Christmas may always be the season of sap and treacle, but there’s no reason to suffer through boring, trite entertainment just to be thematically appropriate. Veronica delves into Red Christmas, Better Watch Out and Christmas Evil.

On this festive Hoser Horror episode of Notes from the Back Row, Carlo and Dan zip up their snowpants and lace their boots in order to discuss Ghostkeeper and Curtains.

London Fields and Cloud Atlas aren’t horrible films, they’re just poor adaptations. Veronica takes a look at how that could be in part II of Back Row Book Club’s look at unfilmable books.

Carlo & Jenna once again indulge in a big ol’ bowl of classic Japanese cinema with this in-depth look at the life and career of director Juzo Itami, along with his collaborator and wife Nobuko Miyamoto. Mmmmm, umami!

Veronica takes a look at whether it’s the books that are unfilmable or if the movie is just unwatchable. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with the details and everything to do with capturing the big picture.

Carlo and Dan take a mind-melting turn down the back-alley of Canadian pseudo-rip-offs Cathy’s Curse and Things!

What do Shia LaBeouf, Joanna Hogg and Pedro Almodovar all have in common? Their latest films prove they are all students of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic–a shamanic psychotherapy that helps to heal the soul through poetic expression.

Paul Corupe joins Dan & Carlo to discuss how he became interested in Canadian cult movies and what exactly led him to create his website Canuxploitation back in the late-nineties.

Veronica interviews filmmaker Anja Murmann on her upcoming film Unintended–about a woman who has repressed a memory of murder for so long that it begins to drive her insane.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what about parody? Specifically for horror, spoofs work better when the movie (or movies) in reference is respected. Such is the case for Psycho Beach Party, Saturday the 14th and Silence of the Hams.

Jenna joins Dan and Carlo on Hoser Horror to discuss two Canadian horror movies from the 1970s: Deranged (1974) and The Uncanny (1977).

Liberté is as much about human nature versus society as it is about tongue versus butt. Albert Serra casts the audience in the role of the vouyer, using the act of observation as a meta commentary on nature, pleasure and freedom.

On the latest Hoser Horror episode of Notes from the Back Row, Dan and Carlo dive into the seminal kid-horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark?

This episode of Notes from the Back Row’s Hoser Horror finds Dan and Carlo watching Watchers and The Gate with two very good boys: Furface and Angus!

People often talk about the 80’s as the golden age of schlock (and they’re 100% right), but Carlo will always look back at the 2000s as a time when his interest in cinema hit an all-time low. This season, give her… trash!

This time on another Hoser Horror episode of Notes from the Back Row, Carlo and Dan watch a double-feature of Canadian horror films featuring the one, the only: Jon Mikl Thor.

In the spirit of the Halloween season, Dan’s whipped up some recommendations for alternative horror picks to slide into your rotation with the regular year-after-year classics we all know and love.

James Gray takes the vacuum of space–including your lofty and high-minded expectations of space movies–and plugs it all up with self-help books about learning to love yourself. Cue Whitney Houston!

Jenna and Veronica discuss Robert Sellers' book Hellraisers–a biography about Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Richard Burton and Oliver Reed–and how the legacies of these four legendary drunks fit in with our modern societal standards.

In the latest Hoser Horror, it’s a duet of movies by William Fruet: the snake/telepathy thriller of Spasms (1983), and the sci-fi throwback with a modern twist that is Blue Monkey (1987).