The MacGuffin

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 cliched but awesome moments.

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There is one movie in my life that has messed me up beyond all others, and it is , a 1986 two-part television miniseries about serial killer Ted Bundy. At the time it first aired, I was just about to graduate high school—about the same age as many of Ted Bundy’s victims—and lived in the Pacific Northwest, which meant hearing about serial killers all the time because we seem to breed them here. Everybody I knew watched this miniseries, and we were all totally creeped out by it. (Nobody seems to make very many good miniseries anymore. Which is unfortunate; it’s a good way to tell a longer story. The last one I really enjoyed was Storm of the Century, and I am looking forward to Bag of Bones coming out in December.)

Spencer and Greg discuss Neil Patrick Harris in advance of A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, talk about holiday films that influenced them and give DVD picks.

As part of our horror celebration for the month of October, we will be running a series of polls to try to nail down the best horror films from specific periods of time. This time we are tackling the best horror film of the 1970s. Please make your selection from the list below (or write it in if there is something else missing). Even better, share in the comments why you made your selection.

Filmed at Crypticon 2011, interviews include: PJ Soles (Carrie, Halloween), Alex Vincent (Child’s Play), and Jewel Shepard (The Return of the Living Dead).

Spencer and John are joined by special guests for the MacGuffin’s second anniversary. They look back at the evolution of the podcast and the website.

Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Ben and John share their top 5 horror directors.

Halloween
1978; directed by John Carpenter; written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill

Allen: Of all the movie killers in film history, none had quite the effect on me as Michael Myers did in Halloween.

Spencer and John share their top 5 horror films, discuss fan-made documentaries, and give their DVD picks of the week.

Spencer is joined by John Portanova, one of the stars of online series Adler and Zenith. In this episode they pay their tributes to John Hughes in the wake of his death. Next they tackle the monsterous task of covering horror films from the 1980′s. Finally, they conclude with a discussion about the career of Judd Apatow, and consider if he is a modern John Hughes.