It Was Murder Podcast

We followed John Cazale to 1975's Dog Day Afternoon for our Chain Reaction: Open Season finale!

We all picked The Conversation!!! It's a cause for slow, tense, methodical celebration!

We followed Candy Clark to 1973's surprise hit "American Graffiti"! Is GL's only non-sci-fi movie a study of nostalgia, or is it still a sci-fi movie? Find out, maybe, in the episode.

We followed editor Graeme Clifford to 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth. David Bowie is painfully thin, Rip Torn is incredibly naked, and Buck Henry does a weird spit bubble thing that none of us can explain. Can you?

We followed Giorgio Trestini to the amazing 1974 thriller Don't Look Now! Erasing psychics??? Us??!! Never!

We followed "zombies" to 1974's Let Sleeping Corpses Lie/The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue/Don't Open the Window/choose your own title.

We followed Dick Rude (yes, really) to 1984's Night of the Comet. It's a perfect movie. (the thoughts expressed in this podcast description are not shared by Ellen Ito)

We followed Sy Richardson to the 1984 cult classic Repo Man! Joe has an insight into the film that blows Erik's mind while Ellen drops Johnny Marr's original band name on us.

We followed "disco" to 1979's Nocturna. I never thought I'd use disco to kill.

We followed director John Badham to the 1977 phenomenon Saturday Night Fever. Blood, sweat, and tears.

We followed Michael Ensign to 1983's WarGames. Definitely hits different in 2024, but the message remains evergreen.

We followed...something...I don't know anymore...to 1985's House! our minds may be mush, but we are still more coherent than this film.

We....uh....followed Erik's theme of dreamlike television movie to 1985's "The Peanut Butter Solution" and...hmmm...we're sorry?

We followed the theme of "revenge/made in Japan" to 1977's House/Hausu. It's the highest concentration of pure 1977 that we've been able to source.

We followed Eiji Okada to 1973's Lady Snowblood! Holy shit!

We followed Bernard Fresson to 1959's Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais) and though if you blink you'll miss him, we are thrilled that we ended up here.

We followed Isabelle Adjani to another euro-thriller-weirdo flick, 1976's The Tenant! Paris has never looked so unromantic!

We followed Margit Carstensen to 1981's Possession and we may never be the same again.

We followed phenomenal cinematographer Michael Ballhaus to The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and OH BOY did we dig it! Huge apologies for Erik's near constant hacking. No amount of gin would help.

We're back with a BANG! with Martin Scorsese's 1985 classic "After Hours" because we all think that Griffin Dunne is "the world's biggest cutie-pie". It's our first episode of Chain Reaction: Open Season, which means we can go absolutely anywhere! We hope you'll join us.

We close out our "holiday Harts" capsule with the crown jewel of Christmas episodes, "Tis the Season to Be Murdered" starring a small wooden(?) fighter pilot who was READY for his close-up.

Wouldn't a season or two (or ten) of Harts Investigations, where Jennifer and a retired Jonathan Hart run an LA detective agency, Max and Freeway always around the office, finally putting their talents to use for people who aren't there friends? Ahh well, one can dream. Oh, and we watched this shitty episode of Moonlighting.

We dip back into "A Christmas Hart" for our little holiday capsule and we realize that there are riches yet to be mined from maybe every episode of Hart to Hart??

It's Holiday Hart season! Our first episode in this capsule is "Long Lost Love" from season 5 of Hart to Hart. You know when people say "last but not least"? This one is "least but not last".

We followed...uh...dead people talking? I'm a little fuzzy on the link, but regardless, we watched An American Werewolf in London! This is the end of our first official "spooky edition" of chain reaction, so listen up to find out our next move! (hint: it's got Hart to Hart in it)