The Suspense is Killing Us

We figured now was probably the perfect time to do an episode about nuclear annihilation! We're talking about three very different movies involving The Bomb, all of which seem to agree that it would be pretty bad if one went off.

WAR GAMES (1983, John Badham)

MIRACLE MILE (1988, Steve De Jarnatt)

THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (2002, Phil Alden Robinson)

Years before he became a household name with Jurassic Park and ER, sci-fi author Michael Crichton was toiling away in obscurity—directing big Hollywood movies with major stars. It was a tough career period, but he eventually managed to push through it and write State of Play.

COMA (1978)

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1978)

LOOKER (1981)

We begin at the beginning in our first of probably hundreds of episodes about notorious action/schlock production company PM Entertainment—a movie from each of the first three years. We came to find out that even schlock-meisters have a learning curve!

L.A. HEAT (1989, Joseph Merhi)

AMERICAN BORN (1990, Raymond Martino)

THE ART OF DYING (1991, Wings Hauser)

We watched three whole movies about gamified virtual worlds, none of which are as fun as playing an actual video game. Classic noob behavior.

GAMER (2009, Neveldine/Taylor)

ASSASSIN’S CREED (2016, Justin Kurzel)

SERENITY (2019, Steven Knight)

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies, we're talking shark movies this time! Three shark thrillers of varying depths, from general deepness to very little deepness, and then rounding it out with a very specific depth!

DEEP BLUE SEA (1999, Renny Harlin

THE SHALLOWS (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra)

47 METERS DOWN (2017, Johannes Roberts)

It's kind of surprising how many movies there are with the premise "Stuck in a house with a wild animal." And considering that all three of these are pretty good, it's kind of surprising that there aren't even more of them. PROPER EDITED VERSION!

LINK (1986, Richard Franklin)

BURNING BRIGHT (2010, Carlos Brooks)

CRAWL (2019, Alexandre Aja)

It's kind of surprising how many movies there are with the premise "Stuck in a house with a wild animal." And considering that all three of these are pretty good, it's kind of surprising that there aren't even more of them.

LINK (1986, Richard Franklin)

BURNING BRIGHT (2010, Carlos Brooks)

CRAWL (2019, Alexandre Aja)

We ransacked the "Holiday Crime" section at Scarecrow Video and came up with three gritty, violent and most of all JOLLY thrillers for this most wonderful time of the year. Merry Christmas, dirtbag!

RIOT (1996, Joseph Merhi)

NAKED CITY: A KILLER CHRISTMAS (1998, Peter Bogdanovich)

'R XMAS (2001, Abel Ferrara)

Christmas is famously a depressing holiday for some folks. The main reason for this, we think, is because it's the time of year when people get trapped in ice-cold confined spaces by psychos and/or pure human incompetence.

P2 (2007, Franck Khalfoun)

FROZEN (2010, Adam Green)

ATM (2012, David Brooks)

Time to talk about some vigilantSHEs for a change! Three ladies pushed too far, who decide to arm themselves, learn krav maga and stick it to the men. It's in Revelations, people!

THE BRAVE ONE (2007, Neil Jordan)

A VIGILANTE (2018, Sarah Daggar-Nickson)

PEPPERMINT (2018, Pierre Morel)