We take a look at Srđan Spasojević's controversial 2010 thriller, where a former porn star gets roped into the snuff scene for huge amounts of money. But what price will he really have to pay?Feel free to get in touch with us at unpleasantmov

Ep 33 Postscript - Spooky films for a spooky season

Sep 21st, 2022 31m 12s

For this postscript we talk about films that we find scary and unsettling, from old bbc television horror specials to newer stuff - what makes a film scary? Get in touch with us at unpleasantmovies@protonmail

Ep 33 On A Silver Globe, Andrzej Żuławski 1988

Sep 12th, 2022 1h 17m

Żuławskis hugely ambitious unfinished sci-fi masterpiece, is production stopped two thirds in by Polish regulators, edited together a decade later into a semi-metafilm about failed ambitions and destructive human nature. Join us as we discuss!

Ep 32 Postscript - Zulawskis Diabel, Elden Ringu and Synergies in Games

Jul 3rd, 2022 36m 35s

We kick off with a little chat about Zulawskis second movie, Diabel, which is intense and unrelenting, but also great! Then we talk a little about franchises that biffed it, and games we've ben playing. Enjoy!

Ep 32 Possession, Andrzej Żuławski 1981

Jun 26th, 2022 1h 11m

Having worked as a spy for several years, Mark returns home to find his wife Anna in despair. Unexplainable bursts of wild hysterics and demands for divorce are just the tip of the iceberg for this intense and incredible story. Recommendation

Ep 31 Postscript - Space Westerns + Weird and Wonderful Cinema

Apr 12th, 2022 20m 58s

This episode was recorded last December, so some of the references might seem a little dated. Sverre started watching the live action Cowboy Bebop adaptation, we talk in general about space westerns and get into other series like wheel of time

Ep 31 Inland Empire, David Lynch 2006

Apr 6th, 2022 1h 21m

David latest last movie, at least so far, is about a woman in trouble. Laura Der plays Nikki Grace, or is it Susan Blue, or someone else? Yes, the plot is vague, dense and complicated. A challenging movie no doubt, but perhaps one of Lynches be

Ep 30 Postscript - Talkin Lynch

Nov 16th, 2021 35m 8s

Following up on our Eraserhead episode we talk all things lynch from the eighties movies like the Elephant Man and Dune to the weather reports he is doing to this day!Enjoy!Get in touch with us at [email protected]

Ep 30 - Eraserhead, David Lynch 1977

Nov 11th, 2021 52m

The debut movie of David Lynch, a weird, unsettling and powerful movie dealing with the angst of parenthood. Set to an intense and desolate industrial landscape with the wonderfully put upon Jack Nance in the main role - few films have been so

Ep 29 Postscript - Darkly Epic Puppet Theater, Sentimentality and Bad Unpleasants

Oct 10th, 2021 38m 50s

An informal chat about this and that. Thomas starts of telling about an adaptation of Moby Dick for the stage which uses a lot of puppets, then we talk about what shows we've been watching lately and eventually get into sentimentality in films

Ep 29 - Taxidermia, György Pálfi 2006

Sep 26th, 2021 1h

A low ranking peeping tom, a competitive speed eater, and a ghoulish taxidermist - three generations of men that may or may not be related. This absurd and intense film explores their lives in Hungary from the second world war, in the soviet er

Ep 28 Postscript - Randomisers, Knit Punk and Unmaking ofs

Aug 25th, 2021 45m 17s

From cave paintings to game randomizes, we cover the entire specter of culture history in this postscript episode. Kind of. Mostly we just ramble on about movies though.Get in touch with us at [email protected]

Ep 28 - The Greasy Strangler, Jim Hosking 2016

Aug 21st, 2021 47m 18s

This sublimely weird and funny debut movie by Jim Hosking, about a father and a son, a woman who comes between them and a man covered in grease who murders people at night and eats their eyeballs. Its gross, yet immensely watchable!This weeks

Ep 27 Postscript - Sin, Cinema and Magic Mountains

Jul 16th, 2021 27m 45s

A bit of the old loosey goosey chit chat, Thomas has a lil true life anecdote of sin and cinema and Sverre has just finished reading about magic mountains and all the weird characters that muck about at such places.Get in touch with us at unp

Ep 27 - La Casa Lobo / Wolf House, Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León 2018

Jul 2nd, 2021 50m 35s

Having escaped a colony of German fanatics, Maria finds refuge in a house in the woods, occupied by two pigs. She takes care of them like siblings, as they start to turn into humans, all the while a wolf taunts her from outside. This nightmar

Ep 26 Postscript - The hunt for unpleasant animation and voice actor cancel culture

Apr 19th, 2021 21m 10s

Welcome to the postscript! This time we start out by talking about what other animated films we've considered talking about on the podcast, like When the Wind Blows and King of Pigs. After that we chat about voice work in games, how OG Cuno got

Ep 26 - The Plague Dogs, Martin Rosen 1982

Apr 14th, 2021 56m 36s

Snitter and Rowf escape a laboratory conducting tests on animals after having survived severe experiments. As they are hunted by humans, they befriend the Tod, a sly fox who tries to teach them the ins and outs of surviving as an animal in the

Ep 25 Postscript - Wild Jordgübbar and Career Advice for Hugely Successful Actors

Mar 17th, 2021 15m 33s

Sverre and Thomas have a wee chat about arthouse films, the criterion channel, Ingmar Bergman and Victor Sjöström. We also have very important career advice for actors who are hugely famous and successful.Hope you enjoy our little talk - get

Ep 25 - Grave Of The Fireflies, Isao Takahata 1988

Mar 11th, 2021 53m 6s

Seita and Setsuko's home is destroyed during the firebombing of their home town, and shortly there after their mother dies leaving them to fend for themselves. This is Isao Takahata's deeply moving and incredibly sad film based on Akiyuki Nosak

Ep 24 Postscript: Phillip Pullman, The Book of Dust and Making Music

Mar 4th, 2021 24m 13s

We start of talking about Phillip Pullmans His dark Materials books and his later series The Book of Dust, talking about its merits in regard to CS Lewis and Narnia, then comparing it to the series. Sverre talks about how he makes music and his

Ep 24 - The Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke 2001

Feb 27th, 2021 1h 4m

Isabelle Huppert plays Erika, a strict piano teacher who lives with her mother. At a recital she meets Walter, a young man who becomes infatuated with her an decides to pursue her romantically, and well... things are about to become worse for e

UM Conversations - Nikolaj Lübecker, The Feel Bad Film

Feb 4th, 2021 55m 51s

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at the university of Oxford, and joins us in conversation about his book The Feel Bad Film from 2015. We talk about the films he places in this corpus, placed in the categories of either

Ep 23 Postscript: Games, Mythology and Corporate art

Jan 7th, 2021 34m 37s

Sverre has recently seen The Fellowship of the Rings and has a few observations, Thomas raves favorably about Hades, the rougelite game, then we get into mythology, evaluation of modern art and the weirdness of corporate art. Get in touch at

Ep 23 - Funny Games, Michael Haneke 1997

Dec 31st, 2020 1h 3m

Perhaps Haneke's most unsettling, certainly his most mischievous, Funny Games twists expectations and upends genre as a way to critique media and examine how we relate to it. Its also very engaging, suspenseful and fun, in a horrible kind of wa

Ep 22 Postscript: Knocking the Grind, The Painted Bird, Carrion.

Dec 26th, 2020 30m 24s

A pleasant chat about what we've been thinking of lately - annoying commercials, interesting movies, what games we've been playing and such. Thomas has seen The Painted Bird, Sverre has been playing Subnautica, we also talk about guest director