Dan and Adam Are Afraid

Dan and Adam: The Return. This week, Dan and Adam are joined by Lily-expert Joey (from Kentucky!) to reheat and re-examine the adolescent cruelty and BBS fields of Shunji Iwai's 2001 experimental coming-of-age film All About Lily Chou-Chou.  We'll see you again in 2 years ! The film discussion begins at 2:29 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Follow Joey : https://letterboxd.c...

Dan and Adam lurk through the icy interiors of corporate boardrooms and stumble into the chrome-slick digital underworld of desire... This week, the browser-tab tourists watch but don't understand Olivier Assayas's 2002 French neo-noir thriller film Demonlover . The film discussion begins at 17:31 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid o...

Dan and Adam descend into Hell... This week, your hosts rejoice in and recoil at Gaspar Noé's 1998 psychological horror debut feature  I Stand Alone . ATTENTION ! You have 30 seconds to stop the playback of this podcast ! The film discussion begins at 23:02 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other platforms:...

Dan and Adam slip into a pearly white limousine and vanish into Dream Logic... This week, the duo are joined by The Honorable Mr. Jason & Shawna to help tumble through and dissect Leos Carax's 2012 identity-skewering fantasy movie  Holy Motors . Plotcels beware. The crew has an appointment to keep ! The film discussion begins at 11:32 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Fol...

Dan and Adam crawl onto the manicured lawn of psychosexual warfare... This week, the duo are subjected to the mind games of Yorgos Lanthimos's 2009 absurdist familial drama Dogtooth . A film famously touted by David Lynch as "a fantastic comedy..." Blindfolds on. The film discussion begins at 29:48 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid...

ADVISORY: This podcast was recorded about six years ago, back in January 2020, when Dan and Adam were younger, dumber, and significantly less concerned about offending good people. The show's tone was looser, the jokes were riskier, and Adam had a soundboard button he used way too often. This is a relic of their shock jock past. Consider it a time capsule, not a mission statement. Originally recor...

Dan and Adam meet their match at the Cinémathèque française... This week, the Dan and Adam Are Afraid podcast family extended universe discusses their favorite movies and discoveries of 2025 before wading into and rebelling alongside Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 erotic drama film The Dreamers . A whirlwind of youthful chaos and cinematic devotion ! The film discussion begins at 1:17:56 Join the Disc...

Dan and Adam close out the holiday season on thin ice, desperately trying to avoid a Technical Foul... This week, the last-minute shoppers take on Seth Kearsley's 2002 oft-maligned animated musical comedy film Eight Crazy Nights . I hate love. I hate you. I hate me. The film discussion begins at 22:11 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afra...

Dan and Adam suit up as Turbo Man & his faithful pet tiger sidekick Booster... This week, the crew pour some eggnog and fire up Brian Levant's 1996 hysterical holiday toy-shopping classic Jingle All the Way. Put that cookie down. N O W !!!!! The film discussion begins at 28:55 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on v...

Dan and Adam welcome back returning champion Various Spaghetti (Blake Bergman) to help keep a holiday tradition alive. This week, the Helper Elmes wrestle with Paul Flaherty's 1988 body-swap comedy film 18 Again! What happens when you're suddenly eighteen again... but still George Burns? Light up a cigar and find out ! The film discussion begins at 11:28 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.g...

Dan and Adam are one with the Yuletide... KnowhutImean, Vern?! Joey (from Kentucky) returns to the program and pays the ultimate price for sitting under the mistletoe... This week, the gang gets rowdy, merry, and maybe a little too joyous as they dive headfirst into John Cherry's 1988 holiday miracle film Ernest Saves Christmas. *Eyes dart back and forth* (LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED: The spirit o...

Dan and Adam are haunted by Frank, a six-foot spectre in a bunny suit. This week, the duo construct a vessel to travel back to 2001, where Richard Kelly's spiritual suburban fever dream  Donnie Darko first fractured their universe. I was standing. You were there. Two worlds collided. And they could never tear us apart... The film discussion begins at 7:49 Join the Discord channel: https://discord....

