The Pastel's Podcast: On Stephen King
Johnny and Dave Pastel take you on a cronological journey through film and TV adaptations of Stephen King's works. They go over production, pop culture impact and their most likely questionable opinions.
Episodes
What a whirlwind of a six months it has been! Johnny and Dave and ecstatic to have you here for the season one finale. Tonight our boys are so proud to present you with their takes on Stand By Me, aka The Body. Maybe revisionist history, but Dave remembers this as either his first or second King read, and easily a first favorite for both of our heroes. As always, Johnny will dazzle you with production, including a butt load of Holl...
Welcome back to The Pastel's Podcast: On Stephen King! This week our heroes answer the question, "What if Cocaine made a movie?" Thats right, this week we are reviewing 1986's Maximum Overdrive! Written and directed by Stephen King with music, unsurprisingly, by ACDC, this movie from start to finish is the worst in the best way possible. Johnny covers another production filmed in Wilmington, but the first one set ...
Welcome back, horror fans, to a new episode of The Pastel's Podcast: On Stephen King! This time we find those rambunctious Pastel's reviewing the creature feature Silver Bullet. Prepare yourself for an entertaining ride through this wonderful werewolf film, complete with an epic pimp-my-rided wheelchair, and all the Gary Busey adlibs you could possibly ask for! Johnny covers more Dino drama and the potential legacy of TV on...
Who's ready for Drew BarryMORE? Welcome back to Drew and Dino's Double Feature! We continue our journey with 1985's horror anthology Cat's Eye. This movie exists purely because Dino couldn't get enough Drew and it shows as she plays 2ish characters in the film! If you've ever wondered what it would be like if a movie crammed together three random stories with only a cat as the connective tissue, this movie i...
The Pastel's Podcast is stoked to welcome you to Drew and Dino's Double Feature! In Part One, our heros explore 1984's Firestarter. Drew and Dino are off to a firey start in the not-quite-a classic that includes cheesy fireballs, an crazy amount of head squeezing, and George C. Scott with a ponytail! Johnny covers the early starts of the King V. Dino fueds while Dave waxes poetic on the reality of letting a child who mu...
It's corn time friends! In this episode, The Pastel's sat through 1984's cinematic abortion Children of the Corn! This awful adaptation stars a Terminator Teminator(Linda Hamilton), a guy who hunts demons for the devil(Peter Horton), and some of the worst special effects of all time! Johnny gets hung up on George Goldsmith and buck-toothed gingers while Dave recounts and entire episode of South Park. Come and listen or ...
What up, horror stans!?! Tonight our heroes take on horror legends galore with John Carpenter's adaptation of Stephen King's cautionary car purchasing tale, Christine! Johnny reunites us with Richard Kobritz, while visiting Haddonfield and discussing the finer points of Blu Ray special features. Meanwhile, Dave gets worked up over the MPAA, 40 year olds playing teanagers, and the corrolation between aging actors and Christm...
Welcome back, Friends! On this episode, the boys see if Mr. King could indeed see the futurewith 1983's The Dead Zone. Johnny talks Cronenberg, Indiana Jones Screenplays, and butchers the russian language. Dave reminds you that the USA network is a thing, while discussing alien viruses and the relevancy of Dutch telepaths. And they somehow manage to do all of this while debating politics and whether or not this is the best adap...
Welcome to another episode of Your Favorite Podcast! (wishful thinking). In this episode, the brave Pastel boys are up against the patron saint of evil pets, Cujo! Johnny takes on everything from Buggens to Alligator, Lewis Teague to Peter Medak, Speaking clearly to having a severe cough. Dave gets hard for Jan De Bont, Tobe Nwigwe, and a bearded guy playing trombone in bed. This episode has something for everyone, including herpes...
In this episode, the boys get a much need break after the arduous task breaking down Kubrick's Rocky(lawlz) The Shining adaptation. This time, they tackle the horror comedy romp that is 1982's Creepshow! An anthology film directed by George A. Romero and featuring two previously released shorts(Weeds, Cavalier Magazine; The Crate, Gallery Magazine) And three all new stories for the screen play, Creepshow does its best to pa...
On the newest episode of The Pastel's Podcast, our heroes take on the classic that is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Johnny goes in depth on the development of the film. Both discuss the many issues and few wins that plague the movie, including what makes it more Stanley Kubricks than Stephen Kings. Dave uncovers the huge impact the the film has had on pop culture, from cartoons to music and, yes, professional wrestling. Th...
In Episode Two, the boys sat through the 1979 Made for TV adaptation of King's Salem's Lot. Johnny has hoot talking about the strange names associated with the production of this obvious television excursion. We hear their opinions on the quality of the film, while going wildly off topic. And Dave scours the wastelands of the internet for any and all pop culture influence(spoiler: no wrestling connections this week). If you...
In the first episode of season one, our heroes tackle Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's first novel "Carrie." Johnny will go over aspects of the films production. Both Pastel's will give a general review the quality of the film and cover the pieces of the film that, for better or for worse, stuck out to them. And then Dave will attempt to touch on at least some of the vast influences the first...
Hello! I'm Dave Pastel, and I am joined by Johnny Pastel. Through this podcast we intend on taking you through film and tv adaptations of Stephen King's works in chronological order. This intro episode explains how each of us got hooked on Stephen King and an outline of how we hope each episode will go. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
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