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Episode 120: The House the Screamed (1969) Jun 03, 2024

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This week, Drusilla and Josh discuss the incredible Franco-era Spanish film, The House That Screamed aka La residencia. From wiki: “The House That Screamed (Spanish: La residencia, lit. The Residence), also released as The Finishing School,[5] is a 1969 Spanish slasher film written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, and starring Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, and Mary Maude. It follows Señora Fourneau, the strict headmistress of a nineteenth-century French boarding school for girls where the students begin to disappear under unusual circumstances.[7][8]”

But also Long Beach Pride, Josh doesn’t like Sorcerer, The Wages of Fear, Bride of Chucky, Reform School Girls, Mädchen in Uniform, Day of the Beast, Tales to Keep You Awake, Massacre at Central High, Pieces, May, Porky’s, and more!

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Episode 119: Mother! (2017) (w/special guest DeVaughn Taylor) May 27, 2024

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Happy Memorial Day! This week the hosts Joshua Conkel and Drusilla Adeline are joined by filmmaker and host of Specter Cinema Club, DeVaughn Taylor! They discuss the Darren Aronofsky joint, Mother! (2017). They also discuss all things Mad Max, Memorial Day, ranking John Waters films, Peter Greenaway’s The Falls, This is Me Now, Fade to Black (1980), and more!

From wiki: “Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American fantasy drama [1] film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig. Its plot, inspired by the Bible, follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple.”

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Episode 118: Images (1972) May 20, 2024

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This week the hosts Joshua Conkel and Drusilla Adeline discuss doppelgängers with Robert Altman’s Images. From wiki: “Images is a 1972 psychological horror film directed and co-written by Robert Altman and starring Susannah York, René Auberjonois and Marcel Bozzuffi. The picture follows an unstable children's author who finds herself engulfed in apparitions and hallucinations while staying at her remote vacation home.”

But also discussed: a real-life horror story, Gawker in the 00s, a mysterious butt stabber, Death of a Cyclist, Woman in the Dunes, Pitfall, Infested, Attack the Block, Arachnophobia, Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, 3 Women, Persona, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Nashville, Gosford Park, Pauline Kael, Faye Dunaway’s reality show, One Tree Hill, The Eyes of Laura Mars, and more!

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Episode 117: The Virgin Spring May 13, 2024

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Drusilla discuss Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 classic, The Virgin Spring. From wiki: “The Virgin Spring (Swedish: Jungfrukällan) is a 1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in medieval Sweden, it is a tale about a father's merciless response to the rape and murder of his young daughter. The story was adapted by screenwriter Ulla Isaksson from a 13th-century Swedish ballad, "Töres döttrar i Wänge" ("Töre's daughters in Vänge"). Bergman researched the legend of Per Töre with an eye to an adaptation, considering an opera before deciding on a film version. Given criticism of the historical accuracy of his 1957 film The Seventh Seal, he also invited Isaksson to write the screenplay. Other influences included the 1950 Japanese film Rashomon. Max von Sydow played Töre.”

But first! Interior design and antiques, Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, tarot, folk horror, paganism, r*pe revenge, Keanu Reeves and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and more!

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Episode 116: Inside (2007) May 06, 2024

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This week, Drusilla and Josh dive into their first French extremist film on the pod, 2007’s Insideaka À l'intérieur. From wiki:Inside (French: À l'intérieur) is a 2007 French slasher film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo in their directorial debut, written by Bustillo, and starring Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis. The plot focuses on a mourning widow on the verge of pregnancy, where she is attacked in her home by a mysterious intruder on Christmas Eve.

But they also discuss Dead Boy Detectives, Abigail, The Beast, Civil War, screenwriting, criticism, Betty Blue, nobody knowing how cameras work, Beatrice Dalle, Grease 2, home invasion, Straw Dogs, You’re Next, Ally McBeal, Ricki Lake, Ronan Farrow, Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp, Lily Rose Depp, and more!

