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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE FOR Mandy (2018)
Please watch the film before listening.
“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
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SPOILERS FOR
The Love Witch (2016)
MENTIONED WITHOUT SPOILERS
Summer of 84 (2018)
TOPICS
1:37 – Diving right in to discussion of Mandy
4:20 – Compared to The Love Witch
5:54 – Revenge toxic masculinity
8:40 – Our worst movies list
10:16 – Compared to The Love Witch
12:55 – Pretentious and overwrought
16:00 – Compared to 1990s Infiniti ad campaign
20:32 – Characters
27:15 – Drugs and continuity
29:49 – Racist “magical negro” trope in full effect (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro)
34:57 – The Q&A with Kevin Smith, Nicolas Cage, Loach, and Panos Thanatos
42:42 – Panos
44:09 – How do we understand our reactions to this film?
51:53 – The score by Johann Johannsson
54:19 – Animation
54:45 – Nicolas Cage
57:54 – Compared to Damien Hirst
59:53 – Atypical vengeance masculinity with abysmal depiction of people of color and women.
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