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Boomer & Brandon discuss the Southeastern Film Critic Association’s awarded films of 2025, starting with Kleber Mendonça Filho's period-piece political thriller The Secret Agenthttps://www.sefca.net/winners#/2025https://swampflix.com/00:00 SEFCA's Top 10 Films of 202515:30 The Secret Agent (2025)43:35 Best Actor57:33 Best Actress1:10:13 Best Suppor…
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Brandon is joined by Pete Moran of the We Love to Watch to investigate the paranormal British tradition of broadcasting ghost stories on Christmas, courtesy of the BBChttps://swampflix.com/https://soundcloud.com/welovetowatch00:00 Merry Spooky Christmas23:49 Ghost Stories for Christmas (1971-1978)1:04:54 Other BBC ghost stories (2005-2025)…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Powell & Pressburger's Technicolor opera The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:15 The Suspect (1944)06:18 The King of Comedy (1982)15:38 Marty Supreme (2025)22:31 For Your Consideration (2006)29:00 Abigail (2024)37:12 Rabbit Trap (2025)44:00 The Headless Woman (2008)48:36 The Asphalt Jungle (1950…
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Brandon & Boomer catch up with older movies from some of this year's best directors, starting with Park Chan-wook's infamous gross-out revenge thriller Oldboy (2003)https://swampflix.com/00:00 The year in review39:18 The Colors Within (2025)50:14 Resurrection (2025)55:38 Hamnet (2025)1:03:05 Oldboy (2003)1:31:00 The Twentieth Century (2019)1:49:00 …
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the deadpan arranged-marriage horror comedy Sister Midnight (2025)https://swampflix.com/00:00 New Orleans Bookfair02:40 Star Trek06:06 Went the Day Well? (1942)09:00 Black Angel (1946)11:04 Angel's Egg (1985)15:00 Universal Language (2025)23:00 Wicked - For Good (2025)29:45 Friendship (2025)34:11 The Running Man (2025)40:30…
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Brandon, James, and Britnee test the murky waters of made-for-Tubi movies, starting with the star-packed cult horror Hellblazers (2022)https://swampflix.com/0:00 Welcome02:27 Basket Case (1982)04:36 Materialists (2025)06:47 28 Years Later (2025)08:18 Boys Go to Jupiter (2025)10:14 Demon Pond (1979)16:18 Hellblazers (2022)38:16 Love and Penguins (20…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss two different films that share the same title and director: Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and its loose remake The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)https://swampflix.com/00:00 The Soup02:50 KPop Demon Hunters (2025)8:02 The Blue Gardenia (1953)13:25 Erica's First Holy Sh!t (2022)20:06 Cloud (2025)26:40 The …
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna prepare for Thanksgiving by discussing movies about eccentric relatives, starting with Bill Forsyth's quirky-aunt period drama Housekeeping (1987)https://swampflix.com/0:00 Welcome02:54 Dead of Winter (2025)06:23 Halloween hangover12:44 Sorry, Baby (2025)20:09 Masters of Horror (2005-2007)24:04 Orgy of the Dead (1…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the erotic alien-invasion horror Species (1995), starring Natasha Henstridgehttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome04:20 Bugonia (2025)17:08 Battle Royale (2000)22:55 Death Metal Zombies (1995)27:11 Interview with the Vampire (1994)30:27 Corpse Bride (2005)33:55 Frankenstein (2025)36:00 The Plague (2025)39:56 Frank Henenlotter4…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of sci-fi horror relics inspired by the H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man, starting with James Whale's classic 1933 adaptation, starring Claude Rainshttps://swampflix.com/0:00 Welcome02:08 Prince of Darkness (1987)08:25 Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973)11:50 Bring Her Back (2025)14:23 The Perfect Nei…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss a double feature of high-style Gothic horror stories: John Brahm's The Undying Monster (1942) and William Castle's 13 Ghosts (1960)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Freaky Fridays at Double Trouble10:00 Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)16:53 Video Diary of a Lost Girl (2012)23:45 Dial M for Murder (1954)32:…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the alien-invasion conspiracy comedy Save the Green Planet! (2003), recently remade by Yorgos Lanthimoshttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Freaky Fridays at Double Trouble09:33 Starchaser (1985)14:15 Child of Peach (1987)20:24 Nothing But Trouble (1991)25:01 Linda Linda Linda (2005)34:31 Him (2025)38:28 The Smashing Machine (2025)4…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of creature features about body-invading