Farmer Vincent’s “fritters” or McConaughey’s robot leg? 🎃 For our Halloween Special, host Alex Parker and filmmaker Justin Peery tackle two of the weirdest, gnarliest cult horror flicks ever made: Motel Hell (1980) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). One has a chainsaw duel and heads planted in a garden. The other has Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger before they became Oscar winners.

Filmed live at Fratelli’s Pizza in Redding, California. Only one of these movies might be good, and we argue about which.

🔪 IN THIS EPISODE
Motel Hell: Rory Calhoun, Wolfman Jack, John Ratzenberger and a $3 million budget that doubled at the box office
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation: the $600,000 budget, McConaughey’s “all right, all right, all right,” Zellweger’s scream-queen workout and a very unhelpful corsage
Rotten Tomatoes showdown: Motel Hell scores 63%, The Next Generation scores 15%
Why the Motel Hell script got so dark that Tobe Hooper nearly directed it
A movie so bad its stars’ agent reportedly blocked the release
Physical media, Arrow and Shout! Factory, and Dead by Daylight

⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 Halloween intro
1:22 Where to watch and Tales from the Bucket
2:10 Meet Justin Peery
3:23 Motel Hell: first impressions
17:36 The vocal cord scene
20:54 Budget and box office
26:29 Wolfman Jack
33:49 The chainsaw duel
34:58 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
36:50 Meet Renée Zellweger
42:54 McConaughey’s entrance
47:56 Leatherface
54:36 Arrow, Shout! Factory and physical media
1:02:14 Favorite McConaughey movies
1:04:12 Family dinner
1:10:12 That ending
1:11:45 Sinister Sundial movie club
1:13:50 Wrap-up

🎃 THIS HALLOWEEN
Fratelli’s Pizza Halloween event "Hella-Ween, 1774 California St, Redding, CA, October 31, 5:00 to 8:30 PM
Tales from the Bucket, a new horror anthology written by Cory De Silva, premieres October 31 on Creators Co. TV

📅 NEXT WEEK: a roundtable of four filmmakers on Avengers: Doomsday.

📺 Hard to Watch streams on Creators Co. TV (YouTube, Facebook, Rumble), plus Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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