Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

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With Christmas in the can, now Hanukkah's the man. When it comes to holiday themed movies, Hanukkah might be even more scarce than Thanksgiving but for the third day of Hanukkah we got the Sand-man coming up in the clutch with the 2002 animated holiday film “EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS” directed by Seth Kearsley. By “Sand-man” we mean, of course, Adam Sandler who wrote and produced this crude animated comedy that isn't without laughs and a bit of charm but does it merit the category of contemporary holiday classic? When it comes to Adam Sandler fare, we're all over the place. We're very up and down. We never know how we'll feel. He hits it for us or he doesn't but nothing but respect for the Sand-man who seems to be a very very good friend to the people he came up with. Sometimes he even sacrifices a good movie for his friends. Is that the case here? Why do all those horrible things keep happening to our boy, Whitey? He's the sweetest dude. His sister, Eleanor is the most consistent laugh in the flick. Also…poo. Is there enough poo in this movie? It's a musical too but we can only vouch for the quality of one song. “Technical Foul” actually goes. Remix that shit for the clubs. Happy Hanukkah. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Merry dang Christmas. Yeah, we got a Christmas Day drop. Angela is making us work on a major holiday for little to no (zero) pay. She's a real “Ebenezer Scrooge”. This episode of MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be “THE PROJECTORS”) might be the loosest one yet. Way more loose than your mother. What are we saying? Why are we being so antagonistic? Is this what Christ would have wanted? It's HIS day. HIStory. The fuck is “wassailing”? I don't know let me look it up… “To encourage the spirits of the trees to ensure a good harvest”. Wow, it's about crooning the trees so that you get bountiful cider. Real old world shit. Wassailing turned out to be cooler than I thought it would be not unlike “THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL” from 1992 starring Michael Caine and our felty friends, The Muppets. Directed by Brian Henson and the first Muppet film after Jim Henson's death. We all know the story. Hell, this is our second film adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” this month. The real question in every adaptation is, of course, “What do the ghosts look like?”. A bit more unsettling considering what one might expect from the world of Muppets. Could a Muppet ever be an official Moviehumpers/Projectors “DAWG”??? Truly, I Miss Piggy might be the only one. We love how she attacks people. She sparked our lifelong love of karate. God bless us everyone. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's Christmas Eve! Bob bless us everyone. We will let you pick into your stockings early and give you a holiday themed 6-Pack featuring hour long stop-motion TV specials by those seasonal legends Arthur Rankin & Jules Bass. Or just Rankin/Bass if you wanna get nasty under the mistletoe. These are the specials, a few based on some old hit Christmas songs, that generations came to know and love and added a mythology to the holiday season that still seems to resonate in pop culture. You know who we're talkin' about. Rudolph, Santa, Heimey, Topper, Aeon, Heat Miser, Mrs. Claus and the Great Ack. Everyone loves the Great Ack. These specials span over two decades. We found links to all the specials we discussed so we will pop a convenient link list for you below if you want to revisit any of them. Merry Christmas. We will return tomorrow for a Christmas episode you will be too busy to listen to. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964): https://archive.org/details/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-full-movie-1080-p-hd Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970): https://archive.org/details/santa-claus-is-coming-to-town-1970_202203 The Year Without Santa Clause (1974): https://archive.org/details/theyearwithoutasantaclausrankinbassproductions1974 Jack Frost (1979): https://archive.org/details/JackFrost1979 Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976): https://archive.org/details/rudolphs-shiny-new-year-1976-1080p-hd The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985): https://archive.org/details/the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus-1985-hd Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's Christmas week here at MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be called THE PROJECTORS) and we're hitting up another classic era Christmas romantic comedy. The farce gets pretty thick in today's discussion but the charm is consistent in this comedy of errors starring a beaming Barbara Stanwyck in Peter Godfrey's 1945 comedy “CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT”. Stanwyck plays Liz, a society gal who writes fictional first hand accounts of farm wife life. When a nice war hero, inspired by Liz's articles, wants to stay and visit then Liz has to figure out how to fake it all for the soldier and also her boss for fear of being fired. There's some contrived other plot points that thread this all together, including an engagement that Liz gets wrangled in to, but it's pretty hard not to feel the romance between the hunky sweet sailor and the society gal. Also starring Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner and S.Z. Sakall. If only she could tell him the truth and keep her job. I mean, she could. Why should her boss care? She's moving magazines ain't she? Stanwyck is a worthy comedic lead and this is one of the funnier of the Christmas Classics we've discussed. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

