Films Researched for this Episode: Phantasm III (1994), Phantasm IV (1998), and John Dies at the End.
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Episode 10: Skimble Dies at the End (Just Press Play)
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I suggested doing a podcast about the "Phantasm" franchise. Kodiak Thompson wanted me to investigate the schizophrenic nature of "John Dies at the End". All of these features are from Don Coscarelli, perhaps the best auteur when it comes to affordable horror, so it was not hard to meet in the middle.
With the exception of his attempt to be a genre director, the American sword-and-sandals movie and HBO stable "The Beastmaster", all of Coscarelli's features come in at under 100 minutes. His filmography only features 11 full-length films (If you include "Phantasm V: Ravager" which he only wrote. Did this inspire Quentin Tarantino to want to stop directing after 10 movies?) and five of them make up the franchise that inspired the design of J.J. Abrams's Captain Phasma from the "Star Wars" sequels, so it should have not been overly difficult to cover his hits. We do skip his family-friendly work before he introduced us to Angus Scrimm's legendary "Tall Man" and we failed to address the conceptually awesome collaboration of him and Lance Henriksen, "Survival Quest". I guess I have another name to apologize to along side Michelle Wolf and Ken Foree...
...and homosexual Muslims. I am sorry for our little tangent about the Starz series "American Gods" when I said that people find it difficult to get into because they do not want/need to see a three-minute gay sex scene. To say that is insulting to the people behind the series and this American minority that might really appreciate the representation.
Some other tangents we go off on include one about Alan Tudyk. Another is how feeding a man into a wood chipper seems to be an indication of great cinema. This all stems from us just mentioning "The Beastmaster", so the 90-minute podcast (nice) fits the non-linear storytelling method that Coscarelli masterfully delivered upon in "John Dies at the End".
There
are just three other regrets that stem from this episode. First, I
failed
to bring up the last horror film that I saw which featured the late
great Angus
Scrimm, "I Sell the Dead", a comedy that is centered around a
conversation between Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman. Secondly, I
should have asked what Kodiak thought of rebooting the "Phantasm"
franchise with Clancy Brown as the Tall Man. And the third
regret, taking the time to watch "Twilight" based on @QuidPro_joe's
suggestion. That cost me a rewatch of "Ravager" aside from me feeling
that the success of the books should have told us all that we should
have done more for teenage girls' self esteem during the Bush era.
Needless to say, it will be nice to return to "Ally's Accessories Shop's Trash Film Reviews" instead of further investigating "Twilight: New Moon". Then again, I do have a free Rifftrax for that film.
I hope you enjoy this episode and if you want to be a guest on the podcast, send your movie, theme, director, or actor suggestion to russthebus07@gmail.com. Just focus on sub 100-minute movies. Distance is not an issue. It seems Zoom recordings take up less memory than memory than Audacity audio.
Thanks for the visit. Enjoy.
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