The Remedial Film Class Podcast

The Jamie Lee Curtis celebration continues. But is George ready for a British Comedy? Richard Oliver (of the Chasing Tone podcast) mentioned this as a classic during his appearance in the Prom Night episode, and Travis has had it on the schedule since the beginning of Jamie Lee Christmas. But Dan has never seen it. And of course, neither has George... Will George find that John Cleese and Kevin Kl...

Blake Wyland (of the Chasing Tone Podcast and the Tone Mob Podcast) joins the guys as George is left flabbergasted by the John Landis/Eddie Murphy/Dan Akroyd/Jamie Lee Curtis event that is Trading Places. The Chasing Tone podcast has been around since 2014, and is a guitar-focused podcast created by Brian Wampler of Wampler Pedals.  We know George loves Jamie Lee Curtis, but he was not ready for T...

Richard Oliver (of the Chasing Tone Podcast) joins the guys as George walks blindly into his big number on Prom Night. The Chasing Tone podcast has been around since 2014, and is a guitar-focused podcast created by Brian Wampler of Wampler Pedals.  George loves Jamie Lee Curtis, and so he was tickled to see her starring in yet another RFCP episode. The current streak is at 6 Jamie Lee movies in a...

The Fall Break 2021: A tale of Two Trilogies was never meant to veer into the path of Halloween: Resurrection. But George opened his big old yapper and said he wanted to see it (see the H20 episode) so we made him watch it and the results were... satisfying. Trick or Treat, Michael Powell!   Will George learn a new... uhh... reproductive term? (He will! Which one?) Does Dan go on a Michael Powell...

Dan and Travis present George with the opportunity we never had in the 80s and 90s: Halloween 3 in a context that actually makes sense to an uninitiated viewer. Presented here as Halloween 3: the sequel to The Fog (which is our stand-in for Halloween 2), will the science make H3 make sense in a way it never did as a sequel to Halloween 2?   George couldn't possibly know what he was getting himself...

George has never seen any Kung Fu movies... except for Kung Fu Panda. He was not ready for the awesomeness of Vinegar Syndrome Pictures' first release: New York Ninja. Luckily, Vinegar Syndrome provided us with a sneak peak at the upcoming film. And Travis and Dan stepped up to show George what magic was waiting for him in the Big Apple of the 1980s.   New York Ninja was shot in 1984, in guerilla...

We made sure to get John Carpenter's (tepid, let's not kid ourselves) blessing to reformulate The Fog into a quasi-Halloween 2 position to begin a WILD horror anthology to conclude with Halloween 3 next week. No really, we did! It is on our YouTube page!   It has been a while since George went "Full George" on us but he picked a heck of a time to do it. The Fog is John Carpenter's theatrical follo...

Deborah Voorhees, an 80s cult icon for her roles in Friday the 13th Part 5, Avenging Angel and Appointment with Fear, joins the class to discuss her upcoming directorial effort: 13 Fanboy.    13 Fanboy is a whodunnit mystery in which the stars of Friday the 13th films are stalked in the "real world" by a crazed stalker. Kane Hodder, Judie Aronson, Dee Wallace and Lar Park-Lincoln play themselves a...

Happy Anniversary! The Remedial Film Class Podcast is now 1 year old!   George sounded a bit flabbergasted that we were skipping 4 (and a half?) sequels and jumping straight to Halloween 7. But what he didn't know, and may not fully appreciate still, is that we were simply crafting for him the "original" Laurie Strode Trilogy. He will thank us in time. Travis, fighting through a nasty case of COVI...

George loved the original Halloween. And since we showed him that he has seen approximately 15 slasher movies since then, all inspired by John Carpenter's original 1978 classic. But now it is time for a Fall Break so we are watching Halloween 2.   Did Travis enjoy his giallo homework leading up to Halloween 2? What breaking Halloween news updates will Dan have from his recent conversation with Joh...

George has an affinity for Stanley Kubrick, but he's never seen Dr. Strangelove. Travis talks about Dr. Strangelove all the time because of his experience in the theater. It was only a matter of time until we brought George to the promised land (via 30 megaton hydrogen bomb, naturally.) This is in many ways a "Part 2" of last week's Fail Safe (1964) episode, so we highly recommend you start with t...

George and Travis both went into Fail Safe blindly. They didn't know why Dan would make them watch a black and white movie about the Cold War right after Weird Science. They weren't even sure the science in Fail Safe would be weird at all. We know many of our listeners haven't watched Fail Safe before, but they darn well should. So we spend the first half of the episode in non-spoiler territory to...

