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Head Cannon

by Ben Bailey

Welcome to Head Cannon, a podcast dedicated to reviewing weird and obscure movies and imagining the multimedia franchises they never got. Every week a movie is selected at random for review, and then expanded with proposed sequels, prequels, spinoffs, reboots, TV shows, videogames, and a few more things

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Episodes

  1. Head Cannon Presents - Franchise Retrospective: Phantasm

    This week, its time once again for a Franchise Retrospective, where I take a deep dive into a whole series of films I've never seen to find out if they were worth the trouble in real time. This time around, its the decades spanning quintilogy about an evil mortician with an army of little people...

  2. Head Cannon - Episode #030 - Americathon

    This week I take on Americathon, a prescient political satire that predicted many things about our insane modern world, and perhaps more importantly, finally solves the ancient mystery of Poopy Butt. This is a weirdy but a goody with the great George Carlin, the slightly less great but still…

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  3. Head Cannon - Episode #029 - Lethal Target

    Sorry for the unexpected two weeks off, family obligations and sickness waylaid me from posting this kind of boring episode about a really boring movie called Lethal Target, which isn't technically porn, I don't think, but might as well have been, and probably would have been better with…

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  4. Head Cannon - Episode #028 - 4D Man

    This week I pass through 4D Man, a cheesy 50's scifi flick about Gary Seven from Star Trek learning the fine art of phasing through solid steel and other even stronger and faker metals, which like all mad science experiments of the era, instantly makes him evil for no apparent reason. This one…

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  5. Head Cannon - Episode #027 - The Flight Of Dragons

    This week I take on the traditionally animated Rankin and Bass cult classic The Flight Of Dragons in what might be my nerdiest episode yet. I get deep into the weeds with a fantasy adventure that asks some interesting questions about the dichotomy between science and magic and somehow ends up on...

  6. Head Cannon - Episode #026 - Exterminator City

    This week I take on Exterminator City, by far the weirdest movie I've watched for the podcast so far, and that's saying something. This is a hidden gem if there ever was one, full of murderous robot puppets, demons with Hitler mustaches, screaming porn stars, and a fiercely independent approach...

  7. Head Cannon - Double Feature #001 - Oblivion

    This week I take on my first Double Feature Special with the Full Moon cult classic Sci-Fi Western Duology Oblivion. It's Gunsmoke in space, if Matt Dillon was the wimpiest motherfucker you've ever seen in your life. There's a lot of fun, a little cheese, and some offensive Native American brown...

  8. Head Cannon - Episode #025 - Cyber Ninja

    This week I take on Cyber Ninja, a tokusatsu martial arts movie that tickled all of my 20 year old Power Rangers kid fancies with giant robot pagoda tanks, regular sized robots that are also ninjas, boss monsters and boss monster bosses, electrified bullet swords, and a tender story about…

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  9. Head Cannon - Episode #024 - Sorceress

    This week I tackle Sorceress, a Sword and Sorcery epic from the mind of Jim Wyrnowski so bad it compelled feminist exploitation legend Jack Hill to leave the film-making business altogether. It's got skinny dipping twins, dong waggling Satyrs, self-immolating Kung Fu Gandalf, vagina stabbing...

  10. Head Cannon - Episode #023 - Rubin And Ed

    This week, I watched Rubin And Ed and instantly regretted it. It has Crispin Glover in it, who is good as always, and even he couldn't save it. When my first reference point for a movie is the Gus Van Sant film Gerry, you know you got problems. Enjoy. Download HERE or on Itunes HERE

  11. Head Cannon - Episode #022 - Light Blast

    This week, I take on Light Blast, an 80s action movie starring Erik Estrada and a giant face melting laser beam. Never before has a movie been so satisfying while being built around the same special effect stolen from a much better movie, and just repeated over and over again. Also, Erik Estrada…

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  12. Head Cannon - Episode #021 - Neon Maniacs

    Welcome to Season Three of Head Cannon! This week I take on Neon Maniacs, a movie that's kinda dumb, and only kind of a movie. Pieced together from spare parts after several budget shortfalls and production stoppages, the result is an uneven mess of a thing with some potential, and a lot of...

