From the Cult Film Club archive, here is episode 59 where I lead my co-hosts Paxton and Jaime in a discussion of one of my favorite fantasy films, Highlander.
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The Cult Film Club is a podcast that I co-host with my best friends Paxton Holley and Jaime Hood (also my lovely wife) all about the movies that we love to death. We started the show in the winter of 2012 and have been recording episodes for over a decade now.
We recorded this episode back in May of 2020. When I first discovered this film around the age of 16, I fell head over heels for the concept and Russel Mulcahy’s striking visual design. I first saw this on a grungy copy of the HBO Films release rented from my local mom & pop video store called Home Video. The lo-fi transfer and grainy film-stock made this movie feel lived in and real and I was totally there for it. As the film gained notoriety in the 90s due to the sequels and the long-running television series, the original film was revisited, remastered and had 90% of the grunge removed with the picture quality which is a damn shame as it makes large swaths of the film look like bad made-for-tv claptrap. That said, it’s still up there as one of my favorite films of all time.
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