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POD 366, EP. 177: SEPARATING THE GILES FROM THE CORN

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Fantasia Film Festival preview:

It’s Giles Edwards‘ favorite time of year, and here are a few of the titles he’ll be looking for at North America’s largest (and weirdest) genre film festival:

  • Buddy – ‘s official theatrical feature debut is a dark comedy where a fictional kids TV show dinosaur goes rogue
  • Dance Freak – A virus causes people to dance.
  • An Evening with – An hour-long Q&A with the famous stick-figure animator, followed by a screening of some of his best work (including, presumably, his newest offering, “Paper Trail”)
  • Godhead – ‘s followup to Hippo is about twin false prophets who lure a priest into their delusional world
  • Grotesqqque – Anime comprising three stories about aliens, vampires, and “gals”
  • Her Private Hell – returns with a “hallucinatory fairytale death trip” about a mysterious deadly mist infecting a future city
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Will ‘s revisionist slasher be weird, or just camp?
  • Zsazsa Zaturnnah – a pink meteorite turns a hairdresser into a female superhero in this animated queer film from the Philippines

Fantasia International Film Festival official site.

Backrooms (2026): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s Apocrypha Candidate review! For those who missed it in theaters, Backrooms is now available for online rental or purchase (usual disclaimer: now at premium pricing, which will come down in the future). Buy (or rent) Backrooms on VOD.

“DEFA Fairy Tale Films”: Four fairy tale movies from East Germany, including Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Mother Hulda, Snow White and Rose Red, and The Devils Three Golden Hairs (which, we have been personally assured, is a brain-scorcher). Buy “DEFA Fairy Tale Films”.

Howard the Duck (1986): Read Scott Sentinella’s review. Is the campy 80s flop featuring Marvel’s strangest cigar-smoking duck superhero weird? Decide with this lavish 4K (!) restoration. Buy Howard the Duck.

Super Legend God Hikoza (2022): A giant mecha battles a giant sturgeon bent on destroying Japan. ‘s absurd kaiju spoof quietly arrives in America on Blu-ray. Buy Super Legend God Hikoza.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: 

No guest scheduled for next week’s Pod 366, unless you count Giles Edwards live-on-location in Montreal as he covers the Fantasia festival (above). In written content, Michael Diamades reports on his marathon dance with They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Shane Wilson skips The Third Man and jumps right to sequel (kidding) The 4th Man, while Giles will drop updates (and interviews?) from Fantasia as the spirit moves him. Onward and weirdward!

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POD 366, EP. 176: DOES “EVERYTHING MUST GO” MEAN PHYSICAL MEDIA?

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Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition: The good news is, surprise hit Backrooms is back in theaters with bonus content. The bad news is, the bonus content is mild—a 15 minute independent short, set before the events of the movie begin, that plays after the feature has concluded. Reportedly there are no plans to release this in any other format, so it’s one for true fans of the web series in particular. Backrooms at A24 (for venues).

Barrio Triste (2025): A “hallucinatory” found footage movie set among Medellin’s juvenile delinquents. From ‘s EDGLRD productions, in limited release. Barrio Triste official site.

Black Box (2026): Passengers on a domestic flight deal with aliens (or something) high in the skies. The ad copy throws out adjectives like “surreal” and “bizarre,” although we’re a bit skeptical. It appears to have gone directly to VOD.  Buy Black Box on VOD.

“Hideo Kojima Warns of ‘Frightening’ Digital Future After PlayStation Reveals Plan to End Physical Disc Production”: One of many articles/elegies written in the wake of Sony’s decision to stop producing physical discs for PlayStation. Read the article at IGN.

The Hole (1998): joint about the relationship between two people stuck in an apartment building that has been evacuated due to a virus. Like most Tsai pictures, it mixes minimalism and musical numbers; unlike most, it’s getting a heavily-promoted (by obscure art-house standards) rerelease. The Hole re-release info at Big World Pictures.

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025): Read Pete Trbovich’s review and listen to our interview with Linus O’Brien. The The Rocky Horror Picture Show doc joins the Blu-ray ranks; put it on your shelf next to the original. Buy Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, but we’ll return with updates on all the week’s weird news and movies (including a brief Fantasia Film Festival preview). In written content, Michael Diamades covers ‘s disturbing Moebius (2013), infidel Shane Wilson is baffled by Newsboys: Down Under the Big Top (1996), Pete Trbovich gets perverted again as he gets The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023), Enar Clarke catches City Wide Fever (2025), and G. Smalley muses about Backrooms: “Everything Must Go Edition.” Onward and weirdward!

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POD 366, EP. 175: STAY WEIRD FOR ANOTHER 250 YEARS, AMERICA

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Adam and Eve (1984): The story of Adam and Eve, Italian exploitation style, with dinosaurs and cannibal cavemen. AKA Adam and Eve vs. the Cannibals! Buy Adam and Eve.

Camp (2025): A young woman with a guilty past encounters witchcraft while working as a summer camp counselor. From , out ahead of ‘s similar Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Camp official site.

Children of the Wicker Man (2024): The 2 half-brother sons of describe the chaotic production of Canonically Weird classic The Wicker Man and its effect on their father’s life, and theirs. Out now on Blu-ray from Severin, this seems to have skipped VOD entirely. Buy Children of the Wicker Man.

“The Idiot Box” (1991): This MTV comedy sketch show from a post-Bill & Ted, pre-Freaked only lasted 6 episodes before cancellation. It pitched itself as offering “the most astounding, bizarre and alarming comedy ever on the air.” Now collected on Blu-ray by (who else?) Severin. Buy “The Idiot Box”.

