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Jen and Tim enjoy a silly 1990 comedy with startlingly good practical effects, Spaced Invaders!Director/writer Patrick Read Johnson’s long-gestating nostalgia trip, 5-25-77, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 22, 2022. In the meantime, you can read Karina Longworth’s review of a cut of the film in 2008 from the now-defunct Sprout Blog. The director left a comment rebutting some of her criticism there (thank you, Internet Archive).This Slate article sums up the probable facts behind the “War of the Worlds mass panic” myth quite well.The song from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds that Jen was talking about is “The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine.” Ulla! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen start spooky season early with a shockingly dark release from Disney, Return to Oz.Jen forgot to mention that the main reason the film does not resembles the MGM film from 1939 apart from the Ruby Slippers™ is because all of the trappings of the MGM version were and are copyrighted. In fact, Disney had to shell out to use that plot device in the film. Hence, while Walter Murch’s desire to make a moive closer in spirit to the L. Frank Baum material is admirable, it most likely played second fiddle to the demands of copyright law.Additionally, the movie finally made a profit from a 1949 re-release, not “like twenty years later” or whatever Jen glibly claimed.Animator Doug Aberle made a video where he talks about his process for animating the demise of the Nome King. Plus, he includes interviews with the late Will Vinton.If you want more details about the drama between Sarah Polley and Terry Gilliam, you can read an excerpt from her memoir here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f

For their one hundred and fiftieth episode (!), Jen and Tim welcome animation expert Jerry Beck to talk about the worst cartoons ever made and the Monkees’ super freak out, Head!Visit Jerry’s website for all the animation news and discussion you can eat.You can watch Two Wet Bears and Sam Bassett, Hound For Hire on YouTube, if you dare. You can also see the first episode of Jerry and Frank Conniff’s nightmare children’s show parody, Cartoon Dump!Someone else remembers WBAI’s collage radio show, “Techie Time!”  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen hosts the delightful Jane Altoids of Pacino Pod to perform an autopsy on one of the worst vanity projects ever made: Give My Regards to Broad Street!Director Peter Webb’s BAFTA-winning short Butch Minds the Baby is up at the Internet Archive. Give it a watch so Paul McCartney’s cinematic abortion doesn't define Webb's onscreen legacy.I couldn’t dig up the Macca/Siskel interview Jane mentioned, but Paul is very pissy in this live chat from the film’s premiere. Better, though, is this South Bank Show documentary about the making of the film’s music which opens with Paul and legendary producer George Martin composing the number one hit “No More Lonely Nights.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen defend a movie you either love or hate, Darren Aronofsky’s mother!See crybaby Kyle Smith’s review of mother! at the world’s worst magazine if you want to know what kind of thing gets your hosts into a theater to see a movie.Jen whiffed the explanation of the bad blood between Satoshi Kon and Darren Aronofsky. The situation is way more complicated than the latter purchasing the rights to Perfect Blue (which never happened, incidentally). The Animation Obsessive Substack did a deep dive.Looking for an exploration of the meaning of the pelican-in-her-piety from someone way more informed than Jen? The nice people at the St. Mary Magdalen School of Theology have you covered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthisJen and Tim finally tackle one of their shared albatrosses— the Robocop before Robocop, R.O.T.O.R.!Isadora Fox wrote a piece in memory of actress Margaret Trigg for New York magazine back in 2004. The article details her struggles with disordered eating and poor mental health, but also serves as a eulogy for a legitimately talented person gone too soon.You can also watch an entire episode of Aliens in the Family, the unlamented sitcom Trigg starred in for 8 episodes. By the way, Aliens in the Family was co-written by everyone’s least favorite “satirist,” Andy Borowitz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim gets a little treat this month— we talked about one of his personal favorites, Gaspar Noé’s trippy version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Enter the Void!Read an interview at Den of Geek with a voluble Noé about Enter the Void.Towards the end, the weird trip turns into a bad trip, like sometimes mushroom trips or acid trips turn into bad trips. But a bad trip can be very rewarding, because when you come out of one, it’s like coming out of a bad dream where you get killed or something, and the moment you wake up, you still feel the presence of that reality and the dream, or the nightmare, is always real. But you feel so safe coming back to the real world, and some people said when they came out of this movie that they were still scared. – Gaspar Noé on Enter the VoidThe Hype Williams-directed video Tim got so mad about is for Kanye West’s “All of the Lights.” Honestly a pretty pallid copy of the title sequence Tim loves so much.See Paz de la Huerta crash the shooting of Louis Theroux’s

