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Watching Explorers for the first time since I was a kid. All I remember is they go to outer space in a Tilt-a-Whirl
— Cody Stuart (@betamanic) October 18, 2020

Of course @joe_dante directed this. Which reminds me I need to watch The Howling again. He also did a few episodes of Eerie, Indiana. I remember loving that show for its brief run
— Cody Stuart (@betamanic) October 18, 2020

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when I say Dante you probably think Gremlins (or Gremlins 2) or The Burbs (or Piranha). But this one is also great. (Or The Howling.) pic.twitter.com/wbUS5tHoHD
— Scott Weinberg (@scottEweinberg) May 31, 2020

I also think Explorers, Eerie Indiana (A short lived show he produced for NBC) and, oddly, Small Soldiers
— Ian Salter (@Nextwave_Gaming) May 31, 2020

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One of my favourite directors. Joe Dante films always had a look and feel. Explorers was another favourite of mine. And his TV series Eerie Indiana in the 90s.
— Dave (@Daveleerichards) May 2, 2020

Always used the same actors too. The late, great Dick Miller appeared in pretty much everything Dante did.
— Dave (@Daveleerichards) May 2, 2020

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Other Joe Dante films you might have missed:
• The Hole
• Matinee
• Innerspace
• The Explorers (River Phoenix’s second best film)
• The Howling
• Piranha

And lots of incredible tv episode directed by him including Police Squad, Eerie Indiana, and Amazing Stories.
— 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗 (@themarkdennison) March 20, 2020

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We’re loving the love for #EerieIndiana on this week’s ep of the brilliant @throughscifipod podcast. And they were lovely enough to plug our podcast 💞 Definitely give them a listen, James and Matt do some solid work looking at sci-fi films through the years 🚀🌕 https://t.co/FoICxiJFjJ
— Return to Eerie, Indiana (@eerieindianapod) March 20, 2020

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There’s a bit of conventional wisdom that film editors automatically make great movie directors, and that certainly may be true in terms of pure craft. The reality is that great filmmakers can come from any discipline or walk of life, but one advantage that director-editor’s have is the ability to hold two (or more) thoughts in their head at one time, a quality that typically is exhibited in their productions. One director who demonstrates this ability throughout his career is Joe Dante, whose films are so multi-layered that they’re oftentimes difficult to classify. A large portion of Dante’s filmography is celebrated by genre fans and cinephiles while simultaneously being relatively unknown to the public at large. Even movies that are more well known alternately delight and baffle each new audience that discovers them over the years. Not quite comedies, not entirely horror movies and not normal family films, Dante’s work continues to impress with the layers each work reveals over time, a key factor in their lasting power.

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Legendary filmmaker #JoeDante is joining #InSearchOfTomorrow to talk up #Innerspace, #Explorers, #TheTwilightZone Movie and much more. Follow @80sscifidoc for details.

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Long overdue rewatch of The Burbs is taking place, and while this has probably been pointed out a million times before now, Tom Hanks is only watching Mr. Rogers on the television!!!! How brilliant is that? https://t.co/qRBKuDu9VA
— Matt Rodgers (@MainstreamMatt) November 13, 2019

Joe Dante never made a bad movie. Fact.
— Hindu Monkey (@HinduMonkey) November 13, 2019

Have you seen The Hole?? That's such a great creepy kids film. Oh, and I'd maybe say Small Soldiers or Gremlins II are a bit wooden.
— Matt Rodgers (@MainstreamMatt) November 13, 2019

The Hole is creepy as fuck (that doll!?) - I like Gremlins 2. Explorers ... what a film. Watched that with Jess last year and she loved it. Sheer wonder.

And Matinee... up there with Peter Pan as one of the great underappreciated kids films of our time.
— Hindu Monkey (@HinduMonkey) November 13, 2019

Oh wow. The Explorers! I haven't watched that since a VHS rental kids party back in the day. I'll have to try and track it down this weekend. 🤞

I think I preferred the horror elements of Gremlins. Wasn't quite prepared for the Looney Toons shift in tone of II. It's bonkers.
— Matt Rodgers (@MainstreamMatt) November 13, 2019

Explorers is brilliant. Pure 80s nostalgia and young River Phoenix to boot.

Gremlins 2 is mental. But I liked the shift. It was much closer to his original Eerie Indiana vibe than a lot of his movies.
— Hindu Monkey (@HinduMonkey) November 13, 2019

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Ooh, fun! Courtesy of @VogonPoetrySlam.

Actor I Was Given: Dick Miller

Movie I Love: Small Soldiers

Movie I Hate: I can't hate any movie that features a man who appeared in both Weird Science (the show!) and Eerie, Indiana.

