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Aktualisierungshäufigkeit:
biweekly
Durchschnittliche Audiolänge:
82 minutes
Englisch
Vereinigte Staaten
47 Folgen
seit 7. Mai 2024
episodic

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This week, we are going mad over Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986).These aren't your typical cosmic horror stories; they are trashy, neon-soaked adaptations that dragged H.P. Lovecraft kicking and screaming into the zenith of '80s practical effects gore. We analyze how Lovec…

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft This week, we board two late nineties sci-fi thrillers that dare to ask: what happens when human curiosity reaches beyond the edge of the known universe? We're w…
Ep. 43 - The Signal & Pontypool This week, we are tuning in to the end of the world with David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry’s The Signal (2007) and Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool (2008). Forget flesh-eating ghouls, late 2000s indie horror realized that our obsession with mass communicatio…
Ep. 42 - The Great Escape & Escape from New York This week, we are escaping into the worlds of two films video game auteur Hideo Kojima considers massive inspirations: John Sturges' The Great Escape (1963) and John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981). These classic escape thrillers provide…
Ep. 32 - Ghost in the Shell & The Matrix This week, we are plugging into the digital void with Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell (1995) and the Wachowskis’ The Matrix (1999). These prophetic cyberpunk cornerstones take radically different approaches to artificial intelligence and human identit…
Ep. 40 - Commando & Cobra This week, we step onto the front lines of the legendary Stallone vs. Schwarzenegger arms race with Mark L. Lester’s Commando (1985) and George P. Cosmatos’s Cobra (1986). The mid-1980s saw two mega-stars constantly trying to out-gun, out-muscle, and out-body-count e…
Ep. 39 - RoboCop & Sorry to Bother You This week, we are clocking in, selling out, and celebrating two masterpieces of cinematic satire: Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop (1987) and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018). These brilliant films weaponize pure, hilarious absurdity to attack corporate …
Ep. 38 - Fade In & Catchfire This week, we're facing our past regrets and disowned creations with Jud Taylor’s Fade In (1973) and Dennis Hopper’s Catchfire (1990). These films represent the absolute limit of corporate interference, operating as flawed, compromised monuments to the nightmare o…
This week, we are celebrating Pride by hitting the highway with a double showing of drag queen road movies: Stephan Elliott’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Beeban Kidron’s To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995). These films show that a road movie is …
Ep. 36 - The Long Good Friday & Casino This week, we are stepping into the halls of crumbling criminal empires with John Mackenzie’s The Long Good Friday (1980) and Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995). These films feature protagonists who operate as kings in their own respects, letting their mass…
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