Jen and Tim marvel at the cursed, ill-conceived, bloated sequel to Chinatown, The Two Jakes.Errata: Jen was wrong and Polanski fled the country in February of 1978, not 1977.The Two Jakes derailed the Robert Towne/Jack Nicholson friendship, which had been forged in the early 60s while both worked for Roger Corman, for at least a decade. Towne admitted as much in Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. However, in a 2006 interview, Towne parries a question about the film thusly:Well, in the interest of maintaining my friendships with Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, I’d rather not go into it, but let’s just say The Two Jakes wasn’t a pleasant experience for any of us. But, we’re all still friends, and that’s what matters most. Robert TowneSo, you know, awwwwww.The History Channel website has the cold hard facts about Jack Nicholson’s 1994 road rage incident, in which he attacked another motorist’s car with a golf club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen host Jacques of the Seeking Derangements podcast so they can hold forth about a personal favorite: Fatal Beauty starring Whoopi Goldberg!Jacques somewhat confused the timeframe of Whoopi’s brief relationship with Ted Danson. They had an affair on the set of the 1993 film Made in America, and the infamous Friars Club blackface bit occurred in the fall of that same year. Ted and Whoopi dated until 1994; they moved on with Mary Steenbergen and Frank Langella(!), respectively.Several stories exist on the origin of Whoopi’s stage surname, incidentally. The anecdote about “Goldberg” being her mother’s suggestion so she could appear Jewish enough to succeed in show business has not been confirmed. Hilariously, noted treat boy John Podhoretz once wrote an editorial for the New York Post demanding that she drop her adopted surname, in light of some wild-ass comments about the Holocaust Whoopi made on The View.If you don’t recall the story of Big Lurch, we told it on our Disco Godfather episode.  Hoste

Jen and Tim fight to a standstill over a comedy that flopped in theaters, Wet Hot American Summer.Tim incorrectly identifies co-writer Michael Showalter as director. It was David Wain, not that Tim gives a fuck.The five episodes of sketch comedy show The State produced by MTV have been preserved on the Internet Archive! The children’s TV special Jen struggled to name is The Night Dracula Saved the World, aka The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t. We highly recommend the Rifftrax version!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen welcome Doug Waugh of B-Movie TV and the Slashers podcast to discuss an overlooked Australian heist film that’s heaps good: Money Movers!Purchase Umbrella Entertainment’s blu-ray of Money Movers at their website! Urban Dictionary has a detailed entry on the Australian slang term “toecutter,” if you’re curious.The “Barge Arse” clip Tim referred to may be viewed here.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No truer words were spoken about this movie than “So Fucking What.” Jen and Tim welcome Bryan Quinby of Street Fight Radio to talk about a justly forgotten 90s something-or-other called S.F.W.Trace the history of the beer ball! If you want to revisit that scene we mentioned from Sleep With Me, watch it here. Jen was wrong about Juliet, incidentally— she was intended to be about 13 or 14.Romeo was 16 or 17, though, so obviously the play is problematic due to the age gap and Shakespeare is still cancelled.The name of the teenaged girl school shooter Jen failed to recall is Brenda Spencer.She committed the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in 1979, and she is still incarcerated. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen scratch their heads over an incest-filled nightmare of a David Cronenberg movie, Maps to the Stars!Hey remember that Mysteries and Scandals show on E!? They did an episode about Jon-Erik Hexum! (Whatever happened to A.J. Benza?)The poem by John Cooper Clarke that so moved Tim, “Evidently Chickentown,” may be heard here. Jen pointed out a mention of another poet, Anne Sexton, in the movie. Interestingly, while Sexton’s daughter reported credibly in her memoir Looking For Mercy Street and elsewhere that her mother sexually abused her, Sexton’s own memories of abuse have been called into question due to the methods her psychiatrist used to unearth them. However, Sexton’s history of dissociation, psychotic breaks, and eventual suicide seem to point to some kind of trauma.Finally, if you missed our Crash episode, listen to it here!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim welcome back Josh of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss the Oliver Stone version of the Eric Bogosian play, Talk Radio from 1988.Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen got the date of the crash of Air Florida flight 90 wrong— it happened in January of 1982.“The comment that brought Howard Stern his most notoriety during his time on Washington, DC radio in the early ‘80s was the infamous Fourteenth Street Bridge Incident. As morning man at ‘DC101’ WWDC, Stern was reacting to the Air Florida flight that crashed into the bridge in February 1982. ‘What’s the price of a one-way ticket from National to the Fourteenth Street Bridge?’ he asked. ‘Is that going to be a regular stop?’”Via insideradio.comAlso Stern did not call the actual Air Florida ticket counter, because as most of us know, talk radio prank calls are faked. Just ask Bryan of Street Fight Radio! In fact, you can hear a deep dive into shock jocks fo

