Karen Allen

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q229137: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which Starman with Katey Rich credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Halloween (1978). Count them as actor (10 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 2 lines

  1. lineage (ancestor) · through Halloween (1978), which they were tied to as actor, comparison for Alice and Annie: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero.
    “whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (double feature) · through Halloween (1978), which they were tied to as actor, comparison for Alice and Annie: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw.
    “I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Catherine Hepburn: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Catherine Hepburn ⇒ Karen Allen (the host's read). Allen saw Marion as a 1930s-40s firecracker heroine type that had vanished, a Katharine Hepburn type.
    “Catherine, the very Catherine Hepburn.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:58:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Friday the 13th (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Halloween (1978), which they were tied to as actor, comparison for Alice and Annie: Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success.
    “We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Sean S. Cunningham: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Halloween (1978), which they were tied to as actor, comparison for Alice and Annie: Halloween ⇒ Sean S. Cunningham (the host's read). Cunningham saw Halloween succeed, took out a trade ad for a non-existent movie, and found his funding.
    “The producer, Sean Cunningham, saw Halloween was successful, came up with this idea, put an ad in variety”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:50 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Karen Allen → Animal House. Spielberg noticed Karen Allen in Animal House.
    “Spielberg had noticed her in Animal House”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:57:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Karen Allen → Animal House. Her first film was Animal House, followed shortly by Raiders.
    “her 1st movie is Animal House, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:01:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Karen Allen → Catherine Hepburn. Allen saw Marion as a 1930s-40s firecracker heroine type that had vanished, a Katharine Hepburn type.
    “Catherine, the very Catherine Hepburn.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:58:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Adrienne King → Karen Allen. King's Alice reads as a Karen Allen type.
    “She has a little Karen Allen tour.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:22:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (recommendation): Karen Allen → The Perfect Storm. Allen is great in The Perfect Storm and King of the Hill.
    “She's great in The Perfect Storm, which I loved.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:08:36 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (stage work): Karen Allen → The Glass Menagerie. Allen played Laura in Paul Newman's Glass Menagerie with Woodward and Malkovich.
    “With John Malkovich as Tom, that's that's wild.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:04:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (also in): Karen Allen → In the Bedroom. Allen appears in In the Bedroom, where Sissy Spacek famously throws dishes.
    “Hell, she's in in the bedroom”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:04:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (archetype): Karen Allen → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Marion Ravenwood became the ideal everyone emulated; Allen felt overshadowed and said this role was as good.
    “everyone was like, oh, Marion Ravenwood is now the ideal.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:05:57 · Katey Rich (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (comedy): Karen Allen → Scrooged. Allen did no comedies until Scrooged and Animal Behavior.
    “Until Scrooge and animal behavior, which is right.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:06:47 · Katey Rich (0.35 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull → Karen Allen. Marion's return in Crystal Skull is the winning element; Allen is joyfully back.
    “And a winning thing for Bristol Skull for me is when she comes back into it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:04:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Karen Allen → Starman. They have said Karen Allen should have won the Oscar that year for Starman.
    “I think we both said that we think she should have won the Oscar that year and she wasn't even nominated”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 3:08:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Adrienne King → Karen Allen. Annie, killed in the first ten minutes, could have been the series' Lori Strode if kept as the hero.
    “They had Annie, who's basically Karen Allen 2.0.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:08:53 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Karen Allen: The Marion-Belloc drinking scene was improvised by Karen Allen and Paul Freeman off to the side and given to Spielberg, who adopted it.
    “the scene between her and Belloc, you know, drinking each other under the table was improv.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:54:11 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Karen Allen: Allen turned down the offer at first: a human actor playing an alien, no chemistry for 75 percent of the film; they talked her in.
    “pointedly has to spend 75% of the running time having no chemistry with the only person she shares scenes with.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:03:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)