Episode 383: Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)

Guest Co-Hosts: Jonathan Owen, Jim Laczkowski

#Czechtember2018 concludes with a look at Václav Vorlícek's Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966). Co-written by Vorlicek and Milos Macourek, the film concerns a couple, Ruzenka and and Jindrich Beránek. Ruzenka (Dana Medrická) is a prestigious scientist who has discovered how to manipulate dreams -- though there are some unexpected consequences. Meanwhile, Jindrich (Jirí Sovák) makes his own discovery as he reads a comic series about Jessie (Olga Schoberová) and her anti-gravitational gloves, just the thing to help him out at his job.

Jim Laczkowski of the Now Playing Network and Jonathan Owen (Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties) join Mike to discuss this wild comedy as well as some of the more serious undertones of the film.

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Music:
"Dream Police" - Cheap Trick

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Special Report: Killer Party (1986)

Special Guest: Barney Cohen
Guest Co-Hosts: Jim Laczkowski, Kat Ellinger

On this Shocktober special, Kat Ellinger of the Daughters of Darkness podcast and Jim Laczkowski of the Directors Club podcast (among others) join Mike to discuss the 1986 horror comedy from director William Fruet, Killer Party in which a trio of young women (Elaine Wilkes, Joanna Johnson, Alicia Fleer) rush a sorority with horrific results including hazing, murder, and demonic possession.

Writer Barney Cohen talks about Killer Party, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and the unmade Spiderman film.

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Links:
Buy Killer Party on DVD
Hear more of Jim Laczkowski on the Pop Culture Club and the Now Playing Network

Music:
"April" - White Sister
"Give It Up" - KC & The Sunshine Band
"Best Times" - Alan Brackett and Scott Shelly

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