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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.Someone's Favorite Productions Art
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  • Trodden Underfoot

    Trodden Underfoot
    Apr 29 2026
    Yes, we have this in a higher heel. Enter a world of suprasensual sexploitation with this week's deep dive into one of the earliest big screen adaptations of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s oft-referenced sadomasochism novella, Venus in Furs.

    Muscle-hunk Shep Wild plays this version of Severin (named David), a shoe-salesman who is taken for a literal trip after a chance meeting with the striking Marina, played by Barbara Ellen, who is as much a creative force in this endevaor as director Joseph Marzano and producer Lou Campa. All three were coming off the sleazy success of the sinful blackmail story, Cool It, Baby (1967), but Venus in Furs was a Marzano product through-and-through, with the former experimental filmmaker given free rein to indulge in his deepest, darkest desires—as long as he stayed within the Campa/Cam-Scope budget.

    Marzano wasn’t able to fully achieve his vision, but the end result is still a stylishly erotic and boundary-pushing film filled with fetish funhouse imagery and a recurring musical motif pulled from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Like that story, there’s no happy ending here, but a descent into unfulfilled sexual madness, an aching longing for the intangible, and one particularly rough game of ping-pong. Join us, along with fetish historian and John Willie biographer Jane Garrett, as we discuss this unsubtle masterwork from sexploitation’s late 60s peak. Find out what's behind the next door, kiss your beloved’s ankle, and accept your fate as “Trodden Underfoot.”

    Episode Specific:
    Buy John Willie: A Bizarre Life
    Follow Jane Garrett on Instagram
    Attend SECS Fest at the The Beacon
    Special thanks: Jane Garrett

    Links:
    Join the community on Patreon
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Check out the Something Weird Channel
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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    1 h et 57 min
  • Waiting for the Man

    Waiting for the Man
    Apr 15 2026
    Do you partake?

    The Sin Syndicate are preemptively celebrating the Stoner's Holiday with this special 4/20-themed episode which is, let's be honest, just an excuse for us to talk about one of our favorite late 60s sexploitation hang out films, director/cinematographer Joseph Mangine's Manhattan-set story of celluloid swingers and black-clad moto bikers, Smoke and Flesh (1968). After cutting his teeth on quick and cheap nudies for Barry Mahon, the talented Brooklynite directed this directorial debut that more or less acted as a 35mm resume for his skills behind the camera. Never a gloryhound, and more comfortable molding tinfoil to create the perfect bead of light than managing a crew from the big chair, Mangine would only direct one other feature film, the Warriors meets Lost Boys cult horror flick, Neon Maniacs (1986).

    But between these two projects, Mangine lensed everything from Victorian pornos, killer worm horror films to Albert Pyun's genre defining sword and sorcery epic. In Episode 37, "Waiting for the Man," we discuss all this and more, including a special dispatch from our on-the-ground correspondent, Jeffery Petrone, who checks in with us from Wind Gap, Pennsylvania where he attended a Grindhouse Triple Feature that included one of our top 10 most wanted Lost & and in Limbo films. So grab your favorite grinder and your cardboard bong for a turned-on trip to a world of strip Grand Prix, butter brickle munchies and wife exchange research from the cuck chair. We'll bring the whipped cream.

    Episode Specific:
    Watch Smoke and Flesh on Cultpix
    Listen to In the Shadows of the Neon Maniacs
    Visit The Gap Theatre
    Special thanks: Jeffery Petrone, Michael Drumbore, Stephen Scarlata

    Links:
    Join the community on Patreon
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Check out the Something Weird Channel
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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    2 h et 6 min
  • The Short Ends: More Reviving

    The Short Ends: More Reviving
    Apr 8 2026
    The Sin Syndicate return with another of our Short Ends bonus episodes, this time spotlighting the second release in the Reviver mystery box series from Vinegar Syndrome's Film Archive team. But before that, we've got more sexploitation news, including another update on Secret Places, Secret Things (which was discussed in Episode 31: "Love Land"), a correction on Andy Milligan's Compass Rose (sorry Thrower daddy), a shoutout to a certain special feature on the upcoming Bunny Yeager double feature from Kino Cult, as well as a rare "what are we watching?" segment. If you don't want to be spoiled regarding the contents of Reviver 2, you should stop listening around the 50 minute mark. The music cue from Laure will be your warning to bail.

    Links:
    Subscribe to our Patreon
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com

    Episode Specific:
    Buy Reviver 2 from Vinegar Syndrome
    Watch Oscar's "Winding Through" on Youtube
    Order Endless Exxxtasy Vol. 1 from Ultra Flesh Archives
    Order Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera / Nude Las Vegas from Kino Cult
    Special thanks: Chris Poggiali

    Links:
    Join the community on Patreon
    Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate
    Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry & Casey
    Check out the Something Weird Channel
    Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions
    Contact: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com
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    1 h et 27 min
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