DRtL Episode 51: Time Loops and Time Travel!
Happy Halloween, Latin Club! We’re excited to get to bring you a new episode on our favorite holiday of the year. This time (ha! Get it?), we’re talking about Time Loops and Time Travel! (And amazingly enough, Michael somehow gets through the entire episode without mentioning Doctor Who even once!) Also, Jen talks about taking the Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge, and about Shudder, the curated Amazon Video horror-movie channel!
Spoiler Warnings — Usually, we try not to give away crucial plot elements of the movies we discuss on DRtL, but that was a little tricky with this episode — since with a lot of the films we mention here, the very fact that the plot does involve time-travel shenanigans is actually meant to be a surprise. So if you are particularly spoiler-sensitive, you might want to skip this episode, and you maybe shouldn’t even look at the tags on the blog post. Sorry!
Alternately, if you encounter any spoilers you wish you hadn’t heard — just go back in time and warn yourself not to listen! Problem solved.
(Looking for something a little more seasonally-themed? Hop in our time machine and travel all the way back to 2014’s Episode 10: It Happened on Halloween! for an episode that’s all about movies set on or around Halloween!)
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Jennifer’s Top Fifty Horror Movies!
In our Top Fifty Favorite Horror Movies episode, we promised that we would post each of our host’s individual list. First off, here are Jennifer Lovely’s Top Fifty Horror Movies! (Michael Montoure’s list will follow later. Stay tuned!)
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Rebecca (1940)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
The Uninvited (1944)
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Innocents (1961)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
The Haunting (1963)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Alien (1979)
Phantasm (1979)
The Changeling (1980)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Thing (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Company of Wolves (1984)
Fright Night (1985)
The Fly (1986)
Hellraiser (1987)
Near Dark (1987)
Paperhouse (1988)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
They Live (1988)
Exorcist III (1990)
Candyman (1992)
Thesis (1996)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
Session 9 (2001)
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
The Ring (2002) / Ringu (1998)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
Lake Mungo (2008)
One Missed Call (2008)
Pontypool (2008)
Shutter (2008)
You’re Next (2011)
Resolution (2012)
The Battery (2012)
Under the Skin (2013)
Stoker (2013)
It Follows (2014)
Let Us Prey (2014)
Starry Eyes (2014)
The Babadook (2014)
The Final Girls (2015)
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Bonus Cat Picture!
We know what you like, Internet, and you like cat pictures! Oh, yes, you do. Here is a picture of Jennifer’s new podcats, Maggie and Max! Aren’t they ridiculously cute? (Click to make bigger, which, unfortunately, is as close as you can get on the Internet to actually petting them.)
DRtL Episode FIFTY: Our Top Fifty Favorite Horror Movies!
“Let’s make this bullshit happen!”
” …. Is that going to be our new motto from now on? Actually, that might look good on stickers, now that I think about it.”
So hey, check us out! Fifty episodes! That’s kind of a lot! And to celebrate, we are counting down the TOP FIFTY HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME!
Okay, well, no. We’re not going to pretend that we’re being at all objective. What we’re actually doing is our Our Top Fifty Favorite Horror Movies! You’re actually getting more than fifty, because Jennifer and Michael have each brought their own lists, so listen in as they compare the movies they love the most. (Presented in chronological order, so as not to descend into complete chaos.) Just in time for you to figure out what you want to watch for Halloween!
All this and more, as Jen tells us about a recent unpleasant incident in a movie theater, a documentary on the murder of Kitty Genovese, and completely spoils the ending of “The Changeling!”
We also talk about movies we’ve seen recently, including Blair Witch. If you just want to skip directly ahead to the Top Fifty goodness, you will find it at the 27-minutes-and-15-seconds mark.
Hope you enjoy this one!
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DRtL Episode 49: Japanese Horror!
Pay no attention to the creepy little girl in the corner whose long, wet black hair is covering her face — she’s not bothering anyone, we’re sure she’ll be fine. We’re back for our Japanese Horror episode! Tune in as we talk about the passing of Gene Wilder, and as we examine how things like the financial crisis Japan had in the 90s affected their horror movies, and the long shadow cast by the nuclear bomb while we talk about our favorite J-horror.
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Bonus Features!
Podcasts mentioned by Jennifer:
Creepy Japanese Comics Stories by Junji Ito (super, super weird — don’t say we didn’t warn you):
Miscellaneous Links:
- Jen’s IMDb List of 2016 Horror Movies
- Chris’ Guide to Understanding Japanese Horror
- Synthwave Further Listening for Fans of “Stranger Things”
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Don’t Read the Latin Will Return!
Hey, everyone — sorry to leave you hanging! We are once again in the middle of a small, unplanned hiatus —Jennifer has been having respiratory issues, and Michael will be out of town for most of the next month — but we’ve put our heads together and figured out a recording date that will work.
Our next episode should go live on Monday, September 19th, so mark your calendars. Please join us when we return with our episode on Japanese Horror! Thanks for listening and thanks for your patience!
DRtL Episode 48: Ghostbusters! (Part Two!)
Welcome back! The whole gang is back — your hosts Michael Montoure and Jennifer Lovely and our guests Jillian Venters, Jeff Harris, and Handsome Boyfriend Jim — for part two of our special Ghostbusters episode! (Hopefully, this will be a less disappointing sequel than Ghostbusters II was.)
