AMERICAN PSYCHO co-writer/director Mary Harron

Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante chop it up with writer/director Mary Harron, the maestro behind the immortal American Psycho, about the movies that made her as a kid! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Avengers: Doomsday (2026) American Psycho (2000) I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) The Anna Nicole Story (2013) The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) Fear and Desire (1952) 8 ½ (1963) The Magician a.k.a. The Face (1958) Oliver! (1968) Doctor Dolittle (1967) Them! (1954) Dead of Night (1945) M (1931) M (1951) The Black Vampire (1953) Strangers on a Train (1951) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Repulsion (1965) Knife in the Water (1962) The Seventh Seal (1957) The Virgin Spring (1960) The Last House on the Left (1973) Ms. 45 (1981) My Man Godfrey (1936) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) The World of Apu (1959) Red River (1948) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1944) His Girl Friday (1940) All About Eve (1950) Switching Channels (1988) Deliverance (1972) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Naked and the Dead (1958) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) The Navy vs. The Night Monsters (1966) Wake in Fright (1971) First Blood (1982) Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) The Young and the Damned (1950) Double Indemnity (1944) Tristana (1970) Belle de Jour (1967) Un Chien Andalou (1929) Exterminating Angel (1962) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition The MCU The Late Show TV series (1989-95) BBC Homicide: Life on the Street TV series (1993-99) Oz TV series (1997-2003) Six Feet Under TV series (2001-05) The L Word TV series (2004-09) Big Love TV series (2006-13) Alias Grace miniseries (2017) Netflix Alias Grace novel by Margaret Atwood (1996) Sarah Polley Arrested Development TV series (2003-06, 2013-19) Missing Movies Final Draft The Rising album by Bruce Springsteen (2002) David Lynch David Cronenberg Hee-Haw TV series (1969-92) Don Harron Virginia Leith Stanley Kubrick Mark Lester Ingmar Bergman Michael Redgrave The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64) Kris Millsap Buck Owens Roy Clark Tammy Wynette Johnny Cash Fritz Lang Peter Lorre Joseph Losey David Wayne The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles Alfred Hitchcock Strangers on a Train novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950) Robert Walker Roman Polanski Mia Farrow Charles Grodin John Cassavettes Ruth Gordon Hermione Gingold Sidney Blackmer Carole Lombard William Powell Gregory La Cava Walter Houston George C. Scott Sterling Hayden The Cuban Missile Crisis Peter Sellers Slim Pickens Alec Guinness Satyajit Ray Howard Hawks Montgomery Clift John Wayne Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall The Big Sleep novel by Raymond Chandler (1939) Rosalind Russell Cary Grant Bette Davis Robert Altman Burt Reynolds Kathleen Turner Christopher Reeve Ted Kotcheff Charles Laughton Stanley Cortez German expressionist cinema Lillian Gish Robert Mitchum Shelley Long The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn novel by Mark Twain (1885) The Night of the Hunter novel by Davis Grubb (1953) Luis Bunuel Salvador Dali SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices