Optimism Vaccine

Optimism Vaccine’s panel of experts and idiots explore the dingy crevices between pop culture and forgotten trash in a never-ending quest to celebrate your guilty pleasures in the world of cinema and beyond.

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episode 267: Do Not Blame the Babadook (Boogeymen and Boogeyboys Through the Ages)


THIS WEEK: The Boogey Man (1980), Boogeyman (2005), The Boogeyman (2023)

A boogeyman (or bogeyman if you're a little freak who can't spell) is a placeholder term for every faceless generic monster living under a bed or in a child's closet. It's only appropriate that when a boogeyman film is made it serves as a catch-all for whatever the hot horror trends of the moment are...


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 January 11, 2024  1h15m
 
 

episode 266: Hard Boiling (and boiled sequels)


THIS WEEK: Hard Boiled (1992), The Last Blood AKA Hard Boiled 2 (1991), Just Heroes AKA Hard Boiled 2 (1989)

If you make the greatest action film of all time before leaving Hong Kong for Hollywood, there's a good chance someone will try to make a quick buck with an in-name-only sequel. If you're really lucky, they'll just slap a new title on an old movie. Maybe even one of your own. Or someone will make an Xbox game 15 years later. This is how it works...


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 January 5, 2024  1h15m
 
 

episode 265: A Bloody Evil New Year


THIS WEEK: New Year's Evil (1980), Bloody New Year (1987)

We're true cinephiles around here so our New Year's resolution is to watch more late career Norman J. Warren flicks while simultaneously becoming the most POWERFUL podcast in the universe. Please tune in so we can finish the year strong and force Spotify to pay up.

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 December 29, 2023  54m
 
 

episode 264: An Evil Bloody Christmas


THIS WEEK: Christmas Evil (1980) and Blood Beat (1983)

We tried our best to find some things you could watch with the whole family this holiday season. Gather 'round the Yule log and enjoy the classic combination of a glowing Christmas samurai and Santa Claus Travis Bickle. Your mom is going to love this.

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 December 22, 2023  1h12m
 
 

episode 263: The Strange Hostel of Podcast Pleasures (Coffin Joe and The Films of José Mojica Marins - Part 3)


THIS WEEK: The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974), The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976), Embodiment of Evil (2008)

We wrap up our coverage of the incomparable Zé do Caixão with the final Coffin Joe films of the 1970s and Jose Mojica Marins' late career resurrection of the character in 2008.

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 December 15, 2023  1h13m
 
 

episode 262: Pocastis Hominis (Coffin Joe and The Films of José Mojica Marins - Part 2)


THIS WEEK: Awakening of the Beast (1970), The End of Man (1971), When the Gods Fall Asleep (1972)

Our Coffin Joe retrospective takes a wild swerve into LSD fueled meta-fiction freakouts and we take a look at Jose Mojica Marins other reoccurring role as Finis Hominis.

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 December 8, 2023  1h6m
 
 

episode 261: This Night I'll Possess Your Podcast (Coffin Joe and The Films of José Mojica Marins - Part 1)


THIS WEEK: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964), The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968), This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

In 1964, Brazillian filmmaker José Mojica Marins introduced the world to an iconic undertaker with disgusting fingernails, a love of sadistic murder and a deep appreciation for children: COFFIN JOE.

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 December 1, 2023  1h15m
 
 

episode 260: Kirdy Stevens' Taboo Series (Yes Nut November - Part 4)


THIS WEEK: Taboo (1980), Taboo II (1982), Taboo III (1984), Taboo IV: The Younger Generation (1985), Taboo V (1986)

We're celebrating Thanksgiving like any good red-blooded American should: By watching some turkeys get STUFFED. Yes Nut November comes to a close with one of the biggest and most controversial X-rated series ever, Taboo.

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 November 23, 2023  1h15m
 
 

episode 259: The Erotic Films of Tinto Brass (Yes Nut November - Part 3)


THIS WEEK: Salon Kitty AKA Madam Kitty (1976), All Ladies Do It (1992), Cheeky (2000)

We're crankin' our nut knob higher this week and checking out the films of brilliant butt enthusiast and Italian ass-teur, Tinto Brass. Producers may have hacked apart his cut of Caligula, but they can never take away the weird bread scene in Salon Kitty.

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 November 16, 2023  1h13m
 
 

episode 258: The Films of Russ Meyer (Yes Nut November - Part 2)


THIS WEEK: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), and Supervixens (1975)

We finally got to fulfill our lifelong dream of covering our favorite army combat cameraman turned campy sexploitation and softcore peddler, Russ Meyer. How many filmmakers can say they had a career making the finest big-boobed, square-jawed, action packed movies in the world AND got to collaborate with Roger "Erogenous" Ebert? There's only one, baby...


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 November 9, 2023  1h12m