Modern Rubbish

This week we get into another Koji Shiraishi found-footage / mockumentary experiment, 2009’s Occult.Notes:Occult (film) by Koji ShiraishiDandadan (manga) by Yukinobu TatsuOccult word etymologyNotes o...

7 Okt 20241h 38min

All October long, we're narrating some of our favourite Weird stories, and sharing them with you each Tuesday! This week's story is the wonderfully eerie maritime tale, A Redress For Andromeda, by Cai...

1 Okt 202428min

This week we talk about Dave’s favorite horror movie, John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece of cosmic-polar horror, The Thing!Notes:The Thing by John CarpenterWho Goes There? by John W. CampbellThe Thing ...

30 Sep 20241h 56min

Part two of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.Notes:Modern Rubbish on Discord!Music by David PahaSupport us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

23 Sep 20241h 6min

Casey Anderson returns to the show to discuss Wyatt’s favorite movie, Pulse!Notes:Pulse by Kiyoshi KurosawaCasey AndersonChime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa“J-Horror”Conway’s Game of LifeFuture Shock by Alvin T...

16 Sep 20242h 8min

The first part of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.Notes:Modern Rubbish on Discord!Music by David PahaSupport us on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

9 Sep 20241h 19min

A Dark Song is both a wonderfully effective horror film and also an uncommonly realistic representation of the actual occult experience.It’s been a while since we’ve done an explicitly occult-oriented...

26 Aug 20242h 14min

Although we generally try to stick to the high ground and only talk about things we love, our Alien episode brought up a lot of negative thoughts about 2017’s irredeemably bad series entry, Alien: Cov...

19 Aug 20242h 1min