They Live (1988): CONSUME, OBEY, CONSUME, OBEY, CONSUME, OBEY

They Live (1988): CONSUME, OBEY, CONSUME, OBEY, CONSUME, OBEY

Ben and Rob intercept the frequency in John Carpenter's They Live (1988), starring Roddy Piper as a man with nothing, Keith David as a man with just enough left to lose, and an entire ruling class of skull-faced aliens doing their most convincing work in business suits. What begins as the story of how a six-page pulp story from 1963, written by a man almost nobody has heard of, adapted into a comic nobody much read, ended up in the hands of a furious filmmaker who wanted to give the finger to a sitting president slowly develops into something considerably larger; a conversation about the collision of rage, resourcefulness, and sheer unlikely chemistry that produced one of the most politically precise films Hollywood has ever accidentally greenlit and whether a B-movie with a four-million-dollar budget and rubber alien masks is secretly one of the most important documents of the twentieth century.

And finally… what does it really mean?

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Waterworld (1995): Ruin Your Friendship For Only £175m

Waterworld (1995): Ruin Your Friendship For Only £175m

Ben and Rob set sail for Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds' 1995 post-apocalyptic epic that turned a five-million-dollar B-movie idea into the most expensive film ever made at the time, and one of Hollywood'...

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Howard The Duck (1986): Is The Making Of Howard The Duck The Most Howard The Duck Thing That Ever Happened To Howard The Duck?

Howard The Duck (1986): Is The Making Of Howard The Duck The Most Howard The Duck Thing That Ever Happened To Howard The Duck?

Ben and Rob step into Howard the Duck, the 1986 sci-fi comedy that took George Lucas's decade long crush on a foul mouthed Marvel comic book duck and turned it into one of the most notorious box offic...

28 Sep 51min

Labyrinth (1986): Is Labyrinth Secretly A Film About Grief? And If So, Does It Change How We Watch It?

Labyrinth (1986): Is Labyrinth Secretly A Film About Grief? And If So, Does It Change How We Watch It?

Ben and Rob step into Labyrinth, Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy adventure that turned a puppeteer's most personal creative risk into a genre-defining cult classic. Directed by Jim Henson from a screenplay ...

21 Sep 49min

Tremors (1990): The Movie Dune Could've Been If It Had Just Tried Less...

Tremors (1990): The Movie Dune Could've Been If It Had Just Tried Less...

Ben and Rob head underground for Tremors, Ron Underwood's 1990 monster comedy that turned a killer-worm B-movie premise into one of the most beloved cult classics of the home-video era. Directed by Un...

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Obsession (2026): Shoestring Horror Makes Cinematic History AKA Self Milking Men feat. James Bertie

Obsession (2026): Shoestring Horror Makes Cinematic History AKA Self Milking Men feat. James Bertie

Ben and Rob make a wish on a One Wish Willow and immediately regret it, joined this week by James Bertie for a deep dive into the low budget horror romance that somehow outgrossed Scream 7, Backrooms,...

10 Sep 58min

The Cell (2000): ... What?

The Cell (2000): ... What?

Ben and Rob strap into the neural interface for ‘The Cell’, Tarsem Singh’s hallucinatory 2000 psychological thriller that turned a serial killer plot into one of the most visually audacious studio fil...

30 Aug 1h 3min

Destination Moon (1950): Your Favourite Movie's Favourite Movie

Destination Moon (1950): Your Favourite Movie's Favourite Movie

Ben, Rob and Amber blast off with ‘Destination Moon’, the 1950 science fiction landmark that helped launch an entire decade of space age cinema. Directed by Irving Pichel, produced by George Pal and d...

23 Aug 1h 3min

Backrooms (2026): From Unclogging A Drain To Petting A Bee

Backrooms (2026): From Unclogging A Drain To Petting A Bee

Ben and Rob noclip into ‘The Backrooms’, Kane Parsons’ 2026 A24 horror debut that transforms the viral internet creepypasta and his Kane Pixels YouTube series into a feature length nightmare. Starring...

17 Aug 1h 4min

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