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Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, the first of many sequels about the teen dream murdering child killer Freddy Krueger. A new family has moved into the former Thompson household from the original. This time around, Freddy toys with shrill teen Jesse (Mark Patton). Often broad and rarely creepy, this quirky entry gets better wi...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk the original A Nightmare on Elm Street from 1984. A group of high school students start getting picked off one by one by a ghoulish man in their nightmares named Fred Krueger (Robert Englund). As they put together pieces of the puzzle, they discover Krueger's twisted relationship to their parents and try to defeat him. Featuring a darker tone an...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about Spider-Man 3 from 2007, the final film in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) has turned into a fame loving asshole. His smugness only increases in power when he's taken over by an alien symbiote which amplifies his worst qualities. Zaniness ensues, and Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Venom (Topher Grace), and New G...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about Spider-Man 2 from 2004, the second film in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is failing his college science class, but has to do one last paper to pass the grade. As part of the paper, he interviews Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina). A nuclear fusion demo for the press goes awry and his mechanical tentacle device...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about Spider-Man from 2002, the first film in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is a nerd who gets bit by a DNA-enhanced super spider. Parker struggles with his super powers while trying to flirt with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). After discovering that his best friend's father (Willem Dafoe) is responsible for causing cr...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talks about The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. This is the one that won a zillion Oscars. Covering a third of The Two Towers and all of Return of the King, this movie has a lot of heavy lifting to do. We get another seige with the Battle of Minis Tirith to go along with the boatload of endings. There's something for everyone here, whether...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talks about The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the middle film in the popular live-action trilogy. Director Peter Jackson only covers two thirds of the novel here, keeping himself busy with juggling three different storylines involving humans, hobbits, orcs, and Ents. Fans at the time criticized Jackson for making a liberal adaptation of the book...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talks about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson's live-action motion picture from 2001. Based on the popular 1950s books by Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, Jackson filmed the trilogy back to back to back in his native land of New Zealand to take advantage of its economic disparity and varied landscapes. After wandering with his...

This Patreon no longer exists, but this episode / failed plug is here for your enjoyment nonetheless.  Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talks about their exciting launch of a Patreon for Sequelcast 2. With a recurring monthly donation, you can directly support the show. The more goals we hit, the more Patreon-exclusive podcast shows you get to listen to.    Support Sequelcast 2 on P...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about Police Story: Lockdown, the sixth film in Jackie Chan's long-running Police Story franchise. Known as Police Story 2013 in Asian markets, this standalone sequel (!!) has no relation to the other films other than Jackie Chan playing a cop. Time time around, he's playing Zhong Wen, a detective in the noir mold with a drinking problem and a s...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about the big budget live-action film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from 2005. Garth Jennings made his directorial debut with this sci-fi comedy. After drinking a load of pints with his best friend Ford Prefect (Mos Def), Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) learns Earth's true origin story. All the while, he tries to rekindle a flirtation with T...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about the final two episodes of the BBC series The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy from 1981. Covering the back half of the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, itself a loose adaptation of the second series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio play, these episodes satirize fancy restaurants, useless professions, and heavy m...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about the first four episodes of the BBC series The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy from 1981. After debuting as a successful radio play on BBC Four, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was adapted as a novel to be followed by this BBC miniseries. These first four episodes cover the first book in the six-book trilogy (!!!). Sever...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about Disney's Fantasia 2000 with guest Alexander Miller (Writer for Battleship Pretension , Talk Film Society , and Film Inquiry ). Disney had attempted to make a sequel to Fantasia for years. After many false starts and a lengthy development process, Fantasia 2000 is the final result. Containing only one clip from the original film, Fantasia 2...

Host Mat Bradley-Tschirgi starts things off with an interview with indie musican and Sequelcast 2 theme performer Marc with a C to talk about his upcoming vinyl release of Shock Treatment Interpretations .  Then, hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher talk about Disney's Fantasia with guest Alexander Miller (Writer for Battleship Pretension , Talk Film Society , and Film Inquiry ). Walt D...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Star Trek Beyond from 2016. J.J. Abrams was unable to direct this flick, so Paramount decided to go with Justin Lin (Fast & Furious 6). The Enterprise crew goes on shore leave, but learns of a distress call. After investigating the matter at hand, dangerous alien ships tear the Enterprise to bits. The crew is stranded on a mysterious planet f...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Hangover Part 3 from 2013. Todd Phillips wraps up his comedy trilogy by changing the genre on the audience. Instead of a comedy, we get more of an action heist picture. Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) has broken out of prison and needs help from his buddy Alan (Zach Galifianakis) to finish off a gold heist. Alan drags his drunken pals along for the...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Hangover Part 2 from 2011. Once again directed by Todd Phillips, The Hangover Part 2 is largely a remake of the first film taking place in Thailand instead of Las Vegas. This time around, the crew searches high and low for Teddy (Mason Lee), Stu's new brother-in-law. There's a notable cameo in the film from character actor Paul Giamatti a...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Hangover from 2009. Directed by Todd Phillips, The Hangover details a stag party gone wrong in Sin City. Groomsmen Alan (Zach Galifianakis), Phil (Bradley Cooper), and Stu (Ed Helms) scour Las Vegas to find the groom Doug (Justin Bartha) before its too late. Thrasher enjoys going to a RiffTrax Live show focused on shorts. Mat is befuddled...

In honor of the late Adam West, Mat Bradley-Tschirgi presents a classic episode from the Sequelcast vaults where William Thrasher and Jersey Jason give an audio commentary for the theatrical tie-in movie Batman: The Movie from 1966. Released in theaters after the first season of the TV show, Batman: The Movie is a battle royale between heroes and villains. Batman's most diabolical foes team up to...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Hellraiser: Bloodline from 1996. The fourth film in the series, this generational saga demonstrates the origin of the Lament Configuration. Can the LeMarchand family outwit Angelique (Valentina Vargas), Jacques (Adam Scott), and Pinhead (Doug Bradley) throughout the years?  Mat enjoys a recent documentary Tickled about the dark underbelly of...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth from 1992. Everybody's favorite Cenobite Pinhead (Doug Bradley) is trapped in the Pillar of Souls. After a nightclub owner purchases the pillar, investigative reporter Joey Summerskill (Terry Farrell) starts to research the occult object. Lo and behold, Pinhead is revived with a mostly new army of Cenobites: Barbie...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 from 1988. Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) is traumatized from a horde of cenobites murdering her father and stepmother. Sadly, the doctor in charge of her care is obsessed with the Lament Configuration puzzle box that gives the user an amazing combo of pain and pleasure. Entranced by the promise of reviving her de...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the original Hellraiser movie from 1987 with special guest Ray Ortega, host of The Podcasters' Studio .  Based on Clive Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser is a family drama meets horror meets dark fantasy with elements of BDSM laced throughout. Julia (Clare Higgins) reminisces about an affair she had years ago with her husb...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the live-action sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed from 2004. This show starts with Mat interviewing author Nathan P. Butler, author of A Saga on Home Video: A Fan's Guide to U.S. Star Wars Home Video Releases . They discuss the book, how different video releases have a variety of exclusive bonus content, and their excitement for the upc...