parasites, starting with the sci-fi action horror The Hidden (1987), starring Kyle MacLachlanhttps://swampflix.com/0:00 Spooky season06:16 The Long Walk (2025)12:12 Robert Altman16:46 Queens of Drama (2025)21:07 The Hidden (1987)36:20 The Tingler (1959)52…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Alain Delon's star-making crime thriller Purple Noon (1960), adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley00:00 Welcome06:30 Day of the Dead (1985)14:24 The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)21:58 Leila and the Wolves (1984)27:35 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors (1987)35:39 The Long Walk (2025)48:20…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of nunsploitation thrillers from around the globe, starting with the Mexican production Alucarda (1977)00:00 Welcome02:19 Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera (1963)07:31 The Idiots (1998)15:20 Ariel (1988)22:11 Troop Beverly Hills (1989)28:26 Alucarda (1977)56:30 School of the Holy Beast (1974)1:14:33 Ki…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's laidback stoner noir Inherent Vice (2014), adapted from the novel by Thomas Pynchon00:00 Welcome04:56 The Roses (2025)12:58 Throw Momma from the Train (1987)18:36 The Fantastic Four - First Steps (2025)27:27 A Room with a View (1985)41:13 One, Two, Three (1961)49:11 Lady Vengeance (2005)54:22 Night of…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of Merchant Ivory costume dramas, starting with the company's 1992 hit Howards Endhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 KPop Demon Hunters (2025)08:17 Boys Go to Jupiter (2025)10:52 Salt of the Earth (1954)16:18 Weapons (2025)27:09 Howards End (1992)56:10 Savages (1971)1:11:26 Quartet (1981)1:23:04 The Re…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the 1943 suburban noir Shadow of a Doubt, which Alfred Hitchcock described as his personal favorite of his own films00:00 Welcome03:03 Stigmata (1991)09:15 Manda Bala (Send a Bullet, 2007)14:15 DEVO (2025)20:46 Naked Ambition (2025)25:53 The Naked Gun (1988 - 2025)35:40 Freakier Friday (2025)42:30 The Aviator (2004)48:09 Th…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of Roald Dahl adaptations, starting with the Wes Anderson anthology film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)https://swampflix.com/0:00 Welcome02:45 Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)07:12 Napoleon Dynamite (2004)13:52 Peter Pan (1960)16:55 The Legend of Ochi (2025)24:04 T…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams-penned Southern Gothic stage play Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katherine Hepburn & Elizabeth Taylorhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:31 The Naked Gun (2025)06:35 Together (2025)14:40 Freaky Tales (2025)23:26 Weapons (2025)41:04 I Confess! (1953)46:01 Th…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of films from The Australian New Wave, starting with the beer-soaked 1971 thriller Wake in Frighthttps://swampflix.com/0:00 Welcome02:13 Eddington (2025)11:21 Opus (2025)15:40 We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)20:30 Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs (2025)22:08 The Running Man (198…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss two detective stories from the earliest and latest extremes of Rian Johnson's career: the 2005 high school noir Brick and the ongoing human-lie-detector TV series Poker Facehttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Foreign Correspondent (1940)04:14 Topaz (1969)11:00 Play It as it Lays (1972)15:11 Muriel's Wedding (1994)16:56 Pink Narciss…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of movies about home-renovation woes, starting with the Tom Hanks comedy vehicle The Money Pit (1986)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome02:30 17 Again (2009)05:41 Bully (2001)09:40 The Leather Boys (1965)13:01 Son of Godzilla (1967)17:47 Cora Bora (2024)21:11 The Money Pit (1986)40:08 Of Unknown…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss two superhero movies currently in wide theatrical release: M3GAN 2.0 (2025) & Superman (2025)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome04:17 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)15:10 The Age of Innocence (1993)21:57 Misericordia (2025)28:50 Looney Tunes - The Day the Earth Blew Up (2025)34:24 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)38:24 …
