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Verhoeven Effect
verhoeveneffect
208 episodes
1 week ago
In art and entertainment we often seek a deeper meaning and overanalyze the presentation. Director Paul Verhoeven often uses B-movie genre as a vehicle for complex human emotions, social satire, and shocking sex and violence. Is this genius subtext the artist's intent or our own imagination looking for cosmic connection where none were intended. We call this dilemma the Verhoeven Effect
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In art and entertainment we often seek a deeper meaning and overanalyze the presentation. Director Paul Verhoeven often uses B-movie genre as a vehicle for complex human emotions, social satire, and shocking sex and violence. Is this genius subtext the artist's intent or our own imagination looking for cosmic connection where none were intended. We call this dilemma the Verhoeven Effect
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Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 160 Shaun of the Dead (2004)

We dive into the weird world of Shaun of the Dead. In a violent zombie outbreak a group of contentious friends go to the pub to wait out the apocalypse.

Act 1: 29:34

Act 2: 1:12:29

Act 3: 1:53:23

Director - Edgar Wright

Cinematographer - David M. Dunlap

Written by - Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright

Cast - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield

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1 week ago
2 hours 10 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 159 Scream (1996)

We dive into the weird world of Scream. A violent teen murder put the town in lockdown as the killer comes for Sidney.


Act 1: 34:52

Act 2: 54:08

Act 3: 2:13:27

Director - Wes Craven

Cinematographer - Mark Irwin

Written by - Kevin Williamson

Cast - Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , David Arquette

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2 weeks ago
2 hours 30 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 158 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

We dive into the weird world of The Outlaw Josey Wales. A violent militia kills a mans family and he chases them down through the Civil War and beyond.

Act 1: 15:38

Act 2: 38:15

Act 3: 1:38:26

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2 weeks ago
1 hour 51 minutes 1 second

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 157 Bull Durham (1988)

We dive into the weird world of Bull Durham. In a superstitious minor league baseball system a superfan and veteran try and better a Major League pitching prospect.

Act 1: 31:23

Act 2: 50:12

Act 3: 1:46:00

Director - Ron Shelton

Cinematographer - Bobby Byrne

Written by - Ron Shelton

Cast - Kevin Costner , Susan Sarandon , Tim Robbins

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2 weeks ago
2 hours 2 minutes 56 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 156 The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

We dive into the weird world of The Chronicles of Riddick. In a violent future Necromongers are killing world on there way to the underverse. Riddick, minding his own business, gets dragged into the galactic conflict.

Act 1: 39:30

Act 2: 1:25:27

Act 3: 2:03:14

Director - David Twohy

Cinematographer - Hugh Johnson

Written by - David Twohy

Cast - Vin Diesel , Judi Dench , Colm Feore

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2 weeks ago
2 hours 22 minutes 29 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 155 Fallen (1998)

We dive into the weird world of Fallen. A violent fallen angel serial killer demon thing jumps between bodies to wreck havoc on Philadelphia.

Act 1: 15:00

Act 2: 34:31

Act 3: 1:14:12

Director - Gregory Hoblit

Cinematographer - Newton Thomas Sigel

Written by - Nicholas Kazan

Cast - Denzel Washington , John Goodman , Donald Sutherland

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2 weeks ago
1 hour 35 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 154 Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead (1991)

We dive into the weird world of Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead. In a violent Netherlands a couple of bumbling stewards must inquire about the mood of Hamlet.

Act 1: 17:45

Act 2: 28:54

Act 3: 1:01:21

Director - Tom Stoppard

Cinematographer - Peter Biziou

Written by - Tom Stoppard

Cast - Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss

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3 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 57 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 153 Damnation Alley (1977)

We dive into the weird world of Damnation Alley. In a violent nuclear apocalypse some airmen take an experimental vehicle on a trip from California to New York to look for survivors. Meanwhile the nuclear war tilted the Earths axis and is creating crazy storms.

Act 1: 14:22

Act 2: 24:43

Act 3: 1:13:37

Director - Jack Smight

Cinematographer - Harry Stradling Jr.

Written by - Alan Sharp and Lukas Heller (screenplay) Roger Zelazny (novel)

Cast - Jan-Michael Vincent , George Peppard , Dominique Sanda

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3 months ago
1 hour 37 minutes 38 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 152 The Omega Man (1971)

We dive into the weird world of The Omega Man. After a violent world war and world ending plague a man is has a city left to himself. At night mutants try and attack him as he tries to keep his sanity. Meeting other survivors convinces him to make a cure.

Act 1: 19:06

Act 2: 40:53

Act 3: 1:14:58

Director - Boris Sagal

Cinematographer - Russell Metty

Written by - John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay), Richard Matheson (novel)

Cast - Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash


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3 months ago
1 hour 34 minutes 24 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 151 Colossus The Forbin Project (1970)

We dive into the weird world of Colossus The Forbin Project. In a time on the edge of violence a super computer is created as a nuclear response system. It then holds the world hostage with nukes if they do not comply with it's vision.

