Marvelous! or The Death of Cinema

In 2014 a weird Christian guy made a videogame about spending the night with scary haunted animatronics. What followed was a cultural sensation, with a boatload of sequels and an increasingly weird and esoteric lore. Did you know that the animatronics are concealing the corpses of murdered children? Do you know about Golden Freddy? Did they somehow succeed at fitting this all into a Blumhouse movie? Follow along as Cole, with the help of our Discord community, leads us on a journey into lore, madness, and child murder. Also we talk about the movie.

An extra special thanks to our $10-tier Executive Producers: Terri Edwards-Nixon, Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, Ronny Gardocki and Owen2.

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A sample from our discussion of Gore Verbinski's The Ring, the American remake of the 1998 Japanese film 'Ring', the first of a wave of such remakes and the only one that's any good. 

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Atomic Horror month concludes on Marvelous! with the most recent and so-far most lucrative Godzilla movie of all time: Godzilla Minus One. Champion fourth mic Seqarts joins us to discuss the reasons for the films massive success, its flaws and virtues, where it fits into the wider canon, discuss its political themes and to explore the the prismatic ways in which it reflects the various concerns, anxieties and narratives of Japanese culture past and present. 

An extra special thanks to our $10 Executive Producers: Luke P, JetChiclete, GalaxyPeaBrain, squishward, JayJeffrey, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Tropical Doves, jprestonpoole, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2.

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A sample from our newly released Patreon episode on Ishiro Honda's original 1954 film "Godzilla".

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For our movie and MCU news catch-up bonus episode, Cole reads out the leaked Avengers: Doomsday plot synopsis to Nicole and Stu. Nicole reacts very, very badly.

 

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