Double Feature

Up! + The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:00 +0000

You don't need to see Up to listen to this. Time for a lighter episode of Double Feature. The Original Up! by Russ Meyer, not the Pixar film! How was there seriously any confusion about that? Rob Zombie uses the chapters. The Russy Meyer body type. Who is this director anyways? Nudie cutie films. Feminism. Sexploitation. Revenge films. What separates Meyer's films from pornography. Mae West. Was this ever sexy? Screenings of The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. What's better in the suburbs than the city? 2D film. Rob Zombie's world. The character, in and out of character. Layers of references. A brief history of Dr. Satan. The songs. Double Feature retires Rob Zombie…for now.

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Russ Meyer's Up!

El Superbeasto

Also referenced: Up, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Immoral Mr. Teas, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds, Seven, Bambi, Wall-E, South Park, Astro Boy, Scooby-Doo, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, The Phantom Creeps, Star Wars, The Shining, Fritz the Cat, Clue, The House on Haunted Hill, Edward Scissorhands

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Pi + The Fountain

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:01:00 +0000

The work of director Darren Aronofsky. Eric's ongoing struggle with the caffeine. Don't actually watch these films back to back. Recognizing the signature of Darren Aronofsky. Come on, Pi is a LITTLE silly. Clint Mansell. How do you even classify this score? Editing. Creating the grainy monochromatic look of Pi. What that look and feel accomplishes. Where does the skeptic come down on all this stuff? A fun game to play at home. Repetition. Having your tools without knowing their best use. Macro effects. Hair loss. Why The Fountain is the most notable film ever featured on this show. Why you ball your eyes out. What the actors have to pull off. Relating to the future. Mayan nonsense. The absence of sound. Color. The part of Aronofsky's signature that's been lost.

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The Fountain

Also referenced: The Number 23, The Wrestler, Insomnia, Memento, Batman, Sin City, Requiem for a Dream, Eraserhead, Up!, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

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Let the Right One In + Interview With the Vampire

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Vampires! Why were these films such outstanding critical successes, and what can we learn from that? Using children as a mechanism to tell a mature story. Vampires as a medium rather than a plot outline. Eli's guardian Hakan. The brutality of Let the Right One In. How the film treats violence. Vampire lore here and in other movies. Films that use the Let the Right One In philosophy. Unanswered questions. What Interview with the Vampire did for the genre. Anne Rice. What the bookends accomplish. Vampire theatre! No one better say anything about how silly this all is, ok? How scope impacts a film. Roadmap.

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Interview With the Vampire

Also referenced: Nosferatu, Dracula, Blade, Underworld, Blacula, Dead Snow, X-Files, 28 Days Later, May, Cloverfield, Hellsing, Lord of the Rings, Teen Wolf, Superman, Pink Flamingos, The Shape of Things, The Libertine, Queen of the Damned, Pi, The Fountain

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The Nightmare Before Christmas + The Rocky Horror Picture Show

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Two films everyone is too pretentious to have a simple conversation about. Why people give you shit for enjoying these two fantastic movies. Stop motion and hand-making every inch of your frame. Why the old Tim Burton Batman films are way better than you remember. Oingo Boingo. Where you can acquire hours and hours of Nightmare Before Christmas music you never knew existed. Contrasting Nightmare with Corpse Bride. Patrick Stewart. A bit on Repo: The Genetic Opera. How Eric and Michael may be reps ensile for getting The Rocky Horror Picture Show booted out of Chicago. Drew Carey is awesome. The relationship between Science Fiction Double Feature and the rest of the film. Saving movies you know will be good for a terrible day. Hammer Horror. A listener comes through. Glittermouse at the Metro! New create feature at AwesomeStart.com. Fringe is fantastic.

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Nightmare Before Xmas

Rocky Horror

Also referenced: The Crow, Beetlejuice, Batman, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline, Vincent, Frankenweenie, Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space), Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Hanging Tree, Corpse Bride, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island, Annie, Dark City, Shock Treatment, The Drew Carey Show, The Lord of the Rings, Interview with the Vampire, Let the Right One In, Battle Royale, Rob Zombie (The Devil's Rejects), Law and Order, CSI, Fringe, Dexter, Lost, FlashForward, South Park, Bullshit!, Mythbusters, Joyride, Cloverfield, Star Trek

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A Clockwork Orange + Elephant

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Ultraviolence! A word on Batman: The Animated Series. The visuals in A Clockwork Orange. Whats interesting about the cinematography, at what that means to the average person. Malcolm Mcdowell. The components of Alex. Eric's defense of arthouse cinema. The two things good art does. An extended conversations about the thought experiments and moral questions presented. What's practical, what's moral, and what's fucking awful in each turn of the plot. Is fear of God a moral reason to not commit violence? Even this synopsis of conversation about Gus Van Sant's elephant contains spoilers. Elephant is not a film about real life events! When it's ok to modify the events of something that actually happened. Rapid fire Elephant info. A really important message for listeners in high school. Why next week's Double Feature is such a mystery.

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A Clockwork Orange

Elephant

Also referenced: Cube, Reign of Fire, Batman, Arkham Asylum, X-Men, Spider-Man, Spawn, Lolita, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, The Killing, Eyes Wide Shut, Tank Girl, Halloween, Doomsday, Heroes, Star Trek, Zodiac, Milk, 25th Hour

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Escape from LA + Expelled

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:01:00 +0000

One of these films invokes Hitler, and you'll never guess which! Where are they now: Snake Pliskin edition. Why people hate Escape from LA. Sequels made a decade later. The difference between New York and LA's antagonists. Hampster style. 90s and soundtracks. The three most ridiculous things in Escape from Los Angeles. Intelligent Design is as much Creationism as Ben Stein's film Expelled is full of shit. Atheism - a pretty solid guess! Dispelling the idea of Why Not Teach Both Sides? ExpelledExposed.com. Disagreeing with tactics rather than message. What's wrong with the interviews. Did the documentary succeed? Eugenics. ONCE YOU HITLER, YOU LOSE. The worst final showdown of all time.

Also referenced: Escape from NY, Religulous, Evil Dead, Die Hard, Rambo, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Watchmen, Superman, Shoot Em Up, Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead), Eli Roth (Cabin Fever), Richard Dawkins (The Root of All Evil?), Harry Potter, Children of the Corn, Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenient Truth, Inglourious Basterds, Hard Rock Zombies, Anti-Christ, Loose Change, Elephant, A Clockwork Orange

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Escape from NY + Religulous

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:01:00 +0000

A return to crazy movies and documentaries about irrationality…sorta. Post-apocalyptic dystopia. Potential connections to watergate. Countdown. Steampunk. Where do all these littered newspapers come from? The components of an anti-action movie. The Escape from New York score. Wide shots. Where the personality appears. Play along. Snake Pliskin doesn't give a fuck. Why continue the war? Seeing Religulous with a packed theatre of atheists. Larry Charles. The founding fathers were not christian. Returning to: Does satanism really exist? The two atheist hosts of Double Feature have a ton of problems with Religious. Big problems. Trying to get laughs anywhere you can. Bill Maher's solution to religion. Deception and the thin lines of documentary filmmaking. The enemy of your enemy is not Double Feature's friend.

Also referenced: Hostel, Cloverfield, Halloween, Carnivale, Metal Gear Solid, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Die Hard, Rambo, Duel, Big Trouble in Little China, Christmas on Mars, The Root of All Evil, The Enemies of Reason, Borat, Spider-Man, Bullshit!, Michael Moore (Capitalism: A Love Story), Real Time with Bill Maher, Bruno, Escape from LA, Expelled

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Music Box Massacre 4

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:01:00 +0000

SPOILER FREE look back at Music Box Massacre 4. The Haunted House, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Old Dark House, Eyes Without a Face, May, The Facts in the Case of Mr. Hollow, Friday the 13th, Midnight Meat Train, Dead Alive, Phantom of the Paradise, Black Sabbath, Pieces, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, The Exorcist. Arriving. What to expect. When do you bail? Live score! Remakes were just as rampant back then. The audience. Fear of finding out who a director really is. Seeing May again. Johnny Hollow. Finding Midnight Meat Train. Clive Barker. "The Way it Was Meant to Be Seen" is bullshit. Buy a better TV, you cheap fuck. Why people in Chicago boo Lionsgate. Revisiting Friday the 13th (Part 4). Joseph Zito. Brain Dead. The real Peter Jackson trilogy. Sleep Delirium. Ghost Cold. Apologies to Black Sabbath. Pieces and it's relationship to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Fake trailers. The ultimate SAND BEETLE. Michael feels the Pull of the Weasel. Death curse! Why the Exorcist is actually a terrible film.

Also referenced: Wishbone, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, House of 1000 Corpses, Fargo, Clue, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Teeth, Spiral, The Breakfast Club, Hostel, Hellraiser, The Candyman, Halloween, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Lord of the Rings, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Beetlejuice, Phantom of the Paradise, Cool Hand Luke, David Lynch (Lost Highway), Scooby Doo, Terminator, The Happening, Gremlins, Earthbound, The Faculty, Thelma and Louise, Rocky, Star Wars, 28 Weeks Later, Cloverfield, Requiem for a Dream, Funny Games, Judge Dredd, Rush Hour, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Feast, Constantine, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Isle of the Dead, Bucket of Blood, The Black Cat, The Brood, Re-Animator, From Beyond, Pontypool, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Blood Feast, Maximum Overdrive, Carrie, Escape from NY, Escape from LA, Religulous, Expelled

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A Scanner Darkly + Total Recall

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Philip K. Dick and false reality. Don't actually watch these films back to back. Drug culture, crazy people, and character studies. Coping mechanisms. Maintaining control. Individual motivation. An explanation of the scene where Connie turns into Donna. Breaking down the end of A Scanner Darkly. The police state. The work of Paul Verhoever. Based on We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. Total Recall's vision of the future. Cars and weaponry. The connections between Total Recall and Scanners. Facets. Examining cult status. Revenge of the sand beetle. Shortest time to WTF. Patching the plot holes. The various twists and eventual ending. Next Time: Music Box Massacre!

