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It’s Thanksgiving season and the pod celebrates with cult favorite Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? From wiki: “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and featuring Victor Buono in his major film debut. The screenplay, adapted by Lukas Heller from the novel of the same name by Henry Farrell, follows an aging former child star tormenting her paraplegic sister, also a former film star, in a dilapidated Hollywood mansion.”

ALSO DISCUSSED: Wildwood, millennial optimism, sex scenes, Faust: Love of the Damned (200)), Screaming Mad George, Brian Yuzna, Marie Antionette (2006), and more. 

NEXT WEEK: God Told Me To (1976) 

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The October celebration of condemned and controversial films continues with a film that Drusilla and Josh did NOT enjoy, aka Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. From wiki: “Antichrist (stylized as ANTICHRIS♀) is a 2009 art horror film[5] written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple who experience the accidental death of their infant son, after which they retreat to a cabin in the woods to grieve, where the man experiences strange visions and the woman manifests increasingly violent sexual behavior and sadomasochism. The narrative is divided into a prologue, four chapters, and an epilogue.”

ALSO DISCUSSED: You Can See Everything, Wildwood, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Rehearsal, Digger, A Kind of Hush: Cinema of Ambient Dread at Philosophical Research Society and Next of Kin (1982), lesbian vampires, Halloween and ad libbed dialogue, Dogme 1995, and more. 

NEXT WEEK: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

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Joshua Conkel

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Condemned film month continues with a deep dive (and redux!) on Ken Russell’s newly restored masterpiece, The Devils (1971). From wiki: “The Devils is a 1971 historical psychological horror-drama film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed.[3] A dramatised historical account of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed nun who inspires the accusations.”

ALSO DISCUSSED: The Stanley Kubrick Criterion boxset, Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation for Amazon, The Horrible Sexy Vampire (1971), The Entity (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Derek Jarman, and more.  

NEXT WEEK: Antichrist (2009) 

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Josh and Drusilla continue their exploration of condemned films for October with 1970’s Witchhammer (1970). From wiki: “Witchhammer (Czech: Kladivo na čarodějnice) is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra and starring Elo Romančík. Based on the novel Kladivo na čarodějnice by Václav Kaplický, Witchhammer relates the story of the Northern Moravia witch trials of the 1670s, focusing on the priest Kryštof Lautner, played by Romančík, who falls victim to the witchhunt after opposing the trials. The film contains possible allegory about Communist show trials in Czechoslovakia.”

ALSO DISCUSSED: mooses, Digger, The Devils, Cry_Wolf, The Crucibe, Ninotchka, communist propaganda, and more!

NEXT WEEK: The Devils (1971) REDUX

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Joshua Conkel

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The hosts begin a monthlong exploration of condemned films with 1971’s A Clockwork Orange. From wiki: “A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. The film employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and broader social, political, and economic issues in a dystopian near-future Britain.”

ALSO DISCUSSED: Pathetic Fallacy (2026), Primetime (2026), Beyond Fest 2026, Penelope Spheeris,  Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick, If, Heathers, Clueless, Trainspotting, what is punk?, and more. 

NEXT WEEK: Witchhammer (1970) 

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Joshua Conkel

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This week, the ghouls discuss all things Jordan Peele with a focus on Us (2019). From wiki: “Us is a 2019 American psychological horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, and starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker. The story follows Adelaide Wilson and her family, who are attacked by a group of menacing doppelgängers, called the "Tethered".”

ALSO DISCUSSED: Resident Evil (2026), the escalators at AMC Burbank, Zach Cregger, Salem Horror Festival submissions are open, Miss March (2009), Jordan Peele, the connection between comedy and horror, Guillermo Del Toro, The Goonies (1984), Backrooms (2026), Key & Peele, the time Josh spent Thanksgiving with Lupita Nyong’o, Greta (2018), Hands Across America, and more. 

NEXT WEEK: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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Joshua Conkel

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Today, Josh and Drusilla discuss Bong Joon Ho’s early thriller, Memories of Murder (2003). From wiki: “Memories of Murder (Korean: 살인의 추억) is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Bong Joon Ho, from a screenplay by Bong and Shim Sung-bo, and based on the 1996 play Come to See Me by Kim Kwang-lim. It stars Song Kang-ho and Kim Sang-kyung. In the film, detectives Park Doo-man (Song) and Seo Tae-yoon (Kim) lead an investigation into a string of rapes and murders taking place in Hwaseong in the late 1980s, by a man known as the Hwaesong Killer. The film is a semi-biographical retelling of Korea's police hunting Lee Choon-jae.”

Also discussed: Coyote vs. Acme (2026), Hope (2026), Zodiac (2007), French Connection (1971), and more. 

NEXT WEEK: Us (2019) 

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Joshua Conkel

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Drusilla and Josh discuss the Val Lewton classic, I Walked with a Zombie. They are joined by Black Zombie director, Maya Annik Bedward. From wiki: “I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. It stars James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway, and follows a Canadian nurse who travels to care for the ailing wife of a sugar plantation owner in the Caribbean, where she witnesses Vodou rites and possibly encounters the walking dead. The screenplay, written by Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray, is based on an article of the same title by Inez Wallace, and also partly reinterprets the narrative of the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.[1][2]”

Also discussed: Dark Shadows, Bunny Lake is Missing, Onslaught, Theresa Harris, Jacques Tourneur, Val Lewton, Curse of the Cat People (1944), The 7th Victim (1943), Black Zombie (2026), George Romero, Night of the Living Dead (1968), World War Z (2013), Darby Jones, voodoo, Sinners (2025), Haitian vodou, Crooklyn (1994), 

NEXT WEEK: Memories of Murder (2003), 

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Drusilla Adeline:

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Joshua Conkel

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Happy Labor Day! Drusilla and Josh are watching the 1988 Canadian oddity, PIN. From wiki: “Pin (stylized as PIN...) fully titled as Pin: A Plastic Nightmare is a 1988 Canadian horror film directed by Sandor Stern and starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston and Terry O'Quinn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman. The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on January 27, 1989.”

Also discussed: The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967),  The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998), Flowers in the Attic, The Baby (1973), and more. 

NEXT WEEK: Black Zombie (2026) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

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Drusilla Adeline:

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Joshua Conkel

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Josh and Drusilla watch Joaquim Trier’s lesbian genre exploration, Thelma (2017). From wiki: “Thelma is a 2017 supernatural thriller drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eskil Vogt. The film stars Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, and Ellen Dorrit Petersen. Thelma tells the story of a sheltered young woman who discovers she has an inexplicable power that materializes when she feels desire for a female student at her university. Thelma was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards,[4][5][6] but did not receive the nomination.[7][8]”

Also discussed: The End of Oak Street (2026), Revenge (2017), You’re Next (2011), The Worst Person in the World (2021), Sentimental Value (2025) and more. 

NEXT WEEK: Pin (1988)

Bloodhaus: 

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Drusilla Adeline:

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Joshua Conkel

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https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/