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The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (2026): Human beings become trapped in a virtual reality world overseen by a deranged AI ringmaster in this YouTube sensation turned Netflix series. In theaters nationwide from June 4-18, debuting on Netflix on June 19. Expect a review of the entire series within weeks. The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act official site.

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002): Read the Canonically Weird entry! The ultimate steelbook release of the weirdest movie about Elvis and black JFK fighting mummies in a nursing home you’ll ever lay eyes on. Buy Bubba Ho-Tep.

Iron Lung (2025): A surprise modest hit about a convict sent to explore a mysterious ocean on an interstellar moon in a ramshackle submarine. We ignored this video-game adaptation when it came out, but a loyal reader has since tipped us off that they think it’s weird; it’s now available for rental exclusively on YouTube. Rent or buy Iron Lung on VOD.

R.I.P. Yoshihiro Nishimura: We are sad to report that Yoshihiro Nishimura, the director of Tokyo Gore Police, has died at age 59 of liver disease. We published an interview with Mr. Nishimura in 2017; he was the first celebrity to give us a restaurant recommendation. Variety recaps his career.

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025): Read Pete Trbovich’s review. The ultimate Rocky Horror documentary (made by Richard O’Brien‘s son) is finally available in the US on VOD on Plex, Apple TV, or Google Play. Blu-ray drops in the US on July 7.

The Wizard of Oz (1939): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. The Wizard of Oz has probably been released in as many different physical media incarnations as any film ever made; this is the standard edition of the 4K release previously available in a limited edition set. No Blu-ray included in this one. Buy The Wizard of Oz.

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We may have a guest for next week’s Pod 366: underground filmmaker and musician Jonathan Rosado (of Matador Bolero). It’s another packed week in written content, as Pete Trbovich puts out another Perverted Pick with Jess Franco‘s Venus in Furs (1969), Enar Clarke celebrates pride month with Flaming Ears (1992), Michael Diamades addresses the Czech comedy Buttoners (1997), Shane Wilson is happy to compose his thoughts on reader-suggestion Allegro (2005), and Gregory J. Smalley descends in an Iron Lung (2026). Onward and weirdward!

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7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964): Read Theodore Davis’ List Candidate review. George Pal’s dated mythological fantasy arrives on Blu-ray from Warner Archive for the first time.  Buy 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.

Backrooms (2026): A24 backed Kane Parsons‘ feature debut about mysterious logic-defying trans-dimensional rooms discovered in a retail establishment, and got Chiwetal Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve to sign on. It’s based on a webseries, whose  inaugural episode won the Weirdcademy Award for Weirdest short in 2022. Finally in theaters! Backrooms official site.

Dracula (2025): Read Michael Diamades’ review. Radu Jude‘s transgressive and unapologetically AI-enhanced Dracula anthology arrives on Blu-ray with a few extras (Jude interviews and an essay booklet). Buy Dracula.

Faust (1994): Read Alex Kittle’s review. Jan Svankmajer‘s stop-motion + live action + puppetry adaptation of Faust has been out of print (along with most of his startling features); let’s hope that this Blu-ray from Kimstim is the first salvo in re-releasing the Czech’s seminal surrealist classics.  Buy Faust.

Holy Trinity (2019): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s Apocrypha Candidate review. Holy Trinity. A paint-huffing dominatrix finds she can see the dead; this queer outsider film finally arrives on Blu-ray with a director’s commentary track, a short film, and a “making of” documentary that’s almost twice as long as the feature.  Buy Holy Trinity.

House of Dreams (1963): An author has recurring nightmares about a house in this low-budget Indiana indie. Bleeding Skull rediscovered it and presents it alone, with director’s commentary, and in a “VHS mix” along with spiritual soulmates Carnival of Souls, Meshes of the Afternoon, and vintage commercials.  Buy House of Dreams.

Lucid (2025): Listen to Giles Edwards’ interview with the Lucid crew. An art student abuses a lucid dreaming drug and becomes trapped in a dreamworld. Now playing in limited release. Lucid official site.

She Loved Blossoms More (2024): Read Enar Clarke’s Apocrypha Candidate review. One of the strangest underseen movies of the past two years, the scenario involves three brothers who take a lot of drugs and attempt to bring back their deceased mom by accessing another dimension through a machine they’ve built in a cabinet. Now on Blu-ray with director’s commentary and other features. Buy She Loved Blossoms More.

Tekkonkinkreet (2006): Read the Canonically Weird entry! The visually inventive, Canonically Weird anime about a teen assassin and his prophetic child charge fighting the yakuza in pan-Asian “Treasure Town” gets a 4K restoration and a theatrical re-release on May 31 and June 1 only. Mark your calendars. Tekkonkinkreet re-release official site (for venues).

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No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, but the gang will be back with all the weird movie news that’s fit to pod. It’s a packed week in written content: Pete Trbovich will cover something (either a Perverted Pick or a semi-perverted pic), Michael Diamades breezes through the Japanese children’s Ovid adaptation Winds of Change, Shane Wilson breaks down the triple-B-movie Blood, Bullets, Buffoons (1996), Giles Edwards dances with the underground’s Matador Bolero (2026), and Gregory J. Smalley plans to visit the mysterious Backrooms (see above). Onward and weirdward!