Also referenced: Arkham Asylum, Waking Life, Sin City, Dazed and Confused, Blade Runner, Paycheck, Next, Minority Report, Paycheck, Big Trouble in Little China, Showgirls, Robocop, Starship Troopers, Back to the Future, The Fly, Altered States, Scanner, The Brood, Halloween, Harold and Maude, Breaking Bad, Lost, My Bloody Valentine, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Videodrome, The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, The Game, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Haunted House, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Old Dark House, Eyes Without a Face, Midnight Meat Train, Dead Alive, Phantom of the Paradise, Black Sabbath, Pieces, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, The Exorcist

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Duel + Vanishing Point

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Car exploitation films: Drivesploitation. Roadsploitation. Carsploitation?? Two road movies back to back. Exploitation 101. High concept. Steven Spielberg's Duel and the origin of modern road horror. Where exploitation films come from. The 1960 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck. Briefly entertaining the idea of no driver. Getting your talking out of the way. Why driving makes for great suspense. Exploitation endings. The quest for modern road films. A prototypical exploitation example - how Vanishing Point came together. DJ Super Soul! Who is Kowalski? Production tales. THE ending. Coming up: Music Box Massacre

Also referenced: Hostage, Dog Soldiers, Brother From Another Planet, Death Proof, Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop, Electra Glide in Blue, Planet Terror, Snakes on a Plane, Joy Ride, Monster Man, The Hitcher, Star Wars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, John Waters (Crybaby), Next, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Descent, Hard Rock Zombies, Fast and the Furious, Doomsday, 28 Weeks Later, The Aristocrats, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, The Haunted House, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Old Dark House, Eyes Without a Face, Midnight Meat Train, Dead Alive, Phantom of the Paradise, Black Sabbath, Pieces, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, The Exorcist

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The Dark Crystal + Who Framed Roger Rabbit

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Children's films with adult themes. New Studio. Aimlessly wandering through fantasy in Dark Crystal. Puppetry and immersion. Peter Molyneux. Making an audience feel for a character. Subtitles? Attention to detail. B-Roll. Folk or camp? The benefits of using a deceptively child-like medium. The introduction of obscene ideas to each individual child. When and why. More evidence that books are not better than films. More genre blending in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Film Noir in all its glory. Hampster styles. The whatever device. Cartoon shorts before films. The early 20th century Grindhouse. An incredibly well written device. An argument for death set against a cartoon reality.

Also referenced: Highlander, The Aristocrats, Peter Jackson (Meet the Feebles), Team America, Fable, Star Trek, Rob Zombie, JJ Abrams, The Muppets, Lost, Monster Man, The Neverending Story, Hostel, Inglourious Basterds, Contact, Back to the Future, Ghost Ship, Polar Express, Double Indemnity, Orgazmo, South Park, Super Mario Brothers, Dark City, Cool World, Duel, Vanishing Point

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Killapalooza 6: Children of the Corn

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Children of the Corn films 1-7. So who actually watched these films? What happens when you leave the city. How to do an entire Killapalooza in record time. The danger of remembering Children of the Corn. What's redeemable about the first film. The not so subtle religious commentary. Is Steven King a bunch of nonsense? Molotov Cocktails. The pros and cons of an awkward ending. New terminology time! THREE POINT SCALE. Switching leaders. Keeping your slasher franchise fresh. Chicago in film. Dramatic cut-in zooms. Screaming Mad George. Unbelievable Edward D Woodian B-Movie effects. The fantastic failure. When your series reboot fucking fails. The wakeup fakeout. Approaching self-aware. Snoricam. Killapalooza: Bail? Eric's sleeping disorder and lack of memory. TV movie aesthetic.

Also referenced: Hellraiser. Star Trek, Bedazzled, The Prophecy, The Terminator, Child's Play, Friday the 13th, Hatchet, Nightmare on Elm Street, Dallas, National Treasure, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Star Wars, Sonic the Hedgehog, House of 1000 Corpses, Day of the Dead, The Thirst, House of the Dead, Mirror Mask, Coraline, Harry Potter, Dark Crystal, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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Shorts + Inglourious Basterds

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, back to back! An Inglourious Basterds conversations during Shorts. Who Robert Rodriguez is and why a fan of movies like Inglourious Basterds should care about his kids films. Actors under Rodriguez. Major actors playing B-roles to children. From Dusk Till Dawn was six years before Spy Kids 2. Gimmicks as an enhancement rather than a crutch. Suspension of disbelief in children's films. Pool films. Sell out oscar films. What audiences expect from Tarantino. The midnight movie experience. The complexities of the one known as The Bear Jew. Making an audience feel the violence. Spaghetti westerns. Shosanna as a femme fatale. Revenge stories. Women kicking ass. Why Inglourious Basterds is misspelled. Revisiting the Schindler's List question - Nazis as human beings or creatures of pure evil.

Also referenced: Halloween, Taking Woodstock, Planet Terror, Spy Kids, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, Sin City, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The People vs Larry Flint, Bedhead, Pulp Fiction, The Doom Generation, From Dusk Till Dawn, Gus Van Sant, Christopher Nolan, Deathproof, Hostel, Cabin Fever, House of 1000 Corpses, Battle Royale, The Descent, Feast, Inglorious Bastards, M*A*S*H*, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Schindler's List, Downfall, Hellraiser, Children of the Corn, Up!

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Death to Smoochy + The King of Kong

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Zune? Death to Smoochy as a perfect black comedy. The two formulas for dark comedy. The essential ingredients of black humor. Absurdity. So Very wrong. What characters contribute. Film noir influences. Robin Williams. The non-narrative documentary style as seen in The King of Kong. A fist full of quarters and Murderball. Don't be Billy Mitchell. Sure Mitchell is evil, but is he a cheater? How does a documentary story come together? The sports story blueprint. More than videogames. Holy shit, look what's finally on the show next week.

Also referenced: Gremlins, Penn and Teller Get Killed, John Waters (Crybaby), The Matador, Bullshit!, Brazil, The Replacements, Bad Santa, What Dreams May Come, Insomnia, The Aristocrats, Patch Adams, Jumanji, One Hour Photo, Final Cut, Hook, Bicentennial Man, RV, The God Who Wasn't There, Michael Moore Hates America, Murderball, The Girlfriend Experience, Star Wars, Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction), Robert Rodriguez (El Marachi, Desperado)

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M + Seven

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Noir, Neo Noir, and the secret theme of the show. Fritz Lang's German pre-noir M. Lighting and iconic imagry. The missing protagonist. Peter Lorre. Silence. Leitmotif and the now standard practice of reoccurring character themes in score. The overblown state of fear regarding stranger danger. Mob justice. The insanity plea. Eric hates endings. Seven - better than those bullshit films you like. An alternate take on buddy cop. Neo noir archetypes. Tracy the femme fatale. Cynicism. Give your audience a little credit. How Seven deals with mystery and clues. David Fincher's visuals. Seven deadly kills. Building up Jon Doe. It's just a guy! The pros and cons of the alternate endings.

Also referenced: Behind the Mask, Black Christmas, Metropolis, The Singing Detective, Silence of the Lambs, Crime and Punishment, Steamboat Willy, Lost, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Insomnia, Blade Runner, The Brother From Another Planet, Double Indemnity, Mach of the Penguins, Children of Men, National Treasure, Saw, The Usual Suspects, Death to Smoochy, The King of Kong

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Edward Scissorhands + The Brother From Another Planet

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Fish out of water double billing. Eric's declining health? A controversial stance on Tim Burton. The elements of a Burton film. Danny Elfman. Michael's Burton-Fantasty-Theory. Vincent Price. The 13th Ghosts of Scooby Doo. Mormonism. Johnny Depp: The Target Superstore of cinema. The classic age of monster and horror films. Building suburbia in Edward Scissorhands. Should men play God? Of course they should. Is The Brother From Another Planet blaxploitation? Cheap and effective special effects. Exposition in science fiction. Silent roles. A collection of characters. Sam the Bellhop. Authenticity.

Also referenced: A Scanner Darkly, Nightmare Before Christmas, Spy Kids 2, Spider-Man, Beetlejuice, Batman, Scooby Doo, Ed Wood, The Stepford Wives, Desperate Housewives, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Frankenstein, Duel, Vanishing Point, Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing), Coffy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Lost, Early Edition, Short Circuit, M, Seven

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Black Christmas + Behind the Mask

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:01:00 +0000

INTERVIEW w/ David Stieve. The beginning and end of the slasher genre. Black Christmas - the first slasher film ever made? The 80s slasher crash course. Parts of Black Christmas the genre ignored. Legitimate terror: the phone calls. A silent killer hypothesis. The advantages of developed characters. Forget the misses, remember the deaths. Picking out your survivor girl. Deaths as a roadmap. The infamous crystal unicorn. Critical tone and mood. Unreliable...camera man? The origins of "The calls are coming from inside the house!" Why doesn't everyone know about Behind the Mask already? The end of slasher films. Mocumentary. Much needed praise for Angela Goethals. Ahab. Target Group. Red herring. The ongoing quest to pin down the cheap TV horror aesthetic. Symbolism is bullshit. Credits gimmick. The success of Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Influence. Carol Clover. The origins of survivor girl. The myths of Behind the Mask - what is and isn't an homage? Why there's no Texas Chainsaw Massacre references. Robert and Nathan. Insider perspective on slasher symbolism. David Stieve on Rob Zombie and Eli Roth. Old School American Horror. Sequel talk. Hypothetical sequel talk. More sequel talk. Long term franchise talk. The producer bell curve.

