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138 – Short Eyes

Shawn Elliot, Ken Steward, and Jose Perez in Robert M. Young's Short Eyes (1977)

Tim and Jen get locked in with a raw adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s sensational play, Short Eyes!

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Go here for a bio of Piñero, the trailblazing Nuyorican playwright, as well as a list of his works.

BTW, there’s a documentary called The Survivor’s Guide to Prison that is slick, well made, and narrated by Danny Trejo as well as many other cultural icons. You can watch it for free with ads on Tubi, or on Kanopy with a library card. In other words, it’s perfect for sending to your normie friends who haven’t been hipped to the cause of prison abolition yet!

NYC Urbanism has historical information on the setting of Short Eyes, the Manhattan Detention Complex, aka The Tombs.

If you missed our episode on The Jericho Mile, why not give it a listen? It’s free!

137 – Heart of Midnight

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Peter Coyote in Matthew Chapman's Heart of Midnight (1988)

Jen and Tim take a look at an exploration of trauma anchored by an incredible Jennifer Jason Leigh performance, Heart of Midnight!

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The writer/director, Matthew Chapman, wrote the screenplay for Color of Night, but don’t hold that against him! See some of his unproduced material at The Blacklist.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an excellent treatise on what we know about trauma, the human brain, and addressing the treatment needs of people suffering from people with PTSD. Visit van der Kolk’s website to read an interview about the book.

For some insight into Jennifer Jason Leigh’s process as an actor, read her conversation with John Turturro for Interview magazine in 1996.

OH SHIT we totally forgot to mention in the episode that the film’s score is by Yanni. Do people remember Yanni? It’s a pretty good score, too!

We will be phasing out our $2 tier in June! If you’d like to stick around for more demented media and special guests, Patreon has instructions on how to edit your pledge.

135 – It!

Deceptive promo art for It! (1967) — This monster isn’t actually in the film, I just thought the art was sick

Have You Seen…All Possible Worlds?! Tim and Jen team up with Josh and Brian of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss a wretchedly stupid British horror film starring Roddy McDowall called It! No, not that one. This one came out in 1967 and involves a golem that looks like a wet trash bag.

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Listen to The Worst of All Possible Worlds wherever you listen to us, or at their website!

Atlas Obscura has an article about the Metropolitan Museum forgeries evoked in the film.

Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph’s A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies is a fascinating read about the days of analog movie bootlegging, a must for any film buff. Read an excerpt about the Roddy McDowall film piracy case over at ScreenAnarchy (you can also buy the book directly from University Press of Mississippi). And yes, to answer Josh’s question from the episode, the MPAA (now the MPA) was one of the driving forces behind the crackdown as a proxy for the major film studios.

The documentary Jen failed to remember the name of is Recorder, which is the story of an activist named Marion Stokes who obsessively taped the news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and thus amassed a library of 70,000 cassettes.

For a discussion of a much, MUCH better ersatz Hammer film, try our episode about Horror Express!

134 – Ravenous

Guy Pearce in Ravenous (1999), directed by Antonia Bird

Jen and Tim take a bite out of cult cannibal Western flick Ravenous, with the help of Bitter Karella!

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“The Windigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feeds on a spiritual void. Canada and US are presently in an advanced stage of the ‘Windigo Psychosis.’”
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Sample a scholarly paper about Windigo psychosis thanks to the Internet Archive.

You can buy Shawn Smallman’s Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History directly from the publisher online.

As mentioned during the episode, John Coulthart’s Feuilleton blog is highly recommended!

If you missed out on the discussion of folk horror alluded to in the episode, go listen to our Eyes of Fire episode, also featuring Bitter Karella!

132 – Eyes of Fire

Eyes of Fire, directed by Avery Crounse, 1983

Jen and Tim host Bitter Karella, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there.

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Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant Dennis Lipscomb.

Severin Films included Eyes of Fire in their recently released All the Haunts Be Ours folk horror boxed set. If your interest in Eyes of Fire isn’t quite up to that $170 price tag, you can of course watch the film on Shudder’s excellent streaming service.

For more on the genre, Folk Horror Revival offers a generous repository of knowledge.

131 – Circle of Iron

Jeff Cooper and David Carradine in Circle of Iron (1978)

Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron.

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The official Bruce Lee website

If you’re not familiar with Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, just watch!

The 17th century samurai, philosopher, and artist Miyamoto Musashi is considered a kensei— a “sword saint”— in Japan. Read a short Bruce Eder essay on the first installment in the Samurai trilogy of films, in which Toshiro Mifune played Musashi.

If for whatever reason you crave more of what Tim’s smoking, visit the Patreon of the Mega Dumb Cast, or purchase a PDF of the Palladium game Ninjas and Superspies.

129 – Hot to Trot

Tim and Jen make hay out of the 1988 comedy Hot to Trot, which killed Bobcat Goldthwait’s career for two decades. The horse was unscathed.

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Tim confused God Bless America with Red State (and Jen did not catch the error, shame on her) — the other movie from 2011 with a divisive title and middling reviews about a gun-toting ingenue.

On his blog, script doctor Andy Breckman reminisces unkindly about working on the screenplay.

Listen to the Q&A we discussed in the episode, in which Goldthwait puts the screws to the interviewer for opening with a question about Hot to Trot.

128 – Night Moves

Jen and Tim reflect on one of the great neo-noir films of Hollywood’s second golden age, Night Moves.

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Senses of Cinema has a thoughtful essay on the film by Bruce Jackson.

We didn’t get a chance to talk about the film’s writer, Alan Sharp, who said his own screen work embodied “moral ambiguity, mixed motives and irony.” Matthew Asprey Gear describes the protracted gestation of Night Moves and illuminates some biographical details about Sharp in an article for Bright Lights Film Journal.

Read Alan Sharp’s obituary at the Guardian.

For more Melanie Griffith, check out our episode on Roar, the absolutely wrong-headed movie project inflicted on her by mom Tippi Hedren and stepdad Noel Marshall.

126 – The Keep

Gabriel Byrne confronts Michael Carter's Molasar in THE KEEP (1983)

Jen and Tim are joined by Darren “Sebebe” Herczeg to reassess Michael Mann’s profoundly flawed fantasy/horror film, The Keep! Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50+ bonus episodes!

Kit Rae’s exhaustive fansite may be the definitive document on The Keep at this point, but there’s also a documentary more than ten years in the making on the same subject. You can follow the filmmakers for updates on Twitter!

Read Michael Mann’s original screenplay for The Keep!

Watch the ending cut from the theatrical release and inexplicably appended to TV versions of the film.

And after you’ve done that, watch Mann’s wonderful telefilm The Jericho Mile so Jen will finally shut up about it.

When you’re sick of The Keep, join Sebebe for the online I Swing, You Swing game.

125 – House

Miki Jinbo as the newly-dead Kung Fu in House (1977)

Tim and Jen are overwhelmed by the raw charisma of Jacques from the Seeking Derangements podcast in a truly chaotic episode nominally about the chaotic 1977 film House!

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Via Senses of Cinema, read a retrospective on Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career that also serves as a defense of his filmmaking style.

You can see a sampling of Obayashi’s commercial work on YouTube. Don’t miss the MANDOM spot starring Charles Bronson.