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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 des Anges, a sexually repressed nun who inspires the accusations.”
ALSO DISCUSSED: The Stanley Kubrick Criterion boxset, Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation for Amazon, The Horrible Sexy Vampire (1971), The Entity (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Derek Jarman, and more.  

NEXT WEEK: Antichrist (2009) 
 
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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 opposing the trials. The film contains possible allegory about Communist show trials in Czechoslovakia.”
ALSO DISCUSSED: mooses, Digger, The Devils, Cry_Wolf, The Crucibe, Ninotchka, communist propaganda, and more!
NEXT WEEK: The Devils (1971) REDUX
 
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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 (2026), Beyond Fest 2026, Penelope Spheeris,  Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick, If, Heathers, Clueless, Trainspotting, what is punk?, and more. 

NEXT WEEK: Witchhammer (1970) 
 
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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 submissions are open, Miss March (2009), Jordan Peele, the connection between comedy and horror, Guillermo Del Toro, The Goonies (1984), Backrooms (2026), Key & Peele, the time Josh spent Thanksgiving with Lupita Nyong’o, Greta (2018), Hands Across America, and more. 
NEXT WEEK: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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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 place in Hwaseong in the late 1980s, by a man known as the Hwaesong Killer. The film is a semi-biographical retelling of Korea's police hunting Lee Choon-jae.”
Also discussed: Coyote vs. Acme (2026), Hope (2026), Zodiac (2007), French Connection (1971), and more. 
NEXT WEEK: Us (2019) 
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Joshua Conkel
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