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POD 366, EP. 151: INCORPOREAL GHOST IN THE CITY

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Babe: Pig in the City (1998): Read Scott Sentinella’s review. The weird (?) sequel to the smash hit about a talking pig is now on 4K UHD (standard Blu-ray included) with a new commentary track and interview with director . Buy Babe: Pig in the City. You can also now get it in a Blu-ray only double feature paired with the original Babe.

Incorporeal Man (2025): A drunk has the ability to walk through walls (but only sometimes, if the trailer is a guide). From Elevator Movie ‘s , made with deliberately primitive A.I. from an unfilmed 2008 screenplay. Incorporeal Man press kit and Incorporeal Man free on YouTube.

A Useful Ghost (2025): The spirit of a Thai man’s dead wife possesses a vacuum cleaner, and they resume their romantic relationship. “Absurd” has been reviewers go-to adjective for the debut feature from Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. A Useful Ghost official site.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: 

No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, but Giles and Greg will return with a look at Sundance’s upcoming slate, and whatever other new releases and news pop up. In written reviews, Micheal Diamades reviews Radu Jude’s mad 2025 Dracula (which is scheduled to show up on Plex January 20), Enar Clarke essays fellow 2025 latecomer Traumnovelle (a more authentic and surreal adaptation of the novel that inspired Eyes Wide Shut), Shane Wilson advises you on whether you can leave I Never Left the White Room (2000) alone, and Giles Edwards investigates the real-life The Producers scam-film Eldorado (2012). Onward and weirdward!

POD 366, EP. 150: HOWLIN’ RICHARD BAILEY DISCUSSES “HOWLER” AND MORE

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Howler (2025): On the eve of receiving a major award, a reclusive poet begins having visions related to a local disappearance. Tropic Pictures Facebook and Tropic Pictures Instagram. Rent or buy Howler on VOD.

Dead Man (1995): Read the Canonically Weird review! This is the ‘s 4K UHD upgrade of Jim Jarmusch‘s weirdo Western masterpiece. Buy Dead Man.

“Krazee Kidz Video Party”: A selection of four 60s-era “Children’s Grindhouse” features—The Big Bad Wolf, Fun in Balloon Land, Polly Pockets, and The Princess and the Magic Frog—paired with the esteemed Soviet children’s fantasy The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963).  Buy “Krazee Kidz Video Party” at Vinegar Syndrome.

“The Mike Diana Film Collection”: The notorious artist Mike Diana (whose child-abuse-themed comix were so extreme that he was prosecuted for obscenity) also made a few transgressive and blasphemous “backyard” movies with titles like Baked Baby Jesus (1990). We can’t imagine that these are much fun, but we also can’t doubt that they are weird (in a nauseating way). Buy “The Mike Diana Film Collection” (and may God have mercy on your souls).

The Movie Orgy (1968): Cinema’s first mixtape, made by Joe Dante (hand-assembling actual films) to create a cultural artifact. Video editing has made this kind of thing trivial, but at the time it was a groundbreaking no-budget innovation. Buy The Movie Orgy from Vinegar Syndrome.

OBEX (2025): Read Giles Edwards’ festival capsule. A 1980s computer nerd travels into a video game to retrieve his missing dog. ‘s festival hit has a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing and will play select theaters starting this week, with digital access coming February 6.  OBEX official site and distributor site (where you can find theaters and play whack-a-bug).

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366 (but we plan more to come). In written content, Micheal Diamades introduces you to the 1981 Greek obscurity Barbecue Them, Shane Wilson tells some more Southland Tales, Giles Edwards goes deeper into the world of OBEX (see above), and Gregory J. Smalley again thinks about I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Onward and weirdward!

POD 366, EP. 149: THE BEST AND WEIRDEST AND BEST WEIRD MOVIES OF 2025

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Megalopolis re-release: Read our Megalopolis “three takes” review. refuses to give up on Megalopolis despite the movie flopping at the box office, and now hopes to revive it theatrically annually for New Years’ Day. Alamo Drafthouse is willing to play along, this year, at least. Even more interesting, though, is the fact that Coppola wants to make another cut, Megalopolis Unbound, a longer, weirder version (with dream sequences that didn’t make the initial cut). More in this snarky article from The Guardian.

