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We talk the 1956 film from Stanley Kubrick titled "The Killing: starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray and Vince Edwards.

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a band of misfits for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee. But, when key team member, George, tells his restless wife, Sherry, about their scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

In this episode of the podcast, we begin our journey into the mind of Stanley Kubrick and talk the 1987 War/Drama "Full Metal Jacket" starring R. Lee Ermey, Mathew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio.

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

We talk the 1973 crime drama, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Peter Yates with special guest Desmond Reddick from the Dread Media Podcast.

Summary: After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.

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We talk the 1973 American supernatural horror film "The Exorcist" directed by William Friedkin and produced and written for the screen by William Peter Blatty, based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Blatty. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller and Linda Blair.

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We talk the 2018 directorial debut from Ari Aster titled "Hereditary" starring Toni Collett, Alex Wolfe, Milly Shapiro and Gabriel Byrne.

When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited.

We talk the 1982 ghostly adventure directed by Steven...wait directed by Tobe Hooper, starring JoBeth Williams, Heather O' Rourke and Craig T. Nelson.

Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, -- when ghosts commune with them through the television set. Initially friendly and playful, the spirits turn unexpectedly menacing, and, when daughter Carol Ann goes missing, Steve and Diane turn to a parapsychologist and eventually an exorcist to help get her back from the beast.

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We talk the 2003 remake of the American slasher classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" starring Jessica Biel, R. Lee Ermey, Andrew Bryniarksi and directed by Marcus Nipsel.

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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We talk the 1960 classic "Psycho" by legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and Vera Miles in this episode of the Tame Aperture Podcast.

Movie summary: A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

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We talk the 2016 Independent film "Pushing Dead" from director Tom E. Brown starring James Roday Rodriguez, Robin Weigert, and Danny Glover.

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?

We talk the 2010 Korean film "I Saw the Devil" directed by Jee-Woon Kim and starring Byung-hun Lee and Min-Sik Choi. A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.

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