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SwimfansEpisode 373 - Thirst (2009) (w/ Grey Keaton)
Wrapping up this year's Bloodbath, we're joined by our ooze correspondent Grey Keaton to discuss the icky and the divine, comedy of resignation, and the horror…
SwimfansEpisode 372 - Begotten
This week on Bloodbath, we talk the temporal economics of shock, the inherent horror of the creation myth, and the power of word-of-mouth subversion in 1989's…
SwimfansEpisode 371 - Hour of the Wolf
This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we discuss the horror of the cuck ceiling, really really bad dinner parties, and the delightful kaleidoscope of metaphor in…
SwimfansEpisode 370 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we debate the horror power of the chainsaw, marvel at what is not seen but felt, and ponder over the curious beauty of…
SwimfansEpisode 369 - The Beyond
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Swimfans: Bloodbath begins in the most Italian way possible as we explore tarantula puppets, inadvisable hoteliers…
SwimfansEpisode 368 - Doug Campbell Triple Feature
It's the annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode! This week, Jennifer has selected for us three Doug Campbell (Deadly Mile High Club, Stalked By My Doctor)…
SwimfansEpisode 367 - Thesis
This week on the show, we roll down our balaclavas to talk buffets of hot people, the fine line with depravity of showing some but not too much, and your…
SwimfansEpisode 366 - The Killer of Sheep
This week on Unknown Pleasures, Josh and Craig talk the power of spaces, the burdens of adulthood and the world, and the searing light of the California sun in…
SwimfansEpisode 365 - The Twilight Saga: New Moon
This week on the pod, we talk teenage contrivance, the importance of vampire-specific powers and abilities, and Josh and Craig petition to become wolf wives in…
SwimfansEpisode 364 - The Parallax View
This week on the show, we talk political paranoia in the 70s, unexpected editing and cinematographic choices, and incredibly drownable sheriffs in 1974's THE…
SwimfansEpisode 363 - The Hole
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about the metaphorical concrete walls between people, contracting bug disease, and vomiting into your neighbor's hole…
SwimfansEpisode 362 - My Neighbor Totoro (w/ Kyle Daileda)
This week on the show, we talk the fantasy of abundance and community, befriending crows, and the beauty and grace of flesh buses in 1988's MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO!…
SwimfansEpisode 361 - Disclosure Day
This week on Unknown Pleasures, Jennifer and Craig prepare to drop flash drives of conversation about Spielberg, generational divides of attitudes about…
SwimfansEpisode 360 - The Living End
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about gay sex, clown-based liquor stores, and the switch from external sources of oblivion to internal ones in 1992's…
SwimfansEpisode 359 - In the Earth (w/ Delaney Jordan)
This week on the show, we welcome back video essayist and editor Delaney Jordan to discuss making appeals to the fungus god, things made in the immediate wake…
SwimfansEpisode JEN8 - Enter the Void
This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer's birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about…
SwimfansEpisode 358 - Pillion
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just…
SwimfansEpisode 357 - The Lighthouse
This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019's…
SwimfansEpisode 356 - Poison
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in…
SwimfansEpisode 355 - High Life
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don't…
SwimfansEpisode 354 - The End of Evangelion
It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the…
SwimfansEpisode 353 - The Boys in the Band
This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the…
SwimfansEpisode 352 - The Double Life of Véronique
On this week's Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film's beauty can…
SwimfansEpisode 351 - Skinamarink
This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022's SKINAMARINK!…
SwimfansEpisode 350 - Death Race 2000
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera…
SwimfansEpisode 349 - Repo Man
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of…
SwimfansEpisode 348 - Baby Assassins
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke…
SwimfansEpisode 347 - Persona
This week on Unknown Pleasures, we keep it real classic and talk the reflections of filmmakers on themselves, the multitude of roles we play in our own lives…
SwimfansEpisode 346 - Fresh Kill
This week on the show, we travel to Staten Island to talk lo-fi cyberpunk, chilling predictions of the future, and the joys of dining in an undefined space in…
SwimfansEpisode 345 - Vulcanizadora
This week on the pod, we get real Michigan Mindset to talk character as director surrogate, European sensibilites and American aesthetics, and the sublime joy…
SwimfansEpisode J8 - Happy Together
Everybody say happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people…
SwimfansEpisode 344 - In the Mood for Love (w/ Kevin Jay Stanton)
This week, we're joined by artist and designer Kevin Jay Stanton to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of…
SwimfansEpisode 343 - Cloud
Welcome to SWIMFANS: UNKNOWN PLEASURES! This week on the pod, we get mad about rent prices, value the inexplicable homies, and ponder about the sturdiness of…
