap-dancin...
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Episode 110: DEAD DICKS
The bonds between brother and sister are stretched to the breaking point...and beyond when Becca checks in on her suicidal older brother, only to find him dead in the bathtub...and the closet...and on the sofa...and then alive eating cereal.&nb...
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Episode 109: YETI, GIANT OF THE 20TH CENTURY
When Yetis are 30 feet tall and look like Barry Gibb, you know this is a job for Celluloid Cemetery! Join Bigfoot enthusiast and film school teacher Rob Carl and me as we talk about how big a monster must be to be considered kaiju, how goofy a ...
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Episode 108: DEMON WIND
There's a foul stench in the wind...and it's not us! Today, on Celluloid Cemetery, producer/writer/entertainment marketing producer Patrick Falvey and I talk possession, gooey fx, bad acting and Evil Dead rip-offs! It's 1990's DEMON...
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Episode 107: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CLASS REUNION
What makes a comedy funny? For the first time, filmmaker Vito Trabucco and I butt heads on one of his favorite funny films, 1982's NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CLASS REUNION. Join our spirited debate on why the film works (or doesn't), why the cast...
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Episode 106: WICKED WICKED
Film gimmicks have been around since the introduction of the talkies, but today on Celluloid Cemetery, former film teacher Kent Pettit joins me to discuss the use of film gimmicks to draw in audiences and just how successful "Duo-Vision" was fo...
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Episode 105: THE BLACK HOLE (1979)
Today, on Celluloid Cemetery, we gather together undeveloped characters, folksy robots, big-ass special effects, a villain with a beard set to impress and a trip where no man has gone before! Oops! Wrong franchise! Join former astronomics...
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Episode 104: HIGH ANXIETY
Mel Brooks takes on Alfred Hitchcock in this spoof of his movies. A sanitarium, a new director, a fiendish scheme, multiple murders, a desperate woman, shady characters and fourth-wall-breaking jokes all add up to one thing...1977's HIGH ...
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Episode 103: THE BEING
Things get gooey at Celluloid Cemetery as a nuclear storage facility creates a mess o' monsters that threaten a small town fighting against filth! Join writer and entertainment marketing director Patrick Falvey and me as we discuss the 19...
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Episode 102: BLACULA
Move over, Alucard! Get lost, Count Yorga! Beat it, Karnstein! Make way for cinema's first black vampire, Dracula's soul brother...Blacula! Join film teacher Kent Pettit as we discuss horror blaxploitation, the Hues Corporation and can a ...
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