Episode 18. John Carpenter's Scary Movie Month: The Fog

Boo-ray, it's October! And we're kicking off a new theme for the
month: John Carpenter's Scary Movie Month. If you don't know
J-Carp, he's a master of horror and sci-fi, a spiritual cousin to
Wes Craven, Spielberg's weird buddy, and the director of the best
movie ever made, Big Trouble in Little China.

But before we get into The Fog, his 1980 horror follow up to
Halloween, we bring back the Movie Podcast Ombudsman to dissect a
couple comments that were made on Blank Check's episode of Used
Cars featuring How Did This Get Made's Paul Scheer and Jason
Mantzoukas—like Tom Hanks wasn't good in Road to Perdition
(?!?).

Then it's what we watched this week with Goodman doubling down on
John Carpenter with the Chevy Chase & Darryl Hannah vehicle,
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and Dre going speed round on the 9
(!!!) movies he watched this week (show-off).

Then it's time to descend on the town of Antonio Bay and all the
crazy, foggy hijinks that happened on its centennial back in
1980. We run through John Carpenter's filmography and place in
cinema, we discuss the plot (or lack thereof), the cast and some
choice quotes for funsies!

Sorry gang, no BOOM! (Based On Other Movies) this week, but we
did take a stroll down Goodman's Failed Screenplay Sidewalk—watch
out for the cracks!

Coming up next week during John Carpenter's Scary Movie Month
is his version of Stephen King's Christine about a
possessed demon car. Now that's what we call fast and
furious.

SONG CREDITS:
Theme music: "70s Funk" by Frank Cogliano
What we watched music: "Let's all go to the lobby" by Jack K.
Tillar (lyrics)
BOOM! music: "Daddy O" by Little Red Church
Closing music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert
The Quote Parade music: "Pelican Parade" by Richard J. Freitas
and Geraldine Brioso