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Episode 166: The Mangler

Watch If You Dare

Watch If You Dare

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

5.0548 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Aaron and Derek discuss 1995's haunted machine film "The Mangler" directed by Tobe Hooper and based off the 1972 Stephen King short story. They talk about how Hooper combined his humorous horror sensibilities with King's insane creative energy and adding more to what is an otherwise direct adaptation of the short story. They also get into Hooper's use of lighting and set dressing, the not so subtle exploration of capitalism and lack of oversight consuming everything, and how Hooper as a director always "goes for it." Derek is doing a little dance! Aaron has a little bit of that machine in him.We are on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio and CastBox. Please rate, review, subscribe, and share our show. Also, check out our Spotify Music playlist, links on our Twitter and Podbean page. Our socials are on Bluesky and Facebook and Twitter @WatchIfYouDare

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Um...

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Okay. Um, hold on.

1:13.1

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1:15.8

Sorry, my new setup is kind of fucking weird, because, you know, my computer is like super fucking old and I'm just having to, like, barely get it moving along.

1:25.4

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1:26.0

You've been having Mike stuff going on and all that.

1:29.1

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working. So part of it is I have to run a script every time that I open Chrome that will now, like,

1:40.7

force permissions to get the mic and the webcam to be recognized by the recording suite.

1:46.9

Then I have to draw a sigil on a piece of paper, jerk off onto that,

1:52.0

and then hold that up to the webcam to get it to scan that.

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So that way I have that in the registry for this particular recording session.

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Oh, hold on, hold on, right here.

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