Ep. 04-24: Sisters (1972)

A journalist, Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt), witnesses her neighbor, Danielle Breton (Margot Kidder), violently murder a man from her window across the street. But when the police arrive at the scene and find nothing amiss, Grace takes matters into her own hands. She recruits a private investigator, Joseph Larch (Charles Durning), who helps her uncover a secret about Danielle’s past that has them both seeing double.

Episode 4-24 Sisters

In our second Brian De Palma feature this season, we travel four years before Carrie (1976) to the year 1972 and the director’s first foray into the land of suspense. Join us as we talk more about De Palma’s Hitchcockian style, the tragic star Margot Kidder, bad blood, and the gnarly, unforgettable stabbing scene! Listen, as Johnny has the Keys journeys to Staten Island, where a brutal crime leads to dark secrets about a woman and her disturbed sister.

SHOW LINKS

Get Tim’s Book THE DEAD NEXT DOOR

Do you like our show? Want more cool stuff? Help us continue…

Reach out to us…

Ep. 04-23: The Invisible Man (1933)

While researching a new drug, Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) stumbles on a potion that can make him invisible. When he reveals his new ability to his old mentor (Henry Travers) and his fiancée (Gloria Stuart), it’s clear that a side effect of the potion is insanity. Jack goes on a violent rampage, and the police struggle to hunt him down, unable to see their target, while his mentor and his former partner (William Harrigan) desperately try to devise a plan to capture him.

Episode 4-23 The Invisible Man

Ah, Universal monster movies. For nostalgia’s sake, you can’t beat them… especially in the horror-hardened heart of your co-host, Tim. James Whale is a seasoned director and, though The Invisible Man (1933) is not a perfect film, it earns its place in the canon of Universal classics. Join us as we discuss the men behind it, including H. G. Wells, James Whale, Claude Rains–and the mindboggling state-of-the-art special effects of the day. Listen as Johnny has the Keys travels to a tiny English village where strides in modern science lead to inexplicable phenomena and mass murder.

SHOW LINKS

Get Tim’s Book THE DEAD NEXT DOOR

Do you like our show? Want more cool stuff? Help us continue…

Reach out to us…

Ep. 04-22: Pontypool (2008)

When disc jockey Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it’s just another day. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission… the English language.

Pontypool

Pontypool (2008) is not your average zombie fare. It’s an ambitious, albeit unsuccessful, attempt at bringing a new spin to the well-trod path of the rapidly spreading infection-apocalypse subgenre of horror. Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of this relatively unknown Canadian import. Listen as Johnny has the Keys travels to the north country where on a snowy night something disturbing is happening in the small town of Pontypool.

SHOW LINKS

Get Tim’s Book THE DEAD NEXT DOOR

Do you like our show? Want more cool stuff? Help us continue…

Reach out to us…

Ep. 04-21: 12 Monkeys (1995)

An unknown virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Forced to live underground, only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035. A convict, James Cole (Bruce Willis), volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (supposedly spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys”) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately, Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years prior, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

Episode 4-21

We return to the world of time travel, a concept Bruce Willis should be well-acquainted with, considering he’s starred in multiple time travel movies—The Kid (2000); Looper (2012). This time, he jaunts the years via the brilliant insanity of director, and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam. Join us as we discuss this often overlooked gem that spawned a successful television series… two decades later. Listen, as Johnny has the Keys time-travels somewhat recklessly to save the world, searching for the origins of man’s folly amongst fools.