We're back with a mini Fall Outbreak. It has been a while so Travis and Dan made George watch two black and white vampire classics for the spooky season. The episode was darn near two hours long so here is Part 1. 

And a word of warning... this one goes to dark places by the end. 

Hope you missed us as much as we missed you!

The Alienation of George continues (see what we did there?) with 2022's Nope. A movie best seen rather than described. So make sure you see it prior to listening to this episode.

Contained within this episode is a perfect example of the Travis Arc. Yes, George will learn and come to better understand the movie he just watched. But so will Travis. Sometimes, things just fall right into place.

Oh and Dan is here too!

Here is the Vox article referenced in the episode:

https://www.vox.com/culture/23272728/nope-review-explain-spoiler-peele-saucer

And here are the tweets referenced in the episode:

https://twitter.com/VinnieMancuso1/status/1599852958925017088?s=20

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Things got a little... alien... in the last episode so they guys continued that momentum with Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

And like an episode written by SNL's Weekend Update contribute Stefon, this episode has everything: Aliens, mashed potatoes, the mom from A Christmas Story, the Insane Clown Posse. 

Join us to hear George love a movie, stick with us to hear Travis bring back the Arnold impression, and wrap it up with a tease for next week that is as brief as it is compelling.

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Twitch personality Mini_Megz is back to show all three guys a new movie we missed along the way: Waiting for Guffman.

It is like Spinal Tap but about community theater. In Missouri. And the guys are here for it!

And there are aliens. So many aliens.

And it only gets weirder from there. Guys... this is probably the funniest (and funnest) episode yet!

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George enjoys a good Bill Murray movie, when he recognizes him anyway. And we just showed him National Lampoon's Vacation, which was directed by Stripes co-star Harold Ramis. And John Candy is here. What could go wrong?

Will George remember the Anthony Michael Hall cameo? Did Travis enjoy the final act of Stripes more than he did 25 years ago? Did Dan just convince the guys to watch Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia?

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After a rousing discussion of interstate... in-transit... copulation...? during the Christine episode it was necessary that George see Parenthood. But instead the guys watched Vacation and no regrets were had.

George is familiar with Christmas Vacation, so to see the original in its early 80s R-Rated incarnation was not a very difficult leap. But was he ready for Ellen Griswold and Cousin Eddie in their more... raw form?

How many Russ's and Clarks's will Travis tally by the end of the episode? Will George finally recognize friend-of-the-show Anthony Michael Hall from his myriad of appearances? Will Dan manage to make it through a discussion of St Louis Missouri without dropping the cross-state rivalry burns?

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Christine. Catherine. Whatever it is called (George still isn't sure) Dan and Travis were happy to follow Carrie with more Stephen King... but this time through the lens of John Carpenter.

George loves John Carpenter, so this is a lock. Right?

Join us to hear Travis relive his childhood (and George's by proxy). Stick around for Dan's horrifying idea for a reboot of the Christine franchise (Copyright RFCP!)

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George knows a thing or two about Carrie, but he was not ready for revelatory experience of watching the movie in full. How could he have prepared himself to gaze into the black mirror so specifically?

And there's a bunch of Friday the 13th stuff in here? And some Halloween? Even some Robocop? Awesome.

Dead or alive, you're coming with us to discuss the bombastic Stephen King cross Brian DePalma classic that put both squarely into the mainstream box office and consciousness. 

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George is finally ready to Take... A look... at one of the most aesthetically influential movies of the 1980s... 

Dan and Travis are ready to show George why this movie led to so many college dorm room posters and gangsta rap references while also inspiring Scott Hall to become Razor Ramon and the developers of the GTA games to accumulate all the money Tony Montana could ever dream of...

Oh, and Dan gets giallo nerdy, but just for a minute...

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It is Friday the 13th! And what better way to celebrate than with a new scoop on a 43 year old movie and an open invitation for Sean Cunningham to contact the guys?

Dan finally watched the 4k version of Friday the 13th and noticed a very curious detail. And we couldn't find this information elsewhere so sit back and enjoy 11 minutes of Friday heaven. And don't worry, Scarface is coming next week as scheduled!

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Spoiler Alert: Dan and Travis were laughing so hard by the end of this episode that Dan nearly puked. You had to be there (but you will be there if you listen... so listen?)

2023 continues with one last dose of Burton... the iconic Edward Scissorhands (which Dan has never seen either).

Stick around to hear Travis's impression of The Fly and Dan fall down a dag-gum well. Why do we fall, George? To make George see the movies he missed!

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We begin Season 4 by tying together many loose ends and giving George a New Year's present: Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. George had better enjoy this movie!

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George had no context for Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Sure he's seen a few Tim Burton movies. The Danny Elfman score might sound a bit familiar. But nothing could prepare George for the most epic bicycle recovery quest ever put to film. Twice.

Will Travis manage to beat the "under" for Pee-wee impressions? Will George make heads or tails of anything that happens on the screen during this movie? Will Dan manage to make Travis snort again?

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The discussion of Batman Returns ran so long we had to break it into two separate episodes. And what a doozy Part 2 turned out to be! Danny Devito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sean Young and Marlon Brando are all here and George is feeling it.

And Dan. Dan has a revelation on-air for you all to hear. Now, it is a revelation about Batman (1989) but still, a win is a win, guys.

Dan will be appearing as the guest of The Hysteria Continues podcast to discuss Elves (1989) with the panel of slasher fans with an episode launching December 22nd on YouTube (and December 24th on podcatchers.) Be sure to keep an eye on https://www.youtube.com/@TheHysteriaContinues for that!

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George has seen Batman (1989.)  He's seen, and discussed at length, the Nolan Trilogy. Heck, he's even seen these same supporting characters in The Batman. But George was not ready for Danny Devito and Michelle Pfeiffer. 

We get deep into the sewers and Bat lore, explore the connections between Batman 1966, Batman Returns and the Nolan Trilogy. And there's jokes and stuff. But how could we make this movie into a Happy Meal?

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Dan is the first-time viewer this week as the guys show him Gremlins. And Dan has only one question: Who is the target audience of this movie!? Now, to be fair, George hadn't seen this film in a long time so it was essentially a first watch for him as well. Travis brought his A-Game to support this 80's classic.

Furbies, A Christmas Story and Back to the Future all make cameo appearances as we ring in the holiday season with puppets and fire. What a wild movie! But will Dan prefer this Steven Spielberg/Chris Columbus/Joe Dante effort to his beloved Elves (1989)?

Will Travis convince the guys of the merits of this creature feature? Will George be satisfied with the number of Gremlins? What is the ideal volume of Gremlins contained within a film called Gremlins? Will Dan see the movie for what it is, rather than what it could be as a music video for Darlene Love's "Christmas" song?

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Richard Oliver (of the Chasing Tone Podcast) is back and George just finished his 4th Eddie Murphy movie of the show. Was this a pitch-perfect comedy for George or did it fall flat like that part in Trading Places that Dan hates?

This one is all over the place, with deviations to discussions of Kimba the White Lion, Slumdog Millionaire and Animal House. It was a great time.

Will Richard quit the show when he figures out that we are not watching Coming 2 America? Did George catch the Trading Places call-back? Is Travis's spray bottle sufficiently sized for Richard's preference? Did Dan just geek out over a Simpsons' scene... again?

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Before "Straw Dogs," "Last House on the Left" and "I Spit on Your Grave" it was Whirlpool that ushered in the new decade of the 1970s... George and Travis had never heard of Whirlpool (aside from all the times Dan brought it up over the last 3 years!) and were NOT PREPARED FOR WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO. And it led to what may be our most ridiculous episode of the year!

Seriously.

This is one that is underseen so we stay spoiler-free while we make the pitch for you, yes you, to go check it out before we finish the episode with spoilers galore.

