Jason joins Director/Writer Will Wernick, who also directed ESCAPE ROOM, to talk about his new film NO ESCAPE. The story here is: a social media star travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess and danger. As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape, and survive. NO ESCAPE releases Sept 18 theaters and VOD.

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For this hangout episode, Jason, Drew and Tony discuss the 1955 Mike Hammer film Kiss Me Deadly, which not only exemplifies great noir but shocks and surprises from beginning to end.

Special thanks to the great audio commentary on the Kiss Me Deadly Criterion disc by by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini and excerpts from The Long Haul of A. I. Bezzerides, a 2005 documentary on the Kiss Me Deadly screenwriter.

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This week we continue our Night Stalker retrospective with the 1973 telefilm THE NIGHT STRANGLER.
(Episode 310)

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For this week's hangout episode-- our first of the 2020 Fall Season-- we discuss the 1977 sf film Planet of Dinosaurs, which meshes amazing stop-motion dinosaur effects with dubious acting and amazing 70s fashions.

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This episode we’re talking to Glen Zipper and Elaine Mongeon, authors of the new SF book Devastation Class from HarperCollins. Zipper is known for creating the wildly popular Netflix series Dogs and producing such films as the Academy Award ® winning Undefeated and the critically acclaimed Showbiz Kids directed by Alex Winter (Bill & Ted Face The Music), currently streaming on HBO, and Elaine Mongeon is an associate producer on notable films and series such as Magic Mike XXL and Red Oaks and the director of cult short horror films for Warner Bros. and Hulu. DEVASTATION CLASS (HarperCollins/Blink, Hardcover, $18.99, September 8, 2020) is the story of seven young cadets on a futuristic starship who have to seize control of the ship to fight off a new attack from an alien enemy the earth had thought it had already defeated.

Interviewed by Jason Henderson, author of the new 1950s surf horror book Surf Mystic: Night of The Book Man by his alter ego Peyton Douglas.

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This week we kick off our Fall 2020 Season with The Night Stalker, the original 1972 movie that introduced the character of Carl Kolchak.
(Episode 309.)

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This episode we’re talking to Leanna Renee Hieber whose new book A Summoning of Souls comes from Kensington/ Rebel Base Books… At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City houses both the living and the dead. And when it comes to crimes of an otherworldly nature, it falls to the psychics and spirits of the city’s finest secret agency—The Ghost Precinct—to serve justice beyond the earthly realm.

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This episode we’re talking to Julius Berg, co-writer and director of The Owners, in theaters and on demand Sep 4, 2020. The film stars Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny, Andrew Ellis, Rita Tushingham. In the film, a group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues the would-be thieves are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

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Jason chats with Chris Mooney, author of the new thriller Blood World, in which a cop must investigate an illegal trade in enhanced blood that renders those receiving a transfusion younger and healthier. We talk a lot about the craft of writing.

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