POD 366. EP. 96: THE DREAM WRATH OF HARD NIGHTBEAVERS

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Quick links/Discussed in this episode:

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972): Read Giles Edwards’ review. This is the 4K UHD upgrade of the weird-adjacent / jungle fever classic.  Buy Aguirre: The Wrath of God.

Dream Team (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ review. An absurdist/surrealist take on sexy late night cable thrillers about sexy Interpol agents taking on a sexy case involving psychic coral. Buy or rent Dream Team.

Hard Wood: The Adult Features Of Ed Wood“: Read Alfred Eaker’s survey of Ed Wood’s declining years and descent into porn. Sad and bad, these are Ed Wood, Jr.‘s final, pornographic, films. The main features are Necromania (1971) (with a puffy, booze-ravaged Wood in drag), The Only House in Town, a never-before-seen version of The Young Marrieds, and the Wood-written Shotgun Wedding, with lots of special features including the Wood episode from Britain’s influential “Incredibly Strange Film Show.”  Buy “Hard Wood: The Adult Features Of Ed Wood.

Hundreds of Beavers (2022): Read El Rob Hubbard’s Apocrypha Candidate review. Variant “special editions” of the modern slapstick classic were released to eager fans this week, including ones that came in a special wooden case (!) (a few of these were still available as we write this. Standard editions should be available come Jan. 25, but for now you can  buy Hundreds of Beavers from Vinegar Syndrome or directly from the filmmakers.

Nightbitch (2024): It starts as a regular mommy comedy as a post-natal deals with the furstrations of a newborn, but gets stranger as mom finds herself turning into a dog. On the borderline of weird, but at least it has an unexpected premise. Nightbitch official site.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest is scheduled for Pod 366 next week (unless a surprise pops up), but Giles and Greg will return to discuss the week’s weird news and new releases. In written reviews, Shane Wilson watches a double-feature of films that Came from the Reader-Suggested Queue with Endgame (2000) and Operation: Endgame (2010), while Gregory J. Smalley takes an experimental Family Portrait (2023). Onward and weirdward!

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