Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People
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Nothing Hides Evidence Like a Stew: Dr. Caligari (1989)
Ted Hates RoboCop
por Matt Fagan
Should Matt Fagan have been allowed to watch this film at sixteen? Should Ted Fagan have been allowed to watch it at forty? Big brother Matt introduces Ted to one of the strangest films he ever saw, the 1989 avant-garde science fiction theater experiment Dr. Caligari. Matt was so obsessed with this movie that he once opened up a wholesale account with an adult film distributor because it was, somehow, the only legal way to obtain a copy on DVD. Ted once had a legendary twitch in Nagasaki, uh huh!
...but Matt loves it! Never before have two brothers been on opposite sides of an issue so meaningful. Matt becomes a thirteen-year-old boy again, and Ted becomes your prudish old nan as they discuss the ten-inch party balloon filled with blood that is RoboCop. In a world where everyone is either the perpetrator of a crime, the victim of a crime, or Buckaroo Banzai, can Matt and Ted put their differences aside long enough to get distracted and talk about something else? Like random celebrity sightings, or that Friday the 13th tv show from the eighties, or the time Ted ate a cloaca?
Ted and Matt Fagan revisit a campy classic from their youths! Matt gushes about his weird girl-crush on Karen Mistal, and exposes the secret connection between this movie and the Pamela Anderson tv series VIP. Ted commits treason, and advocates cannibalism against Bill Maher. All this, and a movie that is pretty smart and feminist, for a dumb exploitation flick.