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EPISODE 427: SMILE 2

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We’re back! Just in time to help you cope with Trump 2.0
This episode we review writer/director Parker Finn’s follow up to his 2022 debut, SMILE 2.

Skye Riley: Well, have you gone to the police?
Morris: And say what? My brother’s suicide was actually caused by some cosmic evil being that no one else can see? The police can’t stop this thing anyway.
Skye: So I’m just supposed to wait until this thing kills me?
Morris: No, I want you to help me destroy it.
Skye: How?
Morris: From what I can tell, the chain stops when an infected host dies in some other way outside of the being’s control. My guess is that, just like other parasites, without a living host it has no way to survive. It’s ceases to exist.
Skye: So it only stops if–if I die before it kills me?
Morris: Exactly. We need to kill you first.
Skye: What?!

It’s the Who Goes There Podcast Episode #427!

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EPISODE 425: THE SUBSTANCE

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French Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat made her feature film debut with 2017’s REVENGE, a visceral, vibrant, and often lyrical rape/revenge thriller. The film leaned hard into tropes usually reserved for more action oriented films featuring an initially victimized protagonist transforming into a lethal retributive anti-hero. Fargeat herself said she was directly influenced by films like Mad Max, Rambo, and Kill Bill.

Revenge was a favorite of ours on the show in it’s year of release, and one of the more notable genre feature film debuts in a decade full of them. She was also praised as one of the more exciting voices in contemporary feminist cinema, along with her contemporary Julia Ducournau (Raw, Titane), also hailing from France, as they both brought a woman’s perspective and a contemporary lens to Cronenbergian body horror and psychosexual tension. Needless to say, we were optimistic and curious about what Fargeat would do next.

“One single injection unlocks your DNA, starting a new cellular division, that will release another version of yourself. This is THE SUBSTANCE. Everything comes from you. Everything is you. This is simply a better version of yourself. You just have to share. One week for one and one week for the other. A perfect balance of seven days each. The one and only thing not to forget: YOU. ARE. ONE. You can’t escape from yourself.”
It’s the Who Goes There Podcast Episode 425!

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EPISODE 409: STOPMOTION

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It’s finally time we here at WGT get into a slate of some new 2024 genre offerings.

First up, STOPMOTION, the debut feature length film from director Robert Morgan, who’s got a bunch of fantastic short films you should probably check out. He’s also the guy responsible for the D is for Deloused segment of 2014’s ‘ABC’s of Death’ horror anthology.

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EPISODE 406: eXistenZ

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It’s Cronenberg time. A bit of a spiritual successor to Videodrome, 1999’s eXistenZ sees Papa Cronenberg fucking with gaming and virtual reality in his characteristically cerebral, absurd, and physically repellent way.

eXistenZ joins Dark City and The Matrix as late 90’s, pre-millenium forays into the notion of simulated reality and this is definitely the most surreal of the bunch, and possibly the most prophetic. This is Jorge’s first viewing in a couple decades and Jacob’s first ever. Enjoy and long live the new flesh!

“You’re stuck now, aren’t you? You want to go back  because there’s nothing happening here. We’re safe. It’s boring. It’s worse than that. I’m not sure… I’m not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you’re beginning to feel a bit like a game character.” It’s The Who Goes There Podcast Episode 406!

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