We ease Elliott back into the Flop House groove with a movie right in our wheelhouse: the Men in Black/Ghostbusters-lite disaster R.I.P.D. Meanwhile Dan introduces the concept of ghost hats, Elliott uses the new recording space for its foley possibilities, Stu rails against shark-drummer racism, and the whole gang does their impeccable Boston accents.
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Movies recommended in this episode:
Who’s That Knocking at My Door
Sudden Death
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Captain Phillips
YAY!
“He gets sucked up in some kind of vortex of souls. A ‘soular vortex’ if you will.”
“Just so you know, I absolutely won’t. Also: Boo!”
There is at least one Hong Kong movie about afterlife police tasked with arresting and removing escaped souls;in the English subtitles of the one I saw, they’re called ‘Hell Cops’.
Why the whole rigamarole:
0.) The whole process is there to reform the dead bent cops.
1.) Mediaeval Catholic theologians came up with an explanation for why God needs angels; they called in (in Latin) the Principle of Heavenly Economy, and I’ve been told it’s basically ‘God does things in really round-about ways to prove He can pull it off.’.