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Here are clips from all of director John Lafia's 22 movies, mini-series, TV episodes, TV pilots, rock videos and live action video games. Check back here from time to time as John will be posting new HD shorts and other clips.
Freddy's Nightmares "Love Stinks"
In this episode I got to work with Jeffrey Combs who is known among horror fans for his role as Dr. Herbert West in the H.P. Lovecraft story "Reanimator."I loved working with Jeffrey, he's a great guy.
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Freddy's Nightmares "Rebel Without a Car"
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As I uploaded this clip I realized for the first time that I'm the only director to have worked with both of these two major horror icons: Freddy Kruger and Chucky. Both Brad and Robert are wonderful actors and gentlemen to boot.
Dark Justice "Playing the Odds"
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I cast Carrie Ann Moss (Matrix) in her very first guest starring role in this episode. In this rarely seen clip she makes love to bad guy Frank Parks (Rustam Branaman.) Despite the awkward dialog and corny scene she does her best to sell it.
Dark Justice "Simon Says"
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Part of CBS's "Crime Time" series back in the 90's. This oddball crime show was shot in Barcelona about a judge by day, vigilante by night. Same folks that did Freddy's nightmares where involved. Hence, me too.
Rock Video: "Sex Machine"
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Flea, of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, goes nuts dancing to James Brown's "Sex Machine" in this rare promotional video for "The Blue Iguana." Lane Smith, did the scrolling type, I shot all the stills and painted the marching dinosaur as well as conceptualize and direct it.
Bombmeister: Interactive Movie
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Bombmiester was produced by a company called Interfilm. They installed complex electronic projection systems in theaters that allowed audiences to "chose" which plot line to follow. I directed this "Interactive Movie" which was amazing. Sadly, the company was ahead of it's time and went bankrupt before the film's release.
Corpse Killer: Live action video game
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Corpse Killer was part of a genre of videogames that came out in the late 90's called "Live Action." Corpse Killer was released for the Sega platform and was among the top twenty games released that year. I directed all of the footage and helped to design the game. Lot's of work, but fun.
Longform rock video "The Letter"
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The Letter is my first paying directing job. I was given the opportunity to make an "oldies" song into a rock video. I ran with the idea and turned it into a short dramatic film that was wrapped around the song.
Monsters "The Reaper"
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The Reaper warns his victim you can't cheat death for long.
John Lafia "Director"
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John talks about what inspired him to be a director, and what keeps him inspired.
Babylon 5 "Exercize of Vital Powers"
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. examines a test subject.
Babylon 5 "Intersections In Real Time"
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Captain Sheridan is interrogated.
Firestorm
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Scott Foley and Richard Burghi battle the ultimate forest fire.
These past months Congressmen have been interrogating college/university presidents, and they don't seem to know how to respond. Part is McCarthyism-style questioning and part is theatrics; you'd think they'd know that by being educated people. But perhaps they're just people good at getting donations? Somehow you have to be able to hold up to antagonistic questioning, without giving yourself away. Somehow Hillary did that when she was questioned for 8 hours; they should have hired her as a consultant before testifying.
Imagination and creativity and innovation and technology burns and consideration and refugees huddling not, both behavior proper manner, of purpose. Trained of record.
''I know they haven't fed you since you got here, that's at least two days...besides, it's lunch time!'' Never trust how long your captor says you've been in their captivity or what time of day they say it is. EVER.
Eventually he was taken in the night by men wearing strange robes and a large green badge. He spent a quality year at a base on Minbar and received training and instruction on truth and enlightenment. He returned to Earth a much changed man.
So essential it was going to be an FMV game at a movie theater. Sounds like a blast
spoiler alert the sandwich was excellent
I love corn beef too but this interrogator really sells it wirh the mustard bit he mentions and how we are all influenced by the world 😊
I've was finding this video during 18 years.
This B5 scene and the "Chain of command" interrogation scene from ST:TNG are some of my 1984 inspired favourites.
B5 is not subtle, and in the end the interrogator basically admits it: "of course it's a lie, but what are you going to do about it? "We're going to use you to bring down the resistance (plus this other unrelated senator, because it's convenient) and the public will buy it." Sheridan had only two choices; either stall out the interrogation, or concede. Either way, he had lost, the very moment he was brought into detention. If Sheridan wasn't rescued in a surprise operation, he probably would've ended up like Na'Toth on Centauri Prime. Forgotten and filed away somewhere never to be found. They'd keep him there like the Guantanamo Bay prisoners until he's old and gray, and nobody even knows why he's in there anymore, but the sheer force of bureaucratic inertia keeping him there. Clark may have declared himself dictator, but he is still mortal, and when he is dead, like Sulla, people will slowly begin picking up the pieces of the EA again unless another coup happens.
