Have You Seen This?

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

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen and Tim host Mike Rosen, who is a witch, to discuss a very witchy cult horror movie, Eyes of Fire! Also, if you were dying to know Jen’s thoughts on Midsommar, they’re in there.Mike's graphic novel, Malleus Malleficarum, is indeed on itch.io and comes highly recommended by your hosts!Jen misidentified the actor who plays Will Smythe as “Douglas Lipscomb.” She of course meant Dennis Lipscomb.Severin Films included Eyes of Fire in their recently released All the Haunts Be Ours folk horror boxed set. If your interest in Eyes of Fire isn’t quite up to that $170 price tag, you can of course watch the film on Shudder’s excellent streaming service.For more on the genre, Folk Horror Revival offers a generous repository of knowledge. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! https://www.patreon.com/posts/64985010Jen and Tim take a bite out of cult cannibal Western flick Ravenous, with the help of Mike Rosen, aka Twitter’s lovable* bitterkarella!“The Windigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feeds on a spiritual void. Canada and US are presently in an advanced stage of the ‘Windigo Psychosis.’”-Mowhawk Nation News Sample a scholarly paper about Windigo psychosis thanks to the Internet Archive. You can buy Shawn Smallman’s Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History directly from the publisher online. As mentioned during the episode, John Coulthart’s Feuilleton blog is highly recommended!*unless you’re a hater Have You Se

