Niagara (1953), Purple Noon (1960), & Dead Calm (1989)

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In this film block, Alex Vlahov, the curator of OnlyFilmNoir, joins Jeremy and Brian to crank up the heat on a sequel to their hot, steamy, sultry, film noir episode. This time it’s hotter and on the water.

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Firestarter (1984), & Cat’s Eye (1985)

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In this film block, Lucé Tomlin-Brenner of It's Always Halloween Podcast joins Jeremy and Brian to explore back-to-back Stephen King and Drew Barrymore movies, get deep into the weeds on Stephen King and read some of Lucé’s listener mail. It’s always fun to do a crossover episode, but it’s even better when its a crossover with It’s Always Halloween.

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The Shining

Creepshow

I Married a Witch

Bell, Book and Candle

Ju-on

Torso

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

All the Colors of the Dark

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times

The Evil Dead (1981)

Carrie (1976)

Needful Things

The Dead Zone (1983)

Firestarter: Rekindled

Firestarter (2022)

Apocalypse Now

The Changeling (1980)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Thing (1982)

Christine

Executive Action

The Outsider

Doctor Sleep

Midnight Mass

The Haunting of Bly Manor (aka The Turn of the Screw)

The Haunting of Hill House

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

Trick ’r Treat

Cujo

Gerald’s Game

Airplane!

Dune (1984)

Goodfellas

Casino

Tales from the Darkside

RoboCop (1987)

The Stand (1994)

Maximum Overdrive

It (1990)

One for the Road (2010)

and more...

Straight Time (1978)

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In this Midnight Movie, Patrick Cady takes Jeremy and Brian out on parole designed to keep them from going straight, so they'll just have to make the best of it with the time they have. This movie influenced all kinds of crime films, but it had a real strong impact on Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino, and you can see its reverberations throughout a lot of their work.

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The Big Street (1942), The Dark Corner (1946), & Lured (1947)

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In this film block, Alex Vlahov, the curator of OnlyFilmNoir, joins Jeremy and Brian to explore some film noirs starring a wise-cracking, tough-talking, hard-boiled Lucille Ball. Before she was everyone’s favorite comedian or green lighting Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, Lucy was a studio contract player that the studio didn’t know what to do with, so they cast her in all kinds of roles in all kinds of pictures, including a few film noirs.

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Nightmare Alley (2021)

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In this Midnight Movie, Alex Vlahov, the curator of OnlyFilmNoir, leads Jeremy and Brian down an alley to discover Guillermo Del Toro’s latest nightmare and to sample some of his artisanal pickles. This discussion is a sequel of sorts to Ep 54 - Horror Noir. 

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John Wick (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), & John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)

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In this film block, Jeremy and Brian are joined by Kevin Arnold to avenge a puppy, yeet 500 dudes and pull off some killer stunts. Kevin takes the Grindhouse Gang behind the scenes on the stunt world and gives insight into this exciting part of the business.

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Other films referenced:

Scream 4 (2011), & Scream 5 aka 5cream aka Scream (2022)

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In this film block, Jeremy and Brian are joined by Johnny Berchtold to reboot our previous episode and talk about the latest Screams. Are they sequels? Reboots? Requels? This franchise’s status is “it’s complicated.”

Scream 5 spoilers start at 00:37:00

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Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), & Scream 3 (2000)

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In this film block, Jeremy and Brian are joined by Johnny Berchtold to get their red right hands all over this meta franchise…or at least the ones from the 90’s. [There are no spoilers for Scream 5 aka 5cream aka Scream (2022).]

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Prince of Darkness

Halloween (1978)

The Shining

The Exorcist

Psycho (1960)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3

Twin Peaks

Broken Arrow (1996)

Scream 4

Scream 5

The Blair Witch Project

Hackers

Scary Movie

Carrie

A Nightmare on Elm Street

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Urban Legend

Halloween H20

Halloween: Resurrection

The People Under the Stairs

The Last House on the Left (1972)

Uncle Buck

Inception

Young Frankenstein

Terminator 2

Star Wars

The Terminator

The Evil Dead

Lethal Weapon

The Matrix (1999), Ghost in the Shell (1995), & World on a Wire (1973)

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In this film block, Jeremy and Brian are joined by Chris Michael to takes some red pills and jack-in to learn about the movies that inspired The Matrix. Is this movie still The One or did the Architect vis-à-vis all over your candyass?

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