The World's Only Podcast™ about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media
Tim and Jen haze Bitter Karella over her inexplicable defense of a Halloween-themed anthology film, Trick ‘r Treat!
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As of 2024, filmmaker Michael Dougherty is threatening a sequel to Trick ‘r Treat. Be still my heart.
See What’s Your Problem? (What is Wrong With You?), one of Jen’s favorite pieces of public television ephemera.
Want a horror anthology that’s actually good? Check out our episode on Ghost Stories!
Jen welcomes back Julie to discuss a criminally under-seen coming-of-age film directed by Adrian Lyne, Foxes.
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Read an interview with Kandice Stroh, in which she talks in detail about playing the part of Deirdre in the film.
“I learned it from watching you!”
Watch a 2003 documentary on the Camarillo State Hospital, made shortly before its closure. The grounds now make up California State University, Channel Islands.
Jen and Tim invite Patrick Cosmos back to the show to discuss the woeful sequel to Rock ’n’ Roll High School! Please drop us a line at info@haveyouseen.us if you understand the refrigerator bit.
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Filmmaker Adan Gonzales obviously produced Forever: The Untold Story of Rock ’n’ Roll High School Forever as a labor of love, and audio issues aside, it’s a charming look at a movie that I guess some people really like! If you grew up listening to nu-metal and watching Pauly Shore comedies, check out the rest of his YouTube channel as well.
The LA Times has the rundown on the fairly disastrous debut of Feldman’s self-produced documentary My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys.
Tim and Jen welcome Chris Person of the Aftermath website to discuss John Waters’s favorite film, Joseph Losey’s big swing at Tennessee Williams’ first flop, Boom!
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We highly recommend the worker-owned and reader-supported Aftermath, especially this incredibly detailed and helpful article about specialized industrial cleaners (well, Jen really liked it). Listeners may also enjoy this conversation between Chris and friend of the show David J. Roth about archiving overlooked film and television.
Richard Burton gets candid about his upbringing in a coal-mining family in Wales in this Dick Cavett interview.
Tim and Jen host the freakiest guest they know, the lovable Bitter Karella of Midnight Pals fame, to chat about one of the freakiest movies she knows, Dr. Caligari!
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Screen Anarchy has a wonderful gallery of Caligari director Stephen Sayadian’s work, going all the way back to his earliest days as an editorial illustrator. Included are some reminisces about Dr. Caligari!
Read a 2024 interview with Caligari co-writer Jerry Stahl, in which he speaks candidly about sobriety and being an artist in a world ruled by money.
Jen invites comedian Kath Barbadoro to enjoy Psycho Kickboxer, the martial arts schlock movie that put Virginia Beach on the map!*
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Hear more of Kath on the Lie, Cheat, & Steal and What a Time to Be Alive podcasts. She also riffs movies with Master Pancake Theater on Twitch!
When in Virginia Beach, visit the Hot Tuna, as seen in Psycho Kickboxer!
Read Daisy Thursday’s Sex Change USA: Transgender Life in the Supermarket Tabloid at the Shapeless Press website.
*I assume. I’ve never been.
Jen welcomes Jesse Hawken of the venerable Junk Filter podcast to help her detox from the bad trip that is Otto Preminger’s Skidoo!
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See Preminger host his own trailer for Bunny Lake is Missing, and you better not show up late or he’ll open up a can of Vienna-sausage-in-chicken-broth whoop-ass on you.
Preminger and singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson appeared on the August 30th, 1968 episode of Playboy After Dark to promote, quixotically, their latest film. Nilsson seems to know what’s up, triggering Preminger’s always-present wrath.
Skidoo screenwriter (yes, they had one!) Doran William Cannon wrote a piece for the New York Times in 1971 about the painful experience of writing Brewster McCloud for Robert Altman.
Jen welcomes musician and poster par excellence Patrick Cosmos to chat about a fun little movie with tongue firmly in cheek, Blood Diner!
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Find Patrick at veryimportant.lawyer on Bandcamp and Bluesky, and get his Tonal Rotors album at Big Sleep Records.
Sadly, Carl Crew’s California Institute of Abnormalarts is no more. Read an archived article from LA Bizarro about the venue.
Keyboardist Don Preston just wrapped up a tour at age 91! Read an interview with him at It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine.
Tim and Jen welcome living legend Hollywood Steve Huey to discuss a Quaalude overdose of a film, FM from 1978!
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The core creators of Yacht Rock (both series and genre classification) host the delightful Yacht or Nyacht podcast, in which they rate the yachtiness of user-submitted songs. Highly recommended!
See Bob Odenkirk narrate the story of Disco Demolition Night on Drunk History.
The venerable British news magazine show World in Action took a look at American radio all the way back in 1971, and even included an interview with celebrated chronicler of the working class Studs Turkel! The theme song to this show goes hard as FUCK, incidentally.
Jen welcomes show regular Bitter Karella and wild card Moodyferret to evangelize a Gore Verbinski flop that didn’t deserve the massive shrug it got from the public: the 2016 psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness.
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Errata: we all say in the episode that this movie came out in 2016, but it actually arrived in theaters on February 17, 2017 before almost immediately disappearing. Oops! That said, the movie was originally slated for an October 2016 release, which seems to indicate that 20th Century Fox lost their nerve and dumped the film in Fuck-You February.
Fox made a last-ditch effort to hype the film with this Super Bowl teaser, mimicking a pharma company ad. This is the one that Jen vaguely described in the episode.
Every previous Bitter Karella appearance on the show may be found in our collection!