In the Vampiristic episode of the Nerding Out About Podcast, the crew delves into the 2011 film, Fright Night. Starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Ferrell and David Tennant, this film stands as a remarkable remake, that is certainly worthy of its namesake!

Directed by Craig Gillespie, director of Lars and the Real Girl, Million Dollar Arm, but nothing new coming up

Cast & Crew

• Anton Yelchin - Charley Brewster
• Toni Collette - Jane Brewster
• David Tennant - Peter Vincent
• Colin Ferrell - Jerry
• • Role of Jerry almost went to Heath Ledger
• Imogen Poots - Amy
• • Awful American accent. Listen to the way she pronounces several words..sounds like she's eating somethign.
• "The Other Franco" Dave Franco - Mark

Conversation Starters:

• Let's take a second to recognize the power music has in a film, and how the music in this film ranks it up 4 notches alone.
• Apparently this film was truly a love note to the 80's style filmmaking, with Spielberg being actively involved with the flick. Filmed crucifix and the pool scene, and insisted a shark like jaw be used on Jerry. Did you guys catch all of the references throughout the flick?
• I think Kid Comeback, Gladiator Man and Squid Man have nothing on Tits McGee, Smuckers and Sun Spot
• Are you guys aware of the documentary about Fright Night "You're So Cool Brewster! The Story of Fright Night"
• • Looks absolutely awesome, and is due out soon
  • Apparently the story was originally developed as a "Boy Who Cried Wolf"
• This might be my most favorite interpretations of Vampires

Movie Thoughts:

• End of the movie, wouldn't the girlfriend be so unimaginably mind fucked? She was just a vampire, who has been drinking blood from both the living and dead, and now she wants to do the hippity dippity with Anton Yelchin?

In another well-endowed episode of the Nerding Out About podcast, the crew breaks out their togas for an exciting review of 1978's Animal House. Starring Tim Matheson, Bruce McGill, John Belushi and Karen Allen, this comedy classic left the crew asking the important questions like: What movie script was turned down before Animal House was written? Who were the original members of Delta Tau Chi? When will we ever start a frat? All this and more in this episode of Nerding Out About!

Movie Info:

• Directed by John Landis
• • Also directed Burke and Hare, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Spies Like Us, An American Werewolf in London
• Written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller
• Cast:
• • Bruce McGill - Daniel Simpson Day
  • • I cannot express how much I love this guy and the roles he's done
    • • Lincoln, Cinderella Man, Time Cop
  • Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton
  • • Van Wilder, Playing Ronald Reagan in "Killing Reagan" tv movie
    • Some of the best IMDB Factoids on this guy
    • • Born at 9:00pm PST
      • Worked with John Belushi, John Candy, Sam Kinison and Chris Farley, all legendary overweight comic actors who died at an early age
      • Shares his birthday with Val Kilmer
  • Peter Riegert - Donald Schoenstein
  • • The Mask, Failed TV Show "Dad's"
  • Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings
  • • Universal greenlight the movie when Sutherland signed on
  • Karen Allen - Katy
  • • Raiders of the Lost Ark, Crystal Yawn, Scrooged
  • John Belushi
  • • Would shoot the film Monday - Wednesday and then fly back to NY to shoot SNL Thurs - Saturday
    • Improvised the cafeteria portion
    • Didn't really chug Jack Daniels - It was Iced Tea
  • Kevin Mothafucking Bacon! - Chip Diller
  • • First Movie, and was forced to sit in the back at the premiere because the ushers didn't believe he was in the cast
• Factoids:
• • Movie was originally about Charles Manson, entitled Laswer Orgy girls, but was rejected. Was about a cult leader and murderer in high school
  • Final script was the result of 3 month long brainstorming session about college life
  • Was originally a very SNL heavy cast - starring Dan Aykroyd, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase
  • Shot at the University of Oregon
  • Delta's motto is "Ars Gratia Artis" is latin for Art for Art's Sake.
  • 3 Million Dollar Budget, made 141,600,000

Movie Thoughts:

• "Don't be a fruit" - A phrase you'll never hear these days
• Though I enjoy boob scenes as much as the next guy, It's kinda gross when it's set up by a peeping tom. Shit is gross..

