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Matt Jay guests and brings us the amusing TerrorVision! We also go hard as fuck on Leonard Maltin and his stupid movie guide.
Want more 80s cult mania? Listen to our episode on a movie about an alien who eats Italian people, Eat and Run!
Just in time for Halloween, Tim and Jen attempt to make head or tail of a 1989 homebrew Canadian movie called Things! Possibly one of the worst and most inexplicable movies ever made, Things went direct-to-video…and straight to our hearts.
Don’t miss these outtakes and bloopers from Things, posted by the writer/producer himself, Barry J. Gillis!
Our friends at Severin Films have Things on DVD! Yes, that specific thing called Things, the movie from 1989! Third base!
For more incredibly stupid horror, listen to our episode on Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness.
Jen and Tim take a look at a singular auteur statement: a movie called The Evil Within. It’s a nasty little film made by a reclusive oil fortune heir on his own dime. Turns out it’s…pretty good!
Watch the trailer for The Evil Within:
People Magazine covered the story of filmmaker Andrew Getty soon after The Evil Within’s posthumous release in 2017.
For more weird horror, listen to our episode on Dutch anomaly The Johnsons!
Jen and Tim discuss a GOOD film from 1987 this time: the detective story in a horror universe, Angel Heart. Remember when Mickey Rourke was beautiful?
For more moody 80’s horror, try our episode on Jacob’s Ladder!
Jen and Yfke talk to Dutch filmmaker Ate de Jong! de Jong directed the cult classics Highway to Hell and Drop Dead Fred. Here, he discusses the production of Highway to Hell, and shares some wisdom from his long and still ongoing film career.
Jen is once again joined by Bitter Karella to suffer through Dan Aykroyd’s sole directorial credit, Nothing But Trouble! We have nothing else to say except that if you Google the Demi Moore picture we allude to, don’t do it at work.
For more Karella, try our episode on The Day the Clown Cried!
Jen welcomes filmmaker and burger expert Yfke van Berckelaer to discuss one of about three Dutch horror films, The Johnsons! Yfke provides an excellent survey of the Dutch film industry (it’s not just Paul Verhoeven!) and gives some background on the making of the film, which is a bit of an undiscovered horror classic.
Yfke is a Dutch genre filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles and is obsessed with everything that sparkles and yes, that includes the 80s. She also writes about awesome things for the cult magazine Schokkend Nieuws, and you can follow her burger adventures at www.burgerists.com and @burgerists on Instagram and Twitter.
And when in Los Angeles, be sure to visit Cinefile Video!
For this episode, HYST welcomes its first guest! Darren Herczeg, CEO of DarrenCorp, is a filmmaker, performance artist, and gentleman of leisure. Watch his film Barbariana: Queen of the Savages here on YouTube.
Tim and Jen find themselves unexpectedly charmed and delighted by a combo of sci-fi, horror, thriller, and schlock: Split Second, from 1992! We discuss the wrong-headed marketing for the film and the delights of mini-guns and cigars shared by two dear male friends.
A hilarious trailer, probably for the video release: