AD 235 | Jay Cheel
“Cursed Films 2”
“Cursed Films 2”

Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Jay’s short film Twisted
- Him being exposed to horror films at a young age
- Recognizing the importance of a director in a film production at a young age
- What piqued Jay’s original interest in entering film as a career
- His podcast Film Junk, which holds a Guinness World Records for the longest-running film podcast
- His short film Beauty Day
- Creating deep interpersonal connections with crew members on a film set
- The need for control as it relates to artistic pursuits
- How Jay’s perspective of curses has changed while working on the Cursed Films project
- How the film, The Exorcist, negatively impacted the cultural lexicon by reinforcing the existence of the devil
- Predatory capitalism
- Personal tragedies that happened for Jay while filming Cursed Films
- The importance of providing context in a documentary project
- The Manson murders
- The murders and tragedies that have occurred in Benedict Canyon in LA
- Ethical decisions they had to make regarding what scenes to show in Cannibal Holocaust
- Naive actors getting involved in Cannibal Holocaust, and Carl Gabriel Yorke signing on without reading the script
People / Artists Mentioned:
- John Carpenter (Filmmaker)
- Lidia Yuknavitch (Writer)
- Gary Oldman (Actor)
- Robert Deniro (Actor)
- Tim Burton (Director)
- Bill Pullman (Actor)
- Steve Rash (Director)
- Judy Garland (Actor)
- Lorna Luft (Actor)
- Roman Polanski (Director)
- Dianne Lake (Writer / Former Manson Family Member)
- Julian Wasser (Photographer)
- Ruggero Deodato (Director)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (Director)
Cursed Films Episodes Mentioned:
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- The Exorcist
- The Wizard of Oz (S2 E1)
- Rosemary’s Baby (S2 E2)
- Stalker (S2 E3)
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (S2 E4)
- Cannibal Holocaust (S2 E5)
TV Shows + Films Mentioned:
- The Day After (1983)
- The Thing (1982)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- They Live (1988)
- Prince of Darkness (1987)
- Be Kind Rewind (2008)
- American Movie (1999)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1977)
- Weekend (1967)
- Andrei Rublev (1966)
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Posted 5.22.2022