Monday, November 28, 2022

RW510 - Dark Skies S01E07-08 - Ancient Nature

 


In this weeks episode of The Dark Skies Rewatch, Cory and Tom spend a long time waiting for rancid milk as they discuss season 1 episodes 7 & 8, Ancient Future and Inhuman Nature.

Ancient Future:

Written by: James D. Parriot & Gay Walch

Directed by: Lou Antonio

Original airdate: November 16, 1996


Synopsis:

As a tribe of people sit around the fire, a bright object falls from the sky and lands near the mountains nearby. 


Many centuries later, a man awakens in his home to see a knife on his night stand slowly spinning. He drives out and finds a collection of rocks floating in the air. 


Bach discusses the situation with a scientist who explains the magnetic disturbances are above a fault line in Alaska, and only have a 50/50 chance of being naturally caused. Albano thinks it’s a waste of time to investigate it, but Bach knows Loengard has a nose for this type of thing and if he’s interested in it, they should be as well. 


John and Kim meet a reverend named Gary, who after some tense back and forth about the recent tabloid exploitation stories of the floating rocks and religion in general, agrees to let them meet his uncle, Tug, the man who found the rocks originally. He tells them of the story of an ancient clan that saw a star fall to the earth, and was swallowed up underground. They spent their lives guarding the star, due to the instructions of the father who came down to speak to them without words. The father explained that the star should stay buried until a time in the future, when rocks would fly and it would sing its song, and the ground would open up and be exposed again to the sky. The father also seemingly died and floated up to the skies. Tug then shows them what the father looked like, a carving on a totem pole that resembles the Greys. 


John and Kim discuss the existence of this friendly Grey, theorizing that the Greys might have been friendly, but are now implanted with ganglions like some humans are.


Tug takes them to the rock location where they notice a helicopter suddenly lose control when flying over the area, then veering off and regaining control. Kim notices the birds stop singing and suddenly the rocks start to float in midair again, and just as suddenly fall back down as an earthquake hits. After it subsides, a gorge has opened and they see the star Tug told them about. John and Kim go to get climbing equipment to get down there, but Majestic shows up. Tug asks John for his help in not allowing anyone to take out whatever is in the gorge. 


Bach tries to get the local Air Force base General to assist him in locking down the town, but he resists, reiterating the disaster that is facing the town and surrounding communities because of the earthquake. Bach summons up his authoritarian demeanor and states his demands again, the general finally backing down, for some unknown and inexplicable reason, considering he outranks Bach by several levels. 


Inside the gorge, John, Kim, Gary and Tug hear the ship making noises with Kim feeling queasy. They investigate further and find a glowing ship with alien writing on the sides. John notes that it’s larger than the Roswell craft, has less detail on the surface, seems to bend the matter around it and despite emanating heat, the surface isn’t even hot. Tug and Kim both feel uneasy, and decide to retreat, with John remaining unaffected. He theorizes it could be a warning device of some sort, and stays behind to take more pictures and investigate.


Bach explains to Albano that the ship at Roswell is dead, and wants this ship since it’s seemingly working as they begin their move towards the site. 


Outside the gorge, Tug questions whether the father he spoke of was evil, but Kim explains he could have been here before they were taken over by the Hive.


Inside, John touches the ship and experiences a vision of the future with him arguing with Bach, a helicopter carrying the alien ship, and skeletons strewn around the land, with an older version of John waking up on the ground, as a man explains the skeletons are the remains of throwbacks, as they look up and see a hive ship flying above. As John awakens from his vision, Bach’s men arrive to take him out of the cave but he faints. 


John awakens hours later to realize Bach is evacuating the town, deeming it a disaster site. John explains his vision to Kim who questions whether it could be changed. As Tug goes to Gary and prays with him, Kim and John move towards the guards under the ruse of wanting some coffee but grab their weapons and escape with a helicopter. They fly towards the site where Bach is ready to lift the alien ship out, and face off against him, threatening to take out both copters if they continue. Bach backs off and as they fly away, the ship explodes safely underground, leaving the area safe for the town citizens to return. 

History As We Know It:

This episode, and the next (Inhuman Nature) were played out of production order. Of course, we opted to watch them in the intended order.


We’ve seen director Lou Antonio before, he directed 4 episodes of Dawson’s Creek in S1 and S2. He’s also a bit of a character actor going all the way back to 1960.


The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths.


Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in world history.


