WYRD_SIGNAL

In our first Patreon exclusive episode of WYRD_SIGNAL, Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair

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star of the film in focus: We're All Going to the World's Fair (Schoenbrun, 2021). In it we discuss our responses to the film, go into some deep background lore around the production and explore the themes of

Lucy and Sean kick off "Fucked Americana Season" with a double bill exploring postmodernism, mediated reality and the horrors of the early and extremely contemporary internet with The Last Broadcast and Dashcam

WE ARE BACK! Completing the unplanned 'Japan Trifecta' Lucy and Sean discuss queerness, body horror and the savage, posthuman future of 1989 in Shinya Tsukamoto's legendary TETSUO: The Iron Man

In an informal supplement to our episode on Pulse Lucy and Sean discuss urban legends, ghosts and the disputed existence of J-horror as a cohesive genre or movement, and along the way do a mini-analysis of Takashi Shimizu's Marebito/稀人 (2004)

Lucy and Sean return to the dank, haunted universe of fin de siècle internet culture at the height of Japan's lost decade, encountering ghosts physical, metaphorical and digital in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's rhizomatic masterpiece PULSE/回路

Lucy and Sean get it together to belatedly wrap up WYRD_SIGNAL S3 before the dark winter of 2020 sets in by going through their recommendations for obscure, under-recognised or undeservedly maligned horror movies!

Films listed:

Nadja (1994)

Baskin (2015)

Organ (1996)

A Dark Song (2016)

Toad Road (2013)

The Borderlands (2013)/Grave Encounters (2011)

Tesis (1996)

The Wailing (2016)

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Lucy interviews director, composer and writer Graham Reznick about his work from his debut with 2008's I Can See You to his 2018 series Deadwax, as well as his collaborations with Ti West and the intersections of music and film in horror of the last decade.

Deadwax (2018) is available via Shudder at https://www.shudder.com/series/watch/deadwax/f0d3c8a35de5ca85?season=1

His recent music can also be found at https://grahamreznick.bandcamp.com/ - Robophasia and his work on PIECES Vol. 3 with Deadly Avenger for Burning Witches Records is available here: https://burningwitchesrecords.bandcamp.com/

Lucy and Sean are joined by video essayist, composer and fellow horror nerd May Leitz (@NyxFears)to explore all that is shocking, painful and unwholesome in the world of extreme cinema from the surrealist eye-gouging of Luis Buñuel to the edgelord antics of the directors of the New French Extremity as they discuss Pascal Laugier's deeply upsetting masterpiece: Martyrs

Sean and Lucy team up once again with Max Feldman to explore Sadeian liberty, the principles of Enlightenment, the history of madness, Artaud's theatre of cruelty and the still ongoing the repercussions of the French Revolution in Peter Brooke's 1967 adaptation of Peter Weiss's play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Sean and Lucy - totally twisted on frustrated wanderlust - sojourn into the sultry, introxicating climate of the Italian Peninsula to discuss Lucino Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice - exploring the twin impulses of the Freidrich Nietzsche's Apolline and the Dionysiac, the history and theory of queerness in 19th and early 20th century Europe, Freud's essay on Narcissim and the Lovecraftian turn in Mann's modernism.