Originally released 5/21/2018

In this episode, we discuss parody sequels with the same directors as the originals. We’re talking about Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Joe Dante’s Gremlins 2.

Plus, we discuss Rambo, the difference between hippies and yuppies, and cultural trends of the 80s.

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Sources and Extra Reading:

• “Clip from the dinner scene” from Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• “The Gremlin Rag” by Jerry Goldsmith (Gremlins OST)
• “Gremlin Credits” by Jerry Goldsmith (Gremlins 2: The New Batch OST)
• “First Blood/Rambo: First Blood Part 2” by Jerry Goldsmith (Film Music Masterworks by Jerry Goldsmith)
• “Keep It Quiet” by Jerry Goldsmith (Gremlins 2: The New Batch OST)
• “Flight” by Bernard Herrmann (Psycho: The Official Film Score)
• “Main Title” by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) score)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Theme by Tobe Hooper and Jerry Lambert
• “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” performed by Hannes Kästner (J.S. Bach Organ Music: Preludes and Fugues – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Chorale Preludes)
• Faculty of Horror Episode 11. Family Dinner: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  • http://www.facultyofhorror.com/2013/12/episode-11-family-dinner-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974/
• Faculty of Horror Episode 45. Monsters Ball: Gremlins (1984)
  • http://www.facultyofhorror.com/2016/12/episode-45-monsters-ball-gremlins-1984/
• “The Year of the Yuppie” (New York Times, 1984)
  • https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/25/opinion/the-year-of-the-yuppies.html
• “Yuppies: An Aging Trend” (The Washington Post, 1994)
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/09/02/yuppies-an-aging-trend/623bbfee-f579-425e-9ce0-1b21b0c8a22c/?utm_term=.d9fb2dd3d27c
• “Newsweek Labelled 1984 ‘The Year of the Yuppie’” (UPI, 12/23/1984)
  • https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/12/23/Newsweek-Magazine-labeled-1984-the-year-of-the-yuppie/9877472626000/
• “About That UrbanRenaissance…there’ll be a slight delay: Yuppies flood the lakefront, but it takes families to save a city” by Dan Rottenburg (Chicago Magazine, 5/1/1980)
  • http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-1980/Yuppie/
• “The Refragmentation” (paulgraham.com, 1/2016)
  • http://paulgraham.com/re.html
• “Yuppie” (Wikipedia, Updated 5/14/2018)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie
• “Hippie” (Wikipedia, Updated 5/14/2018)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
• “The American Economy During the 1980s: The Role of the 1970s’ Recession, Reaganism and the Federal Reserve” (ThoughtCo, 4/23/2018)
  • https://www.thoughtco.com/us-economy-in-the-1980s-1148148
• “The Vietnam War And How It Empowered The Hippie Movement” by Brianna Quezada (GroovyHistory, 11/29/2016)
  • http://groovyhistory.com/the-vietnam-war-and-how-it-empowered-the-hippie-movement
• “When Donald Trump Became a Celebrity” by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic, 1/6/2016)
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/the-decade-when-donald-trump-became-a-celebrity/422838/
• “Turner Defends Move To Colorize Films” by John Voland (LA Times, 10/23/1986)
  • http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-23/entertainment/ca-6941_1_black-and-white-films
• “Film Stars Protest Coloring” by Maureen Dowd (New York Times, 5/13/1987)
  • https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/13/movies/film-stars-protest-coloring.html
• “Why We Should Listen To Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Score As Musique Concrete” by Charlie Brigden (The Quietus, 9/29/2017)
  • http://thequietus.com/articles/23290-texas-chainsaw-massacre-soundtrack-article