Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People

Full video available on our YouTube channel! A low-budget sci-fi thriller... or an ingenious, claustrophobic meeting of the philosophy club? Matt's favorite Canadian (David Hewlett) stars in the 1997 indy film Cube, which combines apocalyptic nihilism with insightful social analysis and delivers something wholly unique. Ted Fagan and brother Matt Fagan are on a roll with another unforgettable movi...

Continuing our celebration of Canadian film excellence, Matt Fagan introduces little brother Ted to one of the strangest (and most Canadian) movies he's ever seen! This 1988 psychodrama from Sandor Stern has fascinated Matt since high school; will Ted ever be the same once the episode is over? Will he see Pin's spooky face every time he closes his eyes? Terry O'Quinn, David Hewlett, and Cynthia Pr...

Beginning a multi-episode tribute to our Northern superiors, Matt introduces his brother Ted to the 1987 thriller THE STEPFATHER, starring Terry O'Quinn. Canada has been producing some of the best science fiction and horror series on American television since the 1980s, and also some of Matt's video-rental favorites! This one made a big impression on his teenage mind, forever cementing his loyalty...

Pitching a tent down by the creek at the back of the Depot Devoid this week, it's MULTIPLE MANIACS! Longtime John Waters fan Matt Fagan drags his brother Ted all the way back to 1970 for this cheap, nasty, black-and-white feature that carefully walks the line between arthouse and outhouse. Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, and Mary Vivian Pearce, Multiple Maniacs was Waters' first "talki...

What are Jersey girls made of? In this 1990 comedy, she's made of 8 prostitutes from New York, but love finds a way. Matt Fagan gets his brother Ted to watch Frankenhooker for the first time since he was nine years old (which is too young to see Frankenhooker but just the right age to appreciate the humor.) Join the brothers in the Depot Devoid for a movie with lots of heart, and several other spa...

The Old Testament disco musical you never realized you needed, The Apple pulls into the Depot Devoid this week... just in time for the rapture! Join the meandering Fagan brothers for a discussion of the deep religious themes, finely crafted musical compositions, and a message that will endure for the ages. Just kidding. It's delirious garbage, and the songs are ass. But The Apple is the best kind...

From deep in the vaults, the second recording we ever made was this conversation about Heathers, the ultimate high school movie. We were still figuring out our equipment (the first episode we recorded didn't work at all!) and only the audio is usable, but Heathers is one of our favorite movies. And maybe one of yours! We had a good talk, and I think it was worth preserving.

Recorded during some Halloween past, but inexplicably released around Valentine's day, this episode is all about The Babadook! Two adult brothers who started a podcast after their brother died, talking about a movie where the monster is a living incarnation of grief and loss? That's an obvious recipe for upbeat entertainment! But that isn't all. We're also here to dish about Halloween plans, amazi...

Maybe the world didn't want THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME in 1988, but man, the world sure needed it. And still does. Your hosts, the meandering Fagan brothers, traditionally take a more cynical view of movies, but one might accurately describe this one as "magical" or "a feel-good movie" and guess what? We fucking love it. The story of a talented but unsuccessful special-effects filmmaker attempti...

The "Special Edition" is the exact same episode as the regular version, except for an added droning radiator sound permeating the entire runtime. Depot Devoid recorded this episode nearly a year ago, but this week we lost legendary filmmaker David Lynch so we finally decided to do something about it. Here is the first episode we ever made about a David Lynch movie. Ted had never seen Eraserhead at...

Depot Devoid recorded this episode nearly a year ago, but this week we lost legendary filmmaker David Lynch so we finally decided to do something about it. Here is the first episode we ever made about a David Lynch movie. Ted had never seen Eraserhead at all, so this was a pretty fun experience for both of us! Join us in the bleakest Philadelphia, a grimy, colorless wasteland that is all the more...

In this first episode of 2025, the sparkling romantic comedy FRESH pulls into the Depot Devoid. Matt and Ted enjoyed this cheeky critique of modern dating, and now they're hungry for justice! Matt gets carried away, Ted tries to insert a disclaimer, but nobody is safe from their woke nonsense. Gnash into the new year and start FRESH with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan! Full video of this epi...

