New episode alert and this time I'm ed Jerry McGlothlin! Jerry's on to chat with me about a director I've recently become obsessed with - Shinji Sōmai - a Japanese master of meditative and transgressive coming-of-age films. Starting off with the recently rediscovered Typhoon Club, I needed more more more, and it was Jerry's review that pulled me into its orbit. We pick apart all of his themes and provocations, as he at times went very close to crossing the…

New episode alert and this one has been a long time coming! My buddy ol' pal Anthony "Girth Brooks" Leroy has finally made his way onto the podcast for us to talk about his fantastic string of short films he's been poppin' out like a machine gun over the past few years. That's right, we're digging into the world of Tad Nightingale, as well as his most recent banger BUM and everything that came before it. Turns out homeslice is…

Lucky McKee's classic character-driven downward-spiral horror-comedy? Brings back that 2002 gritty-yet-twee frequency that feels downright nostalgic. Good news is it also packs a helluva punch.

Angela Bettis stars as the titular manic pixie nightmare girl. Starting off with a Tim Burton-esque origin story and a glimpse of adolescent dissonance, we're off into May's awkward world as a vet tech who falls in love with horror nerd Jeremy Sisto. She's uncomfortable in her own skin, but her maladjusted naivete hides a…

My third dunk into Piotr Szulkin's Apocalypse Tetralogy and it's the grimmest so far. His washed-out sci-fi venturing further into the dystopian light, depicting an underground world that is in the throes of its final days and letting the bleak atmosphere become its own tale.

Soft, yes that's his name, is our beacon of despair. A man navigating this labyrinthine bunker where the leftovers of society remain after nuclear fallout pushed them all into this so-called "Dome". Good news: salvation…

Late 80's Japanese ultra-banger supernatural-slasher industrial-nightmare. Get your hyphens ready, cutie-pie! This one mixes all the right ingredients together for that ultimate brain rot.
 
Nami, a late night TV host, receives a mysterious VHS tape containing the real deal: a snuff film of a woman's eye getting brutally punctured in an abandoned warehouse. Intrigue levels skyrocket, leading Nami to bring a small production crew out to investigate this decrepit setting where she's certain the filming took place.
Sure enough, she's right,…

Okay, so first off I did not sleep very well last night after watching this.
I decided totally on a whim to check this out on Shudder after my girlfriend went to bed. I was expecting something Fun(ny) so I turned all the lights out and laid out on the couch and started it up.

Ghostwatch was a BBC tv movie that was made to look like a live TV broadcast of an investigation into a haunted house. When it…