Grindbin Podcast - Grindhouse and Exploitation Films
Welcome to the Grindbin, a podcast where your hosts Mike Wood and Chris Mann dig through the exploitation films and grindhouse cinema of the 1970's and 1980's. Join us on our journey to explore these forgetting film classics of decades past and breathe new life into the movies that time forgot.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 135 minutes
- Episodes
- 446
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Episode 21 - Dolemite (1975)
Mike is joined by a special guest co-host Chris Hughes to break down one of the greatest - if not the greatest - Blaxploitation films of all time, Dolemite (1975). Rudy Ray Moore stars as Dolemite, a…
Filmmaker Interview - Paul McAlarney
Chris and Mike sit down for an interview with independent filmmaker Paul McAlarney to talk about his completed films, future projects and film making in general.
You can find Paul's first feature "H…
Episode 20 - Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Chris and Mike are joined by Corey G of the 1980's Movie Graveyard Podcast to discuss one of the most racist and offensive movies of all time, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects. Charles Bronson stars in a …
Filmmaker Interview - Shahab Zargari
Chris and Mike welcome Shahab Zargari onto the show for a special interview before the Comic Con screening of his short film - Philip K. Dick's, "The Crystal Crypt".
Episode 19 - Lost Faith (1992)
Chris and Mike kick their way through the "action-packed" straight-to-video classic Lost Faith - one of the only Kung Fu movies to feature religious overtones. Steve Nakota is having a very very bad …
Episode 18 - Lunch Wagon (1981)
Chris and Mike take a request for this week's episode from a great friend of the show all the way from Australia - David. Lunch Wagon (1981) is less about three girls owning a lunch truck and more ab…
Episode 17 - Switchblade Sisters (1975)
This week Chris and Mike delve into a classic film from exploitation auteur Jack Hill - Switchblade Sisters (1975). This forgotten classic is a true gem of grindhouse cinema that offers much more tha…
SPECIAL - Joey Steel Interviews Chris
Chris is currently on tour with his band Leftover Crack. Recently he is was New York and had the opportunity to sit down with Joey Steel for an interview on his podcast: Dispatches from the Undergrou…
Episode 16 - Thrashin' (1986)
Chris and Mike delve into one of the most classic 1980's films, Thrashin'. This gem has avoided falling into complete obscurity because it stars Josh Brolin and features a cameo by the Red Hot Chili …
Filmmaker Interview - 6 Bullets to Hell (2016)
Welcome to a special interview episode of The Grindbin. Chris and I recently had the opportunity to interview filmmaker Tanner Beard about his new film 6 Bullets to Hell - a Grindhouse Western just r…
Episode 15 - Black Devil Doll From Hell (1984)
Chris and Mike find out just how much trouble one man with a VHS camcorder and a Casio keyboard can get into with this week's "film", Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984). This is without a doubt the wo…
Episode 14 - The Teacher (1974)
Chris and Mike stay after class to discuss the 1974 thriller, The Teacher, a movie that's not at all what it's advertised to be. What's advertised as a simple sexploitation romp turns into a tale of …
Episode 13 - Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
On this episode Chris and Mike delve into an experiment gone wrong with 1973's Invasion of the Bee Girls.
Bodies of men have started to pile up in the small town of Peckham, California; all dead from…
Episode 12 - Van Nuys Blvd (1979)
It's Wednesday, and you know what that means, it's cruise night over on Van Nuys Blvd. In this episode Chris and Mike return to the cannon of Crown International Pictures to discuss one of their more…
Episode 11 - Supervixens (1973)
This week Chris and Mike try and explain one of the most bizarre films ever made, Supervixens; directed by Russ Meyer - king of the sexploitation genre.
Clint Ramsey is forced to leave his dream job …
Episode 10 - Blood Diner (1987)
Blood Diner is one of those rare movies that succeeds by being bad on purpose. Typically these types of movies don't come across as genuine and create a false sense of so-bad-it's-good. Bad movies th…
Episode 09 - The Beach Girls (1982)
Chris and Mike delve into another Crown International classic. And this one really is a classic. The Beach Girls (1982) is pretty much the perfect guilty pleasure - a movie that features two beach pa…
Episode 08 - Dangerous Men (2005?)
Finally! The amazing people over at Drafthouse Films have released one of the greatest mysteries in LA cinema. In 2005 a strange and mysterious movie appeared in four local movie theathers with absol…
Episode 07 - My Tutor (1983)
Chris and Mike delve into Crown International's most successful film, the teen sexploitation classic, My Tutor (1983).
From the IMDB synopsis: A rich father hires a tutor for his son. The son is a h…
Episode 06 - Superchick (1973)
How do you make a movie that attempts to be a female empowerment message yet sets women's rights back 50 years? Just ask 1973's Superchick! In this episode Chris and Mike break down yet another Crown…