David, Danny and Pappy find that their dream interview has been granted. Douglas Buck talks to us about his origins and the films and art that influenced his particular brand of transgressive filmmaking and the reception his work has received. He shares his thoughts on the contemporary social politics climate and the relevance that transgressive art should maintain.

In part two of our final film analysis of the season, the boys try to determine if A Serbian Film contains any metaphorical substance. Pappy asks David and Danny to view the film through the lens of Aristotle’s ancient dramatic tragedy and see if it fits the archetype. David comes through (again) with some excellent Amazon and Facebook reviews of the film, possibly the best of the season.

For our season finale, we end with the big one. Danny is caught blindsided when he realizes Pappy and David’s red herring film pick — the fictional 2017 film What We’ve Done to Tyler, doesn’t actually exist. His fear of the unknown is immediately replaced with a sense of dread, knowing the rumours surrounding Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film. From the sounds of Danny’s voice, the film lived up to the hype. Pappy, David and Danny dispute whether or not the film has a message, as suggested by the director, or if it is simply intended to shock. Pappy is reminded of the brutality of this film, while David begins to see some artistic merit. The last Hot Takes episode of the season is ignited by an inflammatory shock piece.

This episode was a long time in the making. The initial conversation in this episode took place over half a year ago. What began as some friction over which genre this film belongs to, became an unlistenable argument between Danny and Pappy over Freud’s Pleasure Principle and Death Drive. The boys recently sat down to revisit the conversation and managed to replace the previous Freud discussion with a much more productive one.

Our Hot Takes on In a Glass Cage mostly revolve around how well executed the shock was in this artsy chamber thriller. The guys try to make sense of the deep perversion of some of the characters and discuss Angelo’s shortcomings as a nurse.

In our Cold Cut edition of Grotesque, we give some serious consideration to the genre of torture porn, and David regales us with one of the craziest stories from his past.

One of the more recent films notorious for its violence, we get into Koji Shiraishi’s 2009 Grotesque. This is Hot Takes where we give off the cuff reactions as we dive deep into Japanese torture porn. While opinions vary as to what the movie is about and how good it is, it definitely made all a little squirmy while watching.

Join us as we conclude our take on McNaughton’s film with some fresh Cold Cuts. In this episode, plenty Henry Lee Lucas facts abound as Danny dips into his inner true crime podcast and goes FULL Henry. Also, we take a suspect serial killer personality test to see who we’d be.

In this week’s episode, Pappy and David try to get to Danny with John McNaughton’s serial killer film. Due to Danny’s fear that he might fall victim to a home invasion at any given moment, Pappy and David are pretty confident this one will put a crack in the armour Danny has been building up. Join us for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Hot Takes – everything is off the dome, gut reactions at we make sense of this cult classic.

Hand-picked by Danny, the boys watch Bill Zebub’s Breaking Her Will (2009). David makes interesting claims about the effectiveness of torture scenes. Danny seems to defend the trained talents of Bill Zebub’s actors. And Pappy leads a discussion on the panopticon. An important term is coined that appears in the rest of the season, and Danny, David and Pappy are tested to come up with their own awesome director pseudonym.