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The Sin Syndicate is a podcast hosted by writer Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott focused on the Golden Age of American sexploitation, when the morals were loose,...
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The Sin Syndicate is a podcast hosted by writer Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott focused on the Golden Age of American sexploitation, when the morals were loose, the laws were murky, and the intercourse was all simulated. Join us semiweekly as we peer into adults only theaters and sticky floored cinemas looking for colorful nudies, B&W roughies, and softcore sex films.
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9 SEP 2026 · Can you afford the price? The film might call them hookers, but there is no hooking. Instead, in the 1967 anthology film, The Hookers, we are treated to three different stories dealing with three different ways in which the female body is sold and commodified, either by choice, or by coercion.
Fleurette Carter (Aroused) plays Callie Sue, Sharon Kent (Indecent Desires) plays Julie, and Monica Davis (The Swap and How to Make It) plays Barbara. Each woman is from a different station, and each approaches the salability of their womanhood in a different way. Callie Sue takes back the power that was stolen from her; Julie is oblivious to the games that men play; and Barbara uses her charms to get out of a gambling debt. As the narrator, producer, actor, and director (?) of The Hookers asks at the end of the documentary, Queens at Heart: "Who are we to judge?"
Join us for Episode 46, "The Secretary, The Go-Go Girl and The Housewife," where we spotlight The Women, plus one fascinating man with a golden voice and a once-fierce karate chop. It's teasing, taunting, and opens on a shot of the Pan Am rooftop helipad where Michael Findlay was killed. Does that have anything to do with anything? No, not really.
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Watch the documentary short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__VKNw0XiI featuring Joel Holt
Stream https://www.cultpix.com/movie/all-of-me/584and https://www.cultpix.com/movie/karate-the-hand-of-death/1165on Cultpix.com
Purchase https://melusine.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-lost-sexploitation-triple-feature and https://melusine.com/collections/frontpage/products/maple-syrup-pix-vol-1
Visit the https://swvhsarchive.com/ Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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26 AUG 2026 · Here at the Sin Syndicate, we love websites. Not apps, not Substacks, not ad-filled modern forums, but websites. One of our favorites is Mondo Digital, the long-running project of Nathaniel Thompson, a long-time figure in the scene, whether it be moderating the Mobius Home Video Forum, covering genre cinema online and in print, contributing to disc releases, or working at Image Entertainment (not in that order). It's that last thing we wanted to talk with Nathaniel about, specifically around his work as part of Image in the period of the early aughts, which also coincided with the LA-based distribution company's partnership with Seattle's Something Weird Video.
What was the process like putting those still incredible double and triple feature DVD releases together? Was there any internal pushback to some of the sexploitation content within? What did they have against The Big Snatch? And what was it like moderating a commentary track with Harry Novak? Those are just a few of the questions we cover in this episode, which also kicks off with a brief chat with Punk Vacation's https://www.instagram.com/EliOlsberg/ about a special sexploitation screening he attended at the https://thenewbev.com/ earlier this month. So, cuddle up with your favorite snapper case and best memories of Borders Books, it's about to get Extra Weird.
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Purchase https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/agfa/products/the-acid-eaters-space-thing from https://www.americangenrefilm.com/
Bookmark https://www.mondo-digital.com/
Follow https://www.instagram.com/mondodig/?hl=en&g=5
Follow https://www.instagram.com/punkvacation_podcast/ Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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12 AUG 2026 · I know it's labeled a Short End, but it's actually not that short. But the spirit of the Short End is still with us. For this entry in our bonus episode series, we are joined by Austin Miller, film archivist and technical coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA), to discuss a short film he provided to the Vinegar Syndrome Archive for use on the recent, very sold out, https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/reviver-3 home video release (we will be saying the word "short" and "archive" a lot). That film, titled https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134043/ has been long-sought after by fans of buxom Sunset Strip dancer turned "actress" (in the heaviest quotes), Pat Barrington.
Patty B and an unknown blonde are the stars of the short, which was produced by the same company (Dyle IV) that made another film featuring trippy light effects, Ed De Priest's "mondo Hollywood underground," https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/drug-o-rama-video-party What's the connection between the two, if any? Who is Bob Beck, the man behind the visual effects? And what can we say about Paul Hunt, the man often cited as the director of this acid dreamy short?
