TV Guidance Counselor

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 695: Kendall R. Phillips


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Ken and Kendall discuss The Place of Darkness, silent horror cinema, the birth of the horror movie, Kolchak the Night Stalker, how the late 80s and early 90s mirrors the silent to talkies era, basic cable TV, thirst for content, imported horror, anthology horror, radio horror, Monster Kids, Witches Tale, Tales from the Crypt, The Hitcher, Dracula the Series, Tales from the Darkside, Dark Shadows, Monsters, Friday the 13th The Series, Video Nasties, how exposure always eventually makes horror into kiddie fair, TV movies, high concept low budget films, Full Moon Pictures, arguing about the true core elements of the Halloween series, TV versions, how Dr. Loomis could be the real villain, Blood and Thunder stories, how radio shows are like a home invasion, television ghosts, Swamp Thing, Tom Noonan's adaptation of Stephen King's The Moving Finger on Monsters, one season wonders, gothic investigators, Ken Ober, the first TV adaptation of Parenthood, official sanctioned fan fiction, The Horror Hall of Fame, taking horror cinema/media seriously, the shadow of Vietnam, how sanitized the first Gulf War was, how action movies became the new slasher/video nasties, Ken's unconventional order for the best Tobe Hooper flicks, Salem's Lot, TCM2, Funhouse, Poltergeist, 80s remakes of 50s movies, The Stand, adapting novels, Castle Rock, Dr. Sleep, the wonder of having to take what you can get, The Avengers, how great things are when they go wackadoodle, the beauty of trying things you've never heard of, horror from foreign countries, the reward of getting outside your comfort zone, how sci-fi is a grafted genre, Alien, throwing candy at children, Halloween night, Ben Cooper costumes, precious leaves, how horror works best without explanation, The Incredible Hulk, the Hulk Out List, Halloween II, the 1969 Made For-TV movie The Profane Comedy starring Chuck Connors, the sad November post-Halloween come down, Quantum Leap, The Rockford Files, the 1985 Made For-TV remake of The Bad Seed, The Hitchhiker being Paige Fletcher, KISS, Land of the Lost and the golden days of cigarettes when it was cheap and filled with carbon monoxide.

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