I would've eaten the guys throat.
One of the best episodes of any show. I think about this episode fairly often ha.
It's chilling in light of the Trump presidency, to watch this episode ("Intersections in Real Time"). On a bigger scale, this is what Trump tried with the US and the rest of the world. It's also what other people like him are still trying, both in the US and other places. Usually, but not always, right-wing populists. They try to make you think there is no such thing as truth, and they do what they can to confuse the issue with the concept of perception. They try to convince others that different perception is the same thing as different truth (too many people have taken Obi-Wan's nonsense statement as an absolute truth). In reality, there is no such thing as different or alternative truths. Anyone who claims that there is, is flat-out lying. The place they wedge their propaganda, is where the truth threatens to become too big, or too difficult, to handle. Exactly the way the interrogator tries to wedge Earthdome's propaganda into Sheridan's mind. You can even see the attempts here in the comment section of a freaking scene from Babylon 5; people trying to convince others that things that, irrefutably, happen/have happened, are not happening. Then they call anyone who is telling the actual truth, a liar; and then they demand proof from the person they just called a liar, even though they themselves are the ones who have the burden of proof. Yes, this is how messed up the world has gotten since Babylon 5. Nowadays, "The Interrogator" is no longer seen as the bad guy, by an incredibly disturbing number of people around the world.
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Room 17 = Room 101
Name, Rank, Serial Number. That's it. That's all you say. Every time
Scenes like this happen everyday in the US with people like the interrogator. The DOJ have specialists in physical and psychological torture who violate people's rights and are willing to go to any length to break their target. Right Chris Stephens of Chickasha Oklahoma? Monsters like this exist.
Simon says is aired June 7th,1991!
You know, the guy who played the interrogator did an _excellent_ job.
The horror of banality.
Ah, the "inquisitor". Twisting every aspect of the interrogation till the subject is so confused they're not even sure of their own name. Here is the drama, the true battle, waged between two persons from opposite sides locked in a life and death struggle... of ideology. And there's also a sandwich.
Hello Mr. Pepshmire!
I would think 500 or a thousand years into the future interrogation would not be necessary as you could simply create a fake video interpretation or whatever you want the subject to say. However if you're a mean bastard you would torture someone anyway
The trick is, torture is never necessary. Again and again it has proven ineffectual-even if you 'break' someone, they will just say whatever they think you want to hear, whatever will make the pain stop. In the hypothetical "one hour until a nuke explodes" scenario, all the bomber has to do is stall, lie, until that hour is up. But, high-functioning sadists and abusers can be oh so persuasive, especially to those who think that strength is measured in might and action and war and pain. Thus we get the fiction that no, all these "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary, vital, for security and safety... and besides, everyone else is doing it, far worse regimes have their own black sites, so wouldn't it be so terrible if we were to deprive ourselves of such tools? Gee, even the good guys have to get their hands dirty so little Timmy can go to bed safe and snug without a thousand bloodthirsty barbarians breaking into his room the very second we let our guards down and get soft... Quite the web of lies that truly evil people (whether actively malicious or 'just following orders') have set up to keep people from seeing predators in their midst.
In the episode this is explained, they want Sheridan broken like Winston in 1984 so they can parade him around as a warning to others and proof that no one can beat their system.
I like to imagine a short story scenario, where President Sheridan has the rangers do a top secret mission: "rendition" this interrogator off to some backwater barely-habitable planet. Sheridan personally confronts him. He's scared shitless, screaming that he has rights. Sheridan silences him, and remarks, "You once said we were all expandable. That's more true of you than ever, and worse. You are inconvenient. You are someone Earthdome would love to forget ever existed. They can't risk embarrassment by putting you on trial. But if you were to quietly disappear, no one would care, no one would question. And that brings you to me. I can't put you on trial either. The ISA can't afford the political blowback. But I can't let you escape consequences for your actions either. So, I do the only convenient thing I can do. Every government throughout history has had its gulags. Secret prisons. I was a guest in yours. Now you are a guest of mine. I always thought the ISA would be different, but appears I was wrong. This planet is uninhabited and remote. There is no water or anything remotely edible for miles. Your only escape is death. But please accept this gift. (Sheridan drops a box on the ground). The gift of choice. Goodbye Mr. Interrogator." With that, Sheridan boards his shuttle and leaves for good. The Interrogator cautiously opens the box. In it he finds a bottle of whiskey, a presumably-poisoned corned beef sandwich, and the "choice": a PPG pistol with a single charge.