Act 1: 17:03

Act 2: 27:55

Act 3: 54:09

Director - Joseph Sargent

Cinematographer - Gene Polito

Written by - James Bridges novel by D.F. Jones

Cast - Eric Braeden , Susan Clark , Gordon Pinsent

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3 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes 59 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 150 Westworld (1973)

We dive into the weird world of Westworld. In a future with violent guests visiting a simulated theme park, the robots go haywire and start killing everyone.

Act 1: 31:02

Act 2: 50:40

Act 3: 1:20:16

Director - Michael Crichton

Cinematographer - Gene Polito

Written by - Michael Crichton

Cast - Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin

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3 months ago
2 hours 5 minutes 11 seconds

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Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 149 Nadja (1994)

We dive into the weird world of Nadja. In a violent New York a drunk Helsing decapitates Dracula. Dracula's morose daughter Nadja weaves her way through a 90's emotional carousel.

Act 1: 19:58

Act 2: 46:37

Act 3: 1:14:59

Director - Michael Almereyda

Cinematographer - Jim Denault

Written by - Michael Almereyda

Cast - Elina Löwensohn , Peter Fonda , Nic Ratner

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3 months ago
1 hour 42 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 148 Desperado (1995)

We dive into the weird world of Desperado. A gun slinging guitar player avenges his love.


Act 1: 32:31

Act 2: 1:05:59

Act 3: 1:39:02

Director - Robert Rodriguez

Cinematographer - Guillermo Navarro

Written by - Robert Rodriguez

Cast - Antonio Banderas , Salma Hayek , Joaquim de Almeida

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3 months ago
1 hour 57 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 147 Logan's Run (1976)

We dive into the weird world of Logan's Run. In a violent future a domed city keeps order by having everyone volunteer to die at 30. Some of them run.

Act 1: 15:56

Act 2: 50:06

Act 3: 1:26:38

Director - Michael Anderson

Cinematographer - Ernest Laszlo

Written by - David Zelag Goodman

Cast - Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan

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3 months ago
1 hour 46 minutes 26 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 146 Cliffhanger (1993)

We dive into the weird world of Cliffhanger. A violent Treasury agent and even more violent Euro criminals steal a plane full of transaction currency.

Act 1: 12:23

Act 2: 56:39

Act 3: 1:18:38

Director - Renny Harlin

Cinematographer - Alex Thomson

Written by - Michael France and Sylvester Stallone

Cast - Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker

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4 months ago
1 hour 43 minutes 2 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 145 The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

We dive into the weird world of The Long Kiss Goodnight. A violent assassin loses her memory and takes up her cover as a school teacher and tries to figure out who she was.

Act 1: 41:34

Act 2: 1:10:27

Act 3: 2:02:44

Director - Renny Harlin

Cinematographer - Guillermo Navarro

Written by - Shane Black

Cast - Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima

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4 months ago
2 hours 30 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 144 Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

We dive into the weird world of Edge of Tomorrow. In a violent alien future war, a media liaison is unwillingly forced to repeat the same beach landing offensive until he finds some way to stop it.

Act 1: 43:12

Act 2: 1:15:56

Act 3: 1:55:29

Director - Doug Liman

Cinematographer - Dion Beebe

Written by - Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth

Cast - Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton

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5 months ago
2 hours 36 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 143 Real Steel (2011)

We dive into the weird world of Real Steel. In a future with violent boxing robots that only harm each other, a dead beat dad reconnects with his son.

Act 1: 37:55

Act 2: 1:02:21

Act 3: 1:50:54

Director - Shawn Levy

Cinematographer - Mauro Fiore

Written by - John Gatins(screenplay) Richard Matheson short story “Steel”

Cast - Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo

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5 months ago
2 hours 21 minutes 44 seconds

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 142 Total Recall (1990)

We dive into the weird world of Total Recall. In a violent future a mild manner body building construction worker goes to Rekall to live out the dream of being a spy. Turns out he is a spy?

Act 1: 50:70

Act 2: 1:17:51

Act 3: 1:39:38

Director - Paul Verhoeven

Cinematographer - Jost Vacano

Written by - Ronald Shusett & Dan O'Bannon and Gary Goldman story by Phillip K. Dick “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”

Cast - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside

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5 months ago
2 hours 10 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
Verhoeven Effect Special Episode 141 The Town (2010)

We dive into the weird world of The Town. A violent neighborhood in Boston is host to a lineage of Armored car and bank robbers.

Act 1: 26:45

Act 2: 1:17:46

Act 3: 2:04:56

Director - Ben Affleck

Cinematographer - Robert Elswit

Written by - Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard Chuck Hogan novel “Prince of Thieves”

Cast - Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm

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6 months ago
2 hours 43 minutes

Verhoeven Effect
In art and entertainment we often seek a deeper meaning and overanalyze the presentation. Director Paul Verhoeven often uses B-movie genre as a vehicle for complex human emotions, social satire, and shocking sex and violence. Is this genius subtext the artist's intent or our own imagination looking for cosmic connection where none were intended. We call this dilemma the Verhoeven Effect