This week on The Stacks, in part one (0:00-1:15:58), we talk about the classic 1961 British kaiju film Gorgo, directed by Eugène Lourié, in addition to the pilot episode of American Horror Story. In part two (1:15:59-2:31:14) we talk in rapid-fire format about 8 additional features: the latest M. Night Shyamalan feature Trap, Hisayasu Sato's notorious 1987 pink film Lustmord, the 1998 Wachowskis lesbian neo-noir debut picture Bound, the underappreciated 1989 Luis Llosa dystopian film Crime Zone, the peculiar Leopoldo Savona giallo / gothic horror Death Falls Lightly, the Coen Brothers' energetic 2016 old Hollywood tribute Hail Caesar!, Ridley Scott's landmark 1979 sci-fi horror Alien, and James Cameron's 2022 Avatar sequel The Way of Water. In part three, we talk briefly about everything else we've watched since last time, and make our picks for next week. Apologies for some audio issues in part one, there was outside noise interfering with the recording.
The live list of The Spooky Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks-1/
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