BENEATH THE WAVES ROILS A MURKY STEW OF KILLER ALIENS, MONSTROUS MUTANTS, PSYCHOTIC SOLDIERS, AND EVIL CORPORATIONS!! Welcome to another of Genre Grinder’s patented deep(sea)-dives into a single year in cinema when a specific genre fad peaked. This time, Gabe and Patrick Ripoll are looking at a strange moment in time, the year 1989, when seven different undersea sci-fi/horror/adventures were released*. How did this happen? Your intrepid podcasters will attempt to answer that

In the first decade of the new millennium, a minor moral panic arose over a series of graphic horror films released by major studios. The movement was eventually dubbed ‘torture porn’ by critic David Edelstein, who used the term in a 2006 New York Times op-ed that he wrote after seeing Eli Roth’s Hostel Part II (2007), entitled “Now Playing at Your Local Multiplex: Torture Porn” (subtitled “Why has America gone nuts for blood, guts, and sadism?”). The appellation was retroact

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While Putra and Liliek Sudjio, who directed the similarly influential The Queen of Black Magic (Indonesian: Ratu ilmu hitam, 1981), set the template for Indonesian horror in the ‘80s, H. Tjut Djalil quickly established a new baseline for how insane the region’s genre output would become. Little is known about his directorial debut, Benyamin spion 025 (1974), but his second feature, Mystics in Bali (Indonesian: Leák, 1981), is an unhinged, shock-a-minute crowd-pleaser that has