Analog Jones and the Temple of Film: VHS Podcast

Analog Jones continues A Very Busey Christmas with a bizarre sequel, Predator 2 starring Danny Glover and Gary Busey.

Predator 2 was released on November 21, 1990, with a budget of $35 million and made $57 million in cumulative worldwide gross.

Director: Stephen Hopkins (Lost in Space, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5)

Predator 2 Cast:

Box Synopsis

Ravaged by open warfare between rival drug gangs. L.A. is the perfect killing ground for the Predator, who is drawn by heat and conflict. When the police find mutilated bodies, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) thinks it's the work of the feuding gangs. Then a mysterious government agent (Gary Busey) arrives and orders him to stay off the case. Instead, Harrigan sets out to learn what's really going on and comes face to face with the savage alien in a climactic, electrifying confrontation.

Co-starring Ruben Blades and featuring superb special effects from Stan Winston. PREDATOR 2 is a suspenseful action thriller.

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It's the start of a VERY BUSEY CHRISTMAS! The first VHS this December is "Surviving the Game" from 1994. Get ready for the most dangerous game, hunting humans, and a bunch of dudes hamming it up in the woods!

Surviving the Game was released into theaters on April 15, 1994, from New Line Cinema on a budget of $7.4 million, and it had a box office return of $7.7 million. It was in theaters the same time as D2: The Mighty Ducks, Major League 2, Bad Girls and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson

Surviving the Game Cast includes:

Surviving the Game VHS Trailers include:

Surviving the Game Plot:

Mason passes the test given from Thomas Burns and is flown to a remote cabin in Oregon. Once at the Cabin, Mason meets the hunting party that paid $50,000 each to be included in this particular hunt. The party consists of Thomas Burns, the founder of the hunt, and super weird guy. Doc Hawkins, a psychopathic psychiatrist who specializes in psychological assessments for the CIA. Walter Cole, the locator, he finds the perfect prey. Texas "oil man" John Griffin or Dr. Cox who is grieving over the murder of his daughter. Wealthy executive on Wall Street, Derek Wolfe Sr. and his son Derek Wolfe Jr., who is at first unaware of the actual purposes of the hunt.

The first night all the men are eating a pig feast and engaging in conversation (Also chewing as loud as possible). Mason receives a pack of cigarettes from Hawkins and learns a little history about his birthmark. Gary Busey gives a monologue to die for about his bulldog, and a must watch.

The next morning Mason is woken up with a gun to the face and is told to run for his life! The group finish breakfast and then begin the hunt. Mason is forced to protect himself and survive at any means possible. Will he survive?! Let the hunting start!!!!

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You've Got Mail was released into theaters on December 18, 1998, on a budget of $65 million and made $250.8 million at the box office.

Directed by Nora Ephron who also directed When Harry Met Sally (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993).

Nora Ephron also produced this film and co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia Ephron. This movie is based on the play Parfumerie by Miklós László.

You've Got Mail Cast

You've Got Mail VHS Trailers

You've Got Mail Plot

Joe belongs to the Fox family that runs Fox Books a chain of mega-bookstores. Kathleen runs the independent bookstore The Shop Around The Corner that her mother ran before her. The two are shown passing each other on their separate ways to work, revealing that they visit the same neighborhoods in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Joe arrives at work, supervising the opening of a new Fox Books in New York City with the help of his best friend, branch manager Kevin. Kathleen and her three store assistants, George, Aunt Birdie, and Christina, open up her small shop that morning.

Following a day with his 11-year-old aunt Annabel and 4-year-old half-brother Matthew, Joe enters Kathleen's store to let his younger relatives experience story time. Joe and Kathleen have a conversation that shows Kathleen's fears about the Fox Books store opening around the corner. He withholds his last name and makes a sharp exit with the children. At a publishing party for New York book business people later that week, Joe and Kathleen meet again where Kathleen discovers Joe's true identity. She accuses him of deception and spying, while he responds by disparaging her bookstore.

The Shop Around the Corner slowly goes out of business. Kathleen enters Fox Books to discover the store is friendly and relaxed yet without the same dedication to or knowledge of children's books as her shop. Her employees move on: Christina goes job hunting, George gets a job at the children's department at the Fox Books store, and Birdie retires.

