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Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

loathsomethings

Join John and Josh as they delve into the horror films they love, mysterious new releases, and horror’s unstoppable, ever-growing backlog of yesterfilms.

tv & film film reviews

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01:06:37

84. Jean Rollin's The Grapes of Death (1978)

Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast ·

2024/06/23

It's 1978 France and the wine has taken on a toxic zombessential quality. Great legs, though!

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01:10:42

83. John D. Hancock's Let's Scare Jessica to Death...

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2024/06/09

Join us for a fun little slice of pre-slasher arthouse something, Jessica! We're not gaslighting you, you're gaslighting us!

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01:17:59

82. Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage (1988)

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2024/05/26

Our first non-Basket Case flick by Frank Henenlotter, and our last(?) movie to use the Loathsome Things scoring system you've come to be entirely unaware of!

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01:10:00

81. Ishirô Honda's Matango (1963)

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2024/05/12

This Attack of the Mushroom people by the guy who made Godzilla sure doesn't have a lot of Mushroom People action in it. Is it still good? Read John's review of Amando de Ossorio’s The Ghost Galleon to find out!

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58:56

80. Lucky McKee's May (2002)

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2024/04/28

It's time for everyone's favorite manic pixie dream frankenstein to ditch the snooze and get all rizz'd up, 2002 style! That's right, we're reviewing May, a complicated, weird, silly, serious, strange conflagration of emotions and inputs, straight from yore and into your brain. It's Loathsome Things: the best podcast to find horror movies you might've otherwise never seen!

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01:05:53

79. Satanic Hispanics (2022)

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2024/04/14

John and Josh review an anthology film for the very first time. Will they mess up, do a good job, or just incoherently repeat themselves? Find out on today's episode of Loathsome Things: A Podcast About Horror Movies You Don't Care About!

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01:01:17

78. Dennis Iliadis's The Last House on the Left (2009)

Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast ·

2024/03/31

Content Warning: all the bad things.

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01:02:13

77. Wes Craven's The Last House of the Left (1972)

Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast ·

2024/03/17

Eh, what's the point.

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01:11:54

76. Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960)

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2024/03/03

We’re doing it, folks. It’s a 3-episode month and we’ve almost certainly made a mistake by going with The Virgin Spring, Last House on the Left, and Last House on the Left. O cruel world with such people in it! Here, we review the classic Swedish masterpiece about a Swedish lord, his Swedish daughter, their Swedish family, some Swedish pagans, and a trio of Swedish brothers. What kind of light-hearted hijinks will they get up to? Find out on this giggly episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie

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75. Remi Weekes' His House (2020)

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2024/02/18

Get your dollar-store, off-brand tissues ready, because this one’s a tear-jerker! Rial and Bol are refugees of the Sudanese Civil War, trying to create a new life for themselves in the land of opportunity: slummy ol’ England! To start over, they’ll have to endure fairly mild (by American standards) interpersonal racism, run-down living conditions, intense psychological trauma, ghosts, and an evil entity. Get ready for a wild one, folks, for this gut-wrenching episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror

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01:21:06

74. Nia DaCosta's Candyman (2021)

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2024/02/04

Add this one to your watchlist of remakes that may be better than the sequel, and definitely among to top of any list of high-quality reboots. Clive Barker’s non-Hellraiser franchise is brought back around to no longer focus on the plight of white women in this stunning, complex, and challenging reframing of the classic.And here are some links to the figures discussed in the closing credits. The Lynching of Anthony Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Anthony_Crawford The Wrongful

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01:01:23

73. Antonia Bird's Ravenous (1999)

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2024/01/21

Be the food you want to eat! The Memento guy, the Trainspotting guy, the principle from Ferris Bueller, and a celebrity’s husband star in this off-kilter delight that dares to ask the question: what if Dances with Wolves was a wendigo movie lightly sprinkled with a Mel Brooksian soundtrack? Turns out, you might get something like this. Show up for what was obviously Robert Carlyle’s inspiration for Rumpelstiltskin, stay for the weird sense of human and overall high level of enjoyability of this

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01:16:26

72. David R. Ellis’ Final Destination 2 (2003)

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2024/01/07

Something about death’s design, a list, this time it happens backwards… who knows. Welcome to 2024, Loathsome Things style! It’s all epic action-disaster stunt sequences between bouts of really depressingly bad line delivery. Start the year off with the best horror movie podcast for people that are tired of all the other horror movie podcasts as we watch a movie that one podcaster described as “I Know What You Did Last Destination!”

