Clamshell Case Files

We’re closing out Neurovember with a chain smoking, whiskey-infused Pierce Brosnan experimenting on chimps using virtual reality.. When that inevitably goes wrong, he moves onto Jeff Fahey’s simple landscaper, Jobe, turning him into a digital god with the powers of someone’s overpowered Original Character. Suffer with us as we talk about the way-too-long Director’s Cut of the film that Stephen King sued to get his name removed from!

Neurovember continues and Strange Days has found us. A weirdly prescient film that isn’t quite able to read the future room, the crew and returning guest John Crawford travel to the future of New Years Eve, 1999, where the most popular form of entertainment is Juliette Lewis. That’s it. Just Juliette Lewis, doin’ stuff. Singing. Dancing. Aiding and abetting murder. Strap in for a long episode of talking about Ralph Fiennes’ bad American accent and Angela Bassett kicking ass. Content warning: sexual assault.

We’re kicking off Neurovember with the tale of a far-fetched future of 2021, where a global pandemic has brought the world to its knees, pharma companies have a death grip on medical treatments, and nobody wants to go to Trenton. Special guest John Crawford is here talking about one of the formative movies of his youth, the Keanu Reeves vehicle Johnny Mnemonic.

It’s Bridget pick and, it being episode 69, she decided to choose something extra sexy...a David Cronenberg movie! We’re talking about Crash, Cronenberg’s controversial film about symphorophiliacs who are ready to get down to some crash test dummy porn. Don’t worry, while things get steamy, it’s only because Matt and Quintin yell at each other for a while.

This week, special guest Grace Fobert takes a shortcut through the spinning fence to deliver the 1986 made for TV toy commercial, My Pet Monster. It’s time to break those neon orange chains, make a peanut butter and mango sandwich, and get your Tippy to the groomer, if you catch our drift (boing).

As it was foretold in the quatrains of the renowned French physician, Michel de Nostradamus, the Clamshell crew welcomes special guest Orson Welles to talk about Ted Kennedy’s chances of becoming president, the third antichrist and his sweet blue turban, and to find out what they didn’t teach you in history class about...Hister? That can’t be right… Join us as we crack open that skull filled with fine French wine, and embrace our doom-filled future of 1999, and usher in the impending 27-year long WW3!

Zero Science wunderkind Christopher Brown stops by the podcast to avoid his SAT make up exam and to make sure we’re all registered for Helltrack as we talk about one of his favorite movies, RAD. ALL CAPS. The thrilling story of a small town boy with Big BMX dreams, where the CEOs are drunk and sweaty and the unassuming, patriotic 30-something single women forget to turn off their ovens and develop unhealthy attachments to high school bikers. Do YOU have what it takes to become a factory rider!?

This week we have a SUPER MEGA CROSSOVER EVENT! The World of Commotion Crew is here to talk about that famous 2003 Disney-ride adaptation...no no, sorry, not Pirates. We’re talking Eddie Murphy, Terrence Stamp, and Jennifer Tilly’s head! Why have we subjected you to all this? Well, Danielle, Jarrod, and Matt have been talking about The Haunted Mansion over on World of Commotion and, later this week, Bridget and Quintin will be appearing to continue the conversation! We’re...dying to tell you about it! Warning: that awful joke is better than most gags in the Haunted Mansion.

Deep in the jungle of Zaire lies something so terrifying, no man has lived to tell the tale of its secret. That lost treasure? The origin of Ernie Hudson’s and Tim Curry’s accents in Congo. Don’t worry, listener, we have found it and survived to talk about it. You may know it as that movie what with the talking gorilla, but there’s so much more to it. Is it a good movie? Oh, no no no no, NO. Don’t be ridiculous. But it IS a lot of fun.

Special guest Allison White (@allisonwhtartist) and the CCF crew want to know if you ever watched Roger Rabbit and thought, “Gee, I sure wish this movie had more human-on-toon sex!”? Well good news, weirdo, Ralph Bakshi did! And so, he enlisted the help of Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt, and Gabriel Byrne and dumped them into the out-of-control trash fire that is Cool World. Marred by studio interference, a major story change, a lousy budget, and a director that clearly had never directed a live human in his life, Cool World is definitely partially animated, technically a movie, and an hour and forty two minutes of our lives we’ll never get back.