  13. Head Cannon - Franchise Retrospective #002 - The Mangler Trilogy

    This week, its another Franchise Retrospective, taking on the entire Mangler Trilogy, a series inspired by one of the shortest Stephen King short stories about an antique laundry press possessed by the devil. Or is it a computer virus possessing a private school? Or is it a homemade meat grinder…

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  14. Head Cannon Presents - Mary Poppins Returns (A Dirty Sons Of Pitches Special)

    Okay, so its the holidays, and I didn't have time to edit the next episode, so I'm cross posting this for the week. If you don't listen to either of my other podcasts, sometimes on the Dirty Sons Of Pitches we do a thing called What The Hell Did We Just Watch?, where we deconstruct a movie that…

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  15. Head Cannon - Episode #020 - A Wind Named Amnesia

    This week, its a special choice episode where I dispense with the randomization and pick a movie I just want to watch for the hell of it. My selection is the 1990 anime film A Wind Named Amnesia, a movie I watched as a kid while looking for boobs on the Independent Film Channel, instead…

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  16. Head Cannon - Episode #019 - Planet Of The Vampires

    This week, I take on the 1965 Mario Bava film Planet of the Vampires, a movie definitely set on a planet with literally no vampires. Not even like there might be vampires somewhere else on the planet we don't see. It's an alien world with the only life, undead or otherwise, clearly indicated as...

  17. Head Cannon Presents - Delgo! A Saturday Night Jive Crossover

    This week, Head Cannon crosses over with my other podcast Saturday Night Jive, where my brother and I take on the specially requested animated film Delgo. For the sake of consistency, I won't go into further detail, so that this description is as mediocre as the movie itself. Also, I'm a lazy…

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  18. Head Cannon - Episode #018 - The Assignment

    This week, I take on The Assignment, the somewhat controversial straight to video action film about a forced gender reassignment surgery on the wrong guy slash girl. It's incredibly underwhelming, but my pitches for the franchise are at least whelming or better. Enjoy. Download HERE or on Itunes...

  19. Head Cannon - Episode #017 - Project Metalbeast

    This week, I take on Project Metalbeast, a movie that should have been about cyborg werewolves, but wasn't. This movie cheated me out of the coolest thing ever, and it doesn't deserve its bad-ass title or Barry Bostwick. I try to salvage my disappoint by pitching much better movies vaguely…

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  20. Head Cannon - Episode #016 - Matango: Attack Of The Mushroom People

    This week, I munch on Matango, a Japanese monster movie about killer mushrooms that terrorize a crew of shipwrecked vacationers, and by terrorize, I mean they don't really show up until the last twenty minutes, and then just sort of shuffle around and laugh maniacally, unless you're stupid enough...

  21. Head Cannon - Episode #015 - Collision Course

    This week I take on Collision Course, a delightful buddy cop movie from both the 80's and the 90s where Jay "Poopy Butt" Leno and Pat Morita doing a funny voice team up to solve racial tensions in economically depressed Detroit. Spoilers: This movie contains the greatest sequence in the history…

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  22. Head Cannon - Episode #014 - Robin And The Dreamweavers

    This week, I take on Robin And The Dreamweavers, a movie with XXX Big Boobs and other things that help with search engine optimization, because for some reason people who search for podcasts still look up porn that they can listen to I guess. This movie is garbage, but the podcast sifts through…

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  23. Head Cannon - Episode #013 - Golden Needles

    This week, I take on the Joe Don Baker Kung Fu classic Golden Needles, a wacky globetrotting scavenger hunt for an ancient Chinese acupuncture model promising orgasmic immortality to whoever is willing to commit arson or wrestle naked old dudes to possess it. Yeah, this one was weird. The phrase...

  24. Head Cannon - Episode #012 - Fade To Black

    This week I take on the 1980 horror flick Fade To Black, a character study of a young movie nerd who busted out cosplay before it was cool and before there were interesting pop culture icons to dress up as. So instead we get Hopalong Cassady. Ugh. Sorry for the weird edit at the beginning, but…

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  25. Head Cannon - Episode #011 - The Lost Empire

    Welcome to Season Two of Head Cannon! This week I take on my first Jim Wyrnowski movie - The Lost Empire from the year of my birth 1985, a cheesy riff on old serials filled with boobs, boobs, and more boobs. And also some boobs. Download HERE or on Itunes HERE

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to Head Cannon, a podcast dedicated to reviewing weird and obscure movies and imagining the multimedia franchises they never got. Every week a movie is selected at random for review, and then expanded with proposed sequels, prequels, spinoffs, reboots, TV shows, videogames, and a few more things

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Ben Bailey

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Welcome to Head Cannon, a podcast dedicated to reviewing weird and obscure movies and imagining the multimedia franchises they never got. Every week a movie is selected at random for review, and then expanded with proposed sequels, prequels, spinoffs, reboots, TV shows, videogames, and a few more...

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