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SFUltraDeep Territory #4 - Passion Of New Eve - Angela Carter"And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face..." - William Blake, Letter to John Flaxman September 12 1800 I'm joined on this episode by fellow Live At The Death Factory host and writer Astrid Rose, whose work you can find here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/2024-12-193h 01SFUltraDeep Territory #4 - Passion Of New Eve - Angela Carter"And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face..." - William Blake, Letter to John Flaxman September 12 1800 I'm joined on this episode by fellow Live At The Death Factory host and writer Astrid Rose, whose work you can find here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/2024-12-193h 01
Live At The Death Factory#25 - I feel my vertebrae extending and I feel my heart expandProjector's broken, welcome to season 2. This episode's book is Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee 2024-12-031h 56
Live At The Death Factory#24 - Cuts Me Down The Middle Then I Come AliveWe talk about Terrifier 2. Art was here.2024-04-072h 22
Live At The Death Factory#23 - She loves naked sin, he loves evil staresWe talk about Red Rooms, an unflinching, unforthcoming (meta???) scum classic about a woman who attends the trial of an internet murderer in Montreal. 2024-03-131h 57
Live At The Death Factory#22 - That tie pin in your retina unbosoms all your pastWe talk about Alien Report, a great film about when people stand too close to you. 2024-02-141h 26
SFUltraMurder House Sold #5 - The larger the prisoner’s pain, the larger the torturer’s world. I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers, a book about Fred and Rose West. Annoyingly, Astrid is an amazing writer of both horror fiction and criticism. She is also the co-host of Live At The Death Factory, the only perfect podcast ever to exist. Most recently, she was one of the writers of this video game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/Roman_Sands_REBuild/ You can find her horror fiction here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/ Murder House Sold...2023-09-062h 05SFUltraMurder House Sold #5 - The larger the prisoner’s pain, the larger the torturer’s world. I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers, a book about Fred and Rose West. Annoyingly, Astrid is an amazing writer of both horror fiction and criticism. She is also the co-host of Live At The Death Factory, the only perfect podcast ever to exist. Most recently, she was one of the writers of this video game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/Roman_Sands_REBuild/ You can find her horror fiction here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/ Murder House Sold...2023-09-062h 05
Live At The Death Factory#21 - Owner-OccupiedThe Scary of Sixty-First and Toolbox Murders, two films where the regular horror of having a landlord is compounded by moving into a building that lives as a summary of the rotten, putrid evil at work at the highest levels of power. 2022-02-222h 08
Live At The Death Factory#20 - If You Want To Learn, You Have To BurnWe discuss, in great and deserved depth, two of the great demented peaks of 2000s horror cinema: House Of Wax and Orphan, both directed by Jaume Collet-Serra2022-02-082h 39
Live At The Death Factory#19 - You Think You're A Zombie, You Think It's A SceneIn this episode we discuss the entire span of Rob Zombie's directorial career before focusing on the much-maligned Lords Of Salem. He's great. I don't expect you to watch Three From Hell or anything, that sucks, but if we sat there and figured out he was great then you should too. 2022-01-142h 01
Live At The Death Factory#18 - Demon I Am And Face I PeelThis episode we talk about two unclassifiable pieces of nightmare art from the darkest corners of the scum cinema cannon, both of which were released over a decade after the conclusion of principal photography when key members of cast and crew had long since died. It's an understandable struggle to imagine a film more strange and cursed that Andrew Getty's passion project The Evil Within but that's why it took a special kind of mind to imagine Flexing With Monty. 2021-12-242h 27
Live At The Death Factory#17 - Description Is More Important Than MetaphorThis week we discuss Bette Gordon's 1983 film Variety which focuses on a woman taking a job in a porn theatre by way of kathy acker, jane jacobs, laura mulvey and, briefly, henry rollins. 2021-12-031h 29
