THE SCI-FI PODCAST EP 12: Halloween Special

TSFP Halloween Special

Welcome to The SciFi Podcasta wretched hive of scum and villainy a bi-weekly podcast focused on in-depth discussion of all things Science Fiction. The SciFi Podcast features three hosts—Mattroid, Solo, and Station!—and frequent guests. Each episode we look at a science fiction theme or franchise and take the discussion where no show has gone before.

On this special episode of The SciFi Podcast, we are joined by members of the TSFP family and frequent podcast guests Brain and SpaceWolf.

Theme music courtesy of I Hear Sirens, featuring Matt on bass and Liz on keyboard. Hear more of I Hear Sirens ethereal, instrumental, post-rock at BandCamp. Podcast production and artwork by SpaceWolf who can be found podcasting at Movie Stream Cast and Horror Movie Podcast. You can also follow him on Twitter @IcarusArts.

Show notes after the jump.I. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING IN THE CRYO-CHAMBER

II. HALLOWEEN MEMORIES

III. HALLOWEEN SCI-FI RECOMMENDATIONS

Brain’s Recommendation: Attack the Block (2011)
Solo’s Recommendation: Fire in the Sky (1993)
Station!’s Recommendation: Daybreakers (2009)
SpaceWolf’s Recommendation: The Faculty (1998)
Mattroid’s Recommendation: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1993)

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Mattroid’s Attack the Block t-shirt, available at our TeePublic store.

IV. WRAP-UP

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TSFP Halloween costumes, 2015: Mattroid as Garth Vader, Station! as Storm Trooper, monster toddler as gangsta Jedi, Yo Yoda.

LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:

Acoustics.org: Using Acoustic Levitation to Understand, Diagnose, and Treat Cancer and Other Diseases – 3pBA5 by Brian D. Patchett aka “Brain”

Horror Movie Podcast: The Thing From Another World (1951) vs. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) vs. The Thing (2011) – Featuring Mattroid and Solo

This American Life: My Own Private U.F.O. – Act 3 of “Last Man Standing”

Mutual UFO Network: Travis Welton Tells His Abduction Story – with Fire in the Sky EPK Introduction

The Daily Herald: Ramones Cover Band Performs at Velour – Featuring Brain on Guitar

Geek Cast Live: The Movie Podcast Weekly takeover of Geek Cast Live – Featuring Mattroid and Station!

FrithMusic.com: Station says to give Frith a listen – Featuring TSFP listener/friend Chris Rolontz

The Ticket: Mattroid writes as Gary the Unicorn – also from The Daily Herald

Gary the Unicorn: Time Travel (Brussels, 2005) – Filmed at the former Utah State Hospital

Have a Happy (and safe) Halloween!

99 thoughts on “THE SCI-FI PODCAST EP 12: Halloween Special

  1. In regards to why there was never a Twilight Zone 2, I imagine there’s two reasons. For one, when the first movie saw the deaths of three actors, including two children, how excited is the studio going to be to make a sequel? The whole trial for Landis and others occurred just a few years later, which isn’t exactly great publicity for a sequel. The other thing is that a new Twilight Zone series began two years after the movie came out. Is there much of a need to have a sequel when you have a series going on?

    I am surprised we haven’t seen another movie after all of these years though.

  2. NEED ANOTHER GOOD HALLOWEEN PODCAST? Over on Movie Stream Cast I covered The Monster Squad ( http://bit.ly/1LXMhhD ), What We Do in the Shadows ( http://bit.ly/1Wm0oIJ ), The Guest ( http://bit.ly/1VG8S7U ), Cooties ( http://bit.ly/1KINUCp ) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( http://bit.ly/1KL1NMW ). Here on The Sci Fi Podcast they also covered the entire Alien franchise ( http://bit.ly/1Mnbp1D ). And over on Horror Movie Podcast we (sadly) covered the entire(abysmal) A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise ( http://bit.ly/1Q0oIuD ). There is the ongoing “Spooky Flicks Fest” from our friends at Forgotten Flicks Remembers ( http://forgottenflix.com/ ) and I think the GeekCast guys even did something Halloween related ( http://bit.ly/1WpS0Ta ).

  3. I re-watched The Faculty earlier in the month for the HMP’s 31 days of horror and I was shocked at how much I loved it. It had been probably a decade since I last saw it, but I feel like it’s one of the most underrated 90’s horror films. I’m not even talking about in a guilty pleasure sort either. In the end, it became one of the movies I enjoyed most for the month of October.

    I now see The Faculty as being more Scream 2 than Scream 2.

  4. Is the jab at me in this episode the reason why you had to warn me about it? Come on, man! Give me a little more credit, bruh. I’m not THAT sensitive. You must have me confused for Dino or Sal. But seriously, don’t be scared, I can take it.

    #getatmebro

  5. Hey Mattroid I just listened to the takeover episode of the geek cast and you mentioned progressive rock and sci-fi when talking about Coheed and Cambria and I immediately thought of a few albums that you might enjoy. No hard feelings if you think they’re crap as they’re most definitely not for everyone.

    Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle
    Oreson Space Collective – The Black Tomato
    Hawkwind – In Search of Space

      • I remember listening to some stuff of theirs a few times and liking what I heard, but I never pursued them. The bands I posted above are very different though. They might be too cheesy and whacky for most ears.

          • You seem like the eclectic type and out of all of the hosts, I think my taste for music aligns closest to yours. There is a site I use called the prog archives that I think you’d appreciate. It’s ugly as can be but has an endless supply of knowledge. I’ve always been drawn to prog, but it was only a few years ago that I decided to take a plunge into the endless abyss that is this genre and I’ve been trapped in a Floyd hole ever since. What are some of your favorite prog albums of you don’t mind me asking?

            • Dunno, honestly. I like some prog stuff for sure (Yes, DT, Coheed, Rush) but I don’t listen to a ton of it anymore. I like the idea more than the execution, often times. I guess Moros Eros could be considered prog too, and they’re great.

              But if it’s a themed album, or a story or something, I’m invested quickly.

              • YES and Dream Theater are awesome and absolute musts if you’re into prog. Rush is one of my absolute favorites. I didn’t know about Moros Eros, but I’ll give them a listen.

                Well, I woud say prog is about 99% concept ablums haha, so you have plenty of stories to pick from. The Electric Castle in particular is quite lovely (I think).

                By the way, I received my Prometheus Blu-ray in the mail the other day. Thank you so much! I can’t wait to revisit it. Your addressing of the envelope made me LOL.

                <3 Obi-Juan Kenobi

  6. Hey guys, Awesome movie picks this week! I am finding your selections on reviews are really great and the interplay between co-hosts is hysterical. “Fire in the Sky” and “The Faculty” are two of my favorites.
    Spacewolf is right: Hartnett’s best. Super likeable outcast character in that one.

    I have to agree with Mattroid on that final “Twilight Zone” movie segment. It totally out-does Shatner’s “Nightmare at 20,00 feet” episode. Lithgow is incredible as the strung-out passenger. Also the little jabs like the annoying girl with the creepy puppet, the seemingly drugged-up mother, and the know-it-all fat security guard fellow add some crazy touches to that story. And yes, that slimy gremlin was a lot of fun and was not cheesy!
    That segment (the others were good too) is the perfect re-make. It took a really well-conceived concept and added some fine details that made it more suspenseful, more disturbing, and more emotional. I am a HUGE fan of Serling and his writing, and of course the original “TZ” series, but that movie was the epitome of what a re-make can and should be. Film “re-makers,” take a lesson from this!!
    If another TZ movie does come out, I am all for it. I hope it can attract quality directors like the ’83 version did. That has to be a possibility given the enormous and lasting popularity of “Twillight Zone” and its influence on so many-filmmakers in the sci-fi genre. Right?
    Keep up the great podcasts…Any thought about reviewing some original TZ episodes?

  7. This episode was a lot of fun. The Halloween stories were great.

    And I always had a feeling that Josh had a propensity for touching strangers.

    On an unrelated (and long-overdue) note, I really dig the SpaceWolf intro sound clip. I think it’s great how Mattroid will introduce Josh in a sort of calm, quiet voice, and then WHAM!… that SpaceWolf intro just slams you in the face. Makes me giggle every time.

  8. THIS IS PRIMARILY FOR STATION,

    but applies to anyone who was considering a first-time watch of THE FACULTY based on my recommendation.

    SO, I REWATCHED THE FACULTY AND …

    to be honest, the first 50 minutes is pretty hit or miss. There are some good scenes, but there are also a lot of bad scenes. Josh Hartnett, in particular, is a TOTAL TOOL for that portion of the show. I think it is by design and we are actually supposed to be seeing the worst sides of these characters, but it nevertheless results in the first half of the film being pretty annoying from time to time–

    HOWEVER

    –stick with it because there is a switch at 51:30 and the movie is a total blast from there on out. You shouldn’t just skip to there, because there is a lot of (really clever) thematic set-up (by Williamson) before it arrives at that spot, but it is really the 20 minutes from 51:30 – 1:11:35 that work well enough to make me love this movie fantastic. There is part of me that thinks this could be better as a remake, but there are also a million lightning-in-a-bottle elements from the cast to the staging that would be hard to match. I wish Rodriguez had just given this a little more care (although he does some really fine work here at times), because this is 75% an AMAZING film and 25% just plain bad.

  9. So apparently, if you’re in the middle of typing up a review on iTunes, if you accidentally click on the iTunes page (Instead of the text box), it makes your review text box disappear.

    Trying to leave reviews for HMP and their sister sites have made me pretty much hate iTunes with a passion.

  10. I just listened to my first Sci Fi podcast. Nicely done all! I rewatched the Faculty today during lunch because Space Wolfman is so passionate about that movie. It’s a really fun watch (yes, I own it).
    I was so excited for Attack the Block when it came out but I fell asleep watching it. A few months ago, I rewatched it and loved it! I guess I was just tired the first time around.
    I haven’t seen Daybreakers yet, and thanks for ruining John Landis for me!

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