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Joe Rogan · 2026-02-11

Joe Rogan Experience #2452 - Roger Avary

Joe Rogan Experience #2452 - Roger Avary

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Touch of Evil

Orson Welles (inferred)

“My favorite film of his”
“My favorite film of his is Touch of Evil and there's this amazing shot”— Roger Avary
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Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro (inferred)

“I love Pan's Labyrinth”
“I love Pan's Labyrinth. I love a lot of his films but I didn't like Frankenstein”— Joe Rogan
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Blade II

Guillermo del Toro

“probably my favorite film of his”
“Blade 2 is probably my favorite film of his because it's like the most accessible for me”— Roger Avary
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Blade

Stephen Norrington (inferred)

“Blade one was awesome... that's my favorite”
“Blade one was awesome though... that's my favorite of all the comic book vampire movies”— Joe Rogan
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The Witch

Robert Eggers (inferred)

“I love that film. I think that's a great movie”
“I love that film. I think that's a great movie”— Roger Avary
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Nosferatu the Vampyre

Werner Herzog (inferred)

“I adore Verer Herzog and I love his noseratu”
“I am a Verer Herzog nut and so I like I adore Verer Herzog and I love his noseratu”— Roger Avary
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Nosferatu (2024)

Robert Eggers (inferred)

“I loved it... it's my favorite vampire movie ever”
“I loved it. I'm no film expert, but it's my favorite vampire movie ever”— Joe Rogan
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30 Days of Night

David Slade (inferred)

“a fun vampire movie is 30 Days of Night... is great”
“My a fun vampire movie is 30 Days of Night. Yeah, 30 Days of Night is great”— Joe Rogan
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I Am Legend

Francis Lawrence (inferred)

“I think I Am Legend is actually a pretty good vampire movie”
“I think I Am Legend is actually a pretty good uh vampire movie. the one with Will Smith”— Joe Rogan
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What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi (inferred)

“That is an incredible vampire movie... It's fantastic”
“That is an incredible vampire movie... it takes all of the vampire mythology and it makes it really really fun”— Roger Avary
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Let the Right One In

Tomas Alfredson (inferred)

“It's an outstanding outstanding film”
“It's an outstanding outstanding film. And the book is fabulous as well”— Roger Avary
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist (inferred)

“the book is fabulous as well. It's an amazing novel”
“the book is fabulous as well. It's a an amazing novel”— Roger Avary
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Game of Thrones

HBO (inferred)

“Game of Thrones did a fantastic job... It's great”
“Game of Thrones did a fantastic job... I'm rewatching it right now... It's [ __ ] great”— Joe Rogan
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The Pendragon Cycle

Jeremy Boreing / Daily Wire (inferred)

“I am completely blown away by it”
“this is better than... I am completely blown away by it... reinvents the mythology”— Roger Avary
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Excalibur

John Boorman (inferred)

“to me Excalibur is the high watermark”
“to me Excalibur is the high watermark and this really went there”— Roger Avary
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Paramount (inferred)

“one of the most amazing captains there is... really elaborate television”
“I think Captain Cisco is one of the most amazing captains there is... It's like really elaborate television”— Roger Avary
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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Paramount (inferred)

“somehow integrated into good storytelling... I think it's a fantastic show”
“they're exploring all sorts of things in Star Trek: The Next Generation... somehow integrated into good storytelling”— Roger Avary
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The Orville

Seth MacFarlane (inferred)

“that is the proper successor”
“that is the proper successor... it actually feels a little bit more like a continuation”— Roger Avary
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Galaxy Quest

Dean Parisot (inferred)

“Galaxy Quest is hilarious... Galaxy Quest is amazing”
“Galaxy Quest is hilarious. If you love the original series of Star Trek, Galaxy Quest is amazing”— Roger Avary
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Alien

Ridley Scott (inferred)

“It's one of the best movies ever made”
“It's one of the best movies ever made. And it's a 1979 movie”— Joe Rogan
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The Last Duel

Ridley Scott (inferred)

“one of the best films of the century in my opinion”
“lo and behold, one of the best films of the century in my opinion. Absolutely”— Roger Avary
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Gladiator

Ridley Scott (inferred)

“Gladiator 1 is magnificent”
“I also very much like Gladiator... Gladiator 1 is magnificent. It had some kind of secret sauce”— Roger Avary
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Black Hawk Down

