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THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978) | The Six Degrees of 'Kill Bill'

When KILL BILL begins, the first image that we see on screen (after the obligatory Miramax logo, of course) is the iconic shield that indicated that we're watching a Shaw Brothers film.
The Shaw Brothers Studio was one of the premiere studios in Hong Kong in the 20th century, and their "golden age" would probably have been during the 1960s and 1970s, when they began to produce the Kung Fu films that most western audiences would come to know them for.
These Kung Fu films were a major influence on Quentin Tarantino when crafting KILL BILL, especially during the House of Blue Leaves sequence in VOL. 1 and in the Pei Mei chapter for VOL. 2.
In this episode, we'll trace the history of the Shaw Brothers Studio, and take a look at what might be their most well-known Kung Fu flick, THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978), starring the legendary Gordon Liu, a performer who would appear in not one, but two different roles in Tarantino's film.
And yeah, we talk a lot about Wu-Tang.
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Coming Up:
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
KILL BILL VOL. 1 & VOL. 2 (2003/4)
Up Next: The Tragedy of Tobe Hooper
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne, Justin Bishop, & Todd Davis.
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THE GAME OF DEATH (1978) | The Six Degrees of 'Kill Bill'

That iconic yellow jumpsuit that The Bride wears in KILL BILL VOL. 1 was iconic years before Uma Thurman ever put it on. It was worn by the legendary Bruce Lee in what was to be his fifth film.
GAME OF DEATH was set to be Bruce Lee's magnum opus, a film that defined his martial arts philosophies, and proved the superiority of his own school of martial arts, Jeet Kune Do.
Unfortunately, Lee passed away having only completed a few minutes of footage. But that didn't stop greedy producers from cashing in on the now-world famous Lee, reediting the footage into a new film, and using stand-ins for Lee in the majority of the film.
In this episode, we'll discuss Lee's life career leading up to GAME OF DEATH, and the Brucesploitation films that came about in the wake of his death, as well as the ultimately Brucesploitation film that would eventually be released by his own studio, five years after his passing.
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Coming Up:
36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978)
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
KILL BILL VOL. 1 & VOL. 2 (2004/5)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (1973) | The Six Degrees of 'Kill Bill'

For week 3 of our Six Degrees of Kill Bill series, we're headed to Sweden to discuss an exploitation classic that Quentin Tarantino called "the roughest revenge film ever made!"
Released in the U.S. as THEY CALL HER ONE EYE, Bo. A. Vibenius's THRILLER — A CRUEL PICTURE and its star Christina Lindberg laid the inspiration for Daryl Hannah's character in KILL BILL.
In this episode of the podcast, we'll discuss the long, long history of Swedish exploitation films, going all the way back to the beginning of the film industry itself, through the films of Igmar Bergman (!) and into the 1970s, the golden age of exploitation cinema.
We're joined on this discussion by our good friend DJ Wilson, still the only guy we know with a Christina Lindberg tattoo!
We'd also like to give a huge thanks to writer Daniel Ekeroth's incredible book Swedish Sensasionsfilms, which served as an invaluable guide to the history of Swedish exploitation films.
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Coming Up:
GAME OF DEATH (1978)
36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978)
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
KILL BILL VOL. 1 (2003) & VOL. 2 (2004)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) | The Six Degrees of 'Kill Bill'

For our Six Degrees of Kill Bill series, we'll be talking about a wide array of movies that Quentin Tarantino has referenced or cited as an influence on his 2004 film, but no film may be as influential on KILL BILL as Toshiya Fujita's Japanese revenge classic LADY SNOWBLOOD.
In this episode, we'll discuss the film's origin as a popular manga, and how the unlikely hiring of Fujita and screenwriter Kazuo Koike came to be. We also go down a rabbit hole regarding the Meiji era of Japanese history and how this historical context informs not only the manga, but the film itself. (I know that sounds boring as shit, but trust us, it's actually super cool.)
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Coming Up:
THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (1973)
GAME OF DEATH (1978)
36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978)
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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DEATH RIDES A HORSE (1967) | The Six Degrees of 'Kill Bill'

