Ep 235
Ep 235 Razor Blade Smile
It’s time to visit the misspent youth of the team, hurtling back to 1998 for Jake West’s “Razor Blade Smile”. A film that shows that a coffin can make a lovely centrepiece gun rack in any bedroom; …
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The hosts on Jake West
Adam admires Jake West, especially for his documentaries. He says he admires the spirit of West's film Razor Blade Smile despite the limits of a low budget.
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Lee calls West's Evil Aliens great fun. Adam says West has made some incredible documentaries, including the video nasties moral panic one on three discs. He heartily recommends them as so well put together, and says they speak to all the right people.
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Adam Because it's very, I just admire the spirit of it.
Ep 235 Razor Blade SmileAdam And actually the thing is Jake West who directed it, has made some, I mean, he's made other films because he did, oh crap, what's it called? Evil Aliens.
Ep 235 Razor Blade SmileLee Oh, yeah, that was great fun. Yes, that was really fun.
Ep 235 Razor Blade SmileAdam and there's a, an anthology that I've never seen called Midnight Peep Show that he did a segment for, and he did a segment for ABC's of Death. but the the thing I really love, Jake West has made some fucking incredible documentaries.
Ep 235 Razor Blade SmileAdam The yeah, cuz he did the video nasties moral panic one that came out on three discs.
Ep 235 Razor Blade SmileAdam And so there's a lot of, oh, and he's, I think he produces Stark Raving Cinema podcast, which I've listened to a few of that, that's a pretty good show. And, but yeah, the, yeah, Nucleus Films who again, it's like, I've got quite a few of their releases and they're always like more obscure stuff. And actually, some documentary stuff as well, like horror documentaries. So that's definitely where, you know, that's that's another string to Jake West that I think is really interesting and they and yeah, I heartily recommend those, video nasties documentaries cuz they're just so well put together. And speaking to all the right people. Because yeah, you know, it's just.
Ep 235 Razor Blade SmileAdam Because they they've remastered, Jake West, the director's remastered it. And apparently showed it at a, showed it at a horror like showed it at a horror festival last year. So they've, I'd be interested to see it once it's been remastered to see whether, cuz I mean, there's sort of, there's, the limitations of a low budget are there, you, you know that.
Ep 235 Razor Blade Smile