How many times will Travis snort with glee? Will George manage to maintain diplomacy throughout the episode? Will Dan finally stop talking about Whirlpool!? Only time will tell! Tune in!

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Thanksgiving is here and the boys are watching Steve Martin try to escape John Candy on his way from New York to Chicago, by way of Wichita Kansas. And the adventure goes right through Dan's backyard! (Finally a movie that isn't in Philadelphia!)

Will George manage to set aside his tragedy bias and enjoy a heartwarming film? Will Travis set a new all-time curse record for the show? Will Dan ever fully self-diagnose his emotion deficiency? Hopefully this all resolves in time for Turkey!

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George and Travis are new to this movie, and Dan forewarned them (perhaps to their own detriment) that they were in for more David Cronenberg. But this isn't your Daddy's Cronenberg of The Fly or Scanners. Instead the guys were faced with a serious and ambiguous tale vacillating between gaslighting and a potential double life. But, spoiler alert: They liked it.

Will Travis ever be satisfied with ambiguity? Will George manage to say anything nice about the movie before slipping into criticism? Will Dan find an excuse to reference Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Ok, to be fair, it would be odd to ask any of those very specific questions without the answer to all of them being addressed directly. What are you waiting for!?

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Dan and Travis have been threatening to show this movie to George for years. They never mentioned that it was Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct) but you have to assume George had lofty expectations (or a paralyzing sense of confusion) when he read the "directed by" credits.

Let's settle with you guys. This movie stinks. But the real discussion begins with the "Why!?" What happened to this movie? Why is it the way it is? We get into it. And then we quote it a bunch. And then we question ourselves. And Travis snorted again.

Will Travis take back his baseless attacks on Shannon Tweed? Will George ever trust us to show him a movie again? Will Dan seriously defend this movie as accomplishing its mission? Thanks for the cheeseburger.

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George wasn't ready. Travis wasn't ready. Sleepaway Camp is something no one can really be prepared for.

Luckily Aaron (friend of the show and author of the spectacular Primal Fear legal breakdown on our Facebook Group) is a Sleepaway Camp Super-Fan to help Dan shepherd the guys through what might be the most challenging content in a movie thus far. Plus the conversation literally makes Travis snort at some point.

How will George handle the concept of a "Bad movie" being super fun. Is he ready? Will Travis get too hung up on the beginning of the movie to stick the landing at the end? Will Aaron be able to get a word in with all the commotion? Can Dan successfully convince everyone that this movie belongs on the show at all? Tune in to find out!

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What began as a fun "extra" planned for the Halloween 1978 revisiting has broken loose into its own Halloween Special. Can Travis or George name a movie that is a better watch than Halloween 78? 

Will Travis and George really try to bring the Wendy Theory into this again? Will they be the same after hearing the (made up off-the-cuff-by-Dan) "Loomis Theory" for Halloween 78? Will any of us leave this episode unchanged?

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Mini_Megz finishes up her first (good) Halloween experience and the guys couldn't be happier. She liked it, guys! But she liked it so much we had to continue into a part 3. No Cochrans were injured in the making of this episode.

Does Travis think he's convinced us he was watching for shadows in THAT scene? Are you, the audience, ready for Ode to the Blue Blouse? Is Dan safe around Megz after making her watch Halloween 5 first? What major bombshell is Dan going to drop in the last minute of this podcast? Tune in to find out!

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Mini_Megz had so much fun with Halloween that we had to split the episode! So join the conversation already in progress. And this one gets to the sexy stuff.

Will George come around to the magic of telephone technology of the time? Is Travis really going to go that far out of his way to justify the butter? Is Dan back on his FBI Profiler spiel again so soon? Tune in to find out!

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Mini_Megz is back and she is angry. And rightfully so. You see, she had no idea she was being used as a crutch to carry the guys through the abysmal Halloween 5 during her first appearance. And to make matters worse, now she has seen Halloween (1978) and understands the full extent of the travesty. But did she like Halloween?

And will George enjoy his first chance to "teach" a newbie about one of his favorite movies from the show? Will Travis really continue to hold this grudge against the mother of Michael Myers? Did Dan just totally fix that opening scene? Tune in to find out!

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Death has come back to your town, Sheriff... and The Internet's Most Divisive Movie of 2022 has come to the Remedial Film Class Podcast. Either the best and most original Halloween film in decades or the worst movie in the history of moving pictures, this one isn't without strong reactions. And you are getting fresh reactions from all three of the guys.

Halloween 2018 was universally praised by the panel, but Halloween Kills was not well received by Travis or George. Will Halloween Ends bring George over to the dark side with Dan? And will Travis enjoy Ends more than Kills due to a distinct lack of Gaston action? (Drink!) Tune in to find out!

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For a literal calendar year, Travis and Dan have had to "save it for the pod." They had very different reactions when Halloween Kills was released last year and couldn't debate (argue? fight?) the merits of their perspectives until George was ready to hear it. Well, "Bad Takes Die Tonight" as Dan and Travis finally get to defend their positions. Will George pick a side? To give himself the best chance, George watched this movie twice in preparation. That's dedication!

Then, George gets to chime in on his rankings of all of the Halloween movies he has seen. And finally, the guys discuss where they hope Halloween Ends will (and won't!) go when it is released on Friday, October 14, 2022.

Will Travis manage to hold the goalposts in place long enough to make a cogent argument? Will George catch the root of the infamous "Evil Dies Tonight" phrase during his second viewing? Will Dan manage to "Dark Knight" himself into a subtext the guys didn't see coming? The Podcast Tries Tonight!

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George is ready to throw out all the nonsense of the Halloween sequels and jump right out of the end of Halloween 1978 and into the most recent Halloween 2. (and the third movie called Halloween.)

Will George manage to overlook (or even appreciate) the trigger discipline? Will Travis find himself more prepared to look at Halloween Kills next week with a fresh perspective? Will Dan ever get to know what "Everything." entails regarding Dr. Sartain and the files on Laurie and Michael? And will anyone believe us that Travis's Loomis impression was done without prep and not edited in any way? Stick around for that alone!

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The Fall Break is about to get brutal... We mean it is going to be brutal to George because he has to watch Rob Zombie's Halloween... But you know what? He actually liked it. We aren't kidding. 

But just because George caught the guys off-guard by liking a movie he was sure to hate, that doesn't mean we let him get away with that. This is The Internet, after all, and everyone on the internet loves to bash on this movie. But... what if Dan liked it too? At least, more than he remembered...

Will George remain on team Zombie once he finds out who played Annie? Will Travis manage to go an entire episode without comparing a movie to King Kong? Can Dan finally make his pitch to save this movie (call us, Rob Zombie) and the franchise post-Blumhouse? (call us John Carpenter!) Find out today!

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The Fall Break continues (and the Jamie/Thorn trilogy concludes) as we spare George the Weinstein-tainted "theatrical cut" of this movie and go straight to the restored "producer's cut" created by Moustapha Akkad. And Paul Rudd is here!

And restored it is! We watched the Blu-Ray master and it is soon to get a 4k release. And for Dan and Travis that met this movie as a VHS bootleg in the late 90s... the video quality alone is a remarkable achievement.

Can George find something besides electricity to love in this much-maligned dumpster fire of a movie? Will Travis convince the guys that there is more incest afoot than originally scripted? Did Dan find the missing link between Halloween 6 and Eyes Wide Shut? You know there's only one way to find out... Tune in!

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Mini_Megz joined us to share the joy and honor of watching the most boring sequel in the Halloween Franchise. Luckily the cheesy music and ridiculous plot kept everyone entertained and our guest can share her Twitch-streaming insights and Nicolas Cage jokes with the guys.

