You've seen the slasher from every possible point of view...or have you? Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is about an aspiring slasher who brings along a documentary crew for the ride to show them what he does and how he does it. The humor is dark. The references are thick on the ground. The twists, well, you'll have to see those. This one created a hard point of disagreement between our usually agreeable hosts. Jeremy and Bee go eight rounds about whether the end of this movie works. Tell us what you think!

Who's responsible for this?

• Director: Scott Glosserman
• Writers: Scott Glosserman, David J Stieve
• Stars: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubestein, Robert Englund, Scott WIlson, Bridgett Newton, Kate Miner

Recommendations:

• Justin - Slumber Party Massacre 2, The Babysitter/2
• Emily- Night of the Demons, 
• Ben - Christopher Guest
• Jeremy - Spree

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I don't think you should listen to this episode when it comes out. I mean, it's a good episode but god if it isn't January 9th 2026 and the world's one fire and everywhere you look some horrible shit is happening and that is this fucking movie in a nutshell. This movie is horrible shit happening for two plus solid hours and it feels like a nightmare and when you run out of animes to take plot and shot details from, you gotta move on to the Christian Bible.

It's Mother! and it's a fucking ride. Buckle up.

Who's responsible for this?

• Director: Darren Arren!
• Writers: Darren Arren again!
• Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffers

What do we recommend?

• Jude - Climax, The Others, Islands of Abandonment
• Emily- Esoterica, Antichrist, Last Temptation of the Christ, Transcending Comics
• Ben - Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth
• Jeremy - Requiem for a Dream, Knightriders

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Every year at this time of year we review our big list of movies we've watched for the last year and try to figure out where they go on the list of all the movies we've watched before. It's a big nasty list of video nasties and every year we duke it out to decide which ones join the ranks of the elite, which ones drop into the dregs of pointless nonsense, and which ones (most of them) end up somewhere in the middle.

This year, the largest portion of our talk centers around one big question: Where does Sinners fall on the list?

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Tilly Bridges joined us this week to continue our Patreon only series "Progressively Wach" exploring all the work of the Wachowski Sisters. We're half way through the extant Matrix films, so that means it's time to talk about The Animatrix!

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It's Christmas time and Joe McHale is fully in his murder dad phase. He's playing dad's of questionable morals in all kinds of horror movies. We're doing a queer teen take on It's a Wonderful Life. Oh and also there's a dude dressed as a spooky angel runnin around stabbin people! But that's alright, because our Mr. Potter for this life is played by Justin Long who is doing A VOICE! It's a movie full of choices and we support nearly all of them!

Who's our guest?

• Matthew Jackson
• Bluesky @awalrusdarkly
• Podcast: Scares that Shaped Us
• Website: MatthewJacksonWrites.com

Who's responsible for this?

• Director: Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls)
• Writers: Michael Kennedy (Freaky, Time Cut, Heart Eyes)
• Stars: Jane Widdop, Joel McHale, Justin Long, Jess McLeod (trans nb), Katharine Isabelle, Aiden Howard, Hana Huggins, William B Davies

What should you check out next?

• Matthew - Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025), Freaky, Heart Eyes
• Emily- X-Files
• Ben - Freaky, Bottoms
• Jeremy - Time Cut, Tragedy Girls

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Apologies for our lateness, we had our own sort of Christmas Carnage going on around here. Suffice to say, our editor had a fever that sounded more like a radio station than a temperature for the human body. She's all better now though, so let's get this show on the road!

• Director: Alice Maio Mackay
• Writers: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson
• Stars: Jeremy Moineau, Molly Ferguson, Cassie Hamilton, Zarif, Lisa Fanto, Tumelo Nthupi, Alyssa Peters, Toshiro Glenn

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Please enjoy a little post Thanksgiving treat of a preview of our Patreon-only episode released today on Patreon. We went hard in the paint on V for Vendetta, talking about all the many many trans metaphors of the Wachowskis, all the masks that we wear, and fighting fascism - a message that somehow continues being relevant no matter how popular movies about it get.

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Be sure to come back next week to talk about the Alfred Hitchcock classic with perhaps the most homoerotic tension (yes, more than Rope) it's The Birds!

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Who's responsible for this?!

• Director: Michael Lehmann
• Writers: Daniel Waters
• Stars: Winona Rider, Christian Slater, Shannon Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, Glenn Shadix

What do we recommend?

• Michele - Craft, Mean GIrls, Jennifer’s Body, Lisa Frankenstein, Ready or Not, American Ultra, Love Lies Bleeding
• Emily- Revolutionary GIrl Utena, SLC Punk, 
• Ben - Ladybird
• Jeremy - Tragedy Girls, Deadloch

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Here comes the episode of the show that led Jeremy to declare we're never covering a tv show again!

• Director: Ben Stiller, 
• Writers: Dan Erickson,  
• Stars: Adam Scott as Mark S. Aka Mark Scout, Britt Lower as Helly R., John Turturro as Irving B., Zach Cherry as Dylan G., Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel/Mrs. Selvig, Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick, Jen Turlock as Devon Scout-Hale, Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale, Dichen Lachman as Ms. Casey, and Christopher fucking Walken as Burt G.

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• Director: PANOS COSMATOS
• Writers: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn
• Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouéré, Richard Brake 

Jeremy is off today, so this one is perverts only. It's time to talk Mandy!

Recs:

Emily- for something more fucked up and less fun, Antichrist. for something less fucked up and more fun, One Night at Willy’s. For this movie (abridged), The Viewing episode from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. For the vibes: The Holy Mountain

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