FilmStruck is dead and Disney is forming its own streaming service while physical media aisles in stores decrease in size. The gang discuss the culture of streaming and the importance of owning physical media while companies continue to axe streaming services, leaving customers without titles that are unfortunately never promised to them.

 

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Eric King: @uncannykarloff

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Kevin Tudor: @KevTudo

The gang comes together for another double feature with special guest Laron Chapman. This month's double feature is 1976's Taxi Driver and 2018's First Reformed, both written by Paul Schrader. We talked about Paul Schrader's career, how Taxi Driver still resonates today and how First Reformed takes the essence of Taxi Driver to different and similar levels.

 

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Eric King: @uncannykarloff

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Kevin Tudor: @KevTudo

Laron Chapman: @THENAMESLARON

The gang dives into the gall bladder and drinks the blood of wirgins in this episode, a look at Paul Morrissey’s Flesh For Frankenstein and Blood For Dracula; two gory, highbrow arthouse exploitation flicks that are curiously missing Andy Warhol despite his above-the-title credit but are abundant with the inspired wackiness of Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, and Arno Jürging amid ravishing landscapes and incredible locations.

 

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The Director’s Cut is a now-ubiquitous term that means nothing. Take a trip with the gang as they dive into the history of this practice and explore how it went from a specialized event to give unfairly-maligned films another life to crass marketing ploy created only to sell units on home video.

 

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On this episode, the gang tackles the entire filmography of writer-director William Peter Blatty whose cinematic adaptations of his own literary work defy genre standards and stand as unique and thoughtful statements on faith and humanity.

 

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In this thrilling episode, LSD is on the menu and the gang decides to pair Ken Russell’s eye-popping American debut Altered States with Jeff Lieberman’s late-70’s relic Blue Sunshine. In a double feature that ranged from man’s very existence all the way to raging acid flashbacks in a shopping mall disco, there was obviously plenty to chew on and trip to.

 

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Kevin Tudor: @KevTudor

With the release of the new Halloween trailer, we discuss the quite convoluted lineage of the Halloween series, the various Halloween entries that are being thrown out the window and our expectations with this new sequel.

If you have any suggestions for films for us to dissect or would like to potentially guest on an episode (we’re four white dudes, we could use some diversity), follow and tell us on Twitter at @OKCFSAfterDark!

 

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Kevin Tudor: @KevTudor

Our latest episode is the first in our special topics series where we talk the culture of film in its various forms. So of course we chose to go with “vape cinema”.

Returning champion Kirsten Thurkelson returns to the pod.

In this episode, the gang welcomes Kirsten Therkelson AKA the Frightful Femme to join in on dragging two very 1980’s films directed by schlockmeister extraordinaire Kevin S. Tenney, WITCHBOARD and (not a sequel to WITCHBOARD) WITCHTRAP.

You can follow Kirsten on her grand adventure on Twitter @kranstin, and you can check out her wares at http://www.goodtrashmedia.com/category/articles/the-frightful-femme-anticlickbait/

 

If you have any suggestions for films for us to dissect or would like to potentially guest on an episode (we’re four white dudes, we could use some diversity), follow and tell us on Twitter at @OKCFSAfterDark!

 

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Patrick Crain: @patrickcrain73

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Rodney McKinley: @rodofwar1

Kevin Tudor: @KevTudor

In this episode, the gang discuss George Romero’s Martin and Season of the Witch, two pivotal films in the storied filmmaker’s career. Retaining Night of the Living Dead’s sharp eye for social commentary and looking forward to Dawn of the Dead’s evocation of suburban America’s slow death via consumption and boredom, these two underseen gems cement Romero as one of the most thoughtful and versatile genre directors of all time.

 

If you have any suggestions for films for us to dissect or would like to potentially guest on an episode (we’re four white dudes, we could use some diversity), follow and tell us on Twitter at @OKCFSAfterDark!

 

Follow the individual Twitter accounts of the OKCFS: After Dark cast at:

 

Patrick Crain: @patrickcrain73

Eric King: @uncannykarloff

Rodney McKinley: @rodofwar1

Kevin Tudor: @KevTudor