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Episode recorded: October 10th, 2026 (10/10/2026) 00:00:00 - Podcast starts 00:02:10 - What is The Blair Witch Project about? 00:09:53 - Discussing The Blair Witch Project. 00:15:45 - How did they make The Blair Witch Project (and how it became very successful)? 00:31:28 - Bram Stoker’s Dracula being the first “found footage horror” (and exploring “found footage horror” in different mediums) 00:38...

Episode recorded: October 8th, 2026 (10/08/2026)   00:00:38 - Podcast starts 00:01:33 - On Scout’s books on Tobe Hooper, John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Christophe Gans 00:11:41 - Researching on Christophe Gans 00:16:53 - Our own French director hyperfixation (and some tangents on Julia Ducournau’s Alpha) 00:24:51 - Tangent about Andrei Tarkovsky’s influence on video games including Silent Hill 00:30...

On September 27th, Jay came to the opening ceremony of Prospect Heights Art Club's the 5th Annual Failed Film Festival, in spite of the wet, rainy weather. There, he talked with its lead organizer Hayden Amaro and many participants who want to make a short film within 30 days.

Episode Recorded: September 12th, 2026 (09/12/2026)   00:00:38 - Episode starts and what is September Stinker about? 00:01:55 - What is Quest for Camelot about? 00:07:08 - Pros/Cons of Quest for Camelot (and comparing the 1990s’ Disney audiences pandering to the 2010s’ “We want the Call of Duty audience”). 00:43:07 - What went wrong? 00:54:37 - Ad starts 00:56:14 - What is the original novel The K...

Episode recorded: September 1st, 2026 (09/01/2026) 0:00:00 - Announcement from Dom 0:00:21 - Episode starts 0:01:44 - Introducing Patrick and Leslie of The Hunchcast of Notre-Dame (and how Jay discovered them) 0:06:40 - What is The Hunchback of Notre-Dame II about? 0:10:41 - Cons (and Pros) of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame II 0:33:20 - How to fix The Hunchback of Notre-Dame II 0:37:13 - Look into th...

Jay and Micah from The Emperor's New Podcast talk about the movie that Warner Brothers tried to put it as tax write off and managed to be rescued by Ketchup Entertainment.   The Emperor's New Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theemperorsnewpodcast

Episode recorded: August 8th, 2026 (08/08/2026)   00:00:35 - Episode starts. 00:00:55 - Introducing Adam Zanzie. 00:03:50 - What is Jonathan Livingston Seagull about? 00:11:18 - Some background behind Richard Bach’s book, its theme, its root in the self-esteem movement of that time, and the production of its film adaptation. 00:38:45 - A brief discussion on the documentary subgenre with a fictiona...

Jay briefly talks about Bouchra, an indie CG animated movie about an anthropomorphic queer Moroccan jackal.

Episode recorded: July 11th, 2026 (07/11/2026)   00:00:00 - Important message (why Jay won't be going to Pennsylvania this month). 00:00:28 - Episode starts. 00:05:16 - What is Santa Sangre about?  00:10:30 - Madzy’s interpretation of Santa Sangre as an allegory for trans experience. 00:30:30 - Who is Alejandro Jodorowsky? 00:38:18 - Jay loves The Holy Mountain. 00:45:14 - How this could also work...

Episode Recorded: July 4th, 2026 (07/04/2026) 00:37 - About Ted Efremoff himself. 02:53 - Inspiration behind A Refugee’s Guide to Rome. 04:43 - How did Ted meet Joseph Peters? 06:06 - About Aeneas and Virgil’s Aeneid. 13:13 - What’s Ted’s favorite Greco-Roman mythology story? 14:16 - What made Ted become a multidisciplinary artist? 16:46 - Jay and Ted discuss The Five Obstructions. 24:48 - How Ted...

Episode recorded: June 13th, 2026 (06/13/2026) 00:00:00 - Important Message. 00:00:54 - Intro and icebreaker. 00:04:29 - Begin talking about We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and its connection with the 2010s creepypasta subculture. 00:16:48 - The bridge between the 2010s internet and the 2020s filmmaking. 00:18:39 - The queer following of the analog horror subgenre and horror in general. 00:27...

Correction - Around 38:40, Jay has said "disruptive thoughts,” when he meant “intrusive thoughts.”   Episode recorded: June 3rd, 2026 (06/03/2026)   01:00 - Podcast starts. 02:30 - About Joseph Mbah himself. 03:20 - How Joseph’s filmmaking journey started. 10:28 - How Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight made Joseph become a film director. 15:40 - Joseph Mbah’s views on recent animation (including...

