Murder Made Fiction

Bonnie and Clyde month comes to a close this week with the most recent movie in the cannon: The Highwaymen (2019).

Christopher James of I Love Horror joins Amanda to talk through whether telling this story from the posse's perspective was the right choice. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor: Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Here's a sneak peek at our Patreon episode on Bonnie and Clyde vs Dracula (2008) with special guests Michael Varrati (Midnight Mass) andTiffany Shepis (Casualty Friday)

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor : Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Bonnie and Clyde month continues with the David DeCoteau output Bonnie & Clyde: Justified. Yes, that is the man who directed A Talking Cat!?! and Voodoo Academy, so be prepared for hunky men.

Joining Amanda on the episode is David DeCoteau expert (kinda), Jarrod Hornbeck of Puppet Masters/Castle Freaks.

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> Jarrod: @_giallo_jarrod (Instagram)

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor : Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Here's a sneak peek at our Patreon episode on Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde (1993) with special guests Eli Bosnick (God Awful Movies) and Kolleen Carney (For Unlawful Cinematic Knowledge)

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor : Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Bonnie and Clyde month continues with the most famous movie of the month: Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

Amanda is joined by special guest, historian and archivist, Erik Rebain to breakdown this movie.

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> Erik: @erik_rebain (Instagram)

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor : Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Bonnie and Clyde month continues with our first movie: The Bonnie Parker Story (1958).

This movie made the baffling choice to change Clyde's name to Guy. To unpack this baffling decision, Amanda is joined by special guest Caitlyn of the North from Pleasers & Punishers.

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> Caitlyn: @caitlynofthenorth (Instagram, Threads)

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor : Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Between 1932 and 1934 outlaws Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow traveled the American West, robbing small stores, filling stations, banks and shooting anyone who got in their way. The duo had the press and the public enthralled with their crimes. Even to this day, Bonnie and Clyde live on in infamy. Tune in to learn all about this killer couple.

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Host: Amanda Jane Stern

Producers: Amanda Jane Stern & Julian Seltzer

Editor : Mae Shults

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Our month of John List coverage wraps up with Taye Diggs in the Tubi title Stepfather (2026).

Aside from a great lead performance, this one is a dud. Not only is it strangely more of a remake of the 2009 film, but it reverts back to problematic/inaccurate depictions of mental health and features way too many shitty cop characters who add nothing to the film!

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> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @joelipsett (BlueSky)

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Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Our second John List title is Nelson McCormick's 2009 remake, The Stepfather starring Dylan Walsh and (often shirtless) Penn Badgley.

It's bigger and longer and gender swaps the teen character...but curiously doesn't do anything with the newfound male energy.

Plus: queer connections; questioning Walsh's casting; and joking about how 2000s era this film is.

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> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @joelipsett (BlueSky)

Wanna support the show? Join us on Patreon (patreon.com/murdermadefiction) for full-length primer and episode by episode coverage of Ryan Murphy's Netflix series, The Watcher (2009)

Theme Music: Conrad Chambers

Our month of John List titles begins with the original The Stepfather (1987).

Starring a magnetic Terry O'Quinn, this Reagan-era slasher film is the perfect takedown of outdated "father knows best" patriarchal beliefs.

Plus: a debate about 'teenage' nudity; appreciating the production design; a gory opening; and a film where the dog doesn't die.

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> Amanda: @amandajanestern

> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @joelipsett (BlueSky)

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Theme Music: Conrad Chambers