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Have You Seen This?
by Have You Seen This?
The world's only podcast about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media. Support the show on Patreon! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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288 - Angel Wars
Tim and Jen are entreated by Worker’s Lit co-host Jacob to BE NOT AFRAID of a nominally Christian kid’s cartoon, Angel Wars. Worker’s Lit has a Patreon! You can see the entirety of Angel Wars, including the ramshackle pilot, on YouTube. Having done that, if you want to go deep on the lore there…
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287 - Where The Truth Lies
Jen welcomes returning guest Julie to discuss an unusual Atom Egoyan misfire, the twisty showbiz mystery Where The Truth Lies. Don’t miss our first ever panel at Long Beach Comic-Con on September 5th— get tickets here to attend the con and see us present on wild and wacky superhero movies! For a...
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286 - Dracula's Angel
Jen and Tim warn the listener about a stupefying piece of outsider cinema, Dracula’s Angel. Watch Dracula’s Angel on YouTube, if you want to look straight into the abyss. Also stop by the creators’ website! The IMDb reviews, which the filmmakers solicit via title card at the end of the movie, are...
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285 - Prayer of the Rollerboys
Tim and Jen welcome Tom of the Anime Sickos podcast to roll with a movie stocked with a single Corey, Prayer of the Rollerboys. Listen to The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, “a fresh and original story set in a deceptively familiar world of constant surveillance, information overload, and...
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284 - Bigger Than Life
Jen and Tim look back at a dark entry from the often astonishing oeuvre of Nicholas Ray, the thrilling melodrama Bigger Than Life. Also Tim has medical trauma. Errata: Jen says “They Drive By Night” when she meant They Live By Night, confusing Raoul Walsh’s 1940 hit with Nicholas Ray’s 1948 debut...
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283 - The Yakuza
Tim and Jen weeb out over an overlooked-in-its-time tale of an outsider navigating a closed and unforgiving society, The Yakuza. Tip us at our Ko-Fi! Jen oversimplifies the origins of the yakuza here, plus she just plain doesn’t know a hell of a lot about Japanese culture! A YouTuber going by…
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282 - Capone
Jen solos for a conversation with gangster expert God’s Own Monster (@scabbyscribe.bsky.social) about a weirdly clammy biopic, Josh Trank’s Capone. Tip us at Ko-Fi! The Hollywood Reporter had some dirt on the Fox/Trank spat, including intel claiming that the filmmaker’s dogs damaged a rental...
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281 - Vox Lux
Jen and Tim invite comedian Kath Barbadoro back to the show to puzzle over Brady Corbet’s weird stab at pop mythmaking, Vox Lux. Tip us at Ko-Fi! Brady Corbet and Natalie Portman chat about the film on some kind of Yahoo offshoot called Build. Maybe they explain themselves. I dunno, I’m not gonna...
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280 - The Offence
Tim and Jen marvel at an overlooked Sean Connery performance in Sidney Lumet’s similarly overlooked police procedural, The Offence. Tip us at Ko-Fi! See some of the existing locations from The Offence, via the BFI. This representative example of a John Hopkins-penned episode of Z Cars features a...
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279 - Young Törless
Jen and Tim go back to the roots of the New German Cinema and find much that’s still relevant in Volker Schlöndorff’s bleak character study, Young Törless. See video of Schlöndorff introducing a screening of Young Törless at a 2018 conference at Notre Dame. Jen hasn’t finished Klaus Theweleit’s...
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278 - The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Tim and Jen allow their favorite radio personality Jennifer Miller Hammel to settle her beef with the biggest fan disappointment since The Star Wars Holiday special, The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Back in 1998, the MST3k crew riffed the first X-Files movie in their 2nd Summer Blockbuster…
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277 - The Swimmer
Jen and Tim throw a pool party and invite Charles of the No Homework podcast to talk about the enervating suburban world of The Swimmer! Here is a representative sample of the “Hi, Guy!” series of Right Guard ads starring Bill Fiore, aka Mr. Hunsacker in The Swimmer. And here’s Jan Miner, aka…
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276 - Manifesto
Tim patiently walks Jen through a compilation of philosophies of art, life, and everything: the Cate Blanchett-starring installation film Manifesto. Manifesto is free with ads on Tubi, but you can also watch each segment at director Julian Rosefeldt’s website. If you don’t know the name Nigel...