When the two finally decide to meet, Joe discovers with whom he has been corresponding. At first, he chooses not to meet her but then joins her without revealing his online identity, leading them to argue once more. Joe later resumes the messages, apologizes, and promises to tell her why he stood her up eventually.

After both quietly break up with their significant others, Joe realizes his feelings towards Kathleen and begins building a face-to-face relationship, still keeping his online identity a secret. He plans a meeting between his online persona and her, but just before she is to meet her online friend, Joe reveals his feelings for her. When she is waiting for "NY152" at the meeting spot, she sees Joe and his dog, realizing he was "NY152" the whole time.

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Now and Then was released into theaters on October 20th, 1995 on a budget of $12,000,000 and grossed $37,591,674 in the box office. The film is a coming-of-age film that follows four women who recount a pivotal summer they shared in 1970 as adolescents.

Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and she's best known for her TV work on Homeland and the West Wing.

Written by I. Marlene King and she's best known for her TV work on Pretty Little Liars.

Produced by Demi Moore and Suzanne Todd, Todd is the owner of the film production company Team Todd and has produced hits for nearly every major studio.

Now and Then Cast

Supporting Cast

Now and Then Trailers

Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore) Science-Fiction writer who narrates the story. She was played by Gaby Hoffman and was the "weird" girl who liked to perform seances.

Roberta Martin (Rosie O'Donnell) She's now a doctor and was played by Christina Ricci, a tough tomboy whose mother died when she was four-years-old.

Chrissy DeWitt (Rita Wilson) She's about to give birth to her first child. , and she was a naive child that was over-sheltered by her mother (Bonnie Hunt).

Tina "Teeny" Tercell (Melanie Griffith) is a successful Hollywood actress; as a child (Thora Birch), she had always dreamed of fame. Teeny and Samantha have not visited their hometown in ten years.

The story flashes back to 1970 when the girls had two goals: saving enough money to buy a tree house and avoiding the Wormer brothers. One night, they sneak out to the cemetery to perform a seance. A cracked tombstone convinces them they have resurrected the spirit of a young boy identified only as Dear Johnny, who died in 1945 at the age of twelve. Intrigued, they search for information at the library but find nothing. Roberta, on the other hand, sees the true story of her mothers death.

While heading for the library in a nearby town, they bump into the Wormers and steal their clothes while they swim. At the library, Roberta discovers an article about her mother dying in a car accident. Samantha finds a story about Dear Johnny and his mother tragically dying, but a part is missing, leaving the cause of their deaths a mystery.

The girls meet a Vietnam veteran (Brendan Fraser) while riding their bike. He is now a hippie that travels from town to town. The girls then visit a local psychic Wiladene (Janeane Garofalo) who determines he was murdered with tarot cards.

Samantha meets her mom's boyfriend Bud Kent over dinner and storms out to Teeny's place where she is watching a drive-in movie. Samantha tells Teeny that her parents are getting a divorce. Teeny breaks her favorite necklace in two and makes them both friendship bracelets. On their way home during a thunderstorm, Samantha loses her half of the bracelet in a storm drain. When she climbs down to get it, the water rises, trapping her. Crazy Pete, a homeless man, pulls her out. Thankful, the girls now see him differently. At the same time, Roberta is playing basketball in her driveway when Scott Wormer suddenly arrives. They kiss on the porch.

The next day, the girls ask Samantha's grandmother about Dear Johnny's death and discover from a newspaper article that he and his mother were murdered. Roberta becomes upset and angry that two innocent people were killed and also by the realization that her mother died brutally, opposite to what she was told. Samantha announces that her parents are divorcing, and the four make a pact to always be there for one another, no matter what.

To put Dear Johnny's soul to rest, the girls go to the cemetery to perform another seance. Johnny's tombstone suddenly rises surrounded by bright lights. A figure appears from behind, but it is only the groundskeeper who explains that the stone was damaged and is being replaced. The groundskeeper explains he was the one who cracked the tombstone on accident. While leaving, they notice Crazy Pete, and Samantha follows him back to Dear Johnny's grave. Realizing that he is Dear Johnny's father, she comforts him, while he advises her not to dwell on things. After all this, the tree house is finally bought, and Samantha narrates, "The tree house was supposed to bring us more independence. But what the summer actually brought was independence from each other."

