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Uncanny Cinema Podcast
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Join us as our filmologists unearth curiosities from beyond the box office.

Your home for the obscure, bizarre, unloved, overlooked, and underappreciated in film. We cover all genres and discussions include spoilers.
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Our annual Christmas present got delayed with Del Griffith - the extended fancut of the Thanksgiving classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the masterpiece from John Hughes, John Candy, and Steve Martin.

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December 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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For our first Christmas episode of the season, we look at the strange, beautiful, and perplexing film The Green Knight.

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December 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Our final Halloween Spookening episode focuses on the great, twisted & horrific fairy tale reworking The Ugly Stepsister. We cover antiquated beauty techniques, how to best get the gunk out & many Cramps albums. Happy Halloween!

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October 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The crew takes on the dark, disturbing, and dreamlike film The Reflecting Skin for our third Halloween Spookening offering.

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October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The wild, effects-heavy horror film Skinned Deep is our next Halloween Spookening offering, and we examine every bizarre moment of it.

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October 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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For our first Spookening offering of the Halloween season, we look at the great and under-seen horror thriller The Hitcher, loving the scares, cinematography, and Rutger Hauer's dreamy eyes.

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October 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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It's Uncanny Cinema's annual Summer Blowout Sale and everything must go, so we're pulling out the classic Pee-wee's Big Adventure to marvel at its majesty and whimsy.

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September 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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We launch Uncanny Cinema After Dark with The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak, the softcore Indiana Jones knockoff that probably shouldn't have been unearthed.

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September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The strange, beautiful, and largely overlooked film The Last Unicorn is our focus this go-round, and we discuss aging, tacos, and questionable arboreal animation choices.

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August 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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We take a look at the under-seen Bad Times at the El Royale, chronicle the various bad times, its historical connections, and clockwork narrative.

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August 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I take the Revenge of the '90s boys down to the well and make them rub the lotion on their skin or else they get The Silence of the Hams again.

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July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This time capsule gave us what we always wanted from our favorite 1980s cartoon characters - a soapbox to tell us drugs were pretty great but to still not do them!

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July 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Our annual Switcheroo has us looking at the classic film Unforgiven, and we dig into its moral complexity, superior craftsmanship, and immortal performance by the late great Gene Hackman.

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April 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The criminally underseen comedy The Wrong Guy holds the honor of being the film chosen for our 150th episode. A true modern classic. Go find it.

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March 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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For our Valentine's show, we look at one of the best musicals of all time and learn about the Origin of Love. So put on some makeup, turn on the tape deck, put the wig back on your head and join us.

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February 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Jack finally gets her wish as we look at the Rian Johnson debut film Brick, the movie that asks the question "What if high school was actually interesting?"

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February 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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For this year's Uncanny Cinema Christmas Present, we look at Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of horror The Shining and marvel at its visuals, performances, narrative depth, and bear men. Come play with us.

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December 24, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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For our first Christmas outing of the season, we look at Stanley Kubrick's final film, the yuletide extravaganza Eyes Wide Shut. Bring your mask and cloak. The password is "Fidelio."

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December 18, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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For our last Halloween entry for the season, we look at the modern classic anthology film Trick 'r Treat, discussing its provenance, popularity with dads, punkin boys, and more. Happy Halloween!

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October 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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For our next Halloween outing, the crew looks at the early David Cronenberg movie The Brood, an often-overlooked entry in his filmography that merges classic horror tropes with the motifs he would become famous for.

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October 26, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Stephen King's self-described moron movie Maximum Overdrive is our focus for this Halloween episode, and, boy howdy, was this a movie that exists.

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October 23, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Our next Halloween entry is the 2002 cult classic May, a movie that checks all the right horror boxes: children, eyes, dolls, amputation, cannibalism, and social anxiety!

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October 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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A lot about The Kindred doesn't work, but it shines in the effects department, especially in delivering probably the best human-fish mutant put to film.

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October 11, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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For our first Halloween episode, we look at the lush, wild & wonderful film The Abominable Dr. Phibes, a creepy & campy British effort starring Vincent Price, uptight English actors & the Grammy-Award-winning Clockwork Wizards!

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October 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Our annual Summer Blowout Sale has us watching the sports classic Rudy, where we debate the merits of football, chasing your dreams, and dads.

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September 10, 2024 at 5:06 PM