Ridley Scott (inferred)

“the rest of the movie is just insanely beautiful”
“Quinton had been talking about Blackhawk Down and how much he loved it... the rest of the movie is just insanely beautiful”— Roger Avary
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The Counselor

Ridley Scott (inferred)

“such a spectacular movie. I loved it”
“I think that's such a spectacular movie. I loved it. I loved it”— Roger Avary
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Children of Men

Alfonso Cuaron (inferred)

“Coron is a genius for making that film... Fantastic movie”
“Coron is a genius for making that film... Children of Men. Fantastic movie”— Joe Rogan
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Philip Kaufman (inferred)

“the Southerntherland one was amazing”
“I'm a fan of the Donald Southerntherland one... the Southerntherland one was amazing”— Joe Rogan
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Asimov on Numbers

Isaac Asimov

“which is fantastic”
“Isaac Azimoff wrote a book called Is Azimoff on numbers which is fantastic which talks about this”— Roger Avary
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Pi

Darren Aronofsky (inferred)

“that was a great movie”
“That's what that movie pi is all about... that was a great movie”— Joe Rogan
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The Carpenter's Son

Lotfy Nathan (inferred)

“Incredible... Cage is so good in this movie”
“Have you seen the Carpenter Son? The Nicholas Cage movie? Incredible... Cage is so good in this movie”— Joe Rogan
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Rome

HBO (inferred)

“I really like that show Rome... I loved Rome”
“there's this show that I really like that show Rome... I loved Rome”— Roger Avary
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The Chosen

Dallas Jenkins (inferred)

“this show is fantastic... absolutely my favorite modern filmmaker right now”
“this show is fantastic and it breaks all the rules... Dallas Jenkins, who's absolutely my favorite modern filmmaker”— Roger Avary

The guest's own work

MediaBy the guest

Silent Hill

Roger Avary

“When we did Silent Hill, we made the choice of whenever we're in the dark, we're shooting on digital”— Roger Avary
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Beowulf

Roger Avary

“I have experience like with that Beowolf movie doing it and what used to be a million dollars a minute is now $5,000 a minute”— Roger Avary

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Citizen Kane

Orson Welles (inferred)

“when he made Citizen Canain, which was about William Randph Hurst... this guy was a dynamo”— Roger Avary
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Nosferatu (1922)

F.W. Murnau (inferred)

“the Mnau movie which is the original Noseratu the the very first one with Max Shrek... I saw at the library when I was 10”— Roger Avary
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My Best Fiend

Werner Herzog (inferred)

“there's a documentary called My Best Fiend, which is about the relationship between Herzog and Kinsky”— Roger Avary
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Midnight Express

Alan Parker (inferred)

“that movie was nothing like the book at all... a complete alternate experience”— Roger Avary
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Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa (inferred)

“Akira Kurasawa's Rashimon which was three stories that are all sort of the same event told from different perspectives”— Roger Avary
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The Road

John Hillcoat (inferred)

“I would rather not be in the movie The Road, but I feel like we're turn... in the movie Children of Men”— Roger Avary
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Fight Club

David Fincher (inferred)

“a movie came out which was effectively a manifesto and that movie was called Fight Club... excellently beautifully made film”— Roger Avary
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The New Chronology

Anatoly Fomenko

“this guy Anatoli Fenco who's a Russian mathematician... wrote a book called The New Chronology... I've read them all”— Roger Avary
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The Book of Enoch

unknown (inferred)

“Anna Paulina Luna... told me about the book of Enoch... So I read it. Holy”— Joe Rogan
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100 Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe

Eric Dubay

“he's written a book called Aundred Proofs... has explanations for many of the things you're talking about”— Roger Avary
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The Exorcist

William Friedkin (inferred)

“You know who the devil was in The Exorcist?... there's a pretty dark implication behind the whole film”— Roger Avary
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Cape Fear

J. Lee Thompson (inferred)

“he directed the original Cape Fear which has a kind of strange pedophilic thing going on in it”— Roger Avary
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The Passion of the Christ

Mel Gibson (inferred)

“I've seen The Passion of the Christ. I've seen all of them”— Roger Avary
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Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

“I've seen Last Temptation of Christ... I've seen everything”— Roger Avary