Double Feature

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.Google StartpagesRuss 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 ScissorhandsAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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.Google StartpagesPiThe Fountain Also referenced: The Number 23, The Wrestler, Insomnia, Memento, Batman, Sin City, Requiem for a Dream, Eraserhead, Up!, The Haunted World of El SuperbeastoAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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.Google StartpagesLet the Right One InInterview 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 Amazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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.Google StartpagesNightmare Before XmasRocky 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 TrekAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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.Google StartpagesA Clockwork OrangeElephant 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 HourAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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 OrangeAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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, ExpelledAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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, ExpelledMusicBoxTheatre.comListen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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 ExorcistAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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 MassacreAlso 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 ExorcistAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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 PointAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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 RabbitAmazon 1 | IMDB 1 | Wiki 1Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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!Amazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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)Amazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3

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 KongAmazon 1,2 | IMDB 1,2 | Wiki 1,2Listen | Download AAC | Download MP3