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Trace Thurman from the Horror Queers podcast and Bloody Disgusting joins Jeff to talk about the Disney classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Along the way they talk about latchkey kids, bad parents, the history of Disney Studio's in the late 1980's
David Lynch's Dune from 1984 is a massive failure on both a commercial and artistic scale. It was too weird to be a blockbuster and too blockbuster to be a weirdo independent film. Dune's lasting legacy, however, is it spurred David Lynch on to
In 1979 Dario Argento's cut of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead was a huge hit in Italy. To capitalize, Italian producers were looking to make a quick sequel. In comes Lucio Fulci and the most surreal, over the top, grotesque zombie movie of it
In 1979 Greek Egyptian Oviido Assinitis gave us the craziest Italian movie of the 1970's, The Visitor. A combination of Star Wars, The Omen and Italian Giallo woven into a batsh*t crazy tapestry. It features some of the greats of old Hollywood
On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the history of recorded music and how record company greed in the late 1990's caused their own demise. How a cheap to make CD became so overpriced a revolt was bound to happen.Enjoy the show!
Magnus and Pat recently made a trip to Las Vegas to see the band U2 at the brand new Las Vegas Sphere. On the latest GenX Show the fellas review their experience, talk about the technicalities about being in the Sphere and U2's performance. Doe
Netflix has been an issue in Hollywood. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the history of B Movies, their evolution, and how Netflix (specifically) has hollowed out the 'bread and butter' B movies that sustained Hollywood. It's not that p
A little, underpublicized game game out in 1999 that changed the way we viewed horror gaming. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Silent Hill ... the little game that could, that it's parent company couldn't care less about, changed our p
On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the worst era for horror movies, the early 1990's. How a collision of several circumstances from the prevalence of AIDS in the public consciousness to the rise of the Erotic Thriller combined to dampen t
"You shitters wouldn't understand!"40 years ago, in 1983, Stephen King's novel Christine was released (April) a mere seven months later (November) John Carpenter's version of that movie was released in theaters. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff an
John Carpenter and Debra Hill never wanted to do any Halloween sequels. After, essentially, being bullied into doing Halloween 2 ... the pair were left with a choice to continue. The choice that was made: Turn the Halloween series into an antho
Magnus from Voltaire's Ghost once again joins Jeff to talk about the history of Horror movies. From the Universal Monsters to the 1980's Slashers. The guys talk about their favorites from each era while touching on their overall affect on the h
John Carpenter's 1978 Slasher masterpiece Halloween turns 45 this month. In the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the lead up to the production of the film and how it's complicated legacy and it's financial success has haunted Carpenter through
There have been many attempts to do HP Lovecraft style Cosmic Horror in the past both in games and in movies. On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about the most successful of these attempts in the classic Dark Souls styled epic h
Magnus, from streaming sensation Voltaire's Ghost joins Jeff to talk about his new music and the ever changing state of the Music business. Has the availability of recording technology made things easier or ... worse? Fascinating conversation w
The 1990's gave us grunge, mid-tempo jangly guitar based pop songs, Friends ... Frasier ... Seinfeld and the big time classic rock reunion. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the heavily anticipated reunion of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
1988 was THE year Jeff became a horror movie fan. Chief among those movies Jeff adored was the camp horror classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Don't devote a ton of brain power to trying to "break down" the meaning of this movie. It does wh
Back to the Egg in 1979 is Paul McCartney and Wings last hurrah as a "band". After multiple lineup changes, cancelled tours and a brand new multi-million dollar contract with Columbia records Wings recorded their last in a Scottish castle. What
On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his childhood/teenage love of the one and only Paul McCartney turned him into a music obsessive. Jeff also goes over how two of McCartney's most "unloved" album's (Off the Ground and
On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his own generation's rejection of being "sold" contributed greatly in the notion that Generation X is the "forgotten" one. How our unease with being marketed to and aversion to selling out left Holl
The 1984 Richard Franklin directed movie, Cloak and Dagger from 1984 is on the surface a typical cold war kids movie about a kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dig deeper, however and you see that it's really about a kid who's da
Jeff is back with another Ray Bradbury special. This time it's a Jonathan Pryce, Jason Robards and Pam Grier led movie about a father trying to be a good dad despite feeling old ... oh and an evil, borderline satanic carnival that is coming to
1982's The Electric Grandmother, based on a teleplay/Twilight Zone episode/Short Story from Ray Bradbury, is a curiosity from the golden era of childrens movies/enternatinment in the early 80's. A long-forgotten TV project that gave Jeff distin
MTV News folded shop a few weeks ago. This was to the surprise of many of us who thought that it hadn't existed for years. On today's GenX Show, Jeff talks about the cultural zeitgeist that MTV News Held in the early to mid 1990's and how they
It's been over 25 years since the concept of "selling out" permeated culture and society in general. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the context of "selling out" withing Gen Xers and how holding your peers accountable made our music b
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