SHTLST

This month, Kris and Donna test their might with a double feature pitting T.F Mou’s “Men Behind The Sun” (1988) against Andrey Iskanov’s “Philosophy of a Knife” (2008), two films which take very different approaches to depicting the horrors inflicted by Imperial Japan’s Unit 731.

This month, Donna and Kris get suited up for “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (1989), a Japanese film about a young salaryman getting bullied by a goth fetishist until they consummate their love and ride away into the sunset on a giant phallus.

For their one-year podcast anniversary, Kris and Donna get on the grease with "The Greasy Strangler" (2016), a horror-comedy film about the complicated relationship between an aging son and his serial killer father.

This month Donna and Kris put on their dancin’ waders to slosh through the gooshy New French Extremity film, “Inside” (2007), a heart-warming tale of a pregnant woman’s sleepy Christmas Eve in which nothing bad at all happens. We wish.

This week Kris and Donna pop open the Pandora's box of Takashi Miike's ouevre with "Audition" (1999), a Japanese horror film about a widower seeking a new wife by way of a fake movie audition.

This week Donna and Kris finally get to slam the LUCIFER VALENTINE alarm button with “Black Metal Veins,” (2012), a questionably real documentary depicting the lives of a black metal band whose members are intensely addicted to heroin and abuse a plethora of other drugs.

Kris and Donna return from their summer hiatus with an episode recorded pre-hiatus about “Street Trash” (1987), a classic melt movie about a homeless community experiencing a rash of mysterious and gruesome deaths by way of toxic booze.

This week Donna and Kris accidentally stumble straight into Hell with “Where the Dead Go to Die” (2012), an animated horror anthology featuring a demonic dog that lures three children into committing unspeakable crimes against humanity. Also, Cicada Fuckfest 2021, alien abductions and monstrous mermaids, Creamer Hands, and everyone has to go to jail now, sorry.

This week Kris and Donna take a hack at Xavier Gens’ “Frontier(s)” (2007), a rollercoaster of a movie about a group of thieves escaping Paris only to find themselves in the clutches of cannibalistic neo-Nazis. Also, the vaccination station, Big Titty Goth Girlfriend Wife, A George Bush of Their Own, real bacon hours, and the evolution of modern French Fascism.

This week, Donna and Kris dip their toes into the treacherous waters of New French Extremity with “Martyrs” (2008), a horror film following the survivor of child abduction and torture as she seeks revenge upon the people who abused her. Also, the unexpected beauty found in darkness and suffering, moving on with trauma and depression, and the existential importance of love and empathy!