Annapurna Sriram kindly explains inspirations, context, and her love of the trashy denizens of F*cktoys‘ “Trash Town” during a green room interview with 366.
Vegans who find themselves in Nashville Tennessee would do well to listen through to the end for a hot tip.
Tucked away in the bowels of the Concordia building, we had the pleasure of sitting down with the Abele brothers, as well as their art and animation director, Harijs Grundmanis, and Madi Madara, who voiced the esteemed Baroness.
Latvia, Livonia, language, and lore are all illuminated in this conversation with the creative team from Dog of God.
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Discussed in this episode:
Ash (2025): An astronaut wakes up on a spaceship to find her crew dead, and wonders if she can trust the man who arrives claiming to be a rescuer. Some psychedelic scenes highlight this sophomore feature from Flying Lotus. No official site located.
Harlequin (1980): Read Giles Edwards’ review. The “mystical oddity” gets a physical media upgrade from Indicator. Blu-ray and 4K UHD editions are sold separately. Buy Harlequin.
Thirst (1979): Read Pamela De Graff’s review. As with Harlequin, you can purchase this Australian vampire flick in either Blu-ray or 4K UHD. Buy Thirst.
Tommy (1975): Read Scott Sentinella’s List Candidate review. Visit the Acid Queen again with this 50th Anniversary reissue in a 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set (curiously, no special features on offer). Buy Tommy.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: No guest officially scheduled for next week’s Pod 366, but Giles and Greg will return with a look at the week’s weird news and releases. In written reviews, Shane Wilson handles one that Came from the Reader-Suggested Queue with the Christian puppeteer documentary Hands of God (2005), Giles Edwards tracks down another reader suggestion in the impressively-titled Oh Dad, Poor Dad (Momma’s Hung You In the Closet & I’m Feeling So Sad) (1961), Enar Clarke enters The Mountains of Madness (1972), and Gregory J. Smalley plans to catch (and report on) cosmic sci-fi/horror Ash (above). Onward and weirdward!
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Quick links/Discussed in this episode:
Buy Paolo Zelati’s “American Nightmares”
Paolo Zelati isolated interview
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920): Read the Canonically Weird entry! The seminal horror from a hundred years ago gets the 4K treatment, with a Blu-ray and a UHD disc. Most special features are ported over from the 2014 Blu-ray, but there is a new score (with a commentary track) from composer Jeff Beal (which makes for three choices of musical accompaniment altogether) and an “audio description track” for the vision impaired. Buy The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Cuckoo (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. Tilman Singer‘s odd ecological horror arrives on Blu-ray with some behind-the-scenes footage, on-set interviews, and deleted scenes. Buy Cuckoo.
Daaaaaali! (2023): Five different actors play Salvador Dalí in Quentin Dupieux‘s latest, which has a premise straight out of Dalí frenemy Luis Buñuel: a journalist tries to interview the painter, but can never get it started. There are still a few U.S. theatrical dates to come, but it’s now on VOD for everyone to check out. Buy or rent Daaaaaali!
Despiser (2002): A man finds himself in Purgatory, fighting a demon named “the Despiser” with an array of allies from different time periods. Visual Vengeance puts out a packed “collector’s edition” Blu-ray of this CGI-filled, shot-on-video labor-of-love that might be weird. We’ll know soon enough when Giles reviews it in a couple days. Buy Despiser.
Gummo (1977): Read the Canonically Weird entry! A surprise addition to the Criterion collection, this is a 4K restoration (with Blu-ray + UHD disc) including multiple interviews with Harmony Korine from 1997, 2000, and the present day. Buy Gummo.
Ninja Scroll (1993): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. The popular 1993 anime (which includes neither ninjas nor scrolls, but does have loads of sex and violence) gets a nice-looking limited-edition steelbook release with a new commentary track from director Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Buy Ninja Scroll.
The Sacrifice (1986): Read Alfred Eaker’s review. Andrei Tarkovsky‘s final film (he was dying of cancer as he filmed it) is a typically austere and challenging spiritual tale of a man who wishes to sacrifice himself to save his family from an apocalypse. The restoration debuts Oct. 25 (today!) at Film Forum in NYC and will expand afterwards; a 4K physical media release is sure to follow.
Slingshot (2024): An astronaut slowly loses his mind on the years-long journey to Saturn’s moon, Titan. This lower budgeted sci-fi/psychological thriller has a couple of big names (Casey Affleck, Lawrence Fishburne) and references to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris, but few people seemed to like it too much. Buy Slingshot.
Vampire Zombies… from Space! (2024): A parody film in which Plan 9 from Outer Space meets Dracula by way of Troma. We actually touched on this one in a previous Pod 366 episode with the film’s co-writer Jakob Skrzypa. Vampire Zombies from Space official site.
(Note: the above trailer is mildly not-safe-for-work due to gore and sexual suggestiveness)
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
We have no scheduled guest for next week’s Pod 366, but Greg and Giles will be back as usual to discuss the week’s weird news and releases. In YouTube content, Pete Trbovich‘s Halloweird Weird View Crew series returns with a video review of Peter Jackson‘s first Hollywood film, The Frighteners (1996) (pending YouTube copyright clearance). (Pete may be able to sneak in another Halloweird entry before 10/31 rolls around, but no promises). The written word is represented by Shane Wilson‘s Halloween pick from the reader-suggested queue, Village of the Damned (1960); Giles Edwards hoping that no one despises his review of Despiser (see above); and Gregory J. Smalley jumping on the chance to finally watch Daaaaaali! (also see above). Onward and weirdward!
All the way from Adelaide, South Australia, director Pirie Martin joins us to discuss his strange experimental film noir, Psychosis, in which a criminal fixer who hears voices (but is not otherwise obviously schizophrenic) investigates some drug zombies, which leads to an an encounter with a masked vigilante and a master hypnotist drug kingpin and … it just gets stranger from there. Debuting on Tubi on Oct. 4.