Episode 362: Making Contact aka Joey (1985)

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Welcome back to purgatory!!! This week it's just Mike and Jeremy but Tron is out of town for his family reunion. On this episode Jeremy brings up a very bizarre and sort of forgotten sci fi, adolescence, horror movie from 1985 Making Contact aka Joey (the German title) the movie is written by Hans J. Haller, Thomas Lechner & Roland Emmerich & directed by Roland Emmerich. The movie stars Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll, Tammy Shields, Jan Zierold, Barbara Klien, Matthias Kraus, Jerry L. Hall Jr., Sean Johnson, Christine Goebbels, Ray Kaselonis & Punky!!! Thanks for checkin us out!!! You can find our past and most recent episodes on Podbean.com and where most other podcasts are found. Pleaase do not support us on spotify, they take down our music episodes. Intro & outro music from the Making Contact soundtrack by Paul Gilreath 1. https://youtu.be/MopIS80fvjw?si=YH0N5V-l_LLKk0Z0 2. https://youtu.be/KPx30_Bzszg?si=imxu79ufI3_LQo7f

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