The film returns to 1991, and Chrissy goes into labor and gives birth to a girl. Later, in their old tree house, it is revealed by Roberta that Crazy Pete had died the previous year. They then discuss how happy they are in life and make another pact to visit more often.

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Heart and Souls was released in theaters on August 13th, 1993 on a budget of $25,000,000 and had a gross of $16,581,714.

Directed by Ron Underwood, the same guy who brought us Tremors, City Slickers, and Mighty Joe Young.

Produced by Sean Daniel, this guy is an excellent creative producer, his career spans four decades, was the youngest president of production at Universal Pictures. During his tenure, he shepherded such hits as Back to the Future, Animal House, Brazil, Sixteen Candles, The Blues Brothers and Field of Dreams.

As a producer, his films have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. They include The Mummy franchise, Dazed, and Confused and Tombstone. He helped start Mythos in 2018, a production company that just signed a mega-deal with Amazon.

Screenplay by Brent Maddock and SS Wilson, these two make another appearance on our show, the first was for Wild Wild West.

Hearts and Souls Cast

In 1959 We are introduced to 4 people:

They all ride the same bus that night and die because their bus driver Hal can't keep his eyes off a sexy pair of legs. The 4 souls of Penny, Harrison, Julia, and Milo all enter Thomas Reilly while he is being born in the family car. Hal for some reason gets a pass and accends to heaven.

As the years pass Thomas is the only one you can see his ghost and they all form a deep bound. As the boy ages, he has problems because people think he's weird. Thomas's mother and father almost have him committed but the ghosts realize they are harming his life and make themselves invisible to Thomas. The abandonment causes young Thomas to avoid close relationships for the rest of his life, fearful that they, too, will leave him.

Twenty-seven years later we meet Thomas, now a ruthless foreclosure banker who refuses to open up to his devoted girlfriend Anne and lives on his car phone. Hal returns with his trolleybus. Because his irresponsibility ended four innocent lives, Hal has been condemned to convey spirits to the next life, and he has now come for his former passengers.

They reveal themselves to Thomas and he crashes his car. He wakes up in a hospital and he attempts to check himself into a psychiatric hospital, where a schizophrenic patient can see his ghost. This convinces Thomas that the spirits are real, but he is still angry with them for their abandonment and refuses to help them. The quartet convinces him by leaping in and out of his body during an important meeting and threatening further public humiliation until Thomas reluctantly agrees to help in order to finally be rid of them.

One by one the ghosts solve their unfinished business.

Thomas invites Anne back to his apartment, where he tells her his fear of abandonment and his love for her. He gives her a heart-shaped keyring containing all his personal keys. Anne takes him back, then the two of them dance under the night sky were four new stars twinkle to show that Penny, Julia, Harrison, and Milo are finally at peace.

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Every podcast thinks terrible thoughts and this week those terrible thoughts are about The Rage: Carrie 2. Analog Jones is joined by The Jersey Ghouls to review this over the top 90's horror film.

The Rage: Carrie 2 was released into theaters on March 12, 1999. The budget was $21 million, and the movie made $17.8 million in the box office.

Directed by Katt Shea

The Rage: Carrie 2 Cast

The Rage: Carrie 2 Trailers

The Rage: Carrie 2 Plot

Years later, Rachel talks with her best friend Lisa, who has lost her virginity to Eric, a football player. The football players have a game where they sleep with girls and receive points. After Eric rejects her, Lisa commits suicide. Her death ignites Rachel's dormant telekinetic powers.

Rachel discovers a photo of Lisa and Eric. She tells school guidance counselor Sue Snell and Sheriff Kelton that Lisa and Eric slept together. Kelton looks into charging Eric with statutory rape.

Walter, Rachel's Basset Hound dog, is hit by a car, but Jesse drives by and takes the dog to an animal hospital. They have coffee while Walter is recovering.

Eric, Mark and several other football players learn that Rachel had a photo of Eric and Lisa together and gave it to Sheriff Kelton. They pay Rachel a visit at her house to intimidate her into not talking, but her powers stop them.

Sue Snell meets with Rachel and learns Rachel is telekinetic. Snell shows Rachel the original high school from Carrie (1976) that she survived, but 70 people died in the fire that Carrie White started.

