American Movie
I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet. Talk about a movie that has a predictable and polarizing effect on people. Does anyone feel "meh" about American Movie?

Heads Up
Don't be put off by Paris, or the Saw II guy, or musical - the word in the horror underground for this one is that it is very good. I mean, come on, Giles!

And, hey, look, the author of horror-movie-a-day blog has a post up on Bloody Disgusting today: "The Top 10 Obscure Horror Gems For Halloween"

Well played, Team
I've always been fascinated by horror movies, but I don't really watch too many of them. I read reviews and watch trailers mostly. Usually, when I actually see them they're never as intense and fucked up as they were in my mind. To me, true horror is what you don't see. So, I've read this top to…

Also, further the commenter who observed it's a great New York movie. Indeed, one primary location is the late, beloved Billy's Topless, though it was made to seem much seeder than Billy's actually was. Hell, Billy's was almost wholesome.

I really like this movie
Though I'm a pretty crappy poker player, it was indeed this movie that helped pique my interest in learning how to play.

Mary Timony
I really liked Helium for a while, but seeing her open for Quasi was the worst torture. Solo, on piano and electric guitar, it was like listening to your 14 year-old sister perform out of her journal. Over-wrought, tuneless, and interminable. Just awful.

@Miller Well played, sir.

Drive
Tim Minear's Drive with Nathan Fillion. Who knows whether it would have held up, but it had a fun premise and a strong cast - Fillion, Charles Martin Smith, Dylan Baker, the woman from Heavenly Creatures (that wasn't Kate Winslette). You know, plus one of the creative forces behind Buffy, Firefly, Wonderfalls……

Revelutionary Road
That was one of my favorite books in college, and I don't care how sad and depressing they make the movie, I bet it won't come close to the despair of mediocrity portrayed in the novel. A tender love story it is not.

Slave vocoder
Actually, if I may put on my music production geek hat for a moment, I think that's a talk-box not a vocoder on that Slave song. The talk-box, if you'll remember, was the device popularized by Frampton, that pipes your guitar signal into your mouth via a rubber tube. Or it maybe a combination of both.…

Devo: Duty Now… for the Future. On vinyl in Providence RI. I'd gotten a couple of albums as gifts for a few years before, but that was with my own $8.99. I was probably 10/11. About 10 years later I realized what a tremendous album it was.

There's a couple of porn titles included in Perry's books. Cafe Flesh, Emmanuel - but I don't think Deep Throat is in there. Which is understandable, it was hardly a cult movie as there was a time when a huge number of people had seen the movie.

Martyrs?
Is someone writing about Martyrs? That movie looks insane. The French are the new kings of exploitation cinema it seems. I'm looking forward to the advance review of that one.

@Mr Bleaney
I'd argue Blair Witch, when divorced from the hype, is actually way more successful. I saw it on a 2nd generation videotape before it had been picked up by a distributor and it was way more effective than seeing it in a theater full of people.

Wow
Really well said, Scott. I have nothing to add at this moment. Other than, yeah. That's exactly right.

That awesome song is "Late at Night" by Buffalo Tom. And it serves this episode so well.

Indeed, almost anything with Cox is more interesting. Even the woefully dull Minus Man. I've always sort of thought of him as a no-bullshit guy; this interview confirms that in the best possible way.

My buzz is killed
Shelley Malil, calm down, man. Good grief, you had a good life.

Really?
We're still making this movie?