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Dissect the Direct
Pete Swan
49 episodes
1 week ago
We seek out the gory, the violent and the ridiculous films that we remember from our childhood in the 80s and 90s and pick them apart with fondness and catharsis. buymeacoffee.com/dissectthedirect
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We seek out the gory, the violent and the ridiculous films that we remember from our childhood in the 80s and 90s and pick them apart with fondness and catharsis. buymeacoffee.com/dissectthedirect
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Film Reviews
TV & Film
Episodes (20/49)
Dissect the Direct
David Worth's 1989 Kickboxer

On the slab for our 37th episode we put the film that made 'the muscles from Brussels'; Jean-Claude Van Damme, a household name. Assuming that your household contained a spotty teenage boy at the time anyway.

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2 weeks ago
53 minutes 54 seconds

Dissect the Direct
Russell Mulcahy's 1986 Highlander

Decapitations, immortals and terrible Scottish accents. Geoff joins me in the movie morgue for our 36th episode.

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1 month ago
1 hour 1 minute 46 seconds

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George Miller's 1981 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

A gyro-copter, a boomerang and a scarcity of fuel. George Miller's dystopian classic goes under the knife for our 35th episode.

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1 month ago
59 minutes 5 seconds

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George Miller's 1979 Mad Max

Road rage and revenge in an almost post-apocalyptic world. We take a scalpel to the film that started a 45 year long franchise and shaped our culture's view of what the end of the world would look like.

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2 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes 13 seconds

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Clive Barker's 1987 Hellraiser

Pleasure and pain. Angels and daemons. We put Clive Barker's phenomenally successful supernatural horror on the slab for our 33rd episode.

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2 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes 51 seconds

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Simon West's 1997 Con Air

We complete the Nicolas Cage trilogy with this gloriously silly popcorn action flick for our 32nd episode.

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2 months ago
1 hour 24 minutes 28 seconds

Dissect the Direct
John Milius 1982 Conan the Barbarian

 We put this ultra-violent sword and sorcery tale of old on the slab for our 31st episode.

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3 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes 42 seconds

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Mike Hodge's 1980 Flash Gordon

For our 30th episode we put the campiest superhero film of all time under the knife. Hawkmen, a villain with a Fu Manchu moustache and booming performance from Brian Blessed.

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4 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes 4 seconds

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Steven Spielberg's 1982 Poltergeist

Supernatural terror in 80s suburbia. We examine this iconic horror classic and the rumours of the curse that plagues its franchise in our 29th episode.

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4 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 28 seconds

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Ted Kotcheff's 1982 First Blood

Dobermans, booby traps and a shared national trauma. Hollywood's most famous fictional Vietnam war veteran is placed lovingly on the slab for our latest episode.

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5 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Paul Verhoevan's 1990 Total Recall

We drill into this 90s Arnie classic to complete the Verhoevan sci-fi trilogy for our podcast collection.

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5 months ago
1 hour 36 minutes 4 seconds

Dissect the Direct
Rob Reiner's 1987 The Princess Bride

Heroes. Giants. Villains. We put a quotable comedy adventure on the slab for our 26th episode.

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5 months ago
1 hour 26 minutes

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John Hughes' 1985 Weird Science

We put this silly sci-fi comedy under the scalpel in our 25th episode.

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6 months ago
1 hour 35 minutes 12 seconds

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Stuart Gordon's 1985 Re-Animator

A severed head, a dead cat and a useless security guard. We dissect the Lovecraftian video nasty that drew snorts of derision before it commissioned two sequels and its own Broadway musical.

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7 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 37 seconds

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Gary Goddard's 1987 Masters of the Universe

Swords, sorcery and silliness. The Go-Go brother of Cannon flew too close to the Mattel sun with waxy wings in this critical and commercial failure that sank their company in the late 1980s.

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7 months ago
1 hour 25 minutes 54 seconds

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John Carpenter's 1988 They Live

We do our part to reclaim this cinematic artefact from the clutches of Neo-Nazis and wide eyed conspiracy nuts in our autopsy of this low budget science fiction horror.

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8 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 35 seconds

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Robert Zemeckis's 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Disney and Warner Bros go under the scalpel in our trip down memory lane to Toon Town.

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8 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes 56 seconds

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John McTiernan's 1988 Die Hard

We meant to get this out before Xmas but were busy with other projects. We pick apart the Christmas movie that became the template for most of the action films between 1989 and 1996.

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8 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes 51 seconds

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Joe Dante's 1984 Gremlins

Anarchic Christmas chaos is under the scalpel in this episode. It's always after midnight somewhere.

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10 months ago
45 minutes 27 seconds

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Joe Dante's 1989 The Burbs

We take a scalpel to one of Tom Hank's earlier films when he was still best known as a comedy actor. The film deals with issues of paranoia, xenophobia and mundanity in suburbia. Something... Daily Mail... something... Reform UK. Write your own fucking satire.

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11 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 7 seconds

Dissect the Direct
We seek out the gory, the violent and the ridiculous films that we remember from our childhood in the 80s and 90s and pick them apart with fondness and catharsis. buymeacoffee.com/dissectthedirect