The Swampflix Podcast

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of sci-fi horror relics inspired by the H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man, starting with James Whale's classic 1933 adaptation, starring Claude Rains https://swampflix.com/ 0:00 Welcome 02:08 Prince of Darkness (1987) 08:25 Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) 11:50 Bring Her Back (2025) 14:23 The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 22:55 The Mummy (1932) 29:25 Th...

Boomer & Brandon discuss a double feature of high-style Gothic horror stories: John Brahm's The Undying Monster (1942) and William Castle's 13 Ghosts (1960) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Freaky Fridays at Double Trouble 10:00 Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 16:53 Video Diary of a Lost Girl (2012) 23:45 Dial M for Murder (1954) 32:12 The Undying Monster (1942) 55:35 13 Ghost...

Brandon is joined by Pete Moran of the We Love to Watch podcast to discuss all things Toxie, the first superhero from New Jersey https://swampflix.com/ https://soundcloud.com/welovetowatch 0:00 Welcome 05:50 Troma 19:50 The Toxic Avenger (1984, 2025) 1:11:50 The Toxic Avenger II-IV (1989-2000)

Boomer & Brandon discuss the alien-invasion conspiracy comedy Save the Green Planet! (2003), recently remade by Yorgos Lanthimos https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Freaky Fridays at Double Trouble 09:33 Starchaser (1985) 14:15 Child of Peach (1987) 20:24 Nothing But Trouble (1991) 25:01 Linda Linda Linda (2005) 34:31 Him (2025) 38:28 The Smashing Machine (2025) 45:56 Animation Mixtape (2025) 50:22 One B...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of creature features about body-invading parasites, starting with the sci-fi action horror The Hidden (1987), starring Kyle MacLachlan https://swampflix.com/ 0:00 Spooky season 06:16 The Long Walk (2025) 12:12 Robert Altman 16:46 Queens of Drama (2025) 21:07 The Hidden (1987) 36:20 The Tingler (1959) 52:23 Brain Damage (1988) 1:04:15 PussyCake...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Alain Delon's star-making crime thriller Purple Noon (1960), adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley 00:00 Welcome 06:30 Day of the Dead (1985) 14:24 The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) 21:58 Leila and the Wolves (1984) 27:35 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors (1987) 35:39 The Long Walk (2025) 48:20 Twinless (2025) 55:52 Lurker (2025) 1:04:4...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of nunsploitation thrillers from around the globe, starting with the Mexican production Alucarda (1977) 00:00 Welcome 02:19 Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera (1963) 07:31 The Idiots (1998) 15:20 Ariel (1988) 22:11 Troop Beverly Hills (1989) 28:26 Alucarda (1977) 56:30 School of the Holy Beast (1974) 1:14:33 Killer Nun (1979) 1:25:48 Dark Habits (1983)

Boomer & Brandon discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's laidback stoner noir Inherent Vice (2014), adapted from the novel by Thomas Pynchon 00:00 Welcome 04:56 The Roses (2025) 12:58 Throw Momma from the Train (1987) 18:36 The Fantastic Four - First Steps (2025) 27:27 A Room with a View (1985) 41:13 One, Two, Three (1961) 49:11 Lady Vengeance (2005) 54:22 Night of the Juggler (1980) 58:28 High and Low (19...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of Merchant Ivory costume dramas, starting with the company's 1992 hit Howards End https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 08:17 Boys Go to Jupiter (2025) 10:52 Salt of the Earth (1954) 16:18 Weapons (2025) 27:09 Howards End (1992) 56:10 Savages (1971) 1:11:26 Quartet (1981) 1:23:04 The Remains of the Day (1993)

Boomer & Brandon discuss the 1943 suburban noir Shadow of a Doubt, which Alfred Hitchcock described as his personal favorite of his own films 00:00 Welcome 03:03 Stigmata (1991) 09:15 Manda Bala (Send a Bullet, 2007) 14:15 DEVO (2025) 20:46 Naked Ambition (2025) 25:53 The Naked Gun (1988 - 2025) 35:40 Freakier Friday (2025) 42:30 The Aviator (2004) 48:09 The Game (1997) 51:21 Mauvais Sang (1986) 5...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of Roald Dahl adaptations, starting with the Wes Anderson anthology film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) https://swampflix.com/ 0:00 Welcome 02:45 Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996) 07:12 Napoleon Dynamite (2004) 13:52 Peter Pan (1960) 16:55 The Legend of Ochi (2025) 24:04 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams-penned Southern Gothic stage play Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katherine Hepburn & Elizabeth Taylor https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:31 The Naked Gun (2025) 06:35 Together (2025) 14:40 Freaky Tales (2025) 23:26 Weapons (2025) 41:04 I Confess! (1953) 46:01 The Phantom Lady (1944) 47:42 Stage Fright (...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of films from The Australian New Wave, starting with the beer-soaked 1971 thriller Wake in Fright https://swampflix.com/ 0:00 Welcome 02:13 Eddington (2025) 11:21 Opus (2025) 15:40 We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) 20:30 Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs (2025) 22:08 The Running Man (1987) 24:26 Visiting Desire (1996) 29:01 Wake...