Movie I’ve Seen Countless Times: Explorers
— Amanda H. (@beatrixkiddoe) July 29, 2019

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Working from home today, so going to have a Dick Miller film festival playing in the background. Bucket Of Blood, Explorers, Demon Knight, his Eerie Indiana episode (with Henry Gibson!) and of course That Guy Dick Miller. RIP Walter Paisley, one of my favourite screen presences.
— James Flower (@jamesflowerfilm) January 31, 2019

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I love all of @joe_dante’s work, but INNERSPACE is my favourite. I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I was very fortunate to watch Joe direct a scene for his segment of NIGHTMARE CINEMA last year with @PostMortemMG & @madmanmendez. I was too nervous to say hi. https://t.co/jYu8YSjmrt
— Paul Davis (@kesslerboy) December 16, 2018

@joe_dante back Catalogue is awesome. Its great you got to see him direct. Despite being nervous, I bet that was a dream come true in itself.
I especially love Explorers and his work on the tv series Eerie Indiana.
That's decided. I'm watching Innerspace tonight.
— James Lisle (@JamesLisle79) December 16, 2018

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Happy Birthday to Director Joe Dante, besides Gremlins what is your other favorite film he directed? @PromoteHorror @StrangeCinema65 @TWeirdling @replicantpinky @COMMANDOELITE99 @yeah_well_okay @kinky_horror @cinema_strikes @Duugy13 @FisherBurton @holli @JoshPond10 #JoeDante
— The Losman (@losman94) November 28, 2018

And Homecoming when it comes to TV, with Eerie Indiana second.
— televisionnutritiva (@telenutritiva) November 28, 2018

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Anyone an Eerie, Indiana fan? It's more of a children's show, but it seems to be groundbreaking for it's time, introducing storytelling & worldbuilding to younger kids. I see a pitch of that show in this, but only with the subtleties of the strange within a seemingly normal town.

stevp19Bitchin: Yes, I watched it when it first aired, either during or just before the golden age of the Fox Kids afterschool shows(Goosebumps, New Addams Family, Beetleborgs, etc). In the only episode I can remember, the strangeness was used to satirize pop culture and suburban life. So it was like a spooky kids version of Suburgatory. The satire sets it apart from Stranger Things, but the more I think about it, the more they do seem alike.

It was short-lived and somewhat obscure, so I'm surprised to see the show mentioned on this subreddit. I wonder if the other ten people who watched that show are also on here...

er1127: The best things are short...

MyNameIsNotRyn: I remember this show!

er1127: I'm 17, but I figured I watch it. I liked it, but of course it's done in a way to directly make each episode short and snappy for younger kids. Still compelling at any age tho. The main kid is easy to like, along with his friend.

JMAN0723: Watched it back in the day. Joe Dante. Also tim hunter who directed Rivers Edge directed several episodes

er1127: Yes, did you see Explorers with Phoenix, Hawke, & Jason Presson? Pretty good film, very similar in tone to ST. I read that they had to quickly get the film done, which is why the 3rd act dipped in quality. The premise is really good at heart.

JMAN0723: Saw it but wasnt a fan of it. Similar flaws i see in ST Season 2

er1127: I liked it, thought the last parts were a huge let down

er1127: U can argue that the troubled kid in Explorers has the same problem in character development as Max & Billy. They tease issues, but don't show you anything. Over time, they lose suspense, and valuable plot progression.

JMAN0723: My favorite 80s teen movies were Stand by me,rivers edge,and heathers. Much darker but more realistic

er1127: Stand By Me is my all-time favorite. The novella is really good too. I like Running on Empty (which Phoenix is in), a lot, It (2017), the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jaws, Super Dark Times, The Nice Guys, The Spectacular Now, Kids, and Superbad, to state a few.

er1127: The Spectacular Now looks cliche, but stirs from it... a sleeper.. future cult classic

froodle

Sometimes you watch a promo for an upcoming series and think it's been created just for you. That's how I felt in the fall of 1991 when I saw a teaser for NBC's Eerie, Indiana, a family-friendly, comedy-laced horror show about an ordinary kid Marshall Teller (Omri Katz), who moves with his family from New Jersey to a distinctly unordinary small town -- Eerie, Indiana, population 16,661. Like Marshall, I had recently been uprooted as well, leaving downtown Toronto for suburban Virginia. And while the community my 13-year-old self had moved to wasn't home to a still-alive Elvis Presley or an orthodontist who designed retainers that allowed their wearers to read the canine mind, it still seemed pretty strange and alien to me. When Marshall described Eerie as "the center of weirdness for the entire planet" in the show's great credits sequence, he basically summed up how I felt about my new home.

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The sharp and witty director of Gremlins, Innerspace and The Howling visited Edinburgh International Film Festival to provide an insightful overview of his rich career

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Dante’s taken some knocks, but there’s a sense that his reputation is ever-growing, despite the paucity of his output (he’s only made three features this century). There has been a highfalutin book written about his work (“Yeah, in Austria,” he scoffs), while at Paris’ great church of cinema, La Cinémathèque française, he received a loving retrospective of his work last year, showing everything from his 1968 movie mashup The Movie Orgy to his wonderful kids’ show Eerie, Indiana, which was clearly a huge influence on Stranger Things (“I’m sure my cheque is in the mail somewhere,” Dante says knowingly when Romney mentions the Duffer Brothers’ wildly popular Netflix show).

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One of the last film panels at SXSW featured four-time Oscar-nominated Ethan Hawke. An Austin native, Hawke has a deep connection with the city has appeared in many films set in the city and collaborating with fellow Texan Richard Linklater on numerous iconic indies including the coming-of-age opus and Before Sunrise franchise. With his films Blaze and First Reformed making his debut in his hometown, SXSW is fitting for Hawke’s sensibilities and passion for genre and independent film. As Hawke sat down with IndieWire’s Eric Kohn in front of a packed house to talk about his career which spans of three decades as well as his some of his most iconic films including the Before franchise, Reality Bites, Boyhood, and, of course, his very first film Explorers.

“13-year-olds don’t have an agenda when acting — they just want attention,” joked Hawke when he spoke about the start of his career.

The Academy Award-nominated writer and actor got his start in the Joe Dante movie Explorers alongside the late River Phoenix which captured the spirit of sci-fi through a youthful gaze. The movie came out during a time when movies like The Goonies, Gremlins, and Flight of the Navigator were all the craze and were a blatant inspiration for Stranger Things (the Netflix series recently cast his daughter Maya Thurman Hawke). As a writer-director-producer who has become an indie auteur, his initial movie with Dante sparked his interest in genre.

Hawke says that Dante introduced him to a number of films and opened his eyes to what genre movies can do. He remarks how if you can make a traditional narrative into an out-of-this-world metaphor, “it comes alive.” What he says rings true as his genre classics Explorers and Gattaca (which Bill Clinton told him was his fave) continue to resonate with audiences and have been on the table for remakes.

Beyond films of the genre variety, Hawke has done theatrical fare, but it’s his work with Linklater that has garnered him plenty of indie street cred. The romantic trilogy of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, two of which he c0-wrote with Linklater and his co-star Julie Delpy, has remained a touchstone for indie storytelling. But if you’re looking for a quadrilogy that continues the ups and downs of Celine and Jesse, don’t hold your breath.

“There’s something about Before Midnight that feels like a complete circle,” he said. He mentioned how in 1995’s Before Sunrise, the films starts with Celine and Jesse eavesdropping in on a couple in their 40s arguing. Fast forward to 2013’s Before Midnight, and Celine and Jesse have become that couple.

“It feels finished to me — which isn’t to say Rick or Julie [are] finished,” he said.

Hawke has an affinity for projects that span over a decade. In addition to the Before franchise, he teamed with Linklater once again in 2014 for the coming-of-age odyssey Boyhood which took 12 years to make. Although he said he would have fun doing a project like this, it took a lot of patience and doesn’t think he would go on a journey like that again. But if he did, it probably wouldn’t be as highbrow. “I think it would play at the MoMA or something like that,” he says.

“It was a really good idea,” he continued. “I had no doubt it would be high in quality, I just thought it would play at the MoMA or something like that.”

One of the many roles which Hawke is known for is the quintessential 1994 Gen X pic Reality Bites which also starred a collective of ’90s icons including Winona Ryder, Steve Zahn, Janeane Garofalo, and Ben Stiller — who also helmed the film. The movie popularized the song “My Sharona” and made us realize that Evian spelled backward is naive, but it also made Hawke’s Troy Dyer a Gen X poster child.

“I was afraid of being labeled as Gen X because it would lock me in a box,” Hawke admitted. But he says, “I knew that the walk was going to be incredibly rough,” but he managed to get out of that box and survived and pursued making things he believed in.

Even so, Troy sticks with him to this day. In his Sundance film Juliet, Naked (opening August 17), Hawke says that his character is “Troy Dyer at 50.”

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From Spain, apparently, so maybe at that film festival earlier in the year?

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El trineo Rosebud asoma en algunos planos del cine de @joe_dante https://t.co/YduZG8v6C5 #Theburbs #Explorers #Eerieindiana #CitizenKane pic.twitter.com/pbFNk0GZwQ
— Álvaro Pita (@Alvaro_Pita) May 2, 2017

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Return to Eerie Indiana on Through Sci-fi Pod

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BRILLIANT BUT CANCELLED REVIEWS EERIE, INDIANA: A LOOK BACK AT A WICKED LITTLE TOWN

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