Tim and Jen get locked in with a raw adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s sensational play, Short Eyes! Go here for a bio of Piñero, the trailblazing Nuyorican playwright, as well as a list of his works. BTW, there’s a documentary called The Survivor’s Guide to Prison that is slick, well made, and narrated by Danny Trejo as well as many other cultural icons. You can watch it for free with ads on Tubi, or on Kanopywith a library card. In other words, it’s perfect for sending to your normie friends who haven’t been hipped to the cause of prison abolition yet! NYC Urbanism has historical information on the setting of Short Eyes, the Manhattan Detention Complex, aka The Tombs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim take a look at an exploration of trauma anchored by an incredible Jennifer Jason Leigh performance, Heart of Midnight!The writer/director, Matthew Chapman, wrote the screenplay for Color of Night, but don’t hold that against him! See some of his unproduced material at The Blacklist. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an excellent treatise on what we know about trauma, the human brain, and addressing the treatment needs of people suffering from people with PTSD. Visit van der Kolk’s website to read an interview about the book. For some insight into Jennifer Jason Leigh’s process as an actor, read her conversation with John Turturro for Interview magazine in 1996. OH SHIT we totally forgot to mention in the episode that the film’s score is by Yanni. Do people remember Yanni? It’s a pretty good score, too! We will be phasing out our $2 tier in June! If you’d like to stick around for more demented media and special guests, Patreon has instructions on how to edit you

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Tim holds forth on the mind sickness that led to short-lived streaming service Quibi before diving into a review of short-form horror anthology 50 States of Fright. Jen just tries to keep up!This AV Club article is pretty emblematic of the unkind response to the first episode of the series, “The Golden Arm.”Watch Tim’s video work over at YouTube! Hit Like and Subscribe!Oh I almost forgot to post the funny dog fart video Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have You Seen…All Possible Worlds?! Tim and Jen team up with Josh and Brian of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to discuss a wretchedly stupid British horror film starring Roddy McDowall called It! No, not that one. This one came out in 1967 and involves a golem that looks like a wet trash bag.Listen to The Worst of All Possible Worlds wherever you listen to us, or at their website! Atlas Obscura has an article about the Metropolitan Museum forgeries evoked in the film. Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph’s A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies is a fascinating read about the days of analog movie bootlegging, a must for any film buff. Read an excerpt about the Roddy McDowall film piracy case over at ScreenAnarchy (you can also buy the book directly from University Press of Mississippi). And yes, to answer Josh’s question from the episode, the MPAA (now the MPA) was one of the driving forces behind the crackdown as a proxy

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 on a spiritual void. Canada and US are presently in an advanced stage of the ‘Windigo Psychosis.’”-Mowhawk Nation News Sample a scholarly paper about Windigo psychosis thanks to the Internet Archive. You can buy Shawn Smallman’s Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History directly from the publisher online. As mentioned during the episode, John Coulthart’s Feuilleton blog is highly recommended! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 out our episode on The Keep! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.