The Rewind Movie Podcast

• The Shining (1980) - Episode 131

  “I feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.” Our Hail to the King miniseries continues with Stanley Kubrick’s now-legendary, then-controversial 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s 3rd novel The Shining.Frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to a reclusive shift as the winter caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel, where Danny’s burgeoning gifts for telepathy are put to the test as malevolence, both internal and external, infests the rooms and hallways that the family are trapped within.Our film picker Matt tackles another of his all-time favourites, as he takes Gali, Devlin and Patrick on a picaresque tour of how a once-terrifying, dread-soaked experience became a comfort watch of sorts. We talk the burden and bravado of creativity, the fear and fury of King, Kubrick, and their respective Jacks, and the legacy of a film overcame a muted debut to rise to the mantle of horror classic. Head to our website for an extended introductory essay, and shop merchandise from this episode at Devlin’s webstore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• The Mangler (1995) - Episode 130

  “I'm uh, investigating a laundry folding machine with a bad case of demon possession.” We’re on the road to haunted Maine for Tobe Hooper’s 1995 Stephen King Bargain Bin curio The Mangler. When the gigantic industrial speed iron at Gartley’s Blue Ribbon Laundry Factory graphically swallows an elderly woman, bug-eyed, troubled local cop Officer John Hunton (Ted Levine) and his amateur mystic brother-in-law Mark (Daniel Matmor) begin to see this as more than just a freakish industrial accident when strange occurrences and gruesome injuries follow, under the grotesque, watchful eye of the company’s mad owner (Robert Englund) who harbours an ill-concealed secret. Released after the 1980s horror boom had long-since peaked, and before his fellow genre veteran Wes Craven breathed new life into it with the sly meta-horror Scream, Tobe Hooper had struggled to capitalise on his post-Poltergeist success, with his Cannon Films-funded Texas Chainsaw sequel flopping, leading him to embark on a pinballing career directing TV episodes and low budget features. This South Africa-shot would-be shocker, one of many adaptations of tales from Stephen King’s 1978 short story collection Night Shift, came at a time when the King name was increasingly ubiquitous. But with a spectrum of quality that ranged from the estimable Shawshank Redemption to the inexplicable Lawnmower Man, where does this mad tale of evil appliances land? Join Gali, Devlin and Patrick as they talk haunted refrigerators, magic legs, and expository antacids, and debate whether this is a forgotten gem, or a justly discarded sock in the cinematic laundry basket.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at [email protected]. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• The Predator (2018) - Episode 129

  “Well, we took a vote. Predator's cooler, right?” Our LV-RMP series, running through the combined Alien and Predator series, arrives at Shane Black’s 2018 sequel, the confusingly named The Predator. A military sniper (Boyd Holbrook) witnesses a runaway Yautja ship crash landing in a Mexican jungle, and barely escapes with his life and a rucksack full of the creature’s hunting tech, which he intends to stash as evidence of extraterrestrial life. While a shadowy arm of the government tries to keep him under wraps by sending him to a psychiatric ward alongside a gang of misfit soldiers and marines with a colourful array of sweary conditions, his package inadvertently ends up with his estranged young son, necessitating a guns-blazing rescue mission as our alien hunter is in hot pursuit - while an even more deadly interloper stalks them all.30 years after appearing as a supporting actor in the seminal original, Black leveraged his post-Kiss KIss Bang Bang career renaissance to helm an $88 million project from a screenplay written alongside his key early collaborator Fred Dekker. Hopes were high for a return to form, but a lukewarm critical reception and middling business ensued. Were Gali, Devlin and Matt any more enamoured, or was this another underwhelming entry that failed to recapture the magic of John McTiernan? Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at [email protected]. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Shannon Tweed and Shannon Whirry: The Queens of B-rotica - Episode 128

  In the early- to mid-1990s, a deluge of enterprising, low-budget filmmakers sought to cash in on the erotic thriller craze that swept into cinemas in the wake of the incredible success of the likes of Fatal Attraction at the end of the preceding decade - films that we at the Rewind Movie Podcast have been lauding in our dubiously-named RErotica series. We bring the series to a (maybe temporary) close with a look at two of the biggest stars to emerge from the DTV erotica craze - Shannons Whirry and Tweed - as they star in 1992’s Animal Instincts and 1994’s Scorned AKA A Woman Scorned, respectively. Boiling down the generic elements of their big budget forebears with ruthless efficiency, laced with the quirks of maverick creatives responding to fast turnarounds and budgets skimpier than the costumes, these staples of the video store, after-dark cable, and, for UK listeners including our panel, the nascent Channel 5 sought to match the daring sexual politics, dangerous thrills, and indulgent visual titillation of Hollywood productions on a shoestring.We discuss the directorial work of notorious adult filmmaker-turned-videauteur Gregory Dark, and journeyman actor-turned-cottage industry multihyphenate Andrew Stevens, in two prime examples of this once-lucrative subgenre that has been all but swept under the rug. Is there some insight to mine from revisiting these sketchy late night sleazy features; can it tell us anything about the minds and lives of the audiences of the era who ploughed millions into these films, only to see them drop off the face of the earth just a few short years later? Travel back with Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt to an era of slumming C-list stars, ambitious models-turned-actresses seeking their big break, and their cut-price misadventures behind the net curtains and under the bedsheets of suburban California in our B-rotica special. Check out our blog to learn more!Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at [email protected]. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Cliffhanger (1993) - Episode 127

  “Don't bother to buckle up - you may not want to survive this.” We’re scaling the Rockies with Sylvester Stallone in his Renny Harlin-directed, vertiginous 1993 action adventure thriller Cliffhanger. After a tragic accident sends Mountain Rescue climber Gabe Walker (Stallone) into an eight month self-imposed exile, his attempts to reunite with his ex-partner Jessie (Janine Turner) are disrupted by the crash landing of a jet full of mercenaries in hot pursuit of $100 million worth of stolen currency that was cut loose in a daring, botched mid-air hijacking led by international bad man Eric Qualen (John Lithgow). Gabe and his former best friend Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), who holds him to furious account for the aforementioned tragedy, are press-ganged into leading the recovery of Qualen’s spoils from the steep mountain tops - leading to a brutal chase across the snowy peaks as greed and survival collide. A much-needed hit for Sly following a troublesome box office run that included the notorious comedy flop Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they discuss the peaks and valleys of his career, the concomitant rise and fall of Finland’s most famous filmic export Renny Harlin, the appropriate level of angry swearing for a henchman, and the simple pleasures of a banana eating a monkey. Pick up merchandise based on this episode’s artwork here!If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at [email protected]. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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