Will George appreciate how close he came to guessing the plot of this one last week? Will Meg ever forgive us for that Human Centipede joke? Did Dan stack the deck by raising Meg's expectations for Halloween movies? Did Travis finally call out his review-bombing Troll critic? You know you want to tune in to find out...

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The Fall Break is here again! We begin with the "Jamie Trilogy" and George's introduction to series staple Danielle Harris. And a bunch of 35 year old "high school kids." And a Jason-influenced Michael. Gone are the Silver Shamrocks and London Bridge adaptations. Michael is back and he's brought new tricks. But will George see anything he likes?

Can Travis translate "the late 1980's" into something George can understand? Will George appreciate the nuance of an invulnerable killing machine menacing a defenseless child for like one-third of the movie? Did Dan stand up and applaud the ending again this time? Tune in the find out!

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George loved Beverly Hills Cop, but how will he feel watching the classic comedy Police Academy. Both films came out in the same year, and in the wake of 48 Hrs., but Police Academy takes a much more "Airplane" or "Porky's" approach to comedy.

Plus, stick around for a preview of the forthcoming "Fall Break" series from the Remedial Film Class Podcast!

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It has been slightly more than 48 hours since George watched 48 Hrs. but now he is on the case in Beverly Hills where the DVD menu spoiled Eddie Murphy's presence in what George was convinced was a Chris Farley movie. I guess you can't win them all.

Everything is coming together in Beverly Hills: Robocop, 48 Hrs., Bad Boys, Friday the 13th Parts 2-8, and even Fast Times at Ridgemont High. 

But will George welcome this charming classic for what it is or will he see it as a rehash of all the things he's already seen? Will Travis survive hearing Dan's opinion on the movie? Will Dan ever convince the folks at Vinegar Syndrome to release Funland? Will Meet the Feebles ever get the release it deserves? Tune in to find out!

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George has never heard of 48 Hrs. Dan has never seen 48 Hrs, but he does insist on pronouncing it "48 Hurz" and that gets old real quick. But what the guys find is that Travis has suggested a proto-buddy-cop film that doesn't know whether it should be deadly serious or funny. And that mess of a motivation makes for a real interesting watch.

Can Travis make it through the entire episode without falling into the clutches of Nostalgia? Will George see past the flaws of the movie and see it for what it could be? Did Dan really manage to segue to a 90s Skinemax movie and a Friday the 13th movie in the same breath? Tune in and find out!

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George has seen Hot Fuzz. And he loves Shaun of the Dead. But it turns out he doesn't remember much of Hot Fuzz except that he liked it 15 years ago. And Travis... well Travis sure thought he had seen it before...

Will Dan's insistence on watching Bad Boys 2 paint Hot Fuzz in a new light? Will George find that he still loves this gem? Will Travis enjoy it at all? And did anyone catch that it is like 1/3 Giallo?

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George hasn't seen Bad Boys. But he's seen True Lies and Dan contends that that's close enough. Travis prefers the first Bad Boys but Dan prefers the sequel. So science commences.

Will George get the Bro movie he was predicting when told he was watching a movie called "Bad Boys 2" last week? Did Travis manage to give Bad Boys 2 a look without the shadow of the original? Will Dan convince both of the guys that this movie is worth sparing from the box that Will keeps threatening to throw into the ocean!?

Dan showed the guys this clip from Dario Argento's 1987 giallo Opera:

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George has had a Total Recall experience but is he ready for Arnold cum James Bond? The unstreamable True Lies brings James Cameron to us via DVD. DVD! Like it is the PlayStation 2 era all over again. We hoped to watch this during Jamie Lee Christmas but were thwarted by supply chain issues. But Travis got it all figured out and it is time to hop in the Harrier's driver seat and take off poorly!

Will George find himself a fan of low-key Arnold acting or be left missing the over-the-top one-liners? Will Travis's argument convince Dan and George to drop everything and rewatch all of the MCU movies? Can Dan's Arnold impression dethrone Travis's? And can the guys get to the bottom of why this movie isn't widely available to stream!?

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What happens when George watches an 80s sex comedy? If Porky's was any indication... well let's hope Porky's isn't any indication. Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a critically-lauded nostalgia trip for young and old alike... but will it pass muster with George? And will Nicolas Cage manage to derail his enjoyment? They certainly don't make them like this anymore.

Will George recognize any of the numerous famous actors who made their debut in this indie classic? If Travis loves this movie so much, why doesn't he marry it? Will Dan ever hear "Somebody's Baby" the same way again? Or is he stuck Running on Empty? These Days, you just never know. But you can know... tune in today!

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Guitars. Music. Improv Comedy. Stonehenge. This is Spinal Tap is the perfect movie to celebrate our 100th Episode with special guest Richard Oliver from The Chasing Tone Podcast and Wampler Pedals. George and Travis are both seeing this one for the first time, and if that isn't justification for doing this show we can't imagine what is.

Will George see the value in the 1959 Les Paul that sustains for literal weeks? Or will he stick with his preferred Boomer Guitar: The Gibson SG? Will Travis feel at home in the improv despite the black leather, chains, whips, dog collars and violins? Does Richard, an Englishman himself, approve of the accents? Did Dan just hot-take Metallica's mainstream turn into oblivion?

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George isn't familiar with The Fugitive, but he has seen Tommy Lee Jones portray a character similar to Deputy Marshall Gerard in the Coen Brothers' Oscar-winner No Country for Old Men. This is the first Harrison Ford appearance on The Remedial Film Class Podcast, and it probably will not be his last. George will recognize both of these actors immediately right? Right?

Will George appreciate the "scale" of the drama and action in The Fugitive, especially compared to last week's Primal Fear and Dan's criticism? Will Travis invite his favorite Marshall to join the podcast as a guest in a future episode? Will Dan's "Chicago Accent" get us cancelled?

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George and Dan are both first-time viewers for this Travis pick. Richard Gere, Laura Linney and the Dad from Frasier join (RFCP regular) Edward Norton in the longest and filthiest episode of NYPD Blue yet.

Was George convinced by Edward Norton Hulking-out as the angry alternate personality? Did Travis manage to find the acting performances justify the questionable legal procedure? Will Dan forgive the "Clerks but only regular job things happen" dynamic of the plot? And do the guys find out why it is called Primal Fear? 

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George was the perfect age to see Wild Things at a sleep over and have his eyes opened to a brave new world... But that never happened back then so we are making up for lost time!

Will George come away from this one ready to watch Showgirls? Will Travis ever stop trying to audible the movie the night before we record? Will Dan ever forgive George for his... Great Transgression? Tune in and find out!

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George had a pretty good idea of what The Devil's Advocate was going to be, based on his guess last week. But he couldn't possibly foresee Keanu Reeves facing Al Pacino in a blend of The Omen, The Client and Seven. And the twist at the end? And the twist after that? Heck no. Had no idea. But... did he dig it?

Was George buying into the "Wonder Woman's Mom" energy of the seductive Christabella? Did Travis think the Rick Baker demon effects were more The Thing or more Spawn? Does Dan's Al Pacino impression hold a candle to Travis's? And! Stick around for a revisiting of The Prestige (one week later) and a discussion of American perspectives on nudity in film (inspired somewhat by next week's title).

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George loved the Nolan Batman trilogy before we ever considered doing a podcast. So how excited will he be when he realizes that the same director put together a similar cast (plus a Wolverine and a Gollum) to tell the tale of two professional rivals who become bitter personal enemies. Oh and there is magic and David Bowie and maybe the darkest personal quest we've seen in a Piper Perabo movie.

Will George and Travis be able to keep up with the twists and turns (and teleportation) in their first watch through this movie? Will Dan finally show the guys a movie that they both like on their first watch? Will anyone finally do something about these damn dirty apes? Tune in to find out!