Wake in Fright (1971): A teacher finds himself marooned in a hard-drinking Australian outback town whose macho residents want to make him one of them. Reconstructed with the correct color grading for a lavish 4K UHD + Blu-ray presentation from Arrow.  Buy Wake in Fright.

“The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilović”: This set from Yellow Veil collects ‘s entire feature-length output: Innocence, Evolution, Earwig, and The Ice Tower, together with two of her shorts, for the most complete survey of this fascinating director ever made. Buy “The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilović”.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest scheduled for next week’s Pod 366. In written content, Michael Diamades goes Bird (2024) watching, Shane Wilson digs up Relics: Einstein’s Brain (1994), Giles Edwards explains Toshio Matsumoto‘s shaggy Dogra Magra (1988), and Gregory J. Smalley wonders whether you should go ahead with Touch Me (2025). Happy July 4! Onward and weirdward!

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POD 366, EP. 174: LINUS O’BRIEN ON THE STRANGE JOURNEY OF ROCKY HORROR, AND A LOT OF NEW RELEASES

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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025): The definitive documentary on The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Alpha (2025): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Although it concerns a plague that turns people into statues, ‘s third film resembles a Euro-style family drama more than it does the shocking horror films of her early career. Now on Blu-ray. Buy Alpha.

Careful (1992): Read the Canonically Weird entry! A 4K remaster of Guy Maddin‘s neo-expressionist masterpiece about sexual repression (particularly of the incestuous kind). Playing select art-house theaters. In Chicago and NYC this week; check out Careful at Zeitgeist Films for all screenings.

“The David ‘The Rock’ Nelson Collection Vol 3”: Features the epic backyard horror movie anthology Monster Tales (2002), made by a former amateur boxer turned direct-to-VHS auteur (who proudly refers to himself as “The of the 21st century”). How did we miss the first two volumes?  Buy “The David ‘The Rock’ Nelson Collection Vol 3”.

Desperate Living (1977): Read the Canonically Weird review! The third entry in ‘ “trash trilogy” is the most ambitious, a depraved fairy-tale for perverted sociopaths. The Criterion Collection does it right, in your choice of Blu-ray only or 4K UHD + Blu-ray. Buy Desperate Living.

Dogra Magra (1988): A man awakes in a mental asylum with no memory and is informed he killed his wife on his wedding night. ‘s final film was an adaptation of an “unfilmable” novel; a commentator once suggested the film is like a Japanese mashup of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Last Year at Marienbad. This is Radiance’s standard version of the collector’s edition released in late 2024. Buy Dogra Magra. 

“Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape”: A Blu-ray collection of the work of digital creator Kelli, partly curated by . Some (most?) of the bits featured on this collection were unreleased on her YouTube channel. Buy “Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape”. 

Hairspray (1988): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. John Waters’ PG-rated 50s Baltimore nostalgia piece gets the Criterion Collection treatment, also in Blu-ray or 4K UHD + Blu-ray. Buy Hairspray.

Malpertuis (1972): Read the Canonically Weird entry! The Blu-ray debut of this very strange Belgian/international movie about a sailor who returns to the mansion where his very strange family lives. From Radiance, with some new interviews and lots of archival extras. Buy Malpertuis.

Mare’s Nest (2025): Moon explores a strange world with no adults. Discover the extremely limited screening schedule for this art-house experiment at the Mare’s Nest page at Grasshopper Films.

Mr. K (2025): Read Enar Clarke’s review. The deeply surreal -led effort about a hotel where you can check in but never leave, now on Blu-ray. Buy Mr. K.

The Nude Vampire (1970): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s Apocrypha Candidate review. ‘s sophomore film includes one of his most bizarre scenarios and sets the plate for the vampire films to come. This is the “US Standard” edition 4K UHD (no Blu-ray), but it contains essentially the same material as the old limited edition. Buy The Nude Vampire.

“Roman Porno Reboot Collection, Vol. 1”: Around 2016, Nikkatsu studios asked contemporary directors to make new movies in the style of its early 1970s “Roman Porno” softcore films. One of the first, and the standout of the series, was ‘s subversive Antiporno, included in this set along with more conventional sex pictures with titles like Aroused by Gymnopedies, Dawn of the Felines, Wet Woman in the Wind, and White Lily. “Buy Roman Porno Reboot Collection, Vol. 1”.

Weirdsville (2007): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. A quirky (not weird) story of junkies fighting Satanists, on Blu-ray for the first time. Buy Weirdsville.

What Dreams May Come (1998): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. goes to Hell in this romantic drama with amazing hand-painted visuals. On 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Shout! Buy What Dreams May Come.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest scheduled for next week’s Pod 366 (although we suppose a surprise could always pop up), but the crew will be back to discuss the week’s weird news and new releases. In written content, Michael Diamades sets the stage for Decorado (2025), Enar Clarke scores a Fresh Kill (1994), Shane Wilson decides to Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971), and Gregory J. Smalley wonders what a Wetiko (2022) is. Onward and weirdward!

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POD 366, EP. 173: PERFECT BLUE AUDITION

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Audition (1999): Read the Canonically Weird entry! The 4K UHD version from Arrow gives us the excuse to discuss ‘s best movie (if not his weirdest). Buy Audition.

Perfect Blue (1997): Read the Canonically Weird entry! ‘s debut brought psychological depth and surrealism to anime; now in a 4K steelbook. Buy Perfect Blue.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: 

Next week on Pod 366 we will talk to about his 2025 The Rocky Horror Picture Show documentary Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror. In written content, Michael Diamades goes to Netflix’s just-completed “The Amazing Digital Circus”, Enar Clarke visits Indiana’s House of Dreams (1963), Shane Wilson devotes a column to Rows (2015), and Gregory J. Smalley takes a trip with The Napa Boys (2025). Onward and weirdward!