Midnight Screening Podcast – Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Sound: Anthony Carr

Art: Kazuki Komatsu

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the boyband song that's about wet dreams

Episode 36

mardi 19 novembre 2024 • Duration 59:23

Do boybands dream of liquid babes? Forget wanting it that way and not knowing you’re beautiful: in our most treasured boyband fantasy, a Frankenstein’d monster gal comes to slippery, stinky life, and we’re done being silent about her. Eliza and Noah take Anthony on a troubling journey to O-Town, and the minor boyband’s most confounding hit, 2000’s ‘Liquid Dreams’. Its legend foretells of a dream girl with the body parts of various celebrities, so hot she makes the band shoot ropes in the middle of the night. Eugh.

We break down the lyrical description of the perfect woman, question how this was a real, charting pop song pitched at impressionable young girls, and appreciate somea those sweet sweet vocal riffs. It’s a pop song analysis that’ll follow you into your dreams…whether you’ve got a towel ready or not.

SHOW NOTES: the_SONG: Liquid Dreams - O-Town // the_MESSY_PERFORMANCE: Liquid Dreams Live on Miss America

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Sound: Anthony Carr

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NEXT WEEK = Twin Picks: THE FAN (1982) x THE FANATIC

Halloween SpOoOokathon ‘24: ANTHOLOGY-OLOGY

Episode 34

mardi 5 novembre 2024 • Duration 01:59:07

Why force ur friends to watch ONE movie when u could make em watch SEVEN movies...with THIRTY-THREE individual stories inside??!! This Halloween, Noah + Eliza hosted a movie marathon of ANTHOLOGY HORROR, including the freshest entry in the V/H/S franchise plus classics like Tales From The Hood and Tales From The Crypt.

Listen in as the Midnight Screening gang + guests pit each movie's best standalone segment against each other, in a tournament to find the evening's BEST individual story! Will aliens vs skydivers, haunted slavery dolls, or razor-sharp British traps win the day? One thing's for sure...the less said about Verotika, the better.

HAPPY spooky season 2024 yall !!

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Halloween 2024 TREND REPORT

Episode 33

dimanche 27 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:03:18

weeeooooweeeeoooo the SPOOKY fashion police are here, ready to bitch about what's IN or OUT in horror, just in time for Halloween !!

It's been a big year for horror, but we're gettin bloody sick of some of the biggest, most overexposed trends. Let's forecast what's HOT and what's NOT in horror movies and hope Hollywood might hear our prayers...

Should we expect more scary movies with popstar protagonists? is internet horror ready for its mainstream moment? are we done with haunted dolls yet? and what Halloween costume mishap forced Anthony to jump into a pool? LISTEN UP and get ya finger on the pulse for this spooky season

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Midnight Marathon: HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE x STRAIT JACKET // Hagsploitation! Part 2

Episode 31

dimanche 13 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:02:01

Whatever happened to Bette + Joan? In the second instalment of our deep dive into the HAGSPLOITATION horror subgenre, the Hollywood legends part ways to put their own spins on traumatised, middle-aged characters still stuck in their younger days. Bette gets Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a sentimental (and mental) Southern Gothic with a dream sequence that left us STUNNED: while Joan does Strait-Jacket, a far trashier B-movie that sees the highly-strung star lose her shit but not her dignity. Now in the middle of their genre investigation, Eliza and Noah stumble onto some big questions: like is Sweet Charlotte actually better than the OG Baby Jane? Does Joan kinda wanna fuck her son-in-law? And can we really reclaim the word ‘hag’ all these years later, or is the genre just a place where talented older women go to die?

SHOW NOTES: My Way of Life by Joan Crawford // This n' That by Bette Davis

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Sound: Anthony Carr

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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: THE BABY x BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER // Hagsploitation! Part 3

~THE_MIRROR_NEVER_LIES ~ (sorry)

Episode 29

dimanche 29 septembre 2024 • Duration 42:55

its come to this....Noah and Eliza decide to lose their minds n bring all of u down with them, deconstructing a scene from the animated tv show Donkey Kong Country (?) about Donkey Kong being led to believe he's a crocodile pirate (??!!) through an R&B song-n-dance routine (???!!!!!!?!?!?!?!).

Here's the original video i guess ... the experience leaves everyone feeling utterly awful and empty, and so its satanic energy must b exorcised through the release of this podcast episode. it's within you now. YOU BE AS CROC AS THEY COME DONKEY CROC !!!

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Sound: Anthony Carr

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NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? x THE WITCHES (1966) // Hagsploitation! Part 1

Midnight Marathon: GODZILLA VS MOTHRA x GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING GHIDORA: GIANT MONSTERS ALL OUT ATTACK feat. MIFF Audience Interviews! // Toho's Lil' Stompa Part 3

Episode 27

dimanche 15 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:00:05

We’re at the end of our Godzilluminating journey through the longest-running film franchise of all time!

Noah and Eliza are still reeling from the final hours of MIFF’s 700-minute-long Godzilla marathon, which ends with the 90s sweetness of Godzilla Vs. Mothra and then the hilariously-named Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. As our fave kaiju stomps into a new century, do these entries capture the best of both worlds: the series’ sci-fi silliness and environmental themes, finally perfectly balanced?

Hear from more of the Astor’s exhausted guests, as well as news about Midnight Screening’s OC kaijus Swoopilla and Cobroo — we’re saying bye to Godzilla for now, but not forever, since that beefy boi is always popping back out of the Pacific when you least expect him…

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NEXT WEEK = Twin Picks: ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK x ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS

Midnight Marathon: GODZILLA (1954) x DESTROY ALL MONSTERS feat. MIFF Audience Interviews! // Toho's Lil' Stompa Part 1

Episode 25

dimanche 1 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:08:23

Rawr means I love you in kaiju <3 and boy do we love Godzilla, that titan of Japanese B-Movie cinema who turns 70 this year !!! After being blasted by the atomic breath of MIFF’s 7-part Godzilla marathon, Eliza and Noah dive into the big boy’s legacy and changing status, from terrifying nuclear metaphor to goofy sci-fi hero and back again.

We begin with 1954’s black-and-white introduction to the character, before cheering on the epic kaiju silliness of 1968’s Destroy All Monsters, both directed by Ishirō Honda. Stay tuned for two more monstrous instalments, and some short interviews the team recorded with the Astor event’s Godzilla fans. Duuuuuun dun dun dun dun….dun dun…..dundundundun.