Joy Ride + The Attic Expeditions

INTERVIEW w/ Jeremy Kasten. Year 2 format changes! Comic relief. Conventional horror X-Mas lighting. Tension. Eric compares Kubrick’s 2001 to Escape from New York. Showing the killer.Camp. THE MEAT CART. Fake-out: The origins of ICE TRUCK. The killer reveal. Multiple ending fiasco. Integrity. Crazy people. Ambition. TAE as a series of experiments. The definitive Attic Expeditions plot explanation. The film that never was. Experimental? What works, what doesn’t. Jeremy Kasten launches into an unprompted verification of the previously mentioned plot synopsis using a humorously mocking tone. Critical reaction to cult films.

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Joy Ride: 3:00 | The Attic Expeditions: 25:11

Also referenced: Death to Smoochy, The Hitcher, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Silence of the Lambs, Hatchet, Cabin Fever, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Cloverfield, Escape from New York, Seven, Lost, Hostel, All Souls Day, The Thirst, The Wizard of Gore, Fringe, A History of Violence, Funny Games, Desperado, Natural Born Killers, Primer, Memento, Braid, Witchcraft 4, Phat Beach, Legion of the Night, Buffy, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Rocky Horror Picture Show, John Waters (A Dirty Shame), Altered States, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Spiral, Bad Santa

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Joy Ride

 

Released: October 5, 2001
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Director: John Dahl
Writer: J.J. Abrams, Clay Tarver
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Ted Levine, Jessica Bowman,

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

The Attic Expeditions

 

Released: 2001
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Director: Jeremy Kasten
Writer: Rogan Russell Marshall
Starring: Andras Jones, Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs, Ted Raimi, Alice Cooper

A young man has been sentenced to a long stay in a mental hospital after brutally killing his girlfriend. As he recovers from memory loss, he wonders if the murder ever really happened.