Episodes

  • Lost and in Limbo, Vol 2

    Lost and in Limbo, Vol 2
    Aug 28 2025
    They may be lost—or only available to see at a German screening—but they are not forgotten. The Sin Syndicate returns with the second and final volume of our most ambitious project yet, a two-part journey through the Twisted Sex trailer archives for our Top 10 most wanted Lost and in Limbo sexploitation films. Helping us finish the countdown of number five through one is friend of the Syndicate and riding crop wielder, Alex DiSanto. A reminder of the rules:

    - a trailer must exist
    - one film per director
    - two substitutions allowed
    - all the lost Andy Milligan films are off the table (too obvious)

    What is the Sin Syndicate’s cumulative most wanted film? When are we getting a Don Davis/Marsha Jordan box set? How much time will we spend talking about press books? Join us for “Lost and in Limbo, Vol 2” to find out!

    P.S. For those that want to spoil themselves on our picks, I’ve listed them at the very bottom of the show notes.

    Links:
    Watch the Twisted Sex trailer compilations on the Something Weird Channel
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
    Special thanks to Alex DiSanto

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:32) Intro
    (00:01:59) Future of Twisted Sex
    (00:08:10) #5
    (00:42:37) #4
    (01:11:50) #3
    (01:45:18) #2
    (02:08:00) #1
    (02:41:13) Honorable Mentions

    Our Picks:
    Gentry:
    05. A Weekend with Strangers
    04. The Playpen Girls
    03. Teach Me How to Do It (sub for: Mme. Olga’s Massage Parlor)
    02. Infidelity American Style (sub for: Justine: The Erotic Excess of Evil)
    01. Death of a Nymphette

    Alex:
    05. The Street Is My Beat
    04. The Twisted Sex (sub for: The Playpen Girls)
    03. The Seducers
    02. (Pass) (orig. pick: A Weekend with Strangers)
    01. Scarf of Mist, Thigh of Satin

    Casey:
    05. The Daisy Chain
    04. House of the Red Dragon
    03. Ride Mister
    02. Threesome (sub for: A Weekend with Strangers)
    01. A New Girl in Town

    Honorable Mentions:
    Gentry: Body of a Female
    Alex: Satan’s Mistress
    Casey: Corporate Queen
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    3 hrs and 1 min
  • Lost and in Limbo, Vol 1

    Lost and in Limbo, Vol 1
    Aug 21 2025
    They may be gone—or locked in a private collector’s vault—but they are not forgotten. The Sin Syndicate return with our most ambitious project yet, a two-part journey through the Twisted Sex trailer archives for our Top 10 most wanted Lost and in Limbo sexploitation films. We are once again joined by friend, press book hoarder and Canadian degenerate, Alex DiSanto, for a countdown of numbers 10-6 from our personally compiled, highly secretive lists.

    The rules:
    - a trailer must exist
    - one film per director
    - two substitutions allowed
    - all the lost Andy Milligan films are off the table (too obvious)

    How many films featuring Peggy Sarno will appear? What lost Barry Mahon film do we actually want to watch? Who the hell is George Gunter? Join us for “Lost and in Limbo, Vol 1” to find out!

    P.S. For those who want to spoil themselves on our picks, they are listed at the very bottom of the show notes.

    Links:
    Watch the Twisted Sex trailer compilations on the Something Weird Channel
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
    Special thanks to Alex DiSanto

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:32) Intro
    (00:01:39) Why Lost?
    (00:04:47) The Rules
    (00:06:40) #10
    (00:27:27) #9
    (00:50:42) #8
    (01:14:07) #7
    (01:49:40) #6
    (02:14:35) Final Thoughts

    Our Picks:
    Gentry
    10. Carny Girl
    09. The House of Cats
    08. Love Thy Neighbor And His Wife
    07. Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse
    06. Fanny Hill Meets Dr. Erotico

    Alex
    10. Mme. Olga’s Massage Parlor
    09. Diary Of Knockers McCalla
    08. Game People Play
    07. Devil’s Bedroom
    06. Smoke Of Evil (sub: Come Play with Me)

    Casey
    10. The Peeping Phantom
    09. Justine: The Erotic Excitement of Evil
    08. Whip’s Women
    07. Come Play with Me
    06. Prowl Girls
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    2 hrs and 23 mins
  • The Bruised Ballerina

    The Bruised Ballerina
    Aug 13 2025
    Gather ye rosebuds and put on your ballet slippers, The Sin Syndicate is taking a stroll through Central Park and Greenwich Village for director Stanley H. Brasloff’s directorial debut, 1968’s Two Girls for a Madman, a melancholic roughie focused on two ambitious dancers (Arlene Farber, Jean Weston), one giggling sex maniac (Lucky Kargo), and a Beatnik cafe that offers masked orgies with admission.

