Hackers with mystical powers, a black cube, five laptops that are never turned on, and a naval destroyer that shows up in the sky over Chicago. This week on Hard to Watch, host Alex Parker takes on two seriously strange sci-fi flicks with a guest who came ready to win.

Tyler Lockamy, film liaison for Shasta and Tehama counties, brings “the apex predator of Hard to Watch”: Neil Breen’s cult-classic Fateful Findings (2012). Alex fires back with the 2012 Philadelphia Experiment remake, starring Malcolm McDowell. One film has a rabid midnight-movie following, the other aired on the Sci-Fi channel, and both have plenty to mock.

In this episode:

• Fateful Findings: Neil Breen writes, directs, stars and (almost) caters, on a reported $5,000 budget
• Why Breen’s “outsider cinema” might be important cinema after all
• The 2012 Philadelphia Experiment: wrong jets, Dutch tilts everywhere, and a flux capacitor wink
• Malcolm McDowell delivering the goods in a movie that doesn’t deserve him
• The real USS Eldridge legend, and why the original 1984 film is worth your time
• Plus a first look at the Sinister Sundial Film Festival at the Riverfront Playhouse in Redding, CA, and the Sundial Film Festival coming February 2027

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Hard to Watch
0:41 Meet Tyler Lockamy, film liaison
2:45 Fateful Findings (Neil Breen, 2012)
30:30 The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)
53:31 Festival talk and wrap-up

Find Tyler on Instagram: @tyler_lockamy, Film Shasta and Film Tehama. Festival info: SinisterSFF.com

Recorded live at Fratelli’s Pizza in Redding, CA, and streamed on Creators Co. TV, Facebook, YouTube, Rumble and X. Like, subscribe and tell us the worst movie you’ve ever finished!