Get Me Another

This week we look at Spike Lee’s biographical epic masterpiece MALCOLM X (1992) starring Denzel Washington in a film that attracted controversy, much like the man whose life story it told.

We discuss Spike Lee’s breathrough feature film DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) which centers on race relations on a neighborhood block in Brooklyn.

Grab a cup of psychoactive mead and settle in for a Conan the Barbarian Bonus Episode as we look at Robert Eggers’ historical epic, THE NORTHMAN (2022), starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Anya Taylor-Joy. Eggers co-wrote the film with Sjón.

Adam Mallinger (Writer: SUPERMAN & LOIS, MICHAEL F-ING BAY) joins us for a special Friday the 13th Bonus episode looking at slasher film deconstructor/reconstructor BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON (2006) starring Nathan Baesal & Angela Goethals, directed by Scott Glosserman, who also co-wrote with David J. Stieve. Adam Mallinger Bluesky The Bitter Script Reader The Bitter Script...

We bid a fond farewell to the Friday slasher trend with two parody films: STUDENT BODIES (1981) are stalked by The Breather in a rare early cycle spoof, then Jackson gets a touch of the melancholy in UNMASKED PART 25 (1988).

What’s a filmmaker to do if they need to make an 80s slasher film but the trend is getting long in the tooth? Add some inappropriate folklore! A group of campers is stalked by a Viking berserker in the appropriately titled, BERSERKER (1987).  And then a group of young people are mysteriously invited to their old summer camp built on land cursed by a medicine man in TWISTED NIGHTMARE (1988).

It’s time for a European vacation with two films from across the pond that put their unique spin on the American slasher movie trend: BODY COUNT (1986) from famed Italian director Ruggero Deodato and Spanish slasher EDGE OF THE AXE (1988) directed by José Ramón Larraz.

Summer’s over! It’s time for Fall and Winter slashers to answer the question: Does changing seasons help change up a Friday-style slasher? SATAN’S BLADE (1984) combines bank robbing, attempted adultery, and boom mics with a local legend, while THE MUTILATOR (1984) mixes tones, tunes, and the craziest game of Blind Man’s Bluff you’ve ever witnessed.

IT’S OUR 100TH EPISODE OF GET ME ANOTHER! While we ourselves are incapable of change, the Friday the 13th franchise is about to kick into overdrive. We look at the two movies that added the final pieces that cemented Jason Vorhees’s status as a horror icon. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III (1982) and FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984).

What do you get when the marketing team wants to sell aliens and inhuman monsters, but you made a wilderness set Friday the 13th riff? We look at two slasher films with wildly inaccurate ad copy released in 1983, Andrew Davis’s THE FINAL TERROR, featuring a fantastic performance by Joe Pantoliano, and cinematic “bad boyfriend” THE PREY, featuring a cucumber and cream cheese sandwich.

Ryan from The New World Pictures Podcast joins to discuss Sisworo Gautama Putra’s SRIGALA (1981), a wild treasure-hunting Indonesian slasher film that owes much to Friday the 13th while simultaneously being its own unique experience. To check out The New World Pictures Podcast: https://newworldpicturespodcast.com

This week features two films centered on a group of hikers encountering a backwoods killer in the mountains executed to quite different results. DON’T GO IN THE WOODS (1981) is one of the infamous video nasties banned in the UK during the 1980s. Did it deserve it? We then focus on a slasher film that has gained its reputation over time, JUST BEFORE DAWN (1981) directed by Jeff Lieberman.

The show goes Cropsey-Turvy this week with two films based on the New York urban legend of Cropsey: First up is THE BURNING (1981) featuring early career performances by Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter. Then MADMAN (1981) gives us the legend of Madman Marz, as well as one sweet, sweet theme song.

Pack your sleeping bags and don’t stand with your back to a window because it’s time for Sean S. Cunningham & Victor Miller’s FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) to prove that a movie capitalizing on a trend can become a trendsetter in its own right. We then look at how FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (1981), directed by Steve Miner, altered the trajectory of the franchise and overall trend.

