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Episode 335 - The Passion of Darkly Noon 01/08/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39661395

Episode 334 - Wild Side 01/01/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39579415

Episode X8 - Tangerine 12/25/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39532590

Episode 333 - The Hot Spot 12/18/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39448250

Episode 332 - Black Widow 12/11/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39361625

Episode 331 - Crush (2013) 12/04/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39264665

Episode 330 - Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 11/27/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39173040

Episode 329 - Mother's Boys 11/20/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39099210

Episode 328 - Terrified 11/12/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39010310

Episode C6 - The Master 11/06/2025

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! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38938270

Episode 327 - Prince of Darkness (w/ Vou Pinette) 10/30/2025

Episode 327 - Prince of Darkness (w/ Vou Pinette) Wrapping up Bloodbath for the year, goo correspondent Vou Pinette returns to talk full-powered Carpenter, the horror of quantum physics, and all the Bug Facts you could ask for in 1987’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38847055

Episode 326 - The Exorcist 10/23/2025

Episode 326 - The Exorcist Grab your vestments and rosaries and come join us talking about positively medieval medical footage, the power of juxtaposing the infernal with the banal, and the impact of possibly the most societally relevant movie of the past half century in 1973's THE EXORCIST! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38758335

Episode 325 - Mad God 10/16/2025

Episode 325 - Mad God Get mashed into paste with us as we continue our Bloodbath journey talking the joys of puppets, technically incredible visions of hell and recurrence, and the romance of a passion project made manifest in 2021’s MAD GOD! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38596485

Episode 324 - The Wicker Man (1973) 10/08/2025

Episode 324 - The Wicker Man (1973) 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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38517515

Episode 323 - Opera 10/02/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38433345

Episode 322- Kotoko 09/25/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38349820

Episode 321 - CYOA: Matrix Babies 2 09/18/2025

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)! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38269475

Episode 320 - Three Days of the Condor (w/ Shannon Strucci) 09/11/2025

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38149950

Episode 319 - The Warriors 09/04/2025

Episode 319 - The Warriors This week on Full Clip, we talk sheer filmic efficiency, the wisdom of keeping a gay guy in the crew, and how shooting in New York is the best special effect of all in 1979’s THE WARRIORS! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38088195

Episode 318 - Violent Panic: The Big Crash (w/ Joey Weiser) 08/28/2025

Episode 318 - Violent Panic: The Big Crash (w/ Joey Weiser) This week, we’re joined by comic artist Joey Weiser to talk the evolution of Toei movies, the political valences of Fukasaku, and the unusual skill of directors who come from a low-budget film background in 1976’s VIOLENT PANIC: THE BIG CRASH! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38006450

Episode 317 - Face/Off (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) 08/21/2025

Episode 317 - Face/Off (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) This week on the pod, we welcome back Heroes 3 legend Matthew Tucciarone to talk Travolta and Cage, Woo’s Hollywood era, and Venice Beach Catholics in 1997’s FACE/OFF! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37915660

Episode 316 - Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (w/ Niamh Schönherr) 08/14/2025

Episode 316 - Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (w/ Niamh Schönherr) This week on the show, we welcome back podcast queen Niamh Schönherr to talk the structures and standards of Yakuza film, the precise chemistry of drugs into hair care products, and the Crime Cenobite in 1981's SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37807135

Episode 315 - Crank (w/ Kyle Daileda) 08/07/2025

Episode 315 - Crank (w/ Kyle Daileda) This week on Swimfans: Full Clip, we’re joined by publishing pro Kyle Daileda to talk Josh’s taste in men, the novelty of a movie walking and talking like a video game, and explaining stuntwork to gay people in 2006’s CRANK! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37723955

Episode 314 - True Lies (w/ Carina Taylor) 07/31/2025

Episode 314 - True Lies (w/ Carina Taylor) This week on the pod, we're once again joined by art director Carina Taylor to discuss the artful rending of garments, the rich, textured flavor of divorce, and how to reconcile a movie that's kind of two movies in 1994's TRUE LIES! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37626500

Episode JEN7 - Grizzly Man 07/24/2025

Episode JEN7 - Grizzly Man Everybody say happy birthday, Jennifer!! This week we take a break from Full Clip to celebrate our beloved’s birthday and talk the prismatic view of man, the melancholy of Werner Herzog, and staring unblinkingly into The Void in 2005’s GRIZZLY MAN! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37539910

Episode 313 - Death to Smoochy (w/ Addy) 07/17/2025

Episode 313 - Death to Smoochy (w/ Addy) Josh has become so proficient at “mime stuck in a box” that he’s trapped. Instead, Craig and Jennifer are joined by Addy to talk corruption in children’s television, the horrors of ice rinks, and Industrial Society and its Future. It’s Danny Devito’s 2002 black comedy DEATH TO SMOOCHY. /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37443605

Episode 312 - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 07/10/2025

Episode 312 - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie This week on the pod, the girls get lost on Morocco Street and talk beauty in animated choreography, the fine art of people-watching, and every conspiracy theory known to man. It's Shinichirō Watanabe's 2001 joint, COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE. /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37363620

Episode 311 - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning 07/03/2025

Episode 311 - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning This week on the pod, we're talking video game-style filmmaking, stylization of action and brutality in movies, and each of our thresholds for the term 'Lynchian' in 2012's UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37272720

Episode 310 - Three Kings (w/ Joel Hocking) 06/26/2025

Episode 310 - Three Kings (w/ Joel Hocking) This week, we’re joined by big brother Joel Hocking to discuss the modern war picture, the finer points of C-4, and if the great anti-war movie of the modern era yet exists in 1999’s THREE KINGS! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37165625

Episode 309 - The French Connection (w/ Leo Garcia) 06/19/2025

Episode 309 - The French Connection (w/ Leo Garcia) This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia to discuss being so bad at tailing the French, the joy of car dismantling, and our desire to move to The Zone in 1971’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION! patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37079630

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