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275 - Julia and Julia
Jen and Tim enlist Aftermath’s Chris Person to talk about a strange technical footnote in cinema, the moody and trés European fantasy Julia and Julia. Chris expands on the infuriating quality of IMDb reviews in this piece for Aftermath. Crave more pioneering and historical HD video? Stop by Reely...
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273 - Delivery Boys
Jen and Tim receive a remarkable package from returning guest Darren Herczeg, a Breakin’-meets-Porky’s B picture called Delivery Boys! For whatever reason, Darren confidently named “Scorpion Records” as the company that released the blu-ray of Delivery Boys and we ran with it. As you may have...
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274 - A Ghost Story For Christmas
Tim and Jen get WELL ahead of the holiday season with some help from author Ray Newman, who explains the British tradition of A Ghost Story For Christmas. If you like arcane horror stuff (of course you do, you clicked on this episode), be sure to stop by Ray’s website and read his blog! Wanna see...
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272 - The Big Sleep
im lets Jen talk him into discussing an unasked-for remake of a noir classic, The Big Sleep. Jen incorrectly described the short film in which Will Hays introduces the Vitaphone sound system as a public deployment of the Hays Code. In his capacity as chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and...
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270 - The Lure
Tim coaxes Jen into the pool for a Polish horror musical set in a dark alternate 80s Warsaw, The Lure! Director Agnieska Smocyzynska also made The Silent Twins (2022) about June and Jennifer Gibbons. Jen gave a glib and half-accurate version of their whole deal, but this 90s-era BBC documentary...
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271 - Rock & Rule
Jen and Tim invite Chris Wade, #1 Music Super Fan, to marvel at the high production values of the dangerously furry Rock & Rule. Hear Chris and wife Molly range far and wide on the subject of music on the And Introducing podcast! Or get your hands on actual physical music magazine Antics! The…
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269 - Have You Seen This: Guys Edition
Tim and Jen host the guys of Guys: A Podcast About Guys for some guy talk about internet movie guys! Sadly, Bryan’s childhood favorite Big Shots is not currently streaming on Tubi, but they’ll email you when it’s available. It’s true, Benjamin Franklin did find farts extremely funny. “A Letter to…
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268 - Boudica: Queen of War
Jen and Tim welcome back Gaius of the wonderful Tribunate channel on YouTube to fact-check some prime dadslop called Boudica: Queen of War. The other Boudica movie Tim watched is called Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen and is freely available on Tubi, if you’d like to compare and contrast. The...
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267 - Body Double
Tim and Jen peep at Brian De Palma’s dirty Hitchcockian (heh) thriller, Body Double! De Palma did an interview with TV reporter Bobbie Wygant to promote Body Double at the time of the film’s release. Dont’t miss Bobbie obligingly picking up some insert shots at the end of the tape. If you’re...
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266 - Catch My Soul
Jen hosts Josh and Brian of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to contemplate a version of Othello that, thankfully, features no blackface— Catch My Soul from 1974. The Sky King episode of The Worst of All Possible Worlds is a slight divergence from their usual material, but it is as worthy as any…
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265 - A Christmas Carol
Jen and Tim finish the leftover eggnog and talk about a darker-than-dark version of Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol. The Grauniad’s 5-star review calls this version “rich, clever, funny and courageous,” in contrast to an outright pan from RogerEbert.com. Read an interview with Christmas…
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264 - Black Christmas
Tim and Jen atone for their recent choices for episode topics by discussing a good holiday-themed movie: Bob Clark's Black Christmas! Voice of the killer Nick Mancuso speaks extensively about Black Christmas in this archived article from the Telegraph, as well as other aspects of his long career....
