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99CR 19: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah Sep 09, 2024

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We close out our two part examination of the Godzilla/King Ghidorah beef with a close look at the Heisei era movie where Americans from the future presume to travel back in time and destroy Japan with a monstrous weapon and then force what's left over to conform to their political and economic interests. This time around the America/Japan relationship is bopped real hard on the nose. We also discuss the cultural and social conditions of Japan at the time which made American attitudes toward Japan so weird and more than a little racist. Don't worry though, there's plenty of chatter about Godzilla, King Ghidorah and the peerless thrill of big, loud, Japanese special effects movies.

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51: Scream w/guests Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart Sep 02, 2024

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We are joined once again by our friends Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from Morbid to break down and diagram the greatest slasher movie of the 90's, one of the greatest horror movies of all time, Scream. It's a rare treat when a director comes along and changes the direction of an entire genre but to do it once a decade starting in the 1970's? Unheard of. And yet, Wes Craven pulled it off. Adapted from a dynamite script, written in a marathon writing session of days rather than weeks or months, and realized by a once-in -a-lifetime cast, Scream is ultimately a greater whole than the sum of its parts. Listen to us break it down in great depth.

99CR 18: Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster Aug 26, 2024

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Join us this week as we take a trip to Japan to talk Godzilla. This is the movie that introduced the world to Godzilla's arch-nemesis, Ghidorah, the floppiest golden dragon the world has ever seen. We also get short changed on Mothra, are delighted by those little fairy ladies who summon her, and can't help but talk shit about Rodan, one of the least compelling Godzilla monsters out there. You'll learn about Kaiju, Bryan will struggle to pronounce some Japanese words, and we'll tell you all about the several eras of Godzilla. We assure you nothing less than good time.

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50: The Silence of the Lambs Aug 19, 2024

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Celebrate 50 episodes of scares, questionable taste, and Simpsons references with us as we put the lotion in the basket for a giant-sized analysis of one of the most titanic horror movies of the 1990's or maybe even of all time as we break down Jonathan Demme's iconic The Silence of the Lambs. We're all about Ted Levine's Buffalo Bill, Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling, and Sir Anthony Hopkins's Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. We air out some grievances, talk Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, and definitively determine which of us is the classiest brother.

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99CR 17: Masters of the Universe w/guest Jonny Atkinson Aug 12, 2024

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This week, Bryan and Dave are joined by Jonny Atkinson of Uy Que Horror to talk He-Man as they take a real deep dive into the movie that drove the final nail into the Cannon Group's coffin, Masters of the Universe. We discuss the movie's enduring status as a cult film against all odds, the intense nostalgia high of a movie that seems to have gotten better with age, the utterly bonkers history of the Cannon Group, a production company that flew too close to the sun, as well as run down the troubling allegations facing the film's director, Gary Goddard.

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49: I Know What You Did Last Summer Aug 05, 2024

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This week, Bryan and Dave face down the blandest notions of the 1990's with I Know What You Did Last Summer, ostensibly the first of the craven 90's Scream cash-ins, written and produced by Scream's very own Kevin Williamson. It's a movie that really takes its sweet time getting around to the mystery where four beautiful 90's young people, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillipe make every possible bad decision and deal with the consequences as they're stalked by the Gorton's Fisherman in a small North Carolina fishing village. Where does this movie land in the horror canon? Does it hold up after all these years? Listen to find out!

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99CR 16: Assault on Precinct 13 Jul 29, 2024

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Bryan and Dave conclude their John Carpenter double feature with a look at his first proper feature, Assault on Precinct 13 a movie so egregiously ripped off by other action movies that it hardly matters that Carpenter ripped it off of other action movies. Seeking to make a proper western in the style of his favorite Howard Hawks movies but pressed by budget, Carpenter lifted moves from his then brand-new Escape From New York script with Nick Castle and turned in the independent action movie that would come to redefine the modern siege movie. Is it any good? Well, yeah. Of course it is. Could it be better? Absolutely. Precinct 13 is wobbly as hell, with fairly serious pacing problems but every shot, every scene, is a preview of the best that John Carpenter has to offer the world. Listen for our usual deep analysis and historical context relating to the absolutely rotten state of things as it relates to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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48: The Fog Jul 22, 2024

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This week Bryan and Dave go long on one of their shared favorites, John Carpenter's first fertile footsteps into the 1980's, the decade that would come to define his entire career and he couldn't have made a bolder announcement of his arrival than with this subdued ghost story, told in the old campfire tales. It's equal parts gothic spooks and EC Comics style ghoulish horror, a tale of revenge from beyond the grave, ghost sailors return from the briny deep to have their payback for a terrible crime committed 100 years ago. Though a little flimsy in the story department, Carpenter and his crew float one of his most effective features on vibes and style alone. Listen for a real love letter to John Carpenter.

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99CR 15: Crash Jul 15, 2024

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This week we're getting sloppy and erotic as we break down David Cronenberg's 1996 antithesis to the 90's erotic thriller, Crash, a movie about how people can't get off unless they're about to die horribly in a car accident. Adapted from J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name, which was an extension of his short story in the collection The Atrocity Exhibition, the film stars James Spader doing his best to look like making sweet, sweet love to a woman's leg wound is something he's really into. It also bring us Elias Koteas in his second appearance on the pod steaming up the windows with his menacing sexuality and Holly Hunter, taking the strange journey into the world of sexy death.

Sound strange? Maybe more than a little off-putting? You have no idea. Listen to the episode for the full scope of the struggle.

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47: Return of the Living Dead Jul 08, 2024

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This week, Bryan and Dave ask the question that's on everyone's mind: Do you wanna party? Return of the Living Dead, the movie that changed the rules of the zombie movie game is a perfect time capsule of America in the 80's and it has a killer soundtrack to glue it all together. It's one part EC horror comic and one part paranoid Libertarian fantasy of a colossal government fuck up cooked up from the center of Dan O'Bannon's mind. Hear all about it in this deep dive of one of the greatest horror movies of all time, Return of the Living Dead.

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