Cultpix Radio Ep.10 - Drugsploitation Vol. 2 and Opening Goes Well

The 10th episode of Cultpix Radio WCPX 66.6 Smut Pedler and Django Nudo (with a faulty microphone - sorry)  take a journey into the psychedelic 60s and 70s of drugs films, celebrate Cultpix now being open for everyone to join and look at the new films on the site.Cultpix radio has been open to the general public for a week and with the exception of being pulled into the global Firstly outage (in good company with Spotify and CNN) things have been going moothly and the feedback has been encouraging. We look at how Netflix and others are copying us in terms of moving into merchandise, podcasts, celebrity birthdays and more - because clearly nobody was doing it before us (-;Cultpix has sold out and become part of the establishment as Swedish Film Institute has awarded us a grant to enable us to do more innovative stuff. We dive back into what drugs does to filmmaking. This is your cinema brain on drugs part 2: First we do an Alice double bill. Alice in Acidland who "travels through the dark and endless caverns of Acidland. The place for her is no fairytale." But it does features lesbian seduction and hippie nudity and sex. Meanwhile the short Curious Alice was produced by a US government agency  to warn eight-year olds about the dangers of drugs but ends up being a trippy and fun Terry Gilliam-esque animation. A trio of films from our friends Something Weird video all tap into the drug/hippie hysteria of the late 1960s. Psychadelic Sexkicks, Wild Hippie Party, The Acid Eaters. On the more serious end Alex de Renzy's Weed looks at the whole political, legal and cultural ecosystem around weeds and drugs in the early 1970s. He is better known for later directing porn classics such as Pretty Peaches and Babyface. Perhaps the best anti-drug documentary is the hard hitting A Day in the Death of Donny B. which looks at the damage heroine does to black people and communities, done in cinema verite style with a downbeat groove. Worth 11 minutes of your time. More typical for US anti-drug propaganda is the white middle class student who goes wrong with drugs, as in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, though at least the film was not the usual kiss of death for the career of the lead Kevin Tighe who went on to star in Lost and K-9. More mainstream drug portrayal can be found in Ivan Passer's Born to Win in which George Segal (who passed away this year) , Karen Black and a very young Robert DeNiro, all drift around Time's Square hustling and looking to score. Finally a side of Rome that tourists did not get to see gets exposed in Don't Count on Us from Penny Video (Ciao Simone!).  Finally we talk about some of the new films on the site and there are quite a few this week. Line Six/Linje Sex shares a lot of creative talent with Terror in the Midnight Sun. We have Josefine Mutzenbacher Part 1 and Part 2 in English and German; The XYZ of Love; Piranha; Project Kill and The Secret Dreams of Mona Q. Do check them out and stay tuned for more soon. 

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Cultpix Radio (WCPX 66.6) is the official podcast of Cultpix, the global streaming service for classic cult and genre films and TV shows.