Criterion Creeps

In our 180th episode we're talking spine #207 in the Criterion Collection: Shohei Imamura's THE PORNOGRAPHERS from 1966. First RJ talks about WATCHMEN, GOOD BOYS, NO BLADE OF GRASS, and THE LIGHTHOUSE, and Jarrett is late starting JaNOIRary with a couple of choice pix like PLUNDER ROAD, STORM WARNING, D.O.A., and HANGOVER SQUARE. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You ca...

In our 179th episode we're talking spine #206 in the Criterion Collection: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's LOLA from 1981. First RJ and Jarrett talk about their Best First Time Watches of 2019, then RJ talks about ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL and BRIGHTBURN, and Jarrett talks a bit about The UP documentary series. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming bod...

In our 178th episode we're talking spine #205 in the Criterion Collection: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's VERONIKA VOSS from 1982. First RJ talks about some seasonal fare, THUNDERPANTS, and CAPES, then Jarrett talks about his seasonal fare, KNIVES OUT, and then RJ and Jarrett go SPOILERZ deep into STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check...

In our 177th episode we're talking spine #204 in the Criterion Collection: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN from 1978. First RJ talks about GREMLINS, BOOKSMART, and MONSTERS INC, and Jarrett talks about ELVES, and FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009). Merry fucking Crustmas! Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: ug...

In our 176th episode we're talking spine #202 in the Criterion Collection: Vittorio De Sica's INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE from 1953. First RJ talks about JASON X and ORDINARY PEOPLE, then Jarrett talks about BLUE COLLAR. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releases Like us on Facebook! www.f...

In our 175th episode we're revisiting the Criterion Laserdisc Collection, meaning a triple header of Alfred Hitchcock: SABOTAGE (1936), SECRET AGENT (1936), and YOUNG & INNOCENT (1937). First RJ talks about TREEVENGE, his continuing rewatching of THE SOPRANOS, then Jarrett talks a bit about PARASITE and MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can chec...

In our 174th episode we're talking spine #201 in the Criterion Collection: Vittorio De Sica's UMBERTO D from 1952. First RJ talks about THE IRISHMAN, then Jarrett talks about DEATH OF STALIN, THE FANATIC, HELLBOY, and rewatching THE LONG GOODBYE. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releases Like...

In our 173rd episode we're talking spine #200 in the Criterion Collection: Leonard Kastle's THE HONEYMOON KILLERS from 1970. First RJ talks about GREEN BOOK and WU TANG: OF MICS AND MEN, and Jarrett talks about THE POSSESSION (1965) and BLUE MOVIE. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releases Lik...

In our 172nd episode we're talking spine #199 in the Criterion Collection: Steven Soderbergh's SCHIZOPOLIS from 1996. First RJ talks about AQUAMAN, and THE LEFTOVERS, then Jarrett Talks about THE TERROR, THE LIGHTHOUSE, and DEATHSHIP. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releases Like us on Facebo...

In our 171st episode we're talking spine #198 in the Criterion Collection: Rainier Werner Fassbinder's ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL from 1974. First RJ talks about HIGH LIFE, and Jarrett talks about THUNDER ROAD, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE, BEAUTY DAY, CHUCK NORRIS vs COMMUNISM, CHERNOBYL, and NOCTURAL ANIMALS. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blo...

In our 170th episode we're talking spine #196 and 197 in the Criterion Collection: Alain Resnais' HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) and NIGHT AND FOG (1956). First RJ talks about some tv shows, OPERA, and the new HELLBOY, and Jarrett runs through RIley Stearns' two movies THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE and FAULTS, as well as NOVEMBER, and EL CAMINO. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club....

Last Ghoul School of the year, and... well, you know the drill. And special thanks again to our new Ghoul School theme song for the Ghoul School by our very own Frank Solano. Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/ Follow us on that Twitter! twitter.com/criterioncreeps Follow us on Instagram! instagram.com/criterioncreeps We've got a Patreon too, if you are so inclined: patreon.com/...

In our 169th episode we're talking spine #194 and 195 in the Criterion Collection: Ermanno Olmi's IL POSTO (1961) & I FIDANZANTI (THE FIANCES) (1963). First we catch up with your emails, then RJ talks about horror tv shows CHANNEL ZERO and CREEPSHOW. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releases L...

