Greg and Giles gaze into the future to see what lies ahead in weird movies! But first, we have a present announcement: "Freaked" (1993) is restored in 4K and now available on-demand (and in a lavish special-order physical set). Then, it's into the crystal ball to see what lies in the future: the 80s virtual reality gamer throwback "Obex" is set to debut in early January of 2026; Boots Riley announces "I Love Boosters"; a pair of psychological thrillers in development in the dream flick "The Sleepless Girl" and the Death Valley marathon set "Ultra"; psychedelic microbudget "Close-Up: An Odd-yssey" seeks finishing funds; and finally, thoughts on Yorgos Lanthimos announcing he will take a break from moviemaking.
Greg and Giles gaze into the future to see what lies ahead in weird movies! But first, we have a present announcement: "Freaked" (1993) is restored in 4K and now available on-demand (and in a lavish special-order physical set). Then, it's into the crystal ball to see what lies in the future: the 80s virtual reality gamer throwback "Obex" is set to debut in early January of 2026; Boots Riley announces "I Love Boosters"; a pair of psychological thrillers in development in the dream flick "The Sleepless Girl" and the Death Valley marathon set "Ultra"; psychedelic microbudget "Close-Up: An Odd-yssey" seeks finishing funds; and finally, thoughts on Yorgos Lanthimos announcing he will take a break from moviemaking.
Happy Halloween! Gre-gory Smalley and Giles Deadwards run through the week's weirdest releases this All Hallows Eve, starting with Radu Jude's absurdist take on "Dracula." Speaking of absurdist horror, France's "Vincent Must Die" (2023) finally appears in the USA in the form of a theatrical double feature. Physical media sees the release of two Canonically Weird films as "Catch-22" debuts on 4K UHD and the mythologically muddled "Malpertuis" makes its North American Blu-ray bow. Other physical media releases this week include "Edward Scissorhands," the hallucinatory African horror "Dust Devil," John Carpenter's Lovecraftian "In the Mouth of Madness," the magical realist "Chronicles of a Wandering Saint," the tentacle anime/OVA compilation "Urotsukidohi: Sequels of the Overfiend," and the remake of "The Toxic Avenger."
ERRATA:*The "Hallows Road" / "Vincent Must Die" double feature is airing at AMC theaters until Wednesday Nov. 5, not on Halloween night only.
Director W.M. Weikart joins 366 to discuss his debut feature, the surreal psychological drama "Soul to Squeeze." But first, W.M. helps Greg and Giles go through the week's new releases: Yorgos Lanthimos' highly-anticipated "Bugonia" finally in theaters; Ken Russell's "Altered States" enters the Criterion Collection; David Cronenberg's latest grief drama, "The Shrouds," debuts on Blu-ray; Lloyd Kaufman's obscene "The Tempest" parody "#Shakepeare's Shitstorm" debuts on physical media; Arrow releases "Three... Extremes" (featuring a quite surreal horror short from Takashi Miike) in a set together with the less-well-known Asian horror anthology "Three"; and the first two installments of the "Evangelion" reboot come to Blu-ray for the first time. Then we get to "Soul to Squeeze": the anatomy of the eye, Michael Thomas Santos' performance, and news that W.M.'s next project is "Something Strange." Plus, where to eat in Marysville, OH."Soul to Squeeze" on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100043072/soul-to-squeeze
ERRATA:*Park Chan-Wook has never been nominated for an Oscar, much less won one.*The Evangelion rebuild had previously been released on Blu-ray in 2011.