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George has never seen a Sean Connery movie. George has never seen a Michael Bay movie. Heck, he doesn't really know Ed Harris either. I know I know I know. One person he does know is Nicholas Cage. And he HATES Nicholas Cage. But can we introduce him to the best action performance of Cage's career and make a believer out of him? Or is George just going to be a bit chit-chatter?

Will Travis convince George that Ridley Scott's Alien is grounded cinema? Will George learn that he secretly hates Al Pacino? Can Dan manage to not bring down the room while discussing multiple real-life hellscapes? You be the judge!

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George is going in blind this week, with no context. Is he ready for a two-and-a-half hour epic of 70s sleaze and 80s debauchery? I mean, obviously he isn't. Let's see how it goes! It might take Dan giving a guick "history of adult entertainment" to bring the context George needs.

Will George open his cold heart to empathize with the down-and-out LA adult scene actors as they try to overcome the rejection of mainstream America and build new family units from the injured souls around them? Oh, c'mon. This is George we are talking about.

Let's try this again: Will George appreciate the tragedy as the LA scene chews up and spits out the actors? Will Travis love this acting tour-de-force and laud the break-out performances that made Paul Thomas Anderson a perineal Oscar contender? Will Dan finally get the guys to appreciate clever cinematography? Tune in and find out!

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George really likes Hannibal Lecter. But how will he handle Hannibal Lecktor? We didn't tell him that Manhunter is based on the book Red Dragon, and so it is essentially the original and Red Dragon (which we watched last week) is a remake. Despite it saying "Based on the novel Red Dragon" in the opening titles, how long will George go before he realizes this is the same movie? He'll read the credits, right? Right!?

There's shades of (and discussions of) Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Batman, Silence of the Lambs and many more as George attempts to see where this early Michael Mann movie fits within the framework he knows from the later movies and TV show.

Will George see the value in a much more grounded approach to familiar characters like Will Graham, Hannibal and Jack Crawford? Will Travis appreciate the nuanced but subtle reading of the dialogue that leaves the tension in the details instead of big swings of theatrical pomp? Or will they both poo on the movie mercilessly? And what hidden detail did Dan notice that would tie a line from Pink Floyd all the way though Silence of the Lambs? Tune in to find out!

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George is a big fan of The Silence of the Lambs. And he really enjoyed a few episodes of the TV show Hannibal. But how will he feel to revisit the first version of Hannibal he saw some 20 years ago? Travis hasn't seen it since it was in theaters, and Dan hasn't seen it since 2006 or so. Will the movie hold up or will Brett Ratner leave a rodent taste in everyone's mouth?

Join us as lift imitates art and brings this episode on a twisty (real life) path that parallels the movie... a little too well..

Will George finally get to drop a shout-out to a kind (and Jason tattoo-sporting) local healthcare worker? (Really, wouldn't it be even weirder if he DIDN'T after including something so specific in the summary?) Can Travis contain his inner Kermit the Frog? Will Dan successfully draw a line from mid-90s Cinemax psychic detectives through the RFCP curriculum? Tune it to find out!

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George and Dan not have seen The Cell. Travis brought this to their attention as the guys explore the Early 2000s Serial Killer genre... (Also known as the "Nine Inch Nails period of Modern Horror")

And Dan shares a new insight into the Psycho shower scene... !

Will George find himself happily whisked away to a dreamscape in a mindscape while standing on desert landscape? Can Travis convince Dan to put some onions on his movie steak? Will Dan ever get the guys to slow down long enough to see the differences between these movies, instead of simply attaching to the similarities? Only one way to find out!

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George loved the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. But while he enjoyed The Ring, he didn't love Saw. Will the "Early 2000s" vibes of the Michael Bay-produced remake do the trick? (It was directed by the same guy as the Friday the 13th remake that George loved!) 

Will George enjoy the beefed up Jason-clone nature of the new Leatherface or will he miss the femininity of the original? Will Travis convince Dan that the Passion of the Christ was more scriptural than Robocop? Did Dan enjoy the now almost 20 year old remake of Chainsaw more than the recent Direct to Netflix ret-con sequel?

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George has not seen The Ring. Will PG-13 horror put the heebie in his jeebies or does he need the gore of a Hard R to get the willies... willying?

Tune in to find out if George managed to make it through the movie without jumping. Did Travis make it through the Japanese (original) version despite the subtitles? Will Dan ever find the answer to his "where did I see this scene?" question? 

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George and Travis had never seen Saw. And they didn't think that pun was any good. Thank you for siding with Dan on that one.

Will George be able to handle the first Torture Porn? Will Travis be surprised by the twist ending, even though he knows Tobin Bell is the killer? Will Dan be able to convince the guys WHY Seven seems less gratuitous than Saw? Tune in to find out!

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Richard Oliver, from the Chasing Tone Podcast, returns to discuss one of his favorite 80s Science Fiction classics.

George hasn't seen The Fly. In fact, he hasn't seen the old one, either. Heck, he hasn't seen Jeff Goldblum in anything since Jurassic Park (and hasn't seen that movie in years!) He wasn't ready.

Oddly enough, Dan hasn't seen The Fly either. He's seen the original from the 50s but held off on watching this until we could cover it for the show. He... also wasn't ready. But for different reasons.

Will George make it through the birth scene intact? Do the contents of the medicine cabinet top the beauty of that one effect in the movie Se7en? Is Dan offended or impressed by "the Fly sci-fi but it is AIDS" plot? Will Richard ever watch Leave it to Beaver? Tune in to find out!

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The Batman, you say? But that is still in theaters! Indeed, we made George go out into the world and watch a film the way our grandparents did... in public! 

Will George find a new favorite Batman scene? Can Travis literally blow Dan's mind with interview trivia? Did Dan really make a super-cut of dialog with That Scene with THAT scene?? Join us on the first Remedial Film Class Field Trip and find out!

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The guys are going back to one of George's oldest and most favorite movies to see if the Remedial Film Class is having any effect on his ability to see films for more than face value. And what better trip down memory lane than David Fincher's gritty grimy slimy serial killer classic: Sev-Seven-en?

12 Monkeys-Era Brad Pitt, Jason Goes to Hell-era New Line Cinema. David Fincher's first "not a music video or Alien sequel" movie. Se7en is great despite the odds!

Will George be able to center himself after the SHOCKING pop music revelations of the opening 6 minutes of this episode? Which of the Seven Deadly Sin(s) is Travis breaking with his dedication to the make-up effects of this movie? Will Dan and his strict insistence on "watching the movie as it was made" and "not making up additional plot that is not at all in the movie" drive Travis to change his mind after 27 years? Tune in to find out, and stick around to the end!

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George knows The Joker character from The Dark Knight. He has seen The Joker from Batman 1989. But is he ready for what Joaquin Phoenix brings to the early 80's aesthetic?

If you browse the usual channels looking for Joker content you will find references to 3 specific movies. Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and The Network. But Dan brings a new contender to the table and answers "where did THAT particular character trait come from!?"

Which one of the guys didn't rewatch the movie? Did George catch the twist ending? How would Travis fix the advertising campaign to increase the impact of the movie? Why does Dan think that the best joke in the movie went over most viewers' heads? Tune in to find out!

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Dan was an extra in The Dark Knight Rises. Was it fun? Did he die? Find out in this mini bonus episode!

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George has seen The Dark Knight Rises... but has he really SEEN it? Our journey through the Nolan Dark Knight Trilogy ends with Travis and Dan walking George through all the details he missed the first time. 

Will George find the best of times, or the worst of times? Did Travis just have his "The Dark Knight is Julius Caesar" moment with the "exhile or death!?" scene? Will Dan talk incessantly about being an extra in the movie? (We hope not!)

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Put away your swords and sandals, we are done with the Roman roots of The Dark Knight and now we are on to a more traditional study of the influences and experience of watching the movie as George: Experienced Movie Watcher.

