Blood & Celluloid Adam Frost-Venrick

With surgical precision, Adam and Zands dissect Georges Franju's 1960 horror/noir classic, Eyes Without a Face. In this film, a brilliant but disturbed surgeon and his assistant kidnap young women and surgically remove their faces to serve as transplants for his daughter who was disfigured in a car accident. They discuss the film's influences (German expressionism, film noir) and the artists it influenced (Del Toro, Burton), as well as its dark fairy tale storyline, its feminist themes and its anti-fascist/anti-authoritarian messaging.



CW for surgery, animal attacks, some ore, medical abuses of women's bodies, suicide and human trafficking



Zands' Rating: 5/5

Adam's Rating: 5/5


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The bear... did cocaine. A BEAR DID COCAINE!



CW for ultra-violence and drug usage.



Zands' Rating: 3.5/5

Adam's Rating: 3.5/5


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A single parent hanging on by a thread. A frustrated household staff. And a girl whose life changes for ever when a strange visitor invades their happy home.



CW in episode. Just listen.



Zands' Rating: 3.5/5

Adam's Rating: 3/5


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Adam and Zands welcome guest Zeenat Tabaku to the show to discuss Rita Mae Brown and Amy Holden Jones' feminist reimagining of the slasher film, The Slumber Party Massacre, which survived copious amounts of studio interference to become a cult classic. In this film, a group of young women gather for a slumber party, stalked by the prying eyes of neighborhood boys and by the menacing drill of an escaped lunatic. Discussed are the film's themes of the monstrous feminine, voyeurism, feminism in its many different forms, the different dangers men can pose to women and the motifs and clichés of the slashes genre.

CW for nudity and sexualized violence

Zeenat's Rating: 4/5
Zands' Rating: 4/5
Adam's Rating: 4/5

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This week, Adam and Zands are locked in with Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's 2007, found-footage/zombie horror thriller, REC. In this film, a television crew and a group of firefighters are pulled into a terrifying fight for survival after a distress call at a Barcelona apartment building turns out to be more than they bargained for. Trapped inside with a killer virus, mutating residents and the military waiting outside to eliminate anyone who tries to leave, they must navigate the tensions in the building and growing network of zombies to have a hope of survival. Adam and Zands discuss the film's themes of repression, religion, distrust, xenophobia and the systemic destruction of women's bodies.



CW for child (un)death and gruesomeness.



Zands' Rating: 5/5

Adam's Rating: 5/5


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Adam and Zands review Prano Bailey-Bond's 2021 psychological horror film Censor. Set in Britain, in the height of the video-nasty era, Censor follows Enid, a repressed and tightly wound film censor who finds her ordered life disrupted when one of the films she reviews seems to offer evidence that her long-missing sister may still be alive. Discussed are the film's themes of reality, societal repression, misogyny, the role of media in society and violence.



CW for attempted sexual assault, graphic discussions of sex and violence, on-screen child death, gaslighting and body horror.



Zands' Rating: 3.5/5

Adam's Rating: 4/5


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