Sammo enters the 1980s with a BANG - in our continuing celebration of a martial arts movie legend, we’re getting our first glimpses of Sammo Hung’s friendly rivalry with Jackie Chan, and his genre-making, hopping horror creativity. In the first ever “jiangshi” action movie Encounters of the Spooky Kind, shit gets scooby dooby and an insane final shot made us lose our minds. Then, Wheels on Meals is kind of an unofficial Mario bros buddy comedy (Yuen Biao and fight choreographer Chan!), with Sammo sporting a Jheri curl and directing the hell out of some truly painful-looking battles in Barcelona.

It turns out our predictions for Hung’s hilarious blend of kung fu and gags were true: the guy just gets better and better. But can a Sammo Hung action-horror-comedy live up to our absurd expectations?? And what’s it like when he gets his hands on skateboards, motorbikes and food trucks for jaw-dropping chase scenes? Let’s throw on some pastel blazers, travel back to the 1980s and find out …

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NEXT EPISODE = Midnight Marathon: EASTERN CONDORS x PEDICAB DRIVER // Sammo Hung Part 3

Today, listener, u finally become a man. We’re shoutin out two amazing underrated indie short films..ok they’re bar mitzvah videos, made to celebrate 2 cool lads turning 13. First there’s Julian’s chaotic James Bond themed invitation, which u simply must see to believe

THEN. The main event is ‘I’m Zack’, an exuberant anthem of self-love, individuality and Cake Boss. The team r truly impressed with the choreo, sophisticated cultural references, and sheer bravado of the music video, and u will be TOO.

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NEXT EPISODE = Midnight Marathon: ENTER THE FAT DRAGON x KNOCKABOUT // Sammo Hung Part 1

From the transcendent Winkies diner jumpscare in Mulholland Dr. to nightmares of Bob in Twin Peaks, our guy David Lynch was a true master of horror when he wanted to be. That’s what we’re obsessed with in this third and final leg of our Lynch marathon: honing in on terror, in the director’s final, bewildering feature Inland Empire, and some of his eeriest artworks.

Using (literally, gorily) raw materials and violent scenarios, Lynch’s mixed-media paintings show that his visual art can often be more strikingly obvious than his wonderful films - and, featuring Laura Dern in a career-best, multifaceted role, Inland Empire is certainly proof of that, too.

It’s our last lunch with Lynch for now, but not forever - see ya in our dreams and nightmares!!

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Paintings referenced:

Boy Lights Fire

Rat Meat Bird

Change the Fuckin’ Channel Fuckface

I Burn Pinecone and Throw In Your House

SPECIAL EVENT

Eliza and friend of the pod Ivana (@avabanisher) are hostin a Twin Peaks season 1 marathon on April 5, celebrating the 35th anniversary of David Lynch’s seminal (and yes, SPOOKIE) show!! It’s the perfect way to wrap up our Dreaming With David Lynch Midnight Marathon, we’d love to see ya there :))

Get your free tickets HERE (plus screening will feature coffee, pie and Peaksian snacks for a small donation 😉)

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NEXT EPISODE = Twin Picks: NOSFERATU (1972) x SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE

A candy-coloured clown they call The Underground Film Collective tiptoes to our room on this night…

In this interstate meeting of minds, Noah and Eliza meet Parker and Flynn, the renegade programmers behind Sydney’s sickest movie screenings! Lost Highway brought our guests one of their most sensational cinema experiences ever, but we’re here to talk about Lynchian Noir = the tropes, trauma and hypnotic effect of a classic like Blue Velvet or a little-known HBO experiment like miniseries Hotel Room.

Diggin deep n celebrating Dorothy Valens, the four guys get on like a house on fire !!! Or a pack of ants devouring a severed ear….idk

If you thought Parker and Flynn were extremely cool like we did then you should follow them over on Insta: @underground.film.collective

And if you're in Sydney, jump on tix for their next screening!: BOOGIE BOBBY Underground Film Collective Screening

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*CONTENT WARNING*: This episode contains discussion of the distressing content contained in both films, including graphic violence and sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.

• Crazy Clown Time (Making Of)

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Raise a cup of black coffee to the sky and salute your fallen king: we’re deep diving into the dreams, nightmares and greatness of the late David Lynch. Starting with a focus on the director’s sense of humour, Noah and Eliza ride with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dean in Wild At Heart, Lynch’s racy Palme d’Or winner about lovers on the run across the South.

