rich 1.0 For this week's special guest Watchcast animator and game developer Scott Benson takes us on a tour of the creeper corners of Depression-era West Virginia in Charles Laughton's singularly strange thriller, The Night of the Hunter! CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 185: The Night of the Hunter (1955) w/ Scott Benson (00:00:21) - Intro. (00:12:39) - How we came to this movie initially. (00:19:47) - Some history of the film. (00:36:23) - Some talk about the cast. (00:44:14) - The film's initial lackluster reception, and subsequent reappraisal. (00:48:08) - Break! (00:48:51) - We're back, and it's time to get into the film proper. (01:00:51) - I'm Peter Graves, and this is a felony. (01:25:46) - Meeting the other townsfolk, and the preacher comes a callin'. (01:41:14) - A consequential picnic, and Willa makes some bad choices. (01:46:03) - An all-timer of a bad honeymoon. (01:52:53) - Good night, Willa. (02:07:00) - The trouble with Harry. (02:13:22) - A long, lazy trip down the river. (02:23:44) - The introduction of Rachel Cooper. (02:29:15) - Everything's going great until a teen girl gets a crush. (02:46:53) - Harry's approach is less viable under these circumstances. (02:52:29) - Do not mess with Whistler's mother. (03:05:14) - The strange epilogue to it all. (03:16:36) - Final thoughts. (03:23:59) - We might return to Star Trek next week (check the Patreon this week for more info). (03:26:38) - Outro. The Nextlander Watchcast https://audioboom.com/channels/5117047-the-nextlander-watchcast Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43772812/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8935718/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>