30 percent human, 70 percent robot and 100 percent lethal...
We have quite a fun movie selection for you this week. It's the 1986 Italian cyborg arm-wrestling film Hands of Steel. I\n the dystopian future of 1997, a cyborg assassin has a change of heart on the job and his evil corporate masters pursue him across the Arizona desert.
This one has so many wonderful things going for it, from the screen presence of b-movie mainstays like John Saxon and George Eastman to a score by the legendary Claudio Simonetti of Goblin fame. First, let's have the episode and then I'll hit you with some of the media discussed in this episode.
Ok, so first up, let's talk about Claudio Simonetti's score for this baby. We were only able to share a small sample of it in the episode, but here's the Bandcamp embed for the official digital and physical release from Rust Blade Records:
As long as we're talking about music, yes, let's listen to Janet Arden's 1984 single Teddy Bear. Here's a live performance that Joe dug up:
Finally, I know I mentioned that we had a hard time finding this film streaming (though there are multiple unofficial streams on YouTube) but there actually IS a Blu-ray release from 88 films, and you can find it right here. It looks rather bare bones, but if you don't want to mess around with ify sound or video quality, this is the way to go.
What's up next on Weirdhouse Cinema? Well, we'll be doing a little cross promotion with our producer Seth and his podcast Record Store Society to discuss our favorite weird music videos. So it's a bit of a departure for Weirdhouse, but it should be a fun conversation.
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