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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema: Highway to Hell

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe take a very MTV-fueled jaunt into the underworld via the 1991 film “Highway to Hell,” an enjoyable horror comedy that features a terrifying Hellcop, Patrick Bergin and the entire Stiller family.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:07.0

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema, this is Rob Lamb.

0:16.6

And I'm Joe McCormick, and today we're looking at a movie that, well, I think with the idea

0:22.4

of it is that somebody said, what if we made a film adaptation of Orpheus and Euridacy

0:28.0

except in the sort of early 90s highway horror style of a movie you might expect to see

0:33.8

to come on it like 1 a.m. on TNT after the credits roll from a previous showing of Psycho

0:40.8

3.

0:41.8

Yes.

0:42.8

Yes, we're talking about the 1991 film, Highway to Hell, which I'm 100% positive that

0:51.2

I watched on television back in the early 90s at some point, early to mid 90s, I guess,

0:58.4

but I was trying to figure out, well, I wonder where I saw it.

1:02.0

And for a little bit there, I was like 80% positive that I must have seen it on USA Op-All

1:06.9

Night back in the day.

1:09.4

This ran on the USA Network from about 1989 to 1998.

1:12.9

I don't know if that would have, if you would have been in the position to watch this, Joe.

1:18.0

Well, I don't remember ever seeing this movie on TV, but it has exactly that fragrance

1:24.5

that USA Op-All Night fragrance.

1:26.9

Yeah, USA Op-All Night was basically like, it's late at night on cable.

1:31.4

Let's show some B films.

1:33.4

Let's show some cult films.

1:35.7

And just to spice it up a little bit, you had a host there, Gilbert Godfrey, the stand-up

1:41.3

comedian who will come back to in this episode, served his host.

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