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Same Log embarks on Spooktober 2026 with a look at Robert Wise's 1963 masterpiece The Haunting, the first and best adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic novel The Haunting of Hill House. An unnerving, moving movie that influenced all subsequent supernatural cinema.

The neurotic, ill-assorted, misfit Same Log crew re-embark upon our tatty, workaday, grimdark 90s space ship, bringing all our personal demons with us, and voyage to the outer reaches of the solar system in search of the derelict hulk that is 1997's Event Horizon. Partly to honour the recently passe

After we finished discussing Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep, George Lea and I kept talking for about an hour.

George Lea and I take a break from Baltimore, Maryland and head back to Arkham, Massachusetts, where we encounter H.P. Lovecraft's surprising late tale The Thing on the Doorstep. This is a fast and entertaining read with some very surprising subject matter for old HPL... a gory horror crime story fe

George Lea and I convene for another Lovecraft Retrospective (which I'll file here as a Same Log, despite the sad lack of Elliot) to talk about H.P. Lovecraft's strange, neglected, undervalued, late masterpiece The Shadow Out of Time. For my money, this bizarre and ominous tale of mental time travel

Talking about an amazing novel with an amazing friend.

The Same Log gang reconvene to discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone - a 'perfect' movie according to me and still horribly relevant.

Daniel and I continue our new theme (movies about Popes) with an unexpected consideration of 1968's MGM release The Shoes of the Fisherman, a now largely forgotten and self-consciously prestigious Cold War / Papacy drama. Anthony Quinn plays a saintly Russian dissident who stumbles bass-ackwards ont

For this bonus episode, we are honoured and delighted to be joined by our friend, our homie, our bro, our cru-member, classy actorly thespian Elliot Chapman (familiar to my listeners from Not the Same Log, Hannibal Digested, and various other collaborations with me) to discuss Don Siegel's grimy, fa

Our 'movies about presidents' series continues (probably for four more years) with a much better movie this time. 1993's Wolfgang Peterson joint In the Line of Fire, featuring Clint Eastwood again (are we... doing a Clint Eastwood season now?) as jaded old Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, vetera

Our series on 'movies about presidents' continues with a fun discussion of this 1997 'thriller', written by legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman based on the debut novel of David Baldacci, starring/produced/directed by noted chair-interviewer Clint Eastwood, and boasting a splendid cast

I'm back with Daniel and Elliot to chat about the original, the inimitable, the genre-transforming movie, Hellraiser, 1986, written and directed by Clive Barker.

I reconvene with George & Elliot for our belated Christmas / New Years celebration, a discussion of Roger Corman's masterpiece, 1964's The Masque of the Red Death, an adaptation of about four different Poe stories and Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Sade's 120 Days of Sodom. A gorgeous and spe

Big episode about a big movie, 1974's BBC television film masterpiece Penda's Fen, written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke. Have a good end of 2024 / start of 2025 everyone.

Spooktober 3: Folk Horror (or Folktober, if you insist) continues. Elliot Chapman, George Daniel Lea, and myself, dance and frolic in home-made costumes to keep our appointment with The Wicker Man, Anthony Shaffer's and Robin Hardy's brilliant, bizarre, hilarious, terrifying, and ferociously materia

George Daniel Lea, Elliot Chapman, and I, discuss another film in our Folk Horror series, and oh yeah this is one of the big ones. We're tackling one third of the now canonical 1970s British 'Folk Horror Trilogy', Piers Haggard and Robert Wynne-Simmons' frail behemoth Blood on Satan's Claw (Tigon, 1

Continuing our election-year series of episodes looking at movies about Presidents, Daniel and I chat about 1996's biggest movie, alien-invasion effects-spectacular Independence Day, a sprawling SF comedy about incalculable mass murder and the genocide of humanity. Bill Pullman looks decent, Will Sm

The next bit. Hannibal gets really evil. And then gets bested.

Hannibal digests some more. Season 2 starts firing on all cylinders. Sakizuke is (if you ask me) the new Best Episode So Far. And Hassun is pretty good too.

In a very enjoyable episode, Daniel and I continue our series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President

We begin our celebration of America's months-long presidential election with the first in a projected series on movies about the US President. In this edition, we look at 1997's Air Force One, in which President Harrison Ford wages a one-man, definitely not Die Hard-esque in any way campaign of non-

Another one from the archives. The WWA gang tackle nazi swine Mel Gibson's ludicrous 1995 cheesefest Braveheart.

We finally get to the end of Season 1... and begin Season 2.

Daniel and I discuss Christopher Nolan's 2023 biopic Oppenheimer. You see nothing of what the bomb did in the movie so I thought I'd make it the image for this post. Shaun's video on the use of the atomic bomb: https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go?si=GVXVLcNLsiUSslSG My own essay Fatherlands, which seems re

Elliot Chapman, George Daniel Lea, and I, return to Baltimore to check back in with Dr Hannibal Lecter, his wacky friends, and their zany antics. You, my patrons, get exclusive advance access to this episode before it goes up at YouTube.