Our post-apocalyptic summer climaxes with Kevin Costner’s THE POSTMAN, a movie that plays with and goes beyond the conventions of the genre in a wonderfully bizarre way. Does Costner perform Shakespeare with a mule? Yes.  Are there clips from Universal Soldier and The Sound of Music in the film? You bet your bippy.  Was it unfairly maligned and gave us the feels anyway? Tune in to find out! (But a...

Join us as we enter a world where the polar ice caps have melted and studio film budgets have no meaning. That’s right, we’re not done with the post-apocalypse yet. It’s time for WATERWORLD, the fourth collaboration between star Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds. Special Guest Max Evry (A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY: DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE. AN ORAL HISTORY.) helps us dissect this much maligned act...

Justin Beahm stops by for our final Mad Max episode to discuss two films with female protagonists: CHERRY 2000 (1987) starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews and TANK GIRL (1995) directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, and Ice-T. website: https://www.justinbeahm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinbeahm The Justin Beahm Radio Hour is available on all podcast...

Strap in for a wild one as we enter the mind of writer/director Donald G. Jackson for two films that include: roller-skating nuns, frog people, a male chastity belt rigged with explosives, and horny puppets. That’s right, it’s time for ROLLER BLADE (1986) and HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) starring Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman.

Special Guest Dirk Marshall of the VH US podcast joins us as we stand on our heads for two post-apocalyptic westerns featuring Brion James. First up is STEEL DAWN (1987) starring Patrick Swayze in a Shane-influenced search for water. Then we switch gears to STEEL FRONTIER (1995) as mysterious gunslinger Johnny Yuma battles the Death Riders. VH US website: https://www.vh-us.com Marshall’s Haute Sau...

It’s time to go B-A-N-A-N-A-S, BANANAS...for post-apocalyptic sports week! Johnny Halladay, Karen Allen, and Jürgen Prochnow play the most dangerous game…no, not that one. It’s driving a truck powered by AI across the TERMINUS (1987). Then we slam dog skulls onto spikes with the Juggers in David Webb People’s THE BLOOD OF HEROES (1989), a.k.a. THE SALUTE OF THE JUGGER starring Rutger Hauer, Joan C...

Austin Trunick, the author of THE CANNON FILM GUIDE, helps Chris scan a Cannon Films double feature that totally nukes the post-apocalyptic genre: AMERICA 3000 (1986) with Chuck Wagner and Laurene Landon, as well as Albert Pyun’s CYBORG (1989) starring the “Muscles From Brussels,” Jean-Claude Van Damme. Meanwhile, Rob is lost in the vortex of tomorrow… Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CannonFilmGuid...

This week, we set the Wayback machine to “1983” and continue discussing the Italian wave of post-Mad Max films.  First up, we race against the Eurac Monarchy to find a fertile woman in Sergio Martino’s 2019, AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK, starring Michael Sopkiw, Anna Kanakis, and George Eastman.  Then we penetrate the Wall of Illusion with the Rider in WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD, starring Robert Gint...

This week we have a pair of supremely stylish post-apocalyptic films by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari and starring Fred Williamson. 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (1982) and THE NEW BARBARIANS (1983). Questa settimana abbiamo un paio di film post-apocalittici estremamente eleganti del regista Italiano Enzo G. Castellari e interpretati da Fred Williamson. 1990: I GUERRIERI DEL BRONX (1982) e I NUOV...

Ryan from the New World Pictures Podcast joins us for a pair of New World Pictures riding that Mad Max wave. Who has the coolest post-apocalyptic nickname? Is it Michael Beck as Hunter in BATTLETRUCK (1982) directed by Harley Cokeliss? Or can STRYKER (1983) take the crown of coolest dude this side of the Oil Wars/nuclear holocaust? To check out The New World Pictures Podcast: https://newworldpictu...

They say that people don’t believe in heroes anymore. Well, damn them! Grab your petrol cans and weapons as we lurch toward the apocalypse with George Miller's MAD MAX (1979) starring Mel Gibson, John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) starring Kurt Russell, and MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981).