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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Happy holidays doves! Get tinseled the fuck up with us in the last Patreon ep of the year as we celebrate the Christmas season and talk about 1965’s A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS and 1966’s HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

Unbelievably excited to announce the cassette release of Box Music Out this Friday 11/07 via @bluelighttapes.bsky.social This cassette edition will feature the full album plus two unreleased bonus tracks from the Box Music sessions & a trance-out remix of Flash Freeze by @fastdrums.bsky.social

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Grab your vestments and rosaries and come join us talking about 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Join Josh and his unconventional conventionists @infinitesnow.bsky.social Delaney Jordan and Samuel Button-Bell to discuss Tim Curry’s swerve and the rightwing urge to ruin groovy people’s fun for the 50th anniversary of 1975’s ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Shoutout to Swimfans for being the major factor in prodding me to finally see this one (that and it being on Tubi)

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! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Tonight is What It Means to be Dove; on this Patreon episode, we talk Bigfoot, sub-Abdul tracks, and Dafoe fits in our follow-up to THE WARRIORS with 1984's STREETS OF FIRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

🩸Bloodbath 2025 is nigh! Join us for another October of spooks and scares.🩸

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Switching gears, 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)! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the show, we wrap up FULL CLIP with video editor Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week, we’re joined by comic artist Joey Weiser @joeyweiser.bsky.social to talk the evolution of Toei, the political valences of Fukasaku, and the unusual skill of directors who come from a low-budget background in 1976’s VIOLENT PANIC: THE BIG CRASH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

On this Patreon episode of Swimfans, we talk the troubles of interpretation #SusanSontag and not knowing anything about Armenia. It’s the widely revered 1969 Soviet Armenian avant-garde film, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we welcome back Heroes 3 @heroes3podcast.bsky.social legend Matthew Tucciarone @majorthird.bsky.social to talk Travolta and Cage, Woo’s Hollywood era, and Venice Beach Catholics in 1997’s FACE/OFF! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the show, we welcome back podcast queen Niamh Schönherr @foxmomnia.exportaud.io to talk the 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on Full Clip, we’re joined by Kyle Daileda @kyledeleted.bsky.social 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we're once again joined by art director Carina Taylor @shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social to discuss the artful rending of garments, the rich, textured flavor of divorce, and how to reconcile a movie that's two movies in 1994's TRUE LIES! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Josh has become so proficient at “mime stuck in a box” that he’s trapped. Instead, Craig and Jennifer are joined by @addark.bsky.social to talk corruption in children’s television and the horrors of ice rinks. It’s the 2002 black comedy, DEATH TO SMOOCHY. linktr.ee/swimfans twitch.tv/addark

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. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

While Josh learns "mime stuck in a box" in Paris, Jennifer and Craig take over anime club with an iron fist. We talk living in a ruined world, vibes-based cartooning, and poetry censorship in the 1985 Mamoru Hosoda film ANGEL'S EGG. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia @leogarcia.art 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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by Heroes Three @heroes3podcast.bsky.social cohost Carlos Leon-Roman to talk James Cameron, the art of the sequel, and the glee of practical effects in 1991’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Lock and load, doves: this is SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP! In the first installment of Action Movie Summer, we’re talking buddy pairs, evil gay guys and powerful divorced energy in 1991’s THE LAST BOY SCOUT! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the show, we get married to the groove and talk the ecstacy of dance, comparing and contrasting Noé’s filmography, and opine on Hell Here in 2018’s CLIMAX! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Join us, patrons, as we weep over the melting body of the wax Christ child effigy and discuss quiet horror and its virtues in 2024’s THE DEVIL’S BATH! linktr.ee/swimfans Patreon.com/swimfans

This week, we move to the Hamptons to discuss convoluted murder plots, mysteries of estate law, and how much information in a thriller is too much in 1988’s MASQUERADE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we welcome video editor and essayist @infinitesnow.bsky.social to talk who is and who isn’t good at yearning, art inside of art, and Orpheus and Eurydice in 2019’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we talk about extremely poorly thought-out vampire plans, flirting by way of ancient Egyptology, and how every movie could stand to be a bit more like a Ken Russell joint in 1995's EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we talk heterosexual jockstraps, criteria for morality plays, the delightful sleaze of the 70s, and how we're the oldest people currently online in 1977's LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR! www.linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Come get weird with us on the open road and talk about tormenting twinks, the fear of the Great American Highway, and the Rutger Hauerness of it all in 1986's THE HITCHER! patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we celebrate the True Lusters and talk American grime, the Greek tragedy of the evil father, and good ol’ sex and violence in 2024’s LOVE LIES BLEEDING! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans

It's Elric day! Come hear me talk about this wild fantasy series on the Swimfans patreon!

300 EPISODES OF SWIMFANS, BABY!!! To celebrate, this week we revisit our namesake to discuss ambitious filmmaking, teenage Draculas, swim pageants, and general opining on the genre 300 episodes later. This is 2002's SWIMFAN (revisited)! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans