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Episode 344 - In the Mood for Love (w/ Kevin Jay Stanton) 03/26/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40633530

Episode 343 - Cloud 03/19/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40544910

OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART TWO 03/12/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40414705

OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART ONE 03/05/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40320815

Episode 342 - Femme Fatale (2002) 02/26/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40243160

Episode 341 - Special Effects 02/19/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40168775

Episode 340 - Stalked by My Doctor (w/ Shannon Strucci) 02/12/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40076380

Episode 339 - After Dark, My Sweet 02/05/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40011220

Episode 338 - Exotica 01/29/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39914700

Episode 337 - Hush (1998) 01/22/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39815195

Episode 336 - What Keeps You Alive 01/15/2026

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! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39748135

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

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