Movies – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com The blog is faster than the books... Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:17:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-BAZILLION_POINTS_B_GREEN_144.png.jpeg Movies – Bazillion Points Blog https://blog.bazillionpoints.com 32 32 Roots of Metal Ghost Stories | Halloween on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/19/roots-of-metal-ghost-stories-halloween-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/19/roots-of-metal-ghost-stories-halloween-on-siriusxm/#respond Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:17:02 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=12846 ROOTS of METAL GHOST STORIES | HALLOWEEN on SIRIUSXM Week of October 19, 2024 Sat 10/19, 6PM ET Sun 10/20, 1PM ET Mon 10/21, 9AM ET Tues 10/22, 4PM ET Thurs 10/24, 9PM ET As Halloween settles upon the land, host Ian Christe invokes the ghosts, spirits, specters, and phantoms that animate and glue together the spooky soul of heavy metal. Terror tracks by King Diamond, Opeth, Iron Maiden…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/19/roots-of-metal-ghost-stories-halloween-on-siriusxm/feed/ 0 HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Today the Texas Chain Saw Massacre Turns 50 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/01/heavy-metal-movies-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-turns-50/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/01/heavy-metal-movies-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-turns-50/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:02:05 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=12817 Fifty years of skin masks and chain oil later, today is a BIG anniversary from Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s mighty HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big-Scream Films Ever!. Tobe Hooper’s original unrelenting, taboo-busting masterpiece premiered exactly fifty years ago today, on October 1, 1974. Rooted in pitch-black…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2024/10/01/heavy-metal-movies-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-turns-50/feed/ 0 ROOTS of Italian Horror Metal | on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2023/10/14/roots-of-italian-horror-metal-on-siriusxm-2023/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2023/10/14/roots-of-italian-horror-metal-on-siriusxm-2023/#respond Sat, 14 Oct 2023 16:10:23 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=12434 ROOTS of Italian Horror Metal | on SiriusXM Week of October 14, 2023 Sat 10/14, 6PM ET Sun 10/15, 1PM ET Mon 10/16, 9AM ET Tues 10/17, 4PM ET Thurs 10/19, 9PM ET Roots and chill your flesh this week as we invoke the arcane and melodramatic aura and drama of Italian horror metal bands Cadaveria, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Death SS, Paul Chain Violet Theatre, Aborym, Black Hole, Forgotten Tomb…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2023/10/14/roots-of-italian-horror-metal-on-siriusxm-2023/feed/ 0 ROOTS of Italian Horror Metal | on SiriusXM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2020/10/31/roots-of-italian-horror-metal-on-siriusxm/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2020/10/31/roots-of-italian-horror-metal-on-siriusxm/#respond Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:04:24 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11617 ROOTS of Italian Horror Metal | on SiriusXM Week of October 31, 2020 Sat 10/31, 6PM ET Sun 11/1, 1PM ET Mon 11/2, 9AM ET Tues 11/3, 4PM ET Thurs 11/5, 9PM ET Join us this Halloween week as we invoke the arcane and melodramatic aura of Italian horror metal bands Cadaveria, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Death SS, Paul Chain Violet Theatre, Aborym, Black Hole, Forgotten Tomb, and Gravesite…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2020/10/31/roots-of-italian-horror-metal-on-siriusxm/feed/ 0 Roots of Androids and Replicants in Metal | on Sirius XM https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/11/22/roots-of-androids-and-replicants-in-metal-on-sirius-xm-2/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/11/22/roots-of-androids-and-replicants-in-metal-on-sirius-xm-2/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:38:01 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11291 ROOTS of ANDROIDS and REPLICANTS in METAL Week of November 23, 2019 Sat 11/23, 6PM ET Sun 11/24, 1PM ET Mon 11/25, 9AM ET Tues 11/26, 4PM ET The future has arrived, and we are living in November 2019, the exact time frame of Ridley Scott’s science-fiction masterpiece, Blade Runner. This week’s history lesson does a systems check on how metal has anticipated the slick…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/11/22/roots-of-androids-and-replicants-in-metal-on-sirius-xm-2/feed/ 0 TEEN MUSIC HELL: Billy Squier from FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) | The Official Teen Movie Hell Mixtape https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/11/06/teen-music-hell-billy-squier-from-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/11/06/teen-music-hell-billy-squier-from-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:06:30 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11267 Welcome to a way out, Walkman-melting, battery-draining hit parade of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! This is your Teen Movie Hell mixtape, crank and use extremely unwisely! Hey man, is that jock rock? Crank it up! Billy Squier’s signature AOR funk rock is muscled up in…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/11/06/teen-music-hell-billy-squier-from-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/feed/ 0 TEEN MUSIC HELL: Josie Cotton from VALLEY GIRL (1983) | The Official Teen Movie Hell Mixtape https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/30/teen-music-hell-josie-cotton-from-valley-girl-1983-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/30/teen-music-hell-josie-cotton-from-valley-girl-1983-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/#comments Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:23:50 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11177 Welcome to a way out, Walkman-melting, battery-sucking hit parade of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! This is your Teen Movie Hell mixtape, crank it for use extremely unwisely! The Valley Girl soundtrack is appropriately applauded as one of the decade’s essentials…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/30/teen-music-hell-josie-cotton-from-valley-girl-1983-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/feed/ 3 TEEN MUSIC HELL: Missing Persons from LUNCH WAGON (1981) | The Official Teen Movie Hell Mixtape https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/17/teen-music-hell-missing-persons-from-lunch-wagon-1981-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/17/teen-music-hell-missing-persons-from-lunch-wagon-1981-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:20:12 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11155 Welcome to a way out, Walkman-melting, battery-sucking hit parade of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! This is your Teen Movie Hell mixtape, crank it for use extremely unwisely! Track #10. MISSING PERSONS, “Mental Hopscotch” from Lunch Wagon (1981) The power couple at…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/17/teen-music-hell-missing-persons-from-lunch-wagon-1981-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/feed/ 3 TEEN MUSIC HELL: Krak from HARDBODIES (1984) | The Official Teen Movie Hell Mixtape https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/09/teen-music-hell-krak-from-hardbodies-1984-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/09/teen-music-hell-krak-from-hardbodies-1984-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/#respond Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:44:14 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11138 Welcome to a Walkman-melting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! This is your Teen Movie Hell mixtape. Crank it carefully—and use it extremely unwisely! Track #9. KRAK, “Hardbodies” from Hardbodies (1983) “Hardbodies” the song is the bigger…

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]]> https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/09/teen-music-hell-krak-from-hardbodies-1984-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/feed/ 0 TEEN MUSIC HELL: Jeff Alan Band from LOSIN’ IT (1983) | The Official Teen Movie Hell Mixtape https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/02/teen-music-hell-jeff-alan-band-from-losin-i-1983-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/ https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2019/07/02/teen-music-hell-jeff-alan-band-from-losin-i-1983-the-official-teen-movie-hell-mixtape/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:34:14 +0000 https://blog.bazillionpoints.com/?p=11125 Welcome to a Walkman-melting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! This is your Teen Movie Hell mixtape. Crank it carefully—and use it extremely unwisely! Track #8. THE JEFF ALAN BAND, “Losin’ It” from Losin’ It (1983) Just like the Tom Cruise…

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