Midnight Screening Podcast

Everybody say buongiorno to Michele Soavi — Italian horror’s lost little brother, who worked under big names like Argento and Fulci before basically quitting the genre in the mid 90s. Before all that, tho, the director put out flamboyant, stylish scarers like THE CHURCH (1989) and loveable horror-comedy CEMETERY MAN (1994), both of which we’re diving into today. The movies are jam-packed with idea...

it’s been bout a year since the very first Brunswick Underground Film Festival (@brunswickunderground), and the sequel promises to be bigger, better n BUFFER… our pal + head of programming Kai Perrignon (@meanwhile_im_dying) comes by before tonight’s opening night screening of THE DEVILS - to talk about the best of the fest. a mind-blowin selection of local shorts!! coming of age and 100% PURE RAG...

oops, too many frankensteins!! noah and eliza are the modern podmetheus in this electrifying midnight marathon, taking a look at just six of the HUNDREDS of film adaptations of mary shelley’s 1818 novel. Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, fussy FRANKENSTEIN and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s quirked up THE BRIDE! remix were both released over the last 6 months or so. the monster is still alive in the (bolt-studded...

it’s a film nerd coming-of-RAGE - and dear friends of the pod Parker and Flynn are here ta dish the dirt !! Pls welcome back the Underground Film Collective (Parker Constantine and Flynn Boffo), who have travelled ALL the way from Sydney to creep inside the studio and talk THE DIRTIES - Canadian indie maverick Matt Johnson’s directorial debut. Balancing big edgelord laughs and profound empathy for...

Most of us grow up n get boring n stop playing with dolls…but not Russ Meyer. A supreme leader in sexploitation, the director of 1965’s FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL KILL!, 1970’S BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, and 1975’S SUPERVIXENS gets a mini-marathon of sorts in this boobalicious episode. In the first episode of season three, Noah and Eliza watched the three mentioned cult films and dig into the ever...

Prepare ur brain n body for RISKY QUIZNESS: it’s exactly like the Tom Cruise movie Risky Business but w way more mentions of The Electric State (2025, dir. Joe and Anthony Russo) Noah’s the quizmaster this year, torturing Team Anthony and Eliza by asking the who’s, what’s, how’s and WHY’s of cinema in 2025. After a disastrous attempt at guessing movies from their film festival standing ovations, c...

Welcome to the new year mama…2006 is going to b crazyyyy I can’t wait to see uhhh The Benchwarmers this year!! Ha Ha No, we’re only goofin - it’s 2026, which means Noah + Eliza are already a tad late to list out their top 10 movies of 2025. Screw awards season this is the only awards ceremony u gotta worry your pretty lil head about. Follow along as we climb from honourable mentions to our absolut...

a brand new format on the pod ?? dedicated to hasty film-to-book adaptations, ie artless exercises in turning the written word into studio merch?? why, what a NOVEL concept !! yea that’s right, we can and DO read books - and this nutty, troubling novelisation of the classic Christmas comedy-horror Gremlins is a great place to start. Noah and Eliza both read George Gipe’s tie-in novel and are horri...

You might not know songwriter Diane Warren, but u for sure know her songs - 'Don't Wanna Miss a Thing'! 'If I Could Turn Back Time'! etc etc ! And you might also know her as the most Oscar-nominated woman in history without a win. Memed for her schmaltzy one-size-fits-all romantic ballads and perceived desperation to win a stupid lil statue, Diane is actually a goddamn legend and this episode is a...

Here we are on ur doorstep this All Hallows Eve, raising our voices to shriek TWICK O TWEAT and accept your sugary, rotten donations: a selection of scary stories, kindly submitted by haunted listeners!!! Joined around the campfire by head camp counsellor Darcey Eagle, the team read YOUR spooky tales of cries in the night, accursed car maintenance and cats that see dead people. There’s also classi...

It’s about that time…the time…for SLIME… Comparing two swampy creature features, Noah and Eliza wonder if there are some animals that simply are not scary enough to power a horror movie. Juan Piquer Simon’s 1988 movie SLUGS sics millions of black, writhing, gooey gastropods on a small town of hilariously hateful and rude characters, resulting in some gnarly SFX moments and sexual subtext. But 1972...

We are HYPNOTISED, HAUNTED and HACK’D by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose unsettling Japanese thrillers are finally getting the Midnight Marathon treatment. Best of all - filmmaker, Kurosawa megafan and good buddy TYLER BAIN (@tyler.internet) is riding shotgun with us in the cloud-shrouded nightmare bus to hell! weeeeee We start with Kurosawa’s 1997 breakout CURE, a disorienting detective story with a stun...

Who let the dogme out ?? Our fingers are aimed squarely at returning pals PARKER AND FLYNN of Sydney’s @ underground.film .collective !! they let the dogme out !! Inspired by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Vows of Chastity’ and how they can inform rawer, truer, more POWERFUL cinema, we get into the first (and probably best??) movie made in accordance with the Dogme 95 manifesto: Vinterber...

Nice day for a white Weddington - i now pronounce u to be two fucked up, distressing, long and entertaining movies !! Noah has been destructively hyped for Zach Creggers’ sophomore feature WEAPONS since the first teaser dropped: a ‘horror epic’ depicting the aftermath of a bizarre disappearance from multiple townsfolk perspectives. but sometimes delayed gratification and mysterious marketing can w...

We are so beyond breaking the fourth wall: in this pair of found footage horrors, the killers direct, write and star. Dw, neither Romanian indie BE MY CAT: A FILM FOR ANNE or scathing LA satire I BLAME SOCIETY are actual snuff films. They merely take us about as close as possible to one sick n twisted character’s vision of serial murder, whether sparked by Hollywood rejection or a deep fanboy love...

MOVIES + MUSIC = MAGIC ! And on this episode we’re joined by supreme magician and deep friend of the pod Molly Ward (@mollyward), who has spent countless hours watching ‘Hairspray’ w Noah. She’s bringing her fave picks for in-world songs: fictional hits made by fictional bands and singers from ‘Josie and the Pussycats’, ‘School of Rock’, ‘Nashville’ and much more. Like...LOTS more…the gang talks B...

Sharks, zombies, uhhhh foster kids in peril: we saw em ALL on the BIG SCREEN. Not in the one movie but yknow… Noah and Eliza spill on three significant horror releases that have been in theatres lately, starting with the Philippou Bros. sophomore sad story BRING HER BACK. More like bring me back my freaking money what a depressing slog !! DANGEROUS ANIMALS is a far simpler, more entertaining beast...

What’s it like establishing a brand new film festival? Kai Perrignon, head of programming for this year’s first ever Brunswick Underground Film Festival, has all da answers. A few weeks out from BUFF’s inaugural weekend of screenings, Kai picks program favourites, shouts out the tireless team of collaborators, and recommends some of the very nasty movies we missed out on. Listen up for insider ins...

YOU HAVE (1) FRIEND REQUEST: from Matt, scholar of all things scary and the creator of Instagram's @fright.fare , an Aussie account celebrating every aspect of horror cinema!! To ring in the launch of our own evil website launching , we're comparing two movies that are dubiously internet-based: 2002's FEARDOTCOM, a SE7EN ripoff that has cops uncovering a 3edgy5me snuff website, and 2005's CRY_WOLF...

the final destination franchise has always been part of our family…. da first horror series Noah n Eliza rlly fell in love with. and now, w the terrific sixth instalment in cinemas, family is truly the name of the game.. as well as degloved fingers, earnest Tony Todd monologues, paternity drama and dick piercings gettin yanked by freak MRI glitches !! Final Destination: Bloodlines might just b the...

Some movies bust da block.. others are just made out of …..blocks …..and um ..chicken jockeys. Turning their eyes wearily back to the big screen for the first Now Screaming ep in quite a while, Noah and Eliza deFiNeTeLy sAw A Minecraft Movie !!! yeEEsss!!! it’s almost like the blocks are an uncredited main character it’s almost like the chicken jockey was my dead wife the whole time !!!! The relea...

Sammo enters the 1980s with a BANG - in our continuing celebration of a martial arts movie legend, we’re getting our first glimpses of Sammo Hung’s friendly rivalry with Jackie Chan, and his genre-making, hopping horror creativity. In the first ever “jiangshi” action movie Encounters of the Spooky Kind , shit gets scooby dooby and an insane final shot made us lose our minds. Then, Wheels on Meals...

Today, listener, u finally become a man. We’re shoutin out two amazing underrated indie short films..ok they’re bar mitzvah videos, made to celebrate 2 cool lads turning 13. First there’s Julian’s chaotic James Bond themed invitation, which u simply must see to believe THEN. The main event is ‘I’m Zack’, an exuberant anthem of self-love, individuality and Cake Boss. The team r truly impressed with...

From the transcendent Winkies diner jumpscare in Mulholland Dr. to nightmares of Bob in Twin Peaks, our guy David Lynch was a true master of horror when he wanted to be. That’s what we’re obsessed with in this third and final leg of our Lynch marathon: honing in on terror, in the director’s final, bewildering feature Inland Empire, and some of his eeriest artworks. Using (literally, gorily) raw ma...

A candy-coloured clown they call The Underground Film Collective tiptoes to our room on this night… In this interstate meeting of minds, Noah and Eliza meet Parker and Flynn, the renegade programmers behind Sydney’s sickest movie screenings! Lost Highway brought our guests one of their most sensational cinema experiences ever, but we’re here to talk about Lynchian Noir = the tropes, trauma and hyp...