65: The Changeling

01/13/25 • 113 min

This week Bryan and Dave find themselves comfortably back in the pocket with 1980's high-gothic haunted house picture where we're expected to believe that old man George C. Scott was also a father to an 8 year old girl. Based on the extremely dubious "true story" of the film's writer, The Changeling is a frustrating experience that combines compelling haunted house filmcraft with a clumsy script that can't decide where it's going or what it's trying to do.

Held aloft by horror fans for years as a truly spooky and unsettling haunted house/ghost mystery movie, we break it down and find that it may not be the movie that we remember. That said, is it good? Does any of this mess work? You'll have to listen to find out!

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In yet another dog of a Gansa/Gordon episode, Mulder and Scully are called in for a hail Mary play by a lousy past-colleague Mulder's faces down a killer smart home system. This being the 90's and the writers having no idea how computers work, it ends up wobbly as their last outing, Conduit.

We also take a look at what was happening around Halloween in 1993 and the headlines and pop culture hits are every bit as weird as you likely don't remember. Take a trip back in time with us as we tackle it all!

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99CR 26: The Apple

Hey! Hey! Hey! BIM's on the way! This week Bryan and Dave take a good long look at the abyss and the abyss stares back when they watch the movie that launched The Cannon Group into the American imagination, a movie musical so poorly received that it nearly drove its director to leap from his hotel balcony at the premier. The Apple is what happens when a producer knows that he wants to make a big musical that's sure to capture some of the excitement that Grease generated but without really knowing what makes a musical work. It's a movie so profoundly bad, with bad acting, bad characters, and the worst thing a musical can have: bad music. Nothing about this baffling movie works and it is plainly obvious for anyone to see. It's simply amazing that the director, Menahem Golan was so caught off guard by its failure.

Some movies are so bad that they end entire careers. This one almost ended Golan's life.

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