S5E11 Santo Y Curry w/ Lepers & Sex (``1970), Pteryphlegia (1986), & Times Square (1980)

The San Francisco Film Preserve is bringing the Re:Vision Film Festival to the Roxie Theater in San Francisco from September 24-27, so we've got a preview of their most bizarre double bill + we're paying tribute to the great Tim Curry with his most punk movie ever.
First, Re:Vision is bringing a restored print of an El Santo sex film to the Roxie with LOS LEPROSOS Y EL SEXO aka LEPERS AND SEX an extreme oddity from 1970 where Calderon Studios took a lucha libre western and added softcore sex scenes to it for International audiences. It's hard to believe that the movie isn't just an urban legend, but an original negative was discovered in the mid-2010s and restored to all its sleazy glory by Cinema Preservation Alliance and Permanencia Voluntaria in 2022. Known without the sex scenes as SANTO VS. THE RIDERS OF TERROR, this version has escaped lepers terrorizing a small town and breaking in on any couples who are getting it on, and only the masked wrestling legend EL SANTO can restore justice and order! Directed by Mexican exploitation maestro René Cardona, who also baffled audiences with SANTA CLAUS (1959), which we featured in last year's Christmas episode.
LOS LEPROSOS Y EL SEXO screens at the Roxie on Saturday, Sept. 29th at 9 p.m. with Pteryphlegia (1986), a sci-fi short from the Netherlands featuring the prog rock sounds of YES, and lucky for you, we have YES obsessive and Greg's cousin Darren Norris to parse all the needle drops. Find out how to buy tickets at the Roxie's website here: https://roxie.com/film/revision-lepers-sex-aka-santo-vs-the-riders-of-terror/
And find out more about the SF Film Preserve and Re:Vision here: https://filmpreserve.org/revision/
And then, the great Tim Curry left us on August 25th, so we're paying tribute to him with TIMES SQUARE, a punk rock drama with a mostly banger soundtrack set in the sleaze of pre-Disneyfied New York in 1980. Robin Johnson and Trini Alvarado are troubled teens who escape from a mental hospital and start a new wave rebellion and Curry is the sleazy DJ who seeks to exploit them. Directed by Allan Moyle (EMPIRE RECORDS) and featuring the music of The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Gary Neuman, The Cars, and Robin Gibb (!). Yes, Robin Gibb. Good thing Cory and Darren can music geek out and make sense of all this. TIMES SQUARE is part of the Criterion Channel's awesome Girl Bands! collection.
Hosts: Cory Sklar, Bob Calhoun, and Darren Norris
Greg Franklin was at a screening of his award-winning animated short THE WHISTLE and Philena went back to college! We'll get her back after finals.
NEXT EPISODE: It's sexy 70s vampires for Halloween!
OMFYS theme song by Chaki the Funk Wizard. Used with permission
"Grassy Hill" by Huma Huma, "Aztec Empress by Jimena Contreras and "Celestial Distortion" courtesy of YouTube Audio Library.
Archival and trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org.
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