The Senior D.A. covers up the statutory rape because of the political influence of the wealthy families. Encouraged, Mark plots to humiliate Rachel for what she did to Eric. He apologizes to Jesse and offers his parents' cabin so Jesse can spend the night with Rachel. Rachel loses her virginity, both unaware that a hidden video camera is filming them.

Rachel goes to a party, and the popular kids reveal their sex game that she is a part of, which triggers Rachel's telekinesis and unleashes the rage in her. Rachel closes the doors, kills most of the party goers, including Sue Snell in a horrific display of power. Rachel gets crushed by a piece of the house, Jesse says he loves her and she saves him.

A year later, Jesse is at college, sharing his room with Rachel's dog, Walter. Jesse dreams Rachel approaches him in his dorm. When he walks towards her, she shatters into pieces in a very odd ending.

Behind the Scenes of The Rage: Carrie 2

A few weeks into production the first director Robert Mandel quit over creative differences, and Katt Shea took over.

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Two nerds build a podcast about old VHS tapes, and it ends up being possessed by an evil entity. Listen to Analog Jones talk about John Carpenter's Christine (1983) for our Halloween episode!

Christine was released into theaters on December 9, 1983, on a budget of $10 million and it made $21 million at the box office.

Directed by John Carpenter the man who brought us Halloween (1978) and The Thing (1982).

This film is based on a novel by Stephen King called Christine. Bill Phillips wrote the screenplay.

Produced by Richard Kobritz who also produced Salem's Lot (Salem's Lot VHS Movie Review)

Christine's Cast

Christine's Synopsis

Fun Facts

According to John Carpenter, Christine was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as "a job" as opposed to a "personal project." He had previously directed The Thing (1982), which had done poorly at the box office and led to a critical backlash. In retrospect, Carpenter stated that upon reading Christine, he felt that "It just wasn't very frightening. But it was something I needed to do at that time for my career."

King's novel, the source material for Carpenter's film, made it clear that the car was possessed by the evil spirit of its previous owner, Roland D. LeBay, whereas the film version of the story shows that the evil spirit surrounding the car was present on the day it was built. Other elements from the novel were altered for the film, particularly the execution of the death scenes, which the filmmakers opted for a more "cinematic approach."

You can buy the Blu-ray on Amazon that has deleted scenes and commentary with director John Carpenter and Keith Gordon.

Bonus Movie Review: Halloween (2018)

Halloween (2018) was released into theaters on September 19, 2018, with a budget of $10 million.

This is the eleventh installment in the Halloween film series and a direct sequel to the 1978 film of the same name.

Directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express)

Written by Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down) and David Gordon Green.

Based on characters by John Carpenter and Debra Hill

Halloween (2018) Cast

Halloween (2018) Storyline

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The Analog Jones gang goes back to their old hometown of Salem's Lot, Maine to write a book and get attacked by a blue vampire! Polett Jasso, a Stephen King fanatic, joins us to tell everyone the difference between the movie and the mini-series.

Salem's Lot the mini-series made its TV debut on November 17, 1979, on CBS. The original runtime was 187 minutes but was cut to 113 minutes for the movie we watched.

Director: Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Salem's Lot Cast

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Matt and Steve got new jobs! We are working at a rat-infested textile mill, and we are working the Graveyard Shift (1990). Graveyard Shift is our second movie in our Stephen King October!

Graveyard Shift (1990) was released October 26, 1990, with a budget of $10 million and brought in $11.5 million in the box office.

Director: Ralph S. Singleton (Producer of Clear and Present Danger, Listen here)

Graveyard Shift 1990 Cast:

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Are you ready for Stephen King month?! Matt and Steve are taking a trip to Nebraska to visit our new friend Isaac and review Children of the Corn (1984).

Children of the Corn is rated R and was released into US theaters on March 9, 1984, on a budget of $800,000 (estimated).

Director: Dritz Kiersch

Children of the Corn Cast:

Children of the Corn Movies:

Children of the Corn Book

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The Predator (2018) Movie Review

Director: Shane Black

The Predator (2018) Cast

How does Shane Black's sequel The Predator (2018) hold up to the original Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990) and Predators (2010)? According to the critics, not well at all. Do Matt and Steve agree? Listen to find out their likes and dislikes.

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