Also referenced: Psycho, The Birds, Metropolis, My Bloody Valentine, Slumber Party Massacre, Deliria, Terror Train, House on Sorority Row, Prom Night, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Leprechaun, Dark City, Scooby Doo, Dawn of the Dead, Silence of the Lambs, The Aristocrats, The Exorcist, Hatchet, Death of a President, Hellraiser, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Natural Born Killers, The Toolbox Murders, The Shining, Saw, Scary Movie, Scream, Cabin Fever, The Brother From Another Planet, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, The Fly, Edward Scissorhands

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South Park + The Aristocrats

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Skeptical comedy double feature! Saddam Hussein and capital punishment. To bleep or not to bleep. Replacing obscenity with silly phrases. South Park's relationship with Hollywood. Censorship then and now. Is South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut still relevant? Yes...Yes it is. Censorship in the modern digital age. Musical numbers. Trey's Band DVDA. When meta works and why. Real life clashes with canonical events. Evolution of characters. Mr. Garrison. Where are Ned and Jimbo? Pip! The Isaac Hayes Chef Scientology incident. The Aristocrats movie theater experience. George Carlin. More on joke format. The thought process as you're telling the joke. The Aristocrats as a trap. The origins of "Too Soon!" and why Double Feature loves Gilbert Gottfried. Don't sue us, Joe Franklin.

Also referenced: Team America, Orgazmo, Cannibal the Musical, Basketball, My Name is Bruce, The Simpsons, The Attic Expeditions, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Black Christmas, Behind the Mask

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Brazil + Dark City

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Dystopian neo-noir with a twist! The first episode of year 2. Brazil in irish mythology. Michael Shermer. Creating the feeling of Brazil. Trilogy of imagination. Absurdist drama fighting absurdist comedy. A different kind of Big Brother. Terrorism. Consumerism. Theories on the source of terrorism. Who is Tuttle? The ending. Brining your film back to the deep end. Dark City as a combination of science fiction and film noir. A rare under-lit modern movie. Dark City's director's cut. What a director's cut actually is. "Knowing" will probably be the worst movie of 2009. The pros and cons of the opening voiceover. Puzzle pieces. Scifi surprise. Using exposition to your advantage. When the answer is right under your nose. Unanswered questions. The sci-fi magic. What happens next?

Also referenced: Terminator, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python, 1984, The Super Mario Broths, Hostage, X-Men, Hostel, Heavy Metal, Blade Runner, The Crow, The Prestige, Midnight Meat Train, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Touch of Evil, Star Trek, Lost, The Aristocrats, South Park, Team Americ

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Double Feature Year 1 Finale

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:01:00 +0000

SPOILER FREE SHOW! The year in review! What is a spoiler? A whole year of weekly Double Features. How the show has changed. Random Emails! What makes for a good Double Feature pairing. Another defense of House of 1000 Corpses. A look back at the Waco show. SAND BEETLE! The Best Pairings. The Worst Pairings. The inherent flaw in the previous format of Double Feature. Highway survival Horror. Double Feature's producer. And the biggest fuck up of the entire show is...? The future of The Prophecy. Feast sequels. Weighing in on the Friday the 13th remake. Becoming exploitation. The Mel Gibson opinion. Stuff that had to go on the show (but shouldn't have). Michael admits mistakes. The problem with featuring more exploitation on the show. Michael admits more mistakes. Taking back Dr. Horrible. Times Eric and Michael were clearly wrong. Films that aren't remember as fondly. Which bad actress from Eric's films annoyed Michael the most? Behind the scenes of Double Feature interviews. Listener homework payoff: A good vs evil epic and a film with a legitimately satisfying Scooby-Doo ending. Paris of Uncle Gamer & Remember When. More listener feedback. Opinion time: Japanese Horror? Eric knows New Zealand isn't in the UK. A through breakdown of the J-Horror aesthetic. The best films from the first year of Double Feature. Eric's comfort food films. Next year's format: Two films that go together! A small "correction" regarding 12 Monkeys. Lost. Double Feature loves Kate.

Also referenced: Cabin Fever, Team America, A Clockwork Orange, Constantine, Hard Rock Zombies, The Descent, Feast, Penn and Teller Get Killed, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Downfall, Good Night and Good Luck, House of 1000 Corpses, Waco, The Enemies of Reason, The Root of All Evil? Hostage, Dog Soldiers, The People vs Larry Flint, Jesus Camp, 12 Monkeys, The Singing Detective, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Dummy, Walmart, Eyes Wide Shut, The United States of Leland, What Lies Beneath, The Hitcher, The Punisher, Hatchet, Duel, Tank Girl, Schindler's List, The Prophecy, The Terminator, The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Hellraiser, 2001 Maniacs, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Passion of the Christ, Road Warrior, Apocalypto, The Patriot, Oliver Stone (JFK), Braveheart, Doomsday, Blade Runner, Chasing Amy, Bedazzled, Gremlins, What Dreams May Come, Babylon AD, The Rock, The Attic Expeditions, The Wizard of Gore, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Dollhouse, Bruno, Northfork, The Tick, The Triplets of Belleville, Dead Alive, Magnolia, Child's Play, Black Christmas, Blue Velvet, Steven Soderbergh (Sex Lies and Videotape), Nightwish, Scooby-Doo, Clue, Audition, The Ring, The Grudge, Uzumaki, The Host, Gamera, Godzilla, King Kong, Cloverfield, Psycho, The Birds, Hostel 2, F.E.A.R., Death of a President, Primer, Cube, Saw, Star Wars, Spiral, Silence of the Lambs, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, A Dirty Shame, Desperate Living, Pecker, Hairspray, Cecil B Demented, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Dark City, Donnie Darko, Monster Man, Murderball

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Tank Girl + Schindler's List

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:01:00 +0000

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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Battle Royale + The Hills Have Eyes

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:01:00 +0000

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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Intacto + The Shape of Things

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:01:00 +0000

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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Killapalooza 5: Child's Play

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:01:00 +0000

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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Murderball + Monster Man

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:01:00 +0000

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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Deliver Us From Evil + Apt Pupil

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Child Manipulation. Amy Berg. Honest ways to make your audience uncomfortable. Good people doing bad things. Bad people. Sam Harris' Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty. The cause of pedophilia. Why people do bad things. Pull of the weasel. Masturbation and raping children: turns out they're not the same thing. Forgiveness. Group think. Why this is still a problem. Terminology. Bryan Singer. Editing music to score. Evil for the sake of Evil. Blackmail. Dynamic characters without moral redemption. Where does your story end when there's so much more to tell? Alternate ending.

Also referenced: Silence of the Lambs, The Root of All Evil?, The United States of Leland, Jesus Camp, The Usual Suspects, X-Men, Superman, Valkyrie, Happiness, The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski), Hostage, John Waters (Serial Mom), Monster Man, Murderball, Child's Play

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Rififi + The Triplets of Belleville

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:01:00 +0000

French ragtag double feature. Du Rififi Chez les Hommes. Tesla. Eric tries to pronounce things in french. Jules Dassin and communism. Films better than the book. The titular . . . song? The heist concept. Michael's heist film. After the heist! Fencing. Heist team stereotypes. They've found it - why America doesn't get along with France. Les triplettes de Belleville as a secret propaganda film. Different types of french films. How to approach a film you don't understand. Reading too much into art. The gamble of interpretation. Clues.

Also referenced: Memento, The Quatermass Experiment, Good Night and Good Luck, Oceans 12, The Italian Job, The Ladykillers, South Park, Criminal, Inside Man, The Bank Job, Amelie, Delicatessen, The Rock, Larry Bishop (Hellride), 2001 A Space Odyssey, Lost, Futurama, The Three Stooges, Deliver Us From Evil, Apt Pupil

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Dog Soldiers + Hostage

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Neil Marshall. Homages. References. SNATCH SYNDROME. Thirty second summary. Reaction Dog. The numbers game. Werewolf skepticism. Dog Soldiers takes on werewolves. Hamster style. SWORD WOLF. Why do werewolf films suck? Style vs substance. Credits controversy. The arthouse look. Intensity. Viable alternatives to raw intensity. The loose cannon bad guy. Who is the real hostage? When a scene is acceptable vs ridiculous.

Also referenced: The Descent, Doomsday, Quentin Tarantino, Mad Max, The Wolf Man, Snatch, Equilibrium, Jaws, Spiral, Mindfreak, Feast, From Dusk Til Dawn, The Thing, Orgasmo, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Cabin Fever, 28 Weeks Later, The Thirst, Underworld, American Werewolf in London, Cursed, Sin City, The Woods, The Fountain, The Weather Man, El Marachi, Spy Kids, Out of the Blue, A History of Violence, Funny Games, Dog Day Afternoon, The Crow, Rififi, The Triplets of Belleville

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The Libertine + The Root of All Evil?

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:01:00 +0000

The enemy: sex or god? The trouble with period pieces. Dialogue from an age long ago. The typical components of a period piece. What separates The Libertine from the rest. Long tracking shots. Shifting focus. Arthouse fighting immersion. Acting games. Bookends revisited. Why no one saw this. Sex making people uncomfortable. The title "The Root of All Evil?" The Dawkins visual style. The one camera interview. The Dawkins approach to atheism. Confrontational, hateful, or just fed up? Why religion is not just oppressive but dangerous. Not knowing. Giving up on the quest for answers. Sex Ed. Ted Haggard. Missing footage. Using the Bible as a source of morality.

Also referenced: Good Night and Good Luck, The Other Boleyn Girl, Children of Men, Touch of Evil, Boogie Nights, Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Planet Terror, Death Proof, The God Who Wasn't There, The Enemies of Reason, Mike Wilson (Michael Moore Hates America), Hostel 2, Big Trouble in Little China, The Da Vinci Code, Hostage, Descent, Dog Soldiers

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Penn and Teller Get Killed + Pee Wee's Big Adventure

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Unlikely 80s films / Men in grey suits. David Lynch! Arthur Penn? Calling out nonsense that happens all the time in movies. Penn Jillette's radio show. High concept dark comedy. The dual role. Buying the trick. VHS quality causes mass confusion. Asking to be killed. Bible salesman. James Randi. Killing your partner every night. Dowsing as a metaphor. Psychic surgery. Desert Bus! Bullshit! Why is this not on DVD? Who is Pee Wee? Tim Burton. Directors who do one-offs. The styles and genres. Theatrical irony. Psychics and hot readings. Films within films.

