Double Feature

This is really happening. Decaying studio. Gorillaz, comics, Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. The return of sand beetle. Lori Petty. The return of Cole Porter. Courtney Love and the music of Tank Girl. Exploitation. CHASING THE SEMI - Stealing from Road Warrior. Kangaroo Men. Shitty filmmaking as a purist alternative to homage. The one brilliant thing Tank Girl does, and is it intentional? Blade Runner Syndrome. And all that could have been. How The Aristocrats was made, and what that has to do with Schindler’s List. Eric finally asks Michael why he has so many World War II films. First person shooters. Immersive actors. A bit on black and white. Steven Spielberg. Why films with subtitles are overrated. Too proud? Expecting people to know information outside of what you present. Liam Neeson as a powerhouse. Schindler’s character arc. The omission of Hitler. The scope of your story. Time vault. Nazis as flawed human beings vs mythological monsters. How nazis were convinced to participate in genocide.

Also referenced: 12 Monkeys, Singing Detective, Twin Peaks, X-Files, Alias, Boss’n Up, Big Trouble in Little China, Fantasy Island, Bruno, De-Lovely, South Park, Repo! The Genetic Opera, The People vs Larry Flint, Halloween, Road Warrior, Roger Rabbit, Blade Runner, The Aristocrats, The Pianist, Friday the 13th, Taken, Batman Begins, Citizen Kane, Jurassic Park, Battle Royale, The Office, Downfall

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Grinding brutality. Accidental homework. Things that don’t make any goddamn sense: The 1/3 rule. The players. The game. The weapons. Kids reading maps. The unexpected flaws of a modern exploitation film. Daring to pick at the plot. Killing your girlfriend. Tabboos: Slaughtering children. A bit on Battle Royale 2. Kids have sex. Realistic children in film. Fact check on the bomb tests. Aversion to mutants. An appeal for mutants. The 70s Rottentomatoes factor. One-Uping the original. Pushing past tasteful. The Last Mimzy incident. Treading new ground.

Also referenced: Fallout, Kill Bill, Orgazmo, Intacto, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Speed Racer, Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Delovley, Metal Gear Solid, Megan Man, Friday the 13th, Vanishing Point, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Feast, Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto, John Waters (A Dirty Shame), Magnum PI, Starsky and Hutch, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Big Trouble in Little China, Peter Jackson (Dead Alive), Devil’s Rejects, The Descent, Silence of the Lambs, Joy Ride, Lost, X-Men, Eyes Wide Shut, High Tension, The Last Mimzy, Dog Soldiers, Cabin Fever, Halloween, Tank Girl, Schindler’s List

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Manipulation. Dubbing and subtitles. Eric and Max von Sydow. The players. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. 28 Weeks Later. The Prodigy. Drawing your audience in. Danger ahead. Alfred Hitchcock Presents “Man from the South”. The supernatural element. Maybe Intacto thinks luck is a joke and this entire film is actually about realistic games of probability. The invisible B Story. Neil LaBute. The Shape of Things as an adaptation from theater. Obnoxious distracting uncomfortability. Not accepting a given premise. Four person love triangles. How to fix The Shape of Things. Plays are not movies.

Also referenced: Repo! The Genetic Opera, Phantom of the Opera, Red, Babysitters, The Exorcist, Phantom of the Paradise, What Dreams May Come, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Four Rooms, The Matrix, Dark City, Memento, X-Men, Equilibrium, Closer, Halloween, Hostel, Sweeney Todd, Chasing Amy, The Wicker Man, In the Company of Men, Tank Girl, Schindler’s List, The Hills Have Eyes, Battle Royale

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Child’s Play films 1-5. Chucky. Year end slasher review. Films in Chicago. The Lakeshore Strangler. Charles Lee Ray. Ambiguity. Using voodoo for evil. If they only knew! Becoming human. Once the monster’s out of the dark. A great turn in plot. Where the third film came from. Writing backwards from the punch-line. Retcon. Reboot without restarting. Eric’s teenage music soundtrack. Embracing and mocking a subculture at the same time. The difficulty of making references. Finally stopping the slasher (in the most obvious way). The abrupt endings. The new slasher. Hollywood satire: Good or Bad? 12 Step is still a fucking joke. Blaxploitation. Jennifer Tilley. Counter-culture. The most human slasher.

Also referenced: Laugh-in, In Living Color, Bananza, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Halloween, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Team America, Glen and Glenda, Scary Movie, Repo: The Genetic Opera, A Dirty Shame, Pink Flamingos, Crybaby, Hairspray, Behind the Mask, The Osbournes, Freddy vs Jason, The Shape of Things, Intacto, 28 Weeks Later, The Exorcist, What Dreams May Come

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INTERVIEW w/ Dana Adam Shapiro. CRUSH Double Feature SMASH. Hidden secondary theme? Fast action against intentionally slow drama. Making an audience excited about something foreign to them. The forbidden questions. Grounding your audience. Tugging at the heart strings - the easy way and the hard way. How Murderball was made. Journalism. Shooting low budget. Technical specifics on cameras, mics, lights, etc. Planning vs luck. Managing an unexpected ending. Highway survival horror. Crafting a set. The truck. The man behind the truck. The official “show the monster” movement. Death curse. When content outside a movie makes you feel a different way about it. Hamster style. Campy Dialogue. Exploitation.

Also referenced: The King of Kong, Hoop Dreams, Rocky, Grey Gardens, Salesman, Diner, Sex Lies and Videotape, Shoot Em Up, Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers), Joyride, The Hitcher, Vanishing Point, Diry Mary Crazy Lary, Behind the Mask, Desperado, Rest Stop, Duel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Orgazmo, Barbarella, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, Freaks, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Child’s Play, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects

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