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Episode 115: Spirits of the Dead (1968) (w/special guest Matt Landsman) Apr 29, 2024

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This week, Josh and Drusilla are joined by a very special guest: Matt Landsman, manager of the newly re-opened Vista’s Video Archives Club and Programmer at Be Kind Video. The episode is focused on 1968’s Spirits of the Dead. From wiki: “Spirits of the Dead (French: Histoires extraordinaires, lit. 'Extraordinary Tales', Italian: Tre passi nel delirio, lit. 'Three Steps to Delirium'), also known as Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Tales of Mystery,[8] is a 1968 horror anthology film comprising three segments respectively directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini, based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. A French-Italian international co-production, the film's French title is derived from a 1856 collection of Poe's short stories translated by French poet Charles Baudelaire; the English titles Spirits of the Dead and Tales of Mystery and Imagination are respectively taken from an 1827 poem by Poe and a 1902 British collection of his stories.

But they also discuss Bulldog Drummond, Quentin Tarantino, micro cinemas, VHS, Tales from the Darkside, Monster Squad, Sleepaway Camp, Blood Beach, Fright Night, Creepshow, Jill Schoelen, The Peoples’ Joker, The Pit, The Gate, Troll, Ghoulies, Critters, Speak No Evil, Force Majeur, Bad Boy Bubby, the love of Terrence Stamp and Jane Fonda, and more!

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Episode 114: The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) Apr 22, 2024

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Josh and Drusilla discuss one of the big three of folk horror, 1971 Piers Haggard directed The Blood on Satan’s Claw. From wiki: “The Blood on Satan's Claw (or Blood on Satan's Claw) [a] is a 1971 British supernatural period folk horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews. Set in early 18th-century England, it follows the residents of a rural village whose youth fall under the influence of a demonic presence after a local farmer unearths a mysterious deformed skull buried in a field.

But also! Gyms, ), Monkey Man, Dev Patel, Sting and sentimentality in horror, Evil Dead Rise, Wyrmwood, Kier-la Janisse, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, classism and hillbilly horror, OJ Simpson, murderers are among us, and more!

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Episode 113: Ghostwatch (1992) Apr 15, 2024

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This week, Josh and Dru watch the incredible British found footage film from 1992, Ghostwatch. From wiki: “Ghostwatch is a British mockumentary supernatural horror TV movie, first broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween night, 1992. Written by Stephen Volk, and directed by Lesley Manning, the drama was produced for the BBC anthology series Screen One by Richard Broke, Ruth Baumgarten and Derek Nelson. Despite having been recorded weeks in advance, the narrative was presented as live television[citation needed]. During and following its first and only UK television broadcast, the show attracted a considerable furor,[1] resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 phone call enquiries to the BBC switchboard on the night of broadcast, comprising a mixture of complaints and praise for the programme's unique presentation.[2] This outrage is often compared to Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the 1994 Without Warning television film, both of which also caused nationwide panic in the United States.

But also: Baldur’s Gate 3, Dawn of the Dead, Horror in the High Desert, Lake Mungo, Spirits of the Dead and Video Archives, The First Omen, The Omen, Immaculate, Maxxxine, Task Master, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, The Stone Tapes, Gothic, The Guardian, Don’t Look Now, The Conjuring 2, and more!

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Episode 112: Baby Blood (1990) Apr 08, 2024

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Today the ghouls discuss a new one for both; the 1990 French flick, Baby Blood. Josh loves it and Drusilla does not. From wiki: “Baby Blood (titled The Evil Within in the United States) is a French horror film directed and co-written by Alain Robak, and starring Emmanuelle Escourrou and Jean-François Galotte. The film is about a woman named Yanka whose womb is invaded by a parasite that desires human blood. Yanka heeds the demand of blood for the creature until it requests to be carried to the sea where it was originally spawned.”

But first! Josh has more apartment troubles, the duo discusses Late Night with the Devil. Drusilla watched The Passenger and Sympathy for the Devil. the films of Carter Smith, Roman Polanski loves Personal Shopper.

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