The 1989 Puppet Master, unwittingly the first entry in an infinite series, is messy and stupid and frequently incompetent. And one of our favorite movies! Matt loves any horror movie with a killer who only stands knee-high, and Ted has a secret fetish for anyone who can barf up leeches, but we would probably love Puppet Master even if it weren't obviously tailored to those interests.

Matt and Ted have a great time talking about the first two episodes of the Doom Patrol television series! If you haven't seen it, take our advice: watch the motherfucking Doom Patrol. This episode was plagued by technical difficulties (recording over Wi-Fi in the mountains can be an adventure), but I've done what I could to save the file. Unfortunately, the video component was too corrupted to use...

The Fagan brothers don't have loads of love for the 1996 super hero fantasy The Phantom, yet Matt finds himself surprisingly charmed by a character that just doesn't have a place in the contemporary storytelling landscape. But they made The Phantom anyway! The result is a movie that seems uncertain of its own intentions, and never really delivers on any of the things it's trying to be.

Matt and Ted have a free-wheeling discussion about Hudson Hawk, a Fagan family favorite! We recorded this episode on January 1, 2024 and we're releasing it at the end of November; will our various predictions come true? This is the movie that began our obsessions with Sandra Bernhard, and Richard E Grant, and led us to such films as How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Hudson Hawk was a famous flop, a...

Full video available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube! Comedy and tragedy intertwine this week when Matt and Ted discuss SPACEBALLS! On the one hand, it's a hilarious spoof that both of the Fagan brothers remember with exuberant fondness. On the other hand, the episode was recorded a while ago, on the same day that Matt got some really bad news about his dog. Revisit one of the best...

Matt and Ted Fagan catch up to the Scream franchise in what is still, at the time of this writing, the last entry in the series. But probably not for long. This episode was recorded well over a year before publication, and the future of Scream 7 has changed considerably! What hasn't changed is Scream 6. which is like a teenager in a slasher movie: horny and uncertain. But we still love our friends...

Scream 5 (the five is silent) corrects many of the mistakes of Scream 4, makes a few all-new mistakes, and generally entertains the heck out of us! Matt Fagan describes his perfect theatrical experience with the 2022 Scream, and even his less-forgiving brother Ted winds up having a good time. Until we have our dream sequel where all the dead Ghostfaces battle Pinhead in Hell, at least there's Scre...

Full video of this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube! Scream 4 is a blast of fresh air, blowing out the stank of Courteney Cox's Dark Palace, and filling the Depot Devoid with the delicious smell of Deputy Judy's lemon squares. The Fagan brothers also discuss dreams they've had that were inspired by slasher movies, and learn the true meaning of Scream!

Full video for this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube! Scream 3 might roll around at the bottom of the inverted bell curve that represents the arc of the franchise, but the Depot Devoid Podcast can't just skip over it. Our dear chums Gail and Dewey are, as always, a joyous company to keep, but for a movie from a genre master (in a franchise that acknowledges the m...

Full video for this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube! Happy Halloween, friends, and we hope you packed your bags because... Woodsboro Goes To College! And Depot Devoid Podcast tags along for the ride. This rushed production is so full of holes, it's a wonder the actors didn't all fall out, yet for some reason it remains a delight to watch. Dewey limps. Gail strea...

Kicking off the Halloween season, those meandering Fagans take their first slasher movie into the Depot Devoid! They're starting with Scream One, famously regarded as the best of the prequels to Scream 3, and one of Matt's favorite Courteney Cox vehicles. Does anybody have anything new to say about Scream? Probably not! But Woodsboro is a kickass place to hang out in. If you're not getting stabbed...

A full video version of this episode is available on the Depot Devoid YouTube channel ! Our TRANSFORMERS saga comes to a close with part 4, in which Matt and Ted reveal their terrible, terrible ideas for a new Transformers movie adaptation. It has been a difficult journey, mostly because we had to watch the 2007 Transformers movie to get here, but we started this quest with two living Fagan brothe...

The destruction continues in part 3! How can you make a worse Transformers movie than Michael Bay, if you don't watch the Transformers movie by Michael Bay? I promise you, if we could have found a way, we would have. Instead, stupid nerd loser brothers Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan endure the most epically punishing six or seven hours ever committed to screen: the running time of the 2007 live-action '...