In a very special event-podcast prompted by the recent death of the brilliant Carl Weathers, I organised a 'big meet-up' episode in which I put together a crack team of my fellow battle-hardened macho warriors, all of whom I love in a very manly way - Elliot Chapman, George Daniel Lea, James Slater

The Same Log team's diversion for Spooktober finally ends, only 3 months and a week after Halloween. But we're going out with a bang, talking about Ari Aster's breakout 2018 masterpiece of modern Horror, Hereditary, in which the occult (hidden) and exploitative nature of the bourgeois nuclear family

Featuring a discussion of our hiatus, our return, our separate but similar journeys to IDSG, the last few years in general, the basis of the fascist movement, some appreciation of work by others including YouTubers Hbomberguy and Dan Olsen, ideas for the show going forward, and some Cantwell News...

The Same Log team - myself, Hellraiser bluray boxset star George Lea, and the consensus greatest stage Sherlock Holmes Elliot Chapman - return for New Years with a very seasonally appropriate look at John Carpenter's Halloween from 1978. The very definition of a film for which no introduction or exp

Elliot, George, and - after a delay - myself consider David Lynch's despised and adored masterpiece Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, a film as surreal as reality, a Horror film because the world is horror, a text which calculatedly destroys its own context, an uncanny investigation of a world made of

"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois..." In a few hundred brisk but bristling words, written just after Hitler's assumption of power in Germany, Trotsky displays his characteristic panache in analysin

George, Elliot, and myself chat about John Carpenter's strange, unique, ominous, thoughtful, undervalued masterpiece Prince of Darkness from 1987. As usual, we get into lots of digressions which you'll hopefully find interesting. This is not a dream. (It's a podcast.)

An exclusive for my patrons. Another little audiobook, in which I read the 20th century Italian Marxist Ignazio Silone's crystalline delineation of fascism from a book he published in 1934. Silone, more famous for the anti-fascist novels Bread and Wine and Fontamara, was a co-founder of the Italian

We're putting Hannibal Digested onto hiatus for a month and doing another Halloween season of four movies through October. Segueing back via Michael Mann's Manhunter from 1986, the first movie to feature Hannibal. We all have complex thoughts about this movie, which makes for an interesting discussi

We're back, both of us, with a bonus episode to carefully dip our toes back in the brackish, fetid waters of IDSG. In this episode we talk about In Cold Blood - Truman Capote's book, the 1967 film, the two movies about Capote writing the book, and some other stuff, including alternate theories of th

As the series kicks into high gear, so does our humble podcast. In Sorbet, we see Hannibal inspired and hunting for the ingredients for a banquet. In Fromage, Hannibal makes a new friend, and isn't happy about it. A really fun discussion about two extraordinary episodes of an extraordinary show with

Here's one from the vaults, an old episode of now-defunct but fondly remembered podcast Wrong with Authority, featuring myself, Daniel, and our friends James Murphy and Kit Power. On the show, we discussed movies about history and the history they're about, each of us taking turns to host and choose

The meal continues. Two more courses.

George, Echo, and myself, chat about the atypical Lovecraft tale In The Walls of Eryx... George Lea asked me to join him and our mutual friend Echo on an episode of George's running series of Lovecraft Retrospectives, and asked me to chose the story we'd be talking about. I had no hesitation naming

Hey patrons, here's your exclusive advance access to the next episode of Hannibal Digested, in which I go through every episode of the bizarrely wonderful, gruesome, gothic, hallucinatory, literary TV show Hannibal in the incomparable company of erudite bastards George Daniel Lea and Elliot Chapman.

As promised, here's the first part of the new collaboration between myself, the toothsome George Daniel Lea, and the frankly mouthwatering Elliot Chapman. In this inaugural episode of Hannibal Digested (after last time's preparatory chat about all things lecterian) we look at episodes 1.1 Apéritif &

We're back. Daniel and I reconvene for a chat about the coronation of Prince Charles (I know what I mean - listen to the episode) and the defenestration of Tucker Carlson. We also talk a little bit about our recent hiatus, and our imminent return to regular production of episodes. Enjoy!

So, the next stage in the journey for myself, Elliot Chapman, and George Daniel Lea is a podcast series in which we go through the entire Hannibal TV series. That's the plan anyway. As with all our previous discussions, the shows will go up at George's YouTube channel but you, my dear patrons, will

Dur-dum. Dur-dum. Dum-dum dum-dum dum-dum dum-dum DUM-dum-dum-dum DUM-dum-dum-dum and so on. Join myself, Kit Power and Elliot Chapman below decks for a great white chat about a great white movie. Patrons wade in first - the mayor insisted.

George Daniel Lea and I reconvene for a follow-up to our episode about the first two Poltergeist movies. This time we talk about the underrated Poltergeist III and the deservedly forgotten 2015 Poltergeist remake. If the first episode in this series was unrelentingly positive, this one is more ambig

George and I take a look at the original Poltergeist and the first sequel. Elliot sits this one out but don't worry - he'll be back. He and I are tentatively planning a little podcast project for later this year. As my beloved patrons, you get this episode in advance of publication at George's YouTu

Daniel and I had an impromptu chat one night, accidentally recorded it, and decided that - a few edits later - it would stand up as a bonus episode. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, Daniel and I might do more bonus episodes without a set topic, just us shooting the breeze.

Daniel and I cast our eyes over 1985's Real Genius, a wacky teen college-antics sex comedy about, um, defeating the military industrial complex? Have I got that right? Beloved of Daniel since childhood, this is the first time I'm seeing it. So. Interesting.

Our quest to talk about every naff blokey movie from the 80s and 90s continues with this classic bit of homoerotic copaganda murder porn starring Danny Glover and a Nazi.

Yes.