Welcome back to our interview with Nikolas Schreck. Last week we delved into our guests formative years, experiences and the making and enduring legacy of his documentary Charles Manson Superstar. This week we discuss a host of other topics, including his connection with acclaimed filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, his efforts in producing Christopher Lee’s debut album, his book The Satanic Screen, his acting roles in Mortuary Academy & Blade Runner as well as his upcoming...

We welcome artist Nikolas Schreck onto our latest episode - which will be a 2 parter . In this weeks ep, Nikolas relays us stories of his formative years and his invitation into the world of esotericism. And ultimately, how those formative year drove him to befriend, and ultimately make the documentary Charles Manson Superstar. Nikolas also talks of being caught up in the hysteria of the 80s Satanic panic as leader of the rock band Radio Werewolf, and husband of the daughter of the founder...

For 75 episodes now, we've done our best to spotlight to many gems of the cinematic world, be they obscure hidden treasures or well-known masterpieces. But for episode 76, we're going the other way. We're going to take a look at a few films that our followers have called their most disliked. We put up a few polls, collated the results and whittled the list down to 4. This week, we're discussing the films thatg came 4th and 3rd, and then at sometime soon in the future, we'll subject ourselves...

We're back for our first episode of 2024, and we're back with one of the most controversial mainstream Hollywood film since its release. In an episode that discusses the myriad of topics and issues surrounding Natural Born Killers - the Tarantino/Stone feud. The films attack on the sensationalist media reporting of the time such as the O.J Simpson and Menendez Brothers trials and much !

Welcome dear listeners to our final episode of 2023, and since we’re releasing it between Christmas and New Year, we’ve decided to make it extra special by covering a film from each of these holidays. For Christmas, were checking out a festive psychological horror from 2019, I Trapped The Devil, a film that does more or less what it says on the tin. As well as our customary deep dive, we’ll also be having a little fun with the theme of Christmas in cinema, including a chat on what exactly...

For our latest episode we are joined by luchador and Troma horror host Gringo Fantastico(@realfantastico) as he brings IFWT John Carpenter's religious shocker Prince of Darkness - a film that would reunite Carpenter with Donald Pleasance. Expect an episode that delves into our guests wrestling past, working for Lloyd kauffman as host of a Troma horror show. Also, expect a bountiful of conversation about all things John Carpenter and where we all stand with the Halloween franchise!

Well, it’s finally come to this. In Film We Trust, formerly a podcast of repute and family friendly entertainment, is plunging the very depths of depravity and degradation. We’ve covered Taxidermia, Threads, Scum, the French Extremity Movement and even dedicated an entire month to examining the Video Nasty craze. But compared to the movie we’re covering today, these films barely even scratch the surface when it comes to disturbing content. This movie is on a whole other level of violence and...

In this weeks episode we bring you Author Coy Hall, who have brought us his favourite horror movie of all time, The Black Cat. Sourced from Edgar Allen Poe's original short story, The Black Cat has gone through many adaptations ranging from Sergio Martino's Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, to Fulci's The Black Cat. But how faithful exactly is Ulmer's '34 adaptation? Well, that is to be decided, in an episode that ranges from topics such as the themes of the film all the...

For episode 70 of In Film We Trust, we’re welcoming on another special guest: Felicia of the Seeing Faces In Movies Podcast, who is entrusting us with the task of deep diving her favourite film of all time, The Swimmer (1968). Released on the cusp of the New Wave movement that would come to define the following decade’s cinematic output, it stars Burt Lancaster, owner of one of Hollywood’s most famous smiles, as a man deciding to swim home via the various pools of his well-to-do...

This week we welcome Dan Epstein onto the episode to discuss Walter Hill's cult action classic, The Warriors. And as Dan is a connoisseur of all things 70s, pop-culture and baseball, he relays to us a plethora of interesting anecdotes, such as Dock Ellis' no-hitter, NY in the 70s, his love of The Warriors and much more! Dan Epstein is a journalist, writer and author who has spent 30 years covering music, film and other strands of popular culture for the likes of Rolling Stone, Revolver, The...

With October drawing to a close, we’re rapidly approaching the most exciting time of the year for gore hounds, exploitation enthusiasts and jump scare junkies: Halloween. Last year we looked at Tim Buton’s quirky black comedy Beetlejuice. This year, we’re going a little darker. We’re taking a trip to Japan to deep dive the film that helped to usher in the New Asian Cinema Movement, as well as bringing J-Horror to international attention. Ring was released way back in 1998, but it’s timeless...

As we continue our spooky October, we are joined by Benjamin Vargas from the podcast Cinema Shitshow. As is customary, at this point, with our guest episodes, our guest is just as important as the film we discuss. And in this wide ranging episode we dive into the New French Extremity Movement, the state of contemporary film, Benjamin's formative film experiences and, somehow, within all this, we manage to find time to discuss the French home invasion horror ils(Them). You can find the...