Also referenced: Eyes Wide Shut, Bonnie and Clyde, Bullshit!, The Crow, Twin Peaks, South Park, Mythbusters, CSI, Dexter, Fringe, The Aristocrats, Steal This Film 2, Loose Change, Sweeney Todd, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Finding Forrester, The Straight Story, Ed Wood, Spider-Man, The Attic Expeditions, John Waters (A Dirty Shame), O Brother Where Art Thou?, Indiana Jones, Southland Tales, Big Fish, The Libertine, The Root of All Evil?

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Hard Rock Zombies + Loose Change

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

INTERVIEW w/ Rebecca Watson. Conspiracy day! Walmart's bargin bin. 80s hair metal exploitation. Accidental bad film making. The fear of accidental bad film making. What we take for granted. How to watch exploitation films. Not realizing where your real plot is. Dylan Avery background. The various Loose Change editions. Retroactively fitting evidence. Anomaly hunting. Argument from ignorance. No unified theory of 9/11 conspiracy. Loose Change as a magic trick. Fire melting steel. Evidence denial. Eye witness testimony. Eric's conspiracy voiceover. Why deceive? Sylvia Brown. What's the harm? Are conspiracies ever possible?

Also referenced: Dead and Breakfast, 28 Days Later, The Man With the Golden Gun, Psycho, Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, What Dreams May Come, M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening), Friday the 13th, Downfall, The Holy Mountain, Big Trouble in Little China, Eli Roth (Hostel), The Blair Witch, Michael Moore (Sicko), Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche NY), Waco, Dead Snow, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Penn and Teller Get Killed

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Death of a President + What Dreams May Come

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Alternate Reality. Channel 4. Mockumentary. Do you believe it? The tools of alternate reality story telling. Controversial political motivation. Inspiring real life killers. Eric's problem with the American legal system. Severity vs evidence. Hinting at a twist. Is racial profiling racist? Is it effective? The Double Feature Year 1 Experiment. Trying not to ignore the bad elements of a film. The WDMC laundry list. Paint world. Bullshit landscape painting. When even the visuals fail. Walking through the art styles and mythologies. Hypocritical predictability. What would you need to do to save this film?

Also referenced: M, Richard Dawkins (Root of All Evil?), Lollilove, Nothing So Strange, Contact, The Rock, The Prophecy, Braid, Hook, Second Life, Frank Miller (Sin City), 300, Xena Warrior Princess, Hercules, Pirates of the Caribbean, The God Who Wasn't There, Constantine, End of Days, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Hard Rock Zombies, Loose Change

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Melinda and Melinda + Double Indemnity

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

New Studio. Casting Your Film Twice. Will Ferrell as an actor vs a centerpiece. Unintentional theatricality and satire. Self examination. Drawing different conclusions from the same elements. Eric takes you back to the black and white days. Billy Wilder. Classic films or XXX? The elements - crafting the look and feel of film noir. Why we don't do symbolism on the show. The femme fatale. A return to blasphemy: classic film noir Double Indemnity recast by modern cult horror director Rob Zombie.

Also referenced: Me and You and Everyone We Know, Primer, Kinky Boots, Planet Terror, Anchorman, Talledaga Nights, Elf, Stranger Than Fiction, Serenity, Memento, Touch of Evil, The Singing Detective, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Some Like It Hot, Seven Year Itch, Sunset Blvd, Ace in the Hole, Seven, Blade Runner, Sin City, Behind the Mask, Batman, My Three Sons, The Office, What Dreams May Come, Death of a President

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De-Lovely + The God Who Wasn't There

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

INTERVIEW W/ Brian Flemming. Why we don't do a whole lot of musicals. Musical self examination. The mechanics of setting your musical apart. Defining a life by occupation. If you call out your gimmick, does that make using it ok? Hidden meanings of pop songs. Literal interpretation. The funniest parts of the bible! The bible vs the constitution. Nothing is written in the bible that wasn't knowable by man at the time it was written. Where's the divine knowledge? God is infallible, so why are there mistakes and contradictions in the bible? Extreme christian literalists - the more honest approach! Jesus and the underpants gnomes. How you know 40% of Americans don't actually believe the rapture is coming. Brian Flemming disputes our definition of a snuff film. Copyright, fair use, and creative commons.

Also referenced: Repo! The Genetic Opera, The Sixth Sense, Team America, George of the Jungle 2, Annie, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Rent, American Splendor, Primer, South Park, Zeitgeist, The Passion of the Christ, Hostel, Melinda and Melinda, Double Indemnity

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Killapalooza 4: Halloween

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Halloween films 1-9. Michael Myers. What is a John Carpenter? The origins of slasher films. Why Michael Myers kills. What makes him unique. Jamie Lee Curtis. The zombie advantage. Dr. Samuel J. Loomis. Things you expect. Things Halloween doesn't do. The Hospital as a setting. Big man tiny weapon. How Halloween 3 happened. A change of opinion - is recasting acceptable? False Michael Myers. Terror at 35 mph. Does Halloween have to go supernatural? Going off the deep end. Druids and conspiracy. Potential, original intention, and how it ended up. Pulling a series back on track. Writeoff or Retcon? Believable levels of retroactive continuity. Redefining icons. Why the H2O ending is justified. The single most insulting piece of film. THE man for the job. Learning from the past. Rob Zombie lovefest. The workprint. Endings.

Also referenced: Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Black Christmas, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Freaky Friday, Behind the Mask, The Twilight Zone, Pulp Fiction, David Lynch (Lost Highway), Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Clive Barker (Hellraiser), Lord of the Rings, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids), De-Lovely, The God Who Wasn't There

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Big Trouble in Little China + The Enemies of Reason

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Eric does Michael a favor. WTF is Big Trouble in Little China? The exploitation formula. Why Kurt Russell wasn't high on the set. Brilliant or an accident? The creatures on display. John Carpenter's effects over the years. The lost dimension of packed theater reactions in the 70s and 80s. Dawkins playing Russell. The look of a Dawkins documentary. Astrology. The Barnum Effect. Cold reading. James Randi. Darren Brown. Sylvia Brown (not related). Michael gives Eric a live psychic reading. Deepak Chopra. How Spiritual leaders beat scientists. It's hard to hate the gleefully ignorant. Debunking Homeopathy simply by explanation. THE SAND BEETLE. The mystery of therapeutic touch, solved!

Also referenced: Halloween, Indiana Jones, From Dusk Til Dawn, Showgirls, Van Helsing, The Attic Expeditions, Mortal Kombat, Escape from New York, Escape from LA, Mad Max, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, Predator, Friday the 13th, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Shoot Em Up, The Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix, Speed Racer), Walmart, Jesus Camp, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, The Root of All Evil?, Lost, Halloween

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Me and You and Everyone We Know + Primer

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Why Spoilers? Funny or artsy? Art and pretension. Child Actors. ASCII. Titular line. Cinema's first funny poop joke. Being overprotective of your children. Predators and sexuality. Does the film know what it is? How to talk about Primer. Establishing characters. Not dumbing down your film. A new method for creating a puzzle. Clever writing tricks. Breaking down Primer. Comfort film. Creating discovery. Minimalist writing. The mechanics. Ethics. HAMSTER STYLE. Paradoxes. Time lines. Personal gain. Interpretations. You can't hold back technology.

Also referenced: Iron Man, David Lynch, Art School Confidential, From Dusk Til Dawn, The People vs Larry Flint, Interview with a Vampire, Napoleon Dynamite, Juno, Magnolia, Cosmos, Contact, El Marachi, The Fifth Element, The Fountain, Back to the Future, Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses), Blade Runner, Paranoid Park, Braid, Halloween, The Enemies of Reason, Big Trouble in Little China

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Magnolia + Kinky Boots

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Addiction. VCR filmmarkers. Challenging scenes to film. Ensemble Casts. Events that didn't actually happen. Urban legends. Eric ruins the magic. Meta. The performance and character of Tom Cruise. Casting and marketing. Three acts. Incredible pacing. The infamous WTF scene. This shit isn't a dream. Potential trainwrecks. Drag as a component vs as a freakshow. Romance be damned! MIKE'S MAGIC STUFF. Will feel good films ever mature? Boot making montage. Background characters.

Also referenced: Resident Evil, DOA: Dead or Alive, Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Kevin Smith (Clerks), Robert Rodriguez (El Marachi), Rob Zombie (Devil's Rejects), Boogie Nights, Feast, Spider-Man, Mission Impossible 3, Lost, The Nine, Mythbusters, Southland Tales, Nightmare on Elm Street, Requiem for a Dream, Eyes Wide Shut, Children of Men, The Forgotten, Capote, Happiness, Criminal, Step Brothers, Walk Hard, Talladega Nights, Crash, Serenity, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fur, A Dirty Shame, Saving Private Ryan, Space Jam, Rudy, The Attic Expeditions, Waco, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Primer

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House of 1000 Corpses + Waco

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:01:00 +0000

A word on Roadracers and Mean Girls. DVD menus. Enthusiastic directors. The work of Sid Haig and Bill Mosley. Working with and moving on from camp. Rainn Wilson. Good slow zoom? That bizarre sci fi TV style. Comfortable antagonism. No sense of danger. Enthusiastic film making. Who this film is actually for. What went wrong. Smaller roles. Music. The infamous scare shot. Rob Zombie's impending legacy. Assuming prior knowledge. Non narrative, fact based style. Horrifying images. Double Feature gets to the bottom of Waco. An experiment in skepticism. When the severity of crime distracts from the question of guilt.

