This week, The B-Movie Boys crack open Basket Case (1982), Frank Henenlotter’s gloriously sleazy tale of a man, his wicker basket, and the deformed telepathic twin brother living inside it. What starts as a grimy revenge story set in the worst hotel New York City has ever produced quickly mutates into something way stranger, funnier, and honestly kind of brilliant.

We dive deep into the movie’s legendary $35,000 budget, guerrilla filmmaking tactics, aggressively janky stop-motion effects, and the bizarre emotional core hiding underneath all the melting puppet chaos. Along the way, we discuss psychic basket etiquette, mutant sibling dependency, horny monster logic, Times Square exploitation cinema, and whether Belial is secretly one of the great tragic monsters in cult film history.

There are riffs about kung fu movies, New Hampshire landmarks, Tom Green, Nathan’s hot dogs, and the logistics of securing a wicker basket containing a murder creature with what appears to be the world’s least effective padlock. Somewhere inside all the chaos, the Schlockometer starts having an existential crisis over whether Basket Case is actually… a genuinely good movie.

Mention in this Episode:

• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Watchmen (2009)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Judy Garland
• Lindsay Lohan
• Michael B. Jordan
• Tom Green
• John Waters
• Joe Bob Briggs
• Nathan’s Hot Dogs
• Longaberger
• YouPorn
• “Pinball Wizard” by The Who

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The B-Movie Boys head back to the atomic age this week with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, a movie that basically looked at giant monster cinema and said, “Yeah, I think I’ll invent an entire genre today.” What starts as a straightforward 1950s creature feature quickly turns into a deep dive on filmmaking innovation, nuclear panic, stop-motion wizardry, and the absolute madness of making a dinosaur attack New York using techniques invented by one guy working alone in a rented Hollywood storefront.

We break down the legendary work of Ray Harryhausen, the accidental plagiarism of Ray Bradbury, and why this movie somehow feels both wildly important and occasionally like homework between dinosaur scenes. Along the way, we discuss fake dinosaur science, bizarre accents, the logistics of shooting bazookas at prehistoric monsters, and whether the Rhedosaurus simply wanted to enjoy a nice day at Coney Island before everybody got rude about it.

It’s a movie that created the DNA for everything from Godzilla to Jurassic Park, while also featuring one extremely confident cop attempting to fight a 200-foot dinosaur with a revolver. The Schlockometer is deployed. Dynamation changes cinema forever. And a giant radioactive sea lizard steals the show and our hearts.

Mention in this Episode:

• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Fast and the Furious (2001)
• King Kong (1933)
• The Lost World (1925)
• Godzilla (1954)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Ray Harryhausen
• Tom Hanks
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Elvis (2022)
• Charles R. Knight
• Willis O'Brien
• Ray Bradbury
• Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Bo Burnham
• MrBeast

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This week, The B-Movie Boys step into the larger-than-life world of Dolemite (1975), a movie that somehow manages to be a scrappy, low-budget chaos machine and a legitimate cultural landmark at the exact same time.

What starts as a seemingly straightforward revenge story about a wrongfully imprisoned pimp quickly spirals into a whirlwind of crooked cops, rival gangsters, questionable kung fu, and filmmaking choices that scream "to hell with rules!" But underneath the rough edges, there’s something much bigger happening—something that forces us to reevaluate what this movie actually is.

We break down the baffling fight choreography, the anything-goes camerawork, and the unforgettable characters (shoutout to the Hamburger Pimp), while also digging into the story behind Rudy Ray Moore and the sheer force of will it took to get this movie made. What we find is a film that doesn’t just exist as a B-movie—it helps define an entire movement.

The Schlockometer is deployed. Context becomes everything. And somehow, against all odds… this might be a masterpiece.

Good Journey.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Quentin Tarantino
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Dr. Dre
• Snoop Dogg
• John Cleese
• John C. Reilly
• NAACP
• Dunbar Hotel
• UCLA
• Burger King
• Wendy's

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