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In the Mouth (2025): Read Giles Edwards’ review. Merl finds himself afraid to leave his house because his own giant head is growing out of his lawn. In the Mouth official site.

Alpha (2025): After a girl gets a homemade tattoo, her mother fears she may have acquired a disease that will turn her into a statue. Details on this one were scant, and the teaser trailer made it look like a family drama, so we were afraid that Julia Ducournau‘s third feature might mark a retreat from surrealism; early reviews from Cannes suggest this is not the case. It’s already been acquired by Neon (who also released Titane), so we’ll get to it by the end of the year. Alpha at Cannes.

“Delirium Magazine, Issue #41”: The Spider Baby-themed latest issue of the genre magazine (produced by Full Moon studios) includes a new interview with Beverly Washburn and a rediscovered interview with the late great Sid Haig. Plus, great cover art! Buy “Delirium Magazine, Issue #41”.

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989): Read the Canonically Weird entry! The Criterion collection reacquired the rights to Advertising and releases it on Blu-ray (sorry, hypervideophiles, no 4K UHD this time—surviving elements must not have been good enough.) Buy How to Get Ahead in Advertising.

The Iron Rose (1973): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Indicator continues their Jean Rollin releases with this Gothic fave in a limited edition 4K UHD or Blu-ray; includes two cuts of the film (including an alternate English language version), multiple interviews, video essays and appreciations, and an 80 page booklet.  Buy The Iron Rose.

Kung Fury 2 (202?):  Writer/director/star David Sandberg goes into more detail about the legal issues plaguing the sequel (which we discussed last week) and reveals he’s been working on a “similarly bonkers” secret new project in the meantime. Variety has all the details.

Themroc (1973): An experimental French movie made in a nonsense language, starring Michel Piccoli as a man who chooses to live like a savage in the contemporary world. We never expected this obscurity to be reissued, but we’re thrilled. Buy Themroc.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest scheduled for next week’s Pod 366; but then again, there was no guest scheduled for this week’s Pod 366, so who can say definitively? At any rate, Giles and Greg will return to discuss the week’s weird news and new releases. In written content, Enar Clarke covers the recently uncovered Czech fairy tale The Golden Fern (1963), Shane Wilson digests the cannibalism tale Grimm Love (2006), Giles Edwards sings the praises of arthouse indie An Evening Song (For Three Voices) (2023), while Gregory J. Smalley is hoping to finally encounter Friendship (2025). Onward and weirdward!

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Better Man (2024): Read Shane Wilson’s review. The Robbie-Williams-as-a-CGI-chimp biopic is out in a 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo pack, and is also available on DVD. Buy Better Man.

Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025): This Lionsgate release somehow incorporates an insomniac pop star, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, and the tagline “reality lies deeper than you think.” It looks fairly surreal, but we haven’t seen any advance reviews (which can be a bad sign). Hurry Up Tomorrow official site.

Kung Fury 2 (202?): This week, a 10-minute sizzle reel for the troubled, long-in-production Kung Fury 2 was leaked on the Internet and quickly removed (although staying up long enough to attract attention and analysis, naturally). What we can gather of the plot: cop Kung Fury (David Sandberg) returns from the original, joined by a Dirty Harry type played by a magnificently-mulleted  Michael Fassbender, to face off against Hitler and the President of the United States (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger!). There’s also a David Hasselhoff cameo (at least). This project may be moving again. Variety calls the reel “insane” and “bonkers.”

May (2002): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Weirdo character study gets a Vestron Collector’s Series Blu-ray release, with extras like 3 separate audio commentaries and 8 interview featurettes.   Buy May from Lionsgate.

Megadoc (202?): Mike Figgis‘ behind-the-scenes documentary about the crazy production of last year’s bonkers Megalopolis, now has a distributor (Utopia). Although that company is owned by Francis Ford Coppola‘s nephew, unnamed sources assured reporters the doc will be a “warts-and-all” exposé. Indiewire has more details.

Reanimator (1985): Read Giles Edwards’ List Candidate review. Ignite Films is releasing a number of different editions of the seminal horror comedy, in four different versions ranging from a standard Blu-ray for about $40 to the ultra-deluxe box with a Blu-ray, 4K UHD disc, hardcover book (with essay by Alex Kittle and others), Dr. Hill bobblehead (!), and more for about $130.  Buy Re-Animator at Ignite Films.

Resurrection (2025): Bi Gan‘s Resurrection was added to the Cannes lineup (in competition) this week at the last possible minute. The details we’ve heard about the plot are somewhat confusing but it seems to involve a post-apocalyptic future, a love affair between a woman and an android, and humanity’s loss of the ability to dream. The teaser features Gan’s typical intriguing camerawork. We’ll be awaiting this one eagerly.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest scheduled for next week’s Pod 366, but Greg and Giles will return to discuss the week’s news and new releases. In written content, Shane Wilson takes a trip to the underground Subway (1985), Enar Clarke writes a Requiem for a Vampire (1972), and G. Smalley can’t wait to see Hurry up Tomorrow. Onward and weirdward!

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The Empire [L’Empire] (2024): Commandant Van der Weyden and his sidekick Charpentier are back (although they may have a smaller role to play) in this sci-fi spoof about warring tribes of aliens in human form. This film, aimed squarely at fans of Bruno Dumont‘s curious brand of Gallic absurdity, arrives on Blu-ray and VOD this week. Buy The Empire.

Friendship (2025): Tim Robinson brings his awkwardly surreal shtick to the feature film format as a man trying to make friends with his cool neighbor. Getting excellent reviews, although critics sometimes seem confused as to whether its a comedy or a psychological horror movie. Friendship at A24.

