Rosemary's Baby 6:66 / The Shining 2:37

Gena Radcliffe from the Kill By Kill podcast and The Spool discusses the penultimate scene of the movie, and we ponder what it was that made the 2014 miniseries remake such a failure. Download the file here: Episode 18: REMAKING ROSEMARY   The non-working remote control I had as a kid.   Spooky eyeball-less […]

Writer/director PJ Hogan of “Muriel’s Wedding” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding” discusses the Rosemary DNA that is forever a part of Muriel, and his time working with RB production designer Richard Sylbert.   Download the file here: Episode 17: ROSEMARY & MURIEL   The tip-toe scene   Striking similarities…   Trailer for “Muriel’s […]

The witch episode! We have Joe Dator on the line for the famous telephone booth scene, then Lady Althea, Lady G, and Denny Sargent discuss the explosion of witchery in NYC in the 1970s.   Download the file here: Episode 15: THE WITCHES OF NYC   Trailer for The Astounding She Monster (1957) starring […]

WFMU’s “Morricone Island” host Devon E. Levins and DJ Gaylord Fields visit to discuss the soundtrack by Komeda, the details of his untimely death, and Tony Curtis’s phone call. Download the file here: Episode 14: KOMEDA’S LULLABY   The wonderful documentary on Komeda.   The Waxwork LP “Jersey Driver,” an article about my first […]

John Ingle and film professor (UMKC) Mitch Brian, hosts of the 007 x 7 podcast, discuss Rosemary’s sins, complicated camerawork, and the films of John Cassavetes. Download the file here: Episode 13: DIFFICULT HUSBANDS   Arthur O’Dwyer’s transcriptions of “All of Them Witches.”   The sequence of Rosemary walking and reading the book, as described […]

New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator returns after our long pause to discuss gurus in speedos, a Mia mini-series, and the latest on this particular group of bonkers celebrities. Download the file here: Episode 12: IT’S ALIVE!   The guru leader of Buddhafield, AKA Jaime Gomez, Michel, Andreas, The Teacher or Reyji, in the white turtleneck. […]

New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator and cinephile Megan Dooley discuss a weird episode of Roseanne, a creepy window at Tiffany’s, and spot hidden animals in the film.   Download the file here: Episode 11: LIVES OF THE PARTIES   Rosemary’s walk from the Time & Life building to Tiffany’s, as filmed by Joe Dator.   […]

Nick Levin, son of Ira Levin, discusses the conception and writing of the novel “Rosemary’s Baby,” including a surprising possible inspiration for Minnie, and some alien origins.   Download the file here: Episode 10: BIRTH OF A BOOK   Rosemary’s Baby Album   The cover of the first edition of “Rosemary’s Baby.”   The lamp […]

Father David Mowry gives us the deets on Satan, Beelzebub, the Antichrist, and how the world will end, and we ponder the pixie haircut.   Download the file here: Episode 9: CALL BEELZEBUB, NOT YOUR AUNT FANNY Vidal Sassoon gives Mia a trim.   Please donate if you can to support my work! Thank you!

Science journalist Corey Powell discusses the science of breeding humans with Satan and other human experiments that are nearly as scary, but actually happened.   Download the file here: Episode 8: DEMONOGENESIS   Van Johnson, Mia Farrow, Joan Crawford, and Roman Polanski.   Guy’s latest memorable gesture.   My article about human chimeras in Discover […]