I see many of you spotted the Orson Welles "Easter Egg" at 4:06! 👀😅
Truth be told, that picture of John Candy is there sort of on purpose. As I mentioned in my community post last week, I've been running into some technical gremlins ever since I uploaded the last Apes video, which severely delayed this release. I started editing this video last week and only managed to finally finish it today.
When I was putting together the rough cut, I chose Welles as the final name in that sequence and left the image on screen a bit longer. My plan was to use a video clip of Candy, add a funny audio error effect, and then cut to the real Orson Welles to end that block with a joke.
However, since this was at the very beginning of the timeline, I completely forgot to finish the joke… 🤦‍♂ I do everything on this channel myself. In a 17 minute video with hundreds of visual and audio elements, after days of staring at the screen, sometimes a 4 second placeholder slips right through to the final render.
I am happy and proud to have such a sharp, highly qualified audience watching my videos. It’s brilliant, but it also means I have absolutely zero margin for error with you lot! 😬 I will definitely be more careful with these little details moving forward.
Thank you all for the comments and for holding me to a high standard. Please, keep the jokes coming, I take absolutely no offense. Cheers!

Next movie has to be Jacob's Ladder.

This film is a complete work of art with a splash of shart!

I loved "Altered States". I was 20 when it came out and it was pure exciting cinema. Thank you Ken Russell.

By the age of eight I had already seen Altered States, Scanners, Videodrome, The Thing, Blade Runner... The strange childhood of the eighties (thanks, VHS!)

Arthur Penn directed "Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967, over a decade before the novel for "Altered States" was released - so saying he was "fresh off of Bonnie and Clyde" when he accepted the job to direct doesn't make a lot of sense. Btu I quibble - this was another superb installment of Golden Flicker.

I was 16 when this movie came out. I was freaked to say the least. I was going thru my "Doors" stage and reading everything and listening to everything about them.

I own this movie and let me tell you….it is NO joke. A very unique vision like Videodrome. They just don’t make movies like this anymore.

Funny, for 40 plus years I thought I was the only one who loved this movie. Thank you!

Thank you for showing yourself talking. I’m new to the channel and it’s good to know that this isn’t an AI voiceover

Also: Ken Russell’s retort to Hugh Grant on Lair of the White Worm is why Ken is the GOAT.

Way before Stranger Things, JJ Abram's TV series Fringe was, at times, a love letter to the film. Multiple episodes involving a depravation tank, loads of wacky drugs and Blair Brown as a regular cast member.

I was 27 when this film released and I saw it, and discovered a cinematic expression of existential terror I have not seen another filmmaker achieve.  I have not watched it since, but it left deep indellible impressions upon me.  I do want to watch it again.  For me, it is the most impactful of Russell's films.

I remember seeing this movie in the movie theater when it first came out. I was quite young but it really affected me. I had already done LSD several times, quite a few times actually. It got me thinking that I was going to have to try one of these isolation tanks at some point.

Later on in life I was living in Manhattan and I found a place called Isolation Tanks that had quite a few isolation rooms where you were floating in water. It was a flotation space and I was able to float up to twelve hours at a time, several times for eight hours and quite a few times for one or two hours. It was the most extraordinary experience. I loved it and I'll never forget the experience of flotation. I would recommend it to anyone.

Its most significant pop culture influence was not Stranger Things but the legendary a-Ha video Take On Me, which copies the ending of its hero flopping around a hallway while disintegrating and reappearing over and over.

this the Exorcist, Blade Runner, THX1138, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Alien & Star Wars a New Hope heavily influenced me as a young person…to this day every time i rewatch Blade Runner i always find something new within its vast environment

I saw this movie along with Excalibur at the drive-in is one of the greatest nights of my life. I was 8.

Watched this at 10 yrs old in 1981. Didn't know what to make of it. Made more sense years later after tripping a few times.

I was nine years old when I saw this along with The Shining. This movie freaked me out the most and I had to sleep with the lights on.

For me, the Pinnacle of film making! Everyone involved is a Master Craftsman!