The Suspense is Killing Us

Years before he became a household name with Jurassic Park and ER, sci-fi author Michael Crichton was toiling away in obscurity—directing big Hollywood movies with major stars. It was a tough career period, but he eventually managed to push through it and write State of Play.

COMA (1978)
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1978)
LOOKER (1981)

We begin at the beginning in our first of probably hundreds of episodes about notorious action/schlock production company PM Entertainment—a movie from each of the first three years. We came to find out that even schlock-meisters have a learning curve!

L.A. HEAT (1989, Joseph Merhi)
AMERICAN BORN (1990, Raymond Martino)
THE ART OF DYING (1991, Wings Hauser)

We watched three whole movies about gamified virtual worlds, none of which are as fun as playing an actual video game. Classic noob behavior.

GAMER (2009, Neveldine/Taylor)
ASSASSIN’S CREED (2016, Justin Kurzel)
SERENITY (2019, Steven Knight)

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies, we're talking shark movies this time! Three shark thrillers of varying depths, from general deepness to very little deepness, and then rounding it out with a very specific depth!

DEEP BLUE SEA (1999, Renny Harlin
THE SHALLOWS (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra)
47 METERS DOWN (2017, Johannes Roberts)

It's kind of surprising how many movies there are with the premise "Stuck in a house with a wild animal." And considering that all three of these are pretty good, it's kind of surprising that there aren't even more of them. PROPER EDITED VERSION!

LINK (1986, Richard Franklin)
BURNING BRIGHT (2010, Carlos Brooks)
CRAWL (2019, Alexandre Aja)