SHTLST Kris Kitts & Donna Hellmuth

This month, Kris and Donna test their might with a double feature pitting T.F Mou’s “Men Behind The Sun” (1988) against Andrey Iskanov’s “Philosophy of a Knife” (2008), two films which take very different approaches to depicting the horrors inflicted by Imperial Japan’s Unit 731.

This month, Donna and Kris get suited up for “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (1989), a Japanese film about a young salaryman getting bullied by a goth fetishist until they consummate their love and ride away into the sunset on a giant phallus.

For their one-year podcast anniversary, Kris and Donna get on the grease with "The Greasy Strangler" (2016), a horror-comedy film about the complicated relationship between an aging son and his serial killer father.

This month Donna and Kris put on their dancin’ waders to slosh through the gooshy New French Extremity film, “Inside” (2007), a heart-warming tale of a pregnant woman’s sleepy Christmas Eve in which nothing bad at all happens. We wish.

This week Kris and Donna pop open the Pandora's box of Takashi Miike's ouevre with "Audition" (1999), a Japanese horror film about a widower seeking a new wife by way of a fake movie audition.

This week Donna and Kris finally get to slam the LUCIFER VALENTINE alarm button with “Black Metal Veins,” (2012), a questionably real documentary depicting the lives of a black metal band whose members are intensely addicted to heroin and abuse a plethora of other drugs.