Will George remember the actor from Heat that makes an appearance in The Dark Knight (as the same character, essentially?) Will Travis manage to stay one step ahead of Dan in Post? Will Dan manage to connect the Dark Knight to a Giallo after all? There's only one way to find out!

We reference a few videos toward the end, as we discuss the origins of the Joker voice. The interview discussed is found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW0-qJPbHDA&t=130s

The other Tom Waits songs referenced for context are:

Ol' 55: https://youtu.be/BeeK37wrBDQ

Tom Traubert's Blues: https://youtu.be/hvFyt2kmrZk

God's Away on Business: https://youtu.be/U5X4N2exOsU

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George has seen The Dark Knight a few times. (I mean who hasn't!) But because it is one of his favorite movies we spent the last 3 episodes looking at movies that directly influenced The Dark Knight. And now it is time to get down to business and look at how he sees The Dark Knight through the eyes of a guy who has now seen like 85 movies and knows that older movies influence newer movies. In many ways this is a test for the curriculum of the podcast!

Will George figure out why we watched Julius Caesar, of all things, in our lead up to The Dark Knight? Is Travis on-board with the more... remarkable elements of Dan's Theory? Did Dan deliver his promised denouement? Click that subscribe button and share this one with your friends!

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We continue our series examining the influences of Christopher Nolan's 2008 epic The Dark Knight. Consider this the atrium to the Dark Knight episode. It is warmer in here than outside, you can smell the kitchen from here and you would be silly to try to get around it without coming in! We cover Julius Caesar on its own merits. Then Dan fills in George and Travis on the historical context of the story within the film. Then the boys watch a scene from HBO's series Rome to see how they handle the same material. (And you can play along at home on HBO Max).

Oh and at one point George straight up predicts exactly where Dan is going in an insanely obscure way. This is try mild-melding stuff and it was unrehearsed. Seriously. Next-level music stuff. Worth the price of admission alone!

How will George handle his first battle with Iambic Pentameter since 2006? Will Travis appreciate the nuanced acting of some of the greatest to do it in a toga? What perfect, succinct, new rule did Dan create after watching HBO's series Rome?

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George had no idea what Heat was. We've been teasing him for weeks that he was going to watch a movie called Heat, which influenced the Dark Knight. And yet, from his initial impressions it seems he saw none of that upon his first viewing. My goodness, this dude. Nevertheless, join us as we shed light on how Michael Mann's heist-filled classic inspired the look and content (and cast!) of Black Hawk Down-- Err, The Dark Knight.

Will George find his happy place among the suicide attempts and solemn tone? How many movies from 1995 will Travis have more to say about than Heat itself? Will Dan finally reveal his five favorite Michael Mann movies? Tune in to find out!

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Troy Howarth returns to The Remedial Film Class Podcast for his first non-italian (and non-horror) film discussion. As we trace the roots of Nolan's film The Dark Knight, we begin with an early heist noir movie from a fresh faced upstart filmmaker who very shortly would go on to the highest artistic plane. Stanley Kubrick is no stranger to the show, and George is no stranger to his later works, but will Dan convince the guys that this film school classic is worthy of discussion in the same sentence as The Shining, Dr. Stranglove and The Dark Knight?

Will George catch the nuance of the "proto-Kubrickian" camera work? Will he recognize Dix Handley himself, Sterling Hayden? Will he at least recognize the Joker's mask from the robbery scene? Will Travis be won over by a swearing Parrot? Will Troy buy Dan's rather specific theories on John Carpenter movies? Did Dan just find someone that agrees with him on film scoring method? Tune in to find out!

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Travis wasn't able to record this week, so we are putting Heat on the Back Burner and circling back to look at the comic influences on Batman Begins to fill in the gaps in George's Ra'sducation. Thanks to the magic of HBO Max, he was able to quickly find the direct-to-video movie version of Year One as well as classic Ra's episodes from the Animated Series.

How will George handle the contrast of animated movies targeted at kids and teens when compared to the Cinema of Christopher Nolan? Will Dan convince George of the merits of the 1966 Batman show? What the heck is a Boob vent?

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OK, we have to level with you guys. George has seen this movie. Multiple times. He's seen all of the Nolan Trilogy of Batman films. But he only saw them during the dark times. When he was a cave dweller passively viewing shadows on the cave wall. Now that he has been (somewhat) successfully edumacated by the RFC, he is going back to Nolan to see how much more (or less?) he appreciates these classics.

Will George regret his trip back to "British New Jersey" or will he find himself at home amongst the Narrows? How many Beetlejuice impressions will Travis fit into one episode? No, seriously, Dan lost count. Dan isn't going to try and ruin this with a Giallo reference, is he?

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George really enjoyed his Philadelphia Experiment... ahem... I mean he really enjoy Punch-Out: The Movie... I mean... George finally watched Rocky and now we are making him watch Rocky II! Twice the Rocky, half the calories.

How did George handle the softer side of Rocky? Will Dan and George bill Travis for his time on the Shrink's Couch? Why did Dan disagree with the titling of this movie? Tune in and find out for your darn self!

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George is from Philly. Travis is from Philly. Actually, they are both from New Jersey but like... the Philly part.

George has never seen Rocky, but he knows that Philadelphia is an underdog kind of town. A city known for being the little brother to New York and always having to fight up hill. Or... does George really only know the identity that Philadelphia appropriated from Rocky?

Why does Apollo Creed make Travis want to hang out with Obama? Will George have any particular epiphanies during his waxing poetical on Philadelphian culture? Why does Dan know so much about Pro Wrestling?

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Season 2 Finale!

George loves politically incorrect humor. Dude can't get enough of it. Travis has been pointing to Porky's as the flagship for "they can't make movies like THAT anymore..." It is a match made in heaven!

Did Travis manage to convince George and Dan that the principal's office scene was worthy of a bout of incontinence? Did Dan manage to connect A Christmas Story, Black Christmas and Porky's into an extended Bob Clarkverse? Did George really just bring up meconium? PORKY'S!

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George has seen Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. And until recording this episode he did realize he was missing one final piece in the "standard narrative of how we got slasher movies." So, in honor of the Christmas season and the gap in George's movie knowledge, we travel back to 1974 for a cozy little movie from the same director as A Christmas Story.

Will George enjoy dissecting the anatomy... of telephone number systems? Can Travis look past the 3M 70's blood and enjoy a well-acted (and not dubbed or subbed!) entry in the slasher genre? Will Dan seriously find a way to fit Jose Ramon Larraz into this conversation? Tune in to find out!

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The rumors abound as to how John Hughes and company might have been inspired by Deadly Games. We covered this topic in depth on Wednesday but Dan left everyone with a cliff hanger: Another movie might have been just as influential to the writers of Home Alone and no one talking about it. 

Welcome to the cutting edge, folks. Please note that this is a Part 2 to the original episode on Home Alone and Deadly Games. We recommend you listen to that one first, but if you like living on the edge... have at it!

I Believe in Santa Claus is on Amazon Prime at the moment for purchase. It is worth every cent. It is... insane. We cover (and spoil the heck out of) the movie here but hearing about it will not do it justice. Consider this our sales pitch on the craziest Christmas movie you'll see this year.

We've got cannibal ogres with a whipped cream fetish, a smokeshow teacher who is also a fairy princess who dresses like Little Red Riding Hood, and Santa Claus on a counter-insurgency mission in Africa. And the rebels he's fighting aren't the bad guys.

And THEN AN ALLIGATOR SHOWS UP. Oh and a bunch of Home Alone content that was missing in Deadly Games pops up here verbatim. This is the Christmas Present you deserve and Dan is happy to give it!

