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Discussed in this episode:
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 Criterion collection‘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. Albert Birney‘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!
So this means two Apocrypha certifications in the pipeline for next week? Fingers crossed…