Unpleasant Movies Podcast

The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico from 2017 is about five likely lads who murder their English teacher and get sent off to a tropical island where weird shit happens. My old co-host Mallory Schjølberg joins me to talk about it. Enjoy!

The recommendations for this episode are:

"Tallahassee" (album) by The Mountain Goats

"Detransition, Baby" written by Torrey Peters

We continue our discussion, exploring other representations of Jesus and the devil in film and tv. The Greatest Story Ever Told, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus of Montreal, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, Son of Man, Simon of the Desert, Häxan, Shaitaan, Beat the Devil, the Chosen, Black Jesus, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Faust and The Exorcist are among the films we talk about!

The Unpleasant Movie podcast discussion of The Passion of the Christ from 2004.

The recommendations for this episode are:

"Infancy Gospel of Thomas" - religious text

"Her Vengeance" (1988) - Lam Nai-Choi

Welcome to season two of Unpleasant Movies!

We take a look at Srđan Spasojević's controversial 2010 thriller, where a former porn star gets roped into the snuff scene for huge amounts of money. But what price will he really have to pay?

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Our recommendations for this episode:

Oddly Terrifying subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/

Cult Of the Lamb, Massive Monster

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1313140/Cult_of_the_Lamb/

For this postscript we talk about films that we find scary and unsettling, from old bbc television horror specials to newer stuff - what makes a film scary?

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Żuławskis hugely ambitious unfinished sci-fi masterpiece, is production stopped two thirds in by Polish regulators, edited together a decade later into a semi-metafilm about failed ambitions and destructive human nature. Join us as we discuss!

Recommendations for this episode are

Frostpunk - 11 Bit studio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk

The Grey Leno Show - Vinny Vinesauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3ssj466E0

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We kick off with a little chat about Zulawskis second movie, Diabel, which is intense and unrelenting, but also great! Then we talk a little about franchises that biffed it, and games we've ben playing. Enjoy!

Having worked as a spy for several years, Mark returns home to find his wife Anna in despair. Unexplainable bursts of wild hysterics and demands for divorce are just the tip of the iceberg for this intense and incredible story.

Recommendations for this episode are:

https://www.reddit.com/r/McMansionHell/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwood

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This episode was recorded last December, so some of the references might seem a little dated. Sverre started watching the live action Cowboy Bebop adaptation, we talk in general about space westerns and get into other series like wheel of time. Thomas tells about his (then) new film club, weird and wonderful cinema, where they screen surrealistic, absurd and amazing movies that are a little obscure.

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