Showing posts with label Innocent Blood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Innocent Blood. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Episode 26: The Master Rapture

Religious Cult Films!

Steve Johnson, the living special FX legend behind many of your favorite films including Ghostbusters, Big Trouble in Little China, and more drops in to talk about last week's feature Innocent Blood! Listen to his amazing stories from Innocent Blood and spread the word for his current Kickstarter campaign for his book series, RUBBERHEAD: Sex, Drugs, and Special FX!

This week, Faults in the Vaults takes a look at two films dealing with the struggles of belief and how people can be led astray. We cast doubt onto Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012), in order to preach the gospel of Michael Tolkin's The Rapture (1991).

Elsewhere, discussions of newly acquired VR tech, Josh's new project Other Fish, and yet another Herzog discussion breaks out after digging once more into The MailbagThis Week in Torrents has Josh presenting his personal archive of assembled footage of Cleveland's Ghoulardi, the classic late night horror host and father of Paul Thomas Anderson.

Josh goes Slipping Through the Tracks this week with a selection from the career of long-time David Lynch collaborator, Angelo Badalamenti, specifically his score for Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 1995 surrealist sci-fi fantasy, La cité des enfants perdus (City of Lost Children)!

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Episode 25: Animal Blood

John Landis!

This week, the Soapbox Office celebrates a mini-milestone and Faults in the Vaults takes aim at the works of director John Landis. We're finally expelling those criminal miscreants from 1978's Animal House in order to shed some (sun)light on 1992's horror/comedy, Innocent Blood.

Elsewhere in the episode, a Soapbox Office FAQ, we reintroduce our robot assistant S.T.U.R.G.E.S. to new listeners and finally reveal the history and meaning of the phrase "See You Next Wednesday"...

A letter drops into The Mailbag from Sam regarding the best and worst of Australian cinema. Diggin' Up the Docs has Josh showcasing a portrait of manic depressive genius musician/artist, Daniel Johnston in Jeff Feuerzeig's 2005 The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Mitch goes Slipping Through the Tracks this week with an offbeat selection highlighting the little praised and forgotten early works of the great Elmer Bernstein, namely his score for the notorious Robot Monster (1953).

Also, a brand new segment gets introduced in the form of Recycled Cinema, which attempts to remove some of the stigma associated with the word "remake". Up first, F.W. Murnau's immortal silent horror Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922) gets a profoundly beautiful and tragic update by living legend Werner Herzog in Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979)!