S01E05 - Body Horror

Published: Jan. 28, 2018, noon

Everything is squelchy and icky this week as seminal video nasty Videodrome (1983) weaves meta-commentary with Debbie Harry fantasy fulfilment. Dee learns a valuable lesson about trusting Joe when he warns against weirdness like Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989) in future. We switch from bathing in cyber-spooge to the relentless comic gore-verload of Peter Jackson’s Braindead/Dead Alive (1992). Lastly, we tiptoe around spoiling anything from Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016). Also: #PERL the cat bites Joe, binding their DNA forever. Dee name-drops H.R. Giger and runs out of “evens”. Joe is proven undeniably right. Neither of us can stomach making a game of body horror.