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In this episode we are joined by filmmaker and programmer, Craig Williams, to explore the work of arthouse auteur, Claire Denis. We discuss her graphic tale of cannibalistic lust, TROUBLE EVERY DAY (20:06), and the dark psychosexual space prison film, HIGH LIFE (01:11:35). ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Follow Craig Williams on Instagram @mondodraig Check out his film THE WYRM OF BWLCH PEN BARRAS on the fantastic folk horror boxset from Severin Films, All the Haunts Be Ours, Volume 2 And if you're in London, you can come along to Craig's monthly film night Cosmik Debris at The Nickel Cinema Listen to Lindsay's audio commentary for TROUBLE EVERY DAY on the Blu-Ray out now from Eureka Entertainment. SciFrights is hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam NEXT EPISODE: Coming in late September, our next episode will be on Italian director Elio Petri and his films THE TENTH VICTIM (1965) and A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (1967). Both films are available on DVD and to rent on streaming. Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

In this episode we are joined by Mike Muncer, host of The Evolution of Horror podcast, to discuss Danny Boyle, a director who has been working steadily across many genres. We begin by going over Boyle's career, his signature style and collaboration with writer Alex Garland (14:04), then we get into the low-res digital frenzy of 28 DAYS LATER (21:20) and his one foray into Science Fiction, the psychological solar thriller SUNSHINE (01:15:10). ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Check out Mike's new book THE EVOLUTION OF HORROR: A TERRIFYING GUIDE TO HORROR MOVIE HISTORY: https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/mike-muncer/the-evolution-of-horror/9781035427918/ SciFrights is hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

Continuing our new season on Director Double Bills, in this episode we focus on action auteur Kathryn Bigelow, exploring her 1987 vampire Western NEAR DARK (31: 57) and the 1995 cyberpunk tech-noir STRANGE DAYS (1:39:15). Joining us today to discuss these films is an incredible guest, author and academic, Professor Stacey Abbott, who wrote the BFI Classic on NEAR DARK. ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** We highly recommend checking out Stacey's book on NEAR DARK: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/near-dark-9781911239291/ SciFrights is hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

We are joined by an incredible guest, comic book artist and author, Stephen R. Bissette, to discuss one of our favourite directors, David Cronenberg! We will be focusing on two key films: first up we’ll explore how a broken marriage spawns monstrous offspring in THE BROOD (41:40), and what happens when a scientist’s self-experimentation goes terribly wrong (when does it not?) in body horror masterpiece, THE FLY (01:52:35). ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** We highly recommend Stephen's book on THE BROOD: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52562621-the-brood SciFrights is hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

Welcome to our new season, "Director Double Bills". In each episode we will focus on a filmmaker and explore two of their films, one horror and one Science Fiction. We begin the season with a big one: JC himself – John Carpenter. We are joined by film critic Travis Johnson to explore Carpenter's impact on both genres and go deep into two of his greatest works – the 1981 dystopian classic Escape from New York (35:30), followed by what many consider to be his masterpiece, 1982’s The Thing (01:33:34). ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Check out Travis's work at Blunt Magazine: https://bluntmag.com.au/author/travisjohnson/ Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

We conclude our current season on A.I. and technofear, going down the rabbit hole into the deepest reaches of cyberspace, reaching across planes of reality and into the depths of depravity. To do this, we discuss Lana and Lily Wachowski’s era-defining Sci-Fi masterpiece The Matrix, and a recent film that really blew us away, Pascal Plante’s dark psychological thriller Red Rooms (01:17:10). We end with Honourable Mentions of films (and TV shows) that further warp the boundaries between reality and the online world (02:26:50). ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

We're back from a little break with a round-up of the best of 2025. We count down our Top 10 horror and Sci-Fi films of the year, along with some other Honourable Mentions, discovered older classics, and our favourite TV shows of the year. ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

We continue our current season looking at A.I. and technofear, exploring the malevolent forces lurking in our computers and the dark (possibly haunted?) depths of cyberspace. Joining us this episode is Brogan Morris, writer, journalist, and programmer for Distorted Frame Film Club, to discuss Joseph Sargeant’s 1970 techno-thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project (12:35) and Kyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 Internet horror Pulse (01:02:34). We end with some Honourable Mentions of other films where technology is used for destructive and sinister purposes (01:58:38). Content Warning: our discussion of Pulse contains references to suicide. You can follow Distorted Frame Film Club on Instagram Bluesky Facebook ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

