Pod 366: A Weird Movies Podcast

This week we're joined by Keith John Adams, director of "Ozma," to talk about his telepathic jellyfish movie, temporarily losing his lead actor to the Globe Theater, and the local police's response to reports of cucumber assault. Plus, a recommendation for Mexican food in London! Before all that, Greg and Giles discuss the week's news and new releases, including two upcoming...

Greg and Giles announce the candidates for the 14th Annual Weirdcademy Awards in our usual four categories: Weirdest Movie, Best Actor/Actress in a Weird Movie, and Weirdest Scene. Voting begins Sunday, Feb. 18 at 366weirdmovies.com and lasts until March 10 (the same date as Hollywood's less meaningful Most Conventional Movie Awards). Before that, we address the week's weird movie news: a...

Fabio D'Orta and Riccardo Amorese, the director and composer of the Italian sci-fi indie "The Complex Forms," join us from Milan and Rome, respectfully (where they have some unexpected restaurant recommendations). Before they do, Greg and Giles run through the week's weird movie news: a casting announcement for Charlie Kaufman's "The Memory Police" adaptation; Harmo...

This week, Greg and Giles run through a lot of movies being released in all sorts of venues--so many movies. In theaters, there's our top pick, the gender-and-reality-bending "She Is Conann"; Shudder brings us the documentary "Dario Argento Panico"; a telepathic jellyfish alien thing called "Ozma" hits VOD; the classic Czech fantasy/comedy "The Mysterious Cas...

There were so many weirdish releases this week that, in their race to cover everything, Greg and Giles forgot to mention a major one (which we'll discuss next week). Those they do remember to cover are the Criterion Collection's "Pasolini 101" box set; the Blu-ray edition of the Chinese absurdist epic "A New Old Play"; the French anime "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman...

Greg reunites with Giles to discuss the week's weird movie news and releases. First up, they check out the lineup of 2023's Dances with Films Festival and announce a "Robot Monster" 3D screening in New York (ahead of the summer Blu-ray release). They then run through the week's physical media releases: the haunted "Skinamarink," Kino's double Greenaway Blu of &q...

This is the short replacement version of episode 24 re-recorded by Giles Edwards for a podcast that was plagued by audio difficulties on the side of Giles' co-host, Pete Trbovich. The complete episode (including this re-recorded prologue) can be found on our YouTube channel, should anyone be interested. Giles directs your attention to the theatrical release of Tyler Taormina's contemplativ...

"Teenage Tupelo"'s John Michael McCarthy joins Gregory J. Smalley and El Rob Hubbard to discuss the long-awaited appearance of his 1995 metamodern exploitation film "Teenage Tupelo" on Blu-ray (with a coffee table book to follow!) But first, Robert and Greg run through the week's releases, including biopic "Daliland," the perverse "Private Parts" on...

Our longest podcast yet! Samuel Tressler IV, director of the low-budget 3D art film "Leda," joins Giles and Greg to discuss the weekly releases, including the documentary "Lynch/Oz," the upcoming road movie "Unidentified Objects," a preview of the upcoming Ormond family Christploitation box set, the gender-bending musical "Please Baby Please" on DVD, a 4K UH...

Director Julio Maria Martino and writer David Hauptschein join Greg and Giles to discuss their surrealist triptych "Country of Hotels," which debuts on V.O.D. on May 26. First, we discuss the upcoming alien comedy "The Becomers," the 2-week David Lynch retrospective at Texas Theater in Dallas, the new theatrical restoration of "Werckmeister Harmonies," the new 4K UHD...

With no guest this week, Greg and Giles stretch out the new release coverage with mentions of the upcoming fantasy "Moon Garden," magical realism from Chile in "The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future," the Chinese post-mortem epic "A New Old Play," the 10/10 titled "Cosmic Disco Detective Rene: The Secret Society for Slow Romance 2," an indie with Vanessa R...

Shane Wilson returns to complete his BFI-based weird movie quiz. When we left off in Episode 11, Giles held a 1 question lead on Greg, after 1 question. Can Greg salvage his pride and complete the comeback? Play along at home (and feel free to post your results)! Also, we have three weird movie alerts: Yorgos Lanthimos' "Poor Things," "Unicorn Wars" on Blu-ray, and Criterio...

Nick Gatsby and Skye Armenta, the duo behind the microbudget psychedelic adventure ZAPPER!, join Greg and Giles. We discuss how excited we are about three upcoming movies---Panos Cosmatos' "Nekrokosm," Christophe Gans' "Return to Silent Hill," and the Scorsese backed horror "What Happens at Night"---as well as a pair of new indie releases, "Giving Birth t...