There were hundreds of aftershocks in the first weeks following the main shock. In the first day alone, eleven major aftershocks were recorded with a magnitude greater than 6.0. Nine more struck over the next three weeks. In all, thousands of aftershocks occurred in the months following the quake, and smaller aftershocks continued to strike the region for more than a year.

The closest I could find to the mentioned clan, is the Tlingit clan, which consists of many tribes within that clan. There are approximately 16000-17000 members still alive today.

Inhuman Nature:

Written by: Melissa Rosenberg

Directed by: Rodman Flender

Original airdate: November 9, 1996


Synopsis: 

A farmer runs into his field when he notices his cattle are starting to get restless, and finds himself witnessing a group of Greys surrounding a dead cow, extracting its insides, and then transporting away to their ship.


John and Kim meet with Bobby Kennedy who lays out his plan to become Vice President in the election, and then president after that, at which time he can finally put in place an executive order that can override a previous one that protects Majestic 12. John and Kim are impatient but Kennedy tells them they have to play it safe lest all be lost, and offers them money as well as a weapon, at John’s request. Slightly down, John and Kim go to investigate the report of the farmer they heard about.


Upon arriving at the Castor Boehm’ home, they talk with his children, but the farmer shows up soon enough and orders them off his land at gunpoint, sensing their cover story is a lie. Kim instead tries the truth and he calms down, deciding to talk with them. 


Meanwhile, a veterinarian student named Waring studies Castor’s cow, documenting it, but is interrupted by Albano who starts confiscating everything in the room, and bullying the student into signing an agreement on not talking about this incident to anyone lest he face charges.


John and Kim arrive and find Waring exhausted and hesitant to talk with anyone but he relents when John reveals he knows about Majestic and their tactics. Together, they developed a roll of film Waring took and didn’t hand over to Albano. They find several mysterious markings that John recognizes from another one of Farmer Boehm’s cows and they ask him to bring in the animal for inspection. Waring extracts a long black tube like object from the side of the cow, whereas John discovers the cow has an extra heartbeat. Waring theorizes it could be an abnormal pregnancy and decides to try and biopsy a growth they found inside with an X-ray. 


Meanwhile, Bach’s daughter suffers from nightmares when her father isn’t home, complaining of monsters under her bed, despite him previously telling her it’s his job to make sure there are none. Even his wife is upset with him as he phoned her once again from out of town on Majestic business, keeping her in the dark as to his actual job.


Kim talks with John and suggests that maybe it’s a good thing that Kennedy has asked them to be patient, reasoning that it could be their chance to take a break, and to not fight the war so hard because there are others who are there to help as well. John says that Hive won’t just stop, but she pleads with him, reminding of how they wanted to start a family together, mentioning how Kennedy has a large family, and even Bach does as well. John comforts her, telling her that they will have that as well someday.


Waring extracts a large black sac from the cow and is ready to open it up, but John tells him it could be dangerous as he arms his weapon. Suddenly the sac starts to open up with a seemingly human toddler emerging. As John and Waring discuss what's going on, with John revealing to him about the Hive and the extraction process, Kim begins trying to clean the child up. John admonishes her, with Waring saying that this is all over his head and has to alert his supervisor. John suggests talking to Majestic to do an examination, due to their facilities, but Kim says that allowing them to cut open the toddler would make them no better than the Hive.


Bach goes to the Boehm farm and sees that Castor has shot all of his cows, freaked out when he saw the child emerge from the black sac. 


Waring does a basic examination and clean up, and finds the child is normal except it does not have a naval. Majestic arrives and Kim gathers the child up. John warns her it may not be human, but Kim retorts that THEY still are. Kim goes with Waring to escape, and John stays behind to try and wipe the area clean but is caught.


Waring goes back to help John while Kim eventually gets to the service tunnel entrance, but finds the door locked. The receptionist for the hospital appears and tells Kim that she can’t take the child cause it belongs to “us,” revealing herself as a Hive member. She pushes Kim down and starts to unlock the door, but Kim attacks her from behind and grabs the boy, escaping through the tunnel.  


As John refuses to give Bach anything, Bach starts to order his men to check the entire building. John sees Waring return and calls to him to get out, but Albano thinks it’s a ruse before Waring suddenly attacks him. Together, the two subdue Albano with Waring securing him as John reunites and escapes in the tunnels with Kim. They are suddenly stopped by a Majestic agent who radios Bach. John talks to the agent, distracting him slightly so they can escape and hide. 


