Comedian Anthony Jeselnik

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Comedian Anthony Jeselnik discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Weapons (2025) Hereditary (2018) Alien (1979) *Jaws (1975) *Top Secret! (1984) Airplane! (1980) Top Gun (1986) Airport (1970) The Naked Gun (1988) Blue Lagoon (1980) Real Genius (1985) Tombstone (1993) *The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Night of the Living Dead (1968) 28 Days Later (2003) The Terminator (1984) *King of New York (1990) Pulp Fiction (1994) Bad Lieutenant (1992) Citizen Kane (1941) Touch of Evil (1958) Go Go Tales (2007) 4:44 Last Day On Earth (2011) *Cemetery Man (1983) *Knockin On Heaven’s Door (1997) Inglourious Basterds (2009) Blade Runner (1982) The Bucket List (2010) *Se7en (1995) Schindler’s List (1993) A History of Violence (2005) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) *Braveheart (1995) Lethal Weapon (1987) Apocalypto (2006) *Comedian (2002) MacGruber (2010) *Martyrs (2008) *Inside (2007) Funny Games (1997) Saw (2008) Bambi (1941) The Coffee Table (2022) *Manchester by the Sea (2016) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Alien: Earth TV series (2025- ) The Hollywood Reporter Wondery Sigourney Weaver Roy Scheider Gilligan’s Island TV series (1964-67) John Williams Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker Val Kilmer Elvis Presley Police Squad TV series (1982) Cher Mr. Show With Bob And David TV series (1995-98) The Ben Stiller Show TV series (1992-93, 1995) Second City Television TV series (1976-81) Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- ) Danny Boyle William Stout Christopher Walken John Malkovich Abel Ferrara Laurence Fishburne Wesley Snipes Samuel L. Jackson Willem Dafoe Rupert Everett Til Schweiger Rutger Hauer Quentin Tarantino David Fincher Laurence Olivier Morgan Freeman Ernest Hemingway Tower Records Andrew Kevin Walker Kevin Spacey Steven Spielberg Mel Gibson Peter Jackson Jerry Seinfeld HBO Orny Adams The Comedy Cellar in New York Colin Quinn Jacques Cousteau Seinfeld TV series (1989-98) Miramax The A.V. Club Michael Haneke Kenneth Lonergan Zach Efron TFH Guru Mick Garris David Cronenberg This list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectre Vision Radio
0:02.0	You live your whole life and then in one second you learn what it's like
0:10.0	for primal terror to swallow you, mind and body.
0:20.0	He was standing in the hallway,
0:23.6	lit only on his left side by the bulb.
0:32.6	Just as he appeared in the photograph I'd found, he was very small, much shorter than his brother, my father,
0:40.3	Eric. The family had said he'd always been boy-faced and a bit skinny. Now, standing there,
0:47.0	he looked old and sick as well, but he looked angry too. Not for a moment did I think he was alive, and some terrible mistake had been made.
0:59.0	I knew instinctively that he was not really there, that I was looking at Herman in the depleted physical state he had died in.
1:09.0	He was wrong, he said again.
1:12.4	His whole body trembling slightly.
1:15.2	He jabbed his finger toward me, almost in tears.
1:19.2	I could have been a chemist.
1:21.1	I had the grades.
1:23.8	I think I tried to speak then, but was stable.
1:30.8	Uncle Herman kept his finger pointed in a threatening way as if it were up to me to change the past. He turned with creaky slowness
1:38.4	and took a couple of steps deeper into the hallway toward the kitchen, leaving all light behind him, becoming a
1:45.8	silhouette. He turned back just before he reached the threshold of the other room. His face
1:51.8	was a black blur, but his voice was still clear.
1:56.5	There's a fourth body, you know, he said, voice, hoarse.
2:02.4	Shovel's still in the shed.
2:06.8	Knife Point Horror.
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