Also referenced: Roadracers, Dazed and Confused, 10 Things I Hate About You, Mean Girls, Saved, Devil's Rejects, Foxy Brown, Coffee, Jackie Brown, Black Mama White Mama, Pulp Fiction, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Werewolf of the SS, The Office, Six Feet Under, Juno, 2001 Maniacs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Vertigo, Hatchet, Hostel, The Descent, Vanishing Point, Loose Change, Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine), Jesus Camp, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Kinky Boots, The Attic Expeditions

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Touch of Evil + The Terminal

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:01:00 +0000

The film noir game. Directors cuts. The players. Noir takes across the decades. The original noir. Impact on women in cinema. The fat suit that ate Orson Wells. Long tracking shots. Breaking tradition. Only on Double Feature: Film Noir recast with modern director/actor groups. Robert Rodriguez's Touch of Evil. The Steven Spielberg filmmaking formula. Visuals. Tom Hanks. Art vs Entertainment. Handling a bizarre premise. 9/11. Why the goat really upset Eric. The opposite of the ends justifying the means. Offbeat to feelgood in one scene! Rules.

Also referenced: Blade Runner, Omega Man, Planet of the Apes, The 10 Commandments, El Cid, Ed Wood, Get Shorty, Sin City, American Psycho, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Children of Men, House of 1000 Corpses, Boogie Nights, Insomnia, Roadracers, The Black Dahlia, The Happening, From Dusk Til Dawn, Spy Kids, Shoot Em Up, The Faculty, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Devil's Rejects, Desperado, No Country for Old Men, Catch Me If You Can, ET, War of the Worlds, Doomsday, Forrest Gump, Road to Perdition, The Da Vinci Code, Spiral, Hostel 2, DOA, Dog Day Afternoon, Phonebooth, Waco, House of 1000 Corpses, Halloween, Walmart

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Spiral + Bad Santa

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:01:00 +0000

INTERVIEW w/ Joel David More. Blending horror and arthouse. Editing and mood. Something's off. Score. Minimalism in aesthetics and characters. Friend or pet? Talking about art. Jazz. Creating dicussion. Post modernism. Different interpretations of the ending. The road to Spiral. Filling holes from the Hatchet podcast. What's intentional. Inspirations. Technique. Taking risks. JDM challenges you to guess his ending. Disecting the ending. Eric discusses the question you're not allowed to ask. How to get into Jazz. Bad Santa's charm. Cult appeal. Christmas is a fucking joke. No redemption. No feel-good bullshit. Santa blasphemy. Eric and kids. Santa: Not fooling anyone.

Also referenced: Hatchet, Being John Malkovich, Audition, Hardcandy, The Prophecy, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Dodgeball, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Usual Suspects, Alien, Friday the 13th, Let the Right One In, Psycho, Race Walk, Gremlins, The Matador, The Man Who Wasn't There, Bad News Bears, Star Wars, Leprechaun, The Dark Knight, Bloody Christmas, Black Christmas, Black Xmas, Juno, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, John Waters (Crybaby), House of 1000 Corpses, Waco

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Killapalooza 3: Texas Chainsaw Massacre

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Texas Chainsaw Massacre films 1-6. Leatherface. Iconic imagery. The death curse. Further insight into slow-zoom. Leatherface and The Family. Cannibalism. WWRZD? Bill Mosley saves the day. The chainsaw is my penis. Trannyface. GASOLINE. Transition to slasher. You can't hold back technology. Feminism. Worse than you (but not the original creators) could have imagined. Best of the worst. What do you do with a remake? The Chainsaw as a weapon. Convention. the biology of scare shots. When scare shots cheat. MEAT CART. Bookends. Who's bored? The batman factor. Questions you weren't asking. Exposition. Staples. TCM as directed by Double Feature.

Also referenced: Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Chris Columbus (Rent, Mrs. Doubtfire), Eyes Wide Shut, Jackie Brown, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Demon Days, Fucking Machines, Thankyou for Smoking, Lost, The Prophecy, Death to Smoochy, No Country for Old Men, Leprechaun, Child's Play, M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening), Leatherface vs Ash vs Megaman, From Hell, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Clerks, Spiral, Bad Santa

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Joy Ride + The Attic Expeditions

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000

INTERVIEW w/ Jeremy Kasten. Year 2 format changes! Comic relief. Conventional horror X-Mas lighting. Tension. Eric compares Kubrick's 2001 to Escape from New York. Showing the killer.Camp. THE MEAT CART. Fake-out: The origins of ICE TRUCK. The killer reveal. Multiple ending fiasco. Integrity. Crazy people. Ambition. TAE as a series of experiments. The definitive Attic Expeditions plot explanation. The film that never was. Experimental? What works, what doesn't. Jeremy Kasten launches into an unprompted verification of the previously mentioned plot synopsis using a humorously mocking tone. Critical reaction to cult films.

Also referenced: Death to Smoochy, The Hitcher, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Silence of the Lambs, Hatchet, Cabin Fever, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Cloverfield, Escape from New York, Seven, Lost, Hostel, All Souls Day, The Thirst, The Wizard of Gore, Fringe, A History of Violence, Funny Games, Desperado, Natural Born Killers, Primer, Memento, Braid, Witchcraft 4, Phat Beach, Legion of the Night, Buffy, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Rocky Horror Picture Show, John Waters (A Dirty Shame), Altered States, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Spiral, Bad Santa

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The Thing + Michael Moore Hates America

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000

INTERVIEW w/ Mike Wilson. A bit about A Scanner Darkly. Book adaptations. Michael's John Carpenter crash course. The Thing as a milestone. Space horror. Influence. Keith David. Psychological horror. Desolation. Weapons. How to butcher a family. The greatest scare shot. The bold title. The six degrees of conspiracy. Eric gets nostalgic about Canada. Approaching an interview. An argument for bias. Business owners. Moore's popularity. Mike Wilson and Mallrats. Ethical boundaries. Eric and Michael get to the bottom of the title! Coverage: old media vs new. Isn't MSNBC cute? Everything you ever wanted to know about MMHA. Solving the age old producer question.

Also referenced: A Scanner Darkly, Gus Van Sant (Elephant), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mimic, Planet Terror, Event Horizon, Alien, The Faculty, Sunshine, Videodrome, X-Files, South Park, Venom, Wolverine, Spawn, Requiem for a Dream, Behind the Mask, No Country for Old Men, The Happening, Edward D Wood Jr (Bride of the Monster), Spider-Man, Team America, Loose Change, Bullshit!, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Mallrats, Death of a President, Joyride, The Attic Expeditions

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Terminator 3 + The Prophecy 3

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Sarah Connor. Self Aware. Who's not pulling their weight here? Models as actors. Believing in the machines. Good films with awful scenes. Laughing with. Laughing at. Using surround to enhance the content of your film. The Goldeneye soundbank. How public opinion of Aronld changed film making. Different grades of humor. Delivering on figurative promises. One-uping the last evil robot. Action that won't let up. The single most relentless action scene ever. Summing up the franchise. The official worst film on the show award. Replacing Walkin. Figuring out what went wrong. The letdown. Slow motion. Quick zoom. The Bible Montage (Play At Home Edition). Eric calls Michael out.

Also referenced: Elephant, The Wizard of Gore, Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, Gremlins, Lost, Carnivale, Sin City, Bedazzled, Planet Terror, Die Hard 4, Constantine, Goldeneye, The Matrix, Child's Play, Walker Texas Ranger, South Park, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Short Circuit, Equilibrium, Mario 64, Da Vinci Code, V for Vendetta, Michael Moore Hates America, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing

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Bedazzled + Gremlins

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Eric's blueberry drink. Why we do this show. Is this even a film? Harold Ramis. Makeup. The good kind of bad. Poor satire. Who sees bad films? Using mood in comedy. Artsy shots. Dark comedy realization moment. Counter-christmas-culture. Primary vs secondary characters. The single best dark comedy moment yet. Theatrical prop comedy. The road map. A smart screenplay. Three rules. Gremlins as a monster film. The three methods of monster films. Assembling a dark comedy. Smoking. The MPAA. The 1984 backlash against Gremlins. An ironic ratings note. Misbehaving. Our Terminator + The Prophecy progress.

Also referenced: Friday the 13th, Chris Colombus, Small Soldiers, Silent Hill, Bad Santa, Nightmare Before Christmas, Vanishing Point, Indiana Jones, Feast, The Descent, A Nightmare on Elm Street, From Dusk Till Dawn, Cloverfield, The Day After Tomorrow, Death to Smoochy, Terminator, The Prophecy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eyes Wide Shut, Chasing Amy, From Hell, Fargo, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Gorillaz, Beat the Devil, Encino Man, Space Jam, The Incredible Hulk, The Happening, The Nutty Professor

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Terminator 2 + The Prophecy 2

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Rob Zombie. Joking or serious? Protagonist surprise. Shotgun 201. Revisiting three sentence dream theory. When people end up in a desert. Alternate ending. Hapster Style strikes back. Action cliches. Special effects. Timelessness. Car scenes. Death of the monster. Shifting protagonists. Angel flashes. Reoccurring Prophecy things. Failing to establish mood. Ruining the mood. Not caring about your protagonists. The need for the monkey. The soap opera feeling. Not bringing the gravity. Arriving at the ending.

Also referenced: Feast, Hatchet, Behind the Mask, Harry Potter, Friday the 13th, The Faculty, The X-Files, Spy-Kids, Eyes Wide Shut, Jurassic Park, Team America, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Win Ben Stein's Money, Dark City, Tim Burton (Beetlejuice), The Abyss, The Munsters, Pulp Fiction, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellboy 2, Sin City, Girl Interrupted, Days of Our Lives, Dogma, Baby's Day Out, Gremlins, Bedazzled, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Expelled

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Northfork + Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:01:00 +0000

The Heath Ledger bet. A word on the Untouchables and Pink Flamingos. Weathered actors. Seamless transitions. Multiple stories. Surreal or absurd? Period pieces. Dry humor. Kid Rock as performance art. A bit on Joss Whedon. Independent production. The comedy. How many times can Michael mention Ben Stiller? Live action "The Tick." The format. Going beyond comedy. Eric defends the film. Dr. Horrible as a flawed character. Avoiding exposition. Going beyond a musical. Special effects that add character. The most heartbreaking sentence ever. Overwhelming creativity.