Bach shows up and says that all they want is the creature. John devises a ruse with the child’s blanket, covering some rats to attract Majestic away from the door. John and Kim escape with the child, locking the door behind them. They sleep in the car with the child, vowing to lay low for a while. In the middle of the night, a bright light appears, the car door unlocks by itself, and the child leaves, walking towards a bright light on the ground and is teleported away. 

History As We Know It:

Cow mutilations go back as far as the 17th century. A rash of 200 mutilations were reported between April and October in 1975 in Colorado. An investigation was opened with the FBI concluding that it was all just common predators, whereas local officials strongly disagreed. 


“I've been around cattle all my life and I can sure tell whether it's been done by coyote or a sharp instrument,” Sheriff George A. Yarnell of Elbert County.


Other explanations besides aliens, are satanic cults, larger than normal wolf sized wolf creatures, and odd humanoid creatures with yellow eyes in trees. Reports of flying circles in the skies have been reported at several mutilation sites. 


Veterinary pathologists point to the fact that scavengers tend to eat the soft tissue of a dead animal first, which might explain the missing external organs commonly described on the dead bovine. Bloodlessness, meanwhile, might be attributed to livor mortis: When an animal dies, the heart stops and the blood stops circulating, thus settling the blood via gravity, creating a “bloodless” effect in some surface parts of a carcass.


In Washington County, Arkansas in 1979, the sheriff’s department conducted an experiment: It placed a dead cow in a field for 48 hours and found it looked a lot like the ostensibly mutilated ones. Bacterial bloating had caused its skin to tear in an incision-like manner similar to what had been described in some ranchers’ reports. Maggots and blowflies, meanwhile, had cleaned out the animal’s organs.

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Thursday, November 24, 2022

RW509 - Texas Chainsaw Rewatch - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

 


In this episode of The Texas Chainsaw Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan are in it for the good clean living as they discuss "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2022).

Trailer:

Our favourite Trivia:

Initially during the development of Leatherface (2017), the producers had the film rights and intention to make five more Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. In April 2015, producer Christa Campbell stated that the fate of the potential sequels would largely depend on the financial and critical reception to Leatherface. By December 2017, Lionsgate and Millennium Films had lost the film rights, due to the amount of time it took to release Leatherface, and in August 2018, it was reported that Legendary Pictures had entered preliminary negotiations to purchase the film rights to Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with the studio intending to adapt television and film installments.


Fede Álvarez spoke about this film's relation to the other sequels, that the film does not explicitly erase the continuity of them, saying: "When movies do that, sometimes it feels a bit disrespectful to all the other films. Some people love Texas Chainsaw 2. I love a lot of things about that movie -- it's so wacky and of its time. But the rest is such a mess canon-wise. I think it's up to you to decide when and how the events of the other movies happen."


On August 24, 2020, initial directors and brothers Ryan Tohill and Andy Tohill split from the project during the film's first week of production in Bulgaria. The duo was replaced with David Blue Garcia, who scrapped and reshot the previous footage. Original Cinematographer Angus Mitchel, who worked with the Tohill’s on The Dig, left the production as a result and was replaced with Ricardo Diaz.


Moe Dunford starred in The Dig, which was a film by the original directing duo Ryan Tohill and Andy Tohill.


John Larroquette narrates the opening of the film, as well as the original in 1974 and the remake in 2003.


Sally's barn and house, seen during her introductory scene when she receives the phone call about Leatherface returning, are sets from the production of Rambo: Last Blood (2019).


The film is only 73 minutes long without credits, and 81 with the post credits scene.


The film was initially slated for a theatrical release in 2021, but all plans were scrapped after a string of disastrous test screenings. It was subsequently sold to Netflix, where it eventually debuted in February 2022.

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Monday, November 21, 2022

RW508 - Dark Skies S01E05-06 - Days Dream

 


In this weeks episode of The Dark Skies Rewatch, Cory and Tom want to hold your hand and maybe win big as they discuss season 1 episodes 5 & 6, Dark Days Night and Dreamland.

Dark Days Night:

Written by:

Story by : Brent V. Friedman & Bryce Zabel

Teleplay by : Brent V. Friedman & Brad Markowitz

Directed by: Matthew Penn

Original airdate: October 26, 1996


Synopsis: 

A man pulls up to a curb in New York City and thanks his passenger for his help with a research project, asking him to finish the study by going to a newsstand and buying the first magazine that catches his eye within 15 seconds. However, when the young man approaches the shop, he hears “Money” by The Beatles on the radio and becomes entranced. He proceeds to walk out into the middle of the street, gets hit by a car and dies. The newsstand cashier rushes to the car and together she and the researcher celebrate how quickly the man acted. 


