Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different horror them and we’re happy to kick off the first of four JOHN CARPENTUESDAY selections. Every Tuesday we discuss a John Carpenter film that we’ve been long overdue to watch and today is his follow up to his and Debra Hill’s smash hit “Halloween” that sees the return of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Loomis. We’re discussing the salty 1980 horror “THE FOG” also starring Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh & Hal Holbrook. A legacy of horror envelopes the town of Antonio Bay as strange things begin to happen on its 100th anniversary. A lot going on but Carpenter manages to execute this eerily serene horror in interesting ways. Seriously, we about fell asleep looking at these coastal landscapes and guilty whisperings of the village priest. Not a complaint. Why is this era of Carpenter so soothing? Here’s a link we found: https://archive.org/details/the.-fog.-1980.720p.-blu-ray.x-264.-yify

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HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST HAS RETURNED! That means a horror movie discussion every weekday all October long and we often like to do classic film selections on Mondays. For Halloween this month, each weekday has a particular theme and every Monday is UNIVERSAL MONSTER MONDAYS! The iconic Universal Monster characters that have been the face of a studio for generations. Today we hit the strange romantic horror of the 1932 film “THE MUMMY” directed by Karl Freund and starring the legendary Boris Karloff and Zita Johann. Some thieves from the British Museum are excavating in Egypt when they happen upon a scroll that resurrects an ancient sorcerer named Imhotep who was wrapped and buried alive over three thousand years ago. Ten years later Imhotep is a dusty player in the ancient artifacts business and there’s a slinky, half Egyptian hottie with uneven plucked eyebrows walking around that really reminds him of his old girlfriend. Will love conquer across time or will the British Empire cockblock what is fated to be? Who knew Egyptians were such mystical people? This is a very informative documentary. Here’s a link: https://vimeo.com/660594850

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A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) by Bob Sham & Friends

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different theme and today is our first discussion for Thursdays’ theme we’re calling TRUE THREAT THURSDAYS. Scary and chilling movies that are based upon true stories. Some selections are understandably more speculative than others and for our first “true threat” talk we’re delving into an adaptation of an allegedly true alien abduction whose alien experimentation scene catapults what might have been a forgettable film into a certain level of notorious cult status. People around our age might know exactly what we’re talking about when we reference THAT alien abduction scene. Thank goodness the director Robert Lieberman, as well as the writers and producers, opted to embellish Travis Walton’s abduction details. Otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten what is maybe the best alien abduction scene in film history. That’s right, we’re talking about the 1993 adaptation of the Travis Walton UFO incident called “FIRE IN THE SKY” starring Robert Patrick, James Garner & DB Sweeney. The actual story is controversial, even amongst UFO buffs, but either it’s impressively real or almost equally impressively faked. We discuss this cult classic with the one legendary scene and compare it to the actual accounts at the end of the episode and give our thoughts on the matter. Bob kind of rambles like a conspiracy theorist.

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HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST has officially begun and last year we tackled some Hammer Horror starring ( mostly) Christopher Lee. This year, every Wednesday, we’re rocking even more Hammer Horror movies with another actor that will (mostly) appear. We’re talking about Mr. Funtimes himself, Oliver Reed. Today we discuss an emotional Oliver Reed performance in the 1961 film “THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF” directed by the prolific Terence Fisher and also starring Clifford Evans, Yvonne Roman & Catherine Feller. A young boy, whose conception is from a sexual assault, is born on Christmas Day. Apparently anybody who is born on this day, that isn’t Jesus, is cursed. If that’s not sad enough his mother dies after going through labor. A kind man and his housekeeper raise the boy as his own. A good kid is given a chance but fate says “fuck them kids” because the man’s feral curse is bigger than any kindness. Actual wolves are easier to tame than this poor Werewolf who becomes a serial killer every full moon by no fault of the man inside. Our first of three werewolf features this month and they’re all pretty much tragedies. We found a link to this one right here: https://archive.org/details/the-curse-of-the-werewolf

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We are back for that most magical time of the year. Spooky season. Autumn. October. Halloween. HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 2! Every weekday all October we discuss a different horror movie discussion and we will have even more horror to discuss than last year because we’re bookending the month with TWO movie review 6-Pack episodes in which we discuss 6 movies within a franchise or genre within a specific time limit for each movie. It’s often where our lowest rated movies rear their heads and while that is no exception in today’s episode, the good well outweighs the bad because we’re discussing zombie fare from the master of the zombie movie, George A. Romero. A beloved horror icon and we have no less respect for the man because he invented a modern horror trope in such a way that no matter what you do if you decide to make your own zombie movie, you’re always going to be ripping off George at least a little bit. A classic zombie gorefest? Commentaries on race, consumerism and class? Black lead actors surviving in horror? Funny zombie movies? George did it all and we discuss four decades of Romero zombie horror with the inventive “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD” from 1968, the iconic “DAWN OF THE DEAD” from 1978, the brutal “DAY OF THE DEAD” from 1985, the zombie revolution of “LAND OF THE DEAD” from 2005, the wobbly “DIARY OF THE DEAD” from 2007 and the baffling “SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD” from 2009. We only got six minutes to discuss each one and you better believe we ignore that limitation well into the episode. We had fun. One thing that George Romero will always give you is a gory good time. HAPPY HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST!

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What a journey. We’re rolling through our ninth discussion in our year-long theme of A DREARY YEAR OF VON TRIER. This US election year was guaranteed to feel heavy and hopeless and it’s lived up to that spectacularly. Add a dozen Lars von Trier movies to that because why not? Today we talk of his third in his “Depression Trilogy” and it’s definitely a fun one to trick your in-laws into watching. If you can talk your mother-in-law into watching the complete 5 hour and 20 minute director’s cut of the 2013 film “NYMPHOMANIAC” then you deserve a large trophy at the very least. That’s what Bob and Angela did. The whole damn thing. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Joe, a nymphomaniac. She’s found beaten and pissed on by Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård, an asexual and learned man who helps her out and hears her sordid stories of BJs, DPs, S&Ms, MMFs and you figure you would hear more about VDs, STDs and other things after sleeping with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people but not really. HPV at the very least. I think most of us have that one except Seligman. There is a home abortion in this movie so make sure you don’t miss that. We got quite the ensemble that includes Shia LeBeouf, Stacy Martin, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth and more. The movie is called “Nymphomaniac” and it’s by Lars von Trier and it’s what you would expect so let’s get up in them guts and talk about it.

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Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974) by Bob Sham & Friends

We’re winding down our European Vacation and we make a stop in Norway but there’s something that goes beyond the borders in Joachim Trier’s 2021 romance/comedy/drama/coming-of-age film “THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD”. Renate Reinsve plays “Julie” whose fickle and drifting life might seem a little too familiar especially if you’re in a certain age range. She meets Aksel, played by Anders Danielson Lie, a cartoonist about 10 years her senior and falls in love. The love and the eventual disconnect feel very real. She aslo meets and falls for Eivind, as played by Herbert Nordrum, a casual and sweet guy closer to her age. Relationships end and begin. Lives abruptly come to a close. Expectations fall through. It all seems so drifting and aimless so what can we possibly do about it? Force it? At best we can only hope for peace with however it goes. Trier’s third in his “Oslo” trilogy sets an illuminating spotlight on the romance of a certain generation and it’s as unsettling as it is sweet. It sure hit a little too close to home for our hosts. This feels like it could have taken place anywhere in the western world. Oh, look! We found a link but click it while it’s there. It might not be soon: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x92wuh2

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The Bicycle Thief (1948) by Bob Sham & Friends