Midnight Cinema: A Horror Movie Podcast with Art & Erik

The Running Man (1987)

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Last Year's Winners. No...Last Year's Losers! 

Strap on your spandex, lace up your skates, oil your chainsaw and warm up your opera voice because we're heading into the neon-lit, sweat-dreanched dsytopia that is The Running Man!

This week on Midnight Cinema, Art and Erik are sprinting straight into Quadrant One to face off with this gloriously excessive action satire starring peak-era Arnold Schwarzenegger as wrongfully accused helicopter pilot Ben Richards — a man forced to compete in America's most popular game show

Loosely adapted from the novel by Stephen King (under his Richard Bachman alias), this 1987 thriller blends pro wrestling theatrics, synth-pumped action, and media satire that sometimes nailed the future. 

And presiding over it all? The smarmiest game show host in cinema history, Damon Killian, played with unsettling charm by Richard Dawson. 

We're covering it all:

  • Arnold delivering some of the most unhinged one-liners of his career. We're grading them all! 

  • A parade of themed stalkers including Sub-Zero, Buzzsaw, Dynamo and Fireball — basically if WWF had a homicide division.

  • The synth score and peak 80s dystopian production design.

  • Arnold and Maria Conchita Alonso as a bickering romcom couple stuck in an action thriller. 

  • Two future Governors get awards from the Midnight Cinema Popcorn Committee. 

  • An unforgettable 80's banger for the climax! 

And Erik sends a shout out to another great podcast - Spooky Chicks and Horror Flicks! Check them out!  

So grab your ICS ID card, avoid the re-education camp, and join us as we run, jump, and wisecrack our way through this cult classic.

 

If you survive the arena without being electrocuted by Dynamo, chainsawed by Buzzsaw, or re-edited by the Department of Justice, come hang with us for more late-night deep dives into cult classics, dystopian fever dreams, and all the wonderfully unhinged cinema we adore at: midnightcinemapod.com

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