Then an assortment of Lynchian shorts are up next, including the first moving picture her ever made (Six Men Getting Sick Six Times), the last film project he ever made (What Did Jack Do?), and one of our favourite fucked-up cartoon series we’ve ever seen (DumbLand). We really miss this bloke and his wild vision and his gorgeous hair—and we’re not interested in doing a Greatest Hits run in our memorial. As Nic Cage once said: this podcast is a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom.

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NEXT EPISODE = Twin Picks: THREADS x WHEN THE WIND BLOWS

10s 10s 10s across the board!! We r well into 2025, but Noah and Eliza are still hung up on their fave films of last year, listing em out for ur judgement here. How does monkè biopic Better Man fare in their rankings? Is La Chimera from last year or 2023 or whatever? And which movies will overlap cutely between da two siblings?

Listen in to find out - and to hear from some friends of the pod, on their own absolute favourite films of 2024! Big big thanks to Jack Bell, Jamie Tram, Ivana Brehas, Darcey Eagle, and our sis Meg for sharing ur superior cinematique tastes 😘

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Alice’s adventures in Midnight Screeningland! It is well n truly 2025 now, and we r psyched to be back…but the terror of Christmas is never truly over. In this final and extra special instalment of our holiday horror marathon, we got the chance to chat to Alice Maio Mackay, the groundbreaking and prolific young Aussie director behind gems such as T-Blockers, So Vam, and 2024’s Carnage for Christmas!!!

Pairing her own tale of small-town Christmas bigotry and bloodshed with personal fave Anna and the Apocalypse, a pure-hearted zombie-Christmas-teen-musical (!!), Alice shares the inside info on her directing style on set, the exciting stuff she’s got comin' up next, and her fave films of 2024. We couldn’t be more stoked to farewell the festive season in her company — and to wrap up our accursed Christmas presents with such a pair of bangin, heartfelt, freaky features :*) Only 11 months to go til next Christmas u guys !!!

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NEXT EPISODE = Reflecting on 2024: Fave Performances, Scenes, First Watches +

Christmas is all about the kids: holy infants, so tender n mild….but in the second part of our deep dive into yuletide terror, little people cause big, freaky problems. Nasty British horror The Children follows some snotty, evil kids picking off their almost-as-awful parents, and features some gnarly kills Noah and Eliza have never rlly seen before! Then, Spanish dark comedy The Day of the Beast offers up a perverted Nativity story, with a priest, a TV psychic and a satanist metalhead playing wise men who must stop the birth of the Antichrist on Christmas Day.

Both movies are solid, scary, and a great way to wash all that sentimental family reunion crap from the holidays outta ur brain. And don’t forget that one, final accursed gift under the tree: the third episode in our Seasons Screamings Marathon, plummeting down the chimney long after all the other presents have been torn open!! Stay tuned ’til 2025, lil elves…

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NEXT EPISODE = Eliza's 2024 Movie Trivia !

It’s the season for ho-ho-horror, and how are we meant to feel the festive spirit without watching some horrible nasty Christmas movies? Noah, Eliza and Anthony kick off a Christmas horror edition of Midnight Marathon with Christmas Evil (1980) and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) - two movies about an unhinged Santa taking their yuletide trauma out on those they deem ‘naughty’.

Thing is, the first movie is a bonafide cult classic, loved by John Waters and featuring a tremendous lead performance from Fiona Apple’s dad (??!!). The second movie is an insane feat of feature-film recycling, and one of the worst lead performances we’ve ever seen. GARBAGE DAY indeed.

The pairing goes down like a litre of rotten egg nog, and our mistletoe marathon is only just beginning. Scary Christmas to all and to all a good FRIGHT aaaaaaa

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NEXT EPISODE = christmas shoes

Do boybands dream of liquid babes? Forget wanting it that way and not knowing you’re beautiful: in our most treasured boyband fantasy, a Frankenstein’d monster gal comes to slippery, stinky life, and we’re done being silent about her. Eliza and Noah take Anthony on a troubling journey to O-Town, and the minor boyband’s most confounding hit, 2000’s ‘Liquid Dreams’. Its legend foretells of a dream girl with the body parts of various celebrities, so hot she makes the band shoot ropes in the middle of the night. Eugh.

We break down the lyrical description of the perfect woman, question how this was a real, charting pop song pitched at impressionable young girls, and appreciate somea those sweet sweet vocal riffs. It’s a pop song analysis that’ll follow you into your dreams…whether you’ve got a towel ready or not.

SHOW NOTES: the_SONG: Liquid Dreams - O-Town // the_MESSY_PERFORMANCE: Liquid Dreams Live on Miss America

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NEXT WEEK = Twin Picks: THE FAN (1982) x THE FANATIC