Rev up your engines and pop them pills: we put our season of CORMANIA to rest with this influential, psychedelic wrap-up of a double feature. Before Easy Rider, Roger Corman put 1960s bikers on screen in The Wild Angels, and then adapted his LSD journey into The Trip, a feature-length hippie music video scripted by Jack Nicholson.

As Eliza and Noah finish their six-film adventure into the late director's ouevre, just what has been learnt here? Was Corman a penny-pinching culture vulture, or an amazingly efficient auteur who leapt onto filmmaking trends well before they were cool? Cmon bro, it's the latter and you know it: rest in power king.

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Rest in pulp: Noah and Eliza's new marathon memorialises the low-budget brilliance of Roger Corman, Hollywood's cult B-Movie pioneer who died this May. Although the guy might now be best known as a one-man film school (responsible for sparking the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, Demme, Cameron and many more), we're startin' off our look at Corman's own directorial output with two black-and-white early-ish works.

One's a provocative, stark drama about small-town racism and the other's a smart lil black comedy lampooning the art world—but both'll whet your CORMANIA as we dive into a filmmaker who quietly shaped Hollywood's 1960s landscape. Enter our lil shop of horrors, if u dare...

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• Interview with Roger Corman on the Blockbusters podcast
• Interview with Roger Corman on Post Mortem with Mick Garris

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NEXT WEEK = X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES x THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH // ROGER CORMANIA PART 2

Return of the Meg! Once tragically deleted from existence, our beloved sibling Megane Janssen is back in the physical realm, and she brings two dancey, doom-filled horror picks! Released in the same year, 2018’s SUSPIRIA and CLIMAX choreograph haunting horrors of East Berlin witchcraft and LSD-fuelled violence respectively. They’re both damned, and damn good…Meg and Noah share all about their own terrifying dance backgrounds as we come to a twirling, bone-snappin’ decision.

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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: A BUCKET OF BLOOD x THE INTRUDER // ROGER CORMANIA PART 1

Cinemas are POPPIN OFF right now with a strong n diverse line-up of Hollywood movies—if you’re unsure which ones are worth their ticket price, let Noah n Eliza guide u thru the films that made em think over April n May.

We’re talkin about the sapphic pulp of LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the wishy-washy centrism of CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST OMEN’s ingenious religious scares, CHALLENGERS’ addictive sporty thrills, and the monkey mania of MONKEY MAN and GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE. Whew it’s a lot to cover!!! But by the end, you’ll be able to lie to ur mates and pretend you’ve seen everything available on the big screen right now ;)

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NEXT WEEK = Microsoft Songsmith: THE MUSICAL

Mighty Morbin' Madame Webbers!! Anthony joins Noah and Eliza in the Amazon researching spiders before they die due to Sony Spider-Man Universe-related brain injuries. Lemme tell ya: this is a CONTENTIOUS, ANGSTY episode, with Eliza insisting that new SSU entry Madame Web isn't all that bad, while da boys claim it's worse than Jared Leto super-bore Morbius.

Special voice guest Morbessa (thats her name now, yup) even gets in on the action, goin all Dakota Johnson on us for a minute, in this gloopy episode that'll have u sorely missing that overfamiliar neighbourhood hero Spidey.

Triplet in the Attic: Eminem's 'Venom' feat. cold can of Pepsi // leaked Sony emails bout Spider-Man

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NEXT WEEK = We Survived The SLEEPAWAY CAMP SLASH-A-THON

"Movies don't create psychos: movies make psychos more creative." If these words from 1996's Scream are true, then DANG are Noah + Eliza wildly creative by now. After learning about the background and boom time of the slasher genre, we're honing in on one iconic horror franchise—Wes Craven's saga-startin original, and the fresh blood of the fifth film Scream (2022)—to show the confusing state of slashdom today.

We discuss the hilarious fallibility of Ghostface, the genius of Matthew Lillard, and how meta is too meta—ending in one big, spooky wrap-up of everything we've learnt about slashers over 6 definitive films. Basically: we watched a few movies, took a few notes, it was FUHHNN.

The conclusion of our slasher autopsy also brings about the birth of our debut horror short GET HOME SAFE, which is available to watch on Vimeo and Youtube now! Give it a watch, share it around, and let us know what you think!

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NEXT WEEK = Pretty SPOOKY for a KIDZ SHOW

Lace up ya sneakers, it's our first Midnight Marathon = a season of 3 eps focusing on the vile birth and twisted evolution of the slasher genre !! aaaahh!!

We start our run with two revered proto-slashers: Peeping Tom, the voyeuristic British masterpiece that ruined its director's reputation, and Torso, a paranoid giallo that did all the big slasher tropes before it was cool.

With its masked killers and mystery plotting, where did this genre begin? Where's it heading? To celebrate the release of their debut short, subverted slasher GET HOME SAFE (available to watch rn on Patreon!), Noah and Eliza must figure it out...or die trying ....

Tune in next week only on Patreon for the second chapter of SLASHER AUTOPSY, where a good genre goes sour in its 1980s boom period, ripe for a 90s renaissance...

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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: THE BURNING x FATAL GAMES // SLASHER AUTOPSY PART 2

The betht movie of 2023? Maybe.

Noah and Eliza revisit Todd Haynes’ recent drama(???) May December, which got caught up in critical claptrap surrounding the term “camp”. Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman star as a predatory housewife and the wanky actress cast to play her in a new film. With Moore’s ‘may/december’ marriage under a microscope, everyone’s darkest impulses and delusions sprawl out in the luscious tradition of midcentury feel-bad melodrama.

Is this vicious, heartbreaking movie meant to be funny? Why did Charles Melton miss out on a fricken Oscar nom? All these questions and many more come broiling to the surface of the first ever Now Screaming episode, focusing on the new and recent releases that get the Midnight Screening team thinkin.

SHOW NOTES: - Eliza's piece on May December !

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NEXT TIME = Midnight Marathon: PEEPING TOM x TORSO // Slasher Autopsy Part 1

We're so back/it's so over/etc. Noah, Eliza and Anthony are reunited and it feels so good !! back to cover Midnight Screenings' first Twin Picks episode!!

It's a face off between the faceless freaks in fuzzy liminal horror Skinamarink (2022) and black-and-white art film Begotten (1990). Both films are hard to watch...like because of their intense scares, and also because they're literally hard to comprehend lol, with murky visuals and sound.

Which movie will the gang pick as their very first fave of the new pod: the one about neglected kids stuck in a demon house with no toilet, or the one in which god yanks out his own intestines??!! Twin Picks is dead: long live Midnight Screening 😈😈😈

Triplet in the Attic: Un Chien Andalou dir. Buñuel / Sleep Has Her House dir. Barley

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