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Season 2: Episode 40
Sybil (1976)
Sybil is the true story of Shirley Ardell Mason, a woman with sixteen different personalities. In order to secure her anonymity. The book and two part film, starts with Sybil blacking out and it slowly unfolds to reveal the separate personalities and is a close representation of the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber.
Using extensive therapies which include amobarbital and hypnosis, Cornelia B Wilbur would diagnose her as having disassociated identity disorder. The book was a bestseller and would become a very successful television film on NBC in November 1976 earning Sally Fields an Emmy and the film would win a special Peabody Award.
After everyone who was involved with the Sybil story died, a couple of people have argued about the legality of the “Sybil” case. People who knew Shirley Ardell Mason argue that the story is legit. It is often queried why the people who discredit the story would wait until the death of Mason and Wilbur to come forward. We may never know the true story but it is one of the most interesting true stories that we can’t help explore the case of Sybil.
Opening Credits (.20); Introduction (5.15); Forming the Plot (20.56); Page to Page (28.07); Commercial Break (1:27.02); Film Trailer (1:28.56); Lights, Camera, Action (1:30.09); Epilogue (2:04.33); End Credits (2:10.29); Closing Credits (2:11.34)
Opening Credits: Me and I - by Abba – From the album Supertrouper
Closing Credits: Multiple Personalities – by Ghost Town Hangmen – Taken from the album Multiple Personalities
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Season 2: Episode 41
Unbreakable (2000)
Written, directed and produced by M Night Shyamalan, the film would be the second collaboration with Bruce Willis after the large success of The Sixth Sense. Setting up the film in a three part story and to present it in this comic book format worked and created parallels to superhero graphic novels.
Using slanted camera angles, would give the film its comic book look. The film also would use a colour scheme with Mr Glass in purple and David Dunn’s colour green. This would be the fourth film which Jackson and Willis would appear together and as a note of interest, Julianne Moore was to play Dunn’s wife Audrey but dropped out to play Clarice Starling in Hannibal leaving the role open for Robin Wright Penn.
The third part of the Eastrail 177 Trilogy entitled Glass would be released in 2019.
Split (2016)
M Night Shyamalan came back from a questionable fair misfires to release a film dealing with split personalities which brought him back to the hit film fanfare that he experienced with Sixth Sense. A horror, psychological thriller film, the film follows a man with 23 separate personalities.
The film is a considered a standalone sequel to Shyamalan’s film Unbreakable and is considered the second part of the Eastrail 177 Trilogy. The character of Kevin was written into the film Unbreakable but due to levelling out the film, were removed.
This is the first film since The Sixth Sense to break box office records and to finish up as number one for three consecutive weeks. The third instalment Glass will be released in 2019.
Opening Credits (.20); Introduction (3.43); Forming the Plot (9.41); Commercial Break (21.28); Film Trailer (21.57); Scene by Scene (26.34); Forming the Plot (1:16.41); Commercial Break (1:27.17); Film Trailer (1:27.54); Lights, Camera, Action (1:32.04); Epilogue (2:52.49); End Credits (2:54.29); Glass Trailer (2:55.30); Closing Theme (2:58.14)
Opening Credits – Unbreakable (Theme) – by James Newton Howard from the album Unbreakable - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Closing Credits – No More Heroes – by The Stranglers from the album No More Heroes
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Season 2: Episode 42
Vertigo (1958)
This American film noir psychological thriller from directed Alfred Hitchcock is based on the novel D’entre les Morts (From Among The Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac. The film would cast James Stewart and Kim Novak in the lead roles.
It is the first film to use the dolly-zoom (camera effect to distort perspective to give a dizzying effect) which is now known as the Vertigo effect. The film used extensive on location shooting in San Francisco and would become a love letter to this American city.
The final script would be written by Samuel A Taylor (Sabrina Fair, Legend). Critics have interpreted Vertigo variously as "a tale of male aggression and visual control; as a map of female Oedipal trajectory; as a deconstruction of the male construction of femininity and of masculinity itself; as a stripping bare of the mechanisms of directorial, Hollywood studio and colonial oppression; and as a place where textual meanings play out in an infinite regress of self-reflexivity.
We are joined by our special guest co-host Josef Alton (Throw Away Faces) You can following via Facebook: Twitter: or via his Website:
Opening Credits (.20); Introduction (5.50); Forming the Plot (10.05); Commercial Break (25.02); Film Trailer (26.02); Prologue (29.10); Lights, Camera, Action (30.28); Epilogue (1:21.26); End Credits (1:23.28); Closing Credits (1:25.10)
Opening Credits: Prelude and Rooftops from the soundtrack Vertigo composed by Bernard Herrmann
Closing Credits: Love and Fear – by Imelda May– Taken from the album Life Love Flesh Blood
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Season 2: Episode 43
Keith Chawgo and Vickie Rae discuss Shudder and their picks of what to see each month on this incredible fantastic online services that gives it's audience the best of dark fiction, horror and thriller genres. The site has so much to offer and we each pick three of our best viewing for the month.
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