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Maltin on Movies

John Landis

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.3665 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for Halloween, we reconnected with director and film aficionado John Landis for a wide-ranging, clearly spontaneous conversation about horror films past and present. John's Halloween bona fides: he directed An American Werewolf in London, the underappreciated Innocent Blood, and Michael Jackson's Thriller, about which Jessie was particularly curious. Leonard is always impressed with John's vast knowledge of film history, especially in the horror/sci-fi/fantasy genres. Jessie's nearly two-year-old daughter Daisy make a cameo appearance near the end of this episode.

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0:35.6

Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton.

0:37.4

And I'm Jesse Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

0:38.5

You're listening to Malton on movies and our very special guest today.

0:41.5

The only problem with today's guest is that you two enjoy talking to each other too much.

0:45.5

And we can't start because you're having a good time.

0:47.8

John, you're not supposed to have a good time.

0:50.3

It's not what we're here for.

0:51.7

Our guest is filmmaker and film buff supreme john landis hello and

0:58.1

if you were wondering what his uh street cred was in the horror pre-haloine horror film franchise area was

1:09.8

well there's an american world within London and the less

1:15.5

celebrated but I think equally wonderful innocent blood oh and then there's a little

1:20.2

thing called thriller actually there may be your your close not a

1:27.0

accessory credit it's called, it's called, it's not a possessory credit. It's called Michael Jackson's

1:31.2

thriller. Thriller. Get the title right, Leonard. Like Irving Berlin's blue skies. I understand. John, welcome. Thank you. You know, you and I share a love of the original universal horror films that I think

1:51.5

has infected every one of our generation, the baby boomers.

1:58.5

You know why?

2:00.2

Well, yes, partly because of famous monsters of Filmland Magazine.

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