Dan and Adam rub a lamp they find and are granted three wishes. Instead of fixing the world, they spend time dissecting George Miller's 2022 romantic fantasy movie  Three Thousand Years of Longing . What would you wish for...? The film discussion begins at 14:04 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other platfo...

Oh, thunder only happens when it's rainin. Players only love you when they're playin... This week, Dan and Adam welcome longtime collaborator Joey (straight outta Kentucky) back onto the show to dive headfirst into Kristoffer Borgli's 2023 surreal cautionary tale Dream Scenario . When the rain washes you clean, you'll know ! The film discussion begins at 13:16 Join the Discord channel: https://dis...

Dan and Adam find a discarded DVD on the bathroom floor... It’s Joel & Ethan Coen's 2008 end-of-history black comedy Burn After Reading ... Nobody knows how it got there, but there’s love, spies, and way too many idiots. The film discussion begins at 17:01 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other platform...

Dan and Adam light candles and summon their Southern-fried spiritual advisor Joey (yes,  tha t  Joey from Kentucky) for a full-blown backwoods exorcism... The Dan and Adam Are Afraid family take on their most diabolical foe yet - THE DEVIL ITSELF !!! Join the ghoul crew as they talk Daniel Stamm's 2010 found-footage fright fest  The Last Exorcism . The film discussion begins at 4:41 Join the Disco...

Dan and Adam dare to grasp the porcelain hand... and open the veil to the other side. This week, your haunted hosts summon spirits and commune with Danny & Michael Philippou's 2022 viral TikTok horror debut  Talk to Me . Beware, this podcast is longer than 90 seconds ! The film discussion begins at 20:44 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam A...

Dan and Adam Are Abducted ! This week, the pumpkin-spiced podcasters are beamed up with their fearless fiend, Various Spaghetti, to probe Olatunde Osunsanmi's 2009 psychotronic alien-abduction-found-footage-hybrid film The Fourth Kind. The owls are not what they seem !!! The film discussion begins at 12:05 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are...

After ten episodes of sinking real estate horror, Adam, Dan, & Joey sit down to discuss the finale of Nathan Fielder & Benny Safdie's bizarro cautionary tale The Curse (2023) . The series discussion begins at 9:48 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Follow Joey : https://letterboxd.com/joeyfromky Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other...

Dan and Adam kickoff this year's Halloween celebration from a prison planet within deep space... This week, the duo dissects David Fincher's 1992 development hell debut Alien 3 . If you are a fan of this film, beware ! You're in for a scare ! The film discussion begins at 33:10 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on vari...

Adam, Dan, and Joey (The Golden Triangle) were ejected from their corporate comedy class over a bad joke. This week, the crew finally talks about episode 7, 8, and 9 of Showtime/Paramount's critical darling The Curse (2023) . The series discussion begins at 5:46 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Follow Joey : https://letterboxd.com/joeyfromky Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam...

Dan and Adam are joined by their longtime comrade Joey to launch the first Conner O'Malley Film Festival... Featuring four seismic works from the post-cinematic YouTube prophet: Coreys (2024), Pipe Rock Theory (2025), Slugs (2025), & the genre-shattering Rap World (2024). Do you think God is cool with smoking? The film discussions begin at 12:46 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggm...

Adam's not-so-subtle attempt to talk with Dan about Kurt Vonnegut. This week, the duo picks over Robert B. Weide & Don Argott's long-awaited 2021 archival documentary feature Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time . The film discussion begins at 26:20 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other platforms: https://ww...

Dan and Adam are in a trance ! What is real? And what is just a performance? This week, they square up with dystopian headlines and sink into Yorgos Lanthimos's 2005 pre-language experiment  Kinetta . The film discussion begins at 33:30 Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Go ahead and follow Dan and Adam Are Afraid on YouTube or on various other platforms: https://www.youtube.c...

Dan and Adam enlist their long-lost companion Jared in a quest to seek out The Master. This week, the trio plug into the wall outlet to sift through domestic abandonment and lost futures depicted by the haunted ruins of Jerry Rees's 1987 animated feature film The Brave Little Toaster . Do air conditioners have souls? Join the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ggmv3KEeyU Follow Jared : https://ww...