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Directed by Joseph Cates and written by Arnold Drake and Leon Totayakan, Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965) stars Sal Mineo as Lawrence Sherman, a waiter at a nightclub and Juliet Prowse as bartender Norma Dain. Someone has an unhealthy obsession with Norma and keeps making obscene phone calls to her.

Is it future…? Or is it past…? It’s a bit of both as we revisit David Lynch’s Fire Walk With Me (1992) along with “Twin Peaks” Season 3 (AKA “Twin Peaks: The Return”) on this final #Shocktober2017 episode. We speak specifically about the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – Teresa Banks and the Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer fan edit as well as Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks.

Interviews feature Chrysta Bell, who played Agent Tammy Preston, and Claire Nina Norelli, author of the 33 1/3 book Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks.

Podcasters John Walker of Movie Schmovie and Christine Makepeace of the Feminine Critique join Mike to drink full and descend to attempt to put the latest incarnation of “Twin Peaks” in context. What year is it?

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