MAS is back like it never left. Fred Barrett returns to the podcast to discuss the film Revoluiton+1 and the revolutionary underground cinema of Masao Adachi.

You can follow Fred on twitter @ https://twitter.com/fred_beretta and read/submit to his Substack https://fredbarrett.substack.com/ here.

It's the first episode of 2024. So I decided to kick it off by discussing my top 10 horror films of 2023 with LowRes and Hans from Movies a Podcast About The Act of Cinema.

Jaume Balaguero's Venus is one of the best horror films of 2023 but not many people are talking about it. So I invited writer, musician, and podcaster Evan Dean Shelton on to spread the gospel of Venus.

Writer and Baltimore native David Simmons is back to talk about When Evil Lurks. The Argentine horror film from the director of Terrified that's now on Shudder. Toward the end of the episode, we also get into a discussion of B.R. Yeager's novel Negative Space.

In today's episode of MAS, I discuss Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos trilogy.

On this week's MAS I talk about the super obscure V-Cinema home invasion movie Female Teacher: Under a Wet Piano. This movie was never released outside Japan so I watched it without subtitles in Japanese. Honestly, it didn't really bother me because it's the kind of movie that you could watch with no sound at all and still follow.

Today's MAS is about G.I. Samurai. A film about modern-day soldiers who get transported back in time and decide to conquer feudal Japan. They battle Samurai clans using machine guns, grenades, a tank, and a helicopter. It's as awesome as it sounds. Watch G.I. Samurai for free on YouTube here.