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Do boybands dream of liquid babes? Forget wanting it that way and not knowing you’re beautiful: in our most treasured boyband fantasy, a Frankenstein’d monster gal comes to slippery, stinky life, and we’re done being silent about her. Eliza and Noah take Anthony on a troubling journey to O-Town, and the minor boyband’s most confounding hit, 2000’s ‘Liquid Dreams’. Its legend foretells of a dream girl with the body parts of various celebrities, so hot she makes the band shoot ropes in the middle of the night. Eugh.
We break down the lyrical description of the perfect woman, question how this was a real, charting pop song pitched at impressionable young girls, and appreciate somea those sweet sweet vocal riffs. It’s a pop song analysis that’ll follow you into your dreams…whether you’ve got a towel ready or not.
SHOW NOTES: the_SONG: Liquid Dreams - O-Town // the_MESSY_PERFORMANCE: Liquid Dreams Live on Miss America
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NEXT WEEK = Twin Picks: THE FAN (1982) x THE FANATIC
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Why force ur friends to watch ONE movie when u could make em watch SEVEN movies...with THIRTY-THREE individual stories inside??!! This Halloween, Noah + Eliza hosted a movie marathon of ANTHOLOGY HORROR, including the freshest entry in the V/H/S franchise plus classics like Tales From The Hood and Tales From The Crypt.
Listen in as the Midnight Screening gang + guests pit each movie's best standalone segment against each other, in a tournament to find the evening's BEST individual story! Will aliens vs skydivers, haunted slavery dolls, or razor-sharp British traps win the day? One thing's for sure...the less said about Verotika, the better.
HAPPY spooky season 2024 yall !!
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NEXT WEEK = The Slop Bucket: ???
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weeeooooweeeeoooo the SPOOKY fashion police are here, ready to bitch about what's IN or OUT in horror, just in time for Halloween !!
It's been a big year for horror, but we're gettin bloody sick of some of the biggest, most overexposed trends. Let's forecast what's HOT and what's NOT in horror movies and hope Hollywood might hear our prayers...
Should we expect more scary movies with popstar protagonists? is internet horror ready for its mainstream moment? are we done with haunted dolls yet? and what Halloween costume mishap forced Anthony to jump into a pool? LISTEN UP and get ya finger on the pulse for this spooky season
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NEXT WEEK = Halloween Marathon '24: ANTHOLOGY-OLOGY
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Whatever happened to Bette + Joan? In the second instalment of our deep dive into the HAGSPLOITATION horror subgenre, the Hollywood legends part ways to put their own spins on traumatised, middle-aged characters still stuck in their younger days. Bette gets Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a sentimental (and mental) Southern Gothic with a dream sequence that left us STUNNED: while Joan does Strait-Jacket, a far trashier B-movie that sees the highly-strung star lose her shit but not her dignity. Now in the middle of their genre investigation, Eliza and Noah stumble onto some big questions: like is Sweet Charlotte actually better than the OG Baby Jane? Does Joan kinda wanna fuck her son-in-law? And can we really reclaim the word ‘hag’ all these years later, or is the genre just a place where talented older women go to die?
SHOW NOTES: My Way of Life by Joan Crawford // This n' That by Bette Davis
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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: THE BABY x BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER // Hagsploitation! Part 3
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its come to this....Noah and Eliza decide to lose their minds n bring all of u down with them, deconstructing a scene from the animated tv show Donkey Kong Country (?) about Donkey Kong being led to believe he's a crocodile pirate (??!!) through an R&B song-n-dance routine (???!!!!!!?!?!?!?!).
Here's the original video i guess ... the experience leaves everyone feeling utterly awful and empty, and so its satanic energy must b exorcised through the release of this podcast episode. it's within you now. YOU BE AS CROC AS THEY COME DONKEY CROC !!!
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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? x THE WITCHES (1966) // Hagsploitation! Part 1
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We’re at the end of our Godzilluminating journey through the longest-running film franchise of all time!
