Cultpix Radio Ep.74 - Christmas Special, looking back on 2023 and ahead to 2024

Santa Nudo and the Smut Peddler (aka Satan's Little Helper) are back in the studio after a long break. Lots of things has been happening while we were of air and busy with other (Cultpix things), including finances, applications and great plans for 2024!

We had a second Rene Bond Theme Week and there are enough of her films to come for two more weeks.

In October we had 31 Days of Halloween, which inspired us to have regular theme months where we highlight existing films and include some new ones.

As part of the October Halloween theme we had a Theme Week of UK Horror and Fantasy in co-operation with our good friends at Stream Go Media. This gave us the chance to show great titles suc as Blood of the Vampire, Circus of Horrors, Devil Girl from Mars, The Gamma People, The Snake Woman and many others.

Also in October we had the second week of South African exploitation films made during the Apartheid era. This is a slice of film history never screened/streamed anywhere else before.

Last week of October we tried something different with a Theme Week of The Golden Age of Gay Erotica, which we thought might upset some members, but which was wel received and (more importantly) watched. 

November was our Noir-vember, with classic titles (some even considered 'quality') and some titles not previously on Cultpix. Sadly the big blog post about it was wiped by the system.

After that we had an interesting find, again thanks to Stream Go Media, in the form of the super-productive Hong Kong director Godfrey Ho, who gave us one-legged hopping Chinese vampires in "Robo Vampire" (1988)  in  and Cynthia Rothrock in "Honor and Glory" (1992).

IN early November we paid tribute to the great Michael Weldon, by looking back of his touring Psychotronic Films festival in Stockholm and Europe at the very start of our careers. He was and remains a huge influence.

The Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) became our 50th content partner when we signed the deal with them in Lyon, giving us access to two great 1960s films.

December was the Cultpix Christmas Calendar theme month, with hand-picked selections of films good enough to hang in your Christmas tree.

December was also the René Cardona Jr theme week, famous for ripping of big blockbusters and for using real animals in a way that Hollywood would never dare.

Last for December was a bit of a break - an intermission, if you will, with Hey Folks, It's Intermission Time! compilation films.

In Januari 2024 we will have a Mike Vraney Memorial Month, to remember 10 years without him, with Lisa Petrucci curating 62 films! Also next year we will have an IRL post exhibition, a new posters coffee table book, the Wickman Week get-together, more theme months/weeks and lots more!

We will also get better at doing the podcast and newspetter, we promise.

So for now, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, you beautiful Cultpix freaks, geeks and c