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of new releases from the first half of 2025, starting with Ryan Coogler's Southern-fried vampire musical Sinnershttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:37 Mike Flanagan03:04 Disclosure (1994)04:50 Brokeback Mountain (2005)09:53 Smiley Face (2007)13:15 A Room with a View (1985)17:01 High Heels (199…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Paul Bartel's entertainment-industry satire Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:40 Spies (1928)07:00 Buffalo '66 (1998)13:33 A Woman's Torment (1977)18:52 The Dinner Game (1988)23:13 Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)29:47 The Lodger (1927)34:35 28 Weeks Later (2007)40:00 28 Y…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of biopics about famous visual artists, starting with 1988's Camille Claudel, in which Isabelle Adjani plays the titular sculptorhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome03:07 Linda (2025)05:09 The Black Sea (2025)08:58 Sinners (2025)14:08 Popeye the Slayer Man (2025)18:45 Dreamchild (1985)22:27 The S…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Luis Buñuel's surrealist satire The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), in which a small party of upper-class snobs are repeatedly deprived of their dinnerhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:27 Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025)06:25 Vulcanizadora (2025)09:52 Pavements (2025)19:52 Ernest Cole - Lost and Found (202…
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Brandon, James, and Hanna discuss the few films that have been adapted from William S. Burroughs's prose, starting with David Cronenberg's 1991 adaptation of Naked Lunch.https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:20 Friendship (2025)03:10 Bring Her Back (2025)09:34 Premonition (2007)13:37 Mulan (1998)16:53 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)20:02 …
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Alejandro Amenábar's snuff-film murder mystery Tesis (1996)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:24 Goodbye Horses - The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2025)09:20 The Haunted Palace (1963)14:56 Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)20:57 Leila and the Wolves (1984)25:12 The Prophecy (1995)27:31 The Raven (1963)28:57 The…
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Brandon & Boomer discuss a grab bag of horror films set in assisted living facilities, starting with the straight-to-Shudder thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:31 The Surfer (2025)06:39 Clown in a Cornfield (2025)16:29 The Kid Detective (2020)18:00 Belle de Jour (1967)28:07 Decision to Leave (2022)35:00 The S…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Roger Corman's psychedelic sci-fi crime thriller X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Sinners (2025)08:48 Secret Mall Apartment (2025)13:50 The Ugly Stepsister (2025)19:15 Beau Travail (1999)25:28 Strawberry Mansion (2022)33:01 The Haunted Palace (1963)37:20 X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of dramas about wartime traitors, treasonists, quislings, and collaborators, starting with the Czech New Wave classic The Cremator (1969)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome04:40 The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (2025)07:56 Children of a Lesser God (1986)11:51 The Passionate Friends (1949)13:05 Hobson's C…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the Canuxploitation meta-horror Deadline (1980)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:40 Tales of Terror (1962)06:10 The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)11:07 The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)16:20 Wolfen (1981)22:46 True Romance (1993)27:58 My Cousin Vinny (1992)31:36 Fame Whore (1997)38:30 Quadrophenia (1979)43:48 Beyond a Reasonable Do…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of vintage genre films about Vietnam War vets suffering from PTSD, starting with the violent exploitation thriller Combat Shock (1986)https://swampflix.com/00:00 The Pope of Trash08:50 Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)13:00 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)17:12 Under the Sand (2000…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Takahide Hori's stop-motion-animated nightmare comedy Junk Head (2017)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome03:55 Vampire Hunter D (1985)07:07 Casino (1995)15:31 Deadwood - The Movie (2019)22:30 The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)38:17 The Conformist (1970)42:32 Times Square (1980)48:56 Devil Fetus (1982)55:38 Grave of the F…
