Early Access: Episode 41 - Innocent Blood (1992)
Added 2024-10-29 00:17:16 +0000 UTCHey everyone, here's our latest episode just in time for Halloween! On it, we revisit John Landis' Innocent Blood - a vampire dark comedy that hardly anyone seems to talk about. We also discuss Landis' early career including: Kentucky Fried Movie, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and An American Werewolf in London. Naturally, we also had to discuss Twilight Zone: The Movie and a few others.
We'll have our Patreon follow-up coming next week and a movie catch-up where we talk about some recent bombs. Enjoy!
Comments
All of the talk about "How the fuck did no one die during this" reminded me of Hooper and how no one died during the Earthquake scene https://youtu.be/q0Y3A-zib-Q?si=9zjj2F_BNN-2jUus
JokersJuicyAss
2024-11-04 06:26:30 +0000 UTCSuch a great idea for a movie poorly executed
Anthony Hoffman
2024-11-03 23:32:57 +0000 UTCThey don’t do it anymore, but when I came on the job the coroner would insert a thermometer into the Victims liver to get a liver temp to help estimate a time of death. And if you were a rookie, they’d make you do the inserting.
Macready31
2024-11-02 09:35:41 +0000 UTCThanks for the shout out. I have few movie suggestions to throw in the ring for upcoming episodes. The Last Supper (1995), liberal grad students that kill conservatives, if they can't change their minds over dinner. Also two underrated Bruce Willis movies. Hudson Hawk, and The Last Boy Scout (also an underrated Tony Scott and Shane Black film). I get why the former wasn't a hit, people didn't go for the surreal humor, but Last Boy Scout somehow still flies under most people's radar. Such a fun little nasty flick.
Ezra Spurrier
2024-11-02 06:44:30 +0000 UTCOne of the other reasons Landis caught so much heat about the Twilight Zone accident wasn't just that it was a freak accident; it was also that he shouldn't have been filming at that time or with the kids at all. Not getting proper permits, lying to fire security on set, paying the kids under the table to avoid state law, encouraging the copter to fly in an unsafe way...the list goes on. It's not *entirely* Landis' fault -- other people on set also weren't doing their due diligence -- but he certainly had the opportunity to make better calls and not shoot illegally, and he didn't. The way he mostly seems to talk about it as "impacting his career" as opposed to "I contributed to three people being killed" has never sat well with me at all
Tom Goodwin
2024-10-31 21:06:44 +0000 UTC(tugs collar)
Lux Anatis
2024-10-31 19:37:54 +0000 UTCSame here. He got pretty close to saying what he really meant, too.
Lux Anatis
2024-10-31 19:37:10 +0000 UTCI agree with Ryan about global Americanization. I went to Germany last year and I was surprised at how familiar a lot of things were. There was a McDonalds or Burger King on every corner and the grocery stores had a lot of American brands. I was so excited when I found things that felt foreign to me. I went at Christmas and there was a group of people singing a German Christmas song that I had never heard before. I loved the fact I didn't know what I was hearing, because I can only get that experience traveling to a different country.
Demetreas Andrews
2024-10-31 13:34:03 +0000 UTCOne thing i always found interesting was the amount of mutual friends both spielberg and landis have. Joe dante, mick garris, tobe hooper, and george lucas even cameos in beverly hills cop 3. It makes me wonder what the dynamic is among them. Does spielberg allow them to be but it's understood to never bring him up?
Gavin Fitzgerald
2024-10-31 12:52:08 +0000 UTCDefinitely John Waters, especially in how cheap it looked! It's one of those movies I know isn't very good that I really enjoyed anyway.
Lux Anatis
2024-10-30 19:54:58 +0000 UTCAmazon Women on the Moon sounds a little bit like what Voyage of the Rock Aliens was trying to do - but more obvious about it
Mary and Steve
2024-10-30 15:02:39 +0000 UTCBlues Brothers 2000 was ALWAYS on VH1 so I don’t think I’ve watched the ‘real’ thing lol we definitely listened to the soundtrack a lot, though! I always thought it was weird that Goodman was in the movie when Jim was on the later Blues Brothers Band records. Original Blues Brothers remains a sentimental favorite - I love when they cut to Minnie the Moocher and everyone’s in matching costumes and Cab Calloway’s just doing his thing. BUUUUUT I think the final chase to/through the county office goes on way too long.
Mary and Steve
2024-10-30 13:55:58 +0000 UTCCome back to it in 15 years
JokersJuicyAss
2024-10-30 13:43:48 +0000 UTCI finally watched Lisa Frankenstein a couple weeks ago! Kathryn Newton and Carla Gugino was doing a little too much at times but it was all right. I thought whichever Sprouse it was did pretty well without words and I bought into the two of them conversing. It kind of felt like John Waters-light to me? I guess that’s just Diablo Cody’s thing - edgy for normies. And also Earth Girls are Easy. But zombie
Mary and Steve
2024-10-30 13:27:33 +0000 UTCEnjoyed your episode much more than the movie. Weird aside: I watched the Samuel Fuller movie Shock Corridor and the fat non-actor guy from Blast of Silence with all the rats has a major part. He's a crazy patient who sings opera and bullies everyone in the hospital.
Thomas Bishop
2024-10-30 00:39:00 +0000 UTCDo Blues Brothers 2000. Almost everyone agrees that it isn’t as good as the original, but the soundtrack is great.
Trevor Poe
2024-10-29 23:55:53 +0000 UTCThat’s interesting you guys said you didn’t like animal house when you saw it in college because as a recent college grad who recently watched it, I didn’t care for it.
Luke Gordnier
2024-10-29 22:35:29 +0000 UTCLisa Frankenstein tried adding May and Mean Girls but divided accidentally. I probably liked it more than Joe (my 13-year old daughter liked it quite a bit), but it could've been so much more with only a little bit more effort.
Lux Anatis
2024-10-29 21:23:12 +0000 UTCReally interesting to see. Thanks for sharing
Almost Cult Classics
2024-10-29 15:20:15 +0000 UTCI saw it! I liked parts of it, but ultimately felt it missed the mark
Almost Cult Classics
2024-10-29 15:18:23 +0000 UTCIt was always telling as Hell what Reitman thought of Landis as he was the only person to speak up about the Twilight Zone trial here. https://youtu.be/nIoeymMNJcw?si=J7lkMas_D9kVRO6j
Jamie Williams
2024-10-29 12:37:26 +0000 UTCGreat episode boys, Ryan nailed it with the magical realism thing. I do think Blues Brothers isn't long enough but thankfully there's an extended edition out there
Javi
2024-10-29 08:46:40 +0000 UTCAnother episode in which the preamble ends up much more entertaining than the actual movie talk! If you guys ever end up doing Blues Brothers 2000 I'd suggest you pair it with Coneheads. And Movie 43, which is probably worth its own episode, might go well with Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie in a special "mainstream vs alternative comedy" Forgotten Failures episode.
Lux Anatis
2024-10-29 08:44:27 +0000 UTCGood episode overall, but you guys are dead wrong about Kentucky Fried Movie. Catholic High School Girls and Fistful of Yen are two of the greatest sketches of all time.
Troy Thomas
2024-10-29 06:31:22 +0000 UTCFuck I should've sent Lisa Frankenstein
JokersJuicyAss
2024-10-29 05:37:34 +0000 UTCI went to Pittsburgh during 2022 to be a PA on A Man Called Otto and got to have a brief interaction with Tom hanks.
Luke Gordnier
2024-10-29 05:35:51 +0000 UTC