Conversation Starters:

• So guys, the scene where the Otter and Schoenstein are shooting golf balls at the ROTC guys got me thinking. I wonder how many deaths have occurred from stray golf balls.

• The Cast
• • Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell
  • • Nearly killed during the hanging scene
    • It's rumored that the role was originally offered to DiCaprio, and he couldn't take it because he was filming The Beach
    • • Supposedly the role was also offered to Sylvester Stallone
  • Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
  • John Hannah - Jonathan Carnahan
  • ARnold Vosloo - Imhotep
  • • The name Imhotep was after an architect who developed the first pyramids. It means "One who comes in peace"
  • Kevin J. O'Connor - Beni Gabor
  • Bernard Fox - Captain Winston Havlock
  • • This was his last film
• The Crew
• • Written and Directed by Stephen Sommers
  • • Directing & Writing credits:
    • • Deep Rising, Mummy Returns, Scorpion King, GI Joe: Rise of Cobra
    • The day after the film was released, Universal called Sommers and requested a sequel
• Conversation Points:
• • Let's get down to the important question:
  • • Do the visual effects of this movie hold up?
    • • The film set aside $20 Million for special effects
      • Visual Effects were supervised by John Andrew Berton Jr.
      • • Worked on Teminator 2, Star Wars, Death Becomes her, Jurassic Park and Baby's Day Out
  • The Upcoming Reboot
  • • Starring Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis
    • First film to have a female playing "The Mummy" - Sofia Boutella
    • Alex Kurtzman is directing
    • • Known for his work on Amazing Spider-Man 2, Star Trek and Transformers
    • Will be set in Present day
    • Due for release on June 8, 2017
• Movie Factoids:
• • Makeup on Patricia Velasquez, Anck Su Namun, took 14 hours to apply
  • INCREDIBLE: It was discovered that one of the cloaks leant to this film by a British costume rental company was made for Alec Guinness in Star Wars
  • Clive Barker was originally attached to this project
  • • Had a very violent film concept, focusing on the head of an art museum who is a cultist trying to reanimate mummies.
  • Imhoteps victims, the dried out dead people, were plastic dummies used in the 1985 sci-fi film Lifeforce. One character even says the Mummy sucks the "lifeforce" out of people.

• This movie was a pain in the ass to make

• • Not only did it only almost kill Fraser, but dehydration, sandstorms, snake, spider and scorpion bites were a common occurance (in the Sahara). The crew also needed kidnapping insurance
  • The film was not shot in Egypt at all
• Joe Dante would have cast Daniel Day Lewis as the mummy.

