Dark Discussions Podcast

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WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM - your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction and all that's fantastic. Your hosts discuss all things genre, including books, movies, films, video games, and comics about such topics as horror, science fiction, fantasy, and grindhouse.Visit us at www.darkdiscussions.com or send us a comment at darkdiscussions@aol.com

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  • Dark Discussions - Episode 019 - John Carpenter Retrospective Part 2

    21/09/2011 Duración: 01h57min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Many critics overlook the latter part of John Carpenter’s career forgetting that he had a string of fantastic films that would have been crowning achievements for any other director. With such classic films as Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, and The Thing in his filmography already, each film that followed would be unfairly compared to them. Yet in all honesty, there were more than just hidden gems among the end product. Many have been well received and enjoyed by audience and critics alike. In 1983 two living legends came together. John Carpenter makes the film adaption of Stephen King’s Christine. At the time the film was considered one of the best adaptations of the author’s work. A year later he follows with the Academy Award nominated science fiction film Starman starring Jeff Bridges in an award nominated performance. But the true Carpenter fan would be rewarded soon afte

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 018 - The Extreme Films of Gaspar Noé

    13/09/2011 Duración: 01h24min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Are they horror films? Are they art house films? Or are they exploitation films? The topic has been debated since the earliest of Gaspar Noé’s films was released back in 1998. No matter what they are called they have shocked both reviewers and audiences alike and caused more discussion than films with budgets a hundred times larger. Gaspar Noé, a French film maker that has been associated with the New French Extremity wave of horror, received immediate praise back in 1998 by his countrymen’s film critics with his debut movie I Stand Alone, a gritty and dark film about the bowels of French society. By taking a mirror to French culture, Noé’s film was immediately compared to such 1970’s American films as Taxi Driver and Hardcore. Following the critical praise of I Stand Alone, Noé came back with a film in 2002 entitled Irreversible which caused an uproar at Cannes. With its graphic depicti

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 017 - Christopher Smith Focus: 2006's Severance

    07/09/2011 Duración: 01h53min

    Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. In 2006, Christopher Smith, the British director/screenwriter who came bursting onto the horror scene with the Franka Potente starring film Creep, comes back with his second feature length film, Severance. On a team building trip out in the wilderness of Eastern Europe, a group of defense company employees land up in a nightmare where what should have been at worst a boring digression turns into a terrifying excursion into hell. Christopher Smith brings to the horror fan a dark comedy that seems to get its humor from the ridiculous tripe of organizational behavior while bringing the dread of the most chilling slasher films. As our group of protagonists bumble around on a trip that the majority of them prefer not to have attended, a dark secret about their employer comes to the forefront where the not too distant past may have finally caught up to the present. Dark Discuss

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 016 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    31/08/2011 Duración: 01h50min

    Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Rise of the Planet of the Apes has turned out to be a huge summer blockbuster and Dark Discussions gives their take on the film. Philip and Mike believe it to be the best genre film of the summer. With his performance playing the chimpanzee Caesar, Andy Serkis may have revolutionized the definition of modern day acting. Minute for minute, the role has more screen time than any other character. Andy Serkis’s presentation of a part that is entirely computer generated amazingly brings realism to the role. Through its modern spin of the franchise, a remarkable twist ending, and its multiple homages to the original series, the film shows that Hollywood can still make a summer film that is more than buttered popcorn. Following up on Episodes 006 and 007, the Frank Darabont Retrospectives, Philip and Mike discuss their opinions on Frank Darabont’s abrupt exit from his television serie

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 015 - John Carpenter Retrospective Part 1