Noah and Eliza are still reeling from the final hours of MIFF’s 700-minute-long Godzilla marathon, which ends with the 90s sweetness of Godzilla Vs. Mothra and then the hilariously-named Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. As our fave kaiju stomps into a new century, do these entries capture the best of both worlds: the series’ sci-fi silliness and environmental themes, finally perfectly balanced?
Hear from more of the Astor’s exhausted guests, as well as news about Midnight Screening’s OC kaijus Swoopilla and Cobroo — we’re saying bye to Godzilla for now, but not forever, since that beefy boi is always popping back out of the Pacific when you least expect him…
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NEXT WEEK = Twin Picks: ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK x ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS
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Rawr means I love you in kaiju <3 and boy do we love Godzilla, that titan of Japanese B-Movie cinema who turns 70 this year !!! After being blasted by the atomic breath of MIFF’s 7-part Godzilla marathon, Eliza and Noah dive into the big boy’s legacy and changing status, from terrifying nuclear metaphor to goofy sci-fi hero and back again.
We begin with 1954’s black-and-white introduction to the character, before cheering on the epic kaiju silliness of 1968’s Destroy All Monsters, both directed by Ishirō Honda. Stay tuned for two more monstrous instalments, and some short interviews the team recorded with the Astor event’s Godzilla fans. Duuuuuun dun dun dun dun….dun dun…..dundundundun.
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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA x THE RETURN OF GODZILLA feat. MIFF Audience Interviews! // Toho's Lil' Stompa Part 2
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Sacrifices must be made :) In their latest attempt to recruit u to the cult of creepy cinema, Eliza and Noah check out two movies about scary sects and frightening folklore: 1973's mould-breaking, delightful The Wicker Man, and underseen 2020 thriller The Empty Man.
One film is hugely acclaimed (being one of Eliza's absolute fave films of all time!) while the other got dumped into an unwelcoming COVID-era release window. Both are fascinating, freaky yarns about the pleasures and terrors of conformity, with some uniquely unforgettable scenes (and songs!! O the songs!!). Just listen, we promise it's not an ad for our MLM or anythin.
Triplet In The Attic: Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, 2021, dir. Janisse / Dead and Buried, 1981, dir. Sherman + Messiah of Evil, 1973, dir. Katz and Hyuck
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NEXT WEEK = Now Screaming: Winter 2024 Horror Wrap-Up
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Who the fk are you/I'm a brat/when I'm bumpin Bratz (2007). Capitalising on Charli XCX's brat summer while they can, Eliza and Noah pull off the rare movie + ALBUM edition of Twin Picks, pairing this year's biggest pop tracks with one of the most maligned teen movies of all time.
First up there's a lot of gushing over the era-defining beats, themes, and brattitude of Charli's lime-green sensation of an LP. Songs like 'Sympathy is a knife' and 'girl, so confusing' then get matched to the hilariously lame film adaptation of the Bratz doll line, in which villain Meredith Baxter-Dingley is the only character truly worthy of claiming the brat crown. should we do a little key should we have a little wine should we play with our little sexualised dolls on the living room carpet??
Triplet In The Attic: Bratz Big Babyz Jade doll / 'Forrest Gump' by Frank Ocean
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NEXT WEEK = The Slop Bucket: THE EVIL WITHIN
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Look out New York - we're walkin' here ;-)
In this special episode, recorded LIVE from the streets of New York City, Noah and big-brain friend of the show Darcey Eagle spend a not-so-lazy Saturday racing around the Big Apple to relish in celluloid bliss at some of the cities most beautiful and historic cinemas. They start at the Paris Theatre in Lower Manhattan with Make Way For Tomorrow (1937), a bleak American drama about the burden an aging couple poses to their adult children, before making their way over to the Anthology Film Archives, an iconic establishment for the preservation of film, for a screening of La Vie de Bohème (1992), a black tragicomedy about struggling and selfish artists, and finally kickin' up their boots at the Metrograph for a packed screening of Jonathan Demme's screwball comedy riot Something Wild (1986).
Witness the couple try to earn their Cinemania-c badge by suppressing their hangover to take part in New York's exciting and constant appreciation of film history. Will their love of the movies get them through the whole day? Which of the day's movies will be top of the heap? And is Noah's answer to that question full of shit? You're a New Yorker now buddy, think for yourself!!
