Midnight Screening Podcast

Raise a cup of black coffee to the sky and salute your fallen king: we’re deep diving into the dreams, nightmares and greatness of the late David Lynch. Starting with a focus on the director’s sense of humour, Noah and Eliza ride with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dean in Wild At Heart , Lynch’s racy Palme d’Or winner about lovers on the run across the South. Then an assortment of Lynchian shorts are up...

10s 10s 10s across the board!! We r well into 2025, but Noah and Eliza are still hung up on their fave films of last year, listing em out for ur judgement here. How does monkè biopic Better Man fare in their rankings? Is La Chimera from last year or 2023 or whatever? And which movies will overlap cutely between da two siblings? Listen in to find out - and to hear from some friends of the pod, on t...

Alice’s adventures in Midnight Screeningland! It is well n truly 2025 now, and we r psyched to be back…but the terror of Christmas is never truly over. In this final and extra special instalment of our holiday horror marathon, we got the chance to chat to Alice Maio Mackay, the groundbreaking and prolific young Aussie director behind gems such as T-Blockers , So Vam , and 2024’s Carnage for Christ...

Christmas is all about the kids: holy infants, so tender n mild….but in the second part of our deep dive into yuletide terror, little people cause big, freaky problems. Nasty British horror The Children follows some snotty, evil kids picking off their almost-as-awful parents, and features some gnarly kills Noah and Eliza have never rlly seen before! Then, Spanish dark comedy The Day of the Beast o...

It’s the season for ho-ho-horror, and how are we meant to feel the festive spirit without watching some horrible nasty Christmas movies? Noah, Eliza and Anthony kick off a Christmas horror edition of Midnight Marathon with Christmas Evil (1980) and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) - two movies about an unhinged Santa taking their yuletide trauma out on those they deem ‘naughty’. Thing is, t...

Do boybands dream of liquid babes? Forget wanting it that way and not knowing you’re beautiful: in our most treasured boyband fantasy, a Frankenstein’d monster gal comes to slippery, stinky life, and we’re done being silent about her. Eliza and Noah take Anthony on a troubling journey to O-Town, and the minor boyband’s most confounding hit, 2000’s ‘Liquid Dreams’ . Its legend foretells of a dream...

Why force ur friends to watch ONE movie when u could make em watch SEVEN movies...with THIRTY-THREE individual stories inside??!! This Halloween, Noah + Eliza hosted a movie marathon of ANTHOLOGY HORROR, including the freshest entry in the V/H/S franchise plus classics like Tales From The Hood and Tales From The Crypt. Listen in as the Midnight Screening gang + guests pit each movie's best standal...

weeeooooweeeeoooo the SPOOKY fashion police are here, ready to bitch about what's IN or OUT in horror, just in time for Halloween !! It's been a big year for horror, but we're gettin bloody sick of some of the biggest, most overexposed trends. Let's forecast what's HOT and what's NOT in horror movies and hope Hollywood might hear our prayers... Should we expect more scary movies with popstar prota...

Whatever happened to Bette + Joan? In the second instalment of our deep dive into the HAGSPLOITATION horror subgenre, the Hollywood legends part ways to put their own spins on traumatised, middle-aged characters still stuck in their younger days. Bette gets Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a sentimental (and mental) Southern Gothic with a dream sequence that left us STUNNED: while Joan does Strait-Jac...

its come to this....Noah and Eliza decide to lose their minds n bring all of u down with them, deconstructing a scene from the animated tv show Donkey Kong Country (?) about Donkey Kong being led to believe he's a crocodile pirate (??!!) through an R&B song-n-dance routine (???!!!!!!?!?!?!?!). Here's the original video i guess ... the experience leaves everyone feeling utterly awful and empty,...

We’re at the end of our Godzilluminating journey through the longest-running film franchise of all time! Noah and Eliza are still reeling from the final hours of MIFF’s 700-minute-long Godzilla marathon, which ends with the 90s sweetness of Godzilla Vs. Mothra and then the hilariously-named Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. As our fave kaiju stomps into a new centu...

Rawr means I love you in kaiju <3 and boy do we love Godzilla, that titan of Japanese B-Movie cinema who turns 70 this year !!! After being blasted by the atomic breath of MIFF’s 7-part Godzilla marathon, Eliza and Noah dive into the big boy’s legacy and changing status, from terrifying nuclear metaphor to goofy sci-fi hero and back again. We begin with 1954’s black-and-white introduction to th...

Sacrifices must be made :) In their latest attempt to recruit u to the cult of creepy cinema, Eliza and Noah check out two movies about scary sects and frightening folklore: 1973's mould-breaking, delightful The Wicker Man, and underseen 2020 thriller The Empty Man. One film is hugely acclaimed (being one of Eliza's absolute fave films of all time!) while the other got dumped into an unwelcoming C...

