{"podcast":{"title":"Awesome Movie Year","slug":"awesome-movie-year-868341","podcast_index_feed_id":868341,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/awesome-movie-year/","website_url":"https://awesomemovieyear.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d1b9c842-e32c-4557-aa85-bed1396d6bfa/1489641635971105.jpeg","author":"Awesome Movie Year","episode_count":380,"summary":"Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341"},"episode":{"title":"Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971 Josh's Pick)","slug":"let-s-scare-jessica-to-death-1971-josh-s-pick","published_at":"2025-11-26T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/let-s-scare-jessica-to-death-1971-josh-s-pick","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341","url":"https://awesomemovieyear.com/lets-scare-jessica-to-death-1971-joshs-pick","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b1718734-5eac-496e-b622-cc6df6dfdf86.mp3","summary":"The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features Josh’s personal pick, John D. Hancock’s Let’s Scare Jessica to Death . Directed by John D. Hancock and starring Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O’Connor, Gretchen Corbett and Mariclare Costello, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death was Hancock’s debut feature following a career in theater. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Greenspun in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/28/archives/screen-hippie-vampire-lets-scare-jessica-to-death-arrives.html ), Stanley Eichelbaum in The San Francisco Examiner , and Michael Kerbel in The Village Voice . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear   You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at  https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at  @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/  Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awe…","meta_description":"The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features Josh’s personal pick, John D. Hancock’s Let’s Scare Jessica to Death . Directe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3337,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/let-s-scare-jessica-to-death-1971-josh-s-pick/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/let-s-scare-jessica-to-death-1971-josh-s-pick.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}