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George loves Home Alone. It is the first movie we have found for which he had childhood nostalgia. So we revisited it so he could see the movie through the eyes of a movie watcher. Will it be better? Will it be worse? Will he find new depth in old characters? Tune in to find out.

Then we have to address the elephant in the room...

Home Alone is a ripoff of a French movie from the year before. Or at least, that is what the rumor mill would indicate. Is it really a simple ripoff? Are we dealing with more a "Halloween borrowing scenes from a bunch of gialli" situation? Or is the internet awash with a bunch of uninspired copycat baloney? We dive deep into Home Alone and Deadly Games to find out!

Deadly Games (AKA Dial Code Santa Claus, AKA 36-15 Code Père Noël, AKA Game Over, AKA Tödliche Nacht) is currently available to stream on Shudder and was recently received on a 4k UHD disc by Vinegar Syndrome. It is totally worth watching and about halfway through the episode we'll give you a "stop here before you watch" warning.

But the mystery of Home Alone goes deeper than Deadly Games... And we have to end this episode on a cliffhanger which will pay off in a special release this Friday (December 17) when we discuss a second influential movie (which is way more bananas than either Home Alone or Deadly Games.) So join us today and join us again on Friday!

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Jamie Lee Christmas may be over, but regular run-of-the-mill Dickensian Christmas is here to stay! George has seen the Muppets' Christmas Carol but was he ready for Bill Murray and Karen Allen to bring the laughs and the feels with this "modern" adaptation for a cynical late-80's crowd? Christmas Break begins!

George compulsively lists movies that made him cry while Travis lists off famous actresses that remind him of George's wife. Will Dan find a way to drag Batman 1989 into this movie too? Guys, it might be Christmas but that isn't stopping these dudes from Bart Simpson levels of irreverence. Eat my shorts and tune in!

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George is on a red-eye trip to Australia, for a cult classic Hitchcockian riff. Kangaroos? We got em. Guitar murders? Heck yes. Jamie Lee Christmas comes to a close with Road Games. A rated-PG (80s PG, so PG-13?) romp through the outback with a tour-de-force performance from Stacy Keach and a great supporting Jamie Lee Curtis.

Will George wax eloquently about tuning guitars and sideboob? Will a lack of nostalgia prevent Travis from enjoying a new old movie? Can Dan convince the guys that movies can stand on their own beyond our own expectations? Only one way to find out!

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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 Kline have tickled his funny bone? Does the film still compel Travis to fits of impression? Is Dan (a big Faulty Towers and Flying Circus fan) going to rave about his new favorite comedy?

Stick around for a special guest interruption from Richard... in Post?

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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 Trading Places. His current streak is at 7 Jamie Lee movies in a row thanks to the Fall Break 2021 (if you count her cameo in Halloween 3 via the original Halloween on TV.) But that is not to say there is any sense of fatigue setting in yet with our Padawan.

Can George compose himself for the duration of the episode? Will Blake love his first Trading Places experience? Is Travis trying to get us cancelled? Will Dan take us into the weeds of insider trading, securities violations and the dangers of buying orange juice on margin?

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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 row thanks to the Fall Break 2021 (if you count her cameo in Halloween 3 via the original Halloween on TV.)

Will George adapt to Canadian-style horror? (It isn't horror, really. It is ham.) How will Richard's English background affect his perspective on the great nation of Canada? Will Travis open his heart to a slasher he hated from the first moment? When did Dan become an expert on international currency exchange?

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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 rant while also defending the level of gratuitous nudity in 80s slashers? (He will!) Can Travis make a joke so crass that he leaves Dan speechless? (You'll have to judge for yourself!)

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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 into with this movie. He had once predicted Halloween 3 would see Michael in hell. Was it instead George in hell? Floppy firemen, amorous androids and the most insane George moment yet await you!

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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 fashion around New York, by director John Liu (In the Claws of the CIA, Dragon Blood). But it was thought to be lost to time until it was rescued by the restoration wizards at Vinegar Syndrome. Director Kurtis Spieler compiled the nearly 30 year old footage into a streamlined story. And with the help of producers including Brad Henderson, also of Vinegar Syndrome, he compiled a cast of voice actors from the exploitation and B-Movie Hall of Fame (not a real place, but it should be). 

Included on the upcoming Blu-Ray release is an excellent documentary look at the process of shooting a guerilla Kung Fu project on Staten Island and around New York in the 80s. But the behind the scenes feature goes on to explain the process of creating a new movie out of the old footage. The featurette is a must-watch, and very well may be worth the price of admission!

Will George's new drinking game catch on with our listeners... (we hope not!) Will Travis ever learn to love a movie with a redubbed audio track? (don't hold your breath!) Did Dan just say "Unrelenting Crotch Hell" in... context? (He did!)

Come for the Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja: The Movie vibes, and stay for the Beat-It aesthetics and Pink Floyd sexy scenes. New York Ninja is one to seek out!

Coming November 1st, 2021, from Vinegar Syndrome Pictures. Available at www.vinegarsyndrome.com

*Update* The review states that the film will be released on UHD, however a Facebook post from Vinegar Syndrome states that it will be in standard Blu-ray only. Don't let that dampen your excitement. This movie is still wonderful in 1080p!

Still need a little convincing? Here's the trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1wMt3fgOyM

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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 follow-up to Halloween (1978.) But what if the over-sequelization of the 1980s never occurred. (Thanks Friday the 13th Part 2 for kicking that trend into high gear!) What if John Carpenter hadn't been made to make Halloween 2 featuring Michael Myers and instead he simply left The Fog as the follow-up to Halloween in a sort of Horror Anthology from the Master of Horror himself?

Has Travis accidentally let us in on his secret crush on Edith Bunker? Why does George know so much about the physics and behavior of literal fog? Was Dan able to convince Travis and George that we should just go ahead and replace Halloween 2 with Halloween 2: The Fog?

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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 and are joined by fellow Friday alumnus Corey Feldman. Streaming on VOD and in select theaters beginning October 22, 2021!

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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 COVID-19, recorded remotely for this one so please excuse his "CB radio while the radio is on fire" sound quality.

Is Travis trying to get a Rob Zombie/Jamie Lee Curtis collaboration going? Has Dan figured out which movie H20 is actually a sequel to? Did George really catch all the Psycho references he thought he did? You know there's only way to find out... 

Head over to YouTube to see Dan's interview with John Carpenter. You will hear a preview of Phase 2 of the Fall Break!

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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 John Carpenter? Will George be able to predict where this series is headed?

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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 that one. But if your evil gloved hand clicks this one first, so be it!

Will George be able to handle the goofiness and slapstick qualities of this satire? Did Travis just advocate violating the Dewey Decimal System? Did Dan just call Travis a Kant? This is a wild one folks.

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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 convince you all to watch it. And we give you a chance to pause it before the spoilerfication begins.

Did George manage to let the tension of this classic Cold War thriller push him to the edge of his seat? What exactly is that raptor doing in Travis's throat? And did Dan just make it through an entire episode without mentioning slasher movies!?

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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? Did George at least recognize Robert Downey Junior in this one?

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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 now?

Will George forgive us (and the movie) for not warning him ahead of time? If Travis is the "George Clooney" of the pair, did he fully commit and get a neck tattoo? Did Dan really invite THAT actor into THAT franchise reboot? There's only one way to find out!

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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 mind with medical history? Tune in to find out!

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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 a firm grip on celestial physics? Only one way to find out!

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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 reference Giallo in a completly inappropriate moment? Tune in to find out!

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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 completely in the gutter? Stay tuned to find out!

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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 anything cavernous or built to be tested? Will Travis be back next week?

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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 podcast? Or will he stick to his allotted 25% accent maximum? Can Travis's Vito impression outshine his Buffalo Bill? Did Dan really just ruin the Godfather for everybody?

