Backrooms and Dracula (Movie Squad Podcast #538)

Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo made a date to meet in the Backrooms while Pam Boland watched Say Anything on a plane. So yeah, you could say Movie Squad is back on its bulls***. On their latest Breakfast meeting, Tristan and Simon share their thoughts on Kane Parsons’ big screen adaptation of his creepypasta-inspired webseries Backrooms, with Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor falling into his sparse and spooky liminal space. It’s now showing in cinemas. Then, they review friend-of-the-show Radu Jude’s Dracula, a satirical and obscenely trashy take on Romania’s relationship with its famous bloodsucker (and film’s relationship to AI), as only the iconoclastic Jude could make. It’s now available on digital platforms. Stay tuned for a pod exclusive chat in which Simon and Tristan talk a little more about Radu Jude’s provocations, and decide whether or not Chiwetel Ejiofor’s unfortunate streak of a decade of bad films has finally ended. Learn about the new season of Tristan’s Trash Classics screenings at Luna Cinemas held on the last Friday of every month. Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!