At a motel, Kim wakes up in the middle of the night to hear indistinct talking on a HAM radio but writes down what she can decipher, indicating that something is happening in New York City. Amidst footage of The Beatles, we hear cover band The MopTops playing “Kansas City” albeit with the city replaced by New York City instead. As John and Kim move amongst the crowd, they see Steele, with Kim pulling John in the opposite direction and escaping by shouting out that she sees Paul and causing the girls to swarm hysterically.


Meanwhile at Majestic, Doctor Halligan shows Bach the ganglion they pulled from the astronaut and injects it with the blood of a rejected Hive abductee which causes the ganglion to explode and die. 


John gets into the Ed Sullivan Theatre (since Kim would have less of a chance being just another female fan of the Fab Four) and tries to talk with Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager, but he is flustered at Ed Sullivan’s abrupt demeanor in dealing with him, and walks away. He regroups with Kim and finds that she has gotten the name and address of the HAM operator they heard the other night, Christopher Weatherly. When they reach his house, they are told about how the young man died. The couple sneaks into the house and finds evidence of the study Christopher had attended and that the HAM radio in the house was tuned to the same frequency they had picked up in their motel. 


Together they go to the study being run by a Doctor Burnside and meet a young girl named Marnie, but during the study both Marnie and Kim feel uneasy, being affected by subliminal messages being broadcast on the video they were told to watch, and both retreat outside for air. Marnie confides in Kim about a dream she had about being abducted, and Kim sympathizes but tries to reassure her that she’s ok, that everything it’s all over now, wanting to spare her further pain. As she and John ride in a cab, Kim hears The Beatles on the radio singing “Money” and tries to leap out of the cab, being saved at the last minute by John. Kim reasons that she may have been exposed to subliminal messaging, thinking that maybe it’s due to her abduction past. When John checks the HAM radio log they took from Weatherly’s house, they discover that it was the father who was using the radio and is infected by Hive, not the son. Steele suddenly appears and tries to shoot the couple but they fight him off, eventually subduing him. 


They question Steele about what the Hive’s plans are at the Sullivan Theater but he refuses. Frustrated, John calls Bobby Kennedy, going to meet with him and tell him about Steele, but it turns out to be a trap by Bach. He agrees to trade Steele for access to Doctor Halligan and manpower to storm the research study office. They kill the woman in charge, but miss Burnside. Halligan puts the woman in a device to stop the ganglion from escaping her body and then they scan through the footage from the videos, finding the subliminal programming. They theorize that the throwbacks of the abductions are being targeted by Hive in order to kill them and do away with the incompatible humans. Given that a huge amount of people are reported to be tuning in to see The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, the broadcast makes a perfect set up for broadcasting the hidden message.


Bach and his cronies along with John and Kim, check the ad spots for the show but find nothing and leave, but John thinks about how Hive could be tapping into the lines during the actual broadcast, and they head off to find the technician who was setting up the cables earlier in the day. They find that he is hurt, having been attacked after finding a strange cable connection. John and  Kim investigate and find Christopher Weatherly Sr messing around with the cables. John pursues and is overpowered, but Albano comes to his rescue, having followed them from the control room.


John traces the cable through the ducts and finds Burnside in a room ready to transmit his messaging, but he sees John and attacks him. A struggle ensues but the duct is weak and Burnside falls down onto a machine and is electrocuted. He gives Bach the keys to the hotel room where Steele is being held and goes to leave with Kim, but they notice Marnie in the audience, transfixed by her mental programming. She starts walking towards the balcony edge, ready to jump, and is startled by Kim’s shouts, as John catches her before she can fall. 


Bach and company go to find Steele but he is surprisingly not there. Wah wah wah…

History As We Know It:

Teleplay co-writer Brad Markowitz previously collaborated with Zabel and Friedman on MANTIS, and would join them again on The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. He’s had a reasonable TV writing career.


Director Matthew Penn is a fairly consistently working TV director, with lots of well known shows on his resume. He does have a resemblance to Sean Penn but I’m not sure if they’re related.


Michael Hagerty played Christopher Weatherly Jr. We just saw him in Dawson’s Creek playing Matt, who vandalized Joey’s mural. 


Jerome Patrick Hoban was Ed Sullivan. He played Sullivan several times in Pulp Fiction, Growing Pains, and Happy Halloween Part 2


On their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance, The Beatles played "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand".


