Tim and Jen effuse about Ed Wood’s cri de coeur!
094 – True Stories
Tim returns to chug the haterade! Jen weakly defends the movie but she’s no match for Tim’s anti-twee vitriol!
Rich Hall as David Byrne on SNL
Official video for Wild Wild Life
David Byrne talks about being autistic
Spalding Gray in Swimming to Cambodia
The humor of disgraced sex pest Garrison Keillor
“Stupid TV! Be more funny!”
091 – Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Jen and Tim welcome back Mike Rosen so he can carve up Joss Whedon like the turkey he is and also to discuss an affectionate satire of the slasher genre.
Offensive Films by Mikita Brottman
Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover
090 – Horror Express
Tim and Jen (mostly Tim) describe a beloved ersatz-Hammer sci-fi thriller starring the venerable team of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing (plus a sensational appearance by Telly “Kojak” Savalas). Throughout, Tim is like: games games games tabletop Cthulhu saving throw Traveller roll up a character -2 sanity
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Read about the turn-of-the-century theory that a murderer’s image might be preserved on the victim’s eye
Read the 1999 Fangoria article in which director Eugenio Martín reflects on the film and his career up to that point
Get the Horror Express blu-ray from Arrow Films
089 – Zen Filmmaking
Would you like to make a movie and just don’t know how? Why let that stop you? Try concocting a pseudo-spiritual method out of your own failings and refusing to pay your cast and crew! On this episode, don’t miss Jen slipping into mania about Hollywood sex criminals and Tim getting confessional about his own indie filmmaking sins!
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We highly recommend perusing Scott Shaw’s website, where many of his books are available for purchase. Scroll down for about seventeen hours to find the book we discuss in this episode, Zen Filmmaking!
“If you have too many crew people, they all want silly things like story boards, shot lists, and stuff.” -Scott Shaw
088 – The Lawnmower Man
Tim holds forth excitedly about “the most accurate depiction of virtual reality as a profound concept that is silly in its execution.” Based on the Stephen King lawsuit!
Curious about the student film based on the actual King short story?
Here’s some stuff we mentioned in the episode!
Nintendo’s failed “virtual reality” console, the Virtual Boy
Here’s that Tom the Dancing Bug comic Tim didn’t get a chance to summarize (it parodies “Flowers for Algernon”)
087 – Serial
Screenwriter Josh Olson brings us a movie that he swears is actually funny and good! Featuring Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, violent gay bikers, Sally Kellerman’s boobs, casual homophobia, Tommy Smothers in a headband, hot tubs, est probably, psychologically disturbed children whose acting out is played for laughs, etc.
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For the curious, here is the full Kevin Thomas review we mentioned on the episode:

You can also hear more of Josh with Dave Anthony on The West Wing Thing, or with Joe Dante on The Movies That Made Me!
086 – Wild Side
Jen and Tim discuss Donald Cammell’s posthumous thriller.
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episode 085 – Woodchipper Massacre
Tim and Jen return to the comforting mayhem of shot-on-video horror!
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