Split Your Head

Make way for the final episode of Season 2! This time I had quite a sprawling chat about British horror with Dr. Ethan Lyon, whose PhD in Film Studies and British heritage gave us a hefty dose of things to talk about. As selected by Ethan, we cover "The Dark Eyes of London" (1939), "Horrors of the Black Museum" (1959), "The Plague of the Zombies" (1966), "Apaches" (1977), and "Hellraiser" (1987).

This episode features an interview with David Stepanavicius from Atræ Bilis. Their latest album, “Aumicide” (20 Buck Spin), is a dazzling journey through the cerebral heights of "Spiritually Dissonant Death Metal". When David isn’t shredding riffs, he’s also slinging bootleg horror tees with his new venture, Fulci Rots. David and I chat about the state of death metal, writing with psychedelics, and Todd Solondz. Was a blast chatting with him, can’t wait to have him back on! Check it out!

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https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/aumicide

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This episode features an interview with Samm Deighan, a writer, film historian, podcaster, and special features content producer for Vinegar Syndrome. Samm's latest book, "Revolutions in 35mm", is a fascinating collection of essays from various writers all focusing on political violence and resistance in cinema. We chat about this passion project of hers, spending time specifically on the Japanese New Wave chapter that she wrote called "Cruel Stories of Youth". This is easily one of the most political and informative episodes so far, getting to chat with Samm Deighan was a real treat and an honour!

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1656

https://www.instagram.com/sammdeighan

https://cinepunx.com/podcast-episodes/eros-massacre/

https://linktr.ee/sammdeighan

This episode features a friendly discussion on one of the most prolific and singular directors to ever come out of Japan: THEE SHINYA TSUKAMOTO! You may know and love him for his cyber-punk masterpiece, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN, but I've got my pal Jeremiah Rosario, a Florida-based filmmaker, to chat about 3 lesser known films by Tsukamoto: Gemini (1999), Haze (2005), and Nightmare Detective (2006). Listen to us obsessives pick apart the themes, the pros, the cons, and the Tsukamoto-isms. Check it out!

Jeremiah's socials:

https://www.instagram.com/seth_brundle_fly/

https://letterboxd.com/seth_b_fly/

Jeremiah's short films:

Asshole Demon Baby -

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZuARC0ZLJW6Qy0Tb6hGo6EiTRUBIb8MQk8k

Wasted Potential -

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZuARC0ZLJW6Qy0Tb6hGo6EiTRUBIb8MQk8k

Shards -

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ6QuC0ZY7793eVaTb7nbDjLr9GlUX8Bg7kk

This episode features a chat with Kelly Gredner, a fellow podcaster and writer who's been a strong presence in the horror community with The Spinsters of Horror and Our Bloody Obsession (RIP). She's now embarking on her own series, Kelly's Taboo Terrors, where she'll be exploring controversial and transgressive films all with taboo themes. Naturally, I had to have Kelly on to pick her brain about this new series and why the heck she, like so many of us, are drawn to the extreme side of horror.

This sequel drenched episode contains a doozy of a chat with Seth Troyer, a filmmaker, musician, and fellow podcaster based out of Ohio. You may know him from co-hosting Unwatchables, but he’s recently dropped a hilarious experimental short film called “Vertigo 2” that is so meta and bonkers I couldn’t wait to chat with him about it once my head stopped spinning. We dive into all of the problems and miracles born out of creating sequels, the big/weird franchises, and still have enough braincells left for the mysterious career of Alan Smithee. Dive in for a fun brain-scrambling discussion!

https://youtu.be/P2q4b7rze-s?si=DvrQGUPiGsX1nHat

http://unwatchablespod.com

https://letterboxd.com/slothtroyer/

https://linktr.ee/Sethtroyer91

https://www.instagram.com/seth.troyer/

WARNING: This episode contains discussions of disturbing and controversial subject matter, including violence and sexual assault.

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WARNING: This episode contains discussions of disturbing and controversial subject matter, including violence and sexual assault.

WARNING: This episode contains disturbing and graphic subject matter. If you're at all squeamish, please keep that in mind.

Guy is back and this time he's joined by his podcasting co-host, Dave Jackson! Guy and Dave are two wild underground horror filmmakers that now both reside in Japan where they conduct their highly addictive podcast, Show Me Something Wrong. In this series, they explore films that they deem "wrong" - ya know, films that are provocative, baffling, controversial, or just completely WTF. Thanks to their meticulous research and friendly rapport, their exploration of each esoteric film is all the more entertaining. I just had to have them on to chat about how these films feed back into their own work and what exactly is up with Japanese p*rn??? This led to some very shocking stories about their adventures attending Pink cinemas. Heads up, this one gets pretty gnarly!