On the Midnight Screening Podcast, co-hosts Eliza and Noah Janssen stay up past their bedtime to rot their brains with the very best (and the very worst) that genre cinema has to offer.
Whether it's comparing two films with some sort of tenuous connection on our double feature format episodes Twin Picks, diving deep into the the history of the genre with Midnight Marathons, or watching in awe/terror/c ...
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Rest in pulp: Noah and Eliza's new marathon memorialises the low-budget brilliance of Roger Corman, Hollywood's cult B-Movie pioneer who died this May. Although the guy might now be best known as a one-man film school (responsible for sparking the careers of Coppola, Scorsese, Demme, Cameron and many more), we're startin' off our look at Corman's own directorial output with two black-and-white early-ish works. One's a provocative, stark drama about small-town racism and the other's a smart lil black comedy lampooning the art world—but both'll whet your CORMANIA as we dive into a filmmaker who quietly shaped Hollywood's 1960s landscape. Enter our lil shop of horrors, if u dare... SHOW NOTES: Interview with Roger Corman on the Blockbusters podcast Interview with Roger Corman on Post Mortem with Mick Garris Become ONE_OF_US over on our PATREON INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK LETTERBOXD midnightscreeningproductions@gmail.com Sound: Anthony Carr Art: Kazuki Komatsu NEXT WEEK = X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES x THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH // ROGER CORMANIA PART 2
Return of the Meg! Once tragically deleted from existence, our beloved sibling Megane Janssen is back in the physical realm, and she brings two dancey, doom-filled horror picks! Released in the same year, 2018’s SUSPIRIA and CLIMAX choreograph haunting horrors of East Berlin witchcraft and LSD-fuelled violence respectively. They’re both damned, and damn good…Meg and Noah share all about their own terrifying dance backgrounds as we come to a twirling, bone-snappin’ decision. INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK LETTERBOXD midnightscreeningproductions@gmail.com Sound: Anthony Carr Art: Kazuki Komatsu NEXT WEEK = Midnight Marathon: A BUCKET OF BLOOD x THE INTRUDER // ROGER CORMANIA PART 1
Cinemas are POPPIN OFF right now with a strong n diverse line-up of Hollywood movies—if you’re unsure which ones are worth their ticket price, let Noah n Eliza guide u thru the films that made em think over April n May. We’re talkin about the sapphic pulp of LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the wishy-washy centrism of CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST OMEN’s ingenious religious scares, CHALLENGERS’ addictive sporty thrills, and the monkey mania of MONKEY MAN and GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE. Whew it’s a lot to cover!!! But by the end, you’ll be able to lie to ur mates and pretend you’ve seen everything available on the big screen right now ;) Insta Facebook Letterboxd Patreon midnightscreeningproductions@gmail.com Sound: Anthony Carr Art: Kazuki Komatsu NEXT WEEK = Microsoft Songsmith: THE MUSICAL
Mighty Morbin' Madame Webbers!! Anthony joins Noah and Eliza in the Amazon researching spiders before they die due to Sony Spider-Man Universe-related brain injuries. Lemme tell ya: this is a CONTENTIOUS, ANGSTY episode, with Eliza insisting that new SSU entry Madame Web isn't all that bad, while da boys claim it's worse than Jared Leto super-bore Morbius. Special voice guest Morbessa (thats her name now, yup) even gets in on the action, goin all Dakota Johnson on us for a minute, in this gloopy episode that'll have u sorely missing that overfamiliar neighbourhood hero Spidey. Triplet in the Attic: Eminem's 'Venom' feat. cold can of Pepsi // leaked Sony emails bout Spider-Man Insta Facebook Letterboxd midnightscreeningproductions@gmail.com Sound: Anthony Carr Art: Kazuki Komatsu NEXT WEEK = We Survived The SLEEPAWAY CAMP SLASH-A-THON
"Movies don't create psychos: movies make psychos more creative." If these words from 1996's Scream are true, then DANG are Noah + Eliza wildly creative by now. After learning about the background and boom time of the slasher genre, we're honing in on one iconic horror franchise—Wes Craven's saga-startin original, and the fresh blood of the fifth film Scream (2022)—to show the confusing state of slashdom today. We discuss the hilarious fallibility of Ghostface, the genius of Matthew Lillard, and how meta is too meta—ending in one big, spooky wrap-up of everything we've learnt about slashers over 6 definitive films. Basically: we watched a few movies, took a few notes, it was FUHHNN. The conclusion of our slasher autopsy also brings about the birth of our debut horror short GET HOME SAFE, which is available to watch on Vimeo and Youtube now! Give it a watch, share it around, and let us know what you think! Insta Facebook Letterboxd Patreon midnightscreeningproductions@gmail.com Sound: Anthony Carr Art: Kazuki Komatsu NEXT WEEK = Pretty SPOOKY for a KIDZ SHOW