Listen to find out all that and more, including a new segment of Weirdo on the Street from our Gap Grindhouse correspondent, https://www.instagram.com/jep_76/, plus a story about how Casey almost got beat up by Tura Satana. So drop a tab, take a puff from your wackiest cigarette, and get psyched with us as we peer through the kaledoscopic lens at the end of hippiedom and the new era of film preservation. Bring your own sitar.
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Wait for Reviver 3 to restock at https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/reviver-3
Purchase https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-ultimate-degenerate-a-thousand-pleasures?_pos=1&_psq=ultimate+degenerate&_psid=75f35549b&_ss=e
Stream Hedonistic Pleasures on https://www.cultpix.com/movie/hedonistic-pleasures/1986
https://marmia.org/ and https://www.instagram.com/chrnclsofmarmia/
Follow https://www.instagram.com/austin81635/?hl=en Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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29 JUL 2026 · The name Donn Davison might not be as well-known as Dan Sonney, Kroger Babb, Dwain Esper, or David F. Friedman, but he was a mighty Southern monarch in his own right, a multi-talented road showman, yo-yo man and official member of the Forty Thieves of classical film exploitation and distribution. Like many of the thieves, he started out in a carny circuit, the spook show, before deciding to try his hand at producing one of his own pictures to tour the mom and pop theaters and drive-ins of the Bible Belt.
One of those films was Shantytown Honeymoon, later retitled Honey Britches for release by Something Weird and Demented Death Farm Massacre when re-edited for Troma Video. In this episode we'll discuss all the ins and outs of this regional little hick flick, with special love given to its genetically blessed star, the "torrid tide in the sea of wanton splendor, the siren’s song that leads men to damnation, the Amazonian adversary to patriarchal perdition," Ms. Pepper Thurston.
Thurston might tower over her co-stars, but there is still plenty to love about George Ellis giving 110% as the leering, greedy moonshiner Horlon P. Craven (does "Bestoink Dooley" ring a bell?), not to mention Davison favorite Ashley Brooks as bought-wife Reba Sue, as well as Trudy Moore as dumb-as-rocks Karen. There's also Michael Battlesmith as Kirk (he's just a Kirk), and Valarie Lipsey as a super-sassy no-nonsense Madame named Jessabelle (not a Jezebel).
Our favorite third wheel and #1 Pepper Thurston stan Alex DiSanto joins us to pull the rope on this well bucket as we gather water on everything you've never wanted to know about this sweet and sleazy number which had a surprisingly long life both on the screen, and on the video shelf. It may be true that the film's message is that the Lord both giveth and taketh away, but he did giveth us Pepper Thurston. To that we say: she's in our hearts now, you can't have her back.
Episode Specific:
View our https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/list/southern-sexploitation/ List
Watch Honey Britches on https://www.cultpix.com/movie/honey-britches/2070
Watch Demented Death Farm on https://tubitv.com/movies/100007439/demented-death-farm-massacreor https://www.troma.com/films/demented-death-farm-massacre/
Order https://melusine.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-ultimate-degenerate-a-thousand-pleasures
Special thanks: Alex DiSanto Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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15 JUL 2026 · The Sin Syndicate is taking a stroll down to the San Francisco massage parlor to visit future adult film superstar Serena during her brief softcore period. At the time, the striking blonde was still using her "Jen Gillian" pseudonym and just getting her foot in the door the film industry. Released in 1975 through Harry Novak (yes, again) and his Box Office International production company, Massage Parlor Wife is unique in that its director really had no business making sex movies, his background was in documentaries and experimental films. Nevertheless, the resulting work is a fiery, funny, and above all, still unquestionably erotic work that not only shows competence behind the camera (and in the editing room), but shows the immediate and umistakable charisma of the new starlet soon to become Serena.
Joining us in Episode 43, "Rubbing the Right Way," to discuss all things Massage Parlor Wife, both direct and indirect, is Mark Murray: author, archivist, restoration artist, bobble head creator, friend of Serena, and propieter of Ultra Flesh Archives. There's no better person to join us for this episode than Mark, who just recently released Vol. 1 in a collection of Serena's hardcore loops through his home video imprint, UFA, where the official motto is "Take pride in your porn," and the unofficial, "Long live loops!" We full-heartedly endorse both, just as much as we full-heartedly love and celebrate Serena, one of the most magnetic personalities to ever grace the silver sex film screen, soft or hard.