Live At The Death Factory#16 - Some Of Your Friends Are Already This FuckedThis week we talk about a whole bunch of Messed Up Guy In A Band documentaries, focusing primarily on Citizen Shane and Dead Hands Dig Deep. 2021-11-251h 55
Live At The Death Factory#15 - God Hates YouWe take a look at a couple of SOV films we didn't enjoy so much and discuss the pitfalls of treating it as a genre instead of a format before a long-form discussion of SHATTER DEAD, a pretty incredible zero budget low-key post-apocalyptic film from 1994, haunted by a Messiah Of Evil atmosphere and dripping with Dell Abyss miserabilism.2021-11-092h 02
Live At The Death Factory#14 - We Dine On Visions With New EyesWe discuss unheralded member of the scum pantheon Singapore Sling in great detail after spending maybe ten minutes on White Marriage which, in our defense, has a similar vibe and a far better poster that it probably deserves. Live At The Death Factory has resumed full production.2021-10-311h 52
Live At The Death FactoryAnnoucement/rerun - NoroiSean gives a quick update about the current state of the show (we're not putting out episodes for a while) before a rerun of an episode of another show in which he and Astrid discuss found footage classic Noroi2021-09-131h 59
Live At The Death Factory#13 - I Have No Blood On My Hands. I Have Blood On My Teeth.This week we examine 2011's chick tract writ large Megan Is Missing, one of the most truly evil films of the last several decades. Why has ever teenager seen this? What can a film do when it feels like it has the forces of good on its side? How much exponentially worse does this get once you discover behind the scenes details? What is the spell to destroy this film? What would Peter Sotos say?2021-08-302h 21
Live At The Death Factory#12 - I Am Mud And FlameWhen does the agony of self-realisation begins to warp reality itself? Afraid Of The Dark merciless portrayal of childhood isolation through illness and the degree to which that isolation can cause a loss of self. Penda's Fen is a devastatingly beautiful story of queer self-realisation through the embrace of England's pagan history and then dismantling of its flatulent and evil conception of its own patriotism. 2021-08-232h 39
Live At The Death Factory#11 - Stranger, Fill This Hole In MeThis week we look at SOV fraught homosociality shocker Venus Flytrap and journey into the worst of every kind of awkward silence of your teenage years in you-are-in-a-slint-song-right-now too-real teenage nightmare Bugcrush.2021-08-091h 37
Live At The Death Factory#10 - You Can't Kill Me Cause I'm Already Inside YouThis week we discuss In The Dark, an adaptation of Richard Laymon's novel of the same name. This film was never officially released or distributed and wasn’t screened other than in some festivals around 1999/2000. It’s currently on youtube in full, though! It’s a hidden SOV masterpiece, a deeply individual and confident adaptation that is shockingly underseen. We tell you to watch the film on Youtube, discuss the film strengths and then talk about when your perception of a film can wildly develop from that of the director. Also a shocking third act twist unveils what exactly Lil Na...2021-08-021h 52
Live At The Death Factory#9 - Pleasure Is A PriorityThis week on LIVE AT THE DEATH FACTORY: Bloodsisters, a confrontational journey into dyke BDSM in the 90s, Daddy and The Muscle Academy, a deeply horny look at Tom Of Finland and The Lifestlye, get knee-deep in hetrosexual squalor with wife swapping boomer sex draculas2021-07-262h 38
Live At The Death Factoryrerun - Female Prisoner Scorpion Trilogy“Never knew how to be scared, just how to handle my infra-red. Love nothing: made my barber write a 'Fuck You' in my head." - Z-Ro An episode of Sean's old podcast during which he and Astrid spoke about the first three entries of the Female Prisoner Scorpion series2021-07-192h 09
Live At The Death Factory#8 - Local SupportThis week we look at two 1980s SOV films that chronicle a local scene by organising an appropriate narrative around some live footage. How successful are they? How much story does a scene need? Is Florida a real place? All these questions and more will be answered as we review What Ever Happened To Susan Jane - 1982 - Marc Huestis and Twisted Issues - 1988 - Charles Pinion2021-07-121h 22
