Tag: video

196 – L.A. AIDS Jabber

Next up: LA Collagen Jabber!

Tim grudgingly assents to a discussion of a shot-on-video thriller from the crusty lower depths of Tubi, 1994’s L.A. AIDS Jabber.

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Of course you’re going to want to rush right over to Tubi in order to enjoy all 78 action-packed, low-resolution minutes of L.A. AIDS Jabber. It’s free (with ads)!

Over at The Body, Mathew Rodriguez wrings some thoughtful musings on AIDS stigma and the inversion of the white male savior trope out of the movie.

Rafe Oman interviews director Drew Godderis for Scare Magazine in honor of the blu-ray release of L.A. AIDS Jabber. Can you believe he had never directed a movie before?!

For shot-on-video shlock Tim is actually enthusiastic about, listen to our episode about Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness. 

154 – Found Footage Horror Party

A video shot of an empty yellow room with multiple exits, also known as the creepypasta staple the Backrooms

Your hosts range widely and freely on the topic of horror: specifically, found footage horror. The films discussed are The McPherson Tape, The Blair Witch Project, Backrooms, and Horror in the High Desert.

Watch The Backrooms short we talked about here on YouTube.

Director Dean Alioto talked with the Found Footage Critic about UFO Abduction and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, aka The McPherson Tape:

In 1989 Dean Alioto shot his first film, UFO Abduction, for a meager budget of $6,500—the master copy of the film was subsequently destroyed and thus the movie was never widely released. Ten years later Dean Alioto pitched UFO Abduction to Dick Clark Productions, who picked up the idea and gave Dean Alioto a $1.2 million budget to shoot a remake for television. In 1998, the remake was released entitled Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (a.k.a. The McPherson Tape).

Over the years the names of these films has resulted in a great deal of confusion. Even to this day, both UFO Abduction and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County are referred to as “The McPherson Tape.”

Found Footage Critic

An explorer named Tom covered the tragic story of the Death Valley Germans at his blog, OtherHand.

127 – Bamboozled

Damon Wayans examines a racist collectible in Bamboozled (2000)

Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled.

Per Sean’s recommendation, check out the official video for “Lovin’ It” from Little Brother’s “too intelligent” album The Minstrel Show.

If you’re curious about the camera Spike Lee used to make Bamboozled, you can read a history of the Sony DCR-VX1000 here.

In 2005, Dr. David Pilgrim wrote a powerful essay about the collection that became the foundation of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. In “The Garbage Man: Why I Collect Racist Objects” he reflects on the emotional toll collecting exacted on him, as well as the anger and sadness the objects still inspire and the lingering stain of anti-black bigotry in the United States.

Watch the Levi’s 501 button-fly jeans commercial directed by Spike Lee and starring…Rob Liefeld lol

075 – The Day After and Special Bulletin

Tim and Jen return to the fevered nuclear paranoia of the 80s! We look at one of the most important TV events of the era, The Day After. We also stick to the show mission statement by highlighting a lesser known nuclear horror telefilm: Special Bulletin.

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You can watch Special Bulletin in its entirety here. We recommend it! Also: David Clennon, if you’re out there, come on the show, king.

Michael Madsen in a small role in Special Bulletin (1983)
Hey, this guy who has a bit part in Special Bulletin…does he have a sister?

Following the broadcast of The Day After, ABC aired a panel discussion moderated by Ted Koppel on nuclear proliferation. If you would like to see absolute ghouls like William F. Buckley Jr. and Henry Kissinger argue for “robust defense,” check it out. But really, we watched it for the much-missed Carl Sagan.

For discussion of a movie that makes The Day After look like an episode of Steven Universe, listen to our episode about landmark British telefilm Threads.

065 – Broken

From the Broken movie by Nine Inch Nails, a black and white medium shot of someone restrained in head-to-toe latex and with a pipe going into their mouth, from which little jets of water are leaking

Tim takes charge in order to bend your ear, and Jen’s, about Trent Reznor’s cute little home movie, Broken! That Nine Inch Nails soundtrack still goes the fuck off, by the way.

Watch the Broken movie at the Internet Archive, or you can hunt on the official Nine Inch Nails website for it!

For another movie that was formative to young angry Tim, here’s our episode on The Lawnmower Man!

060 – Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness

Tim and Jen tell you all about an unironically delightful slasher film made by a literal child! From 1986 and director Tim Ritter, it’s Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness! Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!

Yeah I know I said on Twitter (@HYSTpod if you’re not already following us) that this would drop Sunday, but hey, I got it done a day early. Enjoy!

Tim Ritter on the set of Twisted Illusions in 1985
L’auteur Tim Ritter on the set of Twisted Illusions, 1985

For more homebrew chills and slashers, try our episode on shot-on-video horror from the 80s!

042 – Romeo & Romeo

Jen and Tim welcome a mysterious podcast newbie to praise a magnificent work of queer cinema to the skies: Romeo & Romeo. We’re not kidding, you need to watch this movie, and how fortuitous that it’s on YouTube!

No seriously, you absolutely have to watch this movie. Here’s a clip:

For more outsider cinema, why not try our episode on Canadian horror classic Things?

035 – Things


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.

Jen LOVES this shit

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.