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Episode 18. John Carpenter's Scary Movie Month: The Fog

• Season 1 • Episode 18

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Boo-ray, it's October! And we're kicking off a new theme for the month: John Carpenter's Scary Movie Month. If you don't know J-Carp, he's a master of horror and sci-fi, a spiritual cousin to Wes Craven, Spielberg's weird buddy, and the director of the best movie ever made, Big Trouble in Little China.

But before we get into The Fog, his 1980 horror follow up to Halloween, we bring back the Movie Podcast Ombudsman to dissect a couple comments that were made on Blank Check's episode of Used Cars featuring How Did This Get Made's Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas—like Tom Hanks wasn't good in Road to Perdition (?!?).

Then it's what we watched this week with Goodman doubling down on John Carpenter with the Chevy Chase & Darryl Hannah vehicle, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and Dre going speed round on the 9 (!!!) movies he watched this week (show-off).

Then it's time to descend on the town of Antonio Bay and all the crazy, foggy hijinks that happened on its centennial back in 1980. We run through John Carpenter's filmography and place in cinema, we discuss the plot (or lack thereof), the cast and some choice quotes for funsies!

Sorry gang, no BOOM! (Based On Other Movies) this week, but we did take a stroll down Goodman's Failed Screenplay Sidewalk—watch out for the cracks!

Coming up next week during John Carpenter's Scary Movie Month is his version of Stephen King's Christine about a possessed demon car. Now that's what we call fast and furious.

SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
What we watched music: "Let's all go to the lobby" by Jack K. Tillar (lyrics)
BOOM! music: "Daddy O" by Little Red Church
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert
The Quote Parade music: "Pelican Parade" by Richard J. Freitas and Geraldine Brioso