We're deep into our second annual Christmas movie theme and we haven't mined any material from, or inspired by, the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol”. Fuck it, this year we'll do two adaptations and maybe catch an old version of the story next year. This particular adaptation was prime basic cable Christmas break material when we were kids and in many ways it holds up and even impresses in certain ways. Bill Murray could carry a comedy in the 80s and his leading role of a stingy TV executive Scrooge-stand-in does deliver some quality jokes bouncing off of an extended comedic cast. Richard Donner's 1988 Christmas comedy “SCROOGED” remains pretty worthy holiday cheer and there's no shortage of prime 80s stars including Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, David Johansen, Alfre Woodard and Karen Allen. There's also some nice appearances from veteran actors of TV and film such as Robert Mitchum, John Forsythe, John Houseman and Buddy Hackett. Miles Davis is even in this thing. Folks, you gotta bring out the bells and whistles when you're adapting a story that everybody knows. You gotta throw some horror in there. Maybe even a little sadism. Just go with it. You might like it. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Announcement drop regarding some pretty big show changes! RSS feed changes, January's theme with movie announcements & OUR BRAND NEW SHOW NAME!  January's upcoming schedule: 1/1 - Eraserhead (1977) 1/2 - The Elephant Man (1980) 1/3 - Dune (1984) 1/6 - A New Leaf (1971) 1/8 - The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 1/10 - Mikey and Nicky (1976) 1/13 - The Lusty Men (1952) 1/14 - Johnny Guitar (1954) 1/15 - Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 1/16 - Hot Blood (1956) 1/17 - Bigger Than Life (1956) 1/20 - True Love (1989) 1/22 - Dogfight (1991) 1/24 - Household Saints (1993) 1/27 - The Last Duel (2021) 1/28 - House of Gucci (2021) 1/29 - Napoleon (2023) 1/30 - Gladiator II (2024) 1/31 - The Sixth Sense (1999)

At this point you've probably heard Andy Williams say it 500 times…it's the most wonderful time of the year and in the spirit of Christmas Camp we've gone into some deep cut low budget yuletide filmmaking that isn't without some imagination alongside some tediousness. Maybe it felt so dragging because we're moving so fast in our technological world, man. Maybe René Cardona's 1959 film “SANTA CLAUS or SANTA CLAUS VS THE DEVIL” starring José Elías Moreno and José Luis Aguirre is a gift from Mexico to the world in the name of goodness and good cheer and we all need to take our time and soak it in and admire the patience required of peace on Earth and good will towards men. Santa Claus, from his space cloud town antagonizes a demon called Pitch. With the help of enslaved children as well as his live-in lovers, Merlyn and Mr. Blacksmith, Santa attempts get Christmas handled before the demon corrupts all the children. Pitch does corrupt three kids but you completely understand them and are on their side. Santa should truly be shot in the streets like a health insurance CEO for all the child enslavement he's doing in this movie. It doesn't matter that he has super computers with big luscious lips on them. Lips that can do lots of things. Here's the movie, it's easy to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXI1x63SnoY Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's that most wonderful time of the year and if that wonderful time of the year's special month happens to have it's 13th day fall upon a Friday and that means we might be living in an apocalypse. It also means that it's time to finish up what we started on last September's 13th and talk about the last 6 films, to date, of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise. Yes, we do call them “films”. Yes, they're mostly horrible. So let's go wrap up Jason's journey which takes him from Crystal Lake to Manhattan, Hell, Dreamworld and outer space 400 years from now. Our six pack episodes tend to pad out our D & F tiers and this one is no exception. I believe Bob states that one of the worst movies discussed yet is in this block. It never gets better with these things. Strap in because we're talking seven minutes at a time about such cult slasher classics as the brutal “FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD” from 1988, the ridiculous “FRIDAY THE PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN” from 1989, the insanity of “JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY” from 1993, the cheesy “JASON X” from 2001, the enjoyable “FREDDY VS. JASON” from 2003 and the surprisingly ok (is it reboot or remake?) “FRIDAY THE 13TH” from 2009 by Marc NIspel. You can hardly imagine how many people Jason has killed over the course of these movies. The online estimation clears 150 total. Rest in Peace, Jason Voorhees. We liked you and your mom but after you've had Pumpkinhead in your life it's just hard to think of any other slasher. Bring back Pumpkinhead! Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

We're just ho-ho-hoeing along during this Christmas movie season and Mondays are often devoted to that period of film we call “the classics” and today we're going for that Carey Grant razzle dazzle as we sit down to discuss one of his most charismatic performances in Henry Koster's 1947 film “THE BISHOP'S WIFE” starring Grant as the angel Dudley who comes into the lives of a Bishop and his wife played by David Niven and Loretta Young after a prayer of guidance. It takes some convincing but the Bishop comes to accept that Dudley really is an angel but holy smokes this angel has been hanging out with his wife A LOT. She sure doesn't smile for the Bishop like that. They're going on all the dates the Bishop is too busy for. This Dudley has the whole parish fully razzed up. Is the Bishop gonna have to get like Jacob and throw down with this Angel or will his prayer be answered in ways he didn't expect? Gee, I wonder what happens. It's Hayes code so they definitely get into a three way. A very charming flick with some Gregg Toland cinematography and we got a link for you right here: https://archive.org/details/the-bishops-wife-1947-christmas-classic Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

