This week we have an appointment to keep... with The Wicker Man.   The Wicker Man is a 1973 cult British horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centers on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practice a form of Celtic paganism.    The film is well-regarded by critics and has been described as "The Citizen Kane of horror movies". In 2006, a poorly received (and ill-conceived) American remake was released starring Nicholas Cage, which Hardy and others involved with the original dissociated themselves from. In 2011, a spiritual sequel directed by Hardy entitled The Wicker Tree was released and featured Lee in a cameo appearance.   Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

Disaster Artists: The Movie Survival Podcast

The Wicker Man (1973)

This week we Live Die Repeat with one of the best science fiction/action movies of the last decade: Edge of Tomorrow starring the beautiful, smart, funny, and extraordinarily talented Emily Blunt... and some other guy. He isn’t really important.   Based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and released in 2014, the film was considered a failure at the box office, but thanks to the positive critical response and word-of-mouth became a hit on home release and streaming. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

This week our 2022 World Cup party is interrupted by some time traveling soldiers, who enlist us to fight The Tomorrow War. The Tomorrow War is a 2021 American military science fiction film directed by Chris McKay. The ensemble cast features Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J. K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, and Sam Richardson. It follows a mix of present-day soldiers and civilians sent into a post-apocalyptic future to fight an alien army who has reduced earth's population to just half a million people.   Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

The Tomorrow War (2021)

This week, the government has completely failed us... and so, all we can do is sink into some 90s nostalgia and brace for a Deep Impact.  Deep Impact is a 1998 American science-fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, produced by Stephen Spielberg, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, and Morgan Freeman.  The film depicts the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction. The film was released the same summer as a similarly themed film, Armageddon (Starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck), which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being far more scientifically accurate.   Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

Deep Impact (1998)

This week, in the wake of a deadly pandemic, we're called upon in our dreams, to come to Hemingford Home and stand alongside Mother Abagail in the ultimate battle between good and evil.  Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition. Your vote really counts.  The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by Stephen King and first published in 1978. It was recently adapted by Josh Boone as a CBS All Access miniseries but has made its way to TV previously in the 1990s. The novel has received critical acclaim and is regarded as one of King's best works. It has been included in lists of the best books of all time by Rolling Stone, Time, the Modern Library, Amazon, and the BBC.  

The Stand (2020/TV Series)

This week, if you thought Covid-19 was bad, then hold on to your butts, cause we're trapped in the Wildfire facility deep under the Nevada desert and going up against a deadly space virus known as The Andromeda Strain.  The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by legendary filmmaker Robert Wise and based on Michael Crichton's debut novel of the same name. An underrated sci-fi classic, the film paved the way for other viral disaster movies like Outbreak and Contagion and was a major influence on directors Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg.    Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition. Your vote really counts.   

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

This week we have to pull off a heist during another zombie apocalypse and fight the Army of the Dead.  Army of the Dead is a 2021 Netflix Orignal zombie film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Matthias Schweighöfer, Tig Notaro, and many others. It follows a group of mercenaries who plan a Las Vegas casino heist amid a zombie apocalypse. Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition. Your vote really counts. 

Army of the Dead (2021)

This week, we are forced to abandon our planned Mighty Joe Young episode after a mysterious package shows up in the bunker from the infamous Jigsaw Killer. .... Oh yes, there will be blood.  SAW is a 2004 American/Australian horror movie created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell and stars Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, and Tobin Bell (as Jigsaw). The story revolves around a serial killer (yes, he's a killer) who tests his victims by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive. Games that most often result in death (or more accurately, murder). Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition. Your vote really counts.   

SAW (2004)

A little late because of some technical issue but here it is, the Apetober finale in which we go in search of Bigfoot.   Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition.  every vote helps. Your vote really counts.    Check out all our other links here: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists  

In Search of Bigfoot

Apetober continues and doesn't end until we say it ends. The week, it's east versus west, as the king of the monsters and the eighth wonder of the world go head-to-head in a battle for the ages. Meanwhile, we're caught up in an unnecessary b-plot that is of little consequence the final result. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

Godzilla VS Kong (2021)

This week, to celebrate the release of Godzilla VS King, and Apetober itself (yes, we're making that a thing). We're climbing aboard the S.S. Venture, setting sail for Skull Island, and coming face to face with the eighth wonder of the world. King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster movie directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and features groundbreaking stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien. King Kong opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews, and has since been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the fourth greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.     Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

King Kong (1933)

An unaired episode of Disaster Artists to keep you occupied. Recorded in 2017 and for reasons explained in the intro, locked away in the vault until now. In it, we are joined by friend-of-the-show Darren to discuss the ramifications of a global nuclear war (and an accidental bombing) on Ireland. Could we survive the immediate disaster? Could we rebuild the country? And if the controls of the nukes fell into our laps, what County would we blow out of it? Check out https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/  and run your own simulation.   Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

Ireland After a Nuclear War (Unaired Episode from 2017)

A new year means new fears. So today we look at some works of fiction from decades past, set in a Post-Apocalyptic or Dystopian 2001.   Be it the cybernetic future of Johnny Mnemonic, the post-plague world of Jeremiah, or any of the other grim visions of 2021. With the way last year went, there's a good chance one of these will come true.    Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists

Post-Apocalyptic & Dystopian Fiction Set in 2021

This Christmas we bring you our most festive episode yet. That's right, the harrowing tale of survival cannibalism on the Andes Mountains that made famous in the 1993 film Alive!Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The film was directed by Frank Marshall, and stars John Malkovich, Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, Vincent Spano, and Bruce Ramsay. Real-life survivor (and hero) Nando Parrado (portrayed by Hawke in the film) served as technical advisor. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists   

ALIVE! (A 2020 Christmas Special)

We're back in an apocalyptic world this week with the 2006 film Children of Men, based on the novel of the same name by P. D. James and directed by four-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón. The film takes place in 2027, after two decades of human infertility has left society on the brink of collapse, and stars Clive Owen as a cynical bureaucrat tasked with transporting a young pregnant woman across the border, and away from the militant groups who want to use her and her unborn child for their own political gain. The film also stars Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Charlie Hunnam. Support the Show & get access to exclusive episodes at https://www.patreon.com./DisasterArtists   Find us at all these other places: https://linktr.ee/DisasterArtists  

Children of Men (2006)

Disaster Artists, the Survival Podcast for people who take movies too seriously. Hosts Johnny and Shane tackle the various disaster scenarios you've seen played out in fiction. From Nuclear War to Zombie Outbreaks, from taking on a rogues gallery of horror movie villains to surviving a trip to a mad man's chocolate factory, we see how likely these scenarios are, and what you can do to survive.

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