    Before he went for broke with his candy-colored daddy/daughter melodrama, Toys are Not for Children, Brasloff—a showbiz kid from an early age—cooked up this exemplary sexploitation film with a little help from his friends and connections in the East Coast entertainment business, including former Broadway performers and Jewish comedians like himself. Join us as we discuss Brasloff’s short but memorable career in moviemaking, a career filled with wonderful failures, interesting stories, and a whole lot of passion.

    In this episode we debate the thespian talents of stunning starlet Arlene Farber, talk early electronic music scores (theremin!), and ask the deep questions, like “Is Lucky Kargo HOT or NOT?” Make sure to stay ‘til the very end, where Casey even has a correction for Mr. Stephen Thrower himself. So burn your tutu, hold on to your passport, and meet us at the fountain for Episode 16, “The Bruised Ballerina.”

    Links:
    Watch Two Girls for a Madman on the Something Weird Channel
    Buy Toys are Not for Children from Arrow Video
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:33) Intro
    (00:02:31) Update (Abortion)
    (00:09:36) Update (Bunny Yeager)
    (00:12:34) Two Girls for a Madman
    (00:15:05) Director Stanley Brasloff
    (00:20:25) DP Victor Petrashevic
    (00:33:12) Distribpix
    (00:36:15) The Music
    (00:40:37) Jewish Connections
    (00:49:15) Arlene Farber
    (01:01:48) Jean Weston
    (01:06:29) Lucky Kargo
    (01:17:01) Toys are Not for Children
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Godmother of Gore

    Godmother of Gore
    Aug 6 2025
    Doris Wishman. Roberta Findlay. Two of the undisputed female titans of sexploitation. But there’s another name that is often forgotten, and underrecognized, as a sexual pioneer in an industry that wasn’t always welcoming to women—especially those with strong opinions. We’re talking about Louise ‘Bunny’ Downe.

    In planning for our episode about “The Girl, The Body, and The Pill,” we learned that Louise, the film's writer as well as assistant director (and former nudie-cutie actress), had just recently passed away. The moment felt right to give her a proper sendoff. So, for Episode 15 of the The Sin Syndicate podcast, we spoke with professor and screenwriter Janna Jones about her Bunny-based screenplay (“Cheap, Sexy and Shocking!”), Louise’s importance as a woman in the field of exploitation moviemaking, as well as her contentious relationship with one of the genre’s biggest names, Herschell Gordon Lewis.

    Prepare a 500 page paper on the relationship between men and women, and join us as we discuss the “muddy morality” of the birth control pill, Louise’s creative drive to create something meaningful, and the still controversial topic of in-school sex education. But more than anything, we hope you’ll accompany us in celebrating the life of one of sexploitation’s most underappreciated do-it-all artists, the still mysterious (just as she wanted it), Allison Alma Louise Bunny Downe—the “Godmother of Gore.”

    Links:
    Read Janna Jones’ essay, Neither the Nudie-Cuties nor the Gore
    Watch "The Girl, The Body, and The Pill" on the Something Weird Channel
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:31) Intro
    (00:02:31) Rest in Peace Louise
    (00:07:48) Louise in Miami
    (00:15:40) Rewriting Louise’s Ending
    (00:22:49) Abortion and The Pill Onscreen
    (00:31:22) Louise’s Influence
    (00:47:18) Breaking New Ground
    (00:51:17) Picture Palaces
    (00:57:37) Louise’s Silence
    (01:02:00) The Cast
    (01:19:10) The Lesson for Today
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Moo Just a Little

    Moo Just a Little
    Jul 31 2025
    Unless you’re neck deep in the world of sexploitation, you’re probably unfamiliar with the name “Bethel Buckalew.” And even if you are familiar, you may have been led to believe that strange moniker was just another pseudonym used by secretive director Pete Perry in a series of hay-roller hixploitation pictures for Harry Novak’s Box Office International. Let's start with some facts. #1: Drinking moonshine and walking should be illegal. #2: We gotta do something 'bout that boy. And #3: Bethel Buckalew was a real person, and in Episode 14 of the The Sin Syndicate podcast, “Moo Just a Little,” Casey and Gentry look at the man’s carefree, bovine-focused final film in his Sexy Southern series, “Sassy Sue.”

    Featuring a stacked cast of future hardcore starlets (Colleen Brennan, Tallie Cochrane, Sandy Carey), as well as the always amusing Buckalew muse, John Tull, “Sassy Sue” is a fittingly stupid, but entertaining end to a successful series of Southern sex comedies featuring fantastic fiddle-heavy Country music from the duo of Southern & Hensley, and plenty of skin-on-skin-on-dirt action. So join us as we search for the backwoods liquor still, discuss barnyard loving, and debate the merits of mixing poontang and corn, in surely one of our most braindead episodes yet.