This is it! The final episode of 2024. Happy New Years! Goodbye to the title of MOVIEHUMPERS. For 2025 GOING forward we are THE PROJECTORS. We jump into next month's theme as early as tomorrow but we close out a most wonderful time of the year with a New Year's themed flick that we probably liked a little better in our youth. We were certainly the target age range in terms of “pitching coolness” with this ensemble featuring young stars who got their starts in the eighties and nineties. Ensembles can definitely be a challenge. You can't deep dive into everyone but you really got to establish some personality and spin a lot of plates and it can be confusing to know when your character is funny or if they're just annoying. Sure, we can see ourselves in some of the characters in this setting of New Year's Eve in 1981 New York City but sometimes the abyss stares back at you. Risa Bramon Garcia's only feature film is the holiday ensemble “200 CIGARETTES” from 1999 and it stars many such as Paul Rudd, Christina Ricci, Kate Hudson, Ben Affleck, Martha Plimpton, Courtney Love and Dave Chappell among many others. Elvis Costello is also in this and based on some evidence we see at the end of this film we think that Elvis may have done something very very bad. Like Cosby style bad. Maybe he did maybe he didn't but there's some smoke and the implications are there. We should probably detain him and ask some questions at the very least. Goodbye, MOVIEHUMPERS. Hello, THE PROJECTORS! Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Christmas is in the can. New Years is just around the corner but it's still that most wonderful time of the year and your soon to be permanently renamed movie talk feed/show/pod is here with another Christmas classic featuring one of our favorites, Robert Mitchum. A fairly strange tale for the Hayes code time as two men, one a rich niceboy and the other a broke swaggart, are after the same single mother. It's a dirty game and Connie's rascal kid has a preference real quick. You know where this will go but it's an interesting journey to get there with some nice performances. Don Hartman's 1949 classic Christmas rom-com “HOLIDAY AFFAIR” stands out as worthy little charmer for the holidays. It also stars Janet Leigh & Wendell Corey who plays Carl who, despite being NOT the love interest, might be the nicest guy on the planet in 1949. Mitchum's “Steve” is not so nice in comparison but you know he's gonna get you outta them britches. Maybe even late era Mitchum when he was just walking around with those big glasses. He was also constantly drunk. He threw a basketball at a lady and knocked out her teeth. Does that eliminate him as our dawg? …not yet. The needs to be a deliberation period. For now let's discuss HOLIDAY AFFAIR! Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR so naturally we gotta hit up some holiday classics. In this film talk we encounter our first bit of notorious controversy and it's surprising it took this long to get to that but that's how it goes when you go back to the song and dance movies of the first half of the 20th century. Maybe you guessed it but the reveal is within the episode. Today we discuss Mark Sandrich & Irving Berlin's 1942 holiday musical “HOLIDAY INN” starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds. It's the first appearance of the song “White Christmas” over a decade before the actual “White Christmas” movie. You can't trust any ho or hombre in the entertainment world. One minute you're quitting show business to be a farmer (for some reason) then your girl leaves you and you're a farmer alone until you get the big idea to turn your farm into an entertainment hotel that is only open on holidays. Wait'll you see what they do for Lincoln's birthday! Poor Bing thinks things are great with this new gal at the Inn until villain himbo, Fred Astaire, shows back up and threatens to take another of his girls with his fancy legs. Some ups and downs but the dancing is nothing to sneeze at. We watched it in black and white but found a colorized version here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hxeqt Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's that most wonderful time of the year so it goes without saying that we might treat ourselves to a little bit of Christmas film comfort food from our childhoods. This movie might present the biggest challenge in maintaining objectivity outside of our fragile emotions because we're not just talking about any family comedy fare, we're talking about Ernest P. Worrell. We must confess that we are Jim Varney sickos. We are devout apologists for the late actor and we also happen to be from Nashville, TN where Jim Varney launched the Ernest character into national acclaim. Here in Purity country, we grew up watching Ernest make his funny expressions back when we didn't know what autism and ADHD truly were. So we're blasting backshots onto our past as we discuss one of Ernest's most lucrative projects, the 1988 Christmas comedy “ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS” also starring Douglas Seale, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain and Bill Byrge. Santa Claus needs a replacement, no it's not Ernest but Santa might need Ernest's help to save the future of Christmas. Of course Vern is in this movie. Vern is us. Vern is you. KnowwhatImean? We found it here, Vern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzUnfSLhi0s Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Sure, they call it “THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR” but a lot of bad things can happen around the holidays and it can be very hard on folks. Today we hit up a worthy modern Christmas classic that was very formidable to our youth and introduced to us two absolute smokeshows that would influence our growth into maturity. We're talking about Gizmo and Phoebe Cates. We hit up Joe Dante last Halloween season so let us discuss his iconic 1984 Christmas horror-comedy “GREMLINS” starring Zach Gilligan, Phoebe Cates & Hoyt Axton. Mogwai's are extremely cute (don't look up what that word means in Cantonese) but they come with very strict rules that seem inevitable to be broken. Wet em and they multiply. Feed them after midnight Eastern U.S. standard time and they will transform into these little green maniacs that are annoying, sometimes deadly but often very funny. They're a very funny plague but could also destroy entire civilizations. Seriously, why aren't we culling these Mogwai dudes? I know they're cute as hell but the risks are too great. They do like movies though. That's a big plus with these guys. If only we could get one on the show. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! That means Christmas holiday fare all month long and Angela picked for us a notorious wintery family film that definitely “cooled off” Michael Keaton's career at the time. He eventually came back from the brutal box office blow which is impressive enough considering how trashed this movie is. We watched, for the very first time, Troy Miller's 1998 film “JACK FROST” starring Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston & Henry Rollins. Not to be confused with two horror movies and a Rankin/Bass special. Dad's who travel around Colorado playing the stankiest white blues are often well meaning, but absent, fathers. God punishes Jack Frost (yes that is his name and he fronts “The Jack Frost Band”) for changing his mind from a gig to go back home to his son for Christmas. Jack dies but cut to one year later and his son, Charlie Frost, gussies up a snowman and toots a magical harmonica that pulls Jack Frosts soul from Hell and into a snowman. Sure, it's freaky when your dad is a snowman but don't worry because we're just getting started with the turnt up hijinks and “bazooka Joe” level comedy. Is this movie as bad as they say? Do you like your blues with a little extra stank? Well step up and watch this bizarre film and have your pathetic life changed forever. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It is once again time for THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! The climactic month of the holiday season that encompasses that yuletide feeling and Angela has picked (most) of the month's selections once again and we kick it off with a rom-com starring the king of rom-coms for much of the 90s and early 2000s. In 2001 you could put out a random John Cusack movie and make $77 million. Oh, how the movie going scene has changed and Mr. Cusack has been through his own changes as well. This 2001 flick is left to the fates as a chance romantic, if ill-timed, encounter goes amazingly well but when it ends it's left to the universe to decide if Jonathan and Sara are meant to be together. It takes a bit but the universe comes around. We're talking the 2001 Christmas rom-com directed by Peter Chelsom called “SERENDIPITY” and Bob struggles a bit with that word. It also stars Kate Beckinsdale, Jeremy Piven, Molly Shannon and John Corbett. Do our hosts get swayed into some holiday charm? Are the hosts forever doomed to suffer under the weight of their “realness”? WTF is Louis Armstrong saying in that song? Do you remember that show “Northern Exposure”? Imagine getting oral from Santa. Just imagine it. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