Last time, we talked about the original Ghostbusters films and the animated series — this time out, we’re discussing the Xbox videogame and the 2016 reboot movie. And about the fanboys who came after the reboot with pitchforks and torches before the first trailer even came out. We’ve got some opinions. Hold on to your butts. (Yes, that’s a Jurassic Park reference in a post about Ghostbusters. Sorry, purists.)
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Bonus Materials
Here’s a photo of Jim’s well-loved copy of the Ghostbusters table-top role-playing-game. (We’re pretty sure we actually discussed the RPG last episode, but we forgot to post this picture then. Whooops.)
Finally, here’s a screenshot of Montoure’s Tumblr post that that went a little bit viral, and was partly the impetus for making this two-part episode in the first place:
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DRtL Episode 47: Ghostbusters! (Part One!)
“Peter Venkman has a lot to answer for in modern society.”
Who ya gonna call?! Well — you can’t call us, exactly, because this is all pre-recorded. (But you can always post comments at our website, and review us on iTunes!)
That’s right, ghosts and ghoulies — Don’t Read the Latin is back with a special two-part episode! For the first time in the entire history of ever, we’re devoting an entire episode to a single franchise! We were so excited by the new Ghostbusters movie, we decided it was time to sit down with some of our favorite guests and talk about Ghostbusters in all media past and present.
Join your hosts Michael Montoure and Jennifer Lovely and our guests Jillian Venters, Jeff Harris, and Handsome Boyfriend Jim for a look at the original films and the animated series! (But first, a discussion of the horror movies we’ve seen lately! If you just want to skip ahead to the Ghostbusters content, it starts at the 24 minute, 27 second mark.)
Then join us in two weeks for Part Two as we discuss the videogame and the 2016 reboot — and the Internet controversy it’s spawned!
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Bonus Features
- Here’s the podcast that Jennifer mentions — My Favorite Murder
- This is the article Montoure mentions about the place where he went to summer camp — Spend The Night At Washington’s Most Haunted Campground For A Truly Terrifying Experience
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DRtL Episode 46: Horror Double Features!
If you’re starting to plan your Halloween party — and if you’re not, you’d better get on that, you only have 104 days left — we have totally got you covered this episode. Want to show your friends a couple of movies? This episode we talk about Horror Double Features and give our picks for what movies pair together well, like pairing cheeses and fine wines. While we’re at it, we talk about just what exactly makes two movies go together well as a single viewing.
Spoiler Warnings
We discuss the endings of both 10 Cloverfield Lane and Ex Machina. If you don’t want to hear the details, skip forward a couple of minutes when you hear us mention those titles.
Technical Notes:
We mention at the beginning of this episode that we were recording it on our laptop and on our new audio recorder, because Montoure didn’t trust that the recording was actually, you know, recording. And it’s a damn good thing he’s paranoid, because it turns out that the recorder did not save a file at all. The quality the first time we used it was great, and it will be a fine tool to add to our podcasting arsenal if we can ever figure out how to use the damn thing.
The Bag of Fucks
We mention in passing The Bag of Fucks, which is an awesome hand-made creation by our friend Dmitri Arbacauskas at Tormented Artifacts. When you have just run out of fucks to give, here’s the bag you could load some more into. (Or you can just open the bag if you want to show people that it is, indeed, empty.) You can get one of these beauties here if you are so inclined.
Other Podcasts
Jennifer mentions a few of her new favorites among the podcasts she listens to, so if you’d like to check those out, here they are:
In the News
Since we brought up Chopping Mall, a movie about security robots gone rogue in a shopping center, we naturally talked about a related story in the news recently, and in case you missed it, here it is: A mall security robot has knocked down and run over a toddler in Silicon Valley.
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DRtL Episode 45: Monster Movies (Part Two)!
Welcome back, Latin Club! Here’s the episode we know you’ve been waiting for — part two of our conversation about Monster Movies, with our special guest, Jennifer’s Handsome Boyfriend Jim! That’s two episodes in just two weeks! Can you handle that much Don’t Read the Latin? Well, we hope so, because we’re coming at ya, ready or not!
If you haven’t checked out Monster Movies (Part One) yet, you can listen to that one here! Or you can just go ahead and listen to this one now, anyway. I mean, you can do whatever you like, really. Or you could listen to this one and then listen to the first part! It will be like watching Memento! (Note: it will not actually be at all like watching Memento. We don’t know why we even said that. We may have already had too much caffeine.)
As ever, let us know what you think in the comments, tell your friends about the show, and don’t forget to look under the bed tonight!
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DRtL Episode 44: Monster Movies!
While we’ve done episodes on various kinds of monsters in the past — werewolves, ghosts, vampires, and more — this is the first time we’re tackling the subject of, well, just monsters! Creature features of all kinds!
In order to tackle this Godzilla-sized task, we’ve enlisted the help of this episode’s special guest star, Jennifer’s very own Handsome Boyfriend Jim! We’ve also split this session into two hour-long episodes, because we talked a lot.
This time, join us as we talk about what makes a monster, why we all have trouble making the Universal Monsters fit our definition, and more.
We’ll be back with the conclusion next Monday!
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(Technical Note: This episode doesn’t have the terrible audio problems that we had last time. We went back to our more traditional USB microphone setup with a little fine-tuning by Jim, but we will be troubleshooting what went wrong with the audio recorder last time.)
(Non-technical Note: You’ll notice there are no tags for this episode yet. This is because I wrote down all the movies we talked about in a notebook, which I forgot to bring with me when I went to post this. Whoops! I will go back in and tag this post later, so check back if you’re curious. Sorry!)
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