Disaster Artists: The Movie Survival Podcast

This week we return to Woodsboro to take on the latest person(s) to don the Ghostface attire and play a new game of our own.

Scream (also known as Scream 5) is a 2022 American slasher film from Radio Silence. It is the fifth installment in the Scream franchise and though billed as a relaunch of the series; the film is a direct sequel to Scream 4 and is the first film in the series to not be directed by Wes Craven, following his death in 2015. The film stars Melissa Barrera, Mikey Madison, Jenna Ortega, and Jack Quaid, alongside Skeet Ulrich, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell, who reprise their roles from previous installments. The story takes place twenty-five years after the original, when yet another Ghostface appears and begins targeting a group of teenagers who are each somehow linked to the original killings. 

This week we look at a film that most of you probably haven’t seen, and if you haven’t watched the Disney+ limited series “Pam and Tommy” may have never even heard of.  

Barb Wire is a 1996 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse comic book of the same name. The film is a loose remake of Casablanca and stars Pamela Anderson in the titular role as a nightclub owner who moonlights as a mercenary in one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire (Victoria Rowell) wanders into Barb’s establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons.

Barb Wire was panned by critics and failed at the box office, but reactions probably had more to do with the media pile-on Anderson was facing at the time because of her leaked sex tape with husband Tommy Lee rather than the quality of this completely average but enjoyable action movie.

With the recent release of its 2022 sequel on Netflix, we thought it was time we looked at the often referenced horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper, and see what we can do to survive it. Loosely based on the crimes of real-life serial killer Ed Gein, it tells the story of a group of young friends who discover a family of crazed, murderous outcasts living in rural Texas. As the group is picked off one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

While it initially drew a mixed reception from critics, it has since gained a reputation as one of the best and most influential horror films of all time and has been credited with originating several elements common in the slasher film genre. 

This week we break free from the simulation, go to war with the machines, try to appease Roko's Basilisk, and have a very Matrix Christmas.

INFO HAZARD WARNING: This episode may doom you to an eternity of torture.

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality known as the Matrix, which intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source.

This week, after losing all our money trying to bring back cassette tapes, we wind up in debt and are forced to play the Squid Game.

If you want to skip the bunker keeping, go to 00:16:30

Major plot spoilers from 00:50:40

Squid Game is a South Korean survival series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix. The series revolves around a contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial debt, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize. 

Halloween may be over, but Spookvember isn't. And so this week we're returning to a cabin in the woods.

The Cabin in the Woods is a 2011 American horror comedy film directed by Drew Goddard and written by Joss Whedon and Goddard. The film stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford. The plot follows a group of college students who retreat to a remote forest cabin where they fall victim to backwoods zombies while technicians manipulate events from an underground facility.

This week, another deadly foe interrupts our annual Halloween picnic. The Evil Dead is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Bruce Campbell. The film focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After they find an audiotape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members of the group suffer from demonic possession, forcing the fifth member, Ash Williams (Campbell), to survive an onslaught of increasingly gory mayhem.

Early critical reception was universally positive and in the years since its release, the film has developed a reputation as one of the most significant cult films, cited among the greatest horror films of all time and one of the most successful independent films ever made.

This week we have an appointment to keep... with The Wicker Man.

The Wicker Man is a 1973 cult British horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centers on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practice a form of Celtic paganism. 

The film is well-regarded by critics and has been described as "The Citizen Kane of horror movies". In 2006, a poorly received (and ill-conceived) American remake was released starring Nicholas Cage, which Hardy and others involved with the original dissociated themselves from. In 2011, a spiritual sequel directed by Hardy entitled The Wicker Tree was released and featured Lee in a cameo appearance.

This week we Live Die Repeat with one of the best science fiction/action movies of the last decade: Edge of Tomorrow starring the beautiful, smart, funny, and extraordinarily talented Emily Blunt... and some other guy. He isn’t really important.

Based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and released in 2014, the film was considered a failure at the box office, but thanks to the positive critical response and word-of-mouth became a hit on home release and streaming.

This week, in the wake of a deadly pandemic, we're called upon in our dreams, to come to Hemingford Home and stand alongside Mother Abagail in the ultimate battle between good and evil. 

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by Stephen King and first published in 1978. It was recently adapted by Josh Boone as a CBS All Access miniseries but has made its way to TV previously in the 1990s. The novel has received critical acclaim and is regarded as one of King's best works. It has been included in lists of the best books of all time by Rolling Stone, Time, the Modern Library, Amazon, and the BBC. 

This week, if you thought Covid-19 was bad, then hold on to your butts, cause we're trapped in the Wildfire facility deep under the Nevada desert and going up against a deadly space virus known as The Andromeda Strain.  The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by legendary filmmaker Robert Wise and based on Michael Crichton's debut novel of the same name. An underrated sci-fi classic, the film paved the way for other viral disaster movies like Outbreak and Contagion and was a major influence on directors Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg. 

This week we got to pull off a heist during another zombie apocalypse and go to battle with the Army of the Dead.

Army of the Dead is a 2021 Netflix Orignal zombie film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Matthias Schweighöfer, Tig Notaro, and many others. It follows a group of mercenaries who plan a Las Vegas casino heist amid a zombie apocalypse.

This week, we are forced to abandon our planned Mighty Joe Young episode after a mysterious package shows up in the bunker from the infamous Jigsaw Killer. .... Oh yes, there will be blood.  SAW is a 2004 American/Australian horror movie created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell and stars Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, and Tobin Bell (as Jigsaw). The story revolves around a serial killer (yes, he's a killer) who tests his victims by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive. Games that most often result in death (or more accurately, murder).

A little late because of some technical issue but here it is, the Apetober finale in which we go in search of Bigfoot.

Apetober continues and doesn't end until we say it ends.