We've arrived at the end of our year long study of the films of Lars von Trier and we wish we could say that we hate seeing him go but it's been a very, predictably, rough year. Today we discuss his last feature film that stars a pretty ageless Matt Dillon who is a serial killer. He recounts his life of horror to the poet Virgil in 5 distinct incidents that he shares. It's “THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT” from 2018. A character study late in the career of the notorious director. The film also stars Uma Thurman, Bruno Ganz, Riley Keough and some other character actors we've seen all year long in von Trier films. What works about this study in psychopathy and what doesn't? We also revisit our scores of Lars's films over the past year and there have been some adjustments since our discussions. Join us as we say goodbye to Lars von Trier films (at least for a bit) and at the end of the episode we reveal who the director of 2025 will be that we will spend the entire year discussing their catalog. Next year's director might even be more controversial than Lars! Hear us tell of it. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Manderlay (2005) by Bob Sham & Friends

The Ice Storm (1997) by Bob Sham & Friends

Cats (2019) by Bob Sham & Friends

A Chorus Line (1985) by Bob Sham & Friends

My Fair Lady (1964) by Bob Sham & Friends

Musicals are on the docket all November long but not every film is an adaptation and this one popped off as a movie before the stage show. An easy adaptation as you have two singing leads and only a handful of actors needed. While this modern musical had its pre-production ups and downs, this very budget tight Irish film that cost only $150k performed surprisingly well at the box office and received an award winning reputation. We're talking about the John Carney film from 2007 called “ONCE” with the leads being Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglova of the music group “Swell Season”. A passionate love story of a musician and an immigrant girl in Dublin who motivate each other but can their circumstance allow for them to be together? A story in which life came to imitate in a way and Angela, our MOVIEHUMPERS Gossip and celebrity reporter, spills all the tea with some ball scorching behind the scenes information that is sure to make you stay in your seat and calmly take in. Does ONCE rank among the musical film greats? What is the secret behind the scenes? Did he just tell her to “shut up”? Giiiiiirrrrrrrrlllllll…. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's musicals month for November's theme and hitting up Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber again because it's time to go to church though we can't tell what denomination this is. It's pretty sweaty but there are some baddies hanging around. A little gay, to be expected, but the band is pretty sick. They're all the band. This is what Nazarenes wish their services were like. It's two thousand years ago by way of the 1970s in this rock opera retelling of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We're jamming to Norman Jewison's 1973 film adaptation of “JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR” and it stars Ted Neeley (who crushes it) Carl Anderson (who steals the show) and Yvonne Elliman (who can get it). Then you got your Pauls, your Pharisees, your Herods and your Pilates and the timeless tale has never been told like this. We didn't know this at the time but Yvonne Elliman had some disco hits as well. She also hooked up with Eric Clapton but nobody's perfect. But anyway…Jesus. He's just a man, right? Why does he scare them so? Check the link here if you want to see it: https://archive.org/details/jeesus-kristus-superstaar-1973-compressed Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Kids. What is wrong with kids these days? They're not perfect like we were. It's musicals month and we've arrived at a 60s musical and the only musical Bob already saw prior to this month. This musical, inspired by Elvis getting drafted into the army, is a pop culture spoof and a launchpad for a young Ann-Margret who mesmerizes in this 1963 George Sidney adaptation of “BYE BYE BIRDIE”. A popular singer gets to kiss a small tawn girl in small town Ohio and if this works out then 5 or 6 people could be set for life! It's an extensive cast that also stars Dick Van Dyke as a speed dealer, Janet Leigh as a withered old marm, Bobby Rydell who is being cucked by a teen idol despite being one in real life, Paul Lynde as the perfect father and Maureen Stapleton as the perfect mother. It also stars Ed Sullivan as himself. A crafty musical comedy that rightly deserves its place as one of the great teen movies and the best movie ever featuring a turtle high on speed. JFK would be dead later this same year. Just thought I'd mention that. Here's a link: https://archive.org/details/ByBBd1963 