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This week, Steve trudges through familiar trash territory by going to the Sasquatch well once again with Bigfoot: The Conspiracy. Miros looks to deal a season two death blow by countering with The 90 Day Rule; a shot-on-a-cell-phone, Atlanta-based rom com. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Two titans of Hollywood square off when Miros pits a late-career, trashy no-budget Ted V. Mikels film (Astro Zombies: M3 - Cloned) against Steve's choice, the slick Hollywood magical realism mindfuck from Stuart Paul: Deadly Lessons. Plus, for the first time in Caustic Content history, we watch a film featuring an Oscar award winning actor. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Just when we think we've found rock bottom, we find a way to dig deeper and unearth the most abhorrent trash cinema buried in the bowels of the internet. This week, Steve forces everyone to watch a deranged, three-hour, one-man show that lands somewhere between shitty Tom Clancy novel and lunatic/conspiracy theory YouTube rant. Miros counters with what we can only assume is a CIA PsyOp. Or maybe it's just an hour-long video of a couple of Ukrainian guys banging toy dinosaurs together and mumbling. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Caustic Content wades into uncharted territory, abandoning our usual trash films this week in favor of the worst streaming stand-up comedy we could dredge up. Steve goes to bat for the self-proclaimed "Queen of Clean" Chonda Pierce and Miros counters with low-rent shock comic, Donzilla. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

COVID-19 cinema has officially established itself as its own genre, flooding various streaming services with extended Zoom calls sprinkled with bits of stock footage. And, as everyone knows, you can only make a film during the coronavirus pandemic if it's about a global pandemic. What else is there in the world? This week, we're pitting two Covid flicks against each other. For the first time in Caustic Content history, Steve chooses a direct sequel to a film he's never seen (Save Rosemary Too) and begs the question, "What if Orphan Black was completely unwatchable?" Miros counters with the only Covid-inspired faux-documentary that dares to dream of a world run by the Yang Gang (SARS-29). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

This week, Steve channels the power of THE TROOPS and tries to stop his unprecedented losing streak with A Warm Wind, a heartwarming tale about how we all need to believe that the Iraq War kicked ass. Miros counters with Sex, Drugs, and Nasty Nell's; The only movie that dares to ask "What happens when you get a half dozen porn stars, two aging pickup artists, and a few Sunset strip burnouts and then film them without a script?" Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Maybe patience is rewarded, or maybe a broken clock is just right twice a day. Either way, Caustic Content may have unintentionally stumbled onto a pair of completely fine examples of microbudget independent cinema. Or maybe they're still shit. It's impossible to tell what's actually good anymore. This week Steve heads back to the show's old standby (cheaply made midwestern horror) with the Wisconsin Northwoods slasher, Attack of the Tattie-Bogle. Miros counters with a Canadian puppet-driven interspecies rom com, Divorcee at Large. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

In the spirit of podcast variety and keeping our brains from melting out of our skulls, we've temporarily banned films from Amazon Prime Video. Both Steve and Miros found refuge in trash cinema from Tubi, a free streaming service that breaks up your film-watching experience commercials so you can take a moment to think about the choices you've made. This week, Steve chose Sex Pot (2009), a self-proclaimed comedy and our first film from the legendary film distributor, The Asylum. Miros counters with the ultra-high contrast sci-fi/horror/action/exploitation head-scratcher, Powerplegic (2013). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

This week, the magic of animation comes to Caustic Content. Join us for a head-to-head battle between a deranged CGI nightmare (Wizard So So) and what we can only assume is a cult recruitment tool created in PowerPoint (The First Armageddon). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Can we get any lower than rock bottom? Sure, why not. This week we pit a self-proclaimed INTERACTIVE court drama (We the Jury) against a "documentary" about a meth addict grotesquely eating french fries at a local McDonalds (Nutty's Cheeseburger & A Nap). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

This week, a christian psychological thriller made for $20 in an abandoned house (The Curse of Eve) tries to beat out a hyper-conservative "comedy" from a humorless narcissist (Zidane Adams: The Black Blogger). Arguably the worst double feature we've covered! Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

In our first short film showdown, we pit the Christian megachurch answer to Joker (Infidel) against the wild pseudo-horror/thriller with the greatest soundtrack in Caustic Content history (Rivershine). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

We've watched films full of copyright infringement that seemed like they were made by children, but this is the first time we've watched one that was ACTUALLY made by children. This week it's going head-to-head against first-time filmmaker Jo Blanco's distinctly Floridian take on a Voodoo love story edited with a rusty hacksaw. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Renowned arbitrator Stephen Kohlmann returns to cast the deciding vote in the battle of a maybe Christian, maybe vampire film (Blood Type: Unknown) against no-budget vaporware Constantine (Despiser). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

What's that? Christmas was last week? Sounds like someone could use a little booster shot of holiday cheer. We're kicking off season 2 of Caustic Content with a ferocious battle between a Z-grade morality tale (Christmas Tears) and a cut-and-paste cinematic Frankenstein (A Wrestling Christmas Miracle). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

It's the FINAL episode of Caustic Content Season 1. Steve and Miros are all tied up heading into the finale, so it comes down to a ferocious battle between a clown horror standup special, The Tales of Strango the Clown (2020), and the pulpy melodrama of Vanished (2014). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

This week, it's the boobs, blood, and butthole of Strip Club Slasher (2010) up against the fucked up British Shrek, Fungus the Bogeyman (2006). Will an ugly adaptation of a classic children's book topple a charmless rural strip club horror romp? Or will we just finally break the will of one of our co-hosts? Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Caustic Content returns with an international horror throwdown. This week, it's the ultra-low budget regional shocker from upstate New York, Return to Clark County (2019), against the proudly (and politely) Canadian possession film, The Ghost Knows (2017). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Stephen Kohlmann makes his triumphant return to Caustic Content to cast the deciding vote in a battle between an animated sci-fi abomination, The Misty Green Sky, and a northwestern Wisconsin no-budget slasher, This Book is Cursed. Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine

Stephen Kohlmann is vacationing deep in the northwoods of Wisconsin, so this week we're abandoning the usual format to celebrate the movies of the prolific, no-budget, christian filmmaker, Doug Phillips. We're covering a trio of classics: Remake (2012), Journey to the Docile Pink Planet (2018), and Weightier Matters (2019). Rate and review Caustic Content on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caustic-content/id1521499930 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/optimismvaccine