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The Projection Booth

Summary: The Projection Booth is a film discussion/dissection podcast from Detroit. Our goals include bringing lesser-known films to light and placing them in context of their time and place in film study.

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 TPB: Pontypool (2008) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:10:50

In a rather different take on the typical zombie story, Bruce McDonald's Pontypool (2008) has the English language as the infectious agent which drives people mad. Written by Tony Burgess, the film stars Stephen McHattie as Grant Mazzy, a shock jock from the big city now working in backwater Ontario.

 TPB: Pin (1998) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:52:18

Adapted from a novel by Andrew Neiderman, Sandor Stern's Pin (1988) stars Terry O'Quinn as a doctor who speaks to his children Leon (David Hewlett) and Ursula (Cynthia Preston) through the anatomical dummy, Pin.

 TPB: Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:28:30

The documentary Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four tells the story of the making of -- and ultimate fate of -- the 1995 film.

 TPB: Night of the Creeps (1986) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:48:54

Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps (1986) is a love letter to science fiction movies of the '50s while also updating zombie tropes.

 TPB: Duck Soup (1933) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:45:00

Directed by Leo McCarey, Duck Soup (1933) was the last of the four Marx Brothers' run at Paramount. A send-up of politics and warmongering, Duck Soup is an anarchic collection of sight gags, wordplay, and surrealism.

 TPB: Sonny Boy (1989) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:16:00

Produced by Ovidio Assonitis, Sonny Boy 1989 stars David Carradine and Paul L. Smith as Pearl and Slue, two desert-dwellers who end up "adopting" Sonny Boy (Michael Boston). Slue turns his boy into a feral killing machine in something of a Frankenstein tale.

 TPB: The Mafu Cage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:42:06

Directed by Karen Arthur, The Mafu Cage (1978) stars Carol Kane and Lee Grant as Cissy and Ellen, two sisters who live together in a large, sprawling house. Ellen is a scientist with a potential boyfriend and a world outside the house while Cissy lives in the house and, really, in her own head.

 TPB: Straw Dogs (1971) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:28:09

David Sumner, a mathemetician, moves to the south of England with his native wife, Amy, where he upsets the status quo. The situation erupts in violence and terror in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.

 TPB: A Thousand Cuts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:34

Mike talked with Jeff Joseph and Dennis Barok about their book A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies, now available via the University of Mississippi Press.

 TPB: Vertigo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:33:18

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a tale of obsession where Jimmy Stewart plays John "Scottie" Ferguson, a disgraced detective who's to follow Madeline (Kim Novak), who seems to have become possessed by a spirit from San Francisco's past.

 TPB: Bonus Interview: Derrel Maury | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:38

Mike spoke to Derrel Maury about his work with Norman Lear and in Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, among other things.

 TPB: Massacre at Central High | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:20:07

Rene Daalder's Massacre at Central High is the story of a new kid at school where he finds that the so-called cool kids are running the school with an iron fist.

 TPB: Umbrellas of Cherbourg | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:05:31

Jacques Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo as two star-crossed lovers.

 TPB: Bonus Interview: Catriona MacColl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:09

As a bonus interview, Mike spoke with Catriona MacColl about her work with Jacques Demy on Lady Oscar as well as Lucio Fulci on the Gates of Hell trilogy.

 TPB: The Hidden | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:47:39

Tom Beck is a supercop who gets paired with odd duck Lloyd Gallagher to investigate a string of strange crimes where seemingly ordinary people go nuts, indulging in fast cars, loud music, and more. Special Guest: Jack Sholder.]

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