Incredibly Strange Video
Film lovers Ryan and Cassie take a critical look at films that are often only laughed at, lovingly dissecting b-movies, cult cinema, and "so bad it's good" flicks to gain a new appreciation for unusual cinema.
Episodes
34 episodes
Ep. 34: Psycho Beach Party
Take the seminal surf movie Gidget from 1959, add in a bunch of slasher elements from the 80's, and use it all to deconstruct gender norms - that's Psycho Beach Party in a nutshell! This crazy stage-to-screen should-be-cult-classic is a must-se...
Ep. 33: Terror at Tenkiller
What's spooky season without a certified slashic? And it doesn't get much more grindhouse than this - woefully maligned by most critics and audience reviewers alike, we're here to tell you this all but forgotten low-budget slasher is far more i...
Ep. 32: Encounters of the Spooky Kind
There's perhaps never been a more exciting movement in action filmmaking than the Hong Kong New Wave in the 1980's, and within that body of work perhaps no films more unique and unusual than the hopping vampire movies.What are Hong Kong ...
Ep. 31: Spookies
It's Spooky Season, and what better way to kick things off than with the spookiest film that ever did spook - Spookies!To say that Spookies has a unique production history is an understatement - the film started shooting in 1984 and didn...
Ep. 30: The Snazzy Awards 2025
It's the Season 1 finale! Instead of the Razzie awards, which poke fun at the worst movies of the year, we're hosting our first annual SNAZZY AWARDS! Over the next hours we'll be celebrating the best and boldest of the incredibly strange cinema...
Ep. 29: Maximum Overdrive
"WE MADE YOU! WEEEEE MAAAAAADE YOOOOUUUUUU!"Ahem, er yes, now that we've got that out of our system, let's gear up for the third and final installment of our BIG TRUCK TRILOGY. Master of horror Stephen King has left his mark across scary...
Ep. 28: Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
When 2 women, 18 wheels, and 16 gears are rollin'...move over! The two women in question are Annie Potts as Flatbed Annie and Kim Darby as Sweetie Pie, two lady truckers on the run from a relentless repo man (played by Harry Dean Stanton before...
Ep. 27: Thunder Run
Buckle up for perhaps the wildest ride to ever hit the road out of Laughlin, Nevada! When shipments of military plutonium become the target of terrorists, there's obviously only one thing to do - hire a retired trucker, have his grandson and co...
Ep. 26: Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend
It might not get more incredibly strange than this one. A late entry into our first annual Ani-May, Legend of the Overfiend is the original animated video nasty, the first animated film to ever receive an NC-17 rating from the MPAA...and that w...
Ep. 25: Redline
It's a new yearly tradition on Incredibly Strange Video - we're celebrating ANI-MAY! Which is when we take all of May to break down cult and unusual anime films! Today's film, Redline, falls into the former category. A major financial failure f...
Ep. 24: Leprechaun
Happy St. Patrick's Day!And what film pairs better with a pint of Guinness and some cottage pie than the cult classic, Leprechaun! Warwick Davis gives an iconic horror performance as the titular villain, terrorizing Jennifer A...
Ep. 23: Cinderella 2000
It's the final stop (for now) on our journey into the year 2000! Come along to the mythical fantasy realm of Detroit where in the year 2047 sex has been outlawed by an authoritarian government! That, of course, does not stop basically everyone ...
Ep. 22: Cherry 2000
We continue our podcast journey into the year 2000!Like a mission ripped right out of an Obsidian RPG, Melanie Griffith plays bounty hunter E. Johnson, who takes desperate lover Sam Treadwell on a fetch quest to post-apocalypt...
Ep. 21: Escape 2000 (Turkey Shoot)
In the first Ozploitation film we've featured on the show, Escape 2000 - aka Turkey Shoot - presents us with a dystopian future (or present?) where dissenters against a fascist government are sent to death camps with only one way out: participa...
Ep. 20: Death Race 2000
In the year 2000 hit and run driving is no longer a felony. It's the national sport!Roger Corman's incredible cult classic puts soon-to-be screen legends Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine behind the wheel of trans-America...
Ep. 19: Crackerjack 3
It's the thrilling conclusion to the Jack Wild trilogy! Except it's not about Jack Wild anymore! And doesn't appear to have any connection to the first two films! Or does it?...Ryan thinks so. Cassie isn't so sure. In this third Cracker...
Ep. 18: Musical Mutiny
Hey everybody! It's a mutiny!And just what is a musical mutiny? Well...it's a free concert. Orchestrated by the ghost of a pirate. At Pirates World amusement park in Dania Beach, FL in 1970, featuring Iron Butterfly performing In-A-Gadd...
Ep. 17: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
It's one of the strangest films ever made, a delirious slice of incomprehensible Christmas cinema. In the beginning of the episode a new motto is proposed: "The podcast that tests the theory, there is no such thing as a bad movie." That sentime...
Ep. 16: Dial Code Santa Claus
Did John Hughes and Christopher Columbus rip off this film when they made Home Alone? That's the million dollar question we seek to answer on this episode!Because one year before Home Alone, France released its own home invasion Christm...
Ep. 15: Black Christmas
O' come let us adore...the original slasher! And right now you can adore it on the big screen! Black Christmas is returning to theaters for its 50th Anniversary from December 7-22 in a wonderful new 4K restoration.So as a primer for its...
Ep. 14: Deep Rising
Join us as Ryan presents one of his favorite movies of all time, Deep Rising! This movie holds a very special place in his heart, and he'll explain why on this first-ever 4-person episode!We're joined by regular guest, cinematographer R...
Ep. 13: Arabella Black Angel
"Is this giallo, or is this porn?" That's the critical question we seek to answer by the end of this new episode about a late-80's scissor-killing sleazefest!Arabella is a nymphomaniac. Which is going just fine for her until every singl...
Ep. 12: The Hottie and the Nottie
Famously torpedoed as one of the worst films of all time, we're here to tell you...we kind of liked it! Consider this a redemption episode, as we submit ourselves to a film that critics have called "a film of monumental dreadfulness" as well as...
Ep. 11: Bloody Birthday
During a solar eclipse that obscures Saturn, three children are born, cursed without empathy, fated to be murderous psychopaths when their tenth birthdays arrive! This very early slasher swaps out monstrous masked killers with the villains you'...
