This week the boys chat about their peripheral interest in the Winter Olympics and their excitement about what's potentially going down in AEW* before getting into a discussion on Spiral, the film adaptation of Junji Ito's manga, Uzumaki.
Skip ahead to 17:48 to avoid all the rasslin' talk and get straight to the discussion of madness brought about by geometric patterns. Written and filmed before the manga was complete, Spiral has too much in common with Dragon Ball Z, which similarly spun its wheels while waiting for the source material to catch up. Tonally weird, narratively disjointed, and very 2000s, Spiral nonetheless does conjure up some pretty creepy atmosphere and allusions to inescapable fate in ways that remind viewers of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse and also Lovecraft's work.
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Episode 81 - Interview with S.T. Joshi
Episode 80 - Interview with Sam Liu
Episode 79 - Lily C.A.T. (1987)
Episode 78 - Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
Episode 77- Dark Sea (2013)
Episode 76 - The Deep Ones (2020)
Episode 75 - Harbinger Down (2015)
Episode 74 - Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
Episode 73 - The Thing (2011)
Episode 72 - Prometheus (2012)
Episode 71- Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
Episode 70 - Colour From the Dark (2003)
Episode 69 - The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
Episode 68 - Apostle (2018)
Episode 67 - Dreams in the Witch House (2022)
Episode 66 - Pickman’s Model (2022)
Episode 65 - Hellraiser (2022)
Episode 63 - Interview with H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Co-Director Gwen Callahan
Episode 63 - Glorious (2022)
Episode 62 - The Innsmouth Book Club
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