George wasn't sure what he was going into with Weird Science... And we aren't sure he knew what he was coming out of when it was over. Travis and Dan have plenty of work ahead to unpack this 80's classic!   Can Dan find a way to organically link the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise and Dario Argento to the works of John Hughes? Will the Crypt Keeper kindly return Travis to his original state?...

We didn't tell George anything about this movie ahead of time. We didn't show him the trailer that spoils the third act of the movie, nor did we hint that Quentin Tarantino was remotely involved in the film. As such, George might have been the first person in history to go into this movie blindly. Did it work or did it just serve to anger him? I mean, straight up, does he hate us and this movie no...

George new going in to the first A Nightmare on Elm Street that we were planning on doubling up with the sequel (if it is good enough for the Godfather...) but he had no idea what he was in for this time around.   Did George get the taunting evil Freddy that Travis promised him? Was Travis satisfied by his old favorite Freddy characterization outside of nostalgia? Did Dan really just blow George's...

George has seen Freddy Vs Jason, so he knows what the character became. But is he ready for scary Freddy and a really questionable origin story? And a big Thank You to Robert Englund for welcoming George to the family.   How far into the movie did George realize that Glen was played by Hollywood SuperDuper Star Johnny Depp? Did Travis have YouTube access in the 1970s? How did Dan end up with such...

George knew going in that he was in for some "Jack Nicholson acting crazy" but he had no idea what all he was getting himself into!   Will George savor the performances in a movie that can be summarized, in its entirety, in a short run-on sentence? Can Travis contain his excitement for a movie that is literally all about acting chops and "being in the moment"? Does Dan once again manage to referen...

George didn't remember who Paul Verhoeven was when Travis spilled the beans at the end of the previous episode. Will he be happy to be reunited with the director who went right over his head with Robocop and dragged him to Mars with Total Recall?   How will George survive the most patently erotic movie in the curriculum (so far)? Did Travis remember his kilt? Can Dan keep the guys from falling com...

George loved The Godfather. So following it with the equally well-respected The Godfather: Part II is a homerun right? How could George possibly think anything but how completely the "best sequel of all-time" knocks his cinema socks off? HOW!?   Could George's "take" on Godfather II prove to be more offensive than his accents in the Part 1 episode? Does Dan manage to ruin Godfather II with anythin...

George knew going into the Godfather that it is rated as one of the best movies of all time. Will the reputation of Coppola's classic set George up for failure? Will he dislike one of, if not the, best movie ever made? And will Dan's knowledge of the source material ruin George's first impression (skip to around an hour to find out!)   Will George do offensive voices for the duration of the podcas...

George has been for a swim with Poltergeist and taken the leap with The Exorcist so it is only natural that he now gets to go on a relaxing British holiday with the Omen. But it might not be as peaceful as it seems...    Will George ever learn to embrace direction? Is Iron Man 2 really the hill Travis has chosen to die on? Dan isn't defending "that scene" again is he? Again? And did he just say cu...

George has wanted to watch the Shining for years. He knows he like Stanley Kubrick's work and this is one he has heard great things about. It also never occurred to George that people can just... watch movies because they want to. But his shortsightedness is our benefit as we got to show him The Shining for the first time!   Thanks to our new sponsor!   Did George find his stay at the Overlook to...

At the conclusion of our last episode, George was all pumped up for Hellraiser. He was excited for the leather jackets, big guns and motorcycle badassery. You see... George had no idea what he was getting into and tonight's viewing of the 1987 S&M-themed erotic horror nightmare left him... disturbed.   What event made George scared of Jesus? Will Travis let a puzzle box into his home? Is Dan reall...

In celebration of the upcoming July 4th holiday in the US, Travis and Dan are sending George out into the water. The beach is open and there is no truth to the rumors floating around the Amity County Police Department re: a shark attack!   Will George ever set foot in the ocean again? Did Dan manage to ruin Travis's favorite shark adventure with Giallo history? Will Travis quit the podcast to beco...

George is in for another week of demonic possession and threatening little girls... And also we made him watch a movie for the podcast! We watched William Friedkin's The Exorcist from 1973.   Will Captain Howdy be visiting George after the lights go out tonight? How valuable would a comic book need to be before Travis would risk touching a Ouija Board? How heebie'd were Dan's jeebies this time aro...