The Stacks

On this week's episode, Shana and j. discuss the lesser-known 1990 film adaptation of Captain America, directed by Albert Pyun, as well as the 2021 directorial debut of Prano Bailey-Bond, Censor, which deals with many of the topics we talked about in our earlier episode on Video Nasties: Draconian Days. The active Stacks list can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week, Shana and j. have some alternative Xmas programming with 1985's wildly faithful board game adaptation Clue (directed by Jonathan Lynn) and the 2020 Jewish comedy of anxiety Shiva Baby (directed by Emma Seligman). Active list of The Stacks can be found online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week Shana and j. discuss a couple all-time classics - the landmark original Godzilla film from 1954 (aka Gojira, directed by Ishiro Honda), then we get festive with 1984's highly controversial Christmas slasher, Silent Night Deadly Night (directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr). In between, some additional discussion of Heavy Trip (2018) and Death Machines (1976). The active main Stacks list is...

On this week's episode, Shana and j. discuss the great 1990 Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan romantic comedy Joe Versus the Volcano (directed by John Patrick Shanley) and the sleazy mutant giallo of Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (directed by Sergio Martino, 1972, based on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat"). The active list of The Stacks (and The Inactive Stacks) are online at https://lett...

For our 25th episode, marking fifty films, Shana & j. discuss Shinya Tsukamoto's Tokyo Fist (1995) and Takeshi Miike's Terra Formars (2016). The live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week, Shana and j. have 101 monsters to discuss! First, the saddest kaiju of all, South Korea's first venture into the genre with Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967), followed by 100 Monsters (1968), the first of the Yokai Monsters series. As always, the live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week, Shana and j. discuss the confounding sole directorial effort of Dan Aykroyd, Nothing But Trouble (1991), as well as two great Wakaliwood films, Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010) and Bad Black (2016). As always, the live list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week, Shana and j. talk about two great Italian genre pictures, the highly influential Sergio Leone western A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and the kinetic 80s Lamberto Bava horror film Demons (1985). The active list of The Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

In our first episode back from the Halloween SPOOKY season, Shana and j. discuss the grimy French anti-Catholic drama of Don't Deliver Us From Evil (dir. Joël Séria, 1971) and the surprisingly light-hearted and self-aware horror-comedy Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama (dir. David DeCoteau, 1988), plus a little bit in-between on Clive Barker's 1987 classic Hellraiser.

On the final entry in The Spooky Stacks for 2021, Shana and j. discuss John Carpenter's influential classic Halloween (1978), followed up by John McNaughton's wild underseen psychotronic alien picture, The Borrower (1986).   The Spooky Stacks will be returning to the crypt until next October, but the usual Stacks list is, as always, at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/  

This week, Shana and j. discuss John Carpenter's classic 1988 film They Live, as well as the lesser-known, wild, psychedelic 1987 Guy Magar film, Retribution. The live list of THE SPOOKY STACKS is found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks/

In this week's excursion in the S P O O K Y S T A C K S, Shana and j. talk about Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and the first wave-slasher Alone in the Dark (1982), directed by Jack Sholder, plus a bit of discussion in between of Happy Death Day 2U (mild spoilers) and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. The active list of THE SPOOKY STACKS is online at https://letterboxd.com/jsho...

This week we enter THE SPOOKY STACKS - all horror for the month of October. First up, j. and Shana discuss the modern giallo Knife + Heart (2018) and John Carpenter's one optimistic film, Starman (1984), plus a little bit on Beyond the Door III (1989), Ghosthouse (1988), and Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971). The live list for The Spooky Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spoo...

This week, Shana and j. gush about how much we love Barugon in Gamera vs. Barugon (1966), and how much we loathe a different giant monster in British Parliament in the documentary Video Nasties: Draconian Days (2014). The active Stacks list is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/ Starting next week, THE S P O O K Y S T A C K S - https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-sta...

This week, Shana and j. discuss two classic monsters from the ice, with Gamera (Noriaki Yuasa, 1965) (reviewed from the complete Arrow box) and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) (reviewed from the Scream Factory Collector's Edition). Also, in between, some discussion of Champagne & Bullets (1993) and Serenity (2018) - beware: spoilers for a couple of Serenity's big stupid twists. The active list o...

This week, j. and Shana talk about the landmark industrial body horror film Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), directed by Shinya Tsukamoto (reviewed from the Arrow Solid Metal Nightmares box set), briefly touch on the silly retro-80s pastiche Commando Ninja (2018), and then discuss our second feature, Philip Noyce's American remake of Zatoichi, Blind Fury (1989), starring Rutger Hauer (reviewed from th...

Oh man, oh god, in this week's episode, j. and Shana talk about Norman Mailer's bizarre and unique Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) and Joe D'Amato's post-apocalyptic knock-off film Endgame (1983).

On this week's episode, j. and Shana talk about Toshio Masuda's Outlaw Gangster: VIP (1968) and the wild, ridiculous 1985 Stephen King werewolf picture Silver Bullet. As always, the active list of The Stacks can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week we talk about the 1995 SOV epic Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments and the 1976 John Carpenter classic Assault on Precinct 13.   As always, the active list of The Stacks can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week we talk about two films from 1991 - Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs and Michele Soavi's The Sect   The active list of The Stacks can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week we discuss two extremely different films: Carol (2015) and Cinderella 2000 (1977) The active list of The Stacks can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/ (and as mentioned in the episode, there is also https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-watched-stacks/ )

This week we discuss Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman (2003) and The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) The Stacks list can be found at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week we talk about the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot, and the 1979 Andy Sidaris film Seven. We tried a different method of recording that was patchy and will not be tried again. The active list of The Stacks is available at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

In this episode we finally get around to introducing ourselves, as well as discussing Luz (2018) and The Giant Claw (1957). Mild recurrence of some audio dropouts near the end of the episode. The Stacks list is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/

This week we discuss: The Ring (1998) Day of the Beast (1995) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) The active list for The Stacks is online at: https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-stacks/