Copy Cuts

We kick off the 2025 edition of Creepy Cuts with a campy favorite!

Discussions Include: This movie's apparent influence on Buffy, friends in the 80s were slim pickins, two Tom Hollands, the goolem reveal, crosses working like a patronus, and is Humperdink hot?

All the stars are born (for now) as we conclude our discussion of this batch of remakes! Ethan Fogus joins us to talk about the most recent version.

Discussions Include: Being a pop music stick in the mud in high school, Lady Gaga the icon, Bradley Cooper the director, songwriting in movies being super believable, and this movie is a bummer!

We settle into a bubble bath surrounded by candles and beer cans to take on the first rock and roll iteration of A Star Is Born.

Discussions Include: Barbra is good at singing, Kris Kristofferson the method actor, whether you should touch a ribbon microphone, and the apparent absence of Joan Didion dialogue.

While we couldn't record this episode from inside a trunk in Pocatello, Idaho, we continued our Star Is Born series with a comparative look at the 1954 spectacle directed by George Cukor.

Discussions Include: A movie full of still images, vaudeville as a source of familial mental illness, making the jump to a musical, and this movie's awesome home theater setup.

A series is born! We kick off our discussion of A Star Is Born, beginning with the original (unless you count What Price Hollywood?). This was recorded earlier in the year, so you may here some references to things that were timely in February or so. Starting with this episode we will be switching to a biweekly cadence, so we will cover the 1954 version in two weeks!

Discussions Include: Imagining a time when producers in Hollywood could think of themselves as underdogs, fun years at the Academy Awards, and a lack of empathy in the 30s.

We're back to finish off the vampire menace once and for all! We wrap up our discussion of all things Nosferatu with two lesser known films.

Discussions include: The many faces of Doug Jones, the horrors of Klaus Kinski, why did no one make a NosferaTWO?

Brad and Beth finally tackle the new hit remake from Robert Eggers.

Discussions include: Robert Eggers' obsession with myth and folklore, how British media permeated the 2010s, this movie being yucky, and what the heck is this about?

This episode also features a brief note about David Lynch, who we learned had passed away on the day of this episode's release.

We delve deeper into Nosferatu with the Herzog remake.

Discussions include: How to do a Herzog impression, vampire metaphors, plague anxiety, and how to make a tribute to silent film.

We take our first trip to the silent era with the Murnau classic Nosferatu!

Discussions include: Spongebob cutaway gags, long fingernails, a tumultuous time in Germany, and taking a big stretch when you wake up.

Two episodes in one week? They're twins! We conclude our discussion of The Parent Trap with our very first guest! Emily Backus (Mom Friend, Wild Angels, singer of the Copy Cuts theme song) joins us to give firsthand twinsight.

Discussions include: Childhood pranks, the early 2000s ubiquity of Lindsay Lohan, why you should never go skiing, Nick Parker is bad at communicating, and Nancy Meyers' oeuvre.