Also referenced: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Untouchables, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Casino, Pink Flamingos, Clerks TAS, Videodrome, Paris Je T'aime, The Hulk, Fastfood Nation, X-Men 3, Hostage, Six Feet Under, Big Fish, Lost, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Dark Crystal, The Darkness, The Cell, Pan's Labyrinth, Forest Gump, X-Files, Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder), Dodgeball, Superbad, The Tick, Hellboy,, James Bond, Terminator, The Prophecy

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Terminator + The Prophecy

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Michael has a million transitions and Eric has a meltdown. James Cameron. Misleading one-liners. Arnold Schwarzenegger. An alternate way to open this film. SHOTGUN 101. Special effects and overachievers. Stop motion. Terminator as a slasher film. Monsters in horror vs sci-fi. Old sci-fi. Eric's sexy female empowerment theory. Time travel: The Terminator rules. The religious apocalypse genre. THE JAWS FLAW. The prophecy in three sentences. Trilogies and incomplete stories. Comic book dialogue vs monologging. Christopher Walken.

Also referenced: Titanic, The Abyss, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Demolition Man, Seven, Constantine, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Dark Knight, Nightmare Before Christmas, John Carpenter (The Thing), Child's Play, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Feast, The Descent, Cabin Fever, Hatchet, Lost, Carnivale, The Da Vinci Code, City of Angels, Michael, Jaws, V for Vendetta, Kill Bill, The Matrix, The Bone Collector, Sin City, Fargo, Napoleon Dynamite, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Balls of Fury, Hostel, Indiana Jones, Northfork, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Buffy, Serenity

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Eyes Wide Shut + The United States of Leland

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Unnecessary sets. Undeniably bad Kubrick scenes. The EWS controversy. Kubrick casting. David Lynch story telling. One billion takes. Michael is still sore about the Happening. Building a dream atmosphere. 3 SENTENCE DREAM THEORY. Saul Williams. The infamous sex party. Missing: male nudity! The most offensive thing Michael has said yet. Good slow zoom. Seamless flashbacks. Why Eric saw it coming. Voiceover. Eye-rolling teenage philosophy. We're only human. Why people do bad things. The ZEP. Ethics. Murder: still wrong. Using a parallel situation to make you question your feelings. Eric's mall jobs and sex life. Is satanism real?

Also referenced: Sleepy Hollow, 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Colour Me Kubrick, The Shining, David Lynch (Blue Velvet), Kevin Smith (Mallrats), The Happening, Epic Movie, Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Saved, The Terminator, The Prophecy

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Cube + Reign of Fire

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:01:00 +0000

A word about the Happening. Onto Cube! What defines horror? We love Repo; Saw is still lame. The necessity of a psychological breakdown. Clue hunting with your audience. The impact CG has on suspension of disbelief. Character exposition. Remaining unknown. Keeping your head down. Conspiracy theories. Same evidence, different conclusions. What is the cube? Equally fucked. Storyboards and framing in a cube. Blasphemous sequels. Michael's homework. Dragons in the future. Deceptive marketing. Revisionist history. Treatment of technology. Another take on CG. Combining CG with models. Michael feels silly. Evolution. Science in creature films. Revisiting the LxG challenge.

Also referenced: Southland Tales, The Happening, Saw, National Treasure, The Da Vinci Code, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Constantine, I am Legend, Jurassic Park, Shoot Em Up, Eyes Wide Shut, Cabin Fever, The United States of Leland, The Attic Expeditions, Rainman, JFK, Rob Zombie (The Devil's Rejects), Nothing, Paris Je T'aime, The Matrix, Children of Men, The Dark Knight, Cloverfield, Starship Troopers, Hellboy

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Freddy vs Jason + Steal This Film 2

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Freddy actually versus Jason! Missing the point. Different approaches in the same universe. Equal time. Making the collaboration work. The new Freddy and Jason. The callbacks. The staples. This story is awesome! More Robert Englund talk. How to trap Jason. Abandoning canon. What does this ending mean? The Pirate Bay. Independent film. Digital format. A series of experiments regarding the ethicacy of film watching / buying / stealing / downloading. Law is a fucking decade behind technology. Winamp. What about borrowing? Creative commons. Stealing other types of art. The used market. Sharing a DVD. Why piracy exists. Tivo. Stop making excuses!

Also referenced: Repo! The Genetic Opera, Cloverfield, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Happening, The Matrix, Cube, Reign of Fire, Spider-Man, The Punisher, Bioshock, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Ruins, Lost, Lord of the Rings

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Downfall + Good Night and Good Luck

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Introducing Hitler. Building anticipation. This is still Double Feature, so let's compare Downfall to Cloverfield! WWII as a b story. Uncanny Iraq parallels. Socialism. Obeying the leader. Brief moments of violence. Absence of score and foreign films. A different perspective. Why you should love George Clooney more than you already do. Challenging authority. Archive footage. Stories don't always have two equal sides, goddamnit! New media. What happened to the news? The failures of old media. The Danish cartoons. Blashpemy. Actually letting the terrorists win. You're not neutral, you're a failure. The Chicago Zombie March. The titular line.

Also referenced: Cloverfield, Jesus Camp, Saving Private Ryan, John Carpenter (The Thing), Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, ER, A Nightmare on Elm Street, From Dusk Til Dawk, Spy Kids, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Carnivale, The People vs Larry Flint, Flock of Dodos, Chasing Amy, A Scanner Darkly, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Freddy vs Jason, Steal this Film 2

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Killapalooza 2: A Nightmare on Elm Street

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:01:00 +0000

A Nightmare on Elm Street films 1-7. Freddy Krueger. Robert Enguld. Let the Jason comparisons begin! Industrial 80s score. A different Freddy. Changing the rules. Enter: possession. Traditional effects. Making the viewer uncomfortable. Reoccurring characters. What to build on. The origin story. Dream powers. The shift? Recasting issues. More powers. Freddy as a slasher. Writers: pay more attention! Bad one liners. HAMSTERSTYLE MONTAGE! ''Red hamsters.'' Kanye West. The hunk is not your superstar. Visual effects ego. Fixing the fetus problem. Back to Elm Street. Videogames and Pandora's Box. Twists and tells. The rhyme. Going 3-D. Anticipation. The atrocity of New Nightmare. Children: act or leave. Making a WTF film. Michael fixes New Nightmare. The lamest gimmick yet. The final word on Wes Craven. A surprising conclusion.

Also referenced: Cecil B Demented, Friday the 13th, 2001 Maniacs, The Incredible Hulk, Hellraiser, Leprechaun, Beetlejuice, Pokemon, Signs, Shoot 'Em Up, Behind the Mask, Halloween, Scream, The Spirit, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Freddy vs Jason, Red Eye, Eli Roth, Cursed, Hostel, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Downfall, Good Night and Good Luck

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Fur + A Dirty Shame

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:01:00 +0000

Arizona Iced Tea. Taboos. Sexual fetishes. Lifestyle fetishes. Non linear story telling. Things you can do with a 50s biopic. Photography. Romanticizing previous eras. 30s sideshows. The 50s family myth. Finding yourself. Flashing back to an even older era in your period film. Robert Downey Jr. Warm and creepy. Establishing a feeling of trust in a technical medium. Further information upon additional viewing. John Waters. Trash films. Censorship. Importance of character names. Blasphemy. 12 Step. The M word. When satire is just reality. A creative way to sidestep pornography!

Also referenced: The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, The Happening, Secretary, The Other Boleyn Girl, Carnivale, May, Teeth, Sponge Bob Square Pants, V for Vendetta, Hairspray, Crybaby, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Til Death Do Us Part, Saved, Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Freddy vs Jason

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The People vs Larry Flynt + Jesus Camp

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000

A Double Feature secret is revealed! CENSORSHIP. JESUS. What is Larry Flynt? How to win Eric's heart . . . and body. Jerry Falwell is a douchebag. Using editing to get around bad deliverance. Love for America. Nothing is sacred. Niggy Tardust. Experimental scenes. Time lapse. Handling aids in film. Biopic of political drama? Post film summaries. Uh . . . censorship! Eric flips out and delivers a super patriotic 1st amendment speech out of nowhere. Michael throws an orange. Save the children! Jerry Falwell is still a douchebag. A perfect explanation of widescreen aspect ration using tits. Substitutes for narration. A religious debate without an atheist voice. Group think. Richard Dawkins. There is no such thing as a christian child. Or a muslim child. Or an atheist child. Children as weapons. Ted Haggard. Is the Rapture a threat?

Also referenced: The Assassination of Jesse James, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Sandlot, Auto Focus, The Simpsons, Bullshit!, Married with Children, The Da Vinci Code, Teeth, Nightmare on Elm Street, Contact, Fur, A Dirty Shame

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2001 Maniacs + Flock of Dodos

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000

How to pronounce the year. Proper crossover. Scareshot bar raised. New's new favorite word. More than candy. Taking the high road. Blaxploitation. Racism. Growing up without racism. Using fiction to create hypothetical scenarios and thought experiments. The south isn't as backwards as people say it is. Being afraid of a racial slur gives it power. No one complained when Eric said cuntpickle! Robert Englund. One liners. Complimentary gimmick scene. Subtlety. Religion and Politics. Skepticality. Titular line. Night vision rabbit. Tangents in documentaries. Muffy Moose. Voting on beer-ability. Evolution's PR problem. Why creationism wins hearts. The role of art in combating creationism. The free exchange of ideas.