    24/08/2011 Duración: 01h35min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. When horror fans think genre cinema the first person that comes to mind seems to always be John Carpenter, the renowned film director, screenwriter, and composer who won an Academy Award for a short film as a college student. Starting in the 1970’s, he began a legacy of creating some of the most unforgettable genre films ever. With his classic tale of Michael Myers, a relentless killer that seems to be of supernatural origin, the 1978 film Halloween became one of the most profitable films dollar for dollar in movie history. The film, taking its queue from such predecessors as Bob Clark’s Black Christmas and the Italian giallo, reinvented the slasher film and created a subgenre that went on to be the model for such diverse films as Friday the 13th and the Terminator. His follow ups included the gory yet classic ghost story The Fog, a story about a leper ship which sank a century ago coming

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 014 - Bits, Pieces, and Body Parts Volume 1

    17/08/2011 Duración: 01h50min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Dark Discussions does its first non-topical podcast. Though no specific theme is discussed, Gordon and Philip do a 360° roundabout through horror, pulp, and genre. On location at the cinema to see Final Destination 5 in 3D, various films are discussed including the Patrick Lussier/Todd Farmer productions of Drive Angry and My Bloody Valentine 3D. With horror on our hosts’ minds, the After Dark Horrorfest 8 Films to Die For yearly releases are focused on including some specific titles as The Hamiltons, Mulberry Street, and Unrest. Not to be left behind, superhero films such as Kick Ass enter the conversation but more importantly Philip and Gordon give their opinion on Anne Hathaway’s turn as the Cat Woman in the upcoming Christopher Nolan Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. To round up the discussion prior to the viewing of Final Destination 5, our hosts discuss the novels they have been read

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 013 - Christopher Smith Focus: 2004's Creep

    13/08/2011 Duración: 01h53min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. When Christopher Smith wrote and directed his debut film entitled Creep in 2004, audiences waiting for a new voice in horror cinema were only getting a taste of what was to come. With a career that has now expanded to include four well regarded films within seven years, Christopher Smith has been observed by some as this generation’s John Carpenter. His films have included such diverse characteristics and plots as horror comedy, a powerful period piece, an original take on the slasher, and a mind bending mystery. Dark Discussions intent was to do a two part retrospective on this amazing director and screenwriter yet while putting the episodes together and discovering the detail that was discussed; it was decided to instead focus specifically on each of the splendid films of this wonderful talent. Philip and Eric discuss Mr. Smith’s debut film and what turns out to be the beginning of a fa

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 012 - The Planet of the Apes Retrospective Part 3

    04/08/2011 Duración: 01h31min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. As the original Planet of the Apes franchise has moved from modern film into classic spectacle, Hollywood decides to reboot the series for a new generation of film goers. Thirty-two years since the Charlton Heston original classic, a reboot goes into production and is released in 2001 to great excitement. Tim Burton, the director of such genre favorites as Sleepy Hollow and Ed Wood, helms an ambitious remake starring Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, and the beautiful Estella Warren in a film that sadly disappoints both the younger audience and those who are fans of the original series. Though spectacular visually, the story arc would resonate with neither film critic nor filmgoer. Yet today, August 11, 2011, ten years after the first reboot Hollywood yet again brings to audiences a new version of the franchise, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Unlike the Tim Burton film, this new reboot focuses on

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 011 - The Planet of the Apes Retrospective Part 2

    27/07/2011 Duración: 02h15min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. With the legacy of the Planet of the Apes and its sequel behind them, an idea came about that would lead to a three story arc to round out the now classic franchise. With this in mind, Pierre Boulle’s novel The Planet of the Apes was front and center once again where the source material was mined to create a new and compelling arc that took the original novel and reversed the human and ape character roles for the upcoming films. The intelligent apes, Cornelius and Zira, take the lead in the first of the three films, Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Through the physics of space and time, they appear on modern day Earth where they at first are beloved as a novelty yet soon such feelings sour as the government learns that the future of the human race may result in slavery and domination by intelligent apes. In the next film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar, the child of Corneliu

