Make sure to be super tight on my sweating face.
Hi I'm Panos and I directed a movie called 'Beyond the Black Rainbow'
and I'm here at Amoeba Records doing What's In My Bag.
This is a movie I remember from my childhood, 'The Fly II'
which features one of the most traumatizing scenes in the history of cinema
where they teleport Eric Stoltz's dog and then they tell him that they put it to sleep.
but years later he finds it down a hole in a pit
and it's wailing and in pain and being fed gruel.
So if you love feeling bad, I highly recommend watching 'The Fly II.'
Can you do an imitation of the dog howling in pain?
Arrrrgh...
This is one of the most underrated Ridley Scott films, 'Black Rain' starring Michael Douglas.
It's really beautiful and it's got an amazing Andy Garcia decapitation sequence in it.
and not many people know or talk about 'Black Rain' so I really highly recommend checking it out.
Did 'Black Rain' have any impact on 'Beyond the Black Rainbow?'
I mean every Ridley Scott movie from the 80s had an impact on 'Black Rainbow.'
Cinematography-wise and framing-wise, I'm a huge fan of a Ridley Scott, yeah.
This is a movie called 'Basket Case.'
Watching it now, it's just more of a comedy
but as a child I became horribly terrified of Belial, the mutant twin brother.
and lived in fear of him being underneath my bed. So you should watch that.
We're going through my childhood traumas on film here, which leads us to 'Poltergeist'
which I went to see when it first came out, opening weekend.
And as soon as the scene happens, there's a scene where a tree comes to life
and rams it's branch through the window and grabs a kid and starts eating him.
So I begged my mother to leave. So we left the theater and went to another theater in the multiplex
where they were showing 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.'
And we sat down just in time for the scene where Khan puts those ear worms into their heads.
So it was kind of like a little bit of an 'out of the frying pan, into the fire' scenario.
Have you watched 'Poltergeist' recently.
No, I've been building up to it.
Y'know ,obviously I love 'Robocop' and I have a vivid memory of going to see this
I think at the Mann Bruin in West Hollywood when it first came out.
And at the end of the movie, a man in the balcony yelled out 'Robocop for president.'
And I think everybody in the audience agreed that Robocop would make a great president.
And I still think that.
'Ben-Hur' has, for a long time, ever since I was a kid it was maybe one of the earliest films that I ever saw.
It's always been one of my favorites.
Particularly because of the chariot race scene
which is one of the most... for its time, and still holds up today
next level, insane action sequence.
And also there's an amazing scene in the bowels of a slave ship
where a man beats a drum and they have to achieve different speeds of rowing
in this slave ship, which is really, really hilarious.
Epic 'Ben-Hur,' fittingly epic 'Ben-Hur' box.
Kylie Minogue, 'Boombox.'
I love really poppy dance music and I love Kylie Minogue, 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'
I like Miley Cyrus's song 'Party in the USA.'
And right now, actually can't remember her name, but 'Call Me Maybe'
is probably my favorite song in the history of the world right now.
This album has a lot of personal significance to me because
at the point that I heard this album, the only music I'd ever heard pretty much was an ABBA cassette
that my parents had that I would take it to a bush and listen to it.
Because I felt like ashamed to listen to music when I was young.
But then when I was in school, there was a bad kid that was a year ahead of me
and he was always walking around with his Walkman on
And one day I asked him, his name was Giu, I said 'Hi Giu'
I said , 'Giu, what're you listening to?' and he said, 'This.'
And he handed me the Mötley Crüe 'Shout at the Devil' cassette tape
which had their faces on the cover of the cassette.
And I said to him, 'Those are the ugliest chicks that I've ever seen.'
And he said, 'Those aren't chicks. That's Mötley Crüe.'
And that was basically the beginning of the end for me.
My life just was a straight spiral into debauchery and self-abuse from that point on.
And me and Phil were talking about things that we can't believe exist.
Phil works here at Amoeba and at Cinefamily.
I think this kind of takes the cake for things that I cannot fucking believe exist.
'Beastly' Nintendo DS game
which I'm kind of drawn to, strangely drawn to it. I want it, I want to play it.
You want to just say 'thanks and check out my movie 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Oh yeah. Good idea.