Hackers with mystical powers, a black cube, five laptops that are never turned on, and a naval destroyer that shows up in the sky over Chicago. This week on Hard to Watch, host Alex Parker takes on two seriously strange sci-fi flicks with a guest who came ready to win.

Tyler Lockamy, film liaison for Shasta and Tehama counties, brings “the apex predator of Hard to Watch”: Neil Breen’s cult-classic Fateful Findings (2012). Alex fires back with the 2012 Philadelphia Experiment remake, starring Malcolm McDowell. One film has a rabid midnight-movie following, the other aired on the Sci-Fi channel, and both have plenty to mock.

In this episode:

• Fateful Findings: Neil Breen writes, directs, stars and (almost) caters, on a reported $5,000 budget
• Why Breen’s “outsider cinema” might be important cinema after all
• The 2012 Philadelphia Experiment: wrong jets, Dutch tilts everywhere, and a flux capacitor wink
• Malcolm McDowell delivering the goods in a movie that doesn’t deserve him
• The real USS Eldridge legend, and why the original 1984 film is worth your time
• Plus a first look at the Sinister Sundial Film Festival at the Riverfront Playhouse in Redding, CA, and the Sundial Film Festival coming February 2027

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Hard to Watch
0:41 Meet Tyler Lockamy, film liaison
2:45 Fateful Findings (Neil Breen, 2012)
30:30 The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)
53:31 Festival talk and wrap-up

Find Tyler on Instagram: @tyler_lockamy, Film Shasta and Film Tehama. Festival info: SinisterSFF.com

Recorded live at Fratelli’s Pizza in Redding, CA, and streamed on Creators Co. TV, Facebook, YouTube, Rumble and X. Like, subscribe and tell us the worst movie you’ve ever finished!

Steven Seagal on acid in a cave full of nude women. A heat-seeking shark with a grudge against one family. Michael Caine in both. This week on Hard to Watch, host Alex Parker and documentary filmmaker John Stinson of Catbird Seat Productions watch two of the most baffling movies of their decades: On Deadly Ground (1994) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987).

In this episode:
🔥 Why Seagal directed, produced and (mostly) wrote On Deadly Ground, and how a Clint Eastwood script became a Greenpeace recruitment film
🦈 How Michael Caine pocketed $1 million for about ten days of work on Jaws: The Revenge, missed the Oscars for Hannah and Her Sisters, and bought his mother a house with the money
🎬 The bar fight, the slap fight, the bad ADR, the changing hair dye and the horse jump off a (painted?) cliff
🗣️ Seagal’s 40-minute environmental speech, cut to 7 minutes after a preview audience booed
🌴 A Christmas shark movie set in the Bahamas, with a questionable Jamaican accent and a very confusing ending
🍿 Which movie is the better date-night test

Rotten Tomatoes scores, budgets, behind-the-scenes trivia and plenty of jokes at the movies’ expense.

⏱️ Chapters
0:00 Intro and meet John Stinson
6:14 On Deadly Ground clips and commentary
18:49 From Rainbow Warrior to On Deadly Ground
28:50 The 40-minute speech
40:12 Jaws: The Revenge clips and commentary
1:03:59 Final thoughts

📺 Hard to Watch is produced by Creators Co., a Redding, California indie film collective, and streams on Creators Co. TV. Find us on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, X and Instagram.

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Grab your fake blood and your free hotel soap, because Hard to Watch went LIVE on the Blood Red Carpet at the very first Sinister Sundial Film Festival at the Riverfront Playhouse in Redding, CA! 🩸🔪

Host Alex Parker (in a questionable hospital gown) and Coffee with Colleen’s Colleen De Silva took over the carpet to interview costumed guests, filmmakers, artists, and festival creators. They asked the questions that really matter: Are you Fred, Daphne, Velma, or Shaggy? And in a horror movie, would you be the final girl or the first to die?

On the carpet:

🎬 Tyler Lockamy, the mastermind behind Sinister Sundial, on bringing a true genre film festival to Redding

🏆 Mike Morgan of Morgan Designs, who 3D resin-printed the festival’s blood-red film canister and knife trophies (40 hours each!)

🔪 Matt Briner, the designer behind the festival logo, on butcher knives and Terminator 2 inspiration

🎥 Filmmakers, behind-the-scenes shooters, and local creators, including director Taunya Gren and Redding Creators

🧛 Costumed attendees, a prom king, a wounded alien, and plenty of Shaggys

🧼 Door prizes: Ivory hotel soap and, for the final guest, nasal spray that expired in 2024

Plus horror fun facts, favorite scary movies (Get Out, Nope, Basket Case, and Backrooms), movie-festival hot takes, and a sneak peek at a horror-comedy about a multi-level marketing cabin getaway gone very wrong.

Hard to Watch is the movie podcast about films so bad they’re hard to watch. Every other Tuesday, Alex and a guest each pick a movie and break down just how rough it is.

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☕ Also check out Coffee with Colleen on Creators Co. TV

🎟️ Love horror? Follow the Sundial Film Festival and Sinister Sundial for the next fright night in Redding.

Like, subscribe, and tell us in the comments: Fred, Daphne, Velma, or Shaggy?