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Let me tell you something about life, old chum. It's only a cabaret. Kill Nazis. November is for the musicals and we're RAISING THE CURTAIN & BELTING THE CHORUS all month long and it's time to hit up a Bob Fosse joint in this iconic adaptation starring stage legend and Queen of the Theatre Nerds, Liza Minelli. Bob is learning this shit for the first time but you theater nerds already know about the most prolific film in Minelli's life and career and it's none other than Fosse's 1961 hit “CABARET” also starring Michael York, Joel Grey and more. There is no richer era to strike negative social parallels than early to mid-century Germany. The Kit Kat Club seems like a grand ‘ol time but it's only a matter of time before the audience turns on their entertainment. In the thick of it is Sally Bowls, lore accurate OG Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and her timid soon-to-be lover, Brian. It's a freewheeling, song slinging, sugar baby life. Love has its ups and downs and sometimes you end hooking up with your girlfriend's sugar daddy. It's a rather unique story to tell to a broad audience in 1972 (and before). Let's talk Sally Bowls, old chum. It's only a cabaret and here's a link we found: https://archive.org/details/cabaret-1972_202208 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

For our month of musicals we certainly had some choices for the sub-sub genre of song movies known as “Jukebox Musicals”. These are musicals in which the music is based on pre-existing material. Maybe it's cheat mode when you're mining from something that was already popular but remember how not cool it was in that “A Knight's Tale” movie with Heath Ledger in it? Remember that shit? I guess that last Joker movie is technically a jukebox musical too, eh? Well we picked a bonafide moneymaker when it comes to jukebox musicals and you definitely gotta credit the songs because this plot is totally batshit. Maybe the most musically familiar to both hosts because they consider ABBA do be one of the most enjoyable pop groups of all time. You probably went to see this movie with your eccentric Aunt with the dangliest earrings, twice divorced, lived in Barcelona for three years and then Sarasota ever since, has a boyfriend from Morocco who is half her age. No shit we're talking about “MAMMA MIA!” From 2008 directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth & Stellan Skarsgård. Hit that zinfandel and then hit that play button. We're getting cheesy like a bachelorette party in downtown Nashville. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's musicals month and Bob is at least tripling the amount of musicals he's watched in his lifetime on this month alone and today we go to that timeless tale of salt and garlic who truly have the ability to do wonders together if it wasn't for sausage and it's systemic authoritarianism making things too divided. I'm sure it's obvious that we're talking about the Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein joint from 1961 “WEST SIDE STORY” starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblin & Rita Moreno. The American take on “Romeo & Juliet” won Best Picture for that year and is the ground floor for many people's introduction to musicals. Jets, Sharks, fake Latinas, star-crossed lovers, tragedy and the most graceful gang warfare you ever saw. Everyone knows this story. Check it here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7u28ym Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

All November we RAISE THE CURTAIN & BELT THE CHORUS for a musicals themed month and we're heading to a fictional Russian town called Anatevka for a folksy tale of a pious and poor Jewish family. This beloved stage show ran very long so perhaps it's no wonder that Norman Jewison's adaptation of “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” was a box office smash for 1971. In it we meet Tevye' and his family. He's got 3 daughters at marrying age and the good book dictates that their marriages be arranged to benefit their family and status. Such is tradition! But times are changing in Eastern Europe in the early 20th Century and these kids got their own crazy ideas. With the weight of tradition and the dangers of society upon them can Tevye bend without breaking his faith? Starring Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey and more. Music by Jerry Bock and adapted by John Williams. Angela has booked this month and much of it is Bob's introduction to many musical styles. The only one he's seen for this coming month is “Bye Bye Birdie” of all things. He's only seen three more beyond that. Hear us set fresh eyes and opinions on a beloved classic. If we were a rich man, we would still do a movie podcast. We love movies that much. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