Live At The Death Factory#7 - See? Just Movie TricksThis week we talk about Luigi Cozzi's deeply, committedly deranged 1989 hallucination The Black Cat. The Black Cat is an unofficial sequel to Dario Argento's Suspiria and Inferno and, more importantly, an inescapable vortex of gobsmacking gore logic, unrepentant fake-outs and guitar-instruction-VHS metal. 2021-07-051h 37
Live At The Death Factory#6 - It’s No Crime to Enjoy ItThis week: two psychodramas about the world of sex work, each demented in distinct directions. Astrid discusses the subtext of Crimes of Passion while Sean is somehow still talking about irish television. Then we discover that Guilty Of Romance has much better politics than you'd expect from something one could plausibly describe as "a timid housewife's wild plunge into the world of sexwork...and murder!" Crimes of Passion - 1984 - Ken Russell Guilty Of Romance - 2011 - Sion Sono2021-06-282h 21
Live At The Death Factory#5 - New Atrocities In BloodThis week we cover three deeply grisly short films from Japan, listed below, that fall roughly into the Ero Guro category. What kind of transgressiveness links these films? What is a satisfying definition of Ero Guro in the first place, aside from the basic "Erotic Grotesque Nonsense"? Have you ever owned art you were reluctant to cross international borders with? What was revealed by watching a copy of A Garden Without Birds with subtitles when it seems to be commonly watched without them? How is the least explicit film the best fit for the category? Why did we watch...2021-06-211h 39
Live At The Death Factory#4 - You Either Die Or You Walk Around DeadThis week we discuss Kamikaze Hearts. Juliet Bashore’s fauxumentary essays the eventual disintegration of a romance between two porn performers, Tigr and Sharon Mitchell, on the set of a porn version of Carmen, filmed as their real life relationship was taking a similar trajectory. What counts as reality in a porn set and in a relationship? Can truth ever be reflected in a documentary? And how much will you enjoy this film if you fundamentally don't care? 2021-06-141h 40
Live At The Death Factory#3 - When I Put On My Holster I Put God Out Of My MindThis week we cover James B. Harris' Cop (1988), an adaptation of James Ellroy's Blood On The Moon. We talk about how they managed wring such an incredible film out of such terrible source material and the ways in which the film functions as an essay on what Ellroy would become. 2021-06-082h 03
Live At The Death FactoryBloodsistersThis week we cover SOV lesbian hesher vampire romance Red Lips, directed by Donald Farmer and released in 1995, discuss how it connects to Jean Rollin and name a lot of bands sure to alienate our younger listeners. 2021-05-311h 17
Live At The Death FactoryDead Men Don't RapeWe survey the currents in feminist discourse thru rape/revenge & exploitation film from 1974 to 2011. Content warning: detailed discussion of sexual assault, both specific incidents and the conditions surrounding it, throughout. Films and supporting material: https://letterboxd.com/hastapura/list/live-at-the-death-factory-episode-one-dead/ Films Featured: Rape Squad - 1974 - Bob Kelljan Lipstick - 1976 - Lamont Johnson Ladies Club - 1986 - Janet Greek Baise Moi - 2000 - Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi Twilight Portrait - 2011 - Angelina Nikonova2021-05-242h 53
Live At The Death Factoryrerun - Personal Shopper"You realize that to experience projected figures on the movie theater screen as life-size involves the reduction of your own body to the size of a doll, while with television, conversely, you must mentally blow yourself up to the size of a giant to account for the minuscule scale of figures on the small screen" - Mike Kelley2021-05-231h 45
Live At The Death Factoryrerun - Three Sex-Repulsed 80s Genre FilmsAn episode of Sean's old podcast during which he and Astrid spoke about three genre films from the early 80s that thrum with deep-seated disgust and fear of sex. This kind of thing often goes unaddressed in genre fiction criticism, aside from a “woah, weird!“ The three films are Scream For Help, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker and Incubus2021-05-231h 38
Live At The Death Factoryrerun - MandyAstrid and Sean reviewing Panos Cosmatos' Mandy (2018) on one of Sean's old podcasts.2021-05-231h 32