I Didn’t Need To See That

This week on the pod, Lock your doors, call the doctor and deck the halls because we’re celebrating Christmas on Halloween with our coverage of the holiday home invasion movie in 2007’s “Inside”. Join us; two men,  discussing the mother of all pregnancy horror films. The most feminist, most extreme, and most French of films. As this marks our latest venturing into the pantheon of French Extremity films, we revel in this films efficiency and, even for the genre, bleakness and meanness as what separates it from all it’s peers we’ve covered not he pod like Martyrs, High Tension and Irreversible. But more than just a brutal and gory film, this one actually has the juice to scare the shit out of you. It’s a home invasion film that invades the safest space of all, leaving no room to take a breath for 90 minutes. Plus, sick kids and drilled out dads, Police that really need to be calling for backup, and Pete’s biggest gripe about Gilmore Girls. No-one should be home alone this holiday season on this weeks episode of I Didn’t Need To See That!Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, Look out for frogs, watch out for people wandering in the road and for the love of god, don’t check on the sexual grunts coming form your parents bedroom because we’re going to hell! Join us as we watched the 2015 Turkish surreal horror film “Baskin” and try unsuccessfully to make sense of this hodgepodge of a film. While we do like aspects of this film in more of a “Parts are better than the Sum of the parts” viewing; loose narrative threads and a movie torn between just wanting to be two different films left us with a weird taste in our mouths by the end. When it goes for something like “Hellraiser meets House of 1000 Corpses” in its extreme gore segments, the movies a hell of a good and nasty time! All to often though these moments are cut short by what we dub the “Memory Palace”, surreal moments that try a bit to hard to introduce threads that don’t fully pay off. Plus, discussions on how to pick a perfect end credits song for this movie, How much anime is TOO much Anime, and Aaron learns of the cultural touchstone for Tiny Tim’s “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”. All this and more on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, we’re packing the car and heading into the mountains for a quiet, secluded little getaway that takes a hard left turn real fast as we watched the 1978 cult classic “I Spit On Your Grave”. Join us as we discuss one of the origin films to coin the term “Video Nasty”, and boy does it deserve that title. Whether it’s the audience watching the film, or the cast and crew on the brutal making of this film, noone comes out of these film feeling good about themselves. While the film does produce one of horrors most memorable survivors in the “Rape and Revenge” (and boy does that Revenge part feel good), we can’t help but wonder through all of director, writer, producer Meir Zarchi’s good intentions to show this story through a feminist lens, just how far can that really go both coming from a male lens and through the level of brutality on display over and over again in this film. Even for this podcast, it’s a bit much. Plus, the porn look of everybody from the 70’s, imagining Kenny Powers and Stevie Little in nearly every frame of this film, and the embarrassment of ED. All this and more on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

