In this episode:
🔥 Why Seagal directed, produced and (mostly) wrote On Deadly Ground, and how a Clint Eastwood script became a Greenpeace recruitment film
🦈 How Michael Caine pocketed $1 million for about ten days of work on Jaws: The Revenge, missed the Oscars for Hannah and Her Sisters, and bought his mother a house with the money
🎬 The bar fight, the slap fight, the bad ADR, the changing hair dye and the horse jump off a (painted?) cliff
🗣️ Seagal’s 40-minute environmental speech, cut to 7 minutes after a preview audience booed
🌴 A Christmas shark movie set in the Bahamas, with a questionable Jamaican accent and a very confusing ending
🍿 Which movie is the better date-night test

Rotten Tomatoes scores, budgets, behind-the-scenes trivia and plenty of jokes at the movies’ expense.

⏱️ Chapters
0:00 Intro and meet John Stinson
6:14 On Deadly Ground clips and commentary
18:49 From Rainbow Warrior to On Deadly Ground
28:50 The 40-minute speech
40:12 Jaws: The Revenge clips and commentary
1:03:59 Final thoughts

📺 Hard to Watch is produced by Creators Co., a Redding, California indie film collective, and streams on Creators Co. TV. Find us on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, X and Instagram.

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Host Alex Parker (in a questionable hospital gown) and Coffee with Colleen’s Colleen De Silva took over the carpet to interview costumed guests, filmmakers, artists, and festival creators. They asked the questions that really matter: Are you Fred, Daphne, Velma, or Shaggy? And in a horror movie, would you be the final girl or the first to die?

On the carpet:

🎬 Tyler Lockamy, the mastermind behind Sinister Sundial, on bringing a true genre film festival to Redding

🏆 Mike Morgan of Morgan Designs, who 3D resin-printed the festival’s blood-red film canister and knife trophies (40 hours each!)

🔪 Matt Briner, the designer behind the festival logo, on butcher knives and Terminator 2 inspiration

🎥 Filmmakers, behind-the-scenes shooters, and local creators, including director Taunya Gren and Redding Creators

🧛 Costumed attendees, a prom king, a wounded alien, and plenty of Shaggys

🧼 Door prizes: Ivory hotel soap and, for the final guest, nasal spray that expired in 2024

Plus horror fun facts, favorite scary movies (Get Out, Nope, Basket Case, and Backrooms), movie-festival hot takes, and a sneak peek at a horror-comedy about a multi-level marketing cabin getaway gone very wrong.

Hard to Watch is the movie podcast about films so bad they’re hard to watch. Every other Tuesday, Alex and a guest each pick a movie and break down just how rough it is.

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Host Alex Parker sits down with actress, writer, director, and mom Colleen De Silva to put two 80s "kids' movies" on trial: The Last Unicorn (1982) and Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985). Colleen watched both with her three-year-old, whose review of the soft-rock soundtrack was basically "Mama, this song will be over soon, right?" Honestly, same.

What we get into:

• Why a unicorn movie scored by the band America (yes, "A Horse with No Name") was a very strange choice
• The G-rated moments that felt oddly grown-up, and a voice cast stacked with Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, and Christopher Lee
• Follow That Bird's one-liners, the tossed salad scene, that suddenly-it's-Lethal-Weapon car chase, and cameos from Chevy Chase, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, and Waylon Jennings
• Why both movies had our guest bored (and one of us nodding off before the end)
• A filmmaker's take on what makes a movie feel off, from mouths that don't move to jokes that stall the story

Colleen also shares what she's working on: her talk show Coffee with Colleen, a feature film in development, and her role in the short film Another Life.

Every episode, a guest picks a movie, Alex picks one to match, and together they figure out why they're hard to watch. Some episodes get heavy. This one gets a pirate cat.

Hard to Watch is produced by Creators Co., a Redding, California indie collective helping emerging artists create their work. Watch more at creatorscotv.com and follow @creatorsco.tv.

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