{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hard to Watch","title":"Motel Hell vs. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation | Hard to Watch Halloween Special","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a20390b3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4475,"description":"Farmer Vincent’s “fritters” or McConaughey’s robot leg? 🎃 For our Halloween Special, host Alex Parker and filmmaker Justin Peery tackle two of the weirdest, gnarliest cult horror flicks ever made: Motel Hell (1980) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). One has a chainsaw duel and heads planted in a garden. The other has Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger before they became Oscar winners.\nFilmed live at Fratelli’s Pizza in Redding, California. Only one of these movies might be good, and we argue about which.\n🔪 IN THIS EPISODE\nMotel Hell: Rory Calhoun, Wolfman Jack, John Ratzenberger and a $3 million budget that doubled at the box office\nTexas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation: the $600,000 budget, McConaughey’s “all right, all right, all right,” Zellweger’s scream-queen workout and a very unhelpful corsage\nRotten Tomatoes showdown: Motel Hell scores 63%, The Next Generation scores 15%\nWhy the Motel Hell script got so dark that Tobe Hooper nearly directed it\nA movie so bad its stars’ agent reportedly blocked the release\nPhysical media, Arrow and Shout! Factory, and Dead by Daylight\n⏱ CHAPTERS\n0:00 Halloween intro\n1:22 Where to watch and Tales from the Bucket\n2:10 Meet Justin Peery\n3:23 Motel Hell: first impressions\n17:36 The vocal cord scene\n20:54 Budget and box office\n26:29 Wolfman Jack\n33:49 The chainsaw duel\n34:58 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation\n36:50 Meet Renée Zellweger\n42:54 McConaughey’s entrance\n47:56 Leatherface\n54:36 Arrow, Shout! Factory and physical media\n1:02:14 Favorite McConaughey movies\n1:04:12 Family dinner\n1:10:12 That ending\n1:11:45 Sinister Sundial movie club\n1:13:50 Wrap-up\n🎃 THIS HALLOWEEN\nFratelli’s Pizza Halloween event \"Hella-Ween, 1774 California St, Redding, CA, October 31, 5:00 to 8:30 PM\nTales from the Bucket, a new horror anthology written by Cory De Silva, premieres October 31 on Creators Co. TV\n📅 NEXT WEEK: a roundtable of four filmmakers on Avengers: Doomsday.\n📺 Hard to Watch streams on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3aDiH3MvgGb8NQ_3m2g0iOJBanDInwpmfg1WiltrWyo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZTQy/YTY4YzllMDNiYjgy/Nzk1ZTg1YWFmNDY1/NTNhNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}