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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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74:54

Midnight Marathon: CHRISTMAS EVIL x SILENT NIGHT...

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2024/12/10

It’s the season for ho-ho-horror, and how are we meant to feel the festive spirit without watching some horrible nasty Christmas movies? Noah, Eliza and Anthony kick off a Christmas horror edition of Midnight Marathon with Christmas Evil (1980) and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) - two movies about an unhinged Santa taking their yuletide trauma out on those they deem ‘naughty’. Thing is, the first movie is a bonafide cult classic, loved by John Waters and featuring a tremendous lead

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59:23

the boyband song that's about wet dreams

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2024/11/19

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

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119:07

Halloween SpOoOokathon ‘24: ANTHOLOGY-OLOGY

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2024/11/05

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

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63:18

Halloween 2024 TREND REPORT

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2024/10/27

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

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62:01

Midnight Marathon: HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE x...

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2024/10/13

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

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42:55

~THE_MIRROR_NEVER_LIES ~ (sorry)

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2024/09/29

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

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60:05

Midnight Marathon: GODZILLA VS MOTHRA x GODZILLA,...

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2024/09/15

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

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68:23

Midnight Marathon: GODZILLA (1954) x DESTROY ALL...

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2024/09/01

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

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97:12

Twin Picks: THE WICKER MAN x THE EMPTY MAN

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2024/08/18

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

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79:39

Twin Picks: BRAT x BRATZ

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2024/08/04

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

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60:29

CINEMANIACS in NYC !! feat. Darcey Eagle

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2024/07/22

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

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84:19

Twin Picks: KIDS x THIRTEEN feat. Darcey Eagle

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2024/07/07

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

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55:42

Midnight Marathon: THE WILD ANGELS x THE TRIP //...

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2024/06/23

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

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61:22

Midnight Marathon: A BUCKET OF BLOOD x THE INTRUDER...

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2024/06/10

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

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79:36

Twin Picks: CLIMAX x SUSPIRIA (2018) feat. Meg...

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2024/05/26

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’

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71:23

Now Screaming: CHALLENGERS, CIVIL WAR, MONKEY MOVIES...

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2024/05/13

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

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64:56

Twin Picks: MORBIUS x MADAME WEB

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2024/04/28

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

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87:06

Midnight Marathon: SCREAM x 5CREAM // SLASHER AUTOPSY...

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2024/04/14

"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

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70:42

Midnight Marathon: PEEPING TOM x TORSO // SLASHER...

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2024/03/31

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

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44:24

Now Screaming: MAY DECEMBER

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2024/03/24

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

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