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“All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, Vol. 2”: Another astounding collection of rarities, including two Canonically Weird movies in the set: the surreal stop-motion fairy tale Blood Tea and Red String (2006) and the bleak Estonian pagan fable November (2017).  Pre-order All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, Vol. 2.”

Dream Team (2024): A spoof of softcore cable TV erotica of the 1990s, with a plot involving psychic coral. The promotional material proudly proclaims it is “beautifully weird,” I Saw the TV Glow‘s Jane Schoenbrun is a producer, and it debuts at NYC’s Metrograph this week (distribution plans past that are unclear at this time).  Dream Team official site.

Ghost Cat Anzu (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. From GKids, so this kid-friendly, Spirited Away-adjacent anime fantasy will be getting decent theatrical distribution. Ghost Cat Anzu U.S. distributor site.

“Golden Harvest Volume 1: Supernatural Shockers”: A misleadingly titled box set from Shout! Factory: with Hong Kong New Wave features Sex and Zen; Erotic Ghost Story I, II, & III; Dr. Vampire; and Robotrix, this should have been titled “Sexy Supernatural Shockers.”  All are Cat III features full of nudity and violence, including Sex and Zen‘s infamous “organ” transplant scene. Buy “Golden Harvest Volume 1: Supernatural Shockers.”

Häxan (1922): Read the Canonically Weird review! Radiance out-criterions the Criterion collection with this lavish limited edition of the witchcraft documentary that contains four different cuts of the film in addition to its many other extras. The Amazon listing says that it is an all-region Blu-ray.  Buy Häxan.

Maniac (1934): Read the Canonically Weird entry for Maniac! In conjunction with Something Weird, Kino releases the maniacal 1934 shocker with a commentary track and some rare Dwain Esper shorts as “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 17.” The cats eat the rats, the rats eat the cats, and you get the Blu-ray. Buy Maniac.

Megalopolis (2024): Read Gregory J. Smalley, Giles Edwards, and El Rob Hubbard’s Apocrypha Candidate review. We’ve talked for a year now about Francis Ford Coppola‘s glorious folly, and now it’s rentable (at premium pricing) on VOD for those who missed it in theaters. We also have a Pod 366 episode (with featured extra Nadia Robertson) almost entirely dedicated to this one. Rent Megalopolis.

Pedro Páramo (2024): Adaptation of a classical magical realist novel about a dusty Mexican town where the living may be the dead, this is the directing debut of award-winning cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. Pedro Páramo on Netflix.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

Next week’s guests on Pod 366 will be Bradley Kornish and Dan Pullen of Movies from Hell (a reciprocal appearance after Giles and Greg guested on their podcast back in early October.) In written reviews, Shane Wilson goes outside the reader-suggestion queue for a second look at Beau Is Afraid (you can probably guess what that means); Giles Edwards addresses the dreaminess of Dream Team (see above); and Gregory J. Smalley plans to knock our both a new release and a reader suggestion with the Pharrell Williams Lego autobiography Piece by Piece. Onward and weirdward!