The Rewind Movie Podcast

“When a man's jawbone drops off it's time to reassess the situation.” Gear up with us for the Halloween season with Peter Jackson’s 1996 Hollywood studio debut The Frighteners.When unhappy architect Frank Bannister blacks out drunk at the wheel, only to awake after his wife has died in violent, suspicious circumstances, he wastes away his time in the unfinished shell of the house he was building for her, making ends meet by utilising his trauma-induced ability to see into the spirit world by using a squad of ghostly acquaintances to perform sham exorcisms for money. But when victims of inexplicable deaths start piling up bearing a number carved into their foreheads - just like his late wife - Frank finds himself investigating a supernatural mystery in which he is increasingly considered the prime suspect. Marking the last movie leading man performance from Michael J. Fox, alongside a stacked cast of quirky genre legends (Dee Wallace, Jeffrey Combs, and the original TV Gomez Addams, John Astin), Jackson brought his Kiwi Splatter sensibilities to the attention of Robert Zemeckis, who saw potential beyond the Tales from the Crypt episode it began life as. Join Gali and Patrick as they talk Busey Jr., museum mummy interference, and death by numbers.Check the rewindmoviecast.com for our entire archive of artwork, essays, merch, and playlists.Merchandise can be found at Dead Penpal.

“I can never go to sleep. But I can lay quietly and not make a peep.” Our Steven Spielberg season continues with the disquieting 2001 science fiction epic A.I. Artificial Intelligence.In the near future, in a post-ice cap melting world clinging to the vestiges of humanity’s consumer peak where procreation is carefully controlled, Professor Hobby (William Hurt) envisions a mechanical humanoid child created to emulate the one thing that has eluded technology - love. His employee Henry (Sam Robards) and wife Monica (Frances O’Connor), semi-grieving as their own child is in a cryogenic coma due to an illness, are given mecha David (Haley Joel Osment) to care for. A brutal adventure in a dangerous world ensues when David’s place in his makeshift home is threatened by the return of his flesh-and-blood ‘brother’.A project that spent decades fomenting the mind of Stanley Kubrick, that he had sporadically tried to produce for Spielberg ever since seeing the latter’s E.T. convinced him that he was the right person to bring this adaptation of a 1966 short story to the screen, was finally put into production by Spielberg after Kubrick’s death as a tribute to his friend. We dig into the intersection between these two seemingly antithetical cinematic titans, and how themes of higher intelligences, creation and responsibility, and the painful intricacies of familial love and longing fit into their respective careers. We also talk about how sad we all were while watching it.Tentatively jump off a big rock, and plunge into rewindmoviecast.com for our entire archive of artwork, essays, merch, and playlists.Merchandise can be found at Dead Penpal.

“EVERYBODY HAPPY!”Dig out your Moby CDs, log onto My Excite, and check your electronic mail for Danny Boyle’s divisive, turn-of-the-millennium hippy-dippy paradise existential Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Beach.Did its comedy conquer the world, or was it an ASSH*LE suggestion? Did it stand a chicken’s chance in Thailand? Was it a lot of dope, or f*cked in the head? Did it hurt, and if so, was it worth it? Did we have anything to smoke, or did we waste time taking photographs of the sky? Did we understand what Robert Carlyle was on about, or did it have a powerful index of incompatibility?Devlin and Patrick followed the regular tourist trail and preferred the debauchery of the Khao San Road Maccy D’s, so turn yourself into a rubbish computer game and join bastard parasites Gali and Matt for a topless underwater hookup, as we squirt water at a cannabis monkey on The Rewind Movie Podcast.Tentatively jump off a big rock, and plunge into rewindmoviecast.com for our entire archive of artwork, essays, merch, and playlists.Trippy Leo image by the procurer of the cure, Dead Penpal.

“It's just playing, I'm tellin' ya!” We’re taking a walk on the wild side with Noel Marshall’s notorious big cat passion project Roar.Marshall himself plays research scientist Hank, who lives in a gigantic compound somewhere in East Africa with an outrageous amount of lions, tigers and other assorted megapredators running rampant through and around his home. Distracted by a disastrous meeting with his funding committee, he forgets to pick up his visiting family - wife Madeleine (Tippi Hedren) and their three kids (Marshall’s sons John and Jerry, and Hedren’s daughter Melanie Griffith). When the family arrive at the cat house just as Hank has belatedly set off to retrieve them, they spend a nerve-shredding day alone with the massive creatures. The film’s flimsy story often pales in comparison to the circumstances of its production - Marshall and Hedren assembling their enormous collection and housing them in a huge preservation outside of Los Angeles, then sinking over half a decade and most of their fortune into a film that sent scores of cast and crew to the hospital, only to see it barely scrape a few token international releases before sinking into obscurity for over 30 years. Patrick and Devlin are here to talk about a rare and memorable screening they went to a few months back, and gawp in disbelief at the clawesome carnage on display.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

"Hey, Elliot, where's your goblin?" Our sporadic Steven Spielberg season returns with the film that launched a thousand suburban-kids-on-bikes knockoffs, 1982's megahit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.When an intergalactic flight makes an emergency departure from Earth for fear of discovery, the alien visitors leave behind one of their own - a stumpy, long-necked, wide-eyed, curious explorer who winds up hiding out in the backyard of 10-year-old Elliot (Henry Thomas). The pair form a close affinity, as the youngster recruits his siblings (Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore) to help hide the creature from their put-upon mother (Dee Wallace). But THE GOVERNMENT have other ideas...Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

Sam Neill (1947–2026)He could anchor a summer blockbuster one year and disappear into something strange and art-house the next — with over a 150 credits across every genre, we thought it only fitting that we marked his passing on the show, our very small and inconsequential way of saying thank you. We have only done two films where Sam Neill is credited, Episode 75 was orignally released in 2021 and I except that Event Horizon is not one of his better films, but we did alight on the 'Ham Neill' award, which we will now retire and come up with a dafter name for those performances that stand-out amongst the cast, and grabs your attention. We will now look to do one of his lesser-known films alongside Jurrasic Park to truly honour his craft. But a short confession from me, Sam Neill's performance in Jurrasic Park really made an impression on me as a kid, the character of Dr Alan Grant really distilled my own relationship with my father, at first distant and reluctant, but ever the protector and as I grew up, our bond as father and son grew and I always remember thinking that my ideal father would be Dr Alan Grant, and luckily for me, that is what eventually happended - except for the Dinosours, the over-sized blue shirt and the general awe of coolness that Sam Neill carries throughout the film, I guess I am carrying on about the emotional arc of the character! Anyway, thank Sam Neill and Rest in Peace.Gali - The Rewind Movie PodcastWhere we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see! It’s off to the ionosphere surrounding Neptune for us, as we board the Lewis and Clark to salvage the wreckage of Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1997 Gothic space nightmare Event Horizon. After a mysterious 7-year disappearance, the titular imposing, experimental, wormhole-navigating interstellar craft has reappeared, sending the ship’s creator Dr. Weir (a reliably livewire Sam Neill) off on the recovery mission alongside stoic shuttle Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburn) and an assorted Anglo-American crew including such lauded thesps as Jason Isaacs and Sean Pertwee. The ship’s mysterious gravity drive seems to hold the key to the gruesome mystery as to what happened to its original crew - and to the horrifying visions stalking the new one.A critical and commercial misfire on release, but a sleeper hit on video, the film (and especially its infamous ‘visions of hell’ rapid-fire montages) struck a chord with many a budding gorehound, and retains a sizeable cult following to this day. Did Gali, Devlin and Matt follow Dr. Weir through the gateway, or did they want to join Miller in vapourising it from a safe distance?Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.co