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Brandon, James, and Hanna discuss a selection of genre films that screened at this year’s Overlook Film Festival, starting with Good Boy (2025), a haunted house movie seen from a dog's POVhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome04:36 Good Boy17:00 The Ugly Stepsister30:00 It Ends36:26 Predators49:43 Zodiac Killer Project1:00:53 Dead Lover1:05:00 The Shr…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the Shaw Brothers' laser-wizards martial arts actioner Buddha's Palm (1982)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:37 Eephus (2025)04:45 Looney Tunes - The Day The Earth Blew Up (2025)09:03 Black Bag (2025)15:40 Misericordia (2025)21:16 The Shrouds (2025)27:47 Ash (2025)34:32 The Premature Burial (1962)39:38 The Masque of the…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of low-budget horror films about ballerinas in crisis, starting with the 1989 Supsiria knockoff Étoile, starring Jennifer Connellyhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Concerts07:21 Two English Girls (1971)10:32 Adolescence (2025)15:37 Down with Love (2003)19:20 Chocolate Babies (1996)25:03 Étoile (1989)4…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Gregg Araki's Los Angeles teen brain-rot comedy Nowhere (1997)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome03:30 Urban Legend (1998)15:00 Juliet of the Spirits (1965)19:23 Contempt (1963)22:45 The Black Cat (1989)27:35 Video Violence (1987)30:51 Fade to Black (1980)34:34 Possible Films - Short Works by Hal Hartley (1994-2004)42:13 Mi…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the portrait of America stretched across Robert Altman's filmography, starting with his 1975 country-music industry drama Nashvillehttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Pearl Jam01:23 Striptease (1996)05:06 Incendies (2010)08:01 La Moustache (2005)10:30 American Sniper (2014)17:13 Rambo I - V (1982 - 2019)25:20 Nash…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss the classic Howard Hawks noir The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacallhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:52 The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970)06:58 Teeth (2007)13:48 Citizen Ruth (1996)20:48 Wander to Wonder (2025)23:44 No Other Land (2025)27:33 The Monkey (2025)35:19 Heart Eyes (2025)41:03 Armand (2025…
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Brandon & Alli discuss a grab bag of movies about swords & swordplay, starting with the fencing academy drama By the Sword (1991). Swords!https://swampflix.com/https://plotisoptional.com/00:00 Plot is Optional & Spooky Tuesday02:55 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)09:18 The Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim (2024)16:42 By the Sword (…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 surveillance paranoia thriller The Conversation, which recently screened at Prytania's Classic Movie Serieshttps://swampflix.com/https://www.theprytania.com/uptown/classic-movie-series00:00 Welcome05:08 George Dureau: New Orleans Artist (2023)19:10 The Roommate (2011)32:35 Crimes of Passion (1984…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the earlier works of this year’s Best Director Oscar nominees, starting with Sean Baker's porn-industry buddy comedy Starlet (2012)https://swampflix.com/00:00 Apology/Goo05:03 Kinda Pregnant (2025)10:19 The Vietnam War (2017)14:17 The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 18:35 Rats! (2025)23:39 Starlet (2012)41:4…
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Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the 2017 road-trip dramedy Please Stand By, starring Dakota Fanning as an autistic Star Trek obsessive on the runhttps://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:09 Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)04:13 Nosferatu (2024)06:17 Cunk on Life (2025)10:53 Dark Match (2025)17:29 Companion (2025)23:46 Ernest Cole:…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of 90s movies about well-meaning teachers confronted with the violent chaos of inner-city schools, starting with the 1997 Sam Jackson vehicle 187https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:55 Presence (2025)02:56 The Brutalist (2024)06:14 The Cranes are Flying (1957)08:17 The Lives of Others (2006)14:…
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Boomer & Brandon discuss Alexander Payne's climate change sci-fi comedy Downsizing (2017)https://swampflix.com/2025/01/24/swampflixs-top-10-films-of-2024/00:00 The Top 10 Films of 202402:30 Anora (2024)12:05 Barfly (1987)13:48 Single White Female (1992)22:03 The Cruise (1998)23:03 Tomie (1998)24:28 The Thing (1982)27:39 To Die For (1995)34:03 Gatta…
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Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna continue our discussion of the Top Films of 2024 with some honorable mentions, starting with Clint Eastwood's courtroom thriller Juror #2.https://swampflix.com/00:00 Welcome01:30 Nine Months (1995)04:05 John Tucker Must Die (2006)08:41 Unlawful Entry (1992)12:00 Nosferatu (2024)19:10 Babygirl (2024)27:07 Last Summ…
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