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Jen and Tim take a bite out of cult cannibal Western flick Ravenous, with the help of Bitter Karella! “The Windigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feeds...

Tim and Jen effuse about an early Michael Mann joint for television, the prison story The Jericho Mile! You can buy a beautiful blu-ray of the film from  Kino Lorber , but if you just can’t wait to see it,  it’s on YouTube . And we highly recommend it! The 1977 film Short Eyes, based on Miguel Piñero’s incendiary play, is  free with ads on Tubi. For more Michael Mann,  check ou...

Jen and Tim host Bitter Karella, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there. Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant Dennis Lipscomb . Severin Films included Eyes of Fire in their recently released All the Haunts Be Ours folk horror boxed...

Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron. The official Bruce Lee website   If you’re not familiar with Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, just watch!   The 17th century samurai, philosopher, and artist Miyamoto Musashi is considered a kensei— a “sword saint”— in Japan. Read a short Bruce Eder essay on the...

Jen and Tim enlist favorite guest Bitter Karella to explicate the inexplicable Dan Aykroyd/Gene Hackman buddy cop comedy, Loose Cannons! Not to get all fact check dot org on you all, but the Dissociative Identity Disorder website has science-based information on what was misrepresented as “multiple personality disorder” in the movie. Busy Inside is a compassionate documentary about people with DID...

Tim and Jen make hay out of the 1988 comedy Hot to Trot, which killed Bobcat Goldthwait’s career for two decades. The horse was unscathed. Hear the entire episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 other bonus episodes! Tim confused  God Bless America  with  Red State  (and Jen did not catch the error, shame on her) — the other movie from 2011 with a divisive title a...

Jen and Tim reflect on one of the great neo-noir films of Hollywood’s second golden age, Night Moves. Senses of Cinema has a thoughtful essay on the film by Bruce Jackson.   We didn’t get a chance to talk about the film’s writer, Alan Sharp, who said his own screen work embodied “moral ambiguity, mixed motives and irony.” Matthew Asprey Gear describes the protracted gestation of Night Moves a...

Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled. Per Sean’s recommendation,  check out the official video for “Lovin’ It”  from Little Brother’s “too intelligent” album The Minstrel Show. If you’re curious about the camera Spike Lee used to make Bamboozled, you can read  a history of the Sony DCR-VX1000 he...

Jen and Tim are joined by Darren “Sebebe” Herczeg to reassess Michael Mann’s profoundly flawed fantasy/horror film, The Keep! Kit Rae’s exhaustive fansite may be the definitive document on The Keep at this point, but there’s also a documentary more than ten years in the making on the same subject. You can follow the filmmakers for updates on Twitter!   Read Michael Mann’s original screenplay...

Tim and Jen are overwhelmed by the raw charisma of Jacques from the Seeking Derangments podcast in a truly chaotic episode nominally about the chaotic 1977 film House! Via Senses of Cinema, read a retrospective on Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career that also serves as a defense of his filmmaking style. You can see a sampling of Obayashi’s commercial work on YouTube . Don’t miss the MANDOM spot starring Ch...

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/ Jen and Tim revisit an old favorite, Peter Hyams’s “High Noon in Space,” aka Outland! Jen is incorrect when she asserts that John Wayne was considered for the part of Marshal Will Kane in High Noon; Kramer and screenwriter Carl Foreman wanted a hot young star like Brando or Gregory Peck. W...

Tim and Jen shred a selection of programs from awful neolib also-ran streaming service, Apple TV+! Have you seen…Tim’s website?   Jen alludes at one point to the “Unicorn Killer,” Ira Einhorn. He claimed to have helped found Earth Day, but his account has been disputed. Conservatives still love to evoke him as emblematic of leftist depravity. He died in prison in 2020.   Jen also touched...

Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic! The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell , starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi. Thomas Dolby enlisted vocalist Timothy Spall (!) for a song inspired by the film Gothic, “The Devil is an Englishman” Hear Steve Hackett’s cover of...

Get access to 50 bonus episodes for a pledge as low as $2/month at our Patreon! Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club! Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard. 'The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, ret...

Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble! Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory.   You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Bitter Karella aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter!   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and Alexei Sayle. We admit, this one’s hard to track down unless you’re willing to hunt for PAL and/or bootl...

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Bitter Karella to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin. Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode—  the 3-hour black-and-white director’s cut of Martin has been found! Check out Karella's satirical horror microfiction account&n...

Jen and Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce! Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in this fine article from Filmmaker magazine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death! Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi. Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto safety,  two students were traumatized after their math teacher showed the film in class in 1985 : “The people at the table,” says Forget today, “beat this monkey over the head with a hammer until it died. Then they c...

Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss! Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog. https://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the-scandalous-origins-of-martin-scorseses-after-hours Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration. View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.   Watch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Jen and Tim revisit the greatest unfairly-cancelled single-season sci-fi western TV series of all time: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.! If you thought we were going to say “Firefly” you have obviously never listened to our show before. Also Jen is finally able to air her feelings about Dixie for a mass audience. Spicy! Check DVDTalk for information on the complete series on home media. https...

Tim and Jen welcome a special guest to discuss a fan edit of a beloved horror classic, The Wicker Man: The Summerisle Cut! Listen for yourself and decide if you want to leave angry comments on archive.org! View the Summerisle Cut at the Internet Archive. Visit the Wicker Man site mentioned by our guest,  which describes all of the different cuts of the film in detail. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Jen and Tim agree and disagree on an also-ran Nicolas Roeg movie, Eureka! Jen really gets the bit between her teeth in this one and Tim demonstrates almost saintly patience while she babbles. Watch a short documentary on the inspiration for Jack McCann, the gold millionaire Sir Harry Oakes. Buy Charlotte Gray’s very engaging bio of Harry Oakes, Murdered Midas, on Alibris. For more British filmmaki...

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/ Cool World is not cool. Emma Bowers (@hyenasandgin) returns to commiserate with Tim and Jen about a very bad animated feature. Turns out this movie did significant psychological damage to young Tim. Watch Emma's Full Metal Alchemist video! Compare and contrast: this interview with Ralph Ba...