In Film We Trust

After a run of fantastic guest appearances, we’re back to just the 2 of us, and for this episode we’re going to making our long-awaited talk show debuts! Jack Delroy, host of the prestigious programme Night Owls, has invited us to be part of his latest project, Late Night With The Devil. With a bevy of guests from a diverse range of backgrounds, we’re coming on as special guests to break down the...

We're joined once again by filmmaker Dave Markey, whom in the last episode discussed his early years in the hard scene of the 1980s and his low-budget classics such as Desperate Teenage Lovedolls. This time he's here to discuss his perennial cult classic 1991:The Year Punk Broke, in which he toured Europe with the likes of Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr. He also teases his upcoming d...

As a podcast that celebrates and champions the efforts of indie filmmakers, we’re very pleased to welcome on Mr. Dave Markey, musician, filmmaker and documentarian, and a man whose projects are the very definition of independent. In the first of this 2 part episode we’ll be discussing Dave’s formative years, his heavy involvement in the punk rock scene and the early work that put him on map, inclu...

In part 1 we discussed our listeners' number 4 and 3 ranked worst genre films of all time. Now it's finally time to conclude what we all started and get to the top 2 ranked worst genre flicks of all time! Once again we're joined by friend of the podcast Flixology 101(who brought us this idea), and we'll also be joined be several friends throughout the episode.

Musical biopics are in no short supply, but they have a pretty rocky history and its rare that one actually does its subject matter justice. So this week we’re deep diving Love & Mercy from 2014 to see how the genre can be done right. From regular producer and occasional director Bill Pohlad, it tells the story of Beach Boys member Brian Wilson and some of the pivotal struggles he faced throug...

We're heading back to 1932 to delve into Tod Browning's controversial carnival horror Freaks. Luckily for us, we're joined by Arrow Video contributor(commentator on Psycho 2 and 3) who is currently writing the book on Freaks. So stick around, for an informative, and personal, episode that takes a lot at the creative process, whether that's Johnny's work, or Browning's work...

You may remember an episode we released last October where we dived into the French New Extremity movement. Far from being a thing of the past, it received a boost in popularity and status thanks to the work of up and coming director Julia Ducournau. So today we’re going to be taking a look at her debut feature film Raw, a story which follows a teenager’s first year at vet school. Beset by all the...

We once again delve into the world of the 90s independent film scene, this time by way of Kevin Smith's debut feature Clerks. Indebted to the success of Linklater's Slacker, Smith took the indie scene by storm, showcasing his talent for dialogue and malaise of Gen X. This is the 1st part of a 3 part series where we discuss each separate Clerks film. and we're not completely alone for t...

Welcome back to our interview with Nikolas Schreck. Last week we delved into our guests formative years, experiences and the making and enduring legacy of his documentary Charles Manson Superstar. This week we discuss a host of other topics, including his connection with acclaimed filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, his efforts in producing Christopher Lee’s debut album, his book The S...

We welcome artist Nikolas Schreck onto our latest episode - which will be a 2 parter . In this weeks ep, Nikolas relays us stories of his formative years and his invitation into the world of esotericism. And ultimately, how those formative year drove him to befriend, and ultimately make the documentary Charles Manson Superstar. Nikolas also talks of being caught up in the hysteria of the 80s Satan...

For 75 episodes now, we've done our best to spotlight to many gems of the cinematic world, be they obscure hidden treasures or well-known masterpieces. But for episode 76, we're going the other way. We're going to take a look at a few films that our followers have called their most disliked. We put up a few polls, collated the results and whittled the list down to 4. This week, we'...

We're back for our first episode of 2024, and we're back with one of the most controversial mainstream Hollywood film since its release. In an episode that discusses the myriad of topics and issues surrounding Natural Born Killers - the Tarantino/Stone feud. The films attack on the sensationalist media reporting of the time such as the O.J Simpson and Menendez Brothers trials and much !

Welcome dear listeners to our final episode of 2023, and since we’re releasing it between Christmas and New Year, we’ve decided to make it extra special by covering a film from each of these holidays. For Christmas, were checking out a festive psychological horror from 2019, I Trapped The Devil, a film that does more or less what it says on the tin. As well as our customary deep dive, we’ll also b...

