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Midnight Screening Podcast

Midnight Screening Productions

On the Midnight Screening Podcast, co-hosts Eliza and Noah Janssen stay up past their bedtime to rot their brains with the very best (and the very worst) that genre cinema has to offer.Whether it"s comparing two films with some sort of tenuous connection on our double feature format episodes Twin Picks, diving deep into the the history of the genre with Midnight Marathons, or watching in awe/terror/confusion/annoyance at the biggest pieces of shit ever made in The Slop Bucket, there’s no film these

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116:25

Halloween campfire story hullaballoo

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/11/02

Here we are on ur doorstep this All Hallows Eve, raising our voices to shriek TWICK O TWEAT and accept your sugary, rotten donations: a selection of scary stories, kindly submitted by haunted listeners!!!Joined around the campfire by head camp counsellor Darcey Eagle, the team read YOUR spooky tales of cries in the night, accursed car maintenance and cats that see dead people. There’s also classic childhood urban legends revisited, plus short but sweet masterpieces from the

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73:18

Twin Picks: FROGS x SLUGS

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2025/10/22

It’s about that time…the time…for SLIME… Comparing two swampy creature features, Noah and Eliza wonder if there are some animals that simply are not scary enough to power a horror movie. Juan Piquer Simon’s 1988 movie SLUGS sics millions of black, writhing, gooey gastropods on a small town of hilariously hateful and rude characters, resulting in some gnarly SFX moments and sexual subtext. But 1972’s FROGS doesn’t have nearly enough critters!! It’s got Sam Elliott and an interesting bayou mansion

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115:34

Midnight Marathon: CURE x CLOUD// Kiyoshi Kurosawa...

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2025/09/29

We are HYPNOTISED, HAUNTED and HACK’D by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose unsettling Japanese thrillers are finally getting the Midnight Marathon treatment. Best of all - filmmaker, Kurosawa megafan and good buddy TYLER BAIN (@tyler.internet) is riding shotgun with us in the cloud-shrouded nightmare bus to hell! weeeeeeWe start with Kurosawa’s 1997 breakout CURE, a disorienting detective story with a stunning final shot and enough atmospheric scares to inspire the then-budding J-Horror movement. Then, as

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95:09

Twin Picks: FESTEN x JULIEN DONKEY BOY x TRASH HUMPER...

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2025/09/10

Who let the dogme out ?? Our fingers are aimed squarely at returning pals PARKER AND FLYNN of Sydney’s @underground.film.collective !! they let the dogme out !!Inspired by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Vows of Chastity’ and how they can inform rawer, truer, more POWERFUL cinema, we get into the first (and probably best??) movie made in accordance with the Dogme 95 manifesto: Vinterberg’s dark, funny and provocative family reunion drama FESTEN/THE CELEBRATION.No script, lighting,

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84:36

Now Screaming: WEAPONS x EDDINGTON

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2025/08/23

Nice day for a white Weddington - i now pronounce u to be two fucked up, distressing, long and entertaining movies !! Noah has been destructively hyped for Zach Creggers’ sophomore feature WEAPONS since the first teaser dropped: a ‘horror epic’ depicting the aftermath of a bizarre disappearance from multiple townsfolk perspectives. but sometimes delayed gratification and mysterious marketing can work against a movie??Ari Aster’s fourth movie EDDINGTON is also about a small town gone violent n

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70:54

Twin Picks: BE MY CAT: A FILM FOR ANNE x I BLAME SOCIETY

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2025/08/12

We are so beyond breaking the fourth wall: in this pair of found footage horrors, the killers direct, write and star. Dw, neither Romanian indie BE MY CAT: A FILM FOR ANNE or scathing LA satire I BLAME SOCIETY are actual snuff films. They merely take us about as close as possible to one sick n twisted character’s vision of serial murder, whether sparked by Hollywood rejection or a deep fanboy love for Anne Hathaway.Noah and Eliza find both films to be funny, clever and creatively inspiring - in

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94:41

simply the BEST original movie songs feat. Molly Ward !