Sorry. We don't " rendition " people. We're not the CIA.
Please upload dark justice season 2&3?
Amazed that Sheridan was played so easily. I guess a couple days without food would make one pretty dull around the edges.
there was lots more disorientation effects going on
Ah the infamous sandwich torture. Outlawed on civilised worlds across the galaxy yet still used by law enforcement.
I'm the kinda guy that eats seafood or soup for breakfast regularly so I'd have a real issue with the whole "you can't have a corned beef sandwich for breakfast" propaganda.
There a dark Justice season 2 and 3 please?
Too many shows degenerated along with the ethical lapses in recent US history, but here JMS made simply eating a sandwich a sadistic exercise. Brilliant stuff, very much like Picard's trip to Celtris 3.
the ethical lapses occur among liberals who claim to be anti-fascist yet act exactly like fascists. then again the fascists came from liberal ideology.
@@toomanyaccounts Total nonsense.
@@DrownedInExile nope it is history. fascism came from liberals
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@@DrownedInExile pick up a history book written about the founding of Italian fascism. It came from liberals
Spoiler. It's poisoned.
everything is poison. drink several gallons of water in a 24 hour period and you will die from it.
I watch this scene every St. Patrick's Day, with a corned beef sandwich (with brown mustard with the seeds, but not too much), although mine doesn't make me vomit.
this is my favorite episode
Boxleitner was a real letdown from O'Hare but I understand why the latter quit the show. Better a new CO than to scrap the entire show. Still Sheridan never really had the gravitas of Sinclair, nor the depth and complexity.
that's absurd, Boxleitner was better in every way
At the time they said O'Hare was replaced with someone who was more suited to an action hero role, though it turned out that he was also very ill, so maybe that was the reason.
"I may one day develop a serum that helps lab rats! That does not mean I want to employ them." As foreshadowing goes, that's a damn cold one, JMS. Knowing his style, I would actually believe that one line was hinting at this scene.
2:47 _"Well you can't have a corned beef sandwich for breakfast, it would upset your stomach. Corned beef sandwiches are for lunch. If it's morning you can't have it. If it's lunchtime, you can. Is it lunchtime?"_ The interrogator does this several times throughout the episode (i.e. asking if Sheridan's second-in-command is Ivonova, even though Earth almost certainly knows that she is). The point of this exercise is to see how willing Sheridan is to make small concessions. If he is, they can try something more outrageous (the ultimate goal being to have him sign the "confession.") I also like the interrogator's little speech just before he leaves: _"You know, about that sandwich, captain ... it's a funny thing about toxins. I've always felt that if you eat a little poison every day, you get used to it. It desensitizes you until you can swallow large amounts of it with no difficulty whatsoever. I've always thought that that was a metaphor. I could just never decide what for."_ And I thought, "That's a metaphor for YOU. You completely bought into your government's BS, probably through the same slow process, believing in the little lies they told you until you could swallow whoppers with no problem at all. And now you're a True Believer."
I thought so too, at first, it is the most obvious inference (the 1984 references are about as thick as a sack of bricks, what Ministry of Peace? Ministry of Love? Come on JMS at least you could've changed the names I assume people still have copies of 1984 in B5!) But the interrogator actually says something close to the truth near the end of the interrogation. You and I both know this confession is lies. But Clark needs you to sign it so that he could bolster his own political agenda (he even admits they're roping in an unrelated senator who made the mistake of annoying Clark). Now, if you sign, of course they'll kill you, but you'll have some measure of comfort like Winston from 1984, but if you don't sign, you remain in here as we try worse and worse interrogation techniques on you, until in the end you are forgotten. The interrogator, whether he believes Clark's lies, believes something else. He believes that the Truth does not matter, first, and second that he can't do anything about it. He's only doing a job, that's how he rationalizes it at night. He knows he's expendable, he says as much, and the moment he steps out of line it's probably over for him. He knows the truth, some of the realfacts as opposed to goodfacts, and while at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if he's kept in line through love or fear, that last fact is perhaps the scariest of all. That Clark doesn't need to touch hearts and minds to win. He's already won (as long as he doesn't wake up sleeping giants). In the real world, if there isn't a coup, he'd probably die in his bed and live to a ripe old age of 90.
THERE ARE *FOUR* LIGHTS !!!🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠
If you sign you can no longer annoy the hell out of them by REFUSING to sign. And all the fun in your life is just gone. What a horrible thought.
