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TMR 049 Thriller & An American Werewolf in London

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 11:57 p.m.

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This week on Total Movie Recall, our bodies go through some changes that we don\\u2019t know how to deal with as we take in a John Landis double feature with Thriller & An American Werewolf in London. We really just need somebody to talk to about it. What\\u2019s that, Dad? You\\u2019re busy? Okay, I\\u2019ll just go on the internet and learn some deeply ingrained, problematic attitudes about Michael Jackson, Nazi monsters and Van Morrison tantric sex cults.

d. John Landis
Special Effects: Rick Baker

The Making of Thriller (1983)
Starring:
Michael Jackson
Ola Ray
Vincent Price

The Making\\xa0of \\u201cThriller\\u201d is a behind the scenes look at the King of Pop and his groundbreaking and Grammy award-winning video.

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Starring:
David Naughton
Jenny Agutter
Griffin Dunne
John Woodvine

David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he\'s plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns David that he is becoming a werewolf. When David discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast.

Things discussed in the show:

The Reagan \'80s

Leaving Neverland (Dan Reed, Wade Robson\\xa0and James Safechuck)

Brazil\'s love of Michael Jackson

Tom Petty - "Mary Jane\'s Last Dance"

Social media grief poachers

Kurt Cobain\'s death (Nirvana)

C+C Music Factory

Wahlburgers (Paul Wahlberg,\\xa0Donnie Wahlberg,\\xa0Mark Wahlberg)

Corey Feldman and Macaulay Culkin\'s relationship with Michael Jackson

Bubbles Movie cancelled (The Black List)

Jackson family:

Gary, Indiana

Motown

Fantasia (Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse)

Most expensive music videos: Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson - "Scream" & "Black & White" / Madonna / Guns & Roses - "November Rain"

Roger Corman

U2

The Pizza Underground

Moldy Peaches (Adam Green & Kimya Dawson)

Adam Green\'s Aladdin (Adam Green, Jon Wiley,\\xa0Michael Cummings,\\xa0Yasmin Green, Natasha Lyonne, Har Mar Superstar, Macaulay Culkin, Zo\\xeb Kravitz, Regina Spektor)

West Side Story (Jerome Robbins,\\xa0Robert Wise, Ernest Lehman, Natalie Wood,\\xa0George Chakiris,\\xa0Richard Beymer)

James Kochalka Superstar - "Show Respect for Michael Jackson"

Dance in pop music: Arianna Grande, Cardi B - "WAP," Lady Gaga

The Chiodo Brothers did the titles for Thriller

The Crow (Alex Proyas, James O\'Barr, Brandon Lee,\\xa0Michael Wincott,\\xa0Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, David Patrick Kelly)

Helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone The Movie

Twilight Zone The Movie (Joe Dante,\\xa0John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Larroquette, Scatman Crothers, John Lithgow)

Eddie Murphey won\'t work with John Landis

Trading Places (John Landis, Timothy Harris,\\xa0Herschel Weingrod, Eddie Murphy,\\xa0Dan Aykroyd,\\xa0Ralph Bellamy)

Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, Eddie Murphy,\\xa0Judge Reinhold,\\xa0John Ashton)

Marlin Brando traumatizing an actress with butter

Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, Marlon Brando,\\xa0Maria Schneider,\\xa0Maria Michi\\xa0)

Planet of the Apes - 1968 (Franklin J. Schaffner, Charlton Heston,\\xa0Roddy McDowall,\\xa0Kim Hunter)

Leprechaun

Butthole Surfers

Weird Al Yankovic - "Eat It" - "Fat"

Superbowl Halftime shows with Michael Jackson, Prince and Janet Jackson

Franz Liszt

Beach Boys

Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack

MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice

Slayer and Pantera are just as hard as Elton John

Blue Moon (song)

The oldies station. Nirvana, Ice Cube and Wu Tang Clan are grandpa music.