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263 - A Karate Christmas Miracle
Jen and Tim enlist Bitter Karella to attempt a close read of the un-close-read-able, the inscrutably weird A Karate Christmas Miracle. Errata: Jen identifies Kenneth del Vecchio as the director of the film (he merely wrote the script, produced, and played the pivotal role of Bob Genesis). Also…
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262 - The Pervy the Clown Show
Oh my god, someone watched this? Merely an obscure channel, B-Movie TV. Oh no, someone archived the sexy clown show? No Tim. The Roku. Bitter Karella, no. Well, what is a clown? Is he life? Is he a clown show? Would you enjoy a clown show? Wanna see? Pervy no. Why? Does he make you laugh? Why?…
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261 - Fun in Balloon Land
Tim and Jen host Rifftrax writer Sean Thomason to watch the unwatchable: an ancient kiddie flick filled with air and B-roll, Fun in Balloon Land. Jen also pitches her idea for a new, horrible subgenre, named after the director of the similarly horrible Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny: Mahoncore!…
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260 - Velvet Vampire
Jen and Tim brave the harsh California desert in search of a truly obscure female-focused vampire chiller, The Velvet Vampire! Watch The Velvet Vampire on Shudder, and accept no substitutes! This is the best version of the film currently available, as the most recent blu-ray release is extremely...
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259 - Video Violence
Tim and Jen reach deep into the spooky season remainder bin and pull out one of the better shot-on-video horror movies…but regular listeners know just how low that bar can really go. Video Violence filmmaker Gary P. Cohen has a website! Forbes has the rundown on the guy who got banned for like…
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258 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Jen and Tim look back at “the Cybertruck of prestige novel adaptations,” Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! Most of this interview with Frank Darabont is about The Shawshank Redemption, but at the tail end he gives his unvarnished thoughts on what a hash Branagh made of his screenplay...
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257 - Trick 'r Treat
Tim and Jen haze Bitter Karella over her inexplicable defense of a Halloween-themed anthology film, Trick 'r Treat! As of 2024, filmmaker Michael Dougherty is threatening a sequel to Trick 'r Treat. Be still my heart. See What's Your Problem? (What is Wrong With You?), one of Jen's favorite…
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256 - Foxes
Jen welcomes back Julie (chimericalgirl.bsky.social) to discuss a criminally underseen coming-of-age film directed by Adrian Lyne, Foxes. Read an interview with Kandice Stroh, in which she talks in detail about playing the part of Deirdre in the film. "I learned it from watching you!" Watch a…
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255 - Porky's
Tim and Jen aren’t scandalized by infamous teen gross-out comedy Porky’s, it just kind of makes them scratch their heads. Someone compiled every Siskel and Ebert review of a Bob Clark film from Murder By Decree to one we actually covered on the show, Loose Cannons. Only the Judd Nelson-starring...
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254 - Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
Jen and Tim invite Patrick Cosmos back to the show to discuss the woeful sequel to Rock ’n’ Roll High School! Please drop us a line at [email protected] if you understand the refrigerator bit. Filmmaker Adan Gonzales obviously produced Forever: The Untold Story of Rock ’n’ Roll High School...
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253 - Boom
Tim and Jen welcome Chris Person of the Aftermath website to discuss John Waters’s favorite film, Joseph Losey’s big swing at Tennessee William’s first flop, Boom! We highly recommend the worker-owned and reader-supported Aftermath, especially this incredibly detailed and helpful article about...