November has arrived and we've booked for a genre of film that is very different than the cavalcade of horror we just got out of. For some, maybe it is horror, but all month long we're going to discuss decades worth of Musical Films and we've calling it RAISE THE CURTAIN & BELT THE CHORUS. Many of these films started on the stage and others started as movies inspired by the stage and we kick it all off with a well regarded classic. Go watch this one with a grandparent, I'm sure they would appreciate the time spent with Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds in Stanley Donen & Kelly's beloved 1952 musical “SINGIN' IN THE RAIN”. The silent era is fading and Hollywood talkies are looking for the full package, of which Lina Lamont is not it. Shallow and shrill she is, but she's still got some Hollywood pull. Don and Cosmo have the talent that Lina doesn't and they meet Kathy Selden, who could cover for Lina's shrill voice in a new musical feature just so long as Lina doesn't know. Of course Don and Kathy are in love and then there's all the singing and dancing that you might have heard over the years even if you never formally sat down with this one. Donald O'Connor truly steals the show here. The talent level is something to be admired so check this out (last we checked it's on MAX) and hear us talk of this beloved musical. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

We've crawled out of Halloween Humpfest but the creeping dread continues for just a little bit longer because it's time for another discussion in our overarching director topic for 2024. Yes, it is still a “dreary Year of von Trier” and what shit-hole year it's been. Heading down the final stretch, it's safe to say that the overall feeling of dread may bleed into the following year but we will be done with Lars von Trier, at least, until he gets around to making the third of his USA-Land of Opportunity trilogy. Today, we discuss the first of that trilogy and our introduction to Grace Mulligan in von Trier's twisted take on American Folklore with his 2003 film “DOGVILLE” and it has a hell of cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Stellan Skarsgård, Cloe Sevigny, Philip Baker Hall, James Caan and that's only half of them. John Hurt narrates a tale of Grace who is on the run from mobsters and cops. She stumbles upon a strange tiny town. The town is skeptical but they give her a chance to be part of the village if she proves herself helpful by doing labor for each member of the town. When the heat turns up and questions continue they may need a little bit more from Grace to justify her presence. Then a little more. Just a little more. If this all becomes too much can Grace escape? We see the clues along the way (dude is reading “Tom Sawyer”) but when it's all said and done, can glowing optimism make space for a sense of justice? All this within a minimal set design in which walls only exist within the minds of the characters. You know who made this movie so you should have specific expectations. That's right. Call the in-laws. It's movie night. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Halloween II- Movie Review 6 Pack (+1) by Bob Sham & Friends

All November we gotta RAISE THE CURTAIN & BELT THE CHORUS! It's musical films all month long and today's discussion got a lot of news and attention during its production back in 1996. MTV, still in the music video game back then, helped push this beloved Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber project because its star is none other the the iconic pop diva, Madonna. Stage purists of “EVITA” always have Patti Lupone's vibrant renditions in their heart but for the film adaptation by Alan Parker in 1996, Madonna really wanted the role and felt a connection to the beloved First Lady of Argentina. Webber even wrote a new song for the film that helped define a point in Madonna's career. The press helped make EVITA a hit, but how does it hold up amongst the great musical adaptations when we look back? I'll just say that Antonio Banderas looked like Orson Welles opposite Madonna who had her moments but lacked a lot of expression. Also, are the Argentines annoyed that Jonathan Pryce (a Brit) played Juan Peron since that whole Falklands thing went down? This really made us want to get some South American history books at least. This is Bob's first exposure to the Andrew Lloyd Webber style. It's a lot to take in for a man who has only seen six musicals up to this point. We will see how “EVITA” fares all these years later. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

EXTREMELY SPOILERY! We've arrived upon the eve of Halloween and the penultimate episode of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST. We previewed every day except today because today was left to Angela to decide which horror movie, made in 2024, was going to be discussed. There were many to choose from but we went to the movies and picked a body horror flick that is getting a lot of buzz right now. If your ear is to the ground then you already know we're talking about Coralie Fargeat's newest film “THE SUBSTANCE” and it stars a resurrected Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley & Dennis Quaid. Fargeat's second feature film is visceral, alluring, relentless, disgusting and overstimulating. Obvious satirical commentary on body image, the scumbaggery of entertainment and fear of aging but where does this hyper tale end up? Would you take THE SUBSTANCE? I would. I'm too curious to not do something like that. Having a super hunky, gay other of myself walking around? He'd probably have a giant TikTok following within a week. He would serve mega cunt until I looked like that dude who drank the wrong goblet at the end of that Indiana Jones movie. Demi is back and Mr. Skin's servers are gonna crash after this flick hits their radar. You should definitely bring any parents and in-laws with you to see this one. Happy Halloween! Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Christine (1983) by Bob Sham & Friends

The Wolf Man (1941) by Bob Sham & Friends

Pumpkinhead (1988) by Bob Sham & Friends

The Amityville Horror (1979) by Bob Sham & Friends

The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964) by Bob Sham & Friends