SwimfansOSCARMANIA 2026 - PART TWO
Still coming to you live from the red carpet, we dive back into the rest of the Best Picture nominees: 2025's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, SECRET AGENT…
SwimfansOSCARMANIA 2026 - PART ONE
Put on your sparkliest dress, dear listener: it's time once again for OSCARMANIA! This week, we dip into some of the Best Picture nominees: BUGONIA, F1…
SwimfansEpisode 342 - Femme Fatale (2002)
This week on the show, we return to de Palma and discuss cross-genre and split-screen jaunts, shifting your karmic debt to some random guy via magic, and even…
SwimfansEpisode 341 - Special Effects
This week on the podcast, we take a dip in the algae-green waters of our living room swimming pool and talk extended cinematic subtweets, strange new ways to…
SwimfansEpisode 340 - Stalked by My Doctor (w/ Shannon Strucci)
This week on the pod, we welcome back video editor Shannon Strucci to talk Acme-style ghouling, the many crashouts of Dr. Beck, and once more relitigate the…
SwimfansEpisode 339 - After Dark, My Sweet
This week on Swimfans, we talk movies without an internal logic, getting laid post-asylum stay, and when a noir is kinda more of a gris in 1990's AFTER DARK…
SwimfansEpisode 338 - Exotica
This week on the pod, we dive into a world of purely transactional situationships, reading our bad poetry at the strip club, and getting our eggs kidnapped by…
SwimfansEpisode 337 - Hush (1998)
This week on the podcast, we yap about horse-sized containers of morphine, egregious de-ghouling, and which controlled substances are safe to feed to ducks in…
SwimfansEpisode 336 - What Keeps You Alive
This week on the show, we talk hunting spouses for sport, retaining the power of your strongest scenes, and choosing more than one cliff to do insurance fraud…
SwimfansEpisode 335 - The Passion of Darkly Noon
This week, wrap yourself in barbed wire with us and talk confusing reference with allegory, American fairy tales, and barns for gooning in 1995's THE PASSION…
SwimfansEpisode 334 - Wild Side
Happy 2026 doves!! This week, we discuss troubled film productions, aesthetics filling the gap between interest, and Craig's tales of balling in 1995's WILD…
SwimfansEpisode X8 - Tangerine
Merry Christmas folks! On the last episode of 2025, we talk perpetual golden hours, friendships between women, and music to walk to in 2015's TANGERINE!…
SwimfansEpisode 333 - The Hot Spot
In the final erotic thriller of the year, we talk steamy rural America, the devastation of getting exactly what you want, and Josh discovering who owns…
SwimfansEpisode 332 - Black Widow
This week on the pod, we revel in Craig's sea of error, defending yourself from your lover by keeping your weaknesses a secret, and chat about peak Gal Pal…
SwimfansEpisode 331 - Crush (2013)
This week on the pod, we live our mantra of Watch Recklessly and discuss a coven of ghouls, how many women you can bump into before it stops being an accident…
SwimfansEpisode 330 - Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
On a rare Jennless episode, Craig and Josh hold it down talking about Antonio's jeans, the fine art of translation, and what happens when your fantasies are…
SwimfansEpisode 329 - Mother's Boys
Motherboy Nation reaches new heights on the show this week as we talk ghouling by proxy, moms who aren't loyal, and wholesome games of Family On Trial in…
SwimfansEpisode 328 - Terrified
This week on the show, we finally return to erotic thrillers to discuss nym-faux-maniacs, girl handwriting, and the most upsetting party vibes imaginable in…
SwimfansEpisode C6 - The Master
Come with us to celebrate the birthday of our Caged Lord and talk America's love affair with the charlatan, wearing bad vibes like Dark Souls armor, and…
SwimfansEpisode 327 - Prince of Darkness (w/ Vou Pinette)
Wrapping up Bloodbath for the year, goo correspondent Vou Pinette returns to talk full-powered Carpenter, the horror of quantum physics, and all the Bug Facts…
SwimfansEpisode 326 - The Exorcist
Grab your vestments and rosaries and come join us talking about positively medieval medical footage, the power of juxtaposing the infernal with the banal, and…
SwimfansEpisode 325 - Mad God
Get mashed into paste with us as we continue our Bloodbath journey talking the joys of puppets, technically incredible visions of hell and recurrence, and the…
SwimfansEpisode 324 - The Wicker Man (1973)
This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we yap about folk horror, the basic human joys of music and masks, and mount an oddly passionate defense of forest cults in…
SwimfansEpisode 323 - Opera
Come light the Black Flame Candle with us to kick off a new session of SWIMFANS: BLOODBATH! This week on the show, we contrast different voyeurisms, celebrate…
SwimfansEpisode 322- Kotoko
This week on the pod, we open the Listener Request Ghoul Box and talk depictions of mental health crisis, Tsukamoto's huge range of expression, and the general…
SwimfansEpisode 321 - CYOA: Matrix Babies 2
Switching gears from Full Clip, we return to our grand tradition of our annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode and look at three more movies swimming in THE…
SwimfansEpisode 320 - Three Days of the Condor (w/ Shannon Strucci)
This week on the show, we wrap up FULL CLIP with video editor Shannon Strucci discussing Cold War-era espionage, the premonition of American empire, and…