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Love It or Hate It, But ‘Dreamcatcher’ Is a One-of-a-Kind Blockbuster [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
“SSDD. Same shit, different day…”
Hello? Jonesy. Jesus Christ, I knew it was you. Where’s he taking you? Massachusetts. He is? Duddits, OK… Jonesy, I will. You hang in there. Jonesy? Jonesy. He hung up… Well, it’s back to hitchhiking for The Losers’ Club as they try to stop Mr. Gray, the big meanie behind Lawrence Kasdan‘s 2003 Stephen King adaptation Dreamcatcher.
Starring Thomas Jane, Timothy Olymphant, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Tom Sizemore, and Morgan Freeman, the star-studded production was matched behind the scenes with Kasdan co-writing the picture alongside Hollywood icon William Goldman. So, what went wrong? How did the stars not align in this one? Why was this a flop?
These are the questions the Losers wrestle with in their latest movie episode. So, grab a toothpick and join co-hosts Randall Colburn, Michael Roffman, Rachel Reeves, and I Blame Society writer-director Gillian W. Horvat as they revisit the curious Kasdan joint and meditate on a kind of blockbuster we just don’t get anymore (and probably never will again).
Stream the episode below and return next week when the Losers revisit a decidedly better received King adaptation in David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone with author Gretchen Felker-Martin. For further adventures, join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS.
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Shakespearean Education in the Vincent Price-Starring ‘Theater of Blood’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Butch knows best…
After concluding May with discussions of the disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen) and Michael Biehn’s demon twink in the messy-but-watchable The Fan (listen), we’re heading back to the ’70s to discuss our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox‘s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973).
In Theater of Blood, Vincent Price stars as Edward Lionheart, a disgraced Shakespearean actor who begins targeting the critics who shamed him. The gimmick? He’s taking inspiration from the death scenes in William Shakespeare’s plays! Aiding him is his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg), who acts as the honeypot for her father’s macabre scheme.
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Episode 388: Theater of Blood (1973)
Brush up on your Shakespeare and protect those poodles because we’re covering our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973), a personal favorite of both Price and Diana Rigg.
Join us as we go all in on this somewhat episodic (but also educational!) proto-slasher, wondering if we’re supposed to know that’s Diana Rigg in hippie drag, and cackling at some of these murder set pieces.
Plus, “Handsy Dickman,” narcissistic gravestones, antisemitic stage makeup, and the ultimate debate: is it theatER or theatRE?
C/W: Attempted suicide, off-screen dog murder.
Cross out Theater of Blood!
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