Boomer & Brandon discuss two detective stories from the earliest and latest extremes of Rian Johnson's career: the 2005 high school noir Brick and the ongoing human-lie-detector TV series Poker Face https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Foreign Correspondent (1940) 04:14 Topaz (1969) 11:00 Play It as it Lays (1972) 15:11 Muriel's Wedding (1994) 16:56 Pink Narcissus (1971) 30:23 A History of Violence (2005)...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of movies about home-renovation woes, starting with the Tom Hanks comedy vehicle The Money Pit (1986) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 02:30 17 Again (2009) 05:41 Bully (2001) 09:40 The Leather Boys (1965) 13:01 Son of Godzilla (1967) 17:47 Cora Bora (2024) 21:11 The Money Pit (1986) 40:08 Of Unknown Origin (1983) 52:45 MouseHunt (1997) 1:0...

Boomer & Brandon discuss two superhero movies currently in wide theatrical release: M3GAN 2.0 (2025) & Superman (2025) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 04:17 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 15:10 The Age of Innocence (1993) 21:57 Misericordia (2025) 28:50 Looney Tunes - The Day the Earth Blew Up (2025) 34:24 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 38:24 Megan 2.0 (2025) vs. Superman (2025)

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of new releases from the first half of 2025, starting with Ryan Coogler's Southern-fried vampire musical Sinners https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:37 Mike Flanagan 03:04 Disclosure (1994) 04:50 Brokeback Mountain (2005) 09:53 Smiley Face (2007) 13:15 A Room with a View (1985) 17:01 High Heels (1991) 21:07 Querelle (1982) 25:12 Sinners (20...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Paul Bartel's entertainment-industry satire Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:40 Spies (1928) 07:00 Buffalo '66 (1998) 13:33 A Woman's Torment (1977) 18:52 The Dinner Game (1988) 23:13 Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) 29:47 The Lodger (1927) 34:35 28 Weeks Later (2007) 40:00 28 Years Later (2025) 52:36 Materialists (20...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of biopics about famous visual artists, starting with 1988's Camille Claudel, in which Isabelle Adjani plays the titular sculptor https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 03:07 Linda (2025) 05:09 The Black Sea (2025) 08:58 Sinners (2025) 14:08 Popeye the Slayer Man (2025) 18:45 Dreamchild (1985) 22:27 The Story of Adele H (1975) 25:32 Camille Claud...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Luis Buñuel's surrealist satire The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), in which a small party of upper-class snobs are repeatedly deprived of their dinner https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:27 Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025) 06:25 Vulcanizadora (2025) 09:52 Pavements (2025) 19:52 Ernest Cole - Lost and Found (2025) 25:51 Mountainhead (2025) 33:23 Ballerina...

Brandon, James, and Hanna discuss the few films that have been adapted from William S. Burroughs's prose, starting with David Cronenberg's 1991 adaptation of Naked Lunch. https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:20 Friendship (2025) 03:10 Bring Her Back (2025) 09:34 Premonition (2007) 13:37 Mulan (1998) 16:53 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) 20:02 Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) 23:08 Na...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Alejandro Amenábar's snuff-film murder mystery Tesis (1996) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:24 Goodbye Horses - The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2025) 09:20 The Haunted Palace (1963) 14:56 Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 20:57 Leila and the Wolves (1984) 25:12 The Prophecy (1995) 27:31 The Raven (1963) 28:57 The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) 34:07 The Ug...

Brandon & Boomer discuss a grab bag of horror films set in assisted living facilities, starting with the straight-to-Shudder thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:31 The Surfer (2025) 06:39 Clown in a Cornfield (2025) 16:29 The Kid Detective (2020) 18:00 Belle de Jour (1967) 28:07 Decision to Leave (2022) 35:00 The Spiral Staircase (1946) 40:16 The Rule of J...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Roger Corman's psychedelic sci-fi crime thriller X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Sinners (2025) 08:48 Secret Mall Apartment (2025) 13:50 The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 19:15 Beau Travail (1999) 25:28 Strawberry Mansion (2022) 33:01 The Haunted Palace (1963) 37:20 X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of dramas about wartime traitors, treasonists, quislings, and collaborators, starting with the Czech New Wave classic The Cremator (1969) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 04:40 The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (2025) 07:56 Children of a Lesser God (1986) 11:51 The Passionate Friends (1949) 13:05 Hobson's Choice (1954) 17:08 Date Movie (2006) 23:15 B...