The World's Only Podcast™ about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media
We dissect John Landis’s first flop, Into the Night from 1985, with returning guest Sean Morris.
If you can get your hands on a copy, you must read Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case by Steve Farber. Farber provides a definitive case of the infamous Twilight Zone movie disaster. Try your local library!
For more of Sean, listen to our episode on the weirdest hit of 1998, Bulworth!
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!
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!
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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!
Tim and Jen welcome the founder of our fave streaming channel, B-Movie TV, for a conversation about curating the finest trash and dealing with small fish in small ponds.
B-Movie TV has everything: martial arts action, horror and slashers, vintage skin flicks, zombies (if you like that sort of thing), and some of the weirdest shit we’ve ever seen! Do have a Roku, and do you love trash cinema as much as we do? Add B-Movie TV to your lineup!
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Surprise! You get an extra bonus episode for April! Animal expert Emma Bowers returns to discuss the Tiger King before Tiger King: an Animal Planet reality series about ill-starred exotic pet owners called Fatal Attractions.
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Fatal Attractions is currently vieweable on Amazon Prime.
For more of the delightful Emma, listen to our episode on the truly ill-conceived lion-based thriller Roar.
Jen and Tim are joined by Rifftrax writer/producer and author Conor Lastowka to examine one of the only true auteurs in cinema. He’s James Nguyen, and he’s given us movie masterpieces like Birdemic, Julie and Jack, and Replica, as our guest knows all too well!
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Tim and Jen are both fans of Conor’s podcast with Rifftrax/MST3k alum Michael J. Nelson. It’s called 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back, and it’s highly recommended to anyone who’s ever thrown a book across the room because it was so bad.
Rifftrax fans will also want to hear our Captain America episode with Bill Corbett!
Jen talks with Sean Morris (@saneiscrazy on Twitter) about a drug movie in which the producers were afraid to show the drugs: Bright Lights, Big City, starring Michael J. Fox.
For more of Sean, try our episode on the rappin’ Warren Beatty political satire, Bulworth!
Jen and Tim ask Josh Lewis of the Sleazoids podcast (@thejoshl on Twitter) to provide his insight as a film programmer in a wide-ranging discussion of the dire state of movie exhbition.
Josh also joined us to discuss an evangelical nightmare of an exploitation film, The Burning Hell!
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The delightful Chapo dad joins us for Death Wish 3, possibly the simultaneous nadir and high point of the Death Wish series.
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According to Danny Peary in his book Guide for the Film Fanatic, “when director Michael Winner complained that Death Wish III [sic] was given an X rating because it had 63 killings while the R-rated Rambo [: First Blood Part II, 1985] had 80 killings, the woman at the Ratings Board explained that most of those killed in Rambo are Vietnamese.”
Paul Talbot, Bronson’s Loose!: The Making of the Death Wish Films
For more Will, listen to our episode about the controversial Friedkin film Cruising.
Niel Jacoby (@fuckinalpamare on Twitter) joins us to ask: just what the hell is Immortel, ad vitam? It appears to be an incomprehensible dystopian flick based on an incomprehensible graphic novel. We spend a lot of time mocking the movie’s incredibly cavalier attitude towards sexual assault.
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The film is based on a graphic novel by Enki Bilal. Remarkably, Bilal was allowed to direct the film in spite of having only one feature and a couple of shorts under his belt.
Along with films like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Sin City, Immortel, ad Vitam was part of a new wave of “digital backlot” movies. This refers to movies made entirely in a green screen environment.
We highly recommend Niel’s very funny podcast (and maybe the only one about Timothy Spall), Spall Talk!
For some much better big-budget sci-fi, try our episode on Event Horizon.