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252 - Josie and the Pussycats
Jen and Tim get around to a cute cult film about exploitation and capitalism, Josie and the Pussycats! Get Russ Burlingame’s love letter to the film, Best Movie Ever! for 30% off with discount code SEENTHIS over at JosieBook.com! This comprehensive oral history of the film covers the beloved…
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251 - Dr. Caligari
Tim and Jen host the freakiest guest they know, the lovable Bitter Karella of Midnight Pals fame, to chat about one of the freakiest movies she knows, Dr. Caligari! Screen Anarchy has a wonderful gallery of Caligari director Stephen Sayadian’s work,going all the way back to his earliest days as…
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250 - The Tourist
Jen and Tim unearth one of the most famous unproduced screenplays of all time, Clair Noto's dark sci-fi tale The Tourist. Read the Clair Noto interview that reminded Jen that this screenplay exists! Read the screenplay itself at the Internet Archive— highly recommended . You can watch the BBC...
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249 - The Oscar
Tim and Jen experience a stodgy treatment of Hollywood avarice, The Oscar. Friend of the show Josh Olson does indeed appreciate the corniness of this movie— so much so that you can hear him join comedian Patton Oswalt and filmmaker Erik Nelson for the audio commentary on the Kino Lorber blu-ray!…
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248 - Turn On
Jen and Tim unearth a cursed relic: the television show cancelled before the final credits even rolled, Turn On! Thank you, SoapsNThings on YouTube, for archiving so many episodes of Peyton Place. The offensive Aussie show Jen alluded to that also got cancelled during the first episode was...
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247 - The Driver
Tim and Jen ride along with a taciturn Ryan O'Neal for Walter Hill's sinuous neo-noir, The Driver! Walter Hill spoke with Deadline in 2024 about his influences, Tony Scott's idiot brother, and of course, westerns. Hill also talked about the controversy surrounding The Warriors in an interview for...
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246 - Heist
Jen and Tim examine some D-tier David Mamet: the by-the-numbers heist flick, uh, Heist. Chris Person of the worker-owned tech news site Aftermath dug up the previously unavailable special Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants in pristine broadcast resolution and made it available to the world once…
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245 - Casino Royale
Tim and Jen suffer through a patchwork spy pastiche, Casino Royale. Errata: Jen attributed the anecdote about producer Charles K. Feldman removing the pay-offs to the jokes in the script to Joe McGrath, but it actually came from another director credited on the film, Val Guest. Speaking of, you…
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244 - I, Robot
Jen sends thousands of robots to compel Tim to discuss a film "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's writings, I, Robot! The creepshot photographer Jen couldn't remember the name of was Miroslav Tichý. You can see many of his surreptitious and admittedly beautiful works at ArtNet. Speaking of Czech…
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243 - Prince of the Sun
Tim can barely hold back his excitement about a movie that (kind of) has Cynthia Rothrock in it: Prince of the Sun! View the (kind of) English dub of the film at the Internet Archive. Jen forgot that her Letterboxd list was called "Anti-Girlboss Movies," and any movie starring Mai certainly...
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242 - Psycho Kickboxer
Jen invites comedian Kath Barbadoro to enjoy Psycho Kickboxer, the martial arts schlock movie that put Virginia Beach on the map!* Hear more of Kath on the Lie, Cheat, & Steal and What a Time to Be Alive podcasts. She also riffs movies with Master Pancake Theater! Look for them on Twitch. When in...
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241 - The Black Hole
A mysterious stranger returns to the show to evaluate a weak Disney stab at a dark sci-fi blockbuster: The Black Hole! Zencastr gives you flawless audio, crystal-clear video, and effortless editing. Spend less time juggling tools, more time making great slo— uhh, content! The Hollywood Reporter...
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240 - Skidoo
Jen welcomes Jesse Hawken of the venerable Junk Filter podcast to help her detox from the bad trip that is Otto Preminger's Skidoo! See Preminger host his own trailer for Bunny Lake is Missing, and you better not show up late or he'll open up a can of Vienna-sausage-in-chicken-broth whoop-ass on...
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239 - Blood Diner
Jen welcomes musician and poster par excellence Patrick Cosmos to chat about a fun little movie with tongue firmly in cheek, Blood Diner! Find Patrick at veryimportant.lawyer on Bandcamp and Bluesky, and get his Tonal Rotors album at Big Sleep Records. Sadly, Carl Crew's California Institute of...
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