Episodes

  • Episode Sixty-One: In the Mouth of Madness
    May 19 2025

    We wrap up John Carpenter’s “apocalypse trilogy” with this episode on 1994’s In the Mouth of Madness.

    Notes:

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    Music by David Paha

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • Episode Sixty: Prince of Darkness
    May 5 2025

    We follow up our earlier episode on The Thing with this second installment John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy”, Price of Darkness.

    Notes:

    Prince of Darkness

    Revelations by Elaine Pagels

    Bart D. Ehrman

    Henry Corbin

    Annie Hall “the universe is expanding” clip

    Kitaro Nishida

    Joel Biroco

    Providence by Alan Moore

    Half-Life (game)

    Modern Rubbish on Discord!

    Music by David Paha

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Episode Fifty-Nine: The Stone Tape
    Apr 14 2025

    We return to the BBC’s Plays For Today with Nigel Kneale’s legendary The Stone Tape.

    Notes:

    The Stone Tape

    Quatermass

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    BBC Radiophonic Workshop

    Doctor Who theme song

    Pepper’s ghost

    Steve Roach

    Matt Damon clip

    M.R. James

    The Vorrh

    Yuval Noah Harari

    Modern Rubbish on Discord!

    Music by David Paha

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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Episode Fifty-Eight: Dracula (in general)
    Apr 7 2025

    Many-time guest Sam Jones returns to the podcast to talk about Dracula and his many appearances in cinema.

    Notes:

    Sam’s Venn diagram

    Venture Bros. Blackula hunter clip

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    Music by David Paha

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Episode Fifty-Seven: The Cell
    Mar 31 2025
    Dave’s still sick, but we’re still talkin’, this time about arch-millennial stylefest, The Cell.Notes:The CellNIN Closer videoMark RomanekThe Knick (series)Sehnsucht (Rammstein album)The Thirteenth FloorWorld on a WirePaprika (anime)Paprika (novel)Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald HuttonBerserk (manga)Paranoia Agent (anime)Deep ForestPure MoodsReturn to Innocence by EnigmaDark WatersImmaculateGhost (band)Artistic Inspiration in The Cell, from The Horror DigestThe Cremaster Cycle by Matthew BarneyKooKoo (Debbie Harry album)Body WorldsGunther von HagensJandekBurke and Hare murdersSleazy interview part one (relevant bit starts at 8:39)
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Episode Fifty-Six: Smile 2
    Mar 24 2025

    Dave was sick and had an existential panic while watching Smile 2, so Wyatt watched it too, and we talked it out.

    Notes:

    Smile 2

    Kyle Gallner

    Insomniac with Dave Attell

    Barbarian

    A History of Violence

    Aphex Twin’s smile

    Modern Rubbish Episode Twenty-One: Possession

    Saul Bass

    Truth or Dare

    They Look Like People

    Footwork dance battle

    Ima Dog by DJ Nate

    Gantz Graf by Autechre

    The Substance

    Trap

    The Watchers

    Cuckoo

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    Music by David Paha

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode Fifty-Five: Candyman
    Mar 17 2025

    If you heard we’re lookin’ for Candyman, you heard right. This week we get sweet with this 1992 Clive Barker adaptation. We also get into the regrettable 2021 legasequel...but don’t hold that against us.

    Notes:

    Candyman (1992)

    The Forbidden by Clive Barker

    Candyman (2021)

    Cabrini-Green

    Pruitt-Igoe

    Koyaanisqatsi

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Egregore

    The Midnight Meat Train

    Ted Raimi

    Bernard Rose

    Clive Barker’s Books of Blood

    Thirty Helens Agree

    Guy Fawkes Night

    Ryuichi Sakamoto’s sushi playlist

    Funny Games

    The Wicker Man

    “Robo wants an oreo”

    How they shot the bee scenes in Candyman

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    Music by David Paha

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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Episode Fifty-Four: Jacob's Ladder
    Mar 10 2025

    This week, we discuss a thoroughly wonderful (and thoroughly horrifying) film, Adrian Lyne’s massively-influential Jacob’s Ladder

    Notes:

    Jacob’s Ladder

    How Did This Get Made? (podcast)

    Rabbit In Your Headlights by U.N.K.L.E. feat. Thom Yorke

    Meister Eckhart

    Emanuel Swedenborg

    13 Assassins

    Yukio Mishima

    Ovid

    Magick (Book 4) by Aleister Crowley

    Space Is The Place by Sun Ra

    Psychopomp

    The Nice Guys

    Vatican Shadow

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    Music by David Paha

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    1 hr and 33 mins
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