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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 cunning linguist? He didn't? He said the other thing? Don't Look Now, folks, the boys are off the rails!

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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!

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Did George find his stay at the Overlook to be anywhere near what he hoped it would be? Can Travis convince Dan that Wendy is the real antagonist? Is this the scariest tricycle in movie history?

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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 really going to bat for THAT MOVIE OF ALL MOVIES!? We have such sounds to show you...

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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 become a virtual Universal Jaws "The Ride" tour guide? Did the guys just write a superior Jaws 2!?

Referenced in the episode:

Light the Fuse... Sartana is Coming! https://youtu.be/FeuzTR6lmgo

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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 around? 

Referenced in the episode:

Tubular Bells scene from the Exorcist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GCcj0KZSfE

Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) by Goblin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IwY_D3pnOs

Halloween Theme by John Carpenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT4FY3NrhGg

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George wasn't sure if he was watching a demonic possession movie or a ghost movie this week. Either way... he was bound to get what he was after. We watched Poltergeist from 1982 and while we my have moved the tombstones... did we move the bodies? 

How would a youthful Travis or George have reacted to be a child in a theater in 1982? Will Parent-Travis love the movie as much as Child-Travis and Adult-Travis has over all these years? Will Dan mince words when it comes to how he feels about the internet theory that all of this is a drug induced hallucination? 

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George has seen Halloween. Is he ready for John Carpenter's take on Sci-Fi horror splatter? Dan made George watch two movies this week. The Thing From Another World (1951) and the much more well-known remake (and one of Travis's favorite movies) The Thing (1982).

Will George figure out what the F he just watched? Or does he need another prescription for Morning Hollywood? Did Travis ever find resolution in his struggles with the upside down head spider? Will Dan's theory on Tentpole Film Scoring hold any water?

Here are the clips discussed in the episode:

Fire clip - https://youtu.be/kl-Y8ZkUenk

"Why is George watching this" clip - https://youtu.be/aeC1gpnU7Z8

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Wait, it has only been a week since the last RFCP episode... Did this show just go WEEKLY!? It did, indeed.

Travis takes the lead this week, showing both George and Dan a film they've never seen, and one which is near and dear to his heart: Bruce Willis time-traveling to prevent a pandemic that kills most of the world. Just the kind of lightweight fair you would expect from the director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

How will George react to Brad Pitt howling like a monkey in the back of a school bus? Will Travis convince the guys that this movie is on par with Se7en (1995)? Will Dan find room in his biased little heart to look past the unexplained pseudoscience and convenient technological cherry picking to love a Sci-Fi movie with more drool than detail?

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Spring OUTbreak is over and George is all done with zombies... OR IS HE? We get him back on track to the mainstream with a little independent British classic... about zombies. But, like, fast zombies that don't want your brains they are just REALLY MAD at you.

Will George pitch a fit at fast zombies? Did Travis accidentally watch I Am Legend (2007) and is just trying to play it off? Did Dan just offset a Greek Mythology lesson with a joke so horrible it shocked George and rendered Travis speechless?

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George had a rough go of the original Night of the Living Dead. "Black and white? What is this, an Absolutist Pythagorean Dualism in video format!?" (he seemed to ask, while casting a wanting gaze at the nuanced relativism of the enlightened Kantian palette of The Walking Dead.) (At least, that is how Dan remembers it...)

Will George overcome his hesitation with the iconic 1968 Night to keep an open mind and heart with the 1990 remake? Is it safe to keep your organs exposed in a zombie crisis? Will Travis really bounce his head off of a hard rock just to make Dan shut up? Will Dan ever discover the source of the mysterious stringy jetsam? And does anyone succeed at "keeping things straight!"?

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George loves Shaun of the Dead, so he was in for a treat when he sat down for the first time to watch the 80's comedy zombie classic, Return of the Living Dead. And then Tom Savini shows up?

Is George falling for another zombie comedy? Can Travis survive a roasting from his idol? Why is Dan desperately seeking a medium? (Answers. Dan is seeking a medium so he can get answers.)

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George and the guys are back on solid American soil with the third George Romero zombie classic, Day of the Dead. This time around George and Travis's eyes light up to see the name Greg Nicotero, the gore master and director of AMC's The Walking Dead TV series, in the credits.

Can George contain his rampant excitement for all things Nicotero? Does he have Greg's dialog memorized? Can Travis convince Dan that the Mummers are a legitimate form of entertainment? Is Dan wearing a Metallica T-Shirt while recording this episode? Answers within! All comers welcome.

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Sail away with us to the Caribbean, via Italy. And sneak in some guerilla filmmaking in New York! We are loading George into the boat with Travis and Dan (and film historian and audio commentator extraordinaire Troy Howarth) and taking him on an adventure. But will he make it out alive?

Zombie (AKA Zombi 2, AKA Zombie Flesh Eaters, AKA Los Muertos Vivientes) is the first in a wave of Dawn of the Dead cash-ins that flooded the market after the success of Romero's 1978 Masterpiece. It is the zombie movie equivalent of Bird With the Crystal Plumage, and so what better way to celebrate it than with the return of Troy Howarth?

Will George survive "The Scene" or will he give up and swear off gore forever? Will Travis prefer the aquatic antics of the Italian master of gore over the commercialism of Dawn of the Dead? Given that this is the movie that brought Dan into the world of Italian Horror Cinema... is it time for Dan to stop and evaluate whether that was a good thing? (Spoiler: It total was!)

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George needed a break. So we suggested he take a Spring Break. A Spring... Outbreak!! So From Night of the Living Dead we move on to Dawn of the Dead. And we are just getting started on our road to The Walking Dead.

Is George finally seeing the light with these old zombie movies? Is Travis willing to see the Old Testament of zombie movies for what is gave to the genre instead of crapping all over every outdated (but modern and cutting edge for the time) trope and gore effect? Can Dan go two weeks without saying the world Giallo? There's only one way to find out! (Two if you count "ask the guys on Facebook")

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George loves The Walking Dead. He is passionately devoted to it. If he loves it so much, why doesn't he marry it? The question remains unanswered. So Travis and Dan decided it was high time he come to know the Old Testament of zombie lore. Sure the rules may be a little different and it isn't as polished but without Night there would be no walkers for George to appreciate. 

Surly George is back again, can the guys bring him around before it is too late? Is Travis a fan of zombies using tools? If only he could clarify his position on the matter. Is Dan talking football on a zombie episode? Is this a zombie episode? 

Stay tuned to the end to hear about some forthcoming plans... We're dying to tell you about them...

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When we started this journey we put George through the ringer with classics like Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Silent Night comma Deadly Night... But little did he know we were just building him up to Scream. 

Has George finally been scared by a "scary movie?" Or was he simply frightened by Drew Barrymore? Will Travis finally forgive Wes Craven for the craven offense of... butchering the Halloween timeline? Could Dan sound more smug hearing Travis reference Blood and Black Lace without provocation? Tune in today!

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George had so much fun (hashtagsarcasm) in Westworld that Travis and Dan decided to send him to Mars to experience a completely different vacation. Or perhaps it was only a dream the whole time? Nope, definitely not a dream. Unless it was.

Has George finally owned a case of "Be Careful What You Wish For?" How many favors did Travis have to burn to get Arnold to supplant Buffalo Bill as our celebrity impression? When does the official Remedial Bob Dylan Class podcast launch?  Find out by tuning in!

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George needed a vacation. He works too hard, and he ain't see any movies, so Travis and Dan sent him with a one-way ticket to Westworld. And not that high-brow HBO Westworld with its CGI and remarkably explicit casting calls, but instead to the simpler and more quaint Michael Crichton effort.

Will George ever acknowledge his own anti-robot bias? Will Travis find nostalgia amongst the faceless cowboy robots? Has Dan found the burn to end all burns? And are his takes on HBO's Westworld and The Fly (1958) hotter than a stuntman's fire gag?  Find out by tuning in!

