Unpleasant Movies Podcast

The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico from 2017 is about five likely lads who murder their English teacher and get sent off to a tropical island where weird shit happens. My old co-host Mallory Schjølberg joins me to talk about it. Enjoy! The recommendations for this episode are: "Tallahassee" (album) by The Mountain Goats "Detransition, Baby" written by Torrey Peters

We continue our discussion, exploring other representations of Jesus and the devil in film and tv. The Greatest Story Ever Told, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus of Montreal, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, Son of Man, Simon of the Desert, Häxan, Shaitaan, Beat the Devil, the Chosen, Black Jesus, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Faust and The Exorcist are am...

The Unpleasant Movie podcast discussion of The Passion of the Christ from 2004. The recommendations for this episode are: "Infancy Gospel of Thomas" - religious text "Her Vengeance" (1988) - Lam Nai-Choi

Welcome to season two of Unpleasant Movies!

We take a look at Srđan Spasojević's controversial 2010 thriller, where a former porn star gets roped into the snuff scene for huge amounts of money. But what price will he really have to pay? Feel free to get in touch with us at unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com Our recommendations for this episode: Oddly Terrifying subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/ Cult Of the Lamb, Massive Mons...

For this postscript we talk about films that we find scary and unsettling, from old bbc television horror specials to newer stuff - what makes a film scary? Get in touch with us at unpleasantmovies@protonmail

Żuławskis hugely ambitious unfinished sci-fi masterpiece, is production stopped two thirds in by Polish regulators, edited together a decade later into a semi-metafilm about failed ambitions and destructive human nature. Join us as we discuss! Recommendations for this episode are Frostpunk - 11 Bit studio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk The Grey Leno Show - Vinny Vinesauce https://www.yout...

We kick off with a little chat about Zulawskis second movie, Diabel, which is intense and unrelenting, but also great! Then we talk a little about franchises that biffed it, and games we've ben playing. Enjoy!

Having worked as a spy for several years, Mark returns home to find his wife Anna in despair. Unexplainable bursts of wild hysterics and demands for divorce are just the tip of the iceberg for this intense and incredible story. Recommendations for this episode are: https://www.reddit.com/r/McMansionHell/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwood Get in touch with us at unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com

This episode was recorded last December, so some of the references might seem a little dated. Sverre started watching the live action Cowboy Bebop adaptation, we talk in general about space westerns and get into other series like wheel of time. Thomas tells about his (then) new film club, weird and wonderful cinema, where they screen surrealistic, absurd and amazing movies that are a little obscur...

David latest last movie, at least so far, is about a woman in trouble. Laura Der plays Nikki Grace, or is it Susan Blue, or someone else? Yes, the plot is vague, dense and complicated. A challenging movie no doubt, but perhaps one of Lynches best. Join us as we wade through these murky waters and discuss this uncompromising masterpiece of cinema. Our recommendations for this episode are: Tickled b...

Following up on our Eraserhead episode we talk all things lynch from the eighties movies like the Elephant Man and Dune to the weather reports he is doing to this day! Enjoy! Get in touch with us at Unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com

The debut movie of David Lynch, a weird, unsettling and powerful movie dealing with the angst of parenthood. Set to an intense and desolate industrial landscape with the wonderfully put upon Jack Nance in the main role - few films have been so widely influential across creative media and still feel as engrossing and tangible as ever. Our recommendations for this episode are: The Grandmother shortf...

An informal chat about this and that. Thomas starts of telling about an adaptation of Moby Dick for the stage which uses a lot of puppets, then we talk about what shows we've been watching lately and eventually get into sentimentality in films and romance literature. At the end we talk a little about bad films that are unpleasant and why they might be interesting to talk about.

A low ranking peeping tom, a competitive speed eater, and a ghoulish taxidermist - three generations of men that may or may not be related. This absurd and intense film explores their lives in Hungary from the second world war, in the soviet era and contemporary times. What a joy! This weeks recommendations are: Miguel León-Portilla - The Broken Spears https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833834.Th...

From cave paintings to game randomizes, we cover the entire specter of culture history in this postscript episode. Kind of. Mostly we just ramble on about movies though. Get in touch with us at unplesantmovies@protonmail.com

This sublimely weird and funny debut movie by Jim Hosking, about a father and a son, a woman who comes between them and a man covered in grease who murders people at night and eats their eyeballs. Its gross, yet immensely watchable! This weeks recommendation is: Mind Scanners - The Outer Zone https://store.steampowered.com/app/1389550/Mind_Scanners/ Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan https://www.yout...

A bit of the old loosey goosey chit chat, Thomas has a lil true life anecdote of sin and cinema and Sverre has just finished reading about magic mountains and all the weird characters that muck about at such places. Get in touch with us at unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com

Having escaped a colony of German fanatics, Maria finds refuge in a house in the woods, occupied by two pigs. She takes care of them like siblings, as they start to turn into humans, all the while a wolf taunts her from outside. This nightmarish stop motion film directed by Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León is a darkly surreal haunted house fairy tale, where every surface is constantly shifting un...

Welcome to the postscript! This time we start out by talking about what other animated films we've considered talking about on the podcast, like When the Wind Blows and King of Pigs. After that we chat about voice work in games, how OG Cuno got cancelled and other sad examples of heinous changes to voice work in recent years. Get in touch with us at unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com!

Snitter and Rowf escape a laboratory conducting tests on animals after having survived severe experiments. As they are hunted by humans, they befriend the Tod, a sly fox who tries to teach them the ins and outs of surviving as an animal in the harsh English countryside. Its a heartbreaking and gut-wrenching film, and a beautiful adaptation of Richard Adams book by Martin Rosen. As always we recomm...

Sverre and Thomas have a wee chat about arthouse films, the criterion channel, Ingmar Bergman and Victor Sjöström. We also have very important career advice for actors who are hugely famous and successful. Hope you enjoy our little talk - get in touch with us here if you like: unpleasantmovies@protonmail.com https://www.instagram.com/unpleasantmovies/

Seita and Setsuko's home is destroyed during the firebombing of their home town, and shortly there after their mother dies leaving them to fend for themselves. This is Isao Takahata's deeply moving and incredibly sad film based on Akiyuki Nosaka's excellent short story, and we our conversation about it. Recommendations for this episdode are "Who Will Great you at Home" short story by Lesley Nneka...

We start of talking about Phillip Pullmans His dark Materials books and his later series The Book of Dust, talking about its merits in regard to CS Lewis and Narnia, then comparing it to the series. Sverre talks about how he makes music and his huge backlog of melody-ideas, then we talk a little bit about Frank Zappa and Wild Man Fischer. Enjoy!

Isabelle Huppert plays Erika, a strict piano teacher who lives with her mother. At a recital she meets Walter, a young man who becomes infatuated with her an decides to pursue her romantically, and well... things are about to become worse for everybody, lets put it like that. Our last episode on Haneke for now, and one of his absolute best in my opinion, based on the book by Elfriede Jelinek. Reco...