This week, it's east versus west, as the king of the monsters and the eighth wonder of the world go head-to-head in a battle for the ages. Meanwhile, we're caught up in an unnecessary b-plot that is of little consequence to the final result.

This week, to celebrate the release of Godzilla VS King, and Apetober itself (yes, we're making that a thing). We're climbing aboard the S.S. Venture, setting sail for Skull Island, and coming face to face with the eighth wonder of the world.

King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster movie directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and features groundbreaking stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien.

King Kong opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews, and has since been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the fourth greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

An unaired episode of Disaster Artists to keep you occupied. Recorded in 2017 and for reasons explained in the intro, locked away in the vault until now.

A new year means new fears. So today we look at some works of fiction from decades past, set in a Post-Apocalyptic or Dystopian 2001.

Be it the cybernetic future of Johnny Mnemonic, the post-plague world of Jeremiah, or any of the other grim visions of 2021. With the way last year went, there's a good chance one of these will come true. 

This Christmas we bring you our most festive episode yet. That's right, the harrowing tale of survival cannibalism on the Andes Mountains made famous in the 1993 film Alive!

Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.

The film was directed by Frank Marshall, and stars John Malkovich, Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, Vincent Spano, and Bruce Ramsay. Real-life survivor (and hero) Nando Parrado (portrayed by Hawke in the film) served as technical advisor.

We're back in an apocalyptic world this week with the 2006 film Children of Men, based on the novel of the same name by P. D. James and directed by four-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón.

The film takes place in 2027, after two decades of human infertility has left society on the brink of collapse, and stars Clive Owen as a cynical bureaucrat tasked with transporting a young pregnant woman across the border, and away from the militant groups who want to use her and her unborn child for their own political gain. The film also stars Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Charlie Hunnam.

This week, in order to save the Avatar franchise, James Cameron is sending us back to the Mariana Trench to take care of a little megalodon problem. But it's okay, we brought some cockney muscle to help.

The Meg is a 2018 science fiction/action film loosely based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, and Ruby Rose. It follows a group of scientists who encounter a 75-foot-long megalodon shark while on a rescue mission on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

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With the release of Bill & Ted Face the Music, we thought it was about time we looked at the 80s classic that spawned a generation of copy cats and introduced the world to Keanu Reeves. Can we survive a journey through the circuits of time? What figures from history would we bring back to be guests on the podcast? And how would they feel about life in 2020?

Just an update/Apocalypse Watch episode recorded remotely to let you know where we are and what's been going on. Topics include The Last of Us Part 2, Coronavirus, The 2020 Protests, Gardening, and whether we are in any rush to get back to the pub. 

As COVID-19 shows no sign of slowing down, we join you from our respective bunkers to talk about another Sandra Bullock classic, Speed. It also stars some other guy you might have seen on memes. Speed of course, is a 1994 action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, and Jeff Daniels. It is about a speeding bus that is rigged by a mad bomber to explode if it ever drops below 50 mph.

Since it hit headlines in early January 2020, novel coronavirus (also known as Wuhan conorovirus or COVID-19) has been reminding many of the 2011 film Contagion. In this episode, we look at the history of the various real coronavirus' such as SARS and MERS, how they work, and if the nightmare scenario depicted in the film is something we should be concerned about.

Contagion is a 2011 film directed by Stephen Soderberg. In the film, the death of Beth Emhoff and her son leads to the discovery of a deadly virus that quickly becomes a pandemic. As the US Centers for Disease Control struggles to curb its spread, a worldwide panic ensues. 

This week, we return to The Home Alone franchise for our final episode of 2019 and try to get into the Christmas spirit... but quickly descend into talk of a man who survived two nuclear bombings, what makes a serial killer, male dominatrixes and more.

(Go to 5:19 to skip the intro) The year is 2019, advanced robots walk among us, virtually identical to a human. Corporations have taken control of the western world and consumer goods are the fabric of society, The United States is becoming a Police State and we're finally getting some real Asian food and flying cars.

Insects, which count for two-thirds of all terrestrial species, have been dying off at alarming rates. While some might welcome a world where we don't have to pack bug-spray for camping trips, this insect apocalypse will have disastrous implications on the ecosystem, food chain, and global economy. It may very well, even lead to our own.

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It's Halloween season, and you know what that means... it's about time we take a trip to Woodsboro and see if we have what it takes to defeat GhostFace Killer once and for all (Not the Wu-Tang one... we already know how that'd end).

"Scream" is a 1996 horror film where Wes Craven re-invented and revitalized the slasher genre. This modern horror classic manages to be funny, clever and scary all at the same time... and more importantly, it also stars Skeet Ulrich.

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This week we talk Podcast Sabotage, Mysterious Russian Missile Accidents, Chernobyl On Ice, The Gun Control Debate, Storming Area 51 and More!

This week, if they hear us, they hunt us. So we're going to have to find a quiet place to record the podcast.

A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski. The film follows a family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by indestructible extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing.

This week things get a little serious as we discuss the tragic real-life disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the television series that it inspired.  Note: We ran into some technical problems this week so you may notice some slight audio glitches and jarring cuts.

Join us for our second trip to Westeros and the world of Game of Thrones. This week, Johnny and Shane take the black, join the nights watch, and fight for the living at The Battle for Winterfell. Will their names be written in Westeros history books? It depends if the Lord Commander can remember their names or not.

Thanos is coming! (so are spoilers) The Hawkeye of Survival Podcasts returns. This week Gordo from Those Conspiracy Guys joins the super team, where we try to survive the coming of Thanos, the snap, and an Infinity War.  *Correction: On second viewing, it was actually 14,000,605 possible futures that Doctor Strange saw

Winter is here! And we're gonna need to learn some skills if we're to survive till the Spring.