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Before enrolling in the RFC, George hadn't seen anything. But somehow he managed to see a big chunk of the Quentin Tarantino catalog. Despite that, he had never heard of Jackie Brown! And so it was up to Travis and Dan to fix him once again.

Will George's "fashion tips for dads" result in some real merch? Has Travis finally figured out how to remake Clerks? What did Dan just text to the guys? Tune in to find out!

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George knew that Dirty Harry makes a speech about not being sure whether he fired five shots, or six at the end of the movie (but he had no idea that speech at the end was a callback to an earlier speech.) And Travis thought this was the one where Harry Callahan says "go ahead... make my day..." (but that's a different one.) Turns out, neither Travis nor George had actually seen Dirty Harry before and Dan was tickled to show it to them both!

What the heck is Transactional Favor acting? Can Dan make it through an entire episode about Dirty Harry without mentioning the Zodiac Killer? Does Dan really bring Frankenfish into the conversation? and Nail Gun Massacre? Is Travis waxing nostalgically about a different Dirty Harry movie again? Wait, is George cheating on the guys? Tune in to find out!

And stay tuned for a tease of what is to come this Spring!

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Travis has never seen No Country for Old Men. And of all things, George has seen it! We turn the tables today on the Remedial Film Class and make Travis take the red pill of empathy as we discuss the Cohen Brothers' Oscar Winner.

Will Travis offer insight as a first-time viewer? Can George make it through the entire episode without standing on his desk and shouting "NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS, TRAVIS!"?  Is Dan talking about philosophy again? And Percy Shelley? In the same episode? And now another video game story? Won't someone please think of the children and stop all this madness? Tune in to find out!

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George had never heard of First Blood. He had no idea that it was an action movie until Travis mentioned it in our pre-movie discussion. He didn't realize Rambo was in it until he heard the name in the movie!

Will George find what he was missing with Die Hard in the steely gaze of Sylvester Stallone? Did Travis finally find a movie his kid would like? Did Dan really just profile the author of the First Blood book like some kind of Mind Hunter but for trite literature? Only one way to find out!

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Join George and the guys as we welcome a special guest, film historian Troy Howarth. Troy literally wrote the book on giallo (three of them, actually) (and another on Argento) (and another on Bava... and you get the picture) and provided the audio commentary for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage for Arrow Films recent Blu-Ray release. In short, George just promoted to next-level film nerdity.

We manage to not spoil the movie for most of the episode, and we clearly delineate when we hit spoiler territory, so never fear if you haven't seen Bird just yet. But hopefully we make the case to check it out!

What was planned as a standard episode with a guest turns into a "how to watch European cult cinema and live to tell the tale" (which, it turns out, was just the thing George and Travis were needing). After Troy departs we soldier on in our usual fashion, fighting all comers to get George to stop overthinking everything and just enjoy himself for a few hours...

Will George ever find a crystal-plumed bird that satisfies his remarkably stringent plumage standards? Can Travis successfully pinpoint his specific Meyers-Briggs "subtitles and dubs" personality type? Does Dan survive the guest portion without completely fan-boying out? Tune in to find out!

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George has never died hard. We know, it was shocking to us as well. Die Hard... the best Christmas movie you can watch all year 'round and George hasn't watched it. Travis and Dan set out to rescue George from the Nakatomi Plaza of ignorance. And they... mostly succeed.

Will George ever figure out which Baldwin brother Travis thinks is handsome? Can Dan borrow someone's MP5A5 to try to recreate the descent into the ventilation shaft? Did Travis miss the memo about not opening up to jerks like Dan and George? Find out while the guys discuss George's First Time with Die Hard.

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2020 is finally just... about... o-- Oh no time froze and it is 2020 all over again! Groundhog Year!

To celebrate the end of this horrid year (everything except the podcasting, of course) George is going to revisit Ed Gein's legacy for the third time with The Silence of the Lambs. He has seen Psycho... He has seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... But how will George enjoy the "90's Version" of the flesh-wearing mythos?

Did George even realize that Buffalo Bill was from this movie? Does Travis's theory on the heritage of Jame Gumb hold water... perhaps a tub worth? Will "Dan in Post" return? How do the guys end up connecting the Halloween (1978) episode with this classic movie?

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'Tis the season to be merry... But Dan showed George (and Travis) the classic slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night to keep their merriment in check. And then Dan made Travis and George stick around for a quick bounce through the highlights of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) just for kicks. 

This is a special "Holiday Edition" of the Remedial Film Class, but don't fret, we are back with a regular episode next week! In the meantime, consider joining the Remedial Film Class Podcast - Extra Credit Discussion group on Facebook!

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Season 2 is upon George, and what better way to get him back into the swing of things than to... make him watch a remake of the last 10 movies he watched? We are watching Friday the 13th (2009) and George is getting a full course on how to do a remake (or reboot) well.

Is George finally going to get the Tommy-Jason of his dreams? Can Travis stop gushing over Derek Mears long enough to tell us how he would have ended the movie? Who is Dan's MVP (and why isn't it who we all assumed it would be?)

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George has been to Hell and back with Jason. And that was just in Part 8! (womp womp...) Where else could Jason go after being dragged to Hell by Jim Hinson Demon Hands than directly to space? There were no other options, we asked. 

How long into watching this movie did George finally realize that Jason was legitimately going to be in space for the rest of the movie? We're not kidding, he didn't know it was a space movie! How many other franchise formula copies will Travis suggest, and will all of them be better concepts than this one? (Spoiler: Many. And yes.) How many copies of Torso does Dan own and why is this relevant to Jason X?

This episode is the final in our Fall Break sidequest. Stick with us to the end to find out where we are headed for Episode 1 of Season 2 which will launch December 16th!

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The time has come. George has been asking for a body-jumping Jason spirit monster thing for the past few episodes. It is his perfect solution. It explains everything! And now he is going to get that idea served back to him in spades.

Was George regretful for this "spirit Jason" wishes? Did Travis ever get his Van Helsing? Did Dan just join the Undercover Stripper Brigade?

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George is ready to make sure that the Crystal Lake Camp electrical grid is up to code. Travis is ready to pounce on Dan for any ounce of nostalgia. And Dan? He doesn't want less Jason on a boat... it sounds like he is actually arguing for more Jason on a boat!

How would George handle the Vancouver fight with the drug addicts? Does Travis come around to Jason's second attempt a laugh? Will Dan ever learn to pronounce Nico Mastorakis's name?

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George had all his hopes set on a murderous Tommy-Jason. Part 5 let him down. Part 6 let him down. Is it finally time for Tommy-Jason to take up the mantle of Jason? No. No it isn't. How will George cope with the abrupt swerve of the franchise into a veritable Carrie vs. Jason?

Can George ever come to grips with the Zombie Dad? Why is Travis defending the Bang Van? Will Dan ever forgive this movie for hurting him so? How would Dan fix this movie? And would that fix be more MacGyver or MacGruber?

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George knows that the time has come for Tommy-Jason. After the tease of Part 5 there is no way that Tommy-Jason won't save us from the mediocrity of Part 5 by finally taking the mantle and the machete. George is ready to see Jason-Tommy run roughshod over everyone like a WWE run-in.

How will George channel his disappointment with the abandoned Tommy-Jason plotline? Will Travis ever get his RV? Has Dan forgiven Part 6 for letting him down when he was 12? 

In a continuation of the Part 5 episode, the guys wrap up their discussion of Phenomena (1985). They have seen the Italians steal the Friday the 13th formula back, and now thanks to Part 6 they have seen the Americans steal the aesthetic from Phenomena for their next Jason venture. And the snake continues to eat itself.

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