Cinema Shock

Oct 18 2024 160 ep. 102 mins 168

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The stories behind your favorite cult & genre films, and the people who make them.

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TWIN PEAKS (1990) | David Lynch: Absurd Encounters

Oct 18 2024 165 mins

"Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks, five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I’ve never seen so many trees in my life. As W. C. Fields would say, I’d rather be here than Philadelphia." While BLUE VELVET's success (and its Academy Award nominations) helped to cement David Lynch as a director to watch out for, he

BLUE VELVET (1986) | David Lynch: Absurd Encounters

Sep 20 2024 186 mins

"I'm seeing something that was always hidden. I'm in the middle of a mystery and it's all secret." DUNE, David Lynch's first (and only) foray into big budget studio filmmaking was an unmitigated disaster, both critically and commercially, and in the wake of its failure, his career as a film director was in question. But thanks to his own inability to stop creating, and incredible s

Interview with Max Evry, author of 'A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune - An Oral History'

Aug 30 2024 65 mins

For this special BONUS episode, we sat down for a chat with Max Evry, author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune - An Oral History, one of the most comprehensive behind-the-scenes books that we've come across, and one that was a major resource for our episode covering the making of DUNE. In this interview, we chat with Max about all things DUNE, David Lynch, Hollywood

DUNE (1984) | David Lynch: Absurd Encounters

Aug 23 2024 152 mins

After the critical and commercial success of THE ELEPHANT MAN, David Lynch was suddenly a hot commodity in Hollywood, although it soon became clear that, although many studios were seeking out the idiosyncratic director, what they wanted was another ELEPHANT MAN, and not another ERASERHEAD. While Lynch would pass on many of the projects offered to him (which we document in this epi

THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) | David Lynch: Absurd Encounters

Aug 09 2024 132 mins

ERASERHEAD’s success on the Midnight Movie circuit didn’t suddently thrust David Lynch onto Hollywood’s A-list but it did turn some heads. Some of those who were impressed by his debut feature included producer Stuart Cornfeld (THE FLY) and legendary filmmaker Mel Brooks (BLAZING SADDLES), who recruited Lynch to direct a biopic of a disfigured man in Victorian England titled

ERASERHEAD (1977) | David Lynch: Absurd Encounters

Jul 26 2024 156 mins

After spending his youth pursuing "the art life," David Lynch dipped his toe into the medium of film with his shorts THE ALPHABET and THE GRANDMOTHER. With THE GRANDMOTHER, he received attention from the American Film Institute, who invited him to move to the West Coast, where he'd spend a whopping five years working on what would become his feature film debut, ERASERHEAD. In this

The Short Films of David Lynch | David Lynch: Absurd Encounters

Jul 12 2024 101 mins

In our new series, David Lynch: Absurd Encounters, we'll be taking a deep dive into the first chapter of David Lynch's career, covering everything from his early short films through his success on the midnight circuit, his disastrous attempt to film Frank Herbert's Dune, his controversial Palm d'Or win, and everything in-between. (And not to worry, Twin Peaks fans. While we won't b

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975)

Jun 26 2024 149 mins

When we started our Alejandro Jodorowsky series last year, we began a loose exploration of the history of the Midnight Movies phenomenon of the 1970s (as documented in J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's iconic book on the subject). Before we wrap up that discussion with David Lynch's ERASERHEAD (coming soon!), we couldn't skip past what is probably the most iconic Midnight Movie

DONNIE DARKO (2001)

Jun 05 2024 161 mins

In this standalone episode, we're discussing Richard Kelly's modern cult classic DONNIE DARKO! DONNIE DARKO's journey to the screen was one fraught with difficulties from the very beginning: Few studios were willing to take a chance on a young, unproven director, and once the film did finally get made, getting it released at all was nearly impossible, with most distributors intimid

ZODIAC (2007) | David Fincher, Part 7

May 15 2024 134 mins

For the final episode in our series David Fincher: Rules of the Game, we're taking a look at the story behind his 2007 true crime drama ZODIAC. For his follow-up to the crowd-pleasing popcorn thriller PANIC ROOM, David Fincher went in a far different direction with a meticulously researched look at the investigation into the real life Zodiac Killer murders in northern California in