Episode 323: The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Special Guest: Stacy Keach
Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Heather Drain

Written and directed by William Peter Blatty, The Ninth Configuration (1980) has been known at points and was based on his novel Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane. The film stars Stacy Keach as Col. Hudson Kane, a new psychiatrist at an unusual retreat for men who have cracked up during the Vietnam War. Also at this fog shrouded castle is Captain Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who freaked out before his mission to the moon. The two men are at odds about the world, especially around the question of faith.

Heather Drain and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss the Blatty, The Exorcist, Legion, and starting a Joe Spinell street gang.

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Links:
Buy The Ninth Configuration on Blu-Ray
Buy The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty
Buy Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable by William Peter Blatty
Buy All in All: An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage by Stacy Keach
Visit the official Stacy Keach website
Hear Tom Atkins's recollections of working on The Ninth Configuration
Read more about Ed Flanders
Visit the Ninth Configuration fan site
Hear more Samm Deighan on the Daughters of Darkness podcast
Visit the Mondo Heather website

Music:
"Killer Kane" - Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
"San Antone" - Denny Brooks
"Ninth Configuration" - The Other Two

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Episode 291: Night of the Creeps (1986)

Special Guests: Fred Dekker, Tom Atkins
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Maitland McDonagh

"What is this? A homicide, or a bad B-movie?"

Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps (1986) is a love letter to science fiction movies of the '50s. It's the story of Chris (Jason Lively) and JC (Steve Marshall), two friends who accidentally unleash a zombie plague from outer space onto their college campus. It's up to them, Cynthia (Jill Whitlow), and the grizzled Detective Cameron (Tom Atkins) to stop it.

Maitland McDonagh and Heather Drain join Mike to discuss this wonderful film. Interviews feature writer/director Fred Dekker and star Tom Atkins

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Links:
Buy Night of the Creeps on DVD
Buy the Night of the Creeps soundtrack by Barry DeVorzon
Visit Mondo Heather's website
Visit Diabolique Magazine
Visit the Miskatonic Institute

Music:
Soundtrack - Barry De Vorzon
"The Stroll" - The Diamonds
"The Creeps" - Social Distortion

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Episode 256: Looker (1981)

Guest Co-Hosts: Marjorie Conrad, Heather Drain

In Looker, writer/director Michael Crichton examined the allure of advertising. Plastic surgeon Dr. Larry Roberts (Albert Finney) has been performing millimeter-specific procedures on models including Cindy Fairmont (Susan Dey). When his patients start dying under suspicious circumstances, the trail leads to mogul John Reston (James Coburn).

Model/filmmaker Marjorie Conrad and writer Heather Drain join Mike in discussing digitized images, beauty standards, subliminal messages, and mustaches. Also, Marjorie Conrad gives us the scoop about her film, Chemical Cut and its Slam Dance premiere.

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Links:
Buy Looker on DVD
Buy Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key
Visit the Michael Crichton website
Visit the official Mondo Heather website
Visit the official Chemical Cut website

Music:
"Hall of Mirrors" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
"Looker" - Sue Saad

Watch:

CHEMICAL CUT - World Premiere 2016 Slamdance Film Festival from Marjorie Conrad on Vimeo.