Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown.

I saw her face change.

I saw her see where I pulled my hair out.

Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks.

On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body.

Step out.

You can find the new season of Here Be Monsters on August 17th at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. Welcome to the Treatment. Welcome to The Treatment.

You may know the name James Seamus from, well,

Focus Features, an incredible number of films, many of which he wrote.

What are some films that you wrote for Focus Freakure?

Well, you know, I had a long career, still do, actually working with Angley.

So if you go back to the Ice Storm or the Wedding Banquet or Eat Drink Man Woman, Right with the Devil.

Not just the Hulk, not the Incredible Hulk, just the Hulk.

Apparently, he didn't need an adjective as far as you were concerned.

No, we were so not incredible.

Well, he has made his debut as writer-director with the adaptation of the Philip Roth novel Indignation.

First of all, thanks so much for being here.

You know, as I was watching the film, we actually talking on a plane coming back in Sundance. And I thought that line from your book on Gertrude that really seems to apply to this, which is textual realism.

Wow.

You went right for the abstract stuff.

This is awesome.

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