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White Zombie (1932), The Last Man on Earth (1964) and Night of the Living Dead (1968)

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In this film block, Jeremy and Brian discuss how the zombie evolved into the movie monster we know and love today. From the 1600’s in Haiti to the 1930’s in the States to the monster it became in the 1980’s, the zombie had a long journey. This is the first rung on the evolutionary ladder for this pop culture icon.

All of these movies are in the public domain, so we’ve uploaded high-quality versions of them on our YouTube channel.

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The Hunt (2020) and Hard Target (1993)

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In this film block, Jeremy and Brian discuss these two loose adaptations of The Most Dangerous Game. It’s not just a story you had to read in middle school, it’s also the basis for a dozen movies. These are two of them. Brian and Jeremy watched The Hunt at a drive-in, the 2020 approximation of a movie theater, then we paired it with another adaptation of the same source material, John Woo's first American movie, starring Wilford Brimley, Lance Hendrickson, The Mummy, and Van Damme.

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Suddenly (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

In this film block, Jeremy and Brian breakdown these post-war, pre-JFK assassination films. All have a creeping paranoia at the heart of them. As the Cold War cranks up, these movies get darker and darker. And there are a lot of eerie similarities to the details of these movies and the Kennedy assassination...almost enough to give you a sense of creeping paranoia. 

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Fascinating context that connects brainwashing programs to the JFK assassination and more is found in Tom O'Neill's book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.