Episode 552: Black Christmas (1974)

Special Guests: Simon Fitzjohn, Art Hindle, Paul Downey, David Hastings
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Mark Begley

Maitland McDonagh and Mark Begley join Mike to talk about Bob Clark’s 1974 film Black Christmas. It’s the story of a sorority house where a killer has sneaked into the attic and slowly picks off several of the sisters in-between harassing them with wild phone calls.

Interviews include actor Art Hindle, author Simon Fitzjohn (Bob Clark: I'm Going to Kill You!), Paul Downey & David Hastings (It's Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited).

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Listen to the Ormsby/Clark Series of Wake Up Heavy:

Wake Up Heavy · S5E2. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

Wake Up Heavy · S5E3. Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)

Wake Up Heavy · S5E4. I died for you: Deathdream (1974)

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Buy Black Christmas (2006) on Blu-Ray
Buy Black Christmas (2019) on Blu-Ray

Music:
"Black Christmas" - MDC

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Episode 401: F/X Murder by Illusion (1986)

Special Guests: Robert Mandel, Alan Ormsby, Cliff DeYoung
Guest Co-Hosts: Adam Schartoff, Jedidiah Ayres

Robert Mandel's F/X (1986) (AKA FX: Murder by Illusion) is the story of Rollie Taylor (Bryan Brown), a movie special effects man who is hired by two government agents (Cliff DeYoung & Mason Adams) to stage the public assassination of a mob boss (Jerry Orbach) who’s turned state's evidence. What better way to keep the mob off the tail than by “killing him”? But things don’t turn out as easy as that.

Jedidiah Ayres and Adam Schartoff join Mike to discuss F/X, its sequel, and the spin-off TV series.

Interviews on this episode include director Robert Mandel, writer Alan Ormsby and actor Cliff DeYoung.

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Links:
Buy F/X on Blu-Ray
Buy F/X2 on Blu-Ray
Buy F/X The Series on DVD
Hear more Adam Schartoff on Filmwax Radio
Keep up with Jedidiah Ayres at Hardboiled Wonderland

Music:
"Bust the Bust" - Bill Conti
"The Bombs" - Bill Conti
"Just an Illusion" - Imagination

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