We're big fans of the films of Quentin Tarantino here at Cinema Shock. It's no surprise that, like us, Tarantino wears his love of movies on his sleeve, and his movies show it, often filled with references and homages to the movies that he loves.
And this is most apparent in his two-part revenge opus KILL BILL.
For this, our first series of 2021, we're going to spend several weeks discussing some of the films that are most overtly referenced in KILL BILL.
To kick things off, we're headed to Italy to discuss one of Tarantino's beloved spaghetti westerns, and one whose influence on KILL BILL will be very apparent to anyone who watches it.
Join us in this episode as we discuss Giulio Petroni's DEATH RIDES A HORSE.
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Coming Up:
THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (1973)
LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973)
GAME OF DEATH (1978)
36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005) | Black Christmas

For the fourth and final week of our Black Christmas series, we're joined by writer and friend of the show DJ Wilson to discuss the film that finally put Shane Black in the director's chair, KISS KISS BANG BANG!
After the failure of THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, Black was essentially blacklisted from Hollywood, unable to get a job and went into self-isolation. When he came back, nearly a decade later, he was determined that this time, he'd be the one calling the shots, making sure that his story made it to the screen exactly as he'd envisioned it.
This is the story of how that eventually happened, how Black's old friend Joel Silver helped him out, and how Black's film helped to resurrect the career of Robert Downey Jr (directly leading to his role in a little superhero movie you may have heard of).
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Coming Up:
DEATH RIDES A HORSE (1967)
THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (1973)
LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973)
GAME OF DEATH (1978)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne & Justin Bishop, with special thanks to Todd Davis.
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THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996) | Black Christmas

Despite the underwhelming box office performance of THE LAST BOY SCOUT, Shane Black was still a hot commodity in Hollywood in the early- to mid-90s. And when his new spec script started making the rounds, it resulted in one of the biggest bidding wars the industry had ever seen.
That script, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, sold for a record breaking $4 million to New Line Cinema, who brought in director Renny Harlin and his actress-wife Geena Davis as the star.
In this episode, we recount all fo the drama that lead to the selling of the script, the shooting of the film, and the fallout that resulted from its ultimate failure.
We're joined this week by our friend Zack Daigle, one of the co-founders of McArathon, an annual 24 hour Christmas movie film festival, which is going virtual this year for it's sixteenth edition. You can find more information on their Facebook page, with information on when and where you can stream the fest.
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Coming Up:
KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991) | Black Christmas

After the success of LETHAL WEAPON, Shane Black became one of the most sought after screenwriters in Hollywood, while still in his mid-20s.
He'd immediately be hired as the screenwriter for that film's sequel, but left the project before it came to completion, resulting in Black taking a two year sabbatical from screenwriting.
When he did get back to writing, his next screenplay resulted in a bidding war, which ending with Black being paid a record-breaking $1.75 million for his script.
The resulting film, Tony Scott's THE LAST BOY SCOUT, was a tumultuous shoot with star Bruce Willis and producer Joel Silver essentially hijacking the shoot. And it was followed by an even more tumultuous post-production process where no less than seven editors were brought in to try to salvage the miles and miles of footage shot.
In this episode, we tell the story of how all of this came together. 
We're joined this week by our friend Myles Griffin of The More You Nerd podcast!
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Coming Up:
THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)
KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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LETHAL WEAPON (1987) | Black Christmas

It's December! What does that mean? Mariah Carey songs on your radio and Christmas movies on your TV!
But this being the Cinema Shock podcast, we're not talking about just any ol' Christmas movies. No, there will be no talk of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE this year, nor will we be discussing the intricacies of MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET.
Instead, we're spending the entire month of December discussing the filmography of Shane Black, a writer of hard-boiled detective stories and testosterone-fueled action movies, who just so happens to also set a lot of his movies during the Christmas season.
To kick things off, we're going to discuss the movie that put Black on the map and made him a major Hollywood player at the tender age of 24: Richard Donner's action classic LETHAL WEAPON.
Coming Up:
THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991)
THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)
KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) | Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy

After the massive critical and commercial success of THE DARK KNIGHT, Warner Brothers naturally wanted Director Christopher Nolan to return for a third film in the franchise.
While he was initially unsure about returning, he eventually did come back to finish out the Dark Knight Trilogy in a film that would become the most divisive in the entire trilogy, though it would eventually become the highest grossing Batman film so far.
In this episode, the Cinema Shock crew will discuss how Nolan and his brother Jonathan, along with David S. Goyer, broke the story that would become THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and how they attempted to not only follow-up the most successful comic book film of all time, but do something that's rare in big studio franchises: bring the story to a definitive end.
Coming Up:
LETHAL WEAPON (1987)
THE LAST BOY SCOUT (1991)
THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)
KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
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