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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
Episodes
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
We return to an unplanned irregular release schedule (Dan explains all on the pod) with the first in a series of long-envisioned specials in which horror maestro Simon Clark explains to Dan why the scripts of Nigel Kneale's 1950s trilogy of TV terror about Professor Bernard Quatermass are such an inspirational read. 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the transmission of the first serial, The Quatermass Experiment, and a very special live reading of the original scripts is to be performed for one night only at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 9th September.
The existing episodes of The Quatermass Experiment (1953) are on YouTube.
James Swanton discusses The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) on The Evolution of Horror podcast
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Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
At Stella's urging, Dan has finally checked out the ghoulish comedy sequel, Addams Family Values, and it's fair to say he loves it. Hear them rhapsodise, with spoilers throughout. It's the second Missed Classic in which the team are called to praise Carol Kane (the previous one being When A Stranger Calls), but Dan feels bad that they never mention Jimmy Workman, who's stuck in the least interesting Addams role of Pugsley, but gives a perfect performance.
Relevant Links
Addams Family Values (and 1991's The Addams Family) are streaming via Paramount+ and can be rented from YouTube and Amazon in the UK
Wednesday is streaming via Netflix
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Welcome to our hot-take review of a movie that was released six months ago (and a discussion recorded four months ago)... In what will hopefully become an annual tradition, Stella and Dan get to talk about the new Scream movie. Just in case you still haven't seen it, the discussion is divided into spoiler-free and spoiler-filled sections.
00.00.00 Intro and our adventures getting into cinema screenings
00.19.06 Scream VI review - non spoiler
00.43.22 Spoilers ahoy!
Related links
Scream VI is available for rental streaming via YouTube and Amazon and will soon be coming to Paramount Plus (despite what we say in the episode, it isn't there currently)
Dan's Film Stories article inspired by the release of Scream VI
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Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
A long while after our last Missed Classic on When A Stranger Calls (1979), Ian Winterton confronts another feted movie he has heretofore avoided, 1984's iconic Wes Craven slasher, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Dan joins him for the discussion and there are spoilers from the start.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 version) is available to rent on Amazon.
Since this chat was recorded, RedLetterMedia's two-part Re:View video on the Elm Street series has sadly become unavailable
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
WARNING - SPOILERS FOR MIDNIGHT MASS ARE COMING IN THE VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH - AND THIS IS ONE (HUGELY RECOMMENDED) SERIES THAT'S BEST ENJOYED ENTIRELY UNSPOILED!
Or, "Vampire In A Cardigan".
Kirsty, Stella, Ian and Dan are reunited to discuss a real masterpiece of recent years, Mike Flanagan's seven-part Netflix drama, Midnight Mass. We've already discussed Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep on the podcast; hear how this measures up.
Midnight Mass is streaming via Netflix
Also check out:
Collider's interview with Mike Flanagan
The Leading Podcast's interview with Hillary Clinton
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
"It's a bit like The Beatles..."
Returning after a long delay, Dan, Stella, Ian and (in a surprise telephone cameo) Howard commence their latest series with a discussion of 1976's The Omen, the first in a series of retrospectives on The Omen Trilogy, inspired by the fact that all three films (plus the 2006 remake of the original) are now on Disney+. (However, Omen IV: The Awakening, 1991's forgotten TV movie continuation, is nowhere to be seen, and won't be discussed.)
Go to Disney+ to watch the 1976 film and the remake, both discussed here.
To watch's Dan's short film Terror of the Many-Coloured Slinky (2003), go here.
Like that film (and, indeed, The Omen), this episode is absolutely lathered in the gorgeous musical score of composer Jerry Goldsmith, conducted by Lionel Newman, just for fun. No copyright infringement is intended, of course.
Kirsty will be back in our next episode, which will focus on Mike Barker's Midnight Mass.
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Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Kirsty wanted to talk about one of her true loves, Robert Wiene's 1920 Expressionist masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and Dan was only too happy to indulge. Although he drew the line at pronouncing the film's German title ('Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari') because he was chicken about pronouncing two syllables wrong.
The restored Blu-Ray version of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari to which Dan and Kirsty frequently refer is this release.
Kirsty's essay about Caligari and Hannbal is here.
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Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
We're fishing some unreleased content from the vault this week, to present a 2021 discussion between Stella, Ian and Dan about Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski's still-powerful 1968 tale of inner-city Satanism, from the novel by Ira Levin.
We discuss how the film draws satirical parallels between fears of Satanism and anti-Semitism, how its meaning has changed for us since we first watched it 20-some years ago, and a little about the stigma of its criminally-convicted director. (Unfortunately the recording was interrupted at this point - that's why we never released it before - but for a discussion between Dan and Ian about problematic creators, listen to our episode on Alien Resurrection.)
Warning: spoilers from the start, so if you've never seen the film, make sure you watch it before listening to this.
Rosemary's Baby is available for rental streaming via YouTube and Amazon.
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Not horror, but in many ways horror-adjacent, 2022's extremely quirky sci-fi comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All At Once was announced this week to be the unlikely recipient of 11 Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actress (twice), Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Film Editing and Best Costume Design. Kirsty and Dan wanted to talk about it. And they don't mention Short Round once. Although I just did, typing this.
Links
Everything Everywhere All At Once is available for rental streaming on YouTube and is free with Amazon Prime
The video essay Kirsty references is The Terror of Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Daniels' podcast interview is with Scriptnotes on Spotify
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Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Stella and Dan have wanted for some time to discuss their love of Steven Spielberg's 1971 cinematic debut, Duel, written by Richard Matheson. However, they'd never seen the shorter, original intended-for-television version of the film before recording this episode, and therefore spend a lot of it speculating about what that version was like and how Spielberg might have made changes to Matheson's story to expand it for the cinema screen.
Then, after the recording, Dan did something he really should've done earlier - checked YouTube. For there, the (commercially unreleased) TV version is readily available. Therefore Dan had to watch it and insert additional comments into the original discussion to correct anything he and Stella had earlier guessed wrong. We hope you enjoy the result.
Links
The cinema version of Duel is available on DVD, BluRay, YouTube and Amazon
The TV version of Duel (and the 1974 TV movie Killdozer and 1977 short film Panic, both referred to by Dan) are available on YouTube
Josh Olson on Duel for Trailers from Hell
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