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Search "Ultra Flesh Archives"
Subscribe to https://www.youtube.com/@barryspinello258
Order https://melusine.com/products/wadd
Pre-Order https://melusine.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-ultimate-degenerate-a-thousand-pleasures
Special thanks: Mark Murray Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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1 JUL 2026 · The credo of Ryan Verrill and Will Dodson's podcast network is "every movie is someone's favorite." To celebrate one-year of being a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions network, The Sin Syndicate are joined by 1/2 of SFP and the larger Antenna Releasing company, the https://www.youtube.com/c/DiscConnectedMediaman himself, bossman Ryan Verrill, to recap the past year and play a game of pick five. What five are we picking? Five films we want to see get a high-definition, English-friendly home video release in the not-so-distant future.
The rules were to keep it somewhat (s)exploitation adjacent, but we weren't going to hold Ryan's feet to the fire for picking a John Waters film. Elsewhere, in the world famous sexploitation news hour, we discuss our recent guest appearance on a sister pod, tackle a commentary listener's email, and chat 75% off Summer Sales. Join us and learn about proper disc placement, boutique label spreadsheets, and the importance of taking a moral stance when it comes to film distribution. Stay 'til the very end for a special song, so long as it doesn't get struck down by the Missing Persons estate.
Episode Specific:
View the https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/list/the-sin-syndicate-disc-connecteds-most-wanted/
Check out https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/
Watch Gentry's https://youtu.be/0NXI6Bjst2k?si=mfLSbDqe6J1njLyF
Purchase https://melusine.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-lustful-turk-the-joys-of-jezebel
Special thanks: Ryan Verrill Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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17 JUN 2026 · It seemed like a good idea at the time. It all started with our discussion with fetish historian and author Jane Garrett about 1967's Venus in Furs (https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trodden-underfoot--71735301). As a follow-up, we chatted with Nathan Schiff, Long Island filmmaker and longtime friend of Furs director, Joseph Marzano (https://www.spreaker.com/episode/back-to-marzanoland--72086063). I guess we're masochists, we didn't get enough Lou Campa, or I just wanted to close the loop, but here we are, definitely slamming the book shut for good on this mini-saga.
For those who have not been following along, Campa was the shady producer behind Furs, along with several other sickie films orbiting around this scene. We've touched on several of them before: Venus in Furs, of course, but also, Cool It, Baby and Mini-Skirt Love. But we never really discussed two of Campa's most outrageous offerings distributed through Cinex Industries: Sock it to Me, Baby and Come on Baby, Light My Fire. An additional impetus to continue pulling this thread? The passion of Toronto's very own smutmeister, Alex DiSanto, who joins us for a volatile, heated discussion about the thespian talents of Larry Hunter (would you die on that hill?), watersports in sexploitation, and the musical talents of Darlene Cotton.
But before all that, in the news and updates we cover AGFA's latest horrotic release, Pink crossovers, Pride Month failures, and the disgusting trend of using AI to make dead people fuck. In other words: another day, another man, another episode to keep out of the hands of your neighbor, Tina.
Episode Specific:
Purchase https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage-partner-labels/products/voices-of-desire-fly-now-pay-later
Purchase https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/wadd
Watch https://www.cultpix.com/movie/sock-it-to-me-baby/1361 & https://www.cultpix.com/movie/come-on-baby-light-my-fire/1375 on https://www.cultpix.com/
Follow the https://instagram.com/stories/paperbackgrindhouse/?r=1
Special thanks: https://www.instagram.com/alexetwonderland/ Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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3 JUN 2026 · It's a Love Explosion! In an attempt to maintain our sanity amidst deadlines and life generally, we bring you another episode of our Short Ends series, which we've used in the past to feature additional discussions that have either gone long, didn't fit, or generally felt like they were worthy of standing on their own. We've slightly expanded this design to hopefully include more low-key and informal chats with friends, fans and listeners, without the pressure of one of our regular, deeply researched Sin Syndicate episodes (that you've come to know and love).
All that build up to say, we've got unofficial Gap Theatre correspondent and New Jersey native Jeffery Petrone on the show to talk about a secret screening of "Wilbur and the Baby Factory" that he recently attended. Jeffery is a passionate fan of all genres of film and has recently caught the sexploitation bug. We were excited to talk with him about his impressions of this Harry Novak distributed sort of sex film, sort of Master Race satire. Of course, we've also got plenty of news, updates and chatter from the World of Sexploitation, literally, from America to Argentina to England to Japan. Will I ever be able to rescue Casey from Roman Porno land?
