Movies with Radio DJ narrators?

November 28, 2011 9:00 AM

What are some other movies like Vanishing Point and The Warriors with a radio DJ-style narrator that exists in the same time and world as the characters?
posted by JauntyFedora to Media & Arts (20 answers total)

Best answer: "Do the Right Thing" likely qualifies.
posted by davebush at 9:09 AM on November 28, 2011 [4 favorites]

Best answer: The Fog, kind of??
posted by spicynuts at 9:24 AM on November 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Play misty for me
posted by pianomover at 9:28 AM on November 28, 2011 [3 favorites]

Best answer: Pump up the volume
Car wash?
posted by pianomover at 9:30 AM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Hotel Rwanda to a certain extent. Though probably not in the way you are looking for.
posted by Max Power at 9:38 AM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Hardware
posted by heatvision at 9:40 AM on November 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

Best answer: American Graffiti
posted by bq at 9:41 AM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: American Nightmare, if you feel like a slasher flick.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:43 AM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Reservoir Dogs. Bonus: Steven Wright. Not so much narration as interlude though.
posted by bondcliff at 10:05 AM on November 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

Best answer: It's a pretty bad movie, but Freeway has a call-in radio show that a serial killer calls to do his "Zodiac taunting the police" thing.
posted by RobotHero at 10:54 AM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

A little different but Grand Theft Auto video game has this.
posted by travis08 at 11:47 AM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

If we're doing video games, there was Professor K in Jet Set Radio.
posted by RobotHero at 1:03 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

...and Three-Dog in Fallout 3.
posted by Zozo at 1:17 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Hollywood Knights. Some guys have to make an in person request to a radio station at midnight (minus their clothes) as a car club initiation. It's the radio station that plays everywhere else in the movie.
posted by doctor_negative at 1:21 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Also, not surprisingly, FM.
posted by doctor_negative at 1:23 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I'd argue for Down by Law.
posted by devotion+doubt at 2:06 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Grosse Point Blank? After a fashion, perhaps.

It's a pretty bad movie, but Freeway

Bite your tongue.
posted by rhizome at 2:41 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Born In Flames.
posted by loriginedumonde at 3:21 PM on November 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Two zombie films with radio DJ narrators, one appalling, one awesome:

Dead Air
Pontypool

(Pontypool is the awesome one).

Not sure quite how much these count as the radio station is the key location in both, and DJ-as-narrator is a key character in both (rather than a secondary or background character). But they both have narration from those characters in their role as radio DJ.

By the way, did I mention that Pontypool is absolutely awesome?
posted by iivix at 1:54 AM on November 29, 2011 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks everyone for the responses. I totally forgot about Do The Right Thing, American Graffiti, and Pontypool, which I have seen.
posted by JauntyFedora at 12:49 AM on November 30, 2011