This episode was recorded on the land of the Lenape people, and we recognise the Lenape people as the Indigenous caretakers and traditional custodians of this land and water.
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NEXT WEEK = NOSEferatu (Scratch-N-Sniff Horror) feat. Hersh Nevgi !!
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The kids are NOT alright: big brain genius Darcey Eagle got us to watch two parental nightmares, Larry Clark's disturbing indie Kids (1995) and Catherine Hardwicke's suburban melodrama Thirteen (2003). Both movies got their tween actors involved in the filmmaking process—for better and worse—and are sure to make u clutch ya pearls at the tongue-piercing, shoplifting, assault and violence on display.
They're tough watches, each introducing us to stars like Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, and Evan Rachel Wood back when they were mere bbs...but only ONE film can triumph as the ultimate adolescent cautionary tale. It's podcast time: do you know where your children are?
Triplet in the Attic links: Thirteen Q&A with Evan Rachel Wood + Nikki Reed // "Dead End Justice" by The Runaways // "Manny Santos, my how you've grown ;)" // Harmony Korine's appearances on David Letterman
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NEXT WEEK = CINEMANIACS IN NYC !! feat. Darcey Eagle
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Rev up your engines and pop them pills: we put our season of CORMANIA to rest with this influential, psychedelic wrap-up of a double feature. Before Easy Rider, Roger Corman put 1960s bikers on screen in The Wild Angels, and then adapted his LSD journey into The Trip, a feature-length hippie music video scripted by Jack Nicholson.
As Eliza and Noah finish their six-film adventure into the late director's ouevre, just what has been learnt here? Was Corman a penny-pinching culture vulture, or an amazingly efficient auteur who leapt onto filmmaking trends well before they were cool? Cmon bro, it's the latter and you know it: rest in power king.
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NEXT WEEK = Chasin' Derulo: 30 things u need to Derulknow
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Rest in pulp: Noah and Eliza's new marathon memorialises the low-budget brilliance of Roger Corman, Hollywood's cult B-Movie pioneer who died this May. Although the guy might now be best known as a one-man film school (responsible for sparking the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, Demme, Cameron and many more), we're startin' off our look at Corman's own directorial output with two black-and-white early-ish works.
One's a provocative, stark drama about small-town racism and the other's a smart lil black comedy lampooning the art world—but both'll whet your CORMANIA as we dive into a filmmaker who quietly shaped Hollywood's 1960s landscape. Enter our lil shop of horrors, if u dare...
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Interview with Roger Corman on the Blockbusters podcastInterview with Roger Corman on Post Mortem with Mick GarrisBecome ONE_OF_US over on our PATREON
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NEXT WEEK = X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES x THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH // ROGER CORMANIA PART 2
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Return of the Meg! Once tragically deleted from existence, our beloved sibling Megane Janssen is back in the physical realm, and she brings two dancey, doom-filled horror picks! Released in the same year, 2018’s SUSPIRIA and CLIMAX choreograph haunting horrors of East Berlin witchcraft and LSD-fuelled violence respectively. They’re both damned, and damn good…Meg and Noah share all about their own terrifying dance backgrounds as we come to a twirling, bone-snappin’ decision.
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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: A BUCKET OF BLOOD x THE INTRUDER // ROGER CORMANIA PART 1
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Cinemas are POPPIN OFF right now with a strong n diverse line-up of Hollywood movies—if you’re unsure which ones are worth their ticket price, let Noah n Eliza guide u thru the films that made em think over April n May.
We’re talkin about the sapphic pulp of LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the wishy-washy centrism of CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST OMEN’s ingenious religious scares, CHALLENGERS’ addictive sporty thrills, and the monkey mania of MONKEY MAN and GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE. Whew it’s a lot to cover!!! But by the end, you’ll be able to lie to ur mates and pretend you’ve seen everything available on the big screen right now ;)
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NEXT WEEK = Microsoft Songsmith: THE MUSICAL
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Mighty Morbin' Madame Webbers!! Anthony joins Noah and Eliza in the Amazon researching spiders before they die due to Sony Spider-Man Universe-related brain injuries. Lemme tell ya: this is a CONTENTIOUS, ANGSTY episode, with Eliza insisting that new SSU entry Madame Web isn't all that bad, while da boys claim it's worse than Jared Leto super-bore Morbius.
