What do you get when you take a creatively brilliant director, give him all the leeway he wants, resulting in a film that is a commercial failure but a sleeper hit? You get a very pissed off John Carpenter is what you get. Despite a career of culturally significant awesomeness - “Starman,” “The Thing,” being Adrienne Barbeau’s husband - all it took was some big trouble in Little China for funding to dry up. With that comes the shot-on-a-shoestring horror classic, “Prince of Darkness.” It is an acquired taste, as you will see. As usual, we also talk about a bunch of other stuff we’ve been watching, because this is a podcast, and that’s what you do.

0:00 - Intros
7:25 - Superman (2025)
18:45 - Hacks (HBO)
23:20 - The Studio (Apple TV)
27:00 - Strange New Worlds (Paramount)
29:30 - Robocop: Rogue City (Xbox)
36:00 - John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)

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