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Discussed in this episode:
Luther the Geek (1989): A maniac uses his custom metal dentures to bite his victims to death. A psychotronic slasher film notorious for the fact that the killer clucks like a chicken. Buy Luther the Geek.
Return to Silent Hill (2026): Guy gets letter, guy drawn to Silent Hill, experiences mysteries and jump scares, etc. Christophe Gans from the Canonically Weird original returns to the director’s chair for a direct adaptation of the video game “Silent Hill 2” that isn’t making a lot of noise with critics. Return to Silent Hill official site.
Straight Circle (2025): An absurdist comic satire about two border guards (played by real-life twins) from fictional adversary countries who become disoriented when a dust storm obscures the border line. This Venice Film Festival hit will be released by new distributor Joint Ventures in US theaters later this year. Variety reports the acquisition.
Sundance Film Festival (Park City and Salt Lake City, UT, Jan. 22-Feb. 1):
The 2024 film season officially kicks off at Sundance, which celebrates its 46th (and final) year in Park City, Utah before relocating to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. We can usually find a single weird film making its initial bow at Sundance; last year, it was Obex; in 2024, it was I Saw the TV Glow. Unless we missed one (which very well might happen), this year we again have only one weird feature contender, plus a curious short:
- Buddy – Nothing is yet known about Casper Kelly‘s (theatrical) debut feature aside from this synopsis—“a brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show”—and the promotional still of a unicorn Muppet with a bandaged head carrying an axe.
- “Homemade Gatorade” – From the shorts competition, this animation (which you may be able to find on YouTube) is about a woman delivering “creamy” Gatorade online. What fascinated us even more was director Carter Amelia Davis’ pro-weird “Meet the Artist” interview, which led us to bookmark her various social media pages.
Sundance film festival homepage.
Untitled Cory McAbee project (“Lincoln Movie”) (mid-2026?): McAbee (The American Astronaut) has been quietly working on a new movie. All we know about it is in the clip below: it’s a musical about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, it’s narrated by an immortal, and it’s told with repurposed vintage video and music. McAbee has a Patreon where you may be able to find more information from time to time.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, but Greg and Giles will return with a look at the week’s new weird news and releases. In written content, Micheal Diamades encounters the grief parable The Thing with Feathers (2025), Shane Wilson grooves to the 80s retro-futurism of Turbo Kid (2015), and Gregory J. Smalley reveals and explains his votes for the Online Film Critics Society’s 2026 awards. Onward and weirdward!