The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Saved by the bell is from the string in the grave

I’m doing bunch of re listens on eps and Just looked up Bumble Bee cosplay that Stanger mentioned. Wild stuff. More like Stumble Bee! Love this cast. Thanks boys!

Hell yeah

Finally some Scanners talk.

all the audio for the Land Rover in this movie is my dad’s old Rover. they paid him $50 and recorded the sounds of the car. stopping, starting, doors opening, etc. very exciting and I’m sure you’re all impressed. great episode. later.

Only just seen it: Salvador crossed with Live And Let Die. Fun.

It’s seems obvious Stanger is a Paladin Gabrus is a Ranger Rodgers is a Wizard/Rogue

If the existence of Pennyworth as a show is staggering, wait until you realize that the advertisements are for Season Three of it

Does everyone have sleep paralysis or is it solely found in practitioners of the janitorial arts?

The Cursed Films episode on this movie on shudder is an interesting one. Pullman had a full on out of this world experience while in Haiti that he still couldn’t really articulate in the episode.

I love that Stanger is still consistently listening to Doughboys. Definitely brought up that cruiseline shit dump from Yarrrrctdoughbarrrchest.

The best way to snap out of sleep paralysis is to hyperventilate yourself. Screaming rarely works.

In season 3 of the sinner bill Pullman gets buried alive on purpose again by Matt bomer and it’s exactly because what rodgers said, it opens your mind and you really live, etc hahah

I'd love it if the Action Boyz each got a mechanical watch to match their individual tastes. They're cool accessories. And think of how much more you'll get done each day if you aren't pulling your phone out of your pocket every time you want to see what time it is. It's on your wrist, dude!

Man, I went to watch Tremors last night - kinda assuming just like Rodgers said that it's pretty much freely available everywhere that's streaming, and it's actually all paywalled-up! Only AMC+ and Peacock Premium have it for streaming right now (unless you want to rent it) When did Tremors, of all movies, become such a precious commodity!? Looks like I'll have to watch Leprechaun 4: In Space.... AGAIN.

Here’s the Bumblebee cosplay fall down clip Stanger mentioned: https://youtu.be/fgBMcZ-6DnQ

Welcome back, Stanger!

I got a vasectomy a couple months ago and that one scrot cut had me not walking for days. No way I would hike after getting a mail through there

SHIT ...into meee and I come into you in an Action Boy's dream

Absolute mind fuck. Pullman had to be legitimately terrified shooting some of these scenes. He deserves Haitian citizenship for this one 🇭🇹

My friend told me a great Bill Pullman story: A group of us were talking about celebrity encounters and when we got to her, she said, 'Not really, I guess I met Bill Pullman a few times when he was on the board of this small LA theater with his wife'. I said, 'Of course, Bill Pullman definitely counts as a celebrity encounter', and I asked if he was nice to work with, and she said, 'Well, yes, but also he was always looking to get more (air quotes) "involved" in things the theaters was doing'. For example, she said, there was a premiere of 'this sort of like gay dystopia futurescape' show that started Beakman of Beakman's World that Pullman got really excited about. (I had to look up which show it was because it sounded so insane, it was called Beyond the Beyond: The Gay Futureworld.) Pullman convinced the theater to let him have his friends "bring their robot" to the pre-show reception to get people excited for the futuristic elements of the show. The robot, however, she said, wasn't really a good fit for before the show because the operators didn't really understand who comes to a GLBT gender-focused small live theater show in LA, and 'the robot was cracking all these really inappropriate jokes'. I said, 'Wait what did this robot look like? Was it like a guy in a robot costume?' And she said, 'Oh no, it was like a remote-controlled garbage can that the operators controlled from behind a curtain and, when it talked, it was just the operators talking into a mic that made their voices sound robotic'. She said it got so uncomfortable that the someone had to go get the Theater Director to tell Bill Pullman to tell his buddies that they couldn't crack any more jokes ahead of the show because everyone was getting super bothered by the trashcan robot bumping into people and saying inappropriate stuff. She said after that Pullman was a little miffed because he thought the robot was really fun and cool. I also pressed her if she could remember specifically any of the robot's jokes, but she unfortunately could not.

I know you guys probably already have your Octooky slate filled, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, which I feel is a criminally undersung Carpenter film. It's probably more of a Shadow Wolves episode.

All this shitty job stories where they take advantage of you really triggered something in me. Stanger's David Neher story is insane and awesome, but I just remember at that same time with Funny or Die and College Humor Buzzfeed was really feeling themselves at the time and had so many under employed writers and actors over the barrel. They'd ask you to do a fucking all day shoot and offer like, 50 dollars and snacks and you'd take it because you were broke. Just truly shameless shit. I just pulled up old call sheets where I got paid 125 dollars from College Humor for a 12 hour guaranteed PA rate where I'm literally by myself or with one other person doing equipment pickup and dropoff and full unloads and setting up almost everything like crafty, unloading camera and lighting gear, and driving the van. Just terrible, but fun to look back and think of all those fuckers making out like bandits.

Of all the movies filmed in Portland, Zero Effect is one of the only good ones. Stoked to see it covered on the pod in Oregonuary alongside Forest Warrior, Brainsmasher… A Love Story, & TMNT 3.

I think of Pullman the same way I think of Kyle MacLachlan, both perfect David Lynch guys. They seem like they are right out of bizarro world central casting.

I had sleep paralysis once and was convinced I was going to swallow my tongue and die. I did not.

Gianna Michaels, truly one of the greats

🎵I shit too much / Too much 🎵 -Dave Matthews 😂

So this brought up a question for me, you guys like Stanger back on the pod? We pro-stanger? Of course we are!

The talk about exploiting actors is infuriating because you know every single fucking company that could possibly do that, does.

Dell guys catch phrase is “Dude, you’re getting well”

nice to hear some Scooby talk, my daughter is way in to those guys at the moment. One thing i forgot about re:Scooby Doo is that (1) there is a laugh track and (2) they are never hired as detectives, every scenario they get themselves in is by coincidence

The details of the DMB tour bus incident are way gnarlier than you'd think. It was in downtown Chicago and the bus released some unbelievably large amount of shit on an Architecture tour boat. The driver went to jail for a few months THATs how bad it was.

I have no idea how this movie was off my radar, man what a blast. Also one of, if not the only action boyz movie that I had not seen but my girl saw countless times as a kid.

heads up action boyz, you dont have a spirit animal if youre a honky

I think the AB are right about Pullman's cheesiness. He reminded me of Leslie Nielsen in this movie. Having said that, a movie he was great in recently, and not cheesy at all, was Dark Waters.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother You're buried alive, buried alive Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' And we're buried alive, buried alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, buried alive, buried alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, buried alive

Oh shit we got DnD talk

“Who do voodoo we do fuck you” is that from anywhere else or did Stanger quote Voodoo Glow Skulls?

Our prayers and kisses brought him back

Gotta feeling this'll be another CBT ep.

Man, mid aughts my Pullman woulda made Pullman jealous. Now it’s more Nolte mugshot.

“Improvisers”

You guys better not be lying about Stanger!

Stanger's back, baby!

I think Brad Fiedel greatly overestimated how much pan flute is in actual Haitian music

Very stoked that Stanger is back. This film inspired the awful track “Voodoo” by Godsmack.

Not today old friend

Saw 3 hours+ for the run time, knew Stanger is back. Missed him so much.

Hold on: are we certain this is the real Stanger?

STANGER IS BACK!!!!! 😭😭😭 IM SO HAPPY

STANGER!!!

oh baby yes

Love Bill Pullman in The Last Seduction. If only the podcast had a month dedicated to neo-noir films…