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Forbidden Cinema

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We revisit the movies that were too scandalous in our youth. Did they deserve all the hype? Join us as we dive deep into Forbidden Cinema.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Forbidden Cinema episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Forbidden Cinema for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Forbidden Cinema episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema - 27 - Poltergeist
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10/31/21 • 81 min

What better mashup than the ET Guy and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre guy. Surely that will work. Strangely it does and creates one of the best haunted house movies ever made. We go way back to 1982 and watched Poltergeist for the first time for either of us. We delve into what would be done with a forbidden film in our respective households. We talk about how much of a debt one of our favorite films, Ghostbusters, owes to this. We discuss the supposed curse and spend a moment reflecting on the real life tragedies that accompanied the cast of the film. We also talk about how much we love to see an adult couple in a film who seem to actually like each other, seems rare these days.

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 14 - Blame it on Rio - Going Deeper
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08/01/21 • 31 min

Join Zack and Jenny as we discuss what a remake of this lovely mess of a movie would look like. We go deeper and explore some of the unanswered question brought up in the main episode. And we dive deeper than any podcast into a Pennsylvania newspaper from the time of this film's release.

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 33 - Scrooged - Going Deeper
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12/12/21 • 70 min

Join us as we go back to 1988 and go deeper on our unanswered questions from Scrooged. We try to figure out why Jenny's mom dislikes Bill Murray so much and go on a tangent about his random late night calls to writer Mitch Glazer. We take a look at the wacky budget for this film compared to others of the time. Zack finds an internal memo about the amount of service calls that Xerox attributes to butt copying. We look at the time of 1988, the end of the Reagan years. We look at the music charts and the headlines in the Observer Reporter. Also Zack deep dives the December 1988 issue of Playboy and goes on an unnecessarily thorough look at the resumes of the year's playmates.

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The holidays are over and hopefully we all survived. We went deeper than should be expected on Christmas Vacation. We as the question, "Who is National Lampoon?" We talk about family gatherings, action figures, and 8mm porno. We talk about how ubiquitous racist depictions of AAPI are in holiday movies an how happy we are that this didn't have them... then we read the source material... frowny face... We take on squatters rights and bring the legislature of our home state to task for having extremely draconian laws about breastfeeding in public. We ask Alexa questions about human anatomy that she is not prepared to answer. We also have 2 surprises, a present for Jenny, and the opportunity to let fate decide our next film.

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 40 - Adventures in Babysitting
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02/05/22 • 61 min

Come back with us to 1987 where an early example of the PG-13 movie first introduced a generation of children to the concept of men's magazines and a certain word starting with the letter F. We look back at how the world has changed in the time since the release and continue our path of nostalgia. We try to figure out who this movie was really for and what a 17 year old would reasonably be able to handle in a wacky night. We once again experience the trope of criminals escalating to mass child murder really quickly. Remember... Don't FOOL with the babysitter.

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 80 - Vacation - Going Deeper
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02/12/23 • 62 min

Welcome back as we look at the questions nobody thought to ask about National Lampoon's Vacation. We find out more about the careers of the child actors that I could ever have imagined. BDA's (Beverly D'Angelo) history is so much more interesting than we would have figured. And we hit tangents on everything from Conan the Barbarian to Mr Mom.

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Laissez le bon temps rouler.

Happy Mardi Gras and Happy Valentines Day!

Join the Forbidden Crew as we look at Red Shoe Diaries 202 - Naked in the Moonlight. We have some of the sexiest sex scenes so far in the series... but not much in the way of moonlight. Join us as we look at a lady with a bunch of cars getting a boner for a working class dude. There are lights dangling in the middle of industrial workspaces, open air showers, classic cars, jingly foley work on jewelry, and That 70's Show looking disturbingly like 1994.

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 72 - Fright Night (Bonus)
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11/02/22 • 88 min

Welcome to our spooky season wrap up. For this week we look at the movie that is Jenny's first forbidden experience. We wonder what our parents were up to during these times. We spend a lot of time talking about who the intended audience was for this movie and about the time of the mid 80s where we have lived for a while now. Welcome to the podcast Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell, 2 actors Zack loves but probably won't show up all that much on our forbidden lists. This one is a lot of fun, if you haven't had the chance check it out. Also check out Midnights and That Thing You Do.

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 11 -The Craft
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07/11/21 • 65 min

Join our hosts as we find the one thing our parents and youth groups thought was more dangerous than sex, dark magic!!! We saw The Craft and unpack the hell that is being a teenage girl

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Forbidden Cinema - Forbidden Cinema 29 - Wild Things - GoingDeeper
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11/14/21 • 71 min

Join us as we talk about all the things we forgot and left unsaid in both Poltergeist and Wild Things. We talk about the trope of the native burial ground. Zack gets really confused when trying to figure out how to count fake boobs. We go deep on advertisements for fragrances in 2004 Playboy. Zack tries to call Playboy to order a chainmail dress featured in 2004 for Jenny. Is the 800 number still valid. Are we going to post pictures. You have to listen to find out.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Forbidden Cinema have?

Forbidden Cinema currently has 133 episodes available.

What topics does Forbidden Cinema cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Film History, Podcasts, Relationships and Tv & Film.

What is the most popular episode on Forbidden Cinema?

The episode title 'Forbidden Cinema - 28 - Wild Things' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Forbidden Cinema?

The average episode length on Forbidden Cinema is 61 minutes.

How often are episodes of Forbidden Cinema released?

Episodes of Forbidden Cinema are typically released every 7 days, 12 hours.

When was the first episode of Forbidden Cinema?

The first episode of Forbidden Cinema was released on May 9, 2021.

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