Who the fk are you/I'm a brat/when I'm bumpin Bratz (2007) . Capitalising on Charli XCX's brat summer while they can, Eliza and Noah pull off the rare movie + ALBUM edition of Twin Picks, pairing this year's biggest pop tracks with one of the most maligned teen movies of all time. First up there's a lot of gushing over the era-defining beats, themes, and brattitude of Charli's lime-green sensation...

Look out New York - we're walkin' here ;-) In this special episode, recorded LIVE from the streets of New York City, Noah and big-brain friend of the show Darcey Eagle spend a not-so-lazy Saturday racing around the Big Apple to relish in celluloid bliss at some of the cities most beautiful and historic cinemas. They start at the Paris Theatre in Lower Manhattan with Make Way For Tomorrow (1937), a...

The kids are NOT alright: big brain genius Darcey Eagle got us to watch two parental nightmares, Larry Clark's disturbing indie Kids (1995) and Catherine Hardwicke's suburban melodrama Thirteen (2003). Both movies got their tween actors involved in the filmmaking process—for better and worse—and are sure to make u clutch ya pearls at the tongue-piercing, shoplifting, assault and violence on displa...

Rev up your engines and pop them pills: we put our season of CORMANIA to rest with this influential, psychedelic wrap-up of a double feature. Before Easy Rider, Roger Corman put 1960s bikers on screen in The Wild Angels, and then adapted his LSD journey into The Trip, a feature-length hippie music video scripted by Jack Nicholson. As Eliza and Noah finish their six-film adventure into the late dir...

Rest in pulp: Noah and Eliza's new marathon memorialises the low-budget brilliance of Roger Corman, Hollywood's cult B-Movie pioneer who died this May. Although the guy might now be best known as a one-man film school (responsible for sparking the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, Demme, Cameron and many more), we're startin' off our look at Corman's own directorial output with two black-and-white ear...

Return of the Meg! Once tragically deleted from existence, our beloved sibling Megane Janssen is back in the physical realm, and she brings two dancey, doom-filled horror picks! Released in the same year, 2018’s SUSPIRIA and CLIMAX choreograph haunting horrors of East Berlin witchcraft and LSD-fuelled violence respectively. They’re both damned, and damn good…Meg and Noah share all about their own...

Cinemas are POPPIN OFF right now with a strong n diverse line-up of Hollywood movies—if you’re unsure which ones are worth their ticket price, let Noah n Eliza guide u thru the films that made em think over April n May. We’re talkin about the sapphic pulp of LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the wishy-washy centrism of CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST OMEN’s ingenious religious scares, CHALLENGERS’ addictive sporty thrills...

Mighty Morbin' Madame Webbers!! Anthony joins Noah and Eliza in the Amazon researching spiders before they die due to Sony Spider-Man Universe-related brain injuries. Lemme tell ya: this is a CONTENTIOUS, ANGSTY episode, with Eliza insisting that new SSU entry Madame Web isn't all that bad, while da boys claim it's worse than Jared Leto super-bore Morbius. Special voice guest Morbessa (thats her n...

"Movies don't create psychos: movies make psychos more creative." If these words from 1996's Scream are true, then DANG are Noah + Eliza wildly creative by now. After learning about the background and boom time of the slasher genre, we're honing in on one iconic horror franchise—Wes Craven's saga-startin original, and the fresh blood of the fifth film Scream (2022)—to show the confusing state of s...

Lace up ya sneakers, it's our first Midnight Marathon = a season of 3 eps focusing on the vile birth and twisted evolution of the slasher genre !! aaaahh!! We start our run with two revered proto-slashers: Peeping Tom, the voyeuristic British masterpiece that ruined its director's reputation, and Torso, a paranoid giallo that did all the big slasher tropes before it was cool. With its masked kille...

The betht movie of 2023? Maybe. Noah and Eliza revisit Todd Haynes’ recent drama(???) May December, which got caught up in critical claptrap surrounding the term “camp”. Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman star as a predatory housewife and the wanky actress cast to play her in a new film. With Moore’s ‘may/december’ marriage under a microscope, everyone’s darkest impulses and delusions sprawl out i...

We're so back/it's so over/etc. Noah, Eliza and Anthony are reunited and it feels so good !! back to cover Midnight Screenings' first Twin Picks episode!! It's a face off between the faceless freaks in fuzzy liminal horror Skinamarink (2022) and black-and-white art film Begotten (1990). Both films are hard to watch...like because of their intense scares, and also because they're literally hard to...