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Arthouse Legends Podcast

Welcome to Arthouse Legends Podcast - Where High Art and Geek Culture Collide! The goal of this podcast is to take a look at critically acclaimed and well-received films and consider if these films truly deserve their revered status in the cultural zeitguest. Using our combined film knowledge, geeky obsessions and general fart jokes, we take a bite out of much-beloved films, sometimes in love, other times in scorn, but never out-of-bounds.

Oct 30, 2015

 

In 1993, director Tim Burton was at the height of his popularity when decided to work with Disney on a stop motion animated project based on his original story, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Tapping famed animator Henry Selick to direct, he set out to tell the story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of...


Oct 28, 2015

 

Fresh off his Academy Award-winning French Connection, director William Friedkin would mount his most daring film yet about a young girl possessed by a demon, her terrified mother and the priest bound to save her from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most iconic horror films of all time, The Exorcist...


Oct 21, 2015

 

In 1960, famous filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock took a daring gamble with his career when he decided to adapt Robert Bloch's novel Psycho into one of the first auteur-helmed horror films. This gamble changed not only how the genre was perceived to be, but how movies were to be marketed forever. But does the story of...


Oct 14, 2015

In 2014, Australian actress-turned-filmmaker Jennifer Kent unleashed her feature film debut at Sundance and immediately created a stir. Her film, The Babadook, looked at a widowed mother and her son facing a terrible force unleashed from a children's book. But does this film deserve to be recognized as a possible new...


Oct 7, 2015

After the failure of his most commercial film yet, horror master Wes Craven returned to the genre he knew best and made one of the most iconic monsters of all time; undead child murder Freddy Kruger. But does the film earn the status as one of the last inventive horror films or should it be slaughtered in its...