Kryptic (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ festival summary. The horror about a woman encountering a mysterious cryptid in the Canadian wilderness may be playing theaters somewhere, but you’re more likely to find it in its simultaneous VOD incarnation. Kryptic official site.

Tall Tales (2025): A visual album by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, with surrealistic visuals from artist Johnathan Zawada. We learned about this too late to warn you about its one-night-only theatrical debut on May 8, but we are confident it will show up later in one form or another–Oscilloscope is involved and will likely be treating it in a similar fashion to Godfrey Reggio‘s Once Within a Time , with limited engagements followed by a physical and streaming release. Tall Tales official site.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

As announced, next week’s guest will be contributor/friend-of-the-site Alex Kittle, who contributed to the latest Re-Animator 4K UHD box set release from new player Ignite Films (order here). In written reviews, Shane Wilson revisits God Told Me To (1976); Enar Clarke responds to our call to review more weird stuff from Africa with a look at Cameroon’s Les Saignantes [The Bloodiest] (2005); Giles Edwards checks out Bill Plympton‘s Mutant Aliens (2001); and Gregory J. Smalley preps for summer by taking in the madness of Nicolas Cage‘s The Surfer (2025). Onward and weirdward!

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“The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault”: What’s in it? We don’t know, it’s a mystery, but it is described as a “hallucinogenic trip to a found footage wonderland.” Buy “The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault”.

Career Bed (1969)/Sex By Advertisement (1968): The early sexploitation films of Joel “Bloodsucking Freaks” Reed: in Career Bed, an aspiring actress learns about the casting couch; Sex by Adevrtisement  “explores the weird world of erotic newspaper ads in a mondo-film styled pastiche.” We’re not 100% convinced by the hype that these will be exceptionally strange by (our high standards), but they have their fans. Buy Career Bed/Sex By Advertisement.

A Desert (2025): An aging photographer encounters all-American perversity in the Southwest. Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro reports that the film “opens a puzzle box of weirdness and nihilism…” A Desert official site.

Empire of the Dark (1990): Read Pete Trbovich’s Apocrypha Candidate review. The interdimensional Satanist movie comes to Blu-ray 4 years after Pete rediscovered it. Coincidence? Absolutely! Buy Empire of the Dark.

Mother, Couch (2023): Read Giles Edwards’ review. Sub-Buñuelian absurdity about a mother who refuses to get up from a furniture store couch. The Blu-ray comes with commentary and a behind-the-scenes featurette, Buy Mother, Couch.

Pale Rider (1985): A mysterious Preacher (Clint Eastwood) rides into a Western town and protects the common people from an evil mining company. Only subtly weird; Roger Ebert called Eastwood’s performance “mysterious and fascinating.” Buy Pale Rider.

Spoonful of Sugar (2022): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Three years after release, this hallucinogenic horror gets a decent Blu-ray release complete with director’s commentary, featurettes, and a booklet essay. Buy Spoonful of Sugar.

The Surfer (2025): Nicolas Cage tries to take his son surfing in Australia, but locals aren’t having it in this psychological thriller from Lorcan Finnegan. Just let Cage loose on the beach, and a weird movie is likely to emerge. The Surfer official site.

Sweet Dreams (2023): Read Giles Edwards’ review. Slightly surreal period drama set in the sugar plantations of Indonesia. Buy Sweet Dreams.

Up! (1976): Read Alfred Eaker’s review. In Alfred’s opinion, this comedy with lots of Hitler is Russ Meyer‘s “most surreal live-action, X-rated cartoon”; buy it in either Blu-ray or 4K UHD formats from Severin. Buy Up!.

The Visitor (2024): A sexy man emerges from a suitcase and seduces a family. You can now watch Bruce la Bruce’s homoerotic and explicit twist on Teorema on Blu-ray.  Buy The Visitor.

Vulcanizadora (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ festival capsule. Two troubled middle aged men travel into the woods to fulfill a dire pact. Only tangentially weird, but Joel Potrykus‘ latest low-budget dramedy is getting the best reviews of his career, and they’re well-earned. Opening in NYC this week, then expanding to major cities. Vulcanizadora official site for screening dates.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

We have no guest officially scheduled for next Pod 366, although we didn’t have one officially scheduled at this point last week, so who knows? Regardless, we’ll be back to discuss the weird news and new releases. In written content, we knock three items out of the reader-suggested queue as Shane Wilson tackles Ross Perry’s unofficial low-budget Thomas Pynchon adaptation Impolex (2009), Enar Clarke reviews Jean-Luc Godard‘s skewed take on King Lear (1987), and Giles Edwards takes a gander at the late-Soviet children’s animation Purple (or Lilac) Ball (1988); meanwhile, Gregory J. Smalley breaks the reader-suggested ranks to catch a current theatrical release that should interest readers: David Cronenberg‘s latest, The Shrouds. Onward and weirdward!

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Seminar: Daisies: Bostonian alert for 5/5/25! Alex Kittle will be delivering a lecture on Daisies (1966), the anarchic and psychedelic Czech New Wave classic, at Coolidge Corner theater in Brookline. Reservations available at the link.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest (or game) scheduled for next week’s Pod 366; we’ll return to covering the week’s weird news and releases. In written content, its Shane Wilson vs. Bruce Lee vs. Gay Power (actually Kung Fu contra As Bonecas); Enar Clarke reports on a new Invention (2025); and Gregory J. Smalley investigates the underground crime of Jacker 2: Descent to Hell (and, necessarily, Jacker). Onward and weirdward!