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This is the podcast where we have pleasant conversations about harsh and unrelenting cinema, films that make you feel bad and that challenge you to think about difficult subject matter.
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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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1Żuławskis 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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David latest last movie, at least so far, is about a woman in trouble. Laura Der plays Nikki Grace, or is it Susan Blue, or someone else? Yes, the plot is vague, dense and complicated. A challenging movie no doubt, but perhaps one of Lynches best. Join us as we wade through these murky waters and discuss this uncompromising masterpiece of cinema.
Our recommendations for this episode are:
Tickled by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278506/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
The News Hasn't Happened yet - David Firth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-t6bmh4Uc
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Following up on our Eraserhead episode we talk all things lynch from the eighties movies like the Elephant Man and Dune to the weather reports he is doing to this day!
Enjoy!
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The debut movie of David Lynch, a weird, unsettling and powerful movie dealing with the angst of parenthood. Set to an intense and desolate industrial landscape with the wonderfully put upon Jack Nance in the main role - few films have been so widely influential across creative media and still feel as engrossing and tangible as ever.
Our recommendations for this episode are:
The Grandmother shortfilm, David Lynch 1970
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065794/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_55
Little Woods, Nia DaCosta 2018
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6418918/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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An informal chat about this and that. Thomas starts of telling about an adaptation of Moby Dick for the stage which uses a lot of puppets, then we talk about what shows we've been watching lately and eventually get into sentimentality in films and romance literature. At the end we talk a little about bad films that are unpleasant and why they might be interesting to talk about.
A low ranking peeping tom, a competitive speed eater, and a ghoulish taxidermist - three generations of men that may or may not be related. This absurd and intense film explores their lives in Hungary from the second world war, in the soviet era and contemporary times. What a joy!
This weeks recommendations are:
Miguel León-Portilla - The Broken Spears
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833834.The_Broken_Spears
Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/240720/Getting_Over_It_with_Bennett_Foddy/
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From cave paintings to game randomizes, we cover the entire specter of culture history in this postscript episode. Kind of. Mostly we just ramble on about movies though.
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This sublimely weird and funny debut movie by Jim Hosking, about a father and a son, a woman who comes between them and a man covered in grease who murders people at night and eats their eyeballs. Its gross, yet immensely watchable!
This weeks recommendation is:
Mind Scanners - The Outer Zone
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1389550/Mind_Scanners/
Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-AQKm7HUNMmxjdS371MSwg
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A bit of the old loosey goosey chit chat, Thomas has a lil true life anecdote of sin and cinema and Sverre has just finished reading about magic mountains and all the weird characters that muck about at such places.
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Having escaped a colony of German fanatics, Maria finds refuge in a house in the woods, occupied by two pigs. She takes care of them like siblings, as they start to turn into humans, all the while a wolf taunts her from outside.
This nightmarish stop motion film directed by Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León is a darkly surreal haunted house fairy tale, where every surface is constantly shifting uneasily while characters are continuously deconstructed and reconstructed. A wonderfully unsettling debut from Chile that we hope you will enjoy listening to us talk about.
Our recommendations for this episodes are
King Star King - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Star_King
Pixote, Héctor Babenco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixote
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Welcome to the postscript! This time we start out by talking about what other animated films we've considered talking about on the podcast, like When the Wind Blows and King of Pigs. After that we chat about voice work in games, how OG Cuno got cancelled and other sad examples of heinous changes to voice work in recent years.
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