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  1. Episode 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 1968's HOUR OF THE WOLF! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  2. Episode 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 grasses and windchimes mid-slasher in 1974's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:...

  3. Episode 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, and what might be the most uncomfortable contact lenses in the world in 1981's THE BEYOND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by...

  4. Episode 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) films for us to view and share round-robin style. Join us for deep fakes, double mommies and rock-in-jar husbands as we do a survey of...

  5. Episode 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 college's live death footage collection in 1996's THESIS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  6. Episode 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 1977's KILLER OF SHEEP! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  7. Episode 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 2009's THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  8. Episode 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 PARALLAX VIEW! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  9. Episode 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 in 1998's THE HOLE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  10. Episode 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  11. Episode 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 systems, and getting alien powers in 2026's DISCLOSURE DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  12. Episode 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 THE LIVING END! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  13. Episode 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 of a pandemic, and how much filmic shag is too much filmic shag in 2021's IN THE EARTH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by...

  14. Episode 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 death and get sad and stuff in 2009's ENTER THE VOID! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  15. Episode 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 okay gay movies in 2025's PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  16. Episode 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 THE LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  17. Episode 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 1991's POISON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  18. Episode 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 commit to anything in 2018's HIGH LIFE! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod

  19. Episode 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 horrors of being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:...

  20. Episode 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 necessity of art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970's THE BOYS IN THE BAND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by...

  21. Episode 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 take it in 1991's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  22. Episode 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  23. Episode 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 cartoons than one would expect in 1975's DEATH RACE 2000! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:...

  24. Episode 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 underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  25. Episode 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 mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  26. Episode 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, and what happens when the mirror stares back in 1966's PERSONA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:...

  27. Episode 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 1994's FRESH KILL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  28. Episode 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 of a really good stick in 2024's VULCANIZADORA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  29. Episode 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 just can't leave each other alone in 1997's HAPPY TOGETHER! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:...

  30. Episode 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 a soup thermos in 2000's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  31. Episode 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 cover walls in 2024's CLOUD! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  32. OSCARMANIA 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, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SINNERS, and TRAIN DREAMS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  33. OSCARMANIA 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, FRANKENSTEIN, HAMNET and MARTY SUPREME! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  34. Episode 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 find the time to discuss interesting choices in skirts and shoes in 2002's FEMME FATALE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by...

  35. Episode 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 do nude modeling, and manipulation of reality being the greatest effect of all in 1984's SPECIAL EFFECTS! linktr.ee/swimfans...

  36. Episode 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 ghosts-cheating argument in 2015's STALKED BY MY DOCTOR! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  37. Episode 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, MY SWEET! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  38. Episode 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 the hookup in 1994's EXOTICA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  39. Episode 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 1998's HUSH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  40. Episode 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 from in 2018's WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  41. Episode 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 OF DARKLY NOON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  42. Episode 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 SIDE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  43. Episode 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  44. Episode 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 billboards in 1990's THE HOT SPOT! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  45. Episode 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 Behavior in 1987's BLACK WIDOW! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  46. Episode 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, and the joys of editing in 2013's CRUSH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  47. Episode 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 just as beautiful when they come true in 1990's TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:...

  48. Episode 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 1994's MOTHER'S BOYS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  49. Episode 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 1995's TERRIFIED! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

  50. Episode 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 Craig's defense of the AMV in 2012's THE MASTER! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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