    Stack the hay bales, prepare your bee'hind for measurement, and “Moo Just a Little.”

    Links:
    View the Bethel Buckalew Obituary
    Visit the Temple of Schlock
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Peep Gentry's Buckalew Ranking
    Check out the Something Weird Channel
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:31) Opening
    (00:02:33) Updates
    (00:04:31) Plea to TerrorVision
    (00:06:15) The Bang Bang Gang
    (00:11:03) Sassy Sue
    (00:14:44) Sharon Kelly Speaks
    (00:24:12) Marlene Buckalew
    (00:30:57) Talie Cochrane
    (00:35:52) Talie Cochrane Speaks
    (00:36:50) The Sex Scenes
    (00:50:14) A Scream in the Streets
    (00:57:02) Sandy Carey
    (01:01:39) Patrick Wright
    (01:05:23) Supporting Players
    (01:08:59) Southern & Hensley
    (01:17:22) Sex Doesn't Sell
    (01:27:44) Buckalew Rankings
    (01:35:25) We're Leaving California
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • The Smut Picture Racket

    The Smut Picture Racket
    Jul 24 2025
    Hike up that skirt and show a little leg, we’re entering the world of psycho killers and girl boss pornographers for Episode 13 of The Sin Syndicate Podcast, “The Smut Picture Racket.” This week Gentry and Casey are joined by Toronto-based author Will Sloan, who has written a new critical reappraisal of Edward D. Wood Jr. entitled “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.” Join us as we discuss Wood’s career heading into the 1960s, as well as his final mainstream film, the sexploitation crime thriller, “The Sinister Urge,” a movie both ahead of and behind the times—anticipating the Roughie by half a decade through its depiction of a nudes-obsessed, knife-wielding sex maniac, while simultanously splicing in awkward footage from an unfinished delinquent youth picture, “Hellborn.” Put on your favorite angora sweater, grab a slice of pie from the cool kids pizza parlour, and come along as we investigate “The Smut Picture Racket.”

    Buy Will Sloan’s book from OR Books
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Check out the Something Weird Channel
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:31) Opening
    (00:01:39) Pete Perry Updates
    (00:06:22) Will Sloan Intro
    (00:22:25) The Sinister Urge
    (00:31:22) Pornography
    (00:38:12) Psycho
    (00:49:14) Post 1960
    (00:55:43) The Players
    (01:06:22) The Wood Estate
    (01:17:06) Buy the Book
    (01:18:07) Final Thoughts
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Too Much Sex Fizz

    Too Much Sex Fizz
    Jul 17 2025
    Think like a normal, clean living man and join us for “Too Much Sex Fizz,” Episode 12 of The Sin Syndicate Podcast, where Gentry and Casey teleport to Dr. Breedlove’s laboratory high in the mountains of Broadaslavia for a well-rounded (ahem) discussion of director Pete Perry's 1964 monster mash nudie-cutie, “Kiss Me Quick!” In this episode we discuss the early career of legendary producer Harry Novak, the origins of the dumbest films ever made, and peek behind the pseudonymous curtain of Seymour Tuchus. Listen as Casey outs himself as a “Little” Jack Little apologist and Gentry gets schooled on the difference between a general release film and an adults only picture. Don’t forget to shoot your sexbomb into the pool before it explodes.

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    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:31) Opening
    (00:01:32) Shannon's Women exists
    (00:04:12) Cathy Crowfoot news items
    (00:07:02) Intro to nudie-cuties
    (00:13:28) László Kovács MVP
    (00:17:20) Wonderful World of Girls
    (00:20:35) The Novak catalog
    (00:23:00) The Kiss Me Quick! production
    (00:25:32) Who is Pete Perry
    (00:33:30) Buckalew/Pete team
    (00:41:42) Breedlove's girls
    (00:47:20) The strange men
    (00:52:15) The surf rock
    (00:54:47) Monster Nudies
    (00:59:23) Sexist?
    (01:14:14) Our favorite nudie-cuties
    (01:23:18) Director of Peter's Pets
    (01:28:04) What's next
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • The Short Ends: More Ramming

    The Short Ends: More Ramming
    Jul 12 2025
    In the second bite-sized episode of our Short Ends series, Gentry and Casey try to navigate the choppy waters of minority depiction within sexploitation, specifically with regard to white actors playing other races, which is central to the plot of Ed Forsyth’s “The Ramrodder,” which was covered in Episode 11. We recommend you listen to that episode first, then join us for this discussion, however awkward it may be, and hopefully you'll meet us meet us halfway in trying to understand this ever-evolving issue.


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    18 mins