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Clownhouse, possibly the most cursed movie we’ve ever covered
Author Caleb Bethea returns for two films where clowns are the *least* of our worries: Victor Sjöström's 1924 psychological thriller HE WHO GETS SLAPPED and Victor Salva's 1989 slasher CLOWNHOUSE.
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SPECIAL RE-RELEASE: Today we look back on two very different films about 9/11: Paul Greengrass’ UNITED 93, the first film to dramatize the tragedy, and 2017’s 9/11, a chamber drama starring Charlie Sheen trapped in a WTC elevator.
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Today we tackle three ill-fated attempts to make feature-length films out of the songs of the Beatles: 1978’s SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND; Julie Taymor's 2007 box office bomb ACROSS THE UNIVERSE; and Danny Boyle’s 2019 fantasy romance YESTERDAY.
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Love Red Rooms but it’s Afterschool that really needs a higher profile—one of my favorite movies we’ve ever covered and among the most essential (and prescient!) of the 2000s.
Film writer Devan Suber joins us for two oblique character studies about internet-warped minds and the technology they use to mediate reality: Antonio Campos' 2008 experimental drama AFTERSCHOOL and Pascal Plante's 2023 psychological thriller RED ROOMS.
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Today film critic @rilaws helps us take on the unwatchable franchise that followed from one of our most watchable classics. Spielberg's JAWS is one of the most influential and enduring Hollywood blockbusters ever made, and its three sequels are... not.
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This Tues: Just when you thought it was safe to turn a classic into a franchise
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I like Skinamarink a lot but I can’t imagine being at one of its sold-out screenings in 2023. If people complained about Blair Witch, did audiences for this one riot? Did theaters burn?
We’re joined by @cevangelista413 for two recent experimental horror films that challenge our ideas of what a horror film even is: Kyle Edward Ball's 2022 avant-garde creepfest SKINAMARINK, and Chris Nash's 2024 slasher IN A VIOLENT NATURE.
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Two experimental horror films that polarized audiences
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In truth only one of these is close to a classic (probably the one you’re thinking), but they do have more in common than I first thought!
Today we're joined by Ryan Verrill of @disc_connected to look back at two modern survival horror classics: Greg McLean's 2005 Australian horror film WOLF CREEK and Jeremy Saulnier's gruesome 2015 thriller GREEN ROOM.
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Two modern survival horror classics
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Had a blast doing this—as soon as the film was over (Respect to all the fans who showed up! You guys rock! but holy shit does this movie suck)
Big thanks to @nightlightakron for hosting the second live Unwatchables recording! We had a lively back-and-forth with the audience of a sold-out screening of HOWARD THE DUCK, the notorious 1986 flop that's since gained a cult following.
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Today Unwatchables tackles the most controversial hit of the year - Antoine Fuqua’s MICHAEL. We discuss how it stacks up against other biopics, what its success tells us about our culture, and of course how it handles—or doesn’t handle—that other thing.
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Caught up with MAN BITES DOG just 30+ years late.... NOT A FAN! But had some fun talking about that and NBK with the Unwatchables Boys.
Film critic @rockmarooned stops by for two movies about serial killers and the media that loves them: 1992’s black comedy mockumentary MAN BITES DOG, and Oliver Stone’s hyper-stylized 1994 crime film NATURAL BORN KILLERS.
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This was… rough.
Today’s episode captures our real-time reactions to 2025’s most gruesome documentary. In honor of our guest Roman Pessarov’s podcast CINEMA STROLLS, we finished watching Albert Serra’s bull-fighting doc AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE minutes before hitting record.
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Variety’s @GuyLodge returns for two films that faced similar controversies over their supposedly "irresponsible" use of child actors: Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 drama BIRTH and Sandra Wollner’s little-seen 2020 sci-fi provocation THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN.
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This Tuesday, Variety's @GuyLodge returns.
Were these films irresponsible with their child actors?
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UNWATCHABLES welcomes back film critic and author @nathanrabin to discuss one of the most bizarre and reviled so-called comedies of the 90’s: Dan Akroyd’s first and to date only directorial effort NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.
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This Tues: @nathanrabin returns for the most grotesque "comedy" bomb of the 90's
