Ep. 148 — URBAN LEGEND (1998) with Myles Griffin & Craig Carson
10/10/19 • 85 min
For the month of October, we're celebrating Halloween the only way we know how: by watching a whole bunch of horror movies! Specifically, this October, we're taking a look at a small piece of horror film history by diving into the post-SCREAM teen horror revival of the late 90s and early 00s!
Our second entry in this series is URBAN LEGEND, and we’re joined on this episode by guests Craig Carson and Myles Griffin!
Released only a year and a half into he new slasher movie craze, URBAN LEGEND attempted to capitalize on the success of SCREAM by creating another self-aware horror flick, this one steeped in the lore of famous urban legends instead of horror movie tropes. Was it successful?
From an artistic point, that’s for the audience to decide, but from a financial point? Yeah, it made a boatload of money, thus ensuring that this new slasher trend would continue.
In this episode, we’ll dive into the creation of the film and discuss its ongoing reputation as a late era slasher flick.
Visit our website at www.psychotronicfilmsociety.com. There you'll find all of our past episodes and our full list of Psychotronic Hall of Famers!
Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: http://slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com
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For the month of October, we're celebrating Halloween the only way we know how: by watching a whole bunch of horror movies! Specifically, this October, we're taking a look at a small piece of horror film history by diving into the post-SCREAM teen horror revival of the late 90s and early 00s!
Our second entry in this series is URBAN LEGEND, and we’re joined on this episode by guests Craig Carson and Myles Griffin!
Released only a year and a half into he new slasher movie craze, URBAN LEGEND attempted to capitalize on the success of SCREAM by creating another self-aware horror flick, this one steeped in the lore of famous urban legends instead of horror movie tropes. Was it successful?
From an artistic point, that’s for the audience to decide, but from a financial point? Yeah, it made a boatload of money, thus ensuring that this new slasher trend would continue.
In this episode, we’ll dive into the creation of the film and discuss its ongoing reputation as a late era slasher flick.
Visit our website at www.psychotronicfilmsociety.com. There you'll find all of our past episodes and our full list of Psychotronic Hall of Famers!
Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: http://slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com
Join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/5Q3uUDv
Follow the show: twitter.com/psychotronicpod facebook.com/psychotronicpod instagram.com/psychotronicpod
Follow Justin: twitter.com/justin_bishop instagram.com/justin_bishop letterboxd.com/justin_bishop
Follow Gary: twitter.com/rockandrollgary instagram.com/rockandrollgary letterboxd.com/rockandrollgary
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Ep. 147 — I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997)
For the month of October, we're celebrating Halloween the only way we know how: by watching a whole bunch of horror movies! Specifically, this October, we're taking a look at a small piece of horror film history by diving into the post-SCREAM teen horror revival of the late 90s and early 00s!
To kick things off, we're discussing the one film that was probably the most direct result of SCREAM's success, 1997's I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!
Written by SCREAM's Kevin Williamson and rushed before camera's in order to capitalize on the success of Wes Craven's film, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is the epitome of late-90s teen horror, for better or for worse.
On this episode, we'll discuss how Williamson's success lead to one of his earlier scripts (itself an adaptation of a young adult novel by Lois Duncan) being taken off the shelf and turned into one of the most successful films to be released in SCREAM's wake, cementing the idea that the slasher revival was fully in effect.
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our website at www.psychotronicfilmsociety.com. There you'll find all of our past episodes and our full list of Psychotronic Hall of Famers!
Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: http://slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com
Join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/5Q3uUDv
Follow the show: twitter.com/psychotronicpod facebook.com/psychotronicpod instagram.com/psychotronicpod
Follow Justin: twitter.com/justin_bishop instagram.com/justin_bishop letterboxd.com/justin_bishop
Follow Gary: twitter.com/rockandrollgary instagram.com/rockandrollgary letterboxd.com/rockandrollgary
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Next Episode
Ep. 149 — THE FACULTY (1998)
For the month of October, we're celebrating Halloween the only way we know how: by watching a whole bunch of horror movies! Specifically, this October, we're taking a look at a small piece of horror film history by diving into the post-SCREAM teen horror revival of the late 90s and early 00s!
Our next entry: Robert Rodriguez’s THE FACULTY!
Hoping to cash in on the success of SCREAM, Dimension Films (who’d released that movie) began work on a new horror film, this one an homage to classic sci-fi horror such as INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and THE THING. Hoping to bring a bit of self-awareness to it a la SCREAM, Dimension hired that film’s screenwriter Kevin Williamson, hoping to strike gold again.
We’ll get into all the details on how that came about, including how Dimension talked the film’s original writers into giving away their credit, and how Robert Rodriguez — hot off the success of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN — came to direct the film.
And this week, we’re also nominating the film for the Psychotronic Hall of Fame!
VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9DFZ2VH
Visit our website at www.psychotronicfilmsociety.com. There you'll find all of our past episodes and our full list of Psychotronic Hall of Famers!
Theme song: “Foreign Body” by the Slasher Film Festival Strategy from their album PSYCHIC SHIELD. More info: http://slasherfilmfestivalstrategy.bandcamp.com
Join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/5Q3uUDv
Follow the show: twitter.com/psychotronicpod facebook.com/psychotronicpod instagram.com/psychotronicpod
Follow Justin: twitter.com/justin_bishop instagram.com/justin_bishop letterboxd.com/justin_bishop
Follow Gary: twitter.com/rockandrollgary instagram.com/rockandrollgary letterboxd.com/rockandrollgary
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