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Reel Weird Podcast

Hosted by JT Barrett. Topics of discussion include reviews of films both recent and old, whether arthouse, cult classic, or mainstream, film history, and spotlights on particular filmmakers and franchises. The show will also occasionally cover music and TV.

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All Episodes

70:07

Walk on the Wild Side: Creature Horror Spotlight

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2022/10/11

A number of creature features. Bong Joon-Ho’s THE HOST, William Girdler’s DAY OF THE ANIMALS and GRIZZLY, Joe Dante’s PIRANHA, the 1980 cult classic ALLIGATOR, and Greyson Clark’s killer cat movie UNINVITED.

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41:27

Swamp Folk and Killer Carnies: Three From Tobe Hooper

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2022/10/10

Three of the somewhat lesser-known works of Tobe Hooper. We have the darkly humorous follow-up to his most famous work TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE 2, the swampland slasher and Video Nasty known as EATEN ALIVE, and the crazy carnival slasher THE FUNHOUSE, which also ended up on the Video Nasty list.

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20:31

Conjoined Twins, Brain Bugs, and a New Age...

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2022/10/09

I hope you lot are in the mood for some weird, perverted body horror. If not, too fucking bad! We’re talking Frank Henenlotter, and his movies are gleefully warped in their practical effects and their sense of humor. We’re talking the BASKET CASE trilogy, BRAIN DAMAGE, and FRANKENHOOKER. Yes, you read that right.

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89:25

The American Nightmare: A Nightmare on Elm Street...

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2022/10/08

Hopefully you can stay awake, for we take a deep dive into the story of the Springwood Slasher Freddy Krueger. We examine his character conception, the gradual tonal shift over the course of the franchise, and his crossover with Jason, as well as the remake that, like Freddy, deserves to be burned. Sweet Dreams!

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51:52

A Long Night at Camp Blood: The Friday the 13th...

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2022/10/07

A trip to one of the most terrifying locales: New Jersey! We’ll be swinging by Camp Blood and talking about the famous hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees, as well as his remake, his trips to Hell, Manhattan, and Space, and the failed attempt at 3D effects.

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28:47

Eerie Silence: The Early Horror Films of Northern Europe

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2022/10/06

Hush now, folks. We’re going to travel back a hundred years! We’ll be looking into four of the earliest well-known horror films. HAXAN, where we examine the perception of witchcraft through history. VAMPYR, which follows the occult student Allan Gray as he finds himself enthralled in a mystery at a small inn. NOSFERATU, which came very close to being wiped out due to early versions of copyright strikes. THE CABINET OF DR. CAGLIARI, where a sleepwalker is forced to commit crimes by a hypnotist.

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26:02

Donald Pleasance Spotlight: Eye of the Devil, Flesh...

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2022/10/05

A spotlight on four underrated films starring or prominently featuring the late great Donald Pleasance. EYE OF THE DEVIL, where he plays a sinister priest, THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS, where he plays the murderer William Hare, DEATH LINE, where he plays an eccentric tea-swilling detective investigating disappearances in the London Underground, and PHENOMENA, where he plays a wheelchair-bound forensic entomologist with a trained chimp as a nurse.

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12:25

Going Under the Knife: Eyes Without a Face

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2022/10/04

A bizarre and beautiful gem of psychological horror from 50s France, known as EYES WITHOUT A FACE. Aside from being ripped off by Jess Franco for his admittedly charming The Awful Dr. Orloff, it was also a likely influence on both John Woo and John Carpenter. While tame by modern standards, it still holds up wonderfully.

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34:35

Communion of the Cursed: The Exorcist Franchise

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2022/10/03

Go warm up a bowl of split pea soup, because today I’ll be talking about The Exorcist Franchise. We’ll be starting with the 1973 original, then talking about John Boorman’s reviled sequel, Exorcist III directed by Blatty himself, and the whole fiasco with the prequels in the early-2000s.

