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August 23, 2025 94 mins

Episode recorded: August 10th, 2025

Jay and his co-editor Jessie Hymowitz invited Ali Khamseh, a Hammer Horror movie fan from Iran, and talked about three movies of his choice: the underappreciated Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), and two Hammer Horror movies with the great Christopher Lee (The Devil Rides Out and The Gorgon). We talked about the unexpected genre materials from Iran, how Kerry Conran's tragic flop predicted both the blockbuster & low-budget filmmaking trends of the 2020s, the historical context of the old Hammer Horror movies, and the magic of stop-motion animation.

Movies that we will be (mostly) discussing:

  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), directed by Kerry Conran
  • Sin City (2005), directed by Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller
  • Hundreds of Beavers (2022), directed by Mike Cheslik
  • The Lion King (2019), directed by Jon Favreau
  • The Devil Rides Out (1968), directed by Terence Fisher
  • The Gorgon (1964), directed by Terence Fisher
  • ParaNorman (2012), directed by Sam Fell & Chris Butler
  • Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), directed by Travis Knight
  • Stopmotion (2023), directed by Robert Morgan

Please follow Ali here (note: 88 in Ali's usernames meant the Persian calendar year of 1388 when he made his first email account):

His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJOSmbfG5-nW79Q7I3OyyTw

His 2nd YouTube channel (AK88): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP37QXeEcOQ5vJpQKgnph1w

His Letterboxd account: https://letterboxd.com/AKhamseh88/

His Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/akhamseh88/

His own podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/akhamseh88/

 

Audio Editor: Jay Whang & Jessie Hymowitz

 

Into and Outro music: Scorpions sting by Celeste3

https://celest3.bandcamp.com/track/scorpions-sting

And please help her out: https://ko-fi.com/pupceleste

 

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