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 010 - Rear Window

    24/07/2011 Duración: 01h48min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Episode 010 - Rear Window. What appears to be a tight and quaint little thriller seems by today’s standards so much more. Rear Window, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces from 1954, seems more modern today than the half a century ago that it was filmed. With reality television a staple on every channel, a person with a flick of the switch can immediately become a voyeur and watch through a window the staged lives of so many people, famous or not. Mr. Hitchcock put together a film that seems as if he himself had a window to the future. The film is that of a semi-famous photographer, Jeff Jeffries, who remains in a wheelchair after shattering his leg while on assignment. Stuck in his Manhattan apartment for over six weeks the film audience meets his bourgeois Brahmin Park Avenue girlfriend Lisa Fremont along with his sharp tongued and private nurse, Stella. Bored and frustrated, he begins to inno

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 009 - The Planet of the Apes Retrospective Part 1

    17/07/2011 Duración: 02h15min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. In 1952, a French World War II veteran and resistance hero, wrote a historical novel that brought him to international fame, The Bridge Over the River Kwai. Pierre Boulle became a prolific author who’s career extended into many genres which included science fiction and social fantasies. By 1963 his latest novel, Monkey Planet also translated into Planet of the Apes, grabbed the attention of Hollywood. With Rod Serling co-screenwriting, Charlton Heston starring, Franklin Schaffner directing, and Jerry Goldsmith scoring, the film adaption of what one would have considered but a B-film only ten years prior became an international sensation and preceded the summer blockbuster film by seven years. The film took the novel’s story to a new level of imagery and connotation for the times. In a world that had the fears of the Cold War and the Prague Spring, the importance of race relations, the end of Ara

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 008 - Let Me In

    10/07/2011 Duración: 01h24min

    Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. During the year of our Lord 2004, the debut novel of an unknown author from Sweden changed the mythos of one of the most mysterious and dangerous monsters of horror legend. Prior to its release, vampires had slowly become the stock character of numerous romantic and teenage horror books and films. However this original take on the creature of the night stood out from the more common romantic view of the vampire. When John Ajvide Lindqvist saw his novel Let the Right One In published within his home country, it immediately landed an audience and became a best seller. Almost without delay scores of movie producers throughout Sweden battled for the film rights to this original and chilling work of fiction. Four years later the Swedish language film with its screenplay written by Lindqvist made its debut and the story suddenly became an international sensation. A second adapti

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 007 - Frank Darabont Retrospective Part 2

    03/07/2011 Duración: 01h56min

    Welcome to Episode 007 of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. By 2007, Frank Darabont had established himself as one of Hollywood’s top directors and screenwriters. Following the award nominated adaptations of some of Stephen King’s most heart warming stories, Mr. Darabont decided to go back to his roots to produce, screen write, and direct one of Mr. King’s most beloved horror stories of all time, The Mist. The movie is a story of a group of survivors taking refuge in a grocery store as a mist of unknown origins envelopes the building. A throwback to the horror and sci-fi movies of the 1950’s and 60’s, the film, though a moderate success at theaters, is thought of as one of the top ten genre movies of the decade. With its religious and political undertones the film speaks volumes about today’s world. The ending, a shocking change from the novella, was so impactful to audiences, Stephen King himself stated that he had wished he had thought of

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 006 - Frank Darabont Retrospective Part 1

    26/06/2011 Duración: 02h15min

    Welcome to Episode 006 of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. In 1979, a young inspiring film student took advantage of an opportunity called a Dollar Baby, Stephen King’s generous way of giving back to the next generation of film makers. With the permission to make an adaption of one of the author’s short stories, Frank Darabont at the young age of twenty proceeded to make a short film which would go on to reach the semi-finalist list of the 1983 Academy Awards. Within five years he would have screenwriter credits to the third installment of the Chuck Russell directed Nightmare on Elm Street Dream Warriors, a huge box office hit and ranked by critics as the best in the series after the original. A year later Frank Darabont reteamed with Chuck Russell and once again writes the screenplay for the remake of The Blob, a film listed by Fangoria magazine as one of the 300 best horror films of all time. By the mid-1990’s his collaboration with Ste

