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Welcome to Kicking the Seat!

Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Ep815: Son of Hammerland: TWINS OF EVIL (1971)

Ep815: Son of Hammerland: TWINS OF EVIL (1971)

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It's double the terror, triple the fun as "Son of Hammerland" looks at 1971's Twins of Evil!

This second sequel to The Vampire Lovers finds the vampiric Curse of Karnstein awakening impure thoughts and bloodlust in a decadent count and a young woman living in the shadow of witch-burning Puritanism. Frieda (Madeleine Collinson) is seduced by the count, but her twin sister, Maria (Mary Collinson) holds fast to her belief in God. Meanwhile, their uncle Gustav (Peter Cushing) wages a war on sin--which, unfortunately, blinds him to the truly sinister forces governing the land.

Ian and AC take a bite out of this lavish and thrilling rebuke of hypocrisy, which sees Cushing deliver another career-best performance and adds several layers to the vampire mythos!

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Don't Read the Comments! 10/25/22

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