Terri McSorley (Goregirl's Dungeon) and Erich Kuersten (Acidemic) join Gregory J. Smalley to talk about the work of Gothic vampire auteur Jean Rollin. But first, we five into the week's new stuff, including a theatrical and VOD release of Italy's "Freaks vs. the Reich" and new physical media releases of Alex de la Iglesia's "Accion Mutante," the Polish Surrealis...

Director G.B. Hajim ("Strange Frame: Love & Sax" and the upcoming "Mermaids' Lament") joins Greg and Giles from Hawaii to discuss the week's weird movie news. Topics addressed include the boring slate of the upcoming Cannes film festival, whether we'll be seeing "Beau Is Afraid" and/or "Evil Dead Rise," "Spirited Alive" live in cine...

On this episode Greg and Giles talk to Jason Trost of the "FP" series fame. New releases discussed include this week's upcoming Panic Film Festival, the new anime-style French film "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman," the upcoming Portuguese/Angolan genre-hopper "Tommy Guns," "Infinity Pool" on Blu-ray, "The Fisher King" on 4K UHD, a massive "H...

Greg and Giles are joined by "Kick Me" director Gary Huggins to discuss the week's weird movie news: the re-release of Gregg Araki's director's cut of "The Doom Generation" (1996), a Blu-ray of Lodge Kerrigan's "Keane" (2004), a "Birdemic" trilogy boxset (!), and Warner Brothers' 100th Anniversary Blu-ray sets. We then discuss the cursed...

Greg and Giles announce April's full slate of guests and discuss the week's weirdest new movie releases: Quentin Dupieux's "Smoking Causes Coughing," the folk horror "Enys Men," a 4K UHD of "Exorcist 3," the psychedelic Romanian cartoon "Son of the Stars," Luigi Cozzi's bizarre-looking "Blood on Méliès' Moon," and the Resident&#...

Tim Lightell (director, "Manbaby") joins Greg and Giles to discuss the week's weird new releases and news. Topics covered include three upcoming film festivals (KC Int'l, New Directors New Films, and the Overlook festival), INLAND EMPIRE on Criterion, Oscilloscope's release of "Stanleyville," Kino's surprising Blu-ray release of the Austrian lesbian underground...

This week, Greg and Giles are joined by Shane Wilson (366 scribe, and also of the movie podcast "The Completists") to discuss the week's weird new releases and news. Topics covered include the Boston Underground Film Festival lineup, Mickey Reece's "Country Gold," a "The Room" remake (!), and Blu-ray releases of the glory-hole horror "Glorious," the...

On this laid-back episode of Pod 366, Greg Smalley and Giles Edwards run down the week's weird movie news, including the theatrical/VOD release of Alberto Vasquez's bloody cartoon "Unicorn Wars"; a region-free Blu-ray of "The Cassandra Cat"; our guesses on what might be weird at SWSX 2023; and a couple of special screening in the 3/14 IMAX simulcast of Darren Aronofsky&...

366's "Penguin" Pete and Giles Edwards slide through the new releases before getting side-tracked by Lovecraft history and trivia. Weird new movies—all of them re-release—include Blu Rays for "Beast In Space", the unofficial porno science-fiction sequel to the infamous art-house porno "The Beast"; Joseph McGrath's "the Bliss of Mrs. Blossom", getting...

Gregory J. Smalley and Giles Edwards run through the week's weird movie news with our guest, ChatSonic the uncooperative chatbot. Movies covered include the upcoming Jim Gaffigan feature "Linoleum," the broken-down experimental one-woman show "Give Me Pity!," the "FP" sequel "FP 4Evs," the re-release of the New French Extremity weird torture porn cult mo...

Gregory J. Smalley has beard envy (though he hides it well) when joined by first time co-host "Penguin" Pete Trbovich. We run through the weird movie news: new Blu-rays of "Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain," the Jacques Rivette obscurity "Love on the Ground," a surreal Belgian exploitation film titled "Deadly Lust," and Amazon Prime's announcement of...

Giles Edwards and an under-the-weather Gregory J. Smalley are joined by Ali Aksu, film producer and founder of Untold Capital, a new film financing platform. We run through the weird movie news: the theatrical horror "The Outlands," a new "Bubba Ho-Tep" upgrade, the collection "Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes," a "Pinocchio 964" Blu-ray, the th...