”Shriek-O-Nomics!” - XXX Rated Extras BONUS Episode 3

“Entertaining, sometimes brilliantly funny…” Chortle.co.uk

For loyal subscribers, the second BONUS EPISODE – an open discussion, full of facts, figures, flops and favourites as we join hands and bank accounts and put on our best auditing trousers to ask the biggest question. Why are so many of the films on the DPP list such unwatchable crap?

If lavish quality productions like ‘Cleopatra’ and ‘Dr No’ were possible in 1963…what the hell is going on with the wigs in ‘Blood Feast’? If technology can bring ‘The Birds’ and ‘The Great Escape’ to the big screen convincingly… why can you see boom microphones dropping into shot during The Ghastly Ones?

So we’re opening the curtains and letting in some daylight on the bad scripts, wobbly cameras, corny stories, wooden acting, unlit scenes, inaudible dialogue, shoddy titles and crackly music. Gory is one thing, sure. Gruesome is another. Shocking and sleazy? Why not. But often it’s the appalling amateur production values that are the most traumatising part of these tapes and have us reaching for the remote.

Comedian, novelist and pub quiz host Richard Asplin takes you through stories and stats of production costs, budgets, financing, schedules and investments of the low-budget indie movies we’re ‘enjoying’ to unearth why you could have made and marketed ‘The Evil Dead’ from the leftover coins in the coffee machine on the backlot of ‘Avenger’s Endgame’…

Press play…if you dare…

Richard Asplin is an award nominated novelist, comedian, pub quiz host and has written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.