Happy Halloween! Gre-gory Smalley and Giles Deadwards run through the week's weirdest releases this All Hallows Eve, starting with Radu Jude's absurdist take on "Dracula." Speaking of absurdist horror, France's "Vincent Must Die" (2023) finally appears in the USA in the form of a theatrical double feature. Physical media sees the release of two Canonically Weird films as "Catch-22" debuts on 4K UHD and the mythologically muddled "Malpertuis" makes its North American Blu-ray bow. Other physical media releases this week include "Edward Scissorhands," the hallucinatory African horror "Dust Devil," John Carpenter's Lovecraftian "In the Mouth of Madness," the magical realist "Chronicles of a Wandering Saint," the tentacle anime/OVA compilation "Urotsukidohi: Sequels of the Overfiend," and the remake of "The Toxic Avenger."
ERRATA:*The "Hallows Road" / "Vincent Must Die" double feature is airing at AMC theaters until Wednesday Nov. 5, not on Halloween night only.
Director W.M. Weikart joins 366 to discuss his debut feature, the surreal psychological drama "Soul to Squeeze." But first, W.M. helps Greg and Giles go through the week's new releases: Yorgos Lanthimos' highly-anticipated "Bugonia" finally in theaters; Ken Russell's "Altered States" enters the Criterion Collection; David Cronenberg's latest grief drama, "The Shrouds," debuts on Blu-ray; Lloyd Kaufman's obscene "The Tempest" parody "#Shakepeare's Shitstorm" debuts on physical media; Arrow releases "Three... Extremes" (featuring a quite surreal horror short from Takashi Miike) in a set together with the less-well-known Asian horror anthology "Three"; and the first two installments of the "Evangelion" reboot come to Blu-ray for the first time. Then we get to "Soul to Squeeze": the anatomy of the eye, Michael Thomas Santos' performance, and news that W.M.'s next project is "Something Strange." Plus, where to eat in Marysville, OH.
Greg and Giles run through the week's weird physical media releases. First up, they note 2 4K UHD upgrades for Canonically Weird movies: "Eyes Without a Face" (Criterion Collection) and "Jacob's Ladder" (Lionsgate). Then, there are a number of new-to-North-America releases: Nobuhiko "Hausu" Obayashi's gonzo "School in the Crosshairs"; Jruraj Herz's bloody car cult film "Ferat Vampire"; "The Assassin of the Tsar," a rare late-Soviet asylum-set feature starring Malcolm McDowell; and the psychedelic sci-fi of Deaf Crocodile's "Treasures of Soviet Animation, Vol. 1."
Greg and Giles run through the week's weird physical media releases. First up, they note 2 4K UHD upgrades for Canonically Weird movies: "Eyes Without a Face" (Criterion Collection) and "Jacob's Ladder" (Lionsgate). Then, there are a number of new-to-North-America releases: Nobuhiko "Hausu" Obayashi's gonzo "School in the Crosshairs"; Jruraj Herz's bloody car cult film "Ferat Vampire"; "The Assassin of the Tsar," a rare late-Soviet asylum-set feature starring Malcolm McDowell; and the psychedelic sci-fi of Deaf Crocodile's "Treasures of Soviet Animation, Vol. 1."
Greg and Giles race through the week's physical media releases -- "Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me," "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth" steelbooks, and "Eddington" -- so they can get to the meatier topics. In A.I. news, they talk about the upcoming "first AI-directed movie," "The Sweet Idleness" (credited to FellinAI). Then they discuss Todd Rohal's apologia for his limited use of AI in "F____ My Son." Then, it's on to Crispin Glover news, as the eternally young, eternally weird actor stars in the Kafkaesque new feature "Mr. K" and directs himself in "No! You're Wrong, or, Spooky Action at a Distance" (complete with trailer).ERRATA:*A24's "Eddington" release is in 4K UHD only, not Blu-ray only.*The movie "Mr. K" reminded Greg of was "Poseidon Hotel," not "Hotel Poseidon." *The only-available-when-specially-screened movie Greg was thinking of was Matthew Barney's "Cremaster" series, not "Cremator."*You can find the 366 Weird Movies guides at bearmanormedia.com, not bearmanor.com.
Greg returns from Europe to find weird movie releases stacked up. Fortunately, Giles is there to help him preview ten new releases: Greek weird sci-fi "She Loved Blossoms More," French fairy tale "The Ice Tower," a "Perfect Blue" theatrical rerelease, "V/H/S Halloween" appearing on Shudder with a Casper Kelly entry, Bleeding Skull's postmodern retro horror experiment "Phantasmatapes," "The Toxic Avenger" remake arrives on VOD, a Something Weird psychedelic sexploitation set call "Drug-O-Rama Video Party," "Dogtooth" gets a 4K UHD, Criterion releases "The Wes Anderson Archive," and "Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD" appears on 4K UHD. Phew!
Greg returns from abroad to find weird movie releases stacked up. Fortunately Giles is there to help him preview ten new releases: Greek weird sci-fi "She Loved Blossoms More," French fairy tale "The Ice Tower," a "Perfect Blue" theatrical rerelease, "V/H/S Halloween" appearing on Shudder with a Casper Kelly entry, Bleeding Skull's postmodern retro horror experiment "Phantasmatapes," "The Toxic Avenger" remake arrives on VOD, a Something Weird psychedelic sexploitation set call "Drug-O-Rama Video Party," "Dogtooth" gets a 4K UHD, Criterion releases "The Wes Anderson Archive," and "Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD" appears on 4K UHD. Phew!
With Greg still on vacation (and posting this episode late due to spotty wifi), Giles Edwards and Brother "Penguin" Pete Trbovich drop this short and informal episode. They revisit "Fantastic Fest" in more depth, tip you off to a new experimental project from Crispin Glover, revisit "Rocky Horror" and its tribute documentary (now in scattered theaters), pimp "The 366 Weird Movies Guide," and briefly mention "One Battle After Another."0:00 Intro1:12 More on Fantastic Fest 20257:16 Crispin Glover's upcoming film "No! You're Wrong: or, Spooky Action at a Distance"9:27 366 "Weird Movies Guide Vol. 1 & Vol. 2"11:20 "Rocky Horror Picture Show"/"Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror"16:20 Premature closing remarks/more "366 Weird Movies Guide"17:24 "One Battle After Another"19:06 Actual closing remarks/"Mandy"ERRATA/OMISSIONS*Besides "Unicorn Wars," Alberto Vázquez also co-directed the Canonically Weird "Birdboy: The Forgotten Children"*Both volumes of "The 366 Weird Movies Guide" are available in either hard cover or soft cover; there is no single edition with both*Casper Kelly, who was responsible for "The Cheddar Goblin" segment of "Mandy," also made the Apocryphally Weird "The Adult Swim Yule Log"
Greg is on vacation, so Penguin Pete co-hosts with Giles. They discuss the theatrical re-release of "Howl's Moving Castle" this weekend (Sep. 20-24); the "Megalopolis" behind-the-scenes documentary "Megadoc" coming to theaters in limited release, "So Unreal," Amanda Kramer's glitchy and experimental documentary about late-20th century science fiction movies, debuting on Blu-ray; Deaf Crocodile's offering Blu-rays of the Lithuanian rock musical "The Devil's Bride" (a debut) and a new edition of Jiri Barta's Expressionist stop-motion "The Pied Piper" with six new shorts; and, with time to kill, they jump ahead to next week to announce the upcoming theatrical documentary "Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror" and a brief peek at some things (including the existential mouse animation "Decorado") that will play at Fantastic Fest in Austin this year.
Giles and Greg discuss Todd Rohal's comments to "Variety" about his transgressive underground comedy "F____ My Son," the Blu-ray release of the anime adaptation "Uzumaki" (and its troubled history), and longer discussions of Nicolas Cage in Finnegan Lorcan's psychothriller "The Surfer" and Argentina's surreal crime drama "Kill the Jockey."
ERRATA: George Kuchar's name should be pronounced KOO-char, not KOO-kar.
