The GenX Show

John Carpenter and Debra Hill never wanted to do any Halloween sequels. After, essentially, being bullied into doing Halloween 2 ... the pair were left with a choice to continue. The choice that was made: Turn the Halloween series into an anthology series with each movie a differnet story on Halloween night.

The legacy of Halloween 3 might just be that, despite failing initially, Carpenter, Hill and director Tommy Lee Wallace were correct in wanting to anthologize the series instead of making it a Michael Myers slasher fest. As sequel after shitty sequel followed it's become more and more clear that the trio was correct.

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Magnus from Voltaire's Ghost once again joins Jeff to talk about the history of Horror movies. From the Universal Monsters to the 1980's Slashers. The guys talk about their favorites from each era while touching on their overall affect on the history of horror movies. You don't want to miss this one.

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John Carpenter's 1978 Slasher masterpiece Halloween turns 45 this month. In the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the lead up to the production of the film and how it's complicated legacy and it's financial success has haunted Carpenter throughout his career. How his breakthrough has become the shadow he cannot escape.

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There have been many attempts to do HP Lovecraft style Cosmic Horror in the past both in games and in movies. On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about the most successful of these attempts in the classic Dark Souls styled epic horror game Bloodborne from 2015. One of the best games ever made.

Along the way Jeff talks about it's surprisingly Catholic themes hinted with Asian perspective. Gothic Lovcraftian Werewolf cosmic horror? There's so much to say about this game. As ever, I avoid spoilers as much as possible. Please play the game yourslef and discover the tale

Magnus, from streaming sensation Voltaire's Ghost joins Jeff to talk about his new music and the ever changing state of the Music business. Has the availability of recording technology made things easier or ... worse? Fascinating conversation with an great musician.

Find Magnus on:

Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/voltaires-ghost/1687826381

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qh2ndBmksowS2QsZW8Iw3?si=Pr09s536RcWO1_-FnGmBuA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvGx6zb1glo7qYrL-GRMzA

The 1990's gave us grunge, mid-tempo jangly guitar based pop songs, Friends ... Frasier ... Seinfeld and the big time classic rock reunion. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the heavily anticipated reunion of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. A union that produced a good unplugged live concert with an Egyptian orchestra called Unledded, a massive year long tour with an orchestra and disappointingly a half baked album that needed more over everything ... Walking into Clarksdale in 1998. An album that could and should have been better than it was.

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1988 was THE year Jeff became a horror movie fan. Chief among those movies Jeff adored was the camp horror classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Don't devote a ton of brain power to trying to "break down" the meaning of this movie. It does what it says on the tin, as the British might say. Still one of his favorite movies of all time.

In the second half Jeff talks about the year 1988 and how it formed what he liked in horror movies from then out.

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On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his childhood/teenage love of the one and only Paul McCartney turned him into a music obsessive. Jeff also goes over how two of McCartney's most "unloved" album's (Off the Ground and Back to the Egg) are his personal favorites. From recording off the radio, to buying tapes then CD's Jeff goes through it all ... including owning a vinyl of one of McCartney's "failed" projects from the 80's.

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On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his own generation's rejection of being "sold" contributed greatly in the notion that Generation X is the "forgotten" one. How our unease with being marketed to and aversion to selling out left Hollywood, the music business and much more left us to sell to our younger brothers and sisters ... the millennials.

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The 1984 Richard Franklin directed movie, Cloak and Dagger from 1984 is on the surface a typical cold war kids movie about a kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dig deeper, however and you see that it's really about a kid who's dad is his hero.

Featuring wonderful performances from Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman (in maybe his best acting performance) it's a kids movie with tons of heart. About fractured family, about connecting with your kid, about seeing what you shouldn't and getting caught up in international intrigue. It has it all. Well worth a watch before you listen to the podcast.

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