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 005 - Zombies Part 2

    19/06/2011 Duración: 01h07min

    Welcome to Episode 005 of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Once again Philip and Gordon discuss the flesh eaters known so affectionately as the walking dead and zombies. Within this episode, less familiar zombie films are brought to the attention to the listeners. Unlike the George A. Romero films and the other more well known franchises such as Resident Evil, zombie movies have been copied, ripped off, or simply reinvented by both great talents in the horror genre as well as the occasional hack. Our hosts discuss three films each that any horror or zombie aficionado should see if they haven’t seen yet. Gordon focuses on the smaller film where there is no zombie apocalypse in sight. His three recommendations are Grace, directed by Paul Solet and starring the beautiful Jordan Ladd; Deadgirl written by Troma veteran Trent Haaga; and an entry from across the pond in Norway entitled Dead Snow. Philip focuses on three older films filled with kin

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 004 - Who Goes There?

    12/06/2011 Duración: 01h13min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. The Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby 1951 film The Thing From Another World is considered by many the greatest science fiction film of the 1950’s, rated superior to its contemporaries such as The Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still. John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, though a failure at the box office, has become arguably one of the greatest horror and science fiction films of not only a decade but of all time; re-evaluated many times over as a classic. Yet where did these wonderful films come up with such an engrossing and game changing story? Philip takes the microphone and brings to the forefront the source material, one of the most important stories in horror and science fiction history, the 1938 novella Who Goes There? At the time of publication, science fiction film and literature was mostly Space Opera, the good old fashioned action adventure story but with a science fi

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 003 - Zombies Part 1

    05/06/2011 Duración: 01h28min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. The topic for this episode is Zombies with a capital Z. Zombies have overtaken the world's culture, entering into our media just like a virus. Books, movies, video games, comics, and even podcasts have dedicated stories about zombies and their terror. Prior to 1968 zombies were known mostly as Haitian monsters created by voodoo or possibly ghoulish demonic forces, but in 1968 everything changes with an amateur director from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania named George A. Romero. His independently made film Night of the Living Dead shocked and captivated the horror world. In today's podcast, Gordon and Philip focus on the post-Romero zombie, the flesh eater, segwaying between the slow shambler to the fast kinetic monster. Talk of the zombie apocalypse brings about the discussion of what makes our societies tick and whether a zombie outbreak is really only a reflection of humanity itself. Franchi

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 002 - Sucker Punch

    29/05/2011 Duración: 01h21min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. A fairly recent release at theaters has brought both the mainstream critics and the genre folks camping on different sides of no man’s land arguing whether the film was great or just a complete mess. The film is Sucker Punch written and directed by genre favorite Zack Snyder. Philip takes an in depth look into what the film pays homage to, focusing on such topics as anime, steam punk, comics, and video games. The film’s "everything but the kitchen sink" plot and visuals makes one hell of a ride, but more importantly, where did the elements displayed on hopefully an IMAX or 3D screen come from? Most think it was Zack Snyder’s own reverence to "geek" culture but others think it was much more than that. Was it a silly mess with beautiful girls in skimpy outfits fighting everything from Daimajin samurais, horrific zombies, futuristic robots, and fantasy monsters or was it an overblown disaster

  • Dark Discussions - Episode 001 - The State of Horror

    22/05/2011 Duración: 02h06min

    Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Kicking off the first podcast in style, Gordon and Philip chat about the horror genre in general. Discussing how horror on television has taken a huge leap forward with such brilliant new programming as The Walking Dead, a zombie television show based off the graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, your hosts move to an assessment of the once hot and hip cable horror show Masters of Horror. Masters of Horror was a very brilliant idea where stories from the top genre writers in literature were filmed by some of the most preeminent horror directors. Overviews of such authors as Joe R. Lansdale and F. Paul Wilson slide the conversation into other artists who have filmed these author’s stories such as Joe Dante, Mick Garris, and Dario Argento. Changing gears, the topic switches to the Asian horror wave that shocked film back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, focusing on Japan, Korea, and Thailand. S

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