On this weeks episode of the pod, brush up on your code language, find anything you can make a weapon and most definitely do NOT go back for your phone as we watched the 2015 thriller - horror film, “Green Room”. Join us as we discuss just how much research went into this movie by director and writer Jeremy Saulnier to ensure it passed the “Is it Punk enough?” Test. From pulling on his days in hardcore bands, to using his own bands songs in the film this movie puts you right in the crusty, white supremacist filled basements to a downright uncomfortable level. And that’s before all the visceral machete violence begins. Plus, we discuss aging as a man who doesn’t watch sports, tales of the crappy college band shows of yore, and honestly how much are nazis just a bunch of fucking fascist fashion nerds? This and more on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, we’re traveling back in time and heading west to soak up all the cocaine, booze and tits that 1988 LA has to offer as we watched the documentary “The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years”. While admittedly neither of us are that impacted by the genre of hair metal (Let alone alive at the time to bask in it’s scarf and leather laden glory), you still can’t help but admire the sparkle in the eyes of the young musicians and fans at the center of this film all doing their damndest to express themselves and follow their dreams. Join us as we marvel at what a mixed bag of characters this subculture at the center of this film appears to be. While at times the 80’s metal scene comes across as a place of rampant misogyny, unreported sexual assaults, alcohol abuse and bands that all sound the same; what does eek through is the genuine passion and an earnest “go for broke” mentality that sits in the spirit of everyone involved in this film. Sure, some are in it for the girls, the money, the fame; but in between the debt, divorces and broken dreams, for 25 minutes on stage each night, these people are gods. Plus, concert regrets, debating whether we’d go vegan or decaf first, and God Bless Lemmy. Are you ready to Rock, on this weeks Episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, we pay a tribute to the late, great actor Sam Neil with one of his earlier roles in the absolutely batshit 1981 psychological Horror film, Obsession! Err… we mean, “Possession”. Join us as we watch a film that swings for the fences in every way, shape and from. Whether it’s the darkly manipulative and violent performance from Sam Neil, the flamboyant and scene stealing Heinz Bennet, and of course, the sanity breaking, mind bending, maniacal display from Isabelle Adjani, this movie is a literal tour de force. Oh, and did we mention that’s all before the monster fucking starts? Plus, discussions on the “evil woman” narrative, are those thoughts real or are you just too high? And one very sad child named Bob. All this and More on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, we’re trying something new as we venture away from the theater of the absurd into real life absurdity, genius and downright perversion as we watched the 1994 documentary “Crumb”. Join us as we learn (some of us for the first time) about the life and work of cartoonist Robert Crumb in the acclaimed documentary following his family and life leading up to his move to France in 1991. At the Intersection of Robert Crumb we find many things, from the story of a seemingly neurodivergent  channeling his talent to create something only he can, a family in the grips of mental illness and both sexual and personal repression, and a man who’s simply plagued by his hatred and love of women. So listen in as we make a mess, talk about art, sex and life in only the way that a 2 degenerates know how. This ones for the freaks out there on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, the boys are leathering up and heading to the seedy part of town as celebrate Pride month with a truly divisive film amongst the gay community in William Friedkin’s 1980 crime thriller; “Cruising”. Join us as we talk about this films complicated history, a film that Friedkin didn’t even seem to make, but my god if he was going to do it, it was going to be the most graphic depiction of the gay leather scene in 1980 that he could make. Unfortunately however his true vision is laid to waste as the MPAA struck yet again, knocking a whopping 40 minutes of graphic material off Friedkins cut to get this film to an R rating; footage that has been lost to the sands of time… or locked somewhere in a former United Artists rep’s closet. But smut aside, while Cruising has had a rough history of at first being admonished and shunned by the community it portrayed a small portion of, today Cruising serves as a relic of time. A community that banned together and fought for their own survival. It’s sleepy, messy and full of arms in places they aren’t native to. (Was that a serial killer pun or a fisting pun? I’ll leave that to you to figure out). All this and more on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod

This week on the pod, shed your earthy belongings, cut your hair and read up on the Tarot as we conclude our trilogy of Jordorowksy films with his most uncompromising, visually stunning and batshit insane film with his magnum opus of surrealism in 1973’s “The Holy Mountain”. Join us as we embark on one of the most divisive films as watched by this podcast. Who knew, after countless crimes against humanity witnessed among friends, a line could be drawn over something like Tarot? The Holy Mountain is a film that goes on a journey whether you’re with it or not. A fully uncompromising vision of Director, writer, producer, costume and production designer Alejandro Jordorowsky; the film is an amalgamation of all things central to his beliefs. Art, life, politics, magic, surrealism. It’s a film with so much happening its narrative is often overwhelmed by its visuals. Or, maybe it’s just wacky as shit. Can’t it be both? Plus, the intersection of Jordorowsky and the Beatles, guerrilla filmmaking being taken to new heights; literally, and Pete tries to sell Aaron on the legitimacy of Tarot. Does he succeed? Find out, on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need To See That!” Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod 

This week on the pod, we celebrate Aarons birthday by journeying back to a simpler time, possibly to the very moment that signaled the end of an era as we know it: The weirdly horny 90’s comedy. Channel your inner darkness into something beautiful with us, as we journey Into the Bone-Zone… or “Down Town” as the movie calls it, with 2001’s “Monkeybone”. For a movie that flopped hard at the box office (So hard we actually remember the news being as young as we were in 2001), there’s actually a lot of really bold and inventive things here on display. Pulling from Influences like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and “Beetlejuice”, Monkeybone swings for the fences with it’s incredibly laborious combination of Live action, stop motion and practical effects on display. Though all that attention paid to the effects seems sorely lacking in the script department, with characters that feel underdeveloped and a plot that just sort of happens at you, and a struggle in balancing the dark/comedic tones in the film. Plus, Aaron reflects fondly on the last positive memory before the towers fell, reminiscing on a cast full of household names that seemed to all vanish after this movie, and just what exactly did this movie awaken in the two of us? Find out on this weeks episode of “I Didn’t Need to See That!Follow us: Email: [email protected]: @Ididntneedtoseethatpod