• Conversation Points:
• • Gentlemen, we can't overlook one of the most important parts of this film, which is the soundtrack
  • • What was your favorite track in the film?
    • • Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede
    • Movie did so well it was released on Cassette by Marvel
    • James Gunn knew that the soundtrack was paramount to grounding the film in reality, and it would add a sense of nostalgia. He compiled a list of 120 chart topping hits
    • Almost every song was determined before cameras started rolling
  • Let's take a second to talk about the director James Gunn
  • • Gave out Play-Doh rewards to the cast and crew
    • • Says he "Loves the smell of Play-Doh, and opening a new container and smelling it puts him in a creative, child-like place."
    • Has an interesting career, having done the movie Slither, and the Beezel segment in the Movie 43 flick.
  • I think one of the best character relationships in this film is between Peter Quill and Yondu. It's a weird father type relationships, but it totally works!
  • • Moment when Yondu is about to kill Quill.
  • The character of Rocket was put together by four people
  • • Sean Gunn - On Set Rocket
    • Arti Shah
    • • Maz Motion Capture Double
    • Oreo the Raccoon
    • Bradley Cooper - the voice
    • • Used Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci's character in Goodfellas) as his influence.
• Cast:
• • Chris Pratt (Peter Quill)
  • • Lost 60 Pounds for the Role
    • His audition was so great that Gunn knew within 30 seconds the role was his. So good in fact that pratt didn't even have to lose the weight.
    • Gunn wasn't even interested in Pratt at first, it was Gunn's assistant that insisted he audition him.
    • Marty McFly plus Han Solo is how Pratt developed Starlord
    • Stole his costume to visit sick kids in the hospital
  • Zoe Saldana (Gamora)
  • • Olivia Wilde was originally offered the role
    • Almost broke Chris Pratt's ribs
  • Dave Bautista (Drax)
  • • Upon getting the role, Bautista broke down crying and called to sign up for extra acting classes
    • Took 5 hours to apply his makeup (and he couldn't sit down)
  • Vin Diesel (Groot)
  • • Groot helped him get over Paul Walkers death
    • Recorded all his lines on Stilts
  • Lee Pace (Ronan)
  • Karen Gillan (Nebula)
  • • Shaved her head for the role, and had a wig made out of her own hair
• Box Office:
• • Budget: $170 Million Dollars
  • Opening Weekend: 94,320,883 (USA)
  • Gross: 333,130,696 (USA)
  • It is the 31st highest grossing film of all time in the United States, and 51st highest grossing film worldwide.
  • • 1 - Gone with the Wind
    • 2 - Avatar
    • 4 - Star Wars
    • 5 - Titanic
• Factoids:
• • The soundtrack for this film reached number one on the Billboard charts, making it the first film soundtrack to do that without a single original song.
  • Baby Groots dance scene was actually the director in a motion capture suit
  • The flicking of the middle finger was improvised by Pratt
  • The Milano is named for Alyssa Milano
  • Apparently this film is loaded with hidden Mickey's
• Movie Thoughts:
• • The film is remarkable in its wave-like, emotional storytelling. It has so many highly emotioal moments, killing the mother in the beginning for example, the abandoned planet introduction to the universe.. But then immediately flips to comedic
  • So why was Ronin stuck in a bathtub for so long? Was he imprisoned?

In an all-new episode of the Nerding Out About Podcast, the crew discovers the lost ruins of the 1995 film, Congo. Starring Laura Linney and Ernie Hudson, this film was riding high on the success of Jurassic Park, and had all that sweet Taco Bell sponsorship money, but still left the crew asking the important questions like: Would a gorilla make a good pet? Why can't Ernie Hudson and Joey Pants have their own spin-off film? What ever happened to talking monkeys? All this and more in this episode of Nerding Out About!

This week Hutch, Wayne and special guest Patty Hawkins take an epic 2 hour adventure into deep space, and review the 1979 classic Star Trek The Motion Picture. Directed by Robert Wise, the film has stood the test of time, sort of, and left the crew asking the important questions like: Could you really see Decker's Decker? Was the Enterprise really ready for space? Is Hutch's beard directly inspired by Dr. McCoy's in this movie? All this and more in this episode of The Nerding Out About Podcast!

In this pulse rifle laden episode of the Nerding Out About Podcast, the crew goes full on love fest for the 1986 sci-fi action thriller Aliens (1986). Join Billy, Hutch, Wayne and Nathan as they wake up from cryogenic sleep long enough to answer the important questions: Is it possible to make this film without Sigourney Weaver? What famous actor backed out of movie before shooting due to a drug arrest? What other James Cameron film carried the success to ensure that Aliens be made? All these questions and more on this action-packed episode of Nerding Out About...

This week in an all-new episode of The Nerding Out About Podcast, our hosts brave through the science fiction masterpiece, Ex Machina (2015). Join Hutch, Billy and Wayne as they ask the important questions like: MFK, which robot would you love? How deep can our crew dig into a film about robots learning humanity? Are we all toasters? All this and more on this episode of the Nerding Out About Podcast!

This week the crew reviews the 2001 fantasy classic, HarryPotter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Join Wayne, Hutch, Jenn andnewcomer Bre as they ask the really tough questions like: How doesthis movie tie into Mary Poppins? Is Harry Potter the darkest filmwe've ever reviewed? Which movie franchise will the late AlanRickman be most remembered for? All these questions and more willbe answered in this episode of the Nerding Out About Podcast!

Join Billy, Hutch and Wayne for a review of the 1986 John Carpenter film, Big Trouble in Little China. Starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong, Big Trouble leaves us a little speechless, as Billy professes his love for the film Titanic! Strap on your helmets team, this episode is about to get crazy!