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

How Spotify algorithmic playlists work

The Matrix\\xa0(Lana Wachowski,\\xa0Lilly Wachowski,\\xa0Keanu Reeves,\\xa0Laurence Fishburne,\\xa0Carrie-Anne Moss,\\xa0Hugo Weaving,\\xa0Joe Pantoliano)

Scarface and Blondie

Waukegan, IL celebrities Ray Bradbury & Jack Benny

Martian Chronicles & Something Wicked This Way Comes

Homeboy Sandman

Jehovah\'s Witnesses

Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, Gordan Mihic, Bajram Severdzan,\\xa0Srdjan \'Zika\' Todorovic,\\xa0Branka Katic)

Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica,\\xa0Gordan Mihic, Davor Dujmovic,\\xa0Bora Todorovic,\\xa0Ljubica Adzovic)

Yugoslavian werewolves

Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, David Zucker,\\xa0Jim Abrahams, Evan C. Kim,\\xa0Bong Soo Han,\\xa0Bill Bixby)

The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd,\\xa0John Landis, John Belushi,\\xa0Cab Calloway)

Three Amigos! (Steve Martin,\\xa0Lorne Michaels, John Landis, Chevy Chase,\\xa0Martin Short)

Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, Karen Walton, Emily Perkins,\\xa0Katharine Isabelle,\\xa0Kris Lemche)

Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, Gary Oldman,\\xa0Chloe Webb,\\xa0David Hayman, Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen)

Bridgette Bardot

The Slaughtered Lamb Pub

Wuthering Heights

Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman, Dustin Hoffman,\\xa0Susan George,\\xa0Peter Vaughan)

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, Irvine Welsh, Ewan McGregor,\\xa0Ewen Bremner,\\xa0Jonny Lee Miller)

H.P. Lovecraft & Stephen King

Castlevania 2 Simon\'s Curse - "What a horrible night to have a curse"

"See You Next Wednesday" the fake porno

Lycanthropy in Dungeons & Dragons - werebears, werecats, wererats

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams,\\xa0David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Robert Hays,\\xa0Julie Hagerty,\\xa0Leslie Nielsen)

The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, Angela Carter, Sarah Patterson,\\xa0Angela Lansbury,\\xa0David Warner)

The Muppet Show (Jim Henson,\\xa0Frank Oz,\\xa0Richard Hunt, Jack Burns)

Nazi Werewolves & Vampires

Seinfeld (Larry David,\\xa0Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,\\xa0Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Wayne Knight, Jerry Stiller)

Grindhouse Werewolf Women of the S.S. trailer (Rob Zombie, Udo Kier, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Towles, Sybil Danning, Bill Moseley, Nicolas Cage)

Hitler\'s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Eric Kurlander)

Overlord (Julius Avery, Jovan Adepo,\\xa0Wyatt Russell,\\xa0Mathilde Ollivier)

Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, Jeppe Beck Laursen,\\xa0Charlotte Frogner,\\xa0Jenny Skavlan)

Tantric cults

Noam Chomsky

After Hours (Martin Scorsese, Joseph Minion, Griffin Dunne,\\xa0Rosanna Arquette,\\xa0Verna Bloom)

Princess Diana

Van Morrison - "Moondance"

One Irish Rover - Van Morrison documentary

Dumpster Diving for VHS

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, William Holden,\\xa0Ernest Borgnine,\\xa0Robert Ryan)

Star Trek The Next Generation (Gene Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart,\\xa0Brent Spiner,\\xa0Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton)

The Big Labowski\\xa0(Joel Coen,\\xa0Ethan Coen,\\xa0Jeff Bridges,\\xa0John Goodman,\\xa0Julianne Moore,\\xa0Steve Buscemi,\\xa0David Huddleston,\\xa0Philip Seymour Hoffman,\\xa0Tara Reid)

Barely Legal Corrupted

Wolverine\'s adamantine foreskin

Next week: Children of Men

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