For our latest episode we are joined by luchador and Troma horror host Gringo Fantastico(@realfantastico) as he brings IFWT John Carpenter's religious shocker Prince of Darkness - a film that would reunite Carpenter with Donald Pleasance. Expect an episode that delves into our guests wrestling past, working for Lloyd kauffman as host of a Troma horror show. Also, expect a bountiful of conversa...

Well, it’s finally come to this. In Film We Trust, formerly a podcast of repute and family friendly entertainment, is plunging the very depths of depravity and degradation. We’ve covered Taxidermia, Threads, Scum, the French Extremity Movement and even dedicated an entire month to examining the Video Nasty craze. But compared to the movie we’re covering today, these films barely even scratch the s...

In this weeks episode we bring you Author Coy Hall, who have brought us his favourite horror movie of all time, The Black Cat. Sourced from Edgar Allen Poe's original short story, The Black Cat has gone through many adaptations ranging from Sergio Martino's Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, to Fulci's The Black Cat. But how faithful exactly is Ulmer's '34 adap...

For episode 70 of In Film We Trust, we’re welcoming on another special guest: Felicia of the Seeing Faces In Movies Podcast, who is entrusting us with the task of deep diving her favourite film of all time, The Swimmer (1968). Released on the cusp of the New Wave movement that would come to define the following decade’s cinematic output, it stars Burt Lancaster, owner of one of Hollywood’s most fa...

This week we welcome Dan Epstein onto the episode to discuss Walter Hill's cult action classic, The Warriors. And as Dan is a connoisseur of all things 70s, pop-culture and baseball, he relays to us a plethora of interesting anecdotes, such as Dock Ellis' no-hitter, NY in the 70s, his love of The Warriors and much more! Dan Epstein is a journalist, writer and author who has spent 30 years...

With October drawing to a close, we’re rapidly approaching the most exciting time of the year for gore hounds, exploitation enthusiasts and jump scare junkies: Halloween. Last year we looked at Tim Buton’s quirky black comedy Beetlejuice. This year, we’re going a little darker. We’re taking a trip to Japan to deep dive the film that helped to usher in the New Asian Cinema Movement, as well as brin...

As we continue our spooky October, we are joined by Benjamin Vargas from the podcast Cinema Shitshow. As is customary, at this point, with our guest episodes, our guest is just as important as the film we discuss. And in this wide ranging episode we dive into the New French Extremity Movement, the state of contemporary film, Benjamin's formative film experiences and, somehow, within all this,...

Released in 1977, 4 years after its legendary predecessor, Exorcist 2: The Heretic failed to make anywhere near the same impression, and the cast, crew and even the director himself have spoken out against it. But some people, including our guest for this episode, believe it to be an unfairly maligned piece of genre brilliance. It’s been called the worst film ever made by various people and public...

In this episode, rather than our usual deep dives delving into a specific film, we are in conversation with independent Scottish filmmaker David Wilde. Whilst Wilde may not be a household name within the film community, he has build an over two decade long career in the independent realm. With his debut feature Pasty Faces taking him over the Atlantic as he shot in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In th...

As spooky season approaches, our thoughts turn towards the murderous and the macabre, and so what better way to lead into October than with one of the most acclaimed slasher films of all time, one that many people say kickstarted the subgenre: Black Christmas. 4 years before John Carpenter’s Halloween initiated a horror revolution, a little Canadian film following a group of students in a sorority...

Detroit is a city on the verge of collapse. Crime is skyrocketing, the economy has plummeted, resources are scarce and internal corruption is running rampant. In a last-ditch attempt to save itself, the city has allowed mega-corporation OCP to run the city’s Police force with the hopes of bringing things under control. When a local cop is gunned down in the line of action, rather than mourning his...

We may be fully grown and mature adults here at In Film We Trust, or so we’d like to believe, but this week we’re packing up our pencil cases, lunch boxes and textbooks and going back to school. 187 is a film from the 90s that you may have never heard of. Bombing at the box office and receiving poor reviews from critics, it’s gone through something of a reappraisal, and some consider it to be an u...