Also referenced: Michael Moore Hates America, Cabin Fever, Hostel, Hostel 2, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Thanksgiving, Deliverance, Behind the Mask, Constantine, The Hitcher, The Descent, Walmart, This FIlm is Not Yet Rated, Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine)

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The Hitcher + The Punisher

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000

A word about Iron Man. Kill the rabbit. Trojan horsing Michael Bay. The date audience. Michael reprimands Eric. The turn. Eric is reprimanded again. Best scare shot yet. Filming in car. Snoricam! Taking time to establish your setting. Gore delivery. Something really shocking. Realistic death. A killer's motivation. Your essential Punisher checklist. Speeches. As an adaptation. Michael derails the podcast. Hampster island. It's not supernatural. Forced rating. A weak death. Same actors playing different roles in comic book films.

Also referenced: Iron Man, Spider-Man, I am Legend, Constantine, Jurassic Park, Star Wars Ep. 1, Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror), Chasing Amy, Lost, Eternal Sunshine, Dexter, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, TBM, Friday the 13th, The Crow, Batman, Sin City, From Hell, Cabin Fever, Superman, The Hulk, Elektra, The Fantastic Four, Daredevil, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Nightmare on Elm Street, 2001 Maniacs, Flock of Dodos

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Killapalooza 1: Friday the 13th

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Friday the 13th films 1-10. Jason Voorhees. The longest, most explicit slasher episode yet. Retroactive twist. Fixing a long running problem through exploitation. Recaping in a sequel. 3-D. Showing off. Slasher staples. Tits. Found: Hampster Style. Another use of Scooby Doo. The Twist. The Prankster! Self aware. Titular skepticism. Fixing a train wreck while maintaining continuity. Retroactive continuity. Accepting a power. Even Jason can jump the shark. Music stops. Eric derails Michael. Believe it or not: a case that necessitates gratuitous nipples to preserving artistic integrity.

Also referenced: Nightmare on Elm Street, Doom, Hatchet, Cabin Fever, Terminator, Lost, George Lucas (Starwars), Coffee, Foxy Brown, Death Proof, 28 Weeks Later, Spy Kids, Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Roadracers), Scooby Doo, Iron Man, 300, Serenity, Die Hard 4, Constantine, Hitcher, The Punisher

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Auto Focus + From Hell

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Get Eric's DVD. Music Box Massacre IV. Michael is assaulted in Uptown Chicago. Radio voice. Jazz clubs. Censorship? Small nipples. Sex as a taboo. Open relationships. A dark and violent shift. How to change the mood. Alternate history . . . or not. Clarity through ambiguity. Sexual morals and public repercussion. Moving out of your most popular work. Not what you'd expect. Utilizing every possible bad film device. Conspiracies. British accents. Actual alternate history! More on comic book films. Titular and tag lines. A new approach to montages. Get high, solve crime. Absinthe! Slasher interpretation. Visuals. Getting into heaven.

Also referenced: The Matador, The Singing Detective, 12 Monkeys, Spun, Spider-Man 3, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Makin' Bacon with Macon, 28 Weeks Later, Requiem for a Dream, A History of Violence, Hot Fuzz, The Great Mouse Detective, Iron Man, Watchmen, Sin City, Spawn, Constantine, Dude Where's My Car?, Friday the 13th, Hitcher, The Punisher, This Film is Not Yet Rated, May, Midnight Meat Train, Hellraiser, Dr Jek, White Zombie, Old Dark House, Eyes Without a Face, Monster Slayer, Pieces, Black Sabbath, The Exorcist, Dead Alive

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Insomnia + The Rock

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Al Pacino. Being typecast. Eric wrongfully disagrees. Invisible actors. When actors trick you. Putting Michael on the spot. Supernatural detective. Avoiding standard devices. When you walk in on a film. Unnecessary staples. Michael disliked Memento, but still thinks it's visionary. Visual foreshadowing. Podcast hosts with weird sleeping patterns. Films always get Insomnia wrong. Almost. Finally, a film with an important humanistic message. Eric unknowingly makes puns. Enough with the silly conspiracies! Die Hard is the standard for action films. Smallpox viral, not Survivalism viral. When even suspension of disbelief can't save you. Character or actors? A film thought experiment - try it at home!

Also referenced: Transformers, Seven, Memento, Werewolf Women of the S.S., Death to Smoochy, Dog Day Afternoon, Blade Runner, Prestige, Ghost Rider, The Island, Shoot 'Em Up, JFK, Scarface, 88 Minutes, S1M0NE, Devil's Advocate, The Dark Knight, Hook, One Hour Photo, RV, Hot Fuzz, Neil Marshall (The Descent), James Bond, Quentin Tarantino, V for Vendetta, Juno, Die Hard, Star Trek, Hatchet, 12 Monkeys, Weatherman, Hack, The Matador, From Hell, Jason, Auto Focus, Hitcher, The Punisher

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Dummy + Walmart

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:01:00 +0000

A few minutes on films before this show accidentally gets super political. Having fun with Dummy. Milla Jovovich: actress and musician. "American Pie Moments." Eric makes Michael give you the freedom. Awkward does not translate into funny. Another look at dark comedy. Double Feature takes a controversial position on Walmart. Dissecting misinformation. Business in Chicago. Socialism. Minimum wage. Small business. Incase every last listener isn't already pissed off . . . a rant about greenpeace. Eric teaches you about subsidies. Sweatshops. Safety and Responsibility. Ending this out of place political rant.

Also referenced: Vanishing Point, Vantage Point, Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday), Dog Soilders, Drive, Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, El Marachi), Resident Evil, Million Dollar Hotel, Underworld, The Pianist, Children of Men, Arrested Development, Happiness, American Pie, The Office, Bullshit!, South Park, Insomnia, The Rock

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Being John Malkovich + Hostel 2

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:01:00 +0000

John playing Craig playing John. An awkward disagreement. Funny? Supernatural? What is this film? Describing dark comedy. Coming from the writer. Why people quote movies. Do cute and weird help a film? John Malkovich's orgasm voice. One of the hosts hates this film - who's fault is that? Quirky film as a style. A different type of disagreement. Eric guesses Michael's least favorite scene. Michael says the meanest thing ever. How psychics talk to the dead. The titular line. Viral marketing. Lazy time passage. Eric is really uncomfortable describing his feeling about Hostel 2. Really, really uncomfortable. A segment so fucked up it can't be synopsized.

Also referenced: Death to Smoochy, Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), Judd Apatow (Pineapple Express, Step Brothers), I Heart Huckabees, Juno, Napoleon Dynamite, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Colour Me Kubrick, Cabin Fever, Requiem for a Dream, Thanksgiving, Bullshit!, Dummy, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, 40 Year Old Virigin, S1m0ne, Saw

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Hostel + This Film Is Not Yet Rated

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Exploitation. Eric doesn't have dental insurance. Misleading packaging. The internet has made Saw irrelevant. Karma doesn't exist. Hostel's reception in popular culture. "Meatcart." Betraying the viewer using time and perspective. Slow motion death. Eric is actually in Hostel. Producer? Presenter? Making your destination clear. Documentary gimmicks. Do children really need saving? The ratings board. Legislating taste. Rate real life violence. Double Feature gets really political really fast. Realistic portrayals of violence. Old media is more of a joke than karma. Unrated film. What's the answer?

Also referenced: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Sunset Blvd., Robert Rodriguez (Desperado), Sin City, Planet Terror, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Cabin Fever, Hatchet, Feast, Saw, Final Destination, Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Pulp Fiction, Death Proof, M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening), Sam Raimi (Spider-man), Evil Dead, Danny Boyle (Sunshine), 28 Weeks Later, Kevin Smith (Jersey Girl), Matt Stone (South Park), Orgazmo, John Waters (Cry-Baby), Gunner Palace, Michael Tucker (Bulletproof Salesman), Iron Man

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The Descent + Feast

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Where the Double Feature intro song came from. Michael sets up a Double Feature. Horror is scary. Eric practices three sentence dream theory. Japanese Horror. Zombie films vs horror films. Forcing well built characters. Strong female leads. Challenging yourself as a director. Trent didn't play the Great Destroyer. The environment you watch a movie in. Sparse score. Show the monster? Alternate ending for "The Descent." How to get away with a twist. What the fuck does a producer do? Meeting the characters. Changing up the hero. You can't kill the dog/kid...right? Eric's Pediaphobia. Hampster-style returns. Jokes with several layers. Bad hampster-style. How a film convinces you to like it.

Also referenced: The Ring, Planet Terror, Death Proof, Orgazmo, The Matador, Prom Night, Semi-Pro, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Doomsday, Underworld, Fargo, I am Legend, Mars Attacks, M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening, Unbreakable), Chasing Amy, Dog Day Afternoon, Phonebooth, Terminator 2, Interview with a Vampire, Saw, The Singing Detective, 12 Monkeys, Cloverfield, Hitcher, The Punisher, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Hostel, Hostel 2, Paris Je T'aime, Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street)

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Orgazmo + The Matador

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:01:00 +0000

A word about Southland Tales and No Country for Old Men. The dream rule. Michael coins the term "candy." What is and isn't funny. Paint-by-numbers film. "Hamster style." Censorship. The beginning of what will surely become a multitude of feminist rants from Eric. Exploitation/empowerment of women in pornography. There isn't enough male nudity in film. This isn't a goddamn review. Solid scenes. Missing scenes. An interesting plot mechanic. All about characters. Realistic delivery. Michael does an impression of Eric ranting about camera work. Mexico is badass. How to handle death. The innocence of a child is a fucking myth. Crafting a double feature.