It's another JOHN CARPENTUESDAY for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and we've been catching up with some Carpenter picks we've been long overdue to check out. John Carpenter made high end flicks for over a decade but the 90s are certainly his most divisive period. The guy has made, at least, ten good movies. More than many. Movies like Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Ghosts of Mars or The Ward doesn't get the lip service of The Thing or Halloween for obvious reasons but of all the 90s Carpenter fare, today's discussion from 1994 definitely stands out from that period even if it is far from perfect. It's no small feat to adapt the disturbing psychological nature of an HP Lovecraft story but “IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS” is John Carpenter giving it a shot. Sam Neill plays John Trent, a freelance insurance legend who must find a successful horror author that has gone missing whose books seem to be making the people who read them rather affected. From bleeding from the eyes affected to outright axe murder. John is skeptical. How could you not be when everyone is telling you that you're a character in a fictional town that only exists in a fictional story? He'll get to the bottom of this Sutter Cane business or he'll lose his goddamn mind. The title, as well as the first ten minutes of the movie, will fill you in on what happens. Sutter Cane seemed too chill. You know the actual HP Lovecraft was a wide-eyed batshit mess. Here's a link to that fun “My Dawg” song: https://www.tiktok.com/@dearsilas/video/7358210716412693791?lang=en Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

When you rank the Universal Monsters in order of lethality you're gonna line up some heavy hitters. Frankenstein seems to be kinda sweet until suddenly you get snapped like a Lemmy Bunny. Dracula and Imhotep definitely have stacked some bodies off screen over their long life spans. Gill-Man only kills when you encroach his lagoon so that's more “justice” than “murder”. The oft overlooked “Phantom of the Opera” is probably the least lethal. Just get that poor guy some attention and maybe a little sloppy top and he should calm down. None of these guys are more lethal than today's UNIVERSAL MONSTER MONDAY character. The crazed Invisible Man killed 122 people in the span of a week or so! HE DERAILED A TRAIN FOR THE LAUGHS! Dude is a psychotic spree killer and he's portrayed by the amazing Claude Rains in James Whale's ground-breaking 1933 horror “THE INVISIBLE MAN”. Claude Rains introduction to U.S. audiences became legendary as he chewed up the screen while never seeing his face and only hearing his voice. The kids today might say that Claude Rains ATE in this movie. You could say that Claude Rains absolutely SERVED CUNT in this role. These James Whale monster classics don't miss. Of course we got a link: https://archive.org/details/the-invisible-man-1933_202105 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Every Friday is FRIDAY NIGHT FIENDS during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and today we're discussing the follow up to one of our favorite horror movies. Kirsty, Julia, Pinhead and the Lament Configuration are back and hotter than ever and we're gonna be spending a lot of time down under under the gaze of Leviathan. We're talking “HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2” from 1988 directed by Tony Randel and starring Claire Higgins, Ashley Laurence and Doug Bradley. The sultry Julia returns with the help of a sick doctor and she's leading souls into hell for her master, LEVIATHAN. Kirsty's brave ass wants to go and rescue her father and the Cenobites return with grandiose plans of torture. All the gore and eroticism work almost as well as in the original and then the last 30 minutes happen. Why did they go out like that? Still looks demented and cool but does the good outweigh the underwhelming? Hear us tell it. This movie definitely has its fans but boy does word of mouth drop off hard for the franchise after this one. Here's a link to the movie: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8kbuuc Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST means we stay spooky five days a week all October long and on “TRUE THREAT THURSDAYS” our scares are rooted in reality. For certain movies there is a level of skepticism and exploitation you can't ignore but today's discussion involves a film based on one of the most notorious unsolved serial killings in US history. The seemingly unending spiral that is the Zodiac Killer case can feel very lofty but David Fincher manages to adapt Robert Graysmith's book on the killer in a way that strikes a fantastic line between terror, procedure and anxiety. We're talking about Fincher's 2007 true horror “ZODIAC” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Elias Koteas, Philip Baker Hall, Chloe Sevigny and many more. A real ensemble feast so well balanced and compelling that you can hardly tell it's pushing three hours. Arguably one of the best films based on a true crime that exists with some of the most frightening scenes we will see all month. Can we eat this movies butt any harder? Following the discussion, Bob presents some of his own evidence on who he thinks the Zodiac killer might be and it shocks Angela to the core. Is this case solved right here, right now, on this YouTube/podcast show? Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

It's Wednesday during October so that means it's HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAY and we're on the last of our three Oliver Reed starring films and we saved one of his most scene chewing performances for today. This is also the show's first discussion of a film starring the classic British Scream Queen Janette Scott. A family is in shambles. The mother and father are dead. A brother, Tony, gone from taking his own life. The surviving brother, Simon, is a psychotic alcoholic and the surviving sister thinks she might be losing her mind because she sees her dead brother around the estate. One day she decided to end it all the same way her brother did and throws herself off a cliff only to be rescued and returned home, in front of the whole family, by their supposedly late brother. Mystery, thrills, psychological chills and a very affecting jumpscare in this Freddie Francis flick from 1963 called “PARANOIAC” starring Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell & Alexander Davion. Sometimes we get way too close with our brothers and aunts and it's kind of weird but also disturbingly normal for those British Blue Bloods. Hear us tell the unsettling tale and click this link here if you want to see it for yourself: https://archive.org/details/paranoiac_202107 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

