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  • Thursday · 1 hr 13 min

    Episode C7 - Dogville

    This week on Swimfans, we break out the velvet-lined cage for Craig's birthday to discuss metaphors for American injustice, filmic conversations with Brecht, and how many of Josh's Zoro figurines Jennifer can smash in 2003's DOGVILLE! Happy birthday Craig! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • October 29 · 1 hr 17 min

    Episode 373 - Thirst (2009) (w/ Grey Keaton)

    Wrapping up this year's Bloodbath, we're joined by our ooze correspondent Grey Keaton to discuss the icky and the divine, comedy of resignation, and the horror of love in 2009's THIRST! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • October 22 · 1 hr 5 min

    Episode 372 - Begotten

    This week on Bloodbath, we talk the temporal economics of shock, the inherent horror of the creation myth, and the power of word-of-mouth subversion in 1989's BEGOTTEN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • October 15 · 1 hr 19 min

    Episode 371 - Hour of the Wolf

    This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we discuss the horror of the cuck ceiling, really really bad dinner parties, and the delightful kaleidoscope of metaphor in 1968's HOUR OF THE WOLF! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • October 6 · 1 hr 2 min

    Episode 370 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

    This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we debate the horror power of the chainsaw, marvel at what is not seen but felt, and ponder over the curious beauty of grasses and windchimes mid-slasher in 1974's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • October 1 · 1 hr 6 min

    Episode 369 - The Beyond

    It's the most wonderful time of the year! Swimfans: Bloodbath begins in the most Italian way possible as we explore tarantula puppets, inadvisable hoteliers, and what might be the most uncomfortable contact lenses in the world in 1981's THE BEYOND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • September 24 · 1 hr 24 min

    Episode 368 - Doug Campbell Triple Feature

    It's the annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode! This week, Jennifer has selected for us three Doug Campbell (Deadly Mile High Club, Stalked By My Doctor) films for us to view and share round-robin style. Join us for deep fakes, double mommies and rock-in-jar husbands as we do a survey of Campbell films! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • September 17 · 1 hr 4 min

    Episode 367 - Thesis

    This week on the show, we roll down our balaclavas to talk buffets of hot people, the fine line with depravity of showing some but not too much, and your college's live death footage collection in 1996's THESIS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • September 10 · 1 hr 7 min

    Episode 366 - The Killer of Sheep

    This week on Unknown Pleasures, Josh and Craig talk the power of spaces, the burdens of adulthood and the world, and the searing light of the California sun in 1977's KILLER OF SHEEP! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • September 3 · 58 min

    Episode 365 - The Twilight Saga: New Moon

    This week on the pod, we talk teenage contrivance, the importance of vampire-specific powers and abilities, and Josh and Craig petition to become wolf wives in 2009's THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • August 27 · 1 hr 5 min

    Episode 364 - The Parallax View

    This week on the show, we talk political paranoia in the 70s, unexpected editing and cinematographic choices, and incredibly drownable sheriffs in 1974's THE PARALLAX VIEW! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • August 20 · 56 min

    Episode 363 - The Hole

    This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about the metaphorical concrete walls between people, contracting bug disease, and vomiting into your neighbor's hole in 1998's THE HOLE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • August 12 · 1 hr 5 min

    Episode 362 - My Neighbor Totoro (w/ Kyle Daileda)

    This week on the show, we talk the fantasy of abundance and community, befriending crows, and the beauty and grace of flesh buses in 1988's MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • August 6 · 1 hr 22 min

    Episode 361 - Disclosure Day

    This week on Unknown Pleasures, Jennifer and Craig prepare to drop flash drives of conversation about Spielberg, generational divides of attitudes about systems, and getting alien powers in 2026's DISCLOSURE DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • July 30 · 1 hr 9 min

    Episode 360 - The Living End

    This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about gay sex, clown-based liquor stores, and the switch from external sources of oblivion to internal ones in 1992's THE LIVING END! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • July 23 · 1 hr 22 min

    Episode 359 - In the Earth (w/ Delaney Jordan)

    This week on the show, we welcome back video essayist and editor Delaney Jordan to discuss making appeals to the fungus god, things made in the immediate wake of a pandemic, and how much filmic shag is too much filmic shag in 2021's IN THE EARTH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • July 16 · 1 hr 14 min

    Episode JEN8 - Enter the Void

    This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer's birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about death and get sad and stuff in 2009's ENTER THE VOID! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • July 9 · 1 hr 4 min

    Episode 358 - Pillion

    This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movies in 2025's PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • July 2 · 1 hr 5 min

    Episode 357 - The Lighthouse

    This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019's THE LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  • June 25 · 1 hr 3 min

    Episode 356 - Poison

    This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991's POISON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

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