Giles and Greg discuss Todd Rohal's comments to "Variety" about his transgressive underground comedy "F____ My Son," the Blu-ray release of the anime adaptation "Uzumaki" (and its troubled history), and longer discussions of Nicolas Cage in Finnegan Lorcan's psychothriller "The Surfer" and Argentina's surreal crime drama "Kill the Jockey."ERRATA: George Kuchar's name should be pronounced KOO-char, not KOO-kar.
On this episode we dive into what looks weird at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), including a gnarly Harmony Korine-produced romp set in Medellin, a story about irradiated centaurs, the tale of a desperate mom trying to get her mutant son laid, and much more. We also spotlight the week's weirdest releases: the surreal Argentinian caper flick "Kill the Jockey" on VOD and Joe Badon's meta-riffic "The Wheel of Heaven" on Blu-ray.
ERRATA & OMISSIONS*The two anime-influenced French movies Greg was trying to think of were "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" (2022) and "MFKZ" (2017).*Joe Swanberg was the director of the original "Uncle Kent."*STILLZ is Columbian/American, and has made music videos for Bad Bunny.*"Dead Lover" is Grace Glowicki's sophomore feature, not her debut.*Walter Mosely is most famous for his mysteries, but wrote in all sorts of genres; it was completely inaccurate for Greg to suggest that "Man in My Basement" was his only non-mystery.
On this episode, we dive into what looks weird at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), including a gnarly Harmony Korine-produced romp set in Medellin, a story about irradiated centaurs, the tale of a desperate mom trying to get her mutant son laid, and much more. We also spotlight the week's weirdest releases: the surreal Argentinian caper flick "Kill the Jockey" on VOD and Joe Badon's meta-riffic "The Wheel of Heaven" on Blu-ray.ERRATA & OMISSIONS*The two anime-influenced French movies Greg was trying to think of were "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" (2022) and "MFKZ" (2017).
*Joe Swanberg was the director of the original "Uncle Kent."*STILLZ is Columbian/American, and has made music videos for Bad Bunny.
*"Dead Lover" is Grace Glowicki's sophomore feature, not her debut.
*Walter Mosely is most famous for his mysteries, but wrote in all sorts of genres; it was completely inaccurate for Greg to say that "Man in My Basement" was his only non-mystery.
Greg and Giles are back to discuss the week's news and new releases, starting with a look at what may be weird at the Venice International Film Festival (Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia," anyone?) Then it's two movies in theatrical release, one which is easy to see ("The Toxic Avenger" remake with Peter Dinklage) and one that will prove challenging (the Quay Brothers' "Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"), FInally, we address the week's three physical media releases: a Blu-ray edition of the Canonically Weird indie horror "I Can See You"; Shôhei Imamura's underseen 2001 final film "Warm Water Under a Red Bridge"; and "enigmatic" Chinese feature "Only the River Flows".
Greg and Giles are back to discuss the week's news and new releases, starting with a look at what may be weird at the Venice International Film Festival (Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia," anyone?) Then it's two movies in theatrical release, one which is easy to see ("The Toxic Avenger" remake with Peter Dinklage) and one that will prove challenging (the Quay Brothers' "Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"), FInally, we address the week's three physical media releases: a Blu-ray edition of the Canonically Weird indie horror "I Can See You"; Shôhei Imamura's underseen 2001 final film "Warm Water Under a Red Bridge"; and "enigmatic" Chinese feature "Only the River Flows".
Julian "Boys Go to Jupiter" Glander joins Greg and Giles to talk about his oddball coming-of-age debut feature, blender animation, baby ducklings, hammer entrepreneurship, and how to get a free deep-fried taco in Tampa, FL. Before that, G&G run through the week's notable releases: "Black Swan" rereleased in IMAX, strange horror "Perpetrator" on Blu-ray, new 4Ks of a pair of Rollinades ("Lips of Blood" and "Night of the Hunted"), plus disco fever dream "Xanadu" and Raimi's PG-13 horror outing "Drag Me to Hell."