Eastern Promises (2007)
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that David Cronenberg directed a Christmas movie? It's kinda bleak and insanely brutal, but Eastern Promises (2007) is totally a holiday movie, as long as you're okay with your holiday movies having a naked knife fight, multiple slit throats, and a gang of ruthless Russian mobsters.
On this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon dissect what some might consider the best (and least f*cked-up!) movie of David Cronenberg's career. Eastern Promises is not for the faint of heart but also, if you ask Kim, features a romance for the ages between Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen as a slick bad guy stud muffin with metal AF tattoos. Join ussssss
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello again, fiends, and welcome back to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm John. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:35.1 | And today we're talking about a movie, truly, for the casuallyually Obsessed, from a master of horror in one of his more normal movies. |
| 0:43.1 | But a Christmas movie, if you're into really gory movies that are tangentially Christmas. |
| 0:50.4 | This is maybe as timely as we've ever been because we're kind of in that sweet spot between American Thanksgiving and everyone's Christmas. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | Where this, this is a film about family. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh, God. |
| 1:02.4 | And getting together and dealing with your family problems. |
| 1:07.1 | You think your family's got problems. |
| 1:08.2 | Like illegitimate children. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, boy. |
| 1:10.6 | And nosy, busy |
| 1:11.9 | body. That is putting it very lightly. Today we're talking about David Cronenberg's Eastern |
| 1:16.9 | promises, one of his best, truly, and also one of his most normal movies. This is from that era |
| 1:23.8 | of David Cronenberg movies where nobody nobody was talking about flesh nobody was getting new |
| 1:29.7 | organs this is just we're just dealing with weirdos and crime families and yeah eastern promises |
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