Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People

Matt Fagan and his brother Ted watch a beloved childhood favorite, the 1986 sci-fi blandathon D.A.R.Y.L.! Nostalgia and good will, our most powerful weapons, stand firm against the grownup problems of terrible pacing and muddled themes. And they are pretty big problems! But amazing child actors like Barret Oliver and Danny Corkill make this one a standout. One of the best pecker contests of the eighties!

Join Matt Fagan as he grabs his brother Ted by the scruff of the neck and rubs his face in Doppelganger!We all make mistakes, but none of our mistakes from 1993 were released direct-to-video. Drew Barrymore, hot on the heels of her scathing memoir, and the title role in box-office bomb Poison Ivy, is desperate to show the world that she is an adult. Doppelganger was... not the right vehicle for that assertion.

Ted Fagan is not amused. Alien vs. Predator did not amuse him one bit! But Matt's enthusiasm will not falter beneath his withering gaze. Join the brothers as Ted reacts to his first and only viewing of the greatest face-off of 2004, Alien vs. Predator: Dawn of Justice! This mini-episode is also available as a full video on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube.

If we were David Banner and we needed something to make us mad enough to hulk out, we would watch Highlander II: The Quickening. For the first time since this turd was steaming up theaters in 1991, Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan view the original cut of Highlander II, complete with the alien prologue. A version so reviled that by the time it reached home video a few months later, all references to the alien planet had been removed - a wise decision which did nothing to improve the movie. How did any of this happen? Were we in hell, all along? We thought there could be only one. We wish there was only one.

Ostensible adults Ted Fagan and Matt Fagan return to a sacred space from childhood, the 1986 kids' adventure movie The Quest. Or is it called Frog Dreaming? Henry Thomas (E.T.) plays an inventive fourteen-year-old, determined to expose the truth behind a monster that lives in a flooded quarry. The brothers have mixed feelings about the results, but a lot of fun revisiting this artifact that Matt hadn't seen for over thirty years.

Matt introduces Ted to the best version of Little Red Riding Hood, the 1996 indy film Freeway, written and directed by Matthew Bright. Plus, Ted tells the secret story of that time he was Steve, and our investigative acumen reveals the shocking truth about Kiefer Sutherland! Do you want to get shot a whole bunch of times? Then you won't want to miss this episode of Depot Devoid!

Should Matt Fagan have been allowed to watch this film at sixteen? Should Ted Fagan have been allowed to watch it at forty? Big brother Matt introduces Ted to one of the strangest films he ever saw, the 1989 avant-garde science fiction theater experiment Dr. Caligari. Matt was so obsessed with this movie that he once opened up a wholesale account with an adult film distributor because it was, somehow, the only legal way to obtain a copy on DVD. Ted once had a legendary twitch in Nagasaki, uh huh!

...but Matt loves it! Never before have two brothers been on opposite sides of an issue so meaningful. Matt becomes a thirteen-year-old boy again, and Ted becomes your prudish old nan as they discuss the ten-inch party balloon filled with blood that is RoboCop. In a world where everyone is either the perpetrator of a crime, the victim of a crime, or Buckaroo Banzai, can Matt and Ted put their differences aside long enough to get distracted and talk about something else? Like random celebrity sightings, or that Friday the 13th tv show from the eighties, or the time Ted ate a cloaca?

Ted and Matt Fagan revisit a campy classic from their youths! Matt gushes about his weird girl-crush on Karen Mistal, and exposes the secret connection between this movie and the Pamela Anderson tv series VIP. Ted commits treason, and advocates cannibalism against Bill Maher. All this, and a movie that is pretty smart and feminist, for a dumb exploitation flick.