Friday, October 20, 2017

FTM 411 - PRINCE OF DARKNESS

Heath Holland returns and drinks some green devil juice with Patrick.



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Also discussed this episode: Cellar Dwellar (1988), The Mutilator (1984), Death Spa (1989) Chopping Mall (1986), The Nest (1988), Billy Club (2013), Twice Told Tales (1963), Blood Rage (1987), MFA (2017), Bad Dreams (1988), Popcorn (1991), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

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17 comments:

  1. Wow I'm looking forward to this.

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  2. You deliberately timed this to coincide with the release of Carpenter's new album of old movie themes, right? (Haven't listened yet.)

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  3. She fuckin' hates me! La la la la! I tried to hard and she tore my feelings like I had none!

    I must admit I enjoyed that song back in the day...

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  4. Only halfway through the podcast but I'm about to be busy as heck at work so imma say this even if you say it later. I always thought this was Carpenter's most actually Lovecraftian movie, and Mouth of madness was more an homage. The way Carpenter takes spiritual and seemingly fantastic impossibilities and makes them concrete and absolute, albeit in a theoretically scientific way, is totally Lovecraft, and why I also think this is his scariest movie.

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  5. Also as a former Godsmacker, maybe I'm Straight Out Of Line, maybe I Stand Alone, maybe I'm Cryin Like A Little Bitch, or maybe I'm just an Awake Moonbaby, but if you all don't Keep Away and Realign maybe we can enjoy some Love-Hate-Sex-Pain together.

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  6. Mutilator, Death Spa (greater than Killer Workout, btw) and Chopping Mall is a trifecta of awesomeness.

    Patrick's point about Eastwood's performance in MFA is dead on. I think that constitutes about 75% as to why MFA is one of my favorite films of the year.

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  7. The Fog remake came out in 2005. Time flies.

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  8. Prince Of Darkness is possibly my favorite Carpenter movie. As Mr Holland said, it is a moody movie, and i like those

    And i agree that it’s the scariest

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  9. Also, Alice Cooper is in the movie because his manager is an executive producer on the movie

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  10. I have a bunch of new vinyl. Some colored, 180 gram. I never have an issue with skipping. It actually doesn’t scratch as easily if it’s 180.

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    1. That's great to hear. Do you clean your new vinyl or put it on the platter straight out of the sleeve? I watched a YouTube video of a guy using a black light on some of his new vinyl to show how unbelievably dirty they can be straight from the plant.

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  11. Love some HHH

    I always have that Fallbreak song in my head for months after every watch

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  12. Great show guys! I'm actually also in the camp that I find Price of Darkness to be Carpenter's scariest movie. I thought I was alone on that. It's an amazing film, I love it so much.

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  13. I'm apparently way behind listening to this episode. Loved the discussion about Prince of Darkness (which I haven't seen yet) and Carpenter in general. Speaking of critical appreciation of genre directors like Carpenter, my film theory class this semester has Auteurs as its theme, and John Carpenter is the director we're focusing on. We watched The Thing and They Live in class, and each student chose between Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 to watch outside of class. It helps that my professor just published a book on zombies in film, and is a huge Carpenter fan (I still have to watch and return her copy of Dark Star).

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