We talk about Red Rooms, an unflinching, unforthcoming (meta???) scum classic about a woman who attends the trial of an internet murderer in Montreal.

#22 - That tie pin in your retina unbosoms all your past

Feb 14th, 2024 1h 26m

We talk about Alien Report, a great film about when people stand too close to you.

#21 - Owner-Occupied

Feb 22nd, 2022 2h 8m

The Scary of Sixty-First and Toolbox Murders, two films where the regular horror of having a landlord is compounded by moving into a building that lives as a summary of the rotten, putrid evil at work at the highest levels of power.

#20 - If You Want To Learn, You Have To Burn

Feb 8th, 2022 2h 39m

We discuss, in great and deserved depth, two of the great demented peaks of 2000s horror cinema: House Of Wax and Orphan, both directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

#19 - You Think You're A Zombie, You Think It's A Scene

Jan 14th, 2022 2h 1m

In this episode we discuss the entire span of Rob Zombie's directorial career before focusing on the much-maligned Lords Of Salem. He's great. I don't expect you to watch Three From Hell or anything, that sucks, but if we sat there and figured

#18 - Demon I Am And Face I Peel

Dec 24th, 2021 2h 27m

This episode we talk about two unclassifiable pieces of nightmare art from the darkest corners of the scum cinema cannon, both of which were released over a decade after the conclusion of principal photography when key members of cast and crew

#17 - Description Is More Important Than Metaphor

Dec 3rd, 2021 1h 29m

This week we discuss Bette Gordon's 1983 film Variety which focuses on a woman taking a job in a porn theatre by way of kathy acker, jane jacobs, laura mulvey and, briefly, henry rollins.

#16 - Some Of Your Friends Are Already This Fucked

Nov 25th, 2021 1h 55m

This week we talk about a whole bunch of Messed Up Guy In A Band documentaries, focusing primarily on Citizen Shane and Dead Hands Dig Deep.

#15 - God Hates You

Nov 9th, 2021 2h 2m

We take a look at a couple of SOV films we didn't enjoy so much and discuss the pitfalls of treating it as a genre instead of a format before a long-form discussion of SHATTER DEAD, a pretty incredible zero budget low-key post-apocalyptic film

#14 - We Dine On Visions With New Eyes

Oct 31st, 2021 1h 52m

We discuss unheralded member of the scum pantheon Singapore Sling in great detail after spending maybe ten minutes on White Marriage which, in our defense, has a similar vibe and a far better poster that it probably deserves. Live At The Death

Annoucement/rerun - Noroi

Sep 13th, 2021 1h 59m

Sean gives a quick update about the current state of the show (we're not putting out episodes for a while) before a rerun of an episode of another show in which he and Astrid discuss found footage classic Noroi

#13 - I Have No Blood On My Hands. I Have Blood On My Teeth.

Aug 30th, 2021 2h 21m

This week we examine 2011's chick tract writ large Megan Is Missing, one of the most truly evil films of the last several decades. Why has ever teenager seen this? What can a film do when it feels like it has the forces of good on its side? How

#12 - I Am Mud And Flame

Aug 23rd, 2021 2h 39m

When does the agony of self-realisation begins to warp reality itself? Afraid Of The Dark merciless portrayal of childhood isolation through illness and the degree to which that isolation can cause a loss of self. Penda's Fen is a devastatingly

#11 - Stranger, Fill This Hole In Me

Aug 9th, 2021 1h 37m

This week we look at SOV fraught homosociality shocker Venus Flytrap and journey into the worst of every kind of awkward silence of your teenage years in you-are-in-a-slint-song-right-now too-real teenage nightmare Bugcrush.

#10 - You Can't Kill Me Cause I'm Already Inside You

Aug 2nd, 2021 1h 52m

This week we discuss In The Dark, an adaptation of Richard Laymon's novel of the same name. This film was never officially released or distributed and wasn’t screened other than in some festivals around 1999/2000. It’s currently on youtube in f

#9 - Pleasure Is A Priority

Jul 26th, 2021 2h 38m

This week on LIVE AT THE DEATH FACTORY: Bloodsisters, a confrontational journey into dyke BDSM in the 90s, Daddy and The Muscle Academy, a deeply horny look at Tom Of Finland and The Lifestlye, get knee-deep in hetrosexual squalor with wife swa

rerun - Female Prisoner Scorpion Trilogy

Jul 19th, 2021 2h 9m

“Never knew how to be scared, just how to handle my infra-red. Love nothing: made my barber write a 'Fuck You' in my head." - Z-Ro An episode of Sean's old podcast during which he and Astrid spoke about the first three entries of the Female Pri

#8 - Local Support

Jul 12th, 2021 1h 22m

This week we look at two 1980s SOV films that chronicle a local scene by organising an appropriate narrative around some live footage. How successful are they? How much story does a scene need? Is Florida a real place? All these questions and m

#7 - See? Just Movie Tricks

Jul 5th, 2021 1h 37m

This week we talk about Luigi Cozzi's deeply, committedly deranged 1989 hallucination The Black Cat. The Black Cat is an unofficial sequel to Dario Argento's Suspiria and Inferno and, more importantly, an inescapable vortex of gobsmacking gore

#6 - It’s No Crime to Enjoy It

Jun 28th, 2021 2h 21m

This week: two psychodramas about the world of sex work, each demented in distinct directions. Astrid discusses the subtext of Crimes of Passion while Sean is somehow still talking about irish television. Then we discover that Guilty Of Romance

#5 - New Atrocities In Blood

Jun 21st, 2021 1h 39m

This week we cover three deeply grisly short films from Japan, listed below, that fall roughly into the Ero Guro category. What kind of transgressiveness links these films? What is a satisfying definition of Ero Guro in the first place, aside f

#4 - You Either Die Or You Walk Around Dead

Jun 14th, 2021 1h 40m

This week we discuss Kamikaze Hearts. Juliet Bashore’s fauxumentary essays the eventual disintegration of a romance between two porn performers, Tigr and Sharon Mitchell, on the set of a porn version of Carmen, filmed as their real life relati

#3 - When I Put On My Holster I Put God Out Of My Mind

Jun 8th, 2021 2h 3m

This week we cover James B. Harris' Cop (1988), an adaptation of James Ellroy's Blood On The Moon. We talk about how they managed wring such an incredible film out of such terrible source material and the ways in which the film functions as an

Bloodsisters

May 31st, 2021 1h 17m

This week we cover SOV lesbian hesher vampire romance Red Lips, directed by Donald Farmer and released in 1995, discuss how it connects to Jean Rollin and name a lot of bands sure to alienate our younger listeners.