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2025/07/29

MOVIES + MUSIC = MAGIC ! And on this episode we’re joined by supreme magician and deep friend of the pod Molly Ward (@mollyward), who has spent countless hours watching ‘Hairspray’ w Noah. She’s bringing her fave picks for in-world songs: fictional hits made by fictional bands and singers from ‘Josie and the Pussycats’, ‘School of Rock’, ‘Nashville’ and much more.Like...LOTS more…the gang talks Bond songs, the Trisha Paytas cinematic universe, and Anthony’s memories of one sick scene from ‘Agent

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84:15

Now Screaming: 28 YEARS LATER x DANGEROUS ANIMALS x...

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/07/14

Sharks, zombies, uhhhh foster kids in peril: we saw em ALL on the BIG SCREEN. Not in the one movie but yknow…Noah and Eliza spill on three significant horror releases that have been in theatres lately, starting with the Philippou Bros. sophomore sad story BRING HER BACK. More like bring me back my freaking money what a depressing slog !! DANGEROUS ANIMALS is a far simpler, more entertaining beast, reminding us of why we love Aussie director Sean Byrne so much and triggering Noah’s lifelong fear of

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68:31

BUFF 2025 feat. Kai Perrignon: a debrief

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/07/03

What’s it like establishing a brand new film festival? Kai Perrignon, head of programming for this year’s first ever Brunswick Underground Film Festival, has all da answers.A few weeks out from BUFF’s inaugural weekend of screenings, Kai picks program favourites, shouts out the tireless team of collaborators, and recommends some of the very nasty movies we missed out on.Listen up for insider insight and discussions on what “underground” even means. we can’t wait to work out our movie muscles all

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80:47

Twin Picks: FEARDOTCOM x CRY_WOLF feat. Fright Fare

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2025/06/22

YOU HAVE (1) FRIEND REQUEST: from Matt, scholar of all things scary and the creator of Instagram's @fright.fare , an Aussie account celebrating every aspect of horror cinema!!To ring in the launch of our own evil website launching, we're comparing two movies that are dubiously internet-based: 2002's FEARDOTCOM, a SE7EN ripoff that has cops uncovering a 3edgy5me snuff website, and 2005's CRY_WOLF, a SCREAM ripoff about a nasty chain email prank gone murderously wrong.The movies range from mid to

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76:34

Now Screaming: FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES

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2025/06/01

the final destination franchise has always been part of our family…. da first horror series Noah n Eliza rlly fell in love with. and now, w the terrific sixth instalment in cinemas, family is truly the name of the game.. as well as degloved fingers, earnest Tony Todd monologues, paternity drama and dick piercings gettin yanked by freak MRI glitches !!Final Destination: Bloodlines might just b the franchise’s most entertaining and conceptual entry yet, and we were ROCKD with excitement to see it in

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67:55

Now Screaming: SINNERS + another film we definitely...

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2025/05/08

Some movies bust da block.. others are just made out of …..blocks …..and um ..chicken jockeys. Turning their eyes wearily back to the big screen for the first Now Screaming ep in quite a while, Noah and Eliza deFiNeTeLy sAw A Minecraft Movie!!! yeEEsss!!! it’s almost like the blocks are an uncredited main character it’s almost like the chicken jockey was my dead wife the whole time !!!!The release that gets our real attention is Ryan Coogler’s fiery genre mash-up Sinners, a Jim Crow-era vampire bash

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66:06

Midnight Marathon: ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND x...

