Episode 9: Horror Films.

Episode 9: Horror Films
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Contributing Guests: Aubrey Spivey and Chris Thames
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw and John Belliston and Aubrey Spivey
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

Here it is! Episode 9: Horror films. This is the first of four episodes that will cover horror films. John and I are joined once again by Aubrey Spivey and Chris Thames and discuss what makes a film horror. We discuss the major genre of horror films and talk about a few of our favorites.

 Here is the Horror on Screen website. The reviews of the films are fairly short, but the list of horror films on the site is pretty expansive (though by no means complete). This link is the graphic showing the major genre's and sub-genre's of horror films. We on the podcast didn't completely agree with the sub-genre's but we felt the five major genre's were right on the money.

The Blood-Shed is a website that covers horror in a multitude of media (as well as some non-horror topics). It's a great little site for those that enjoy novels, comics and games as well as movies.

Finally here is the list of the movies we touch on in the podcast. Thanks goes out to Aubrey Spivey for compiling a majority of it:
28 Day Later – 2002 – Danny Boyle
Alien - 1979 - Ridley Scott
Audition -  1999 - Takashi Miike
Battle Royale – 2000 – Kinji Fukasaku
Bug – 2006 – William Friedkin
Cabin in the Woods – 2012 – Drew Goddard
Cape Fear – 1962 – J. Lee Thompson
Carrie – 1976 – Brian De Palma
Cigarette Burns – 2005 – John Carpenter
Coraline - 2009 - Henry Selick
Critters - 1986 - Stephen Herek
Dale and Tucker vs Evil – 2010 – Eli Craig
Dead Snow – 2009 – Tommy Wirkola
Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead – 2014 – Tommy Wirkola
Drag me to Hell – 2009 – Sam Raimi
Event Horizon - 1997 - Paul W.S. Anderson
Frankenstein – 1931 – James Whale
From Hell – 2001 – The Hughes Brothers
Godzilla – 1998 – Roland Emmerich
Halloween – 1978 – John Carpenter
Hard Candy – 2005 – David Slade
Hellraiser-1987-Clive Barker
Honeymoon – 2014 – Leigh Janiak
Hostel – 2005 – Eli Roth
House on Haunted Hill – 1999 – William Malone
Lake Placid – 1999 – Steve Miner
Let the Right One In – 2008 – Tomas Alfredson
Martyrs – 2008 – Pascal Laugier
Megan is Missing – 2011 – Michael Goi
Nekromantik – 1987 – Jörg Buttgereit
Night of the Living Dead – 1968 – George A. Romero
Oculus – 2013 – Mike Flanagan
Otis – 2008 – Tony Krantz
Quarantine – 2008 – John Erick Dowdle
Rose Red – 2002 – Craig R. Baxley
Saw – 2004 – James Wan
Shadow of the Vampire- 2000- E. Elias Merhige
Shaun of the Dead - 2004 - Edgar Wright
Sinister-2012 - Scott Derrickson
Society - 1989 - Brian Yuzna
Teeth – 2007 – Mitchell Lichtenstein
The Babadook – 2014 – Jennifer Kent
The Cell – 2000 – Tarsem Singh
The Thing - 1982 - John Carpenter
The Watcher – 2000 – Joe Charbanic
Tremors – 1990 – Ron Underwood
Trick 'r Treat – 2007 – Michael Dougherty
Wrong Turn – 2003 – Rob Schmidt

Episode 8: Bad Adaptations.

Episode 8: Bad Adaptations
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

Here's episode 8!
Frank reviews the Fantastic 4 movie. We discuss why bad adaptations happen and break things down into literary works, comics and videogames.

An EW article discussing Josh Trank's tweet about the good film he had, insinuating that studio meddling caused the bad movie.

An io9 article categorizing Philip K. Dicks films from best to worst (according to the author). Gives a short review on each film.

Here's a EW slide show ranking the worst comic book adaptations.

Uwe Boll interview on Eurogamer.net from 9 years ago. I think the attitude is changed with the publishers from what Uwe Boll has to say here, but at the time he may have had a point. The gaming industry was a different environment back then as well.

New Podcast coming soon.

 
In a couple days our new podcast will hit. John and I discuss bad adaptation movies: I review the Fantastic 4, we talk about cinematic tofu Nicholas Cage, and give our thoughts as to why bad adaptation happen all while bemoaning the terrible films we've seen for this podcast.

Fantastic 4... Sad.

Our upcoming podcast, releasing next week, is on bad adaptations. John has been eagerly watching the Joel Schumacher Batman films. I went to see the new Fantastic 4 movie... I'm going to save my full review for the podcast, but I'll just say that the film made me sad. On so many levels.

Episode 7: Antman and Absurdism

Episode 7: Antman and Absurdism
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

We discuss Ant-man. How much we either like or disliked it.
Here's the IMDB page for the film. A lot of trivia on the trivia page. 
Here's a link to a timeline of the production for the film: Edgar Wright's involvement and eventually leaving the production after Marvel Studios gains the rights back from Artisan Films. We don't go into a lot of details in the podcast, but if anybody's interested this is pretty interesting and cool.

There is a lot more coming in Absurdism in the next week from John, but here's some links to get you started:
366 Weird Films covers a lot of films, many I haven't seen some I have. It's a pretty long interesting list though some of the movies are a bit difficult to find. Some are on Netflix, a few are on Youtube or can also be found Amazon. Some are just difficult to easily track down.

Here's a link to a blog entitled Absurdism Today. There are only two posts but it excellently details what Absurdism is as a philosophical movement. It's much more academic than we go into in the podcast.

Oddball films has this post specifically on Absurdist Cinema. The entire blog is pretty awesome and you can find a lot of movies detailed that run the absurdist spectrum. It's worth a look and you can spend quite a bit of time here.

Finally, here's another list from Absurdity in Cinema that gives another short list of absurdist movies.

It's nine days late, but here it is!

Episode 6: Mass Effect
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Special Guest: Chris Thames
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw
 
This is a topic that I think we'll come back to. A lot of material ended up on the cutting room floor in this episode and we could have easily talked about each game for several hours. This trilogy is the very definition of epic. If you are a gamer, and you enjoy RPG's or third person action games you owe it to yourself to play through these games at least once.

Not a lot of notes this week. There's mostly speculation about the next game in the series: Mass Effect: Andromeda at this point and other than this trailer:

Other than that here's the link to the Mass Effect Wiki, which is a hell of a resource for information on the games and fun to read through.

Mass Effect coming Monday!

It looks like the our Mass Effect Trilogy podcast is going to be pushed back to Monday. Frank's diligently working away to get it ready between fits of sleep and bouts of work.

Stay tuned!