WYRD_SIGNAL

Lucy and Sean trace the dark, mysterious and often bizarre currents underpinning one of the most radical periods in art history: the Weimar Republic, and the first truly great works of experimental horror cinema which arose from it, as they discuss F.W. Murnau's landmark vampire film: Nosferatu.

Sean and Lucy venture venture back to rural England of the early 1970s, drawing on the origins of folk horror from William Blake to Charles Manson to discuss Piers Haggard's brooding classic: The Blood on Satan's Claw (US title: Satan's Skin).

Outro music by Belbury Poly: The Scarlet Ceremony, from The Owl's Map, Ghost Box 2006: https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/the-owls-map-0/

Lucy and Sean take a disquieting peregrination through the dark tunnels and back streets of New York to explore the urban wyrdness, conspiracy lore, psychedelic warfare and the cultural mindset of post-Vietnam America in Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder (1990).

Lucy and Sean explore a vision of an uncomfortably near future as they explore cyberpunk, robo-ethics, artificial intelligence, ambient post-modern media violence, and currents of radical Gnostic thought in Richard Stanley's Hardware (1990).

References, materials and side notes are available through our Hardware megathread over on our Twitter page:

https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/994193233570861056

Sean and Lucy journey into the woods of Maryland and into the strange new world of the post-historical century to investigate the history and cultural resonances of 1999's The Blair Witch Project.

References, materials and side notes are available through our Blair Witch Project megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/986227286914584576

In this week's episode Sean and Lucy take an unpleasant trip to Montreal to encounter the weird in its most grotesque manifestation in Cronenberg's biomorphic nightmare vision: Shivers!

Sean and Lucy discuss Nicholas Roeg's psycho-supernatural horror film 'Don't Look Now', starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, based on a story by Daphne du Maurier.

Sean and Lucy discuss the landmark sci-fi/horror teleplay: Nigel Kneale's 'The Stone Tape' talking about Derrida, Marx, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, ancient aliens and occult media, in this inaugural transmission of WYRD_SIGNAL.

References, materials and side notes are available through our Stone Tape megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/990254127316983808