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Grab your vestments and rosaries and come join us talking about positively medieval medical footage, the power of juxtaposing the infernal with the banal, and the impact of possibly the most societally relevant movie of the past half century in 1973's THE EXORCIST! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Get mashed into paste with us as we continue our Bloodbath journey talking the joys of puppets, technically incredible visions of hell and recurrence, and the romance of a passion project made manifest in 2021's MAD GOD! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we yap about folk horror, the basic human joys of music and masks, and mount an oddly passionate defense of forest cults in 1973's THE WICKER MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Come light the Black Flame Candle with us to kick off a new session of SWIMFANS: BLOODBATH! This week on the show, we contrast different voyeurisms, celebrate grass-based endings and dive into the brain of Argento in 1987's OPERA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we open the Listener Request Ghoul Box and talk depictions of mental health crisis, Tsukamoto's huge range of expression, and the general horrors of existing in a society in 2011's KOTOKO! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Switching gears from Full Clip, we return to our grand tradition of our annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode and look at three more movies swimming in THE MATRIX's wake: ULTRAVIOLET (2006), AEON FLUX (2005) and BLOODRAYNE (2005)!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the show, we wrap up FULL CLIP with video editor Shannon Strucci discussing Cold War-era espionage, the premonition of American empire, and reading books in well-fitting jeans in 1975's THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Full Clip, we talk sheer filmic efficiency, the wisdom of keeping a gay guy in the crew, and how shooting in New York is the best special effect of all in 1979's THE WARRIORS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week, we're joined by comic artist Joey Weiser to talk the evolution of Toei movies, the political valences of Fukasaku, and the unusual skill of directors who come from a low-budget film background in 1976's VIOLENT PANIC: THE BIG CRASH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we welcome back Heroes 3 legend Matthew Tucciarone to talk Travolta and Cage, Woo's Hollywood era, and Venice Beach Catholics in 1997's FACE/OFF!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/ LISTEN TO HEROES THREE!

This week on the show, we welcome back podcast queen Niamh Schönherr to talk the structures and standards of Yakuza film, the precise chemistry of drugs into hair care products, and the Crime Cenobite in 1981's SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Swimfans: Full Clip, we're joined by publishing pro Kyle Daileda to talk Josh's taste in men, the novelty of a movie walking and talking like a video game, and explaining stuntwork to gay people in 2006's CRANK! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we're once again joined by art director Carina Taylor to discuss the artful rending of garments, the rich, textured flavor of divorce, and how to reconcile a movie that's kind of two movies in 1994's TRUE LIES! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Everybody say happy birthday, Jennifer!! This week we take a break from Full Clip to celebrate our beloved's birthday and talk the prismatic view of man, the melancholy of Werner Herzog, and staring unblinkingly into The Void in 2005's GRIZZLY MAN!  linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Josh has become so proficient at "mime stuck in a box" that he's trapped. Instead, Craig and Jennifer are joined by Addy to talk corruption in children's television, the horrors of ice rinks, and Industrial Society and its Future. It's Danny Devito's 2002 black comedy DEATH TO SMOOCHY. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Follow Addy on Twitch!

This week on the pod, the girls get lost on Morocco Street and talk beauty in animated choreography, the fine art of people-watching, and every conspiracy theory known to man. It's Shinichirō Watanabe's 2001 joint, COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE. swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we're talking video game-style filmmaking, stylization of action and brutality in movies, and each of our thresholds for the term 'Lynchian' in 2012's UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

This week, we're joined by big brother Joel Hocking to discuss the modern war picture, the finer points of C-4, and if the great anti-war movie of the modern era yet exists in 1999's THREE KINGS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we're joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia to discuss being so bad at tailing the French, the joy of car dismantling, and our desire to move to The Zone in 1971's THE FRENCH CONNECTION! patreon.com/swimfans

This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we're joined by Heroes Three cohost Carlos Leon-Roman to talk James Cameron, the art of the sequel, and the glee of practical effects in 1991's TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Lock and load, doves: this is SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP! In the first installment of Action Movie Summer, we're talking buddy pairs, evil gay guys and powerful divorced energy in 1991's THE LAST BOY SCOUT! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the show, we get married to the groove and talk the ecstacy of dance, comparing and contrasting Noé's filmography, and opine on Hell Here in 2018's CLIMAX! patreon.com/swimfans https://linktr.ee/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week, we move to the Hamptons to discuss convoluted murder plots, mysteries of estate law, and how much information in a thriller is too much in 1988's MASQUERADE! patreon.com/swimfans https://linktr.ee/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we welcome video editor and essayist Delaney Jordan to talk who is and who isn't good at yearning, art inside of art, and Orpheus and Eurydice in 2019's PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we talk about extremely poorly thought-out vampire plans, flirting by way of ancient Egyptology, and how every movie could stand to be a bit more like a Ken Russell joint in 1995's EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE! patreon.com/swimfans swimfanspod.com theme by padlock: https://padlock.bandcamp.com/