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 1973’s THE WICKER MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
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Episode 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 grass-based endings and dive into the brain of Argento in 1987’s OPERA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
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Episode 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 horrors of existing in a society in 2011’s KOTOKO! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
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Episode 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 MATRIX’s wake: ULTRAVIOLET (2006), AEON FLUX (2005) and BLOODRAYNE (2005)!  linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
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Episode 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 reading books in well-fitting jeans in 1975’s THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/
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