HMY Classic: The Class of 1999

It is our five-year anniversary, and we are celebrating by taking The Time Machine back to 2016 to the recording of our first episode, so we can take The Time Machine back to 1999 to talk about The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, and Audition.

Timestamps:

:01 An introduction to the episode

4:28 Introduction to HMY

  • What the podcast was about in 2016
  • Some of our early memories of horror
  • What our top five movies were when we recorded this

18:30 The Time Machine 1999

  • Tim tells a mortifying drivers ed story
  • Willie tells a story of love at first sight
  • Plenty of Woodstock 1999 and Napster discussion

31:28 The Blair Witch Project

  • Viral marketing in 1999
  • Our personal Geocities websites
  • The first of many discussions of Todd Mcfarlane’s Movie Maniacs toy line

53:00 The 1999 MTV Movie Awards

  • Our first ever pop quiz
  • The Cruel Intentions show that never came to be
  • A giant Fight Club spoiler in the nominations

1:02:05 The Sixth Sense

  • The twist!!
  • We long for Bruce Willis trying. We still do.
  • Donnie Wahlberg cosplay ideas

1:21:00 Cat 3 Rated Asian Exploitation Film Quiz

  • Cannot believe we did this bit
  • Is Devil Fetus the title of a real movie?
  • Concrete: Schoolgirl in Cement

1:26:04 Audition

  • The sound of the foot hitting the window
  • Online dating in 1999
  • Japanese horror and WWII

1:48:30 Grading the Year of 1999

  • We dropped this idea pretty quick
  • Check out the Midwest Game Nerds and Westworld FM