Pod 366: A Weird Movies Podcast

Roger Mitchell, author of the newly-published but already-definitive study "Zardoz Speaks to You: How a Classic Movie was Created, Died, and Was Born Again" talks to Pod 366 about, well, "Zardoz." (Note: "Zardoz Speaks to You" is published by Bear Manor Media, also publishers of the upcoming "366 Weird Movies Guide."). Before that, Greg and Pete discuss the...

Canadian cult filmmaker Lee Demarbe joins the Pod to talk (mostly) about his latest film, "Enter the Drag Dragon," with a cast consisting mostly of drag queens and bartenders. But first, Greg and Giles run through the week's weirdest new releases, including the stop-motion animated grossout comedy "The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe"; the completely recut and rehabilit...

Underground director Case Esparros (who literally put his blood into "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost") joins Greg and Giles to discuss his microbudget surrealist feature about missing children, mystical milkmen, and cigar-smoking demons, and to tell you where to eat in Echo Park. Before that, we run through the week's slate of weird movie news and releases: a David Lyn...

Nina Martin's film review blog, I Wear Black on the Outside: https://femmereel.blogspot.com/ Nina Martin, associate professor of film at Connecticut College and author of "Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller," joins us from Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival to provide a counterpoint to Giles Edwards' reporting. Their top festival pick just may be "...

Director/producer Jakob Skrzypa joins Greg, Giles and Pete from Montreal to discuss his upcoming comedy "Vampire Zombies.... from Space!" Jake and Giles highlight the best and weirdest films they've caught in the first week of the Fantasia International Film Festival, Estonian chainsaw musicals, and horror comedy in general. Jake winds the week up with a restaurant recommendation for...

With only a few movies of interest to mention this week--Netflix's upcoming "The Platform 2," the indie black comedy "Crumb Catcher," and the Criterion release of "Black God, White Devil"--Greg, Pete and Giles hang out virtually in Giles's Montreal hotel room as he awaits the start of the Fantasia Film Festival, tipping off a few hours after this recording.

Giles prepares to head to Montreal for the 2024 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, and he and Greg discuss what looks intriguingly weird on the menu. But before that, they pay their respects to the great Shelley Duvall; discuss Alex Cox's upcoming "last movie"; preview the new Lunch-flavored "surrealist noir," "The Blue Rose;" and discuss the wee...

Errata: Greg incorrectly says that we'll be back next week; the pod will be on hiatus next week for Independence Day. Also, the name of the heavy metal site Rafael writes for is "hessianfirm.com" (that's "firm," not "film".) Rafael Moreira joins Greg from Portugal to discuss the week's new releases. On the docket: Gothic horror "The Vourdalak"; m...

Soldiering on while recovering from an illness, Giles Edwards is joined by Pete Trbovich and special guest James Newton ( lecturer in Media and Film Practice at the University of Kent and director of "Katernica") to discuss the week's weird movie news, starting with R.I.P. wishes for the great Donald ("Don't Look Now") Sutherland. Also on today's menu: a "Megal...

Trigger warnings: wokeness, drag queens. On this episode Greg and Giles celebrate Pride Month with a rundown of the week's woke weird movie news: an unwanted "Possession" remake; death is a parrot in "Tuesday"; "Queendom" addresses dangerous drag-adjacent antics in Russia; more out-there drag queens in "Enter the Drag Dragon"; Fassbinder's queer &quo...

This week Nick Roth and Lindsey Haun join Pod 366 to talk about their telepathic handkerchief horror-comedy "Hanky Panky" (and possibly tease a sequel?) But first, Greg and Giles run through the week's weird movie news and releases, with discussion of David Lynch's new musical collaboration with singer Chrystabell; Jane Schonebrun's upcoming novel "Public Access Afterwor...

Episode 71 asks the question: does the Internet really love cats? Join Greg and Giles as they work their way through a massive week of physical media releases. First up: Lynchian rumors and a new surreal horror, "House of Screaming Glass," on VOD. Then three Canonically Weird movies get new releases: the rare Soviet sci-fi comedy "Kin-Dza-Dza" (first time on video in North Amer...

Giles and Greg are back to discuss the week's weird news and releases, including the go-ahead for Yorgos Lanthimos' "Save the Green Planet" remake "Bugonia"'; an Ari Aster-sponsored Hansel and Gretel adaptation up next for the "Wolf House"/"Hyerborians" animators; "The Wolf House" itself gets a Blu-ray; "Gretel & Hansel" c...

