SHE RIDES SHOTGUN novelist Jordan Harper

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Novelist Jordan Harper discusses his favorite film adaptations with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode She Rides Shotgun (2025) Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) Infested (2002) War of the Worlds (2025) Changing Lanes (2002) A History of Violence (2005) Shogun Assassin (1980) Blue Ruin (2013) Paper Moon (1973) Freeway (1996) Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996) The Godfather (1972) The Day of the Dolphin (1973) Adaptation (2002) *The Grifters (1990) The Big Sleep (1946) Chinatown (1974) *LA Confidential (1997) *Winter’s Bone (2010) Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) *Mystic River (2003) Gone Baby Gone (2007) Dante’s Peak (1997) Volcano (1997) *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) JFK (1991) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Sid and Nancy (1986) *No Country For Old Men (2007) Raising Arizona (1987) Purple Noon (1960) The Hunted (2003) To Live and Die in LA (1985) *Goodfellas (1990) True Grit (2010) *Trainspotting (1996) *Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Barfly (1987) T2: Trainspotting (2017) Killing Them Softly (2012) *The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Jordan’s novel She Rides Shotgun (2017) Jordan’s novel Everybody Knows (2023) Jordan’s novel The Last King of California (2024) Jordan’s forthcoming new book A Violent Masterpiece (2026) 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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