Note: We were supposed to have guests, but they were no-shows. Because of that, Jay forgot to share a couple things during the podcast and it’s too late already.   Episode recorded: May 16th, 2026 (05/16/2026)   Madzy Williams is back. And one of our former co-hosts has suggested we look into a  vampire action flick From Dusk Till Dawn, made by our favorite film director Robert Rodriguez and writt...

Episode recorded: April 18th, 2026 (04/18/2026) April is the Armenian American Heritage Month, this means Jay is going to talk about The Color of Pomegranates, that one Armenian movie he mentioned in last year’s Halloween Special. Before that, he invited two creatives of Armenian background - one is his close friend and another is a novelist who has his latest novel publishing soon. Mari Vial-Gold...

Episode recorded: March 21st, 2026 (03/21/2026) This is mostly a clip-less episode. Jay and Ryan are back with talking about A Grand Mockery, an Australian movie shot with Super 8mm films and set in the city of Brisbane, Australia. From there on, they discuss Australian film industry, how feature films rarely shot on 8mm films, and what would be the New Yorker animation equivalent to it. In the mi...

Episode recorded: February 22nd, 2026 (02/22/2026) Note: Yes, I made a typo on the thumbnail. And yes some of Brandyn's audio got muted out due to internet connection issue. It was too glitchy that I couldn't hear his explanation.  Please support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/ReAnimateTHISPodcast Black history month of February is coming to close and Brandyn of The Most Important Election of Our...

Episode recorded: January 24th, 2026 (01/24/2026) To start off the new season, we will be talking about a silent movie and perhaps the oldest movie we have discussed so far. Jay and his co-editor Jessie has invited Fritzi Kramer of Movies Silently , a blog that dedicates to researching silent movies, to discuss Georges Méliès, his famous short film A Trip to the Moon, his intentional colorization,...

Episode recorded: December 17th, 2025 (12/17/2025) Jay invited most of the rotating co-hosts along with Brandyn to his apartment in Brooklyn and celebrate the New Year's Eve party. Those who couldn't make it have left their voice messages. From there on, they discuss various things, including what they are looking forward to next year. Narration: Dom Valentini Audio Editor: Jay Whang & Jessie...

Episode recorded: November 1st, 2025 (11/01/2025) This episode is dedicated to Scout's grandmother Susann Tafoya (1937-2025). May she rest in peace.  We have finally reached the season finale, so Jay and Meredith will be talking about another Lars von Trier movie to bookend the very first episode. Jay brought his former mentor at the City College of New York, Emmett Goodman, along with the past gu...

Note: We have faced some technical issues before, during, and after the recording. We recorded this episode while Brandyn was on his way back home and taking subways. You are about to hear some roughed audio quality. Recording date: October 18th, 2025 (10/18/2025) Brandyn from The Most Important Election of Our Lives is back for this Halloween special episode. We will be talking about one movie of...

Episode recorded: September 10th, 2025 The September 2025 slot was empty, so Jay and his another rotating co-host Dom filled that up by discussing the movie of the latter's choice - Alex Proyas’s film adaptation of James O’Barr’s indie comic book series of the same name The Crow (1994).  From now on, we are inserting some scripted segments that give you some background information (about the movie...

Episode recorded: August 10th, 2025 Jay and his co-editor Jessie Hymowitz invited Ali Khamseh, a Hammer Horror movie fan from Iran, and talked about three movies of his choice: the underappreciated Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), and two Hammer Horror movies with the great Christopher Lee (The Devil Rides Out and The Gorgon). We talked about the unexpected genre materials from Iran,...

Episode recorded: July 19th, 2025 (07/19/2025) Meredith Nudo is back along with another rotating co-host Alex Beige . We are going to discuss Cory Finley's directorial feature debut Thoroughbreds (2017) and how it is compatible with the overall style of, as Meredith argues, Satoshi Kon's psychological thriller classic Perfect Blue (1997). We're also discussing the challenges of adapting plays into...

Episode recorded: June 14th, 2025 (06/14/2025) This is where me and my new co-host Madzy Williams will be talking about the adult-only, French-language anthropomorphic animal puppet movie about the notorious Marquis during the French revolution and it has a talking peepee. And we discuss how I could turn that into a cut-out animated show made for late-night television audiences. But here are a few...

Episode recorded: May 12th, 2025 (05/12/2025) Meredith is still on the break. We will get another episode out once she is available. Filmmaker, film critic, and video essayist Scout Tafoya came to talk about Anthony Mann, his post-revolution France film noir thriller Reign of Terror (1949), Mann and his cinematographer John Alton's long-lasting influences in filmmaking and visual arts, anti-author...