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Adult Swim Yule Log (2022): Read the Apocryphally Weird entry! Casper Kelly‘s original gonzo Christmas horror flick, now out of limited release and available to everyone in a standard Blu-ray edition; you’ll miss out on the special lenticular slipcase but score all the other extra features (commentaries, FX descriptions, actual Yule log, etc). Buy Adult Swim Yule Log.
EPISODE SPOILER! The 366 Weird Movies’ staff consensus top 10 Weird Movies of 2024.
9/10 (tie). The Eternal Recurrence/Katernica
5. The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost: “A mysterious milkman helps a grieving mother deal with the loss of her child… Some of the imagery is arresting: the cigar-smoking demons are as brilliantly conceived as they are easily achieved, and sequences like the woman who pierces her milk-bag bra (!) with a knife are hard to forget.”–Gregory J. Smalley
4. I Saw the TV Glow: “Two misfit teenagers become obsessed with a paranormal TV show, leading them into delusions that persist into adulthood… By the film’s end, imagery merging humans and TVs, reminiscent of Videodrome, reinforces the focus on pathological fandom in the face of pervasive media—but leaves a crack for Schoenbrun’s underlying metaphor to shine through.”–Gregory J. Smalley
Here’s the tabular breakdown of how the three voters cast their ballots:
WEIRDEST MOVIES OF 2024 | ||
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Giles Edwards | El Rob Hubbard | Gregory J. Smalley |
The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost | The Substance | The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost |
Katernica | Kinds of Kindness | The Eternal Recurrence |
Abruptio | I Saw the TV Glow | The Blue Rose |
Megalopolis | Hundreds of Beavers | Dream Team |
Psycho Ape Part 2: The Wrath of Kong | Megalopolis | Daaaaaali! |
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain | Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out | Rumours |
The Vourdalak | She Is Conann | She Is Conann |
Ghost Cat Anzu | Quantum Cowboys | I Saw the TV Glow |
The Invisible Fight | The Invisible Fight | Abruptio |
Ozma | The Vourdalak | Kinds of Kindness |
BEST WEIRD MOVIES OF 2020 | ||
Hundreds of Beavers | Hundreds of Beavers | The Substance |
Ghost Cat Anzu | The Substance | Hundreds of Beavers |
Cuckoo | I Saw the TV Glow | A Different Man |
Megalopolis | Megalopolis | I Saw the TV Glow |
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain | Kinds of Kindness | Daaaaaali! |
The People's Joker | The Invisible Fight | Kinds of Kindness |
Mother, Couch | The Vourdalak | Animalia |
Ozma | Quantum Cowboys | Megalopolis |
Quantum Cowboys | Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences | Rumours |
Crumb Catcher | She Is Conann | Riddle of FIre |
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
If you listened to the Pod, you’ll know that Gregory J. Smalley is going on an overseas semi-working vacation for the next two weeks and Giles Edwards and Pete Trbovich will be hosting next week’s Pod 366. With Greg out of the country and working off third world wi-fi under severe jet lag, posting may be erratic. Nevertheless, you can still expect to see Shane Wilson‘s review of the reader-suggested obscurity The Sea That Thinks (2000) and El Rob Hubbard‘s defense of queer noir Love Lies Bleeding (2024) as a weird movie. And Giles may try to sneak something yet undecided in, as well. Stay tuned. Onward and weirdward!