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Guest Co-Hosts: Alex Winter, Jamey Duvall Shocktober 2017 continues with a the 1976 film from Roman Polanski, The Tenant . Adapted from a book by Roland Topor (Fantastic Planet), the film also stars Polanski as Trelkovsky, a man in need of a new apartment. He finds one where the previous occupant has defenestrated herself. After her death, he’s able to move in and finds that his neighbors don’t like him being noisy… in fact, they don’t like him being him at all. Some put this alongside Polanski’s Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby as his “apartment trilogy” in which explores the terrors of urban paranoia. Jamey Duvall of Movie Geeks United! and writer/director/actor Alex Winter join Mike to discuss what many consider to be Polanski’s most personal film.

Special Guests: Gregory W. Mank, Stephen D. Youngkin Guest Co-Host: Samm Deighan Shocktober 2017 kicks off with Karl Freund’s final film as a director and Peter Lorre’s film film in America, Mad Love (1935). Based upon Maurice Renard ‘s The Hands of Orlac, the film shifts focus from the titular Orlac to Dr. Gogol, a cunning physician who specializes in some questionable procedures. He’s fascinated by the actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) and, rebuffed in his advances, manages to enter her life after he backhandedly helps her husband, concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive), by giving him a new pair of hands after his have been crushed in an accident. But what kind of gift are the hands of a murderer on a master musician? Samm Deighan joins Mike to discuss the unusual American debut from Peter Lorre along with special guests Gregory W. Mank (Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre’s Golden Age) and Stephen D. Youngkin (The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre). Buy Mad Love on DVD Buy Mad Love on YouTube Buy The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin Buy Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre’s Golden Age by Gregory W. Mank Read Filming the “Lucy” show

Guest Co-Hosts: Ben Buckingham, Kat Ellinger We wrap up the first Czechtember series with a film from director Oldrich Lipský, 1966’s Happy End, an experimental comedy (which is as unusual as that sounds) that puts scenes in opposite order and runs motion backward from the death of our main character (Vladimír Menšík) while he gives the voice-over account of life from birth. Of course, this provides us with constant ironic juxtapositions. The film was co-written by Lipský and Milos Macourek, the screenwriter behind some of the best comedies out of Czechoslovakia in the ’60s and ’70s. Kat Ellinger and Ben Buckingham join Mike to discuss Happy End and other favorite Czech comedies. Buy Happy End on DVD-R Buy Lemonade Joe on DVD Buy other Oldrich Lipsky films