Banana, your arrogance and ignorance are astounding. JMS is Polish/Russian yet you presume that he NEEDS TO READ ORWELL to know anything about say the NKVD, its interrogation techniques , the false confessions and the show trials! Orwell's and Koestner's ( DARKNESS AT NOON ) famous books were based on OUR TRUE HORROR STORIES- not the other way around. You're truly unbelievable.
Oh, my dearest teach, if you're reading this drivel- THIS racism, gaslighting and lying is precisely why I'm a Donbass Reb and not a Loyalist! REMEMBER THE VOLYN MASSACRE!
Paramount Soundtrack *James Brown* *Get On Up (I Feel Like A) Sex Machine* *Blue Iguana Motion Picture Soundtrack*
a great serie. can you upload all 66 episodes ? This serie was on TV a long time ago in Germany, but this episode "Simon says" and "Marshall Law" was never aired with us for whatever reason.
_"You know, about that sandwich, Captain . . . it's a funny thing about toxins. I've always felt that if you eat a little poison every day, you'll get used to it. It desensitizes you until you can swallow large amounts of it with no difficulty whatsoever. I've always thought that that was a metaphor. I could just never decide what for."_ It's a metaphor for propaganda in general but the interrogator might not realize that the metaphor applies to himself, as well. Over the years, he's swallowed small amounts of government propaganda and now he's desensitized to the point where he can justify torturing people.
Fox news....
No it's part of his narrative that Sheridan hasn't noticed that he's being controlled by aliens influence.
I haven’t seen this episode in a while, but I believe the integrator makes it clear that he’s just as expendable as everyone else. Though, I suspect most guys like him secretly believe that they’ll be the exception to the rule.
He was sorry he ate that.
There's a blooper take from this episode where Bruce is doing a hilarious imitation of the "french fried po-taters" speech from "Sling Blade"
One of the greatest television episodes ever regardless of the series! No CGI, no great battles, no multiple characters playing off each other. Just two people in a room talking and interacting with each other in a highly psychological contest. Alfred Hitchcock would be proud!
I reckon he did no git the memo from G'KAR on how ta beat Interrogation? Boxleitner did an Awesome job fer B5.
How many lights do you see?
Not many got the reference apparently, but I did. Good one.
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!
2+2 is 4 or 5 or even 3 If thats What the party says
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I’m sure there are five lights somewhere.
Boxleitner's work on B5 is underrated. He had a huge, emotionally demanding arc over the course of the show, and he handled it with style.
I agree, he’s playing a man who goes through SO much in just four years, constant turmoil, conflict and stress, giving of himself in selfless ways more than any one person should have to do. He still always wears his heart on his sleeve, keeps his integrity, fights for worker bees, and tries to make the right decisions-and they’re rarely easy ones. That kind of responsibility is such a heavy burden. I would have gone insane if I were him...
I like Sinclair more, but Sheridan ist not bad either.
If Sheridan only had a jar full of roaches, this interrogator would have crumbled.
I remember this as the worst Babylon 5 episode I ever saw.
There was no plot, it was just these guys sitting there with clichéd dialog and then we got a rather uninteresting ending. I hear Straczynski thought "Grey 17 Is Missing" was bad and that he wanted to apologize to the fans for it, but this episode was much worse.
LOL. People don't seem to know what sociopathy really is - as evidenced by the most obvious sociopath in America going under the radar: President Donald Trump. Why don't you channel Trump and complete the online Sociopath Test: 0eb.com/index_psychopath.html (for the record I score 3 out of 40 for myself - so you go ahead and diagnose yourself and Trump - the checklist is like reading about Trump). I emphatize just fine, but not all TV appeals to me. I have just seen things done so much better than this episode, and that ending was pretty obvious if you ask me. Seen it all before, and better. Straczynski's writing is generally much better than this, and he is a much better writer than Boxleitner is an actor. No, this episode doesn't work for me - it is the one that sticks out in my mind as the worst B5 I ever saw.
Are you taking this a bit too far you think? I dislike a B5 episode, and you instantly label me a sociopath :-). That's just far out man! It is hilarious to be honest. I answered you in a similar fashion is what I did, without any name calling I might add. I never assumed you live in the US either. Guys! Remember! Everyone who doesn't like this episode is a sociopath! Just sayin'!
That's what you did in your answer above. It is a riddle to me how you can make such a big deal out of me not liking this B5 episode. And your baseless accusations of all kinds are just baffling: I am a sociopath, I am "utter arrogance", I am intellectually dishonest? Just deal with the fact that not everone likes the same things you do.
glytzhkof this is the worst comment I ever saw
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What year and type of car is it that Alex (played by Craig Hurley) fixes up??