2023 RetroSpooktive – The Exorcist

It’s October and you know what that means . . . it’s time for the annual RetroSpooktive. This year, we’re taking a look at the Exorcist series. We start with the cinema classic that started it all, The Exorcist. It’s all about the little girl who gets possessed and two priests are brought in to set her free.

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Film Studies 12-16: Saw X

John Kramer has just been given his cancer diagnosis and he’s been given just months to live. However, he soon hears about a radical medical treatment out of Mexico that could cure him within weeks. But alas, the treatment was a scam and now Jigsaw comes back for revenge . . . but will his new test subjects finally get one over on him?

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Film Studies 12-15: Gran Turismo

Jann Mardenborough is an elite Gran Turismo player with online records worth bragging about. But one day, he gets invited to participate in a contest where online racers get a chance to drive in a real world race for Team Nissan – all based on real life events.

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Or Is It? – Event Horizon

It’s the not-too-distant future, the Event Horizon spaceship has gone missing around the planet Neptune. A rag-tag crew is tasked with search and rescue it but one of the people aboard may not be showing all of their cards. Included in this movie podcast: Space MILFs, that ball with the spinning rings that’s in EVERY movie, and Derek’s Tips for People in a Sci-Fi Movie Who Have Never Seen A Sci-Fi Movie!

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Film Studies 12-14: Blue Beetle

This time around we’re taking a look at DC’s latest offerings, Blue Beetle. It’s the story of a reluctant young man chosen by a mysterious, alien scarab to be the new superhero, The Blue Beetle! His mission is to take down the evil Kord Corporation and stop them from improving police and military proficiency . . . as long as his mommy will let him out to play!

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Or Is It? – Transformers

Large alien robots arrive on Earth and interrupt the flirtatious budding relationship of two high school teens who look like 25 year-olds. That’s the over-arching story but drilling down we found pointless scenes, characters that don’t go anywhere, and Transformers with terrible drug addictions. All that and more in this 2007 classic.

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Film Studies 12-13: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem

This time around we’re back with movie reviews and stories from our movie-going experiences. First, a quick spoiler-free review of The Meg 2: The Trench. Then, our review and Mark’s harrowing drive-in experience with The Barbie Movie. Finally, we end it with our review of TMNT: Mutant Mayhem. See the time codes below for the movie you want to know about first.

00:01:45 – The Meg 2: The Trench (non-spoiler)
00:04:40 – The Barbie Movie
00:48:30 – TMNT: Mutant Mayhem

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Or Is It? – Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy!

Scott White begrudgingly joined us for a look at the – somewhat – Canadian movie about a small Ontario town being attacked by a giant rock-octopus hyrid. Well, maybe more like minors are attacked underground. Ok, change miners to a varied group of reporters, ex-boyfriends, gay cameramen, Russian scientists, and female engineers. Yeah, that’s it.

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Or Is It? – Mazes & Monsters

Tom Hanks returns to Or Is It? with his first major movie role – a TV movie is still a movie! – as a young college student drawn into the mind-bending world of “Mazes & Monsters”. The evil tabletop roleplaying game soon grips the sanity of the young man and forces him into mental craziness . . . 80s style!

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Film Studies 12-12: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones is back! This time he’s trying to find the pieces to an ancient artifact that could allow one Nazi to travel back in time and drastically change the course of World War II. Along with him is his god-daughter Helena Shaw, her friend Teddy, and Antonio Banderas? Really? Yep, all that and more in this latest offering of the Indiana Jones saga.

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