In this episode we discuss representations of robot children and the relationships between robots and children. Here we see examinations of how technology affects the family and ideas around parenthood and our responsibility towards both human children and our artificial creations. Is there even much difference between the two? To answer this question, we discuss Steven Spielberg's (by way of Stanley Kubrick) sci-fi fairy tale A.I. Artificial Intelligence (02:20) and B-movie horror satire M3GAN (01:17:03). We finish by listing some Honourable Mentions of other films that explore the many implications of the development of child robots (01:48:23). ***Please rate and review our podcast!*** Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

We spent our August Bank Holiday weekend at Frightfest, indulging in 5 days of non-stop horror movies. We give you a rundown on what we saw and survey some of the recurring themes we noticed (our biggest takeaways - beware of demons, witches and shamans, and always check that you don't double book that Airbnb, folks!). Films covered: Salt Along the Tongue, Five, Mother of Flies, Serpent's Skin, Dog of God, Transcending Dimensions, Redux Redux, Cogn-AI-tive, The Home, Jimmy & Stiggs, The Red Mask, Bone Lake, Daughters of Darkness, Malpertuis, The Descent, The Toxic Avenger, The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan, and The Fairy Moon. Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

In this episode we welcome our first guest, film critic Travis Johnson, to rank all six Terminator films from worst to best. We discuss what makes some of the films modern classics and why other films in the franchise get it so wrong. We explore how the films express anxieties about A.I., what makes Sarah Connor such an enduring action icon, how Arnold Schwarzenegger's performances change from film to film and try to untangle the very complicated rights issues that were happening behind-the-scenes. We also discuss how the Terminator has expanded into TV, comics, and videogames and pitch our own ideas for future films. Timecodes: Film 6 (16:57) Film 5 (30:20) Film 4 (41:30) Film 3 (57:21) Film 2 (1:10:20) Film 1 (1:23:01) Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

In this episode we discuss Liam’s most anticipated film of the year – and a film that set the box office on fire over the weekend – Zach Cregger’s Weapons. We start with a spoiler-free conversation about the film’s influences, structure, style, and scares, before getting into spoiler territory (from 24:50) going deep into the film’s villain and the societal implications of its themes. Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

This episode’s topic explores how direct relationships develop between humans and A.I., leading to questions about the nature of consciousness and the nature of love, sexuality, human emotion and bodily autonomy. Firstly we have a discussion about whether there are differences between robots and A.I. and survey some key examples of robots/A.I. throughout cinema history (01:33). Then we go on to explore one woman’s nightmare of A.I. domination in Demon Seed (24:44) and Alex Garland’s examination of human/A.I. relations (and possible robot liberation) in Ex Machina (01:01:05) . We end with some Honourable Mentions of other films about robot/computer/human relations (01:33:24). Content Warning - this episode discusses depictions of sexual assault. Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

Introducing SciFrights Bites - a shorter episode where we discuss a recent cinema release. In this episode we explore 28 Years Later, the latest film in a series that was groundbreaking in its use of digital technology. We look back on the legacy of 28 Days Later (02:00) and 28 Weeks Later (17:08) - including the burning question: are these zombie films? - before diving into 28 Years Later (20:50). We start by giving our thoughts on the visual style and the general ways that it comments on our current times and expands the series mythology. Then we get into spoiler territory (39:01), going deep into the film's thematic elements and speculate on what could be coming up in future installments. Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd

We begin our new season by focusing on just one film (which just happens to be Liam's favourite film): Stanley Kubrick's monumental masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. Firstly though we have a catch up on some really exciting things that have been happening (01;12), explain what our new season is all about (08:18), and then get stuck right into our main feature (10:50). We thought given that we had only one film to discuss that this would be a shorter episode, but we were wrong about that! There is so much to unpack with this film, so consider this the deepest of dives - into the infinite and beyond. Hosted, produced, and edited by Liam Dunn and Lindsay Hallam Music composed and performed by Damo Alexander and Rosie Gilbey Artwork by Millie Hallam Visit our website: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on: Instagram Facebook Bluesky Letterboxd