The Psychotronic Video Guide (w/ Patton Oswalt)

Pure Cinema Podcast

Brian Saur & Elric Kane

Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Elric and Brian follow up their episode on Michael Weldon's amazing and epic Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film with a show about his even more epic Psychotronic Video Guide! Not only that, but this time they have a great returning guest to talk about the book with them: Patton Oswalt! Patton has lots to add to this conversation - including some songs! Check out his latest comedy special "Tea & Scotch" is coming out on YouTube on Tuesday, June 9th BUT if you want to see it early, all you have to do is download the new Gorilla Comedy + App on Tuesday May 5th! https://gorillacomedyplus.com/

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0:00.0	The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast.
0:12.3	My name is Brian Sauer.
0:13.8	I'm joined as always by the delightful Mr. Elwood Kane,
0:16.8	and we have an even more delightful guest joining us this evening.
0:20.8	But this time, he's been on the show a couple times, but this is a first proper episode we've had with Mr. Patton Oswald. Hello, listeners, people doing their laundry, loading dishwashers, or just going for a gentle walk. Thanks for letting me come along. This is so great. That is exactly what people use
0:37.6	podcast. I like to think one person's fucking to this. Just one. Please. I never really put it there. If you're
0:42.3	able to fuck to this voice, the Navy SEALs need you. Because you can clearly put up with a lot of
0:49.9	horror. That's awesome. Yeah. So we did an episode on one psychotronic encyclopedia of film. That was
0:58.3	the episode last month. Which was only up to 84, I believe, the movies. Yeah, exactly. And so of course
1:05.0	Michael Weldon did a book beyond that, which is the psychotronic video guide, which is what we're going
1:09.2	to talk about today. But Patton had pulled out a title from the original psychotronic, and I really wanted to just hear him talk about it. It's a movie that we like, but I wanted to get Patton's take on it, and it was Bob Clark's death dream. Andy. I didn't know Andy was home. Is that Andy? Joanne doesn't even know he's home yet.
1:28.2	She'll be so surprised.
1:29.9	But Andy wouldn't kill anybody?
1:33.9	Yeah, this Death Dream is one of these,
1:37.5	much like Carnival of Souls,
1:40.3	a movie that when it came out,
1:42.1	fell through the cracks, I guess, a little bit. I think it did well in Canada enough. But it's one of those movies that when it came out fell through the cracks, I guess a little bit. I think it did well
1:44.8	in Canada enough. But it's one of those movies that when you watch it, you start to realize,
1:50.6	oh, person A, B, C, and D clearly watched this and this went into their work. I mean, this is very
1:58.4	much, it's like an almost a Vietnam-centric prelude to
2:03.6	pet cemetery. And it is a really great take on the monkey's paw. But then also just even if
2:12.3	there's no supernatural element to it, you can almost argue it's a movie about a PTSD vet who is beginning to
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