Also referenced: Superbad, Napoleon Dynamite, Southland Tales, No Country for Old Men, Chasing Amy, Dodgeball, Basketball, Cannibal the Musical, This Film is Not Yet Rated, John Waters (Pink Flamingos, A Dirty Shame), Contact, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Black Snake Moan, Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin), James Bond, The Bourne Trilogy, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Southpark, Halloween, Behind the Mask, Feast, Hatchet, The Descent

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Contact + Silence of the Lambs

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Accidental Double Feature! Something Michael likes! Almost. The Jaws factor. Carl Sagan Awareness moment. Michael Shermer. James Randi. SETI. Accidental Libertarian Experiment. Planet intro or Apple TV glitch? Elevator noises. Good and bad jargon. Missing closure upsets one of the hosts...guess which! Scientific skepticism. Scifi Woodstock. Seriously though, there is no god. Getting into space. Eric is easily excitable. Camerawork that knows what it should do and doesn't. Why films are in 16x9. Unnerving film vs scare shots. How to use a camera to make people uncomfortable. Does borrowing from a film make your film less good? Crafting a creepy character. The word actress is a little sexist. Why Oscars and awards are worthless. The Scooby Doo ending. Titular lines. What to do with your credits.

Also referenced: Cosmos, Seven, X-Men, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Signs, M Night Shyamalan (Lady in the Water, The Happening), Bryan Singer (Superman Returns), Jaws, Rein of Fire, Mars Attacks, Friday the 13th, Cabin Fever, The Fountainhead, Hatchet, Lost, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising, Manhunter, A Scanner Darkly, Orgasmo, The Matador

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Chasing Amy + DOA: Dead or Alive

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Michael has full faith. The shortest Double Feature segment ever. Acupuncture doesn't work. A confusing distribution release. Gaming history. An advertising hook. Modern day exploitation - what it is, what it should be. The movie roadmap. When montages are acceptable. Marketing mystery. Being along for the ride. Eric does a flip then punches Michael. Sound and attitude. Time bombs are lame. The Fargo checklist: When a film is just a film. Eric thins out his film library. Kevin Smith dialogue. Where does the demand for bad films come from? Just when we were about to excuse montages. Writing a film around a scene. Popular culture dates your movie. The creation of the slasher marathon.

Also referenced: Fargo, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Ultraviolet, Clerks, 88 Minutes, Hot Fuzz, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jeresy Girl, Clerks 2, Scarface, Insomnia, Sin City, Death Proof, 28 Days Later, Run Fatboy Run, Outbreak, South Park, Cheech and Chong, Bill and Ted, Evil Empire, Feast, The Descent, Contact, Silence of the Lambs, Terminator, Child's Play, Spy Kids

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Hatchet + Memento

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +0000

The new breed of horror. The Trio. Acting in horror films. Eric likes dominant leader-type girls. The survivor. Role reversal. The "Fuck You" ending. Everyone on Lost gets eaten by a shark. Eric again describes bloody kills in a oddly sexual tone. Executing a scare shot. Lola screaming. Religious and supernatural bullshit. A modern Scooby Doo. Michael has an abundance of problems with Memento. How to hurt Eric's feelings. Betraying your own code. Does the puzzle cheat? How to construct a crazy film. Eric isn't actually in this movie. So wait, who did it?

Also referenced: Behind the Mask, Candyman, Bullshit!, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Wishmaster, Halloween (2007), The Blair Witch Project, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, Spy Kids, Dodgeball, Seven, Constantine, Cloverfield, Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen), Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit), Scooby Doo, Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain), Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Pi, Identity, Saved, Fargo, Lost, 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, The Life of David Gale, The Sopranos, Cabin Fever, The Singing Detective, The Punisher, The Hitcher, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Chasing Amy, Dead or Alive, Tank Girl, Shindler's List

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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen + Constantine

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +0000

LxG. Michael owns a fullscreen movie. Why owning a fullscreen movie makes you a tool. Finding good things in one of the worst movies on this show. OMG, what a twist! Make Eric stop talking about Shaft. Buddy cop films suck. Like, really bad. Comic book excuses. The Rodriguez game. Scenes with surgical precision. Aging CG and CG vs models. Spy Kids is a legitimate series of films. Invisible accuracy. Find a more awful ending? Notable Shia Labeouf impression. The afterlife is silly. Michael hates CG creatures. The worst prop ever conceived (and it's not the Holy Lance!). Constantine in three sentences. Dealing with psuedoscience in film. Twin parapsychology. Buying into the power. Redemption in a ridiculously good mix.

Also referenced: Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Sin City), Dark City, Barbarella, Hellboy, Queen of the Damned, The Rock, Shaft, X-Men, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Spy Kids,The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Sweeney Todd, Jurassic Park, I Know Who Killed Me, I am Legend, A Walk to Remember, Spider-Man 16, Lost, Planet Terror, Hostel 12, Tank Girl, Seven

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Team America + Cabin Fever

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +0000

The puppet thing. Eric's blender. Libertarians are awesome. What's wrong with Matt Damon? Oh yeah, Ben Affleck. Puppets and suspension of disbelief. Michael Moore is a poor film marker and a fucking liar. MONTAGE! More graphic brutality. LOLCats is where humor goes to die. Eric begins horror. Eli Roth: genius or oblivious? The return of slow zoom. Zack Snyder thinks that's what you want. Horrifying banjo score. Stereotypical horror characters. Michael hates the paranormal. The best ass shot in cinema history. Shaving your legs at the end of the world. Trying to talk about scare shots. Jokes about racism that aren't intellectually bankrupt.

Also referenced: South Park, Orgasmo, Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor), Michael Moore (Farenheit 9/11), Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), This Film is Not Yet Rated, Shot 'Em Up, Hostel, Hostel 2, Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, 300), Twin Peaks, 2001 Maniacs, Planet Terror, Superbad, Thanksgiving, SNL

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12 Monkeys + The Singing Detective

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +0000

The origins of the Double Feature idea. Bruce Willis dies in the first spoiler warning. Slow zoom. Film terms as code. Eric talks about blood using a very sexual tone. What a twist? Crazy people on film. Film noir, neo-noir, hats. Clues vs. solutions. People don't care about lighting.

Also referenced: Lost, Fight Club, Brick, Dexter, V for Vendetta, Monty Python, Chris Colombus (Harry Potter), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Paris Je'Taime, I am Legend, M Night Shyamalan (Signs, The Happening), Million Dollar Hotel, Back to the Future, House, MadTV

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List of Films A-Z

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Rather than sorting through double features, you can use this page to see every film listed in alphabetical order. Click a movie's title to go to the appropriate episode page.

12 Monkeys
2001 Maniacs
Apt Pupil
The Aristocrats
The Attic Expeditions
Auto Focus
Bad Santa
Battle Royale
Bedazzled
Behind the Mask
Being John Malkovich
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Christmas
Brazil
The Brother from Another Planet
Cabin Fever
Chasing Amy
Child's Play (Chucky Series)
Children of the Corn (Series)
A Clockwork Orange
Constantine
Contact
Cube
Dark City
Dark Crystal
De-Lovely
Death of a President
Death to Smoochy
Deliver Us From Evil
The Descent
A Dirty Shame
DOA: Dead or Alive
Dog Soldiers
Double Indemnity
Downfall
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Duel
Dummy
Edward Scissorhands
Escape from LA
Escape from NY
Elephant
The Enemies of Reason
Expelled
Eyes Wide Shut
Feast
Flock of Dodos
Freddy vs Jason
Friday the 13th (Jason Series)
From Hell
Fur
The God Who Wasn't There
Good Night and Good Luck
Gremlins
Halloween (Michael Myers Series)
Hard Rock Zombies
Hatchet
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hitcher
Hostage
Hostel
Hostel 2
House of 1000 Corpses
Inglourious Basterds
Insomnia
Intacto
Jesus Camp
Joy Ride
Kinky Boots
The King of Kong
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Libertine
Loose Change
M
Magnolia
The Matador
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Melinda and Melinda
Memento
Michael Moore Hates America
Monster Man
Murderball
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy Krueger Series)
Northfork
Orgazmo
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Penn and Teller Get Killed
The People vs Larry Flynt
Primer
The Prophecy
The Prophecy 2
The Prophecy 3
The Punisher
Reign of Fire
Religulous
Rififi
The Rock
The Root of All Evil?
A Scanner Darkly
Schindler's List
Seven
The Shape of Things
Shorts
Silence of the Lambs
The Singing Detective
South Park
Spiral
Steal This Film 2
Tank Girl
Team America
The Terminal
Terminator
Terminator 2
Terminator 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Leatherface Series)
The Thing
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Total Recall
Touch of Evil
The Triplets of Belleville
The United States of Leland
Vanishing Point
Waco
Walmart
What Dreams May Come
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

This list excludes the Year 1 Recap as well as spoiler free conversations on The Haunted House, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Old Dark House, Eyes Without a Face, May, The Facts in the Case of Mr. Hollow, Midnight Meat Train, Dead Alive, Phantom of the Paradise, Black Sabbath, Pieces, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, and The Exorcist. These films were all part of the Music Box Massacre 4 episode.

Other Projects

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0000

When they're not recording...which really does seem to be all the goddamn time...Eric and Michael are working on other projects in and around Chicago.

Eric Ingrum

Eric's Project Blog
A blog detailing all Eric's projects. The best place to find updates on that ZEP thing he keeps talking about, as well as projects in development.

AwesomeStart.com
Customizable Google startpages. Find a theme you like, customize everything on it, and set it as your homepage.

TBMChicago
A promotional outlet for The Birthday Massacre. Also home to Eric's first DVD, which is avaliable online for free.

Photography
Several set's of Eric's free-use (creative commons) photography including Zombie March Chicago.

Michael Koester

Glittermouse
Michael's band. There's also Glittermouse MySpace and Facebook pages.

About the Show

doublefeatureshow@gmail.com (Double Feature) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Riddled with blasphemy and a humble (but vicious) sense of humor, Double Feature is an experiment in film watching. Each episode, hosts Eric Ingrum and Michael Koester cover two movies using the best tools at their disposal: blasphemy, skepticism, dirty words and bloodlust.

About the Theme

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Double Feature's intro music was written and recorded by Eric Ingrum. Dialogue samples were written by Michael Koester and performed by Melanie Boyna, Tia Battenberg, Samantha Gordon, Sarah Strand and Laura Angel.

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