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Discussed in this episode:
Giles Edwards‘ complete Fantasia Festival 2026 coverage
Exit 8 (2025): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. The Blu-ray of the slightly weird video-game adaptation from Japan includes a Q&A with the director and a making-of feature. Buy Exit 8.
Safe (1995): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Todd Haynes odd, paranoid health-horror gets the 4K upgrade treatment from the Criterion collection (nothing new but the restoration and format, as far as we know). Buy Safe.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. Jane Schoenbrun‘s meta-slasher is one of the more highly anticipated movies of 2026 in these parts. Debuting in select prestige cinemas this week, looks to go into wider release about August 20 or so. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma official site.
The Weird Kidz (2022): Young teens and pre-teens go camping in the desert and encounter a monster. Animated gross-out comedy-horror from the producer of “Rick and Morty” and Anomalisa, there’s an outside chance it justifies its title. Starting a roadshow now (venues at the official site), promising a wider release in the first week of September. The Weird Kidz official site.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
No guest officially scheduled for next week’s Pod 366, but the gang will be back to discuss the week’s weird news and new releases. In next week’s written content, we’ll be thinning out the reader-suggestion queue, as Michael Diamades gets into the infamous 1988 “Guinea Pig” entry Mermaid in a Manhole, a well-written reader recommendation explains Where the Dead Go to Die (2012), Shane Wilson serves up a double helping of “Hen, His Wife” (1990) and “Paté” (2001), while Gregory J. Smalley breaks the reader-suggestion trend with a look at the oddball “Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape.” Onward and weirdward!