The Beatles are in this case The MopTops band which apparently has had several lineups throughout the years, although I can’t find a list. The list according to IMDB consist of Joe Stefanelli as John, Tim Michael McDougall as Paul, Rock Pizana as George, and Carmine Grippo as Ringo. On several MopTop videos however, comments indicate different members of the band. Joe played John in Forrest Gump as well. 

Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential New York City rock and roll disc jockey of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he frequently referred to himself as the fifth Beatle. When the Beatles came to New York on February 7, 1964, Murray was the first DJ they welcomed into their circle, having heard about him and his Brooklyn Fox shows from American groups such as the Ronettes. When the band arrived in New York, Murray was invited by Brian Epstein to spend time with the group, and Murray persuaded his radio station (WINS) to let him broadcast his prime time show from the Beatles' Plaza Hotel suite. He subsequently accompanied the band to Washington, D.C. for their first U.S. concert, was backstage at their The Ed Sullivan Show premiere, and roomed with Beatles guitarist George Harrison in Miami, broadcasting his nightly radio shows from his hotel room there. He came to be referred to as the "Fifth Beatle", a moniker he said he was given by Harrison during the train ride to the Beatles' first concert in Washington, D.C. or by Ringo Starr at a press conference before that concert.

Dreamland:

Written by: Steve Apsis

Directed by: Winrich Kolbe

Original airdate: November 2, 1996


Synopsis: 

A man plays blackjack in Vegas and wins quite a bit. The casino floor manager, Geddings, signals to a waitress, Susan, who then flirts with him and invites him to her room to ask what his trick is to winning, to which he denies having any. As she kisses him, clad in lingerie, a knock at the door startles him and he grabs his winnings, save for a few hundred bucks, and hands it over to the man outside who demands all of the money. He opens his mouth and a ganglion tentacle reaches out into the other man’s mouth, seemingly giving him the strength to reach something called Dreamland. 


Meanwhile, with their car in constant need of repair, Kim volunteers to get a job at a Vegas casino, the name of which they found on some poker chips Steele had on him. When they turn the chips in for cash, the cashier recognizes these particular chips and alerts a man at the casino that they “have two more”. 


Kim works the room well, earning plenty of tips. As she collects a tip from one particular high roller table, she notices an odd man (identified only in IMDB as Cochran) as a strange sound echoes in her head. She points the group out to John, but they are interrupted by Geddings who offers them the hospitality suite until they get on their feet again. As the men and women at the high roller table leave, John follows them, thinking they may be Hive, and sees them leave in a car with no celebration of their big winnings.


Kim wonders about the sound she heard, and John theorizes that maybe the Hive has telepathy and was using it to cheat. Kim further wonders if they can use the sound to detect when Hive is around. Their conversation is interrupted as a group of men bust in, taking them away at gunpoint. The two of them are sanitized and then told to shower as they are brought up to a man who has been watching all that goes on in the hotel via the cameras, a man known as Howard Hughes.


Hughes informs them that he has been marking the poker chips of Hive members, and knows they cheat to gain money to support their cause of world wide domination. He asks to use Kim’s ability to hear the Hive, to get her in with them and track the “communists,” unaware that they are actually aliens.


As they go to retrieve their car the next morning to follow the Hive members, they are surprised to see that Hughes has given them a brand new convertible car, but unfortunately the Hive disappears on a seemingly dead end road. Kim decides to infiltrate the gambling group, with the assistance of Hughes’ electronics to track her. The ruse works and she gets in with the group, winning big and eventually stopping after a mental command from Cochran.


John talks with Hughes outside as they watch Kim get in the car with Cochran and the Hive members, with Hughes revealing how he used to work with Majestic until they started to consider him a security risk. He also reveals the existence of “Dreamland,” an Air Force base actually named Area 51 that the “commies” are digging a tunnel to from the dead end arrived at the previous day. John is adamant that he call the Pentagon, but Hughes says that will happen eventually and that they’ll pay him big for the keys to that tunnel. John tries to stop Kim from going but Hughes’ bodyguard stops him and sends him back to his suite. 


As Kim gets into the car with the other Hive members, she is met with Steele himself who tells her she will understand their mental language soon. They take her to a room where they secure her down, and prepare to have one of their natural enemies enter her body to get rid of the remaining Hive tendrils inside her so they can implant her again.


