4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Check into Castle Plunkett for a supernatural comedy that mashes together horny ghosts, Irish folklore, and peak ‘80s weirdness: High Spirits! Commissioned by Sydney in Texas—lover of Beetlejuice, Elvira, and men of questionable taste—this forgotten flick from 1988 boasts an absurdly stacked cast: Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D’Angelo, Peter O’Toole, Jennifer Tilly, and a young Liam Neeson playing a ghostly creep.
Gene and Big D dive into a movie that’s half Scooby-Doo, half ghost-sex fever dream. They explore the film’s jarring tonal shifts, from slapstick hauntings to surprisingly dark (and wet) ghost lore, complete with a mermaid musical battle and “skelping”—a euphoric ghost-human contact that raises some ethical eyebrows.
Is High Spirits an underrated gem or a tonal trainwreck haunted by studio meddling? Would Jack have stayed loyal to his ghost bride if she kept her crumbling corpse form? And why are the castle’s real ghosts so damn lazy?
Strap into your flying bed, pour a spooky drink, and join us for an episode packed with laughs, lusty spirits, and longing for the Japanese director’s cut.
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0:00.0 | Baruca, Ta'adano, Elohainu, Malachalem, daidayno, daidainu. |
0:06.3 | I've, yes, I'm, I know a little bit of Hebrew. |
0:10.4 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
0:13.4 | Our God picked him up from the plane and took him down the Nakatomi Tower at the Christmas |
0:19.8 | party. |
0:20.8 | And the terrorists were overzealous,, but it was sweet when they killed Ellis. |
0:26.5 | And with a little help from Allen, John McClake kicked us. |
0:31.2 | We're going to die. |
0:31.6 | Welcome back to Shat, the Movies, the podcast where we answer the question, where the movies we loved when we were growing up really that good. |
0:37.3 | Have you ever caught yourself thinking, why don't they make movies like they used to? |
0:40.5 | You can store members spending your Friday night searching for their perfect movie rental |
0:43.5 | blockbuster video? Do you know what blockbuster video is? If you answered yes, and this is the podcast |
0:48.5 | for you, I am one of your hosts, Gene Lyons, and alongside me is my co-host, Big D, Dick Ebert. |
0:57.3 | Dear, sir, I must once again remind you. |
1:01.6 | My first name is not Dick, nor is my last name face. |
1:06.1 | Each week, we took a look back in time, decided if our favorite films still hold up. |
1:10.8 | The movies you cover are chosen by you, the listeners, who generously commission the films you love. |
1:13.2 | If you'd like to see all the movies we have covered, we'll cover one. I want to choose one for yourself. |
1:15.1 | Please visit chatpod.com and have a look. |
1:17.5 | At the end of each podcast, we'll provide you the audience with the number of wipes each movie |
1:21.0 | take to get off your respective butts. |
1:22.8 | So thank you so much for listening. |
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