Episode Specific:
Listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b2vxr1-vd8
Visit https://thegaptheatre.com/
View Jeffery's https://letterboxd.com/jep76/list/petrone-personal-taste-top-10-of-1960s-sexploitation/ Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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20 MAY 2026 · That’s right, we’re going Back to Marzanoland. If you’ve been a consistent listener, you’ll know that in Episode 38, “Trodden Underfoot,” we discussed the Joseph Marzano film Venus in Furs (1967) with author and fetish historian https://schifferbooks.com/products/john-willie?srsltid=AfmBOoo5EElaBmqIeFfZ73nxxrxefvifDxgcdIR5Vz5b_Gcso3oD9bOr. After the release of that episode, low-budget Long Island filmmaker and sexploitation super-fan Nathan Schiff reached out to us to share some stories about his own personal relationship with Marzano before his death. It’s fair to say, Nathan had stories. In fact, so many that this three hour podcast can barely contain them all.
A few selections include: film distributor Harry Novak and his notorious “archive,” producer George Weiss writing Olga copy (and teaching proper whipping and tying technique), and an auspicious final encounter with a despondent Janet Banzet. Of course, we also discuss Marzano’s sexploitation career, and hear more stories about the productions of Cool It, Baby and Venus in Furs. Plus, more about muscle-bound masseur Shep Wild and mob wife Barbara Ellen. But that’s just scratching the surface. Researchers, friends, fans, Milligan-heads, pull out your notebooks, grab a bottle of Fanta, we’re talking Marzano and Co. with Nathan Schiff, and rewatching The Degenerates for the 16th time.
Episode Specific:
Listen to our episode on Venus in Furs, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trodden-underfoot--71735301
Read "Sexploitation!" at the https://magicktheatre.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/sexploitation/
Learn more about Nathan Schiff from http://bleedingskull.com/tag/directed-by-nathan-schiff/
Read "An Enraged Eye: Nathan Schiff’s Vermilion Eyes as Anti-Film" at https://brightlightsfilm.com/an-enraged-eye-nathan-schiffs-vermilion-eyes-as-anti-film/amp/
View Marzano's early films at https://film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/joseph-marzano
Special thanks: Nathan Schiff, Jane Garrett Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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7 MAY 2026 · Where else will you find a worldwide exclusive about what Christina Lindberg is going to wear on the https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/ red carpet? For Episode 39, "The Power of the Horn," The Sin Syndicate have connected with our brothers from another mother, the purveyers of Swedish Sin, Rickard Gramfors & Patrick von Sychowski, co-partners of the Stockholm-based multimedia company Klubb Super 8 and streaming platform Cultpix. With so much to cover, we didn't want to focus on just one film, although their most recent release for https://melusine.com/, Come Blow the Horn! does get some special love.
Other topics include, but are not limited to: Stellan Skarsgård hanging dong, Sweden: Heaven or Hell, Swedish Roman Porno, puritanical censorship, the social realism of A Woman Heats Up a Sauna, lost American movies in the Swedish Film Archives, the mysterious Cornelius "Corny" Flickenheimer and…Mr. Penguin?
It was an absolute joy to talk to the Klubb boys, who are fighting the good fight, and in many ways, are the https://somethingweird.com/ of Northern Europe, unconstrained by genre, unafraid of controversy, and actively working to broaden cinematic horizons beyond Bergman. So, close the blinds and join us for a blowing. Just don't waste your horniness.
Episode Specific:
Visit https://klubbsuper8.com/
Subscribe to https://www.cultpix.com/
Buy https://melusine.com/collections/frontpage/products/come-blow-the-horn
End music by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSNMUmF7z8DzPc3Yji9HlwA
Special thanks: Rickard Gramfors, Patrick von Sychowski, Kalle Lagerroos Links:
Join the community on https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSinSyndicate
Instagram with us at https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicatepod/
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/ &https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/
Check out the https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird
Listen to other podcasts on https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network
Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
The Sin Syndicate is a podcast hosted by writer Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott focused on the Golden Age of American sexploitation, when the morals were loose,...
show more
The Sin Syndicate is a podcast hosted by writer Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott focused on the Golden Age of American sexploitation, when the morals were loose, the laws were murky, and the intercourse was all simulated. Join us semiweekly as we peer into adults only theaters and sticky floored cinemas looking for colorful nudies, B&W roughies, and softcore sex films.
show less
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| Author | Someone's Favorite Productions |
| Organization | Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network |
| Categories | Film History , Film Interviews , Film Reviews |
| Website | www.spreaker.com |
| gentryaustin@gmail.com |
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