Erica likes to point out, “all roads lead to THE THING” and WAVELENGTH is one of those roads. But WAVELENGTH is so much more. It’s a little bit of E.T. seasoned with a dash of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS sitting on a bed of Tracy Chapman. It also features some of the finest performances of faceless government…
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Our celebration of FORBIDDEN WORLD continues with a conversation with makeup effects artist Mark Shostrom (EVIL DEAD II, PHANTASM II & III, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 1-3) who got his start at New World Pictures, working at the Lumberyard for Allan Holzman’s FORBIDDEN WORLD and Aaron Lipstadt’s ANDROID! But Mark’s work at New World didn’t…
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If you’re going to celebrate Forbidden World July, what better movie to discuss than the one that inspired it all! That’s right, it’s time to discuss Allan Holzman’s sci-fi classic, including topics like, how hot is Jesse Vint? Are those masks or cups? How important is a good steam? And who exactly was hooking up…
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Forbidden World month starts off with a blaster beam bang as we talk to the film composer, Susan Justin, who also worked on music for several other New World Pictures films like FIRECRACKER, GRUNT! THE WRESTLING MOVIE and STRYKER! We discuss her musical beginnings and her collaborations with Craig Huxley that led to the unique…
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When a movie title combines two words together like “death” and “stalker” it’s imperative to determine the proper pronunciation. Is it “Deaths Talker”? Or, is it “Death Stalker?”. Also, how does one acquire the name “Deathstalker”? We dare to ask these tough questions while talking about boners more here than in any other NWPP…
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For our 100th episode, we explore an area of New World Pictures history that we’ve never discussed: when other companies had to release their movies because they were broke! Such is the case with 1989’s WARLOCK, despite the presence of director Steve Miner, who had made some of New World’s biggest hits, and Executive producer…
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After the resounding success of our first Convince Me episode (where Ryan and Erica failed to convince Marc that The Silence of the Lambs is a good movie because that movie blows) we decided to do another episode. This time, Erica selects 1982’s Blade Runner. Erica has always been vocal about her detest of Blade…
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Doug from the Good Times Great Movies Podcast joins us to talk about 1981’s THE PIT! That’s a pretty old film, considering we’re just a bunch of super youngs that are hip as hell, but we were nevertheless charmed by this movie, even if it’s about a creepy kid who’s only friends are his teddy…
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Our new Bonus Episode series Nearly New World continues with the sequel to the 1984 New World classic, which might have been released by New World for reasons we’ll explain in the episode. First we’ll also discuss a few things we’ve been watching lately, including ALIEN PRIVATE EYE, ANACONDA, and Tootsie the Musical! Then it’s…
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With a title like SMOKEY BITES THE DUST, you would think the elevator pitch for the movie would go something like, “The sheriff of a small town will stop at nothing to catch a high school rebel that kidnaps his daughter” Or, “When his car is stolen, Dick Miller sets off to catch the perpetrator…
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