Recovered

Dan and Keith head to the sewers of New York for the beginning of a deep dive into Ninja Turtle Cinema! What began as a comic parodying Frank Miller's Daredevil became an extremely kid friendly comic and animated series, whose popularity lead inexorably to a trilogy of movies in the 90s, which did what franchises of the era tended to do: start incredibly strong, then gradually fall apart. The 1990 original took the characterizations of the Saturday morning cartoon and applied them to the stor...

Dan and Keith head to a trio of spooky wax museums, where the figures are a little TOO realistic. Beginning in the golden age of 1933, Mystery of the Wax Museum tells the tale of Ivan Igor, a dedicated wax sculpturer betrayed by his greedy partner, who finds a sinister shortcut to rebuilding his collection of lifelike waxen historical figures. A plan imperiled by Plucky Girl Reporter Florence Dempsey, out for the scoop! Twenty years later, a new version skims off some unnecessary side charact...

While we sort out some technical difficulties and prepare a mini-saga for your enjoyment, we harken back to the time when the Video Vulture, John Tebbutt, introduced Dan and Keith to the time a Roger Corman sci-fi b-movie somehow got remade and ended up even cheaper. Join us again for It Conquered the World and Zontar, The Thing From Venus, as we explore how maybe Roger Corman did in fact have the sauce.

Grab your tommy guns and say hello to our little friend as Dan and Keith tackle the Scarfaces! Back in 1932, as prohibition was about to end but Hays Code Hollywood was about to start, Howard Hughes commissioned Scarface, a film adaptation of a novel loosely fictionalizing Al Capone's crime career. Paul Muni, the Daniel Day-Lewis of the 30s and 40s, plays Tony Camonte, a gangster with dreams bigger than his boss prefers, who rises to control Chicago's booze racket, then manages to lose it all...

Things get hairy in Europe as Dan and Keith explore some American Werewolves! Back in 1981, John Landis followed up his classic comedies Animal House and Blues Brothers by blending surreal comedy with classic horror in An American Werewolf in London, where an American on holiday must grapple with a curse turning him to a killing machine three nights per month. Dan has appreciation for random comedy, and less appreciation for Keith's questioning of the lore. When the 90s hit, the Americans mov...