Susan ends up rescuing John from his room and together the two head off to find Kim while Hughes and his crew end up at the dead end spot. Using his electronics, Hughes discovers Kim’s signal in her abandoned purse nearby. John and Susan arrive just as a Hive truck driver shows up, and while attempting to drive straight through them, is shot and killed. As Hughes goes to the truck, the ganglion escapes from the dead body and attacks him. He pulls it off and John shoots it dead. He then notices that the tire tracks end at the rock wall, so he drives the truck straight through it, revealing it as a hologram. 


Steele senses Loengard, and his Hive crew try to attack to no avail as he drives right through them. He finds Kim and removes the leeches from her body but Cochran jumps through a window and tries to attack them. Kim grabs the tank of leeches and throws them into Cochran as he cries out in pain, allowing her and John to escape. Suddenly, MP’s from Area 51 arrive to take control of the area. 


Back at the casino, Susan quits and moves on to another state for a fresh start, while John and Kim share a drink at the border of Area 51, wondering what the Hive was after inside. 

History As We Know It:

We’ve seen director Winrich Kolby before, he directed 2 episodes of Lois & Clark, “Dear Earth” and “When Irish Eyes are Killing,” and he also co-directed the premiere episode of Voyagers! And the later episode “Voyagers of the Titanic.”


Writer Steven Apsis only has a small handful of credits. His most notable contribution being a writer and producer of a few episodes of Outer Limits.


Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American businessman, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle, caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness. Hughes inherited an estate of nearly a million dollars when his father died in 1923. Hughes' father also left him the business that had created this fortune, the Hughes Tool Company, which controlled the rights to a new oil drill technology that was in high demand. An accountant named Dietrich helped turn that into a multimillion dollar empire. 


Examples of his OCD include spending time trying to “fix” an actress’s blouse during filming and designing a new blouse because the old one made it look like she had two nipples. He focused on a lot of seemingly trivial details and was very indecisive. He spent four months in his own screening room, sitting naked often while watching films, and eating only chocolate bars, chicken and milk, not even bathing. The nakedness was likely due to allodynia which can result in a pain on your skin from things that don’t normally cause pain. He would use tissues to pick up objects and would notice dust and stains on other people’s clothing, insisting they clean them immediately.


He would move between hotels in Vegas, always taking the top floor penthouses as his own, but finally settled in 1966 inside the Desert Inn, which he would buy in 67 in order to stay there and avoid conflicts with the owners, turning the penthouse into his base of operations. 


His brain trauma from his airplane crashes would begin to affect his decision making and he had a type of secret police, a committee helping him out. 


A man named Clifford Irving claimed to have written an authorized autobiography but it turned out to be false, and he was convicted for fraud.


Kidney failure is the official cause of death however it was discovered that at some point after the death, an unnecessarily large and deadly amount of painkillers had been injected into Hughes. There are several debunked conspiracy theories about his faking his own death as well.


He’s been represented in numerous films including The Rocketeer and The Aviator. Stan Lee created the character of Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, inspired by Hughes. He’s also been mentioned in many different song lyrics as well, including AC/DC’s Ain’t No Fun Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire, and Broadway Melody by Genesis. TV Show appearances include The Greatest American Hero, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Simpsons, and Invader Zim.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

RW507 - Texas Chainsaw Rewatch - Leatherface

 


In this episode of The Texas Chainsaw Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan are running and hiding in plain sight as they discuss "Leatherface."

Trailer:

Our Favourite Trivia:

The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre film not to be filmed in the United States. Instead, the film was shot in Bulgaria for budgetary reasons.


This is Tobe Hooper's final film as a producer before his death, from natural causes, on August 26th, 2017.


Lili Taylor in this film plays Verna Carson, a character first seen in Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013). In that film, she was played by Marilyn Burns in a small role as the elderly Verna, who played the final girl Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).


Stephen Dorff plays Sheriff Hal Hartman in this film, who is the father of Burt Hartman from Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013).


Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor previously acted together in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and Public Enemies (2009).


Nathan Cooper plays Verna’s lawyer, Farnsworth. The character was played by Richard Riehle in the previous film.


While it's not mentioned in the film itself or the credits, Ted's last name, as confirmed by the screenwriter, is Hardesty, making him the father of Sally and Franklin.


Due to Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) being filmed in 2011, and this film being shot 2 years earlier in 2015, Lionsgate actually had lost the rights to the franchise by the time this came out. This was their final TCM film, despite having the rights to make upwards of 6 films.


After reshoots had been completed, the film premiered on DirecTV before having its limited theatrical run. The World Premiere was on 25 August 2017 at FrightFest in London.

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Taking a step back and once again heading to another studio, we get a very late direct sequel to the original TCM with 2022's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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