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23:07

Green Goo and Gross Glands: Stuart Gordon Double Feature

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2022/10/02

A nice little double feature from the late great Stuart Gordon, featuring everything you could want in horror B-movies: Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, goopy rubber monsters, zombies, kinky sex, and a scene where a lady’s brain gets sucked out through her eye socket.

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40:53

A Swing of the Knife: On Proto-Slashers

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2022/10/01

Kicking off the objectively best month of the year, I take you on a little tour through history, and give a few comments on five films I consider to be proto-slashers: Repulsion, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Peeping Tom, Black Christmas, and Psycho.

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16:05

Human Safari: Fantastic Planet

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2022/07/07

A bizarre little piece of animated sci-fi from 1973 France, called Fantastic Planet. Like a lot of sci-fi, it deals with the idea of humans being at the mercy of a civilization that is technologically far superior to them. I hope the US and all of Europe feels called out right now.Sorry for the delay and the shorter runtime. I've been fighting a stomach bug.

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32:21

The Dangers of Mixing Business and Pleasure: Eating...

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2022/06/17

Traveling to Hollywood, we're talking Paul Bartel's 1982 sleeper hit EATING RAOUL. A prudish married couple finds a way to both realize their dreams of owning a restaurant and rid themselves of the obnoxious swingers in their apartment building. A clash of the uptight and those who have some screws loose. And who is Raoul you might ask? Just a man of good taste.

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18:38

Dispatch 8: On Urban Legends, Voyeurs, Body Horror,...

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2022/06/14

We discuss the weird shit that goes down on those country roads in THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME, show the creepiness of small town America in THE EMPTY MAN, explore body horror and climate disaster in MALIGNANT and CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, hazards of unchecked power in the hands of children with PSYCHO GOREMAN, and how creepy traveling can be in WATCHER.

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24:14

Dispatch 7: On Kaiju, Peace Talks, and Why You Don’t...

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2022/06/02

Where I touch upon the fuckery of the FBI, the secret history of the Oslo Accords, and the continuing devolution of giant monster movies into sheer spectacle displays.

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48:56

Treasure in the Trash: The Room, Troll 2, Plan 9, and...

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2022/05/27

A subject true to the show’s name. We will be discussing four “so bad it’s good” movies. We have Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM, Ed Wood’s infamous attempt at a sci fi epic PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Claudio Fragasso’s horror fantasy misfire TROLL 2, and WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX, an absolutely insane ode to cinema from the slums of Kampala.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jtbreelweird

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23:43

Dispatch 6: On Sorcerers, Rings, Alternate Timelines,...

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2022/05/21

With a superhero film dump today, I ramble on about Shang-Chi, Spiderman, and Venom, as well as discussing why doubling the runtime doesn’t make a movie better and adding Wanda Maximoff to our list of Top 20 fictional Menaces to Societypatreon.com/jtbarrettpodca…

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25:22

Dispatch 5: On Folk Horror, Stalking, and Armored Cars

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2022/05/20

In addition to a trio of folk horror movies (In the Earth, You Won't Be Alone, Lamb), we touch upon the most recent Guy Ritchie movie Wrath of Man, and Alex Garland's Men. https://www.patreon.com/jtbarrettpodcast

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42:50

Butterflies and Scorpions: Two Gialli Selections

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2022/05/13

Here we touch upon a nice double feature of the typically stylish, occasionally sleazy, and always entertainingly weird Italian film genre known as giallo. Duccio Tessari's THE BLOODSTAINED BUTTERFLY and Sergio Martino's THE CASE OF THE SCORPION"S TAIL.

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18:25

Dispatch 4: On Meta-Horror, Meta-Humans, and...

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2022/05/08

Where I discuss Scream 5 and No Time to Die. Both are the fifth of their lines, and both in their own ways, are passings of the torch. I also talk about James Gunn finally giving DCEU a movie that is actually fun to watch, with The Suicide Squad.

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