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This week, the ghouls discuss all things Jordan Peele with a focus on Us (2019). From wiki: “Us is a 2019 American psychological horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, and starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker. The story follows Adelaide Wilson and her family, who are attacked by a group of menacing doppelgängers, called the "Tethered".” ALSO DISCUSSED: Resident Evil (2026), the escalators at AMC Burbank, Zach Cregger, Salem Horror Festival submiss...
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Condemned film month continues with a deep dive (and redux!) on Ken Russell’s newly restored masterpiece, The Devils (1971). From wiki: “The Devils is a 1971 historical psychological horror-drama film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed.[3] A dramatised historical account of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne de...
Josh and Drusilla continue their exploration of condemned films for October with 1970’s Witchhammer (1970). From wiki: “Witchhammer (Czech: Kladivo na čarodějnice) is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra and starring Elo Romančík. Based on the novel Kladivo na čarodějnice by Václav Kaplický, Witchhammer relates the story of the Northern Moravia witch trials of the 1670s, focusing on the priest Kryštof Lautner, played by Romančík, who falls victim to the witchhunt after oppo...
The hosts begin a monthlong exploration of condemned films with 1971’s A Clockwork Orange. From wiki: “A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. The film employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and broader social, political, and economic issues in a dystopian near-future Britain.” ALSO DISCUSSED: Pathetic Fallacy (2026), Primetime ...
Today, Josh and Drusilla discuss Bong Joon Ho’s early thriller, Memories of Murder (2003). From wiki: “Memories of Murder (Korean: 살인의 추억) is a 2003 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Bong Joon Ho, from a screenplay by Bong and Shim Sung-bo, and based on the 1996 play Come to See Me by Kim Kwang-lim. It stars Song Kang-ho and Kim Sang-kyung. In the film, detectives Park Doo-man (Song) and Seo Tae-yoon (Kim) lead an investigation into a string of rapes and murders taking pla...
Drusilla and Josh discuss the Val Lewton classic, I Walked with a Zombie. They are joined by Black Zombie director, Maya Annik Bedward. From wiki: “I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. It stars James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway, and follows a Canadian nurse who travels to care for the ailing wife of a sugar plantation owner in the Caribbean, where she witnesses Vodou rites and possibly encounte...