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Arco (2025): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. The UHD/Blu-ray release of the animated film about a rainbow-suited boy who travels from the distant future to the less-distant future includes numerous featurettes (but, despite what the box claims, a soundtrack in the original language is not a bonus feature.)  Buy Arco.

The Bride! (2026): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Warner Bros. won’t recoup their investment on Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s bonkers flop Frankenstein’s bride movie with this UHD/Blu-ray/DVD offering (careful: each sold separately), but its nice that they did release it, and with meaningful documentary extras. Buy The Bride!.

The Dark Backward (1991): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Since the DVD went out of print, even a bare-bones release of the corpse-licking dark comedy is a welcome development. Buy The Dark Backward.

The Demoniacs (1974): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Is there any Jean Rollin left for Indicator to 4K up after this minor nautical horror? Buy The Demoniacs.

Fresh Kill (1994): A lesbian couple uncover a conspiracy involving toxic waste in a dystopian New York City. Never heard of this underground lesbian punk experiment before, but if the Criterion collection is going to bat for it, that means something. Buy Fresh Kill.

I Love Boosters (2026): Boots Riley‘s latest eat-the-rich manifesto finally arrives in theaters. IMDB users who hate boosters, but probably haven’t seen the movie, have been bombing it with anonymous 1-star reviews. I Love Boosters official site.

Matador Bolero (2026): The plot involves murder, cults, A.I., and an “elusive being living outside the realms of time and space,” and stars an experimental musician we’re unfamiliar with (Yves Tumor). So little information on this one, but the minimalist website (brought to us by something called “Surreal U.S.A.”) and the trailer pique our interest. Matador Bolero official site?

The Napa Boys (2025): A group called “The Napa Boys” go on a “wine-sloshed” comedy adventure in which they say the words “Napa Boys” a lot in this fourth installment of a long-running comedy series with no previous installments. In reviews, the words “inside joke” recur more frequently than other others, although one critic did use the acronym “WTF” and another calls it “bizarre.” Buy The Napa Boys.

Speed Racer (2008): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. This offering of the campy, flashy popcorn feature is UHD only (no Blu-ray) and steelbooked. Also available, if you hate steel, in non-steelbook format at (currently) the same price. Buy Speed Racer [4K Steelbook].

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No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, but the gang will be back to discuss the week’s weird movie news and new releases. In written content, Michael Diamades pays respects to Fernando Arrabal‘s Car Cemetery (1983), Shane Wilson relates The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Enar Clarke profiles The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan (2025), and Gregory J. Smalley predicts whether you will love I Love Boosters (see above). Onward and weirdward!

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Decorado (2025): Alberto Vázquez‘ feature length expansion of his existential mouse short finally hits theaters. As usual with GKids releases, the film will be shown in your choice of dubbed or subtitled formats. Decorado official site (Spanish) and U.S. distributor site.

Fight Club (1999): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Includes numerous bonus features (none new) and a standard Blu-ray. Buy Fight Club [4K Steelbook].

Krakatit (1948): A man has distorted dreams and memories of having created a weapon of mass destruction. Deaf Crocodile unearths yet another odd-looking one we’d never heard of before, this one from Czechoslovakia’s pre-New Wave. Buy Krakatit.

Motel Hell (1980): Read Giles Edwards’ review. A 4K UHD steelbook upgrade of the cannibal comedy; standard Blu-ray included, recycled extras from previous discs presumed. Buy Motel Hell [4K Steelbook].

Mystics in Bali (1981): Read Pete Trbovich’s List Candidate review. Previously on DVD, Mondo Macabro’s new Blu-ray release includes an extended cut of the film with 40 more minutes of jungle fever madness. Buy Mystics in Bali.

RIP Rex Reed: Reed, one of the last of the celebrity film critics, had atrocious taste and relished making enemies, but was always a reliable indicator of a great weird movie (the more Reed hated a movie, the more of a classic it was). Here is a nice remembrance from a friend who knew and liked him.

Scarlet Warning 666 AKA It Happened One Weekend, Scarlet Love  (1974-1996): This legendary lost film from one Palmer Rockey (who claims to play 7 roles in the film), laughed off the screen at its premiere in Dallas, is an apparently incomprehensible tale of spy antics, twins, and Satanism.  Very few have seen this, but one of them was the Church of the Subgenius’ Rev. Ivan Stang, who raved, “NO MAN can even barely begin to conceive of the PURITY OF PSYCHOSIS displayed by this  motion picture without actually seeing it.”  Buy Scarlet Warning 666.

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No guest scheduled for next week’s Pod 366, but we’ll be back to talk about all the weird movie news and new releases. In written content, Michael Diamades conceives the bizarre J-horror Egg (2005), Shane Wilson returns to the subcontinent for a look at the weirdie Tasher Desh [AKA The Land of Cards] (2012), Giles Edwards takes a crack at Krakatit (see above) and G. Smalley decides on the John C. Reilly as Buffalo Bill spaghetti western Heads or Tails? (2025). Onward and weirdward!