Released in 1977, 4 years after its legendary predecessor, Exorcist 2: The Heretic failed to make anywhere near the same impression, and the cast, crew and even the director himself have spoken out against it. But some people, including our guest for this episode, believe it to be an unfairly maligned piece of genre brilliance. It’s been called the worst film ever made by various people and publications, but does it really deserve such a reputation? Well, that’s what we’re (hopefully) going...

In this episode, rather than our usual deep dives delving into a specific film, we are in conversation with independent Scottish filmmaker David Wilde. Whilst Wilde may not be a household name within the film community, he has build an over two decade long career in the independent realm. With his debut feature Pasty Faces taking him over the Atlantic as he shot in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In this episode he proves a great raconteur, bringing us stories of his experiences within the...

As spooky season approaches, our thoughts turn towards the murderous and the macabre, and so what better way to lead into October than with one of the most acclaimed slasher films of all time, one that many people say kickstarted the subgenre: Black Christmas. 4 years before John Carpenter’s Halloween initiated a horror revolution, a little Canadian film following a group of students in a sorority house being targeted by a deranged killer was already creating the blueprint for what would...

Detroit is a city on the verge of collapse. Crime is skyrocketing, the economy has plummeted, resources are scarce and internal corruption is running rampant. In a last-ditch attempt to save itself, the city has allowed mega-corporation OCP to run the city’s Police force with the hopes of bringing things under control. When a local cop is gunned down in the line of action, rather than mourning his loss, the company decides to bring him back to life and turn what’s left of him into a...

We may be fully grown and mature adults here at In Film We Trust, or so we’d like to believe, but this week we’re packing up our pencil cases, lunch boxes and textbooks and going back to school. 187 is a film from the 90s that you may have never heard of. Bombing at the box office and receiving poor reviews from critics, it’s gone through something of a reappraisal, and some consider it to be an unjustly overlooked classic, a searing indictment of the American education system and how it...

We're back on home shores and back to folk horror as we discuss Mark Jenkin's sophomoric feature film Enys Men. We also discuss his debut feature Bait that straddles the other worldly and British kitchen sink tradition.

It seems like only yesterday we were covering Peter Jackson’s delightfully twisted directorial debut Bad Taste, and we had so much fun doing it that our next trip to New Zealand was inevitable. This time we’re venturing back to 1977, the tail end of the cinematic New Wave moment that produced some of the industries most acclaimed directors. Over in NZ however, their cinema boom was just getting started, precipitated by a little flick called Sleeping Dogs. A tale of one man’s quest to survive...

We're heading back to 2010 to explore Richard Ayoade's directorial feature debut Submarine. A British comedy-drama that is both singular, yet manages to effectively riff on its influences, such as Billy Liar, Harold and Maude and films of the French New Wave.

57 episodes in our back catalogue and we’ve never covered a David Cronenberg film yet. I know, we’re just as surprised as you are! So this week we’re rectifying that injustice by taking a look at one of his lesser regarded movies, but perhaps his most personal. The Brood was borne out of difficult circumstances, namely a painful divorce and child custody battle, elements which Cronenberg explores in his own, twisted way. Frank & Nola Carveth are separating, and their daughter Candice is...

In 1997 Satoshi Kon would make his directorial debut with the Hitchockian anime Perfect Blue. Mima, our protagonist, is an Idol singer, who attemps to break out into acting. Little does she know, she has caught the attention of a crazed fan - but who exactly is this fan? Kon's Perfect Blue deals with many themes that draw parrells to contemporary society and our collective fears - the nature of identity, celebrity fandom and what it means to be an artist. These themes proved to be a...

Way down in the streets of LA. There’s a fella called Rudy, things ain’t going his way. He works in a store so he can make a little money. He cracks a few jokes, but nobody think they’re funny. Ok, enough of that! Eddie Murphy has had many ups and downs throughout his career, but in 2019, after a brief hiatus, he returned to the big screen with the sensational Dolemite Is My Name. Written by the masters of the anti-biopic, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and directed by Craig...

Sam Peckinpah never shied away from controversy, whether it be The Wild Bunch, that garnered him the name 'Bloody Sam' or the English-set Straw Dogs. But in 1974 he would make what is arguably his most personal film, starring Peckinpah regular Warren Oates - Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia. Peckinpah would head to Mexico, work with a largely Mexican crew, while dealing with rampant alcoholism and away from studio interference, and make a stark, bleak and blackly comic film. In this...

While his name might not be as readily recalled as the likes of Mike Leigh or Ken Loach, Alan Clarke is an important figure in the cinematic world of social realism, and today we’re taking a deep dive into one of his most acclaimed, and controversial projects: Scum. Banned, censored and excoriated by the uptight establishment at the time and condemned by the patron saint of killjoys, Mary Whitehouse, it’s now rightfully regarded as a cult classic. Carlin, played by a young Ray Winstone,...