The podcast where film-fans Allen Turing and Sol Harris take a weekly journey to Development Hell to discuss a film, then pitch their ideas for the sequel.
Guests: Calvin Dyson and Judey Bignell
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It's outtakes time, leds! Featuring everything from James Bond to zombies to Fifty Shades of filth.
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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The final, most Halloweeny part of this year's three-part Halloween special takes a look at our two remaining George A. Romero zombie movies: 1985's Day of the Dead and 2005's Land of the Dead. We also touch on Taurus Entertainment's continued attempts to draw blood from a stone.
Films covered in this episode:
Day of the Dead (1985)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 77%
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ½
Overall score: 10%
Day of the Dead (2008)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ½
Overall score: 30%
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ½
Overall score: 30%
Land of the Dead
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 57%
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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This year's three-part Diminishing Returns Halloween special continues with the next two movies in George A. Romero's "Of the Dead" zombie franchise: Survival of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. We take a look at Zack Snyder's 2004 remake, too.
Films covered in this episode:
Survival of the Dead
Allen: ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 40%
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Allen: ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 70%
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%
Guest: ?
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Diminishing Returns are going big for Halloween, this year, with a three-part "Podcast of Horror" special! We've been wanting to cover George A. Romero's "Of the Dead" zombie franchise for years, now, but we've finally found a solid place to fit them all in in a way that can do them justice. Looking at the films in the order of their internal chronology, we're starting, this week, with Night of the Living Dead, its hundreds of remakes and Diary of the Dead.
Films covered in this episode:
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 94%
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: n/a
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Allen: n/a
Calvin: n/a
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 40%
Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation (2012)
Allen: n/a
Calvin: n/a
Sol: ✰
Overall score: 20%
Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection (2012)
Allen: n/a
Calvin: n/a
Sol: ½
Overall score: 10%
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)
Allen: n/a
Calvin: n/a
Sol: ½
Overall score: 10%
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Allen: ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 40%
