Friday Find-Day...Back-trackin' with Affleck Edition

Happy Friday Find-Day, My Breakfast-Table Brethren!

Today's Friday Find-Day Find comes from a somewhat unlikely source.

In the past year or so, Ben Affleck has re-established himself as a respected figure in H-town, with movies like Argo and that other one where the guys where masks and rob a bank. But, before that, he was one half of Beniffer. And, before that, he was Kevin Smith's go-to guy for generic slacker-guy roles with just a goatee to distinguish his characters from one mealy-mouth Kevin Smith movie to the next. Somewhere in between that and the Beniffer period, he also co-wrote Good Will Hunting with his good pal Matt Damon, who starred in the titular role as "Good Will," a reluctant genius who pouts and throws tantrums about being so goddam smart and stuff--all of this scored to the wrist-slashing good-vibe tunes of Eliot Smith.

But before all of this, Ben Affleck was an aspiring filmmaker.

I recently had the good fortune of coming across his first film, entitled (no joke): I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney. I normally don't care one way or the other about Ben Affleck, but I was perusing my new favorite sub-reddit r/obscuremedia, and when I came across the title, figured it merited its own Friday Find-Day post.

 "Daddy, what's a meat hook?"

Below is a link to part 1 of Ben Affleck's directorial debut, made in 1993, followed by a link to r/obscuremedia and another new favorite subreddit of mine: r/CultCinema, where, after 3 years of looking everywhere on the Internet for it, I finally found a Youtube link to Werner Herzog's 1977 weirdness, Stroszek, a film notable not only for its somewhat infamous non-sequiter ending, involving a chicken blues-struttin' to a porch-stompin' harmonica-riff as part of a coin-operated attraction, but also (according to legend) being the last film Ian Curtis of Joy Division watched before killing himself.

So, here they are:

Ben Affleck's First Big-Boy Film

Cult Film Archive

Obscure Media


If you're a fan of hard-to-find arthouse schlock, I highly encourage you to check out these 2 sub-reddits, as horribly-named as they are.

And for any horror fans out there, there's this subreddit: r/truehorror, where I was able to locate the 1975 made-for-TV movie, Trilogy of Terror, starring Karen Black and featuring this scene, which is apparently one of the scariest in all horror-film history.