On this week's episode, Greg and Giles discuss the week's weird movie news and new releases, with rumors of a "Barbarella" remake, news of an upcoming Phil Tippet animation, the Director's Fortnight debut of "Wolf House" auteurs Cociña and Leon's psychodrama "The Hyperboreans", reflections on "Megalopolis"'s newest trailer, Bertand Bonell...

"Weird View Crew" maestro "Penguin" Pete Trbovich takes the co-host chair this week to talk with Greg about the week's news and releases. Discussion topics include David Lynch getting rejected by Netflix yet again; Julia "Titane" Ducournau's just-announced "Alpha"; Quentin Dupieux's "Daaaaaali!" has an American distributor; "Megalo...

Writer/director Richard Burgin joins Giles Edwards and Terri "Goregirl" McSorley in this episode to talk about his rat-bitten 2022 psychological horror indie "Fang." But first, the trio run through the week's news and new releases, starting with Jane Schoenbrun's Sundance hit, "I Saw the TV Glow," in theaters now; the sexy psychedelic 60s cult hit "Barbar...

Acidemic's Erich Kuersten joins Giles and Greg to discuss the week's weird movie news and releases. On the agenda: upcoming feature "She Loved Blossoms More" acquired by Yellow Veil; something odd called "Altered Perceptions" is out now; and physical media releases of "Goodbye Uncle Tom," "Nostalghia," rollinades "The Nude Vampire" and &quo...

Giles and Greg discuss the week's weird movie news and releases, starting with a preview of a weirdly full Cannes slate (which will be debuting features from Coppola, Lanthimos, Cronenberg pere, Maddin, Carax, Dupieux, and Nic Cage, among others, in mid-May). Next up are VOD releases of the horror-comedy "Hanky Panky" and the 366 slapstick fave "Hundreds of Beavers." Finall...

Giles and Greg return with the weird movie news and previews for the busy second week of April, 2024! First up, three directorial giants can' get distribution, as Netflix passes on David Lynch's animated "Snootville," John Waters has Audrey Plaza but no money to make "Liarmouth," and Francis Ford Coppola can't find anyone to take on his massive "Megalopolis.&qu...

Greg and Giles run through the week's weird movie news and releases, starting with a mini-review of "Problemista." The main topics covered are the "Art of the Benshi" roadshow (featuring "A Page of Madness"); a teaser trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos' "Kinds of Kindness" (set to debut June 21); Bertrand Bonello's "The Beast" in theaters; &q...

Giles and El Rob Hubbard take you through the week's new releases (Greg takes the week off). They discuss Alice Rohrwacher's art-house theatrical release "La Chimera"; Luc Besson's thriller "DogMan"; a steelbook release of the beloved "Amelie"; the crazy Hungarian animation "Bubble Bath," on physical media for the first time; the 1970s ant-apocal...

Our second game show! Can you beat Greg's score in guessing movie posters as described by Giles? (No, you probably can't, but you can play along anyway.) Before we bring on the contestants, Giles and Greg run through the week's most-anticipated new releases: the quirky immigrant comedy "Problemista"; the talk show exorcism of "Late Night with the Devil"; the neo-fai...

It's our most abrupt ending ever! In this episode Greg loses track of time as he and Giles run through the week's weird rumors and releases, including Guy Maddin's "Rumours," Emile Hirsh's "State of Consciousness," the theatrical rerelease of "Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion" (1997), big wins and a Blu-ray release for "Poor Things.&...

366 talks to Pete Ohs, Will , and Frank Mosely about their new movie "Love and Work," an absurdist meditation on what happens in a world where work is illegal, and also about work in general and their hopes for the Weekend. Before we get to that, Greg and Giles discuss Zeb Haradon's new free A.I.-generated feature "The Epic of Gilgamesh," a new Kino Blu-ray of Guy Maddin&#3...

The 366 crew—Greg, Giles and Robert—interview Mike Cheslik and Ryan Coles Brickson Tews, the team behind the semi-silent surreal comedy “Hundreds of Beavers,” now in theaters and streaming on Fandor from Apr. 1. (This is the second of hundreds of planned interviews about this particular topic.) But first, the boys discuss the week’s weird movie news and releases: a preview of the Weirdcademy Award...