Tim and Jen effuse about an early Michael Mann joint for television, the prison story The Jericho Mile!You can buy a beautiful blu-ray of the film from Kino Lorber, but if you just can’t wait to see it, it’s on YouTube. And we highly recommend it!The 1977 film Short Eyes, based on Miguel Piñero’s incendiary play, is free with ads on Tubi.For more Michael Mann, check out our episode on The Keep! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Tim and Jen assume the lotus position to study a leftover Bruce Lee passion project, the martial arts video essay Circle of Iron.  Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim enlist favorite guest Mike Rosen (bitterkarella on Twitter) to explicate the inexplicable Dan Aykroyd/Gene Hackman buddy cop comedy, Loose Cannons!Not to get all fact check dot org on you all, but the Dissociative Identity Disorder website has science-based information on what was misrepresented as “multiple personality disorder” in the movie.Busy Inside is a compassionate documentary about people with DID.Read an article about the Southern California Sorcerers, a writer’s group which included future Loose Cannons scribe Richard Matheson and some other guys like Rod Serling, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison. Excelsior!Hear the closing theme sung by Katey Sagal (!), ripped “straight from the uncompressed Laserdisc track.” Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Jen welcome back Sean Morris to discuss one of Spike Lee’s most fascinating and controversial trainwrecks, Bamboozled.Per Sean’s recommendation, check out the official video for “Lovin’ It” from Little Brother’s “too intelligent” album The Minstrel Show.If you’re curious about the camera Spike Lee used to make Bamboozled, you can read a history of the Sony DCR-VX1000 here.In 2005, Dr. David Pilgrim wrote a powerful essay about the collection that became the foundation of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. In “The Garbage Man: Why I Collect Racist Objects” he reflects on the emotional toll collecting exacted on him, as well as the anger and sadness the objects still inspire and the lingering stain of anti-black bigotry in the United States.Watch the Levi’s 501 button-fly jeans commercial directed by Spike Lee and starring…Rob Liefeld lol Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen and Tim revisit an old favorite, Peter Hyams’s “High Noon in Space,” aka Outland!Jen is incorrect when she asserts that John Wayne was considered for the part of Marshal Will Kane in High Noon; Kramer and screenwriter Carl Foreman wanted a hot young star like Brando or Gregory Peck. Wayne, along with other Hollywood reactionaries including Hedda Hopper, did pressure Gary Cooper into withdrawing from a proposed production company headed by High Noon screenwriter and HUAC target Carl Foreman.The story of High Noon and Carl Foreman is told at length in Glenn Frankel’s book High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. You can read an excerpt on the Vanity Fair website.By the way, you can browse the Outland press kit! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! https://www.patreon.com/posts/58990232Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory. You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Mike Rosen aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter!  Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get access to 50 bonus episodes for a pledge as low as $2/month at our Patreon!Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.'The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in the world”, that’s been siphoned out of the obese, and rendering it into red soap tablets they then flog to exclusive boutiques. It’s unbelievable any film would dare use, even as such a sick gag, a sequence reminiscent of that chapter of the Holocaust in which Nazi thoroughness rendered the Jews down into similar, no doubt less pricy soap bars. But Fight Club has no reticence, no memory, no shame.'The performance artist Tim mentioned is Emma Varker. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Mike Rosen (@ bitterkarella on Twitter) to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode— the 3-hour black-and-white director’s cut of Martin has been found!Check out Mike’s satirical horror microfiction account Midnight Pals on Twitter, as well! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog.https://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the-scandalous-origins-of-martin-scorseses-after-hours Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to Have You Seen This? on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.https://archive.org/details/loose-change-1st-cutWatch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_QPNvKVBEk Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim revisit the greatest unfairly-cancelled single-season sci-fi western TV series of all time: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.! If you thought we were going to say “Firefly” you have obviously never listened to our show before. Also Jen is finally able to air her feelings about Dixie for a mass audience. Spicy!Check DVDTalk for information on the complete series on home media.https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22466/adventures-of-brisco-county-jr-the-complete-series-the/Whether you lived through it or not, you can peruse the 1993-94 prime-time television lineup for yourself.http://www.inthe90s.com/prim9394.shtml Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to Have You Seen This? on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Jen and Tim agree and disagree on an also-ran Nicolas Roeg movie, Eureka! Jen really gets the bit between her teeth in this one and Tim demonstrates almost saintly patience while she babbles. Watch a short documentary on the inspiration for Jack McCann, the gold millionaire Sir Harry Oakes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgWA_-sUJsBuy Charlotte Gray’s very engaging bio of Harry Oakes, Murdered Midas, on Alibris.https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=murdered+midas&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Cool World is not cool. Emma Bowers (@hyenasandgin) returns to commiserate with Tim and Jen about a very bad animated feature. Turns out this movie did significant psychological damage to young Tim.Watch Emma's Full Metal Alchemist video!Compare and contrast: this interview with Ralph Bakshi, and this one with writer Michael Grais. Bakshi claims malfeasance from producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. (to the point of violence). Grais calls Bakshi a liar, essentially. What's the real story? Who knows?Bakshi puts in this pissing stuff, and toilet stuff. I didn't like that sex attitude in it very much. It's like real repressed horniness; he's kind of letting it out compulsively.R. Crumb on Ralph Bakshi and the Fritz the Cat feature filmThe Tex Avery doc Tim alluded to is called Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons.If we haven't dissuaded you, you can watch Ralph Bakshi's most recent animated work, The Last Days of Coney

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon for only $2 and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis/Mike Rosen returns to fight Tim on the merits (or lack thereof) of cult 80s sci-fantasy film Krull! Krull hit screens in 1983 and failed to make its money back, although it is beloved by the kind of people who liked Ready Player One.For exhaustive contemporary coverage on Krull, visit the Internet Archive’s scanned copy of Starlog issue 76.https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-076/page/n51/mode/2up?view=theaterSpecial effects makeup artist Nick Maley seemed to enjoy making the film, judging by his reminisces.https://web.archive.org/web/20020331025842/http://1001resources.com/hosting/users/cinesecrets/pmKrull-Intro.htmlOne valiant effort to market the movie: Krull-themed weddings! To our knowledge, none of the brides or grooms have come forward to admit to their participation. But it's hard to see how the movie missed with marketing concepts this good:‘One [marketing gimmick] suggests approaching

Screenwriter Josh Olson returns to share a Russ Meyer phantasmagoria and to make it clear that he did NOT write Gigli Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen and Tim talk about everything BUT the movie, including the vexed question of Ron Howard! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Rosen joins Jen and Tim to discuss that movie you really liked as a kid and then revisited as an adult and realized it wasn’t that good Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.