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01:04:52

71. Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (2010)

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2023/12/24

Somewhere in the Finnish reindeer wilderness, there is a mountain that is secretly the gigantic sacred grave of MFing Santa Claus. In this episode of Loathsome Things, you’ll hear us review the actions taken by a squad of rugged snow-daddies who, perhaps, receive a bit too much focus on whether or not they have sufficiently spanked their sons. What’s more, we’ll reveal to answers to all things and we detail their adventures,including: The Mystery of the Too-Soon-Dead Reindeer How Old Should My Son

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59:21

70. Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People (2015)

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2023/12/10

Content Warning: suicide and self harm You are a mountain and this is the first part of Perry Blackshear’s Monster Trilogy sees childhood chums Wyatt and Christian reunited as alcoholic adults who’ve suffered failed relationships and mental and emotional disturbances. Christian’s self-help iPod has seen him get a great job at Behemoth, where he’s romantically pursuing his badass boss, Mara. Meanwhile, Wyatt is suffering from severe Capgras delusions and is doomsday prepping in a decidedly hardware

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56:38

69. James L. Conway’s The Boogens (1981)

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2023/11/26

From the director who brought us some actually good episodes of Star Trek later in his career, this movie… it’s terrible. Bad jokes, unexciting nudity from Rebecca Balding, and one of the worst movie monsters you’ll ever see. You know that uncle or cousin of yours, the one that puts off an icky vibe? This is probably one of their favorite movies. So, skip the flick and just enjoy our re-telling of the story that is the movie The Boogens. This isn’t usually the case, but sometimes the podcast is

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01:16:24

68. Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks (2023)

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2023/11/12

Content Warning: violence against children and by children is depicted in this film, as is violence against and by animals. This includes a scene in which an animal commits violence against a child. God is dead, welcome to beautiful Argentina! This time we reviewed a demonic possession apocalypse movie that absolutely slams. Put away your flashlights, your gunpowder, and your fear of death, because they won’t help you here! That’s right, it’s a zombie movie where instead of zombie you get demonic

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01:02:13

67. Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me (2022)

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2023/10/29

Content Warning: self harm Australian youths supplement their substance abuse with a fun demonic possession game. It the story secretly about substance abuse? Mental illness? Grief? Loss? White people? You tell us after listening to this podcast about horror movies. A podcast where we summarize the plot of a horror movie at you so you can decide whether or not you want to watch the movie after you find out everything about it. Wait, is that what this podcast is for? Wait a minute, is this movie

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01:08:57

66. Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You (2023)

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2023/10/15

An Etsy girl makes a go of living her best life in her childhood home in a town full of people who hate for something that she did in her childhood. Also, there’s aliens and almost zero dialogue. Will it be good? Pack yourself up a pic-a-nic basket and head on out to a loved-one’s grave and plot your sorry ass in that ancestral grass to listen to this fortnight’s episode of Loathsome Things: a podcast about scary movies where we tell you which movies are scary, which movies are not scary, and break

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01:23:11

65. Elliot Goldner’s Final Prayer (2013)

Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast ·

2023/10/01

Content Warning: A smidge of animal cruelty is depicted in this movie, which we describe and may/may not do vocal sound effects for… John and Josh strapped microphones to the inside of their mouths for an entire day to bring you their first full-fledged found footage film review! This little gem blends found footage with possession/exorcism, folk horror, and [spoiler]. What a cool combination! A priest guy and a professional gadget-haver spend a lot of run time getting acquainted with one another

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