Creeptober, kids. Another big ol' chonker of an episode. Back to regular scheduled Criterion Creep next week, and your emails, but this week we talk about 60 horrifying films we've since the start of the month. And hey, check out that hot new theme song for the Ghoul School by our very own Frank Solano. Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/ Follow us on that Twitter! twitter.com/c...

In our 168th episode we're talking spine #193 in the Criterion Collection: Henri-Georges Clouzot's QUAI DES ORFEVRES from 1947. First RJ and Jarrett read our listener emails, then go into a discussion about that JOKER movie. No regular Creep next week, it will instead be the first of two Ghoul Schools for the month. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out he...

In our 167th episode we're talking spine #192 in the Criterion Collection: Volker Schlondorff's COUP DE GRACE from 1976. First RJ talks about TAXI DRIVER and KING OF COMEDY, and Jarrett talks about his pre-gaming for Creeptober and GHOUL SCHOOL by rewatching a whole bunch of horror stuff. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work he...

In our 166th episode we're talking spine #191 in the Criterion Collection: Derek Jarman's JUBILEE from 1978. Surviving a situation that is somewhere between the past two weeks of Skype shit, failing computers and AC adapters (and almost having to record TWICE), RJ talks about RAMBO 2, 3, and IV, and Jarrett defends LAST BLOOD. And wait until you hear about all the shit RJ fucking ate in a single o...

In our 165th episode we're talking spine #190 in the Criterion Collection: Akira Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD from 1957. First Jarrett and RJ get to read your emails TWICE!, then RJ talks about PEANUT BUTTER FALCON, then RJ and Jarrett get to talk about the latter and very bad FRIDAY THE 13th franchise, and Jarrett rewatched THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps'...

In our 164th episode we're talking spine #189 in the Criterion Collection: Federico Fellini's THE WHITE SHEIK from 1952. Audio nightmares ahoy! Skype and Bughuul were up to their old tricks, so listen carefully as first RJ talks about FIRST BLOOD, then RJ and Jarrett can talk shit about IT: CHAPTER 2, and Jarrett tries to talk about the documentary LA 92. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps...

In our 163rd episode we're talking spine #185 in the Criterion Collection: THE ADVENTURES OF ANTOINE DOINEL collection (part 2): Francois Truffaut's BED AND BOARD (1970) and LOVE ON THE RUN (1979). First RJ talks about Dave Chapelle and STREETWALKIN', and Jarrett talks about SUBURBIA (1983) and BACK TO SCHOOL (1986). Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out h...

In our 162nd episode we're talking spine #185 in the Criterion Collection: THE ADVENTURES OF ANTOINE DOINEL collection (part 1): Francois Truffaut's ANTOINE & COLETTE (1962) and STOLEN KISSES (1968). First RJ and Jarrett talk about William Friedkin's CRUISING, then Jarrett talks a bit about VICE SQUAD and LEAVE NO TRACE. Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check o...

In our 161st episode we're talking spine #184 in the Criterion Collection: BY BRAKHAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY, a collection of Stan Brakhage's shorts from 1954 to 2001. First RJ talks about COMMANDO, DANCER IN THE DARK, then RJ and Jarrett talk about going to see MIDSOMMAR with all the spoilers you'd come to expect after catching it this late, and Jarrett talks briefly about THE EDGE and THE GREAT HOAX. Po...

In our 160th episode we're talking spine #183 in the Criterion Collection: Robert Bresson's LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE from 1945. First RJ got married, so only watched LEGENDS OF THE FALL and DETECTIVE PIKACHU, as you do. Jarrett hung with old friends DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE KLANSMAN, EMPEROR OF THE NORTH, and some 'metal music' documentaries. And those final five minutes or so? Can't miss stuff...

In our 159th episode we're talking spine #182 in the Criterion Collection: Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS from 1971. First RJ watched REVENGE and ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD this week, so we can finally talk about, and Jarrett watched a whole bunch of other Peckinpah movies (WILD BUNCH, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE, MAJOR DUNDEE). Oh, and FUNGICIDE. Podcast's intro song...

In our 158th episode we're talking spine #179, 180, and 181 in the Criterion Collection: Vilgot Sjoman's I AM CURIOUS: YELLOW and BLUE from 1967/68. First RJ watched POINT BLANK and a FANTASTIC BEASTS movie. Jarrett watched a whole bunch of stuff, and talks a bit about ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, but not too much because chud RJ hasn't seen it yet (but you all have probably, but that very spoil...