STAFF CONSENSUS TOP WEIRD MOVIES OF 2025:

10 (tie). The Shrouds: “Starting from a typically Cronenbergian premise–straddling the line that separates the just barely plausible from the utterly implausible, but presented as if it were perfectly natural—the august director takes a deep dive into human depravity and loss, accompanied by plentiful hallucinations.“–Gregory J. Smalley

She Loved Blossoms More: “Hallucinating your dead mom as a talking vaginal flower, complete with glowing clitoris, might be a totally natural Oedipal response for a son still processing grief and loss. But when Hedgehog then makes a psychedelic drug from said flower so he can hold a séance with a transdimensional severed head to perfect his time travel experiments, things get pretty weird.“–Enar Clarke

8. Bugonia: “… it’s the confluence of outrageous plotting and matter-of-fact adherence to the film’s psychotic worldview that creates the sense of strangeness here. Despite Lanthimos working in a stripped-down, more approachable mode, the material allows him to indulge his love of nihilistic plot twists. Parts will make you squirm, and parts will fill you with moral horror. The closing montage, scored to Marlene Dietrich singing ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,’ ends things on as beautifully bleak of a Lanthimosian note as could ever be imagined: a deep cynicism undercut by a yearning melancholy that testifies to the director’s genuine, bereaved humanism.“–Gregory J. Smalley

7. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: “The meandering pace, repetitions, and lack of clear narrative may be off-putting to some viewers, but the films of the Brothers Quay have always been more about the experience of seeing than storytelling. For fans, this one is definitely a long-anticipated must-see.“–Enar Clarke

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POD 366, EP. 148: LATE XMAS IDEAS AND SOMEONE ELSE’S “SURREALIST” MOVIE LIST

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Bugonia (2025): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s Apocrypha Candidate review. The Bugonia Blu-ray will drop two days before Christmas (showing you just how much big studios value new-releases on physical media these days). Pre-order Bugonia. Also available in 4K UHD or 4K Steelbook editions (both come with standard Blu-rays included).

Kill the Jockey (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. The surreal Argentinian film about a drug-addicted jockey with a truly life-changing concussion arrives on VOD; free on Amazon Prime, with physical media arriving later. Watch or rent Kill the Jockey.

Perfect Blue (1997): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Shout! Factory’s lavish 4K edition of ‘s anime psychological horror (released two days before Christmas, sadly) includes a 4K UHD disc, standard Blu-ray, booklet, art cards, poster, almost two hours of never-before-seen lectures from Kon, and more. Pre-order Perfect Blue.

Reanimator (1985): Read Giles Edwards’ List Candidate review. We already discussed this Ignite Films release in great detail in Pod 366, Ep. 118; this is just a notification that the standard edition (4K UHD + Blu-ray) is now available on Amazon and other retailers. Buy Reanimator.

Taste of Cinema 100 Best Surrealist Movies list: See the complete list here. This list does not appear on Taste of Cinema’s regular website, it’s a social media exclusive.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

Pod 366 is off next week. In written content, however, Micheal Diamades gets into the holiday spirit with the depraved torture of Melancholie der Engel (2009), Giles Edwards gets stuck in Rabbit Trap (2025), and Shane Wilson takes the Polar Express into the uncanny valley. Io Saturnalia, and onward and weirdward!

POD 366, EP. 147: RESURRECTION OF THE SPLENDID, MYSTERIOUS ANGEL TRAP LIST

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Angel’s Egg (1985): Read Simon Hyslop’s original List Candidate review! In a desolate city, an angelic young girl cherishes an egg. We have been waiting for this one to be re-issued since the day this site first came into existence; that day is finally here. Umbrella’s Blu-ray/4K includes a commentary track, two video appreciations, and a Q&A with director from a festival screening. Buy Angel’s Egg.

Kill List (2011): Read Jesse Miksic’s review. ‘s breakthrough sophomore feature, a hitman tale with echoes of The Wicker Man, Rosemary’s Baby, and Angel Heart, gets the 4K UHD treatment. Buy Kill List.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025): A Chilean feature about a young girl raised by a commune of drag queens which comes under suspicion when a disease arises which is spread by the male gaze. Opening in NYC this week with a few screenings across North America until early February (see following link for venues). The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo U.S. distributor site.

Rabbit Trap (2025): Married musicians accidentally make a field recording of a mysterious forbidden sound in Wales. This slow-paced surreal folk horror left most viewers equally bored and baffled. Buy Rabbit Trap.

Resurrection (2025): ‘s latest involves a woman trapped in a dreamscape while undergoing a medical procedure who tells stories to an android corpse. In limited release right now from Janus, which means Criterion will release it in physical formats, probably in 2026. Resurrection at Janus Films.

Splendid Outing (1978): A Korean CEO (in the early days of feminism) is kidnapped and swept away to an island where a fisherman insists she is his wife. The scenario of this overlooked South Korean arthouse feature, now rediscovered by Radiance on Blu-ray, sounds a little like a gender-switched version of The Woman in the Dunes . Buy Splendid Outing.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest on Pod 366 next week, but Greg and Giles will return to catch-up on the final new releases of 2025. In written reviews, new writer Michael Diamades volunteers to venture In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Shane Wilson revisits Citizen Dog (2004), Giles Edwards makes some noise about the underground Haunters of the Silence (2025), and Gregory J. Smalley looks at The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025, see above). Onward and weirdward!