Midnight Murderama

Saturday Night Commentary Series:

As 2020 thankfully comes to a close, our hosts take some time to revisit one of the better regarded films to hit the US last year: La Llorona. This Guatemalan ghost story tells the story of a house-bound dictator whose new housekeeper seems to be more than she's letting on.

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This week our hosts take some time to reflect on the movies reviewed in 2020. After asking the community to contribute their own rankings, they've crunched the numbers and created a definitive ranking of the movies they watched this year. Who was voted best final girl? Who was crowned best director? What songs did JT make up this week? All that and more will be answered!

• Top 5 Films
• Top 5 Directors
• Top 5 Special Effects
• Top 5 Monsters
• Top 5 Final Girls
• Best "Scary" Films
• Best "Horror" Films
• Best "Terror" Films

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This week our hosts watched Mandy, the hyper-stylized revenge flick from Panos Cosmatos, or: "The film where Nicolas Cage transforms into Nicolas Cage." But is the inventive cinematography and over-the-top violence enough to make up for a by-the-numbers premise? Listen and find out!

• Ghosts of War (2020)
• "A New Beginning" by Wolfie's Just Fine

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"I felt the earth move under my feet, I felt Bacon tumbling down!" This week our hosts watch Tremors. If Jaws made you afraid to go in the water, Tremors will make you afraid to even step outside. Is this the perfect creature B-movie? At the very least, it's a wonderful swan song to the practical effects of the 80s, managing to get in just before latex and miniatures were replaced with cringey 90s CG for all monster flicks.

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Sacré bleu! This week our hosts venture to land of love, art, cigarettes, baguettes and... problematic plots twists! They watched the French film High Tension (Haute Tension), the 2003 debut of director Alexandre Aja. They discuss the early-2000's French Extreme film movement, of which High Tension helped define. The big questions with this film: can you still enjoy a film that botches the ending? Can you appreciate a film's visual style if you don't agree with the messaging?

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This week our hosts watch Deep Red and venture into the blood-soaked genre of "giallo", Italy's answer to the question: "What would happen if you took a murder mystery but made it make 20% less sense and 50% more bloody?". And of course we all know what would happen: you'd get Dario Argento's fantastic 1975 film that features an evil doll on a bicycle, a psychic German lady, and as much dog-fighting B-roll as you can handle!

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"Jokes go on the podcast, you get the podcast. Podcast's on your headphones. Our podcast." This week our hosts watched the iconic Jaws, the first blockbuster and perhaps the most mainstream horror movie of all time. After over forty years, does it still hold up? Sure, your parents claim there can't be sharks in the swimming pool, but how do they know for sure?

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Did you ever wonder what Jason does in his spare time? Ever consider if Freddy and Michael Meyers hang out when not murdering teens? All this and more is answered as our hosts watch Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, the 2006 film that tries to say what happens when you mix slasher films with The Office.

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We have such sounds to show you! This week our hosts watched Hellraiser (1987), Clive Barker's horror classic that spawned some... less than classic sequels. All these years later, how does a low-budget British horror movie hold up that subsequently had all the British accents dubbed over with American voice-over? Spoiler alert: better than you'd think (Additional spoiler alert: the surprise bone dragon doesn't hold up quite as well).

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BA-BA-DOOK! This episode features the 2014 Australian film The Babadook. Is this a supernatural haunting, or one woman's struggle processing grief? Does it matter which? Does it have to be one or the other?

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