Happy Day of the Dead! This week, Gre-gory Smalley and Giles Deadwards discuss the week's weird new releases. First, the bizarro beauty satire "The Substance" hits Mubi streaming. Also on Mubi: a hidden short from David Cronenberg with the imposing but accurate title of "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection." Also: the Belgian crime comedy "The Other Laurens" on Blu-ray; Alamo Drafthouse puts the Corey Feldman-led 2004 obscurity "The Birthday" into theater and onto VOD platforms; the final surreal work by Toshio "Funeral Parade of Roses" Matsumoto, 1988's "Dogra Magra," makes its world Blu-ray debut courtesy of Radiance; Vinegar Syndrome releases a limited-edition of William Castle's Canonically Weird "Shanks," starring a mute Marcel Marceau as a puppeteer who uses a remote control to manipulate the dead; and Something Weird releases the long-unavailable LSD-sploitation sex film "Blonde on a Bum Trip" (great title!) to Blu-ray for the first time.

Errata/Clarification: The official movie for Halloween on the 366 Weird Movies calendar is, indeed, Peter Jackson's "Dead-Alive" (AKA "Brain Dead").