Recovered

Recovered remains festive in our own weird way as Dan and Keith dig into the horror classic Silent Night, Deadly Night, and its 2010s remake simply titled Silent Night. Santas are out to punish the guilty in elaborate, gory ways, and Keith and Dan struggle to parse exactly why and to form any sort of connection with the rapidly introduced victims. Which sinister Santa is committing the most holly, jolly, homicides? Listen now to find out!

Recovered gets festive as Dan and Keith dig into three takes on Dr. Seuss' classic heist tale, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. A brief overview of the animated short, then the two big screen Grinches: Jim Carrey in a rubber fursuit, and the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch as what Keith hates to learn is The Grinch Tumblr Got Horny For. Who Grinched the best? Had the least obtrusive backstory? What is "Oncest" and will Keith ever recover from finding out? All this and some very good dogs as Recovered gets Grinchy!

Special guest John Tebbutt, the Video Vulture, joins Dan and Keith through a tour of cinematic Djangos. In the beginning, the spaghetti western Django introduces a mysterious gunfighter with a coffin; decades later, Japan gets into the Django game with the Quentin Tarantino-backed-and-co-starring Sukiyaki Western Django, somehow set in feudal Japan, the old west, and also Tudor England maybe; then we follow Tarantino to the closest he's ever come to a remake (still pretty far but hey we're here anyway), the historical revenge flick Django Unchained. The body counts are high and the cinematic swings are big, come with us on the journey!

Recovered eases our way out of spooky season by switching from horror to suspense, with two adaptations of Daphne du Maurier's novel, Rebecca. First up, Gone With the Wind producer David O. Selznick takes a chance on a rookie British filmmaker named Alfred Hitchcock to bring the novel to live with (future Sir) Laurence Olivier; eight decades later, Netflix takes another crack at it with full colour, relaxed content restrictions, and... alleged sex cannibal Armie Hammer. Fun. Who did it best? What effects did the Hayes Code have on how this story could be told, and was escaping it enough to overcome the lack of Hitchcock? Listen and learn!

Dan and Keith have such sights to show you, as Recovered tackles Hellraiser! Travel back to the late 80s, as horror Maestro Clive Barker adapts his own novella about the Cenobites, unearthly beings with no distinction between pleasure and pain, and how they become minor players in one young woman's struggle against her step-mother and abusive, recently undead uncle. Then catch up to... a couple of weeks ago, as a new take on the Cenobites and their leader, known to us as Pinhead, stalk a group of 20-somethings in a desperate search for a cohesive theme. Does an upgrade in film technology result in an upgraded Hellraising? Listen and find out!

Welcome to spooky season! Dan and Keith begin to settle into the Halloween spirit with the brat pack (citation needed) thriller Flatliners and the 2010s remake that see med students attempting to peek beyond the veil to see what waits beyond death, only to learn the answer is varying amounts of murder ghosts. The original assembles an early 90s all star ensemble, with Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, a top half Baldwin Brother, and the delightful Oliver Platt, while the remake gathers Elliot Page, Cassian Andor, Elena From The Vampire Diaries, and some other people. Who's doing the concept the most justice? And who forgot which movie they were doing for 20 minutes? Listen now and find out, or your regret will be waiting for you on the other side.

Three movies, two cities, 30 heisters! Dan and Keith go back to the 60s for Ocean's 11, the Rat Pack's heist flick that gave them an excuse to party in Vegas, then hop to 2001 for the remake that spawned a franchise, and to 2018 for the female led requel Ocean's 8! Who had the best crew? The best heist? Could they maybe have had better female roles sooner? (Hint: yes.) Did people in the 60s even LIKE heist movies? We dig into all of this and more as Recovered takes on the Dannys Ocean.

Get set to get wet as Recovered goes to sea for the Poseidon Adventure, one of the highlights of the 70s disaster flick craze, and it's 2000s remake, simply titled Poseidon. The 70s bring a star-studded cast, and the remake is filled with actors Dan knows from things Keith refuses to watch. Ships are flipped, lives are lost, and don't get attached to the actors playing the captain. Which doomed ship and its passengers had the best set piece spectacle? Who had the most pathos? Is there a version of this that could nail both a little more than either? Come on the adventure with us!

Dan and Keith venture back into horror for iconic 80s classic Poltergeist, and the 2010s sequel they needed to be reminded happened. We dig into the big questions: who really directed the original? How can the remake star both Sam Rockwell and Jared Harris yet pass this unmemorably? Who's using the supporting cast better? If practical effects can be this jaw dropping, why keep messing with digital replacements? Join Dan and Keith now, for.... they're heeeeeeerrrrrrre

Dan and Keith speed into the far flung future year of 2000 as envisioned by 1975, for the dystopic blood sport of Death Race 2000. Car-based gladiators slaughter their way through a cross-country race of miles and mayhem in a world dominated by the cruelty of minority rule fascism, where the resistance can't stop fighting each other long enough to make a difference, people are weirdly okay with Nazis, and the only unbelievable part is the notion that David Carradine is the sexy one in the cast. Then jump forward to the Unspecified Future as Death Race gets remade with the only star suitable to this much car-based ultraviolence, Jason Statham, in a new, modern blood sport dystopia that suggests maybe the US for-profit prison system has some flaws. Turns out there is a lot more to unpack than you'd think as we dig into the Death Races. Grab your navigator and strap in, it's a bumpy ride.