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2025/04/23

Sammo enters the 1980s with a BANG - in our continuing celebration of a martial arts movie legend, we’re getting our first glimpses of Sammo Hung’s friendly rivalry with Jackie Chan, and his genre-making, hopping horror creativity. In the first ever “jiangshi” action movie Encounters of the Spooky Kind, shit gets scooby dooby and an insane final shot made us lose our minds. Then, Wheels on Meals is kind of an unofficial Mario bros buddy comedy (Yuen Biao and fight choreographer Chan!), with Sammo

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48:22

BAR MITZVAH BADDIES

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2025/04/09

Today, listener, u finally become a man. We’re shoutin out two amazing underrated indie short films..ok they’re bar mitzvah videos, made to celebrate 2 cool lads turning 13. First there’s Julian’s chaotic James Bond themed invitation, which u simply must see to believe THEN. The main event is ‘I’m Zack’, an exuberant anthem of self-love, individuality and Cake Boss. The team r truly impressed with the choreo, sophisticated cultural references, and sheer bravado of the music video, and u will be

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76:24

INLAND EMPIRE x ARTWORKS // Dreaming With David Lynch...

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2025/03/26

From the transcendent Winkies diner jumpscare in Mulholland Dr. to nightmares of Bob in Twin Peaks, our guy David Lynch was a true master of horror when he wanted to be. That’s what we’re obsessed with in this third and final leg of our Lynch marathon: honing in on terror, in the director’s final, bewildering feature Inland Empire, and some of his eeriest artworks.Using (literally, gorily) raw materials and violent scenarios, Lynch’s mixed-media paintings show that his visual art can often be more

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104:35

Midnight Marathon feat. The Underground Film...

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/03/13

A candy-coloured clown they call The Underground Film Collective tiptoes to our room on this night…In this interstate meeting of minds, Noah and Eliza meet Parker and Flynn, the renegade programmers behind Sydney’s sickest movie screenings! Lost Highway brought our guests one of their most sensational cinema experiences ever, but we’re here to talk about Lynchian Noir = the tropes, trauma and hypnotic effect of a classic like Blue Velvet or a little-known HBO experiment like miniseries Hotel

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66:40

Midnight Marathon: WILD AT HEART x SHORT FILMS //...

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/02/25

Raise a cup of black coffee to the sky and salute your fallen king: we’re deep diving into the dreams, nightmares and greatness of the late David Lynch. Starting with a focus on the director’s sense of humour, Noah and Eliza ride with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dean in Wild At Heart, Lynch’s racy Palme d’Or winner about lovers on the run across the South.Then an assortment of Lynchian shorts are up next, including the first moving picture her ever made (Six Men Getting Sick Six Times), the last film

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84:05

Our TOP 10 FILMS of 2024

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/02/11

10s 10s 10s across the board!! We r well into 2025, but Noah and Eliza are still hung up on their fave films of last year, listing em out for ur judgement here. How does monkè biopic Better Man fare in their rankings? Is La Chimera from last year or 2023 or whatever? And which movies will overlap cutely between da two siblings? Listen in to find out - and to hear from some friends of the pod, on their own absolute favourite films of 2024! Big big thanks to Jack Bell, Jamie Tram, Ivana Brehas, Darcey

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72:28

Midnight Marathon: CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS x ANNA AND...

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2025/01/30

Alice’s adventures in Midnight Screeningland! It is well n truly 2025 now, and we r psyched to be back…but the terror of Christmas is never truly over. In this final and extra special instalment of our holiday horror marathon, we got the chance to chat to Alice Maio Mackay, the groundbreaking and prolific young Aussie director behind gems such as T-Blockers, So Vam, and 2024’s Carnage for Christmas!!!Pairing her own tale of small-town Christmas bigotry and bloodshed with personal fave Anna and the

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64:16

Midnight Marathon: THE DAY OF THE BEAST x THE...

Midnight Screening Podcast ·

2024/12/27

Christmas is all about the kids: holy infants, so tender n mild….but in the second part of our deep dive into yuletide terror, little people cause big, freaky problems. Nasty British horror The Children follows some snotty, evil kids picking off their almost-as-awful parents, and features some gnarly kills Noah and Eliza have never rlly seen before! Then, Spanish dark comedy The Day of the Beast offers up a perverted Nativity story, with a priest, a TV psychic and a satanist metalhead playing wise

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