They Live (1988) by Bob Sham & Friends

Every Monday is “Universal Monster Monday” all October for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and today we discuss probably the coolest looking one when you see a picture of all the monsters lined up. We're talking about Gill-Man and he's only defending his territory that humans have unfairly encroached on. You can't just enter the Black Lagoon without presenting Gill-Man a gift of a human woman and if you're not willing to come off it then he's gonna maim your doctor and take her for himself. One half of Jack Arnold's 1954 hit “CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON” is typical 50s sci-fi horror. The other half is stunning underwater technique with stunt sequences unlike anything seen prior to this point. A fish man has to swim and they captured that feat as good as you possibly could. If only Gill-Man killed them all and took his fleshy bride once and for all. I guess you can watch that Del Toro movie that won the awards if you really want to “pearl dive” while watching interspecies love scenes. Get your Gill Man right here: https://archive.org/details/creature-from-the-black-lagoon Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Every Friday during Halloween Humpfest is devoted to those Friday Night Fiends. Iconic creatures and monsters who give us the chills and today is the second of three werewolf flicks for the month. Dee Wallace plays “Karen” a TV news anchor who is being stalked by a predatory serial killer. She, quite bravely, attempts to entrap her stalker in the back of a porn store where police barely arrive in time to save her. She's traumatized into amnesia and this dude is in her dreams, day and night, so her psychiatrist decides to send her and her husband to a retreat with a lot of folksy music. Ok, so it's inhabited by a commune of werewolf swingers. Sure, they don't say or show too much swinger stuff but you can tell what's going on here. It's kind of a sexy movie. That one lady is in heat. We're talking Joe Dante's reverential werewolf horror from 1981, “THE HOWLING” also starring Patrick Macnee, Christopher Stone & Slim Pickens. Yes, Slim Pickens. Imagine him in a werewolf orgy. Maybe he wanted to throw himself on that fire because he couldn't participate in the werewolf orgy anymore? Happens to the best of us. Here's a link: https://archive.org/details/thehowling1981_202002 Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST continues and we're discussing our second “True Threat Thursday” selection! Every Thursday this month is horror based on true events and we hit up an early slasher film by “Legend of Boggy Creek” director Charles B. Pierce. In 1946 a masked man killed 5 people in Texarkana and seized the mid-size town in fear. Maybe if you removed the cop comedy and the trombone scene then Charles Pierce's 1976 true crime thriller “THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN” might hit a little better. Controversial in the area after only 30 years of the crimes, now they watch this movie in Texarkana every year. I wonder if the crowd does a specific thing when they see the cameraman on the train like they might do during viewings of the Rocky Horror Picture show? This movie stars Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine & Dawn Wells. Of course some there are some changes made from fact. Like the part where the police almost get him after the killer takes a daytime stroll in the woods with his mask on. If it wasn't for that damn train. This movie oughta be free and here it is: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rbh2u Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

For HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST, our loaded celebration of horror, we will always make room for the thrills and chills of Hammer movies. Each Wednesday in October is “Hammer Horror Humpdays” and we're tracking some Oliver Reed films. Today's discussion is like a mystery/adventure/horror hybrid. Horror in a more classical sense as we go back to the late 18th century in the wake of the death of a notorious pirate. The township prospers but nobody goes to the marsh at night because it is haunted by skeletal phantoms that have scared at least one man to death. Seems strange so the British navy has come to investigate what they suspect is war-time bootlegging by the town Priest and his co-horts. Unfortunately for the Priest, these officers have brought a ghost from the past in tow. We're talking “NIGHT CREATURES” (or “Captain Clegg” if you're nasty) from 1962 directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring the great Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed, Patrick Allen & Milton Reid. An enjoyable, if troubling, movie in some ways but we got our own spin on what went on with the story before the story. Peter Cushing is pretty great in this and is, underhandedly, the biggest villain. They're all villains, truly. Here's a link: https://archive.org/details/night-creatures Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought

Every weekday during HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST represents a different horror them and we're happy to kick off the first of four JOHN CARPENTUESDAY selections. Every Tuesday we discuss a John Carpenter film that we've been long overdue to watch and today is his follow up to his and Debra Hill's smash hit “Halloween” that sees the return of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Loomis. We're discussing the salty 1980 horror “THE FOG” also starring Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh & Hal Holbrook. A legacy of horror envelopes the town of Antonio Bay as strange things begin to happen on its 100th anniversary. A lot going on but Carpenter manages to execute this eerily serene horror in interesting ways. Seriously, we about fell asleep looking at these coastal landscapes and guilty whisperings of the village priest. Not a complaint. Why is this era of Carpenter so soothing? Here's a link we found: https://archive.org/details/the.-fog.-1980.720p.-blu-ray.x-264.-yify Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Check our past & current film ratings here: https://moviehumpers.wordpress.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought