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Extra Credit 016 - October Media Catchup (Patreon)

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2023-10-31 06:00:02
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2026-06
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We're chitchatting all about:

The Fly movies (and this Den of Geek article on their enduring legacy)

Some light Scanners and Ghostbusters

Sator

Mandy

The Crow and The Count of Monte Cristo

The Lani People

Class Action Park

Interview with the Vampire

Mayfair Witches and Dark Shadows

Vampira and Me

Dungeoncrawl Classics

Everway

Comments

Robby H.

At Action Park, the walls have ears... and teeth. But can you imagine having your child say the walls bit them? A strange question for the strange cast of a Strange Studies of Strange Stories from a strange fan: on The Bonus Episode 42: the Bathtub People of Las Vegas, NM, you mentioned that you two were thinking about publishing some short fiction. Are you two still thinking about doing that as well the the game? (And I will totally Playtex it or back it or whatever you need)

Clint Page

Shame this episode came out just a little too early for you guys to comment on Suitable Flesh, which is the new Thing On The Doorstep adaptation by Joe Lynch. I really liked it. Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton are great, the HPL references are solid and it feels like a true successor to the Stuart Gordon canon. Trashy and really fun.

Brian J

I listen to probably too many podcasts while I'm working so sometimes things slip by me... what started the running joke about the ghost cat (Dandelou?)... at least which episode? Driving me crazy, like hearing a ghostly cat in the night.

Jason Thompson

I thought the (thankfully unfulfilled) teleportation horror climax in Fly ‘86 was SO GROSS & AWESOME! Who needs an explanation! It’s just the fucked up icing on the cake!

The Evil Cub

I was lucky enough to participate in a play test session of Ars Magicka here in St. Paul run by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen. In subtle ways that game session had a profound impact on my life, such as inspiring my desire to learn Latin.

Pearce Duncan

If you happened to want more human fly fun, have you heard of the Indian movie Eega, from 2012? It tells the story of a young man who’s murdered and reincarnates as a housefly. He still remembers his life as a human and devotes himself to protecting the woman he loves while getting revenge for his own murder. It’s an earlier work from S.S. Rajamouli, the director of last year’s epic action crossover hit RRR, and it’s every bit as imaginative and outrageous.

It's a Ghost.

Your discussion of Mandy and John Wick made me think of the great Nicolas Cage movie Pig. Oftentimes when I describe it to people, they say it sounds like John Wick, and in the initial premise it is similar. The movie starts with Nicolas Cage's character's truffle pig being stolen, and then he goes on a mission to get it back. However, rather than being an action movie where Nicolas Cage makes people pay, Pig ends up being a rather intimate and introspective movie about life and relationships.

Paul Meagher (Ma-her)

As a New Jersey Gen X veteran/survivor of Action Park, I have to say… there was NO better place to spend a Saturday in the summer. Yes, it was transparently unsafe. Yes, the owners/operators were shady as hell and crooked as a dog’s hind leg. But the sense of freedom and personal agency upon taking your first slippery steps into the WAY too crowded wave pool while an insufficient number of stoned or drunk lifeguards looked on with perfect apathy… all 14 year-olds need to feel that. Yes, they should have been sued out of existence or padlocked by the state within their first year of operation, but that latch-key kid in me is so glad that they weren’t.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

Since you moved from Dark Shadows to Vampira, I'd be remiss in not mentioning the Dark Shadows podcast "Terror at Collinwood" by Dark-Shadows superfan and horror-hostess Penny Dreadful (disclosure: a personal friend). She interviews other fans, pop-culture historians, and people involved in the production (including Lara Parker in an episode last year). I am sad to say I have never managed to get into Dark Shadows myself, but I like the "Terror at Collinwood" episodes that get into horror pop culture more generally, like one with author Mark Dawidziak discussing Barnabas's place in the development of "vampire as antihero."

Jim Cannon

The first time I read the unexpurgated _The Count of Monte Cristo_, I was shocked, shocked I say, to learn that Alexandre Dumas invented Batman.

Devin Morse

The first time I saw Mandy, I didn’t love it. I went in expecting just a schlocky revenge story and still felt that way when it was over. However, upon learning Panos Cosmatos and Nic Cage made Mandy as an opportunity to process their grief over losing loved ones, and after reading about the film's apparent Jungian elements, I realized there was more to it than I thought. So I watched it again and finally "got" it. I still think the second half doesn’t live up to the first, but it's interesting how grief and the quest for revenge transform Red into pretty much a demon. Also, the villain Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache) put out an album of original music, in-character, called "Lift It Down" which serves as a fun companion piece to Mandy.

Patrick W

Ugh. I hated that Interview remake. Only made two episodes. Do still need to see Mandy, I’ve “not started” it about 12 times. I’m odd though in that I also have no interest in the Wick sequels. They just don’t have the personal investment the first one had, like you all mentioned.

Jeremy Impson

Regarding what makes for a good revenge tale, I think some part of the answer is extremely subjective. How many revenge tales have you experienced? Have you experienced enough of life to realize that revenge is never as satisfying as it seems it would be? I think both of these tend to make revenge plots you read or see in your youth become your favorite.

Jeremy Impson

I can't hear "Interview with the Vampire" without thinking about "Interview with Some Vampires", which was the original title of (and, let's face it, inspiration for) the very first "What We Do in the Shadows" short film (and all subsequent works)