Special voice guest Morbessa (thats her name now, yup) even gets in on the action, goin all Dakota Johnson on us for a minute, in this gloopy episode that'll have u sorely missing that overfamiliar neighbourhood hero Spidey.
Triplet in the Attic: Eminem's 'Venom' feat. cold can of Pepsi // leaked Sony emails bout Spider-Man
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NEXT WEEK = We Survived The SLEEPAWAY CAMP SLASH-A-THON
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"Movies don't create psychos: movies make psychos more creative." If these words from 1996's Scream are true, then DANG are Noah + Eliza wildly creative by now. After learning about the background and boom time of the slasher genre, we're honing in on one iconic horror franchise—Wes Craven's saga-startin original, and the fresh blood of the fifth film Scream (2022)—to show the confusing state of slashdom today.
We discuss the hilarious fallibility of Ghostface, the genius of Matthew Lillard, and how meta is too meta—ending in one big, spooky wrap-up of everything we've learnt about slashers over 6 definitive films. Basically: we watched a few movies, took a few notes, it was FUHHNN.
The conclusion of our slasher autopsy also brings about the birth of our debut horror short GET HOME SAFE, which is available to watch on Vimeo and Youtube now! Give it a watch, share it around, and let us know what you think!
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NEXT WEEK = Pretty SPOOKY for a KIDZ SHOW
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Lace up ya sneakers, it's our first Midnight Marathon = a season of 3 eps focusing on the vile birth and twisted evolution of the slasher genre !! aaaahh!!
We start our run with two revered proto-slashers: Peeping Tom, the voyeuristic British masterpiece that ruined its director's reputation, and Torso, a paranoid giallo that did all the big slasher tropes before it was cool.
With its masked killers and mystery plotting, where did this genre begin? Where's it heading? To celebrate the release of their debut short, subverted slasher GET HOME SAFE (available to watch rn on Patreon!), Noah and Eliza must figure it out...or die trying ....
Tune in next week only on Patreon for the second chapter of SLASHER AUTOPSY, where a good genre goes sour in its 1980s boom period, ripe for a 90s renaissance...
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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: THE BURNING x FATAL GAMES // SLASHER AUTOPSY PART 2
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The betht movie of 2023? Maybe.
Noah and Eliza revisit Todd Haynes’ recent drama(???) May December, which got caught up in critical claptrap surrounding the term “camp”. Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman star as a predatory housewife and the wanky actress cast to play her in a new film. With Moore’s ‘may/december’ marriage under a microscope, everyone’s darkest impulses and delusions sprawl out in the luscious tradition of midcentury feel-bad melodrama.
Is this vicious, heartbreaking movie meant to be funny? Why did Charles Melton miss out on a fricken Oscar nom? All these questions and many more come broiling to the surface of the first ever Now Screaming episode, focusing on the new and recent releases that get the Midnight Screening team thinkin.
SHOW NOTES: - Eliza's piece on May December !
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NEXT TIME = Midnight Marathon: PEEPING TOM x TORSO // Slasher Autopsy Part 1
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We're so back/it's so over/etc. Noah, Eliza and Anthony are reunited and it feels so good !! back to cover Midnight Screenings' first Twin Picks episode!!
It's a face off between the faceless freaks in fuzzy liminal horror Skinamarink (2022) and black-and-white art film Begotten (1990). Both films are hard to watch...like because of their intense scares, and also because they're literally hard to comprehend lol, with murky visuals and sound.
Which movie will the gang pick as their very first fave of the new pod: the one about neglected kids stuck in a demon house with no toilet, or the one in which god yanks out his own intestines??!! Twin Picks is dead: long live Midnight Screening 😈😈😈
Triplet in the Attic: Un Chien Andalou dir. Buñuel / Sleep Has Her House dir. Barley
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NEXT WEEK = Now Screaming: MAY DECEMBER
