Ep. 526 - Midsommar (GUEST: Valerie Complex)

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4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Devindra witnesses Face/Off live on stage while David discusses the HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die. For the feature review, the cast is joined by Valerie Complex to review Midsommar, the latest film by director Ari Aster. Tune in to hear how sun-soaked imageries can manage to be completely terrifying.

Read Valerie’s writing on overused queer movie troupes and on harmful LGBTQ representations in film.

Check out Jeff Cannata’s D&D show Dungeon Run. Listen to David’s other podcast Write Along with writer C. Robert Cargill Devindra's new podcast Know More Tech, answering your question on the latest gadgets. Subscribe to David's Youtube channel at Davechensky.

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What We’ve been Watching (~9:00)

David - I Love You, Now Die

Devindra - Cage in the Park, From the Earth to the Moon

Feature (~31:00)

Spoilers (~55:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Film Test.
0:23.0	I am David Chen and joining me today is...
0:26.0	It's just the two of us, David, just you and me.
0:30.0	The two dude Reno.
0:32.0	As a song goes, I don't know the rest of the lyrics, but just imagine that playing throughout this episode.
0:37.0	Yeah, just the two of us. Now, you might ask why are there only two people on this episode of the podcast?
0:43.0	And that is because on today's episode of the Slash Film Test, we are going to be reviewing Ari Astor's new movie, Mid-Summer, with Valerie Complex.
0:51.0	Really grateful to her for joining us on today's review portion of the episode.
0:56.0	And when Jeff Kanata found out that we were going to be reviewing Mid-Summer, he said,
1:02.0	Hey, can I please not watch this movie?
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	And I thought that was a pretty reasonable reaction.
1:08.0	We actually just heard footsteps running away in just car driving away while we were all recording.
1:13.0	That's what happened.
1:14.0	Yeah.
1:15.0	And I do not begrudge anyone for not wanting to see Mid-Summer, because it is...
1:21.0	I think even people who like the movie would agree that it is a grueling experience.
1:26.0	It is two and a half hours long, and filled with some of the most brutal imagery I've seen in quite some time in a horror film.
1:34.0	So...
1:35.0	Fun date movie.
1:36.0	Yeah.
1:37.0	Yeah, it did someone tweet at us to be interesting that they saw it as a date...
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