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Unlock with Patreon078 – The Doomsday Machine
You know how sometimes a movie just sucks and is lazy and stupid and sexist? That’s The Doomsday Machine, all right! Bitter Karella joins us to discuss!
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You can watch The Doomsday Machine in its entirety on YouTube, but why would you? Try the very funny Cinematic Titanic version instead!
This is actually the second movie starring Bobby Van (a favorite actor of Jen’s) we’ve covered on the show. The first was lumbering musical Lost Horizon—listen to our episode about it here.
077 – Hudson Hawk
Tim and Jen revisit everyone’s favorite dad-joke heist movie: the unfairly reviled (to some) Hudson Hawk!
The entertainment media subjected Hudson Hawk to an unusual amount of negative attention during production. This poor publicity appears to have had a detrimental affect on the box office returns. However, enough time has passed that a nonzero number of people (who aren’t Tim!) will defend it. One of those pieces appeared at the Guardian:
The action scenes are fun, particularly one sequence where Willis is riding a hospital bed down the Brooklyn Bridge (“How am I driving? 1-800-I’m-gonna-fuckin’-die!”)
Oliver Macnaughton
076 – Jacob’s Ladder
Jen and Tim bring you another extra-stuft episode! This one’s about a haunting psychological thriller that 100% blames the US government: Jacob’s Ladder!
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To see Joel Peter Witkin’s remarkable photographic work, view this gallery at Artnet.
For more cult horror, listen to our episode about John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness!
075 – The Day After and Special Bulletin
Tim and Jen return to the fevered nuclear paranoia of the 80s! We look at one of the most important TV events of the era, The Day After. We also stick to the show mission statement by highlighting a lesser known nuclear horror telefilm: Special Bulletin.
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You can watch Special Bulletin in its entirety here. We recommend it! Also: David Clennon, if you’re out there, come on the show, king.
Following the broadcast of The Day After, ABC aired a panel discussion moderated by Ted Koppel on nuclear proliferation. If you would like to see absolute ghouls like William F. Buckley Jr. and Henry Kissinger argue for “robust defense,” check it out. But really, we watched it for the much-missed Carl Sagan.
For discussion of a movie that makes The Day After look like an episode of Steven Universe, listen to our episode about landmark British telefilm Threads.
074 – Ring of Steel
Jen and Tim cheerlead for a movie about the dangers of joining illegal underground sword-fighting operations— Ring of Steel!
If you have a Roku, add the B-Movie TV channel right the fuck now.
073 – Crocodile Fury
Tim saves Jen’s bacon by explaining a Frankenstein’s monster of a thriller: Crocodile Fury! And this one was brought to you by cut-and-paste filmmaker Godfrey Ho. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
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For more head-scratching horror, listen to our episode about Canadian home-brew weirdness Things!
072 – Captain America (1979) with Bill Corbett
Jen and Tim welcome Mystery Science Theater 3000/Rifftrax alum Bill Corbett to the show! We talk about the Quaalude version of a Marvel superhero— a TV movie version of Marvel’s beloved Captain America. Reb Brown, most famously of Space Mutiny and Yor, the Hunter From the Future, stars, sort of.
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Bill has a Tolkien podcast with fellow Riffrax writer Sean Thomasen called Ringheads, and of course you can always find him at Rifftrax!
For more mellow 70s nonsense, try our episode on the very dumb Ben Murphy TV series Gemini Man!
071 – Threads
Tim speaks cogently on the world’s most depressing nuclear apocalypse drama, Threads, from 1984. Jen tries not to fall into a well of despair.
We’re not kidding; Threads is possibly one of the bleakest films ever made, and everyone should see it at least once. Severin Films offers it on region-free DVD.
For a slightly lighter British horror telefilm, try our episode on the controversial faux documentary Ghostwatch.
070 – The Jesco White Saga
Jen welcomes Marvin K to discuss a triptych of documentaries about the dancin’-est outlaw alive, Jesco White, and his fractious extended family.
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We talked about Dancing Outlaw, Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood, and The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Purchase them on DVD or in downloadable MP4 format here!
Visit the official Jesco White website! And get merch!
There’s really nothing else like the Jesco White saga. But for another film brought to us by a listener, there’s our episode on the inept 80s horror flick The Sleeping Car!