Welcome to season 2!!! Sorry about the delay getting this out. As is fitting for episode 13, we have had several production issues, but we’re doing our best to catch up!

In this episode, we discuss how much Hitchcock sucked as a person, wildly dangerous film sets, and how music, or the lack thereof, can influence tone and mood. Get trapped with us as we discuss the 1963 horror thriller The Birds, and the 1986 vehicular horror comedy Maximum Overdrive.

Plus, we discuss cocaine and how story adaptations diverge from their sources.

A quick note just in case: We discuss some legal allegations and court cases in this episode, and we give our opinions on those cases and allegations. Just be aware these are only our opinions and we are not lawyers, legal scholars, nor do we have any direct insight or connections into what we discussed. We just discussed what we read about online and gave our opinions.

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Sources and Extra Reading:

• “Clips from Maximum Overdrive” (Lionsgate Home Entertainment, 1986)
• “Clips from The Birds” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 1963)
• “Who Made Who” by AC/DC (Sony Legacy 2006)
• “Planting and Payoff” by Lindsey Ellis (YouTube, released 2017)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLLGN7zv-3k
• “MVP of Horror: Yeardley Smith remembers the bonkers production of Stephen King’s ‘Maximum Overdrive’: ‘The beer would come out at 5 o’clock’” by Ethan Alter (Yahoo!Entertainment, published Oct 25, 2020)
  • https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yeardley-smith-remembers-bonkers-production-stephen-king-maximum-overdrive-150038362.html
• “Stephen King Sued Over Injury” by Staff (Washington Post, published Feb 21, 1987)
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/02/21/stephen-king-sued-over-injury/ab640b57-6bb6-4c51-84fd-c1754b8571de/ 
• “Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive: The Horrible Injury Sustained on Set” by Michael Kennedy (ScreenRant, published Nov 6, 2020)
  • https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-maximum-overdrive-movie-horrible-set-injury-explained/ 
• “Joe Hill Wants to Write and Direct a Remake of Stephen King’s ‘Maximum Overdrive’” by John Squires (Bloody Disgusting, published Oct 22, 2020)
  • https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3637897/joe-hill-wants-write-direct-remake-stephen-kings-maximum-overdrive/ 
• “10 Fascinating Facts About The Birds” by Mark Mancini (Mental Floss, published Jan 4, 2018)
  • https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/518114/10-fascinating-facts-about-birds
• “Tippi Hedren Recounts What Happened When She Turned Down Alfred Hitchcock’s Advances” by Brent Lang (Variety, published Dec 13, 2017)
  • https://variety.com/2017/film/news/tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcock-the-birds-sexual-harassment-1202637959/ 
• “Tippi Hedren on Hitchcock: ‘Genius and Evil and Deviant, Almost to the Point of Dangerous’” by Tim Molloy (The Wrap, updated Aug 3, 2012)
  • https://www.thewrap.com/tippi-hedren-hitchcock-genius-and-evil-and-deviant-almost-point-dangerous-50391/
• “Tippi Hedren On Filming The Birds” by Staff (Vogue, published Dec 4, 2016)
  • https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tippi-hedren-memoir-the-birds-extract
• “Camille Paglia Meets Alfred Hitchcock!” by Myles Weber (The Michigan Quarterly Review, published Fall 1999)
  • https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0038.422;g=mqrg;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1
• “Horror and the Art of the Noise” by Philip Hausmann (DW, published Sep 19, 2013)
  • https://www.dw.com/en/horror-and-the-art-of-noise/a-17098601
• “Sounds of the Birds (1963)” by Adams Covell (Celluloid Wicker Man, published Sep 4, 2014)
  • https://celluloidwickerman.com/2014/09/04/sounds-of-the-birds-1963-alfred-hitchcock/
• “AC/DC” by Staff (Wikipedia, updated Feb 21, 2021)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/DC
• “Who Made Who” by Staff (Wikipedia, updated Feb 13, 2021)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Made_Who
• “The History of AC/DC and the ‘Night Stalker'” by Nick Deriso (Ultimate Classic Rock, published Mar 18, 2016)
  • https://ultimateclassicrock.com/acdc-richard-ramirez-night-prowler/
• “34 Years Ago: AC/DC Release ‘Who Made Who'” by Jon Wiederhorn (Loudwire, published May 24, 2020)
  • https://loudwire.com/acdc-who-made-who-anniversary/
• “The Story of the Album ‘Who Made Who’ by AC/DC” by Editorial Staff (Rock Pasta, accessed Jan 31, 2021)
  • https://rockpasta.com/the-story-of-the-album-who-made-who-by-ac-dc/