Pleasers & Punishers
A weekly podcast about movies people love to watch, movies that ruin your today, tomorrow, and yesterday, and all things kinky & queer! Hosted by Amanda Jane Stern, Caitlyn Of The North, & Mae Shults patreon.com/podcastperverts https://www.instagram.com/pleasersandpunishers https://bsky.app/profile/pleaserspunishers.bsky.social pleaserspunisherspodcast@gmail.com Art by The Haunted David Theme music by Everson Poe
Episodes
As we continue Spaced-Out September, we’re traveling through the Space Anus™ to Space Egypt to eat 5th Avenue bars and fight androgynous aliens.
From Kurt Russell’s terrible hair to James Spader’s amazing hair, we’re digging up everything we can for this iconic slice of science fiction.
Watch out for those warp tubes and the brain boiler!
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We’re heading off to a hell dimension with plenty of tangents on the way as we discuss Mr. Milla Jovovich’s “Hellraiser in space.”
Jarrod Hornbeck from Puppet Masters & Castle Freaks joins us to talk about the incredible practical effects, the terrible CGI, the vacuum of space, concert festivals, Latin, and more!
Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see…
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Friend of the show Tomi Trembath is back to help us travel to 1987 and kick the shit out of a bunch of nazis in our last film of Anthology August.
We’re digging into the history of Oakland with these stories all (partially) based on true events for a true underdog story. So watch for that glowing green light, be honest with your grandchildren about vampires, and aim for the throat.
Nazi punks fuck off!
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Follow us into the basement and come get “The Shit” because we’re talking one of the best anthology films of all time.
We’ll thirst over writer/director/actor Rusty Cundieff, condemn the existence of racists, and question the excessive use of strobing, all while falling into our usual fits of giggles.
Welcome to the pod, motherfuckers!
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As we continue our journey through Anthology August, we’re covering our first-ever entry in the V/H/S/ franchise!
Join us for discussions of 80s authenticity, rants about other entries in the series, and another of Amanda’s screeds against Scott Derrickson.
Be kind, rewind ;)
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Anthology August begins with one of the Amicus “Portmentaeu Horror” collections, featuring tales to send chills up your spine!
Don’t mind the death card, we’re not using it metaphorically…
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Lube up your puppet hole and slap on your royal court makeup because we’re heading to the Balkans on a mission to get an entire family killed!
From its incredible aesthetics to its unapologetic queerness, this is a truly unique vampire film in today’s horror landscape, and we hope you’ll join us for a nice family dinner.
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We’re saluting Claudia Schiffer & asking “Why you wanna break my heart?” with our episode on Penelope Spheeris’s pitch-perfect comedy from the golden when “dudes rock” was actually true.
So grab your Strat, memorize those cue cards, and learn how to say this in Cantonese: Hi…we’re in Delaware…
Party time! Excellent!
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Clickety clackety! Clickety clackety! We be the witches of the wood! And we’re joined by Ten Backe for a deep dive into american folklore, religion, and the patriarchy for Robert Eggers’ debut feature.
As usual, we get very silly while having some very serious discussions.
Content Warning for discussions of child abuse.
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Ho! Clear is here the trace of him we seek!
Welcome to season two, fellow travelers! We’re kicking off our free-for-all month with one of Mae’s all-time favorites in Travis Stevens’ Greek Mythology-laden feminist masterpiece.
We’re joined by Ari Drew on our first main feed video episode to talk men being punished, Athena being an anti-feminist, and why Josh Ruben should have hung dong for the second ha...
Welcome to season 2, fellow travelers! If you've made it this far, you've surely enjoyed how ridiculous we get on our episodes, but you may not know that there's EVEN MORE STUFF that often doesn't make the cut.
So here we proudly present 2 full hours of outtakes & bloopers, replete with copious amounts of giggling, culled from the entirety of our first season.
Next week begins our foray into video so please stay tuned!
It’s the final episode of our first season, so crack open your poetry collection, pick up your pills, and let’s head to Serbia—er, The Berkshires—for David Bruckner’s legacy sequel/requel(?) that inspired Mae’s most recent album!
Tomi Trembath joins us to talk about its updated mythology, subverting the “bury your gays” trope, and the glory of trans “pinhead”. Plus so, so m...
Prep your Terminator skeleton, your terrible wigs, and your flesh magic toolbag, because we’re diving into the multi-generational entry in the Hellraiser franchise.
We’re joined by Andrea Celeste to talk surprisingly progressive discussions about trans women, annoying kid characters, Adam Scott, and…fax machines? Tune in now…before oblivion comes.
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It’s time to get back in the trenches for a WWI history lesson! Just kidding—we’re talking the goofiest of the theatrically released Hellraiser films, and we’re having a great time.
Joining us is author, programmer, and pop culture critic Anthony Oliveira for another wide-ranging discussion. From missed sapphic opportunities to our personal theories on The Order Of The Gash, and more.
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Get ready for The Titty Trinity as we’re joined by drag queen extraordinaire Peaches Christ to talk giant hell penises, implied sapphic connections, and the queen of all wicked stepmothers.
Plus a wealth of trivia, diabolical tangents, advice for quality drag queen fake boobs, and more! So hold on to your skin-suit and open the box, because we’re going to hell!
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Strap on your GoPros and clench your hole(s), because we’re venturing into a nest of bad vibes for a great time.
Joining us is Alison Riegel to discuss psychiatric facilities, ghost-summoning rituals, capitalism, and so, so much more.
Content Warning for discussions of mental health, medication, patient abuse, and suicide.
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Grab your dad’s bandana and your lucky shark’s tooth necklace because we’re packing up for a desert music video shoot gone awry in Robbie Banfitch’s feature debut.
Joining us once again is Kayte Terry to talk fleshy snakes, severd cocks, and portals to hell. Plus, time loops, auto-tune, and a brief history of found footage films.
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Can we see the manager? We’re the circle of Charons and we’re here about a computer issue, because we’re talking the non-supernatural screen life movie that scares the crap out of Mae but just makes Amanda & Caitlyn kind of angry.
We’ll discuss cyber crime, conspiracies in film, whether snuff films are real or a myth, and the disgusting reality of child pornography that exists on the dark web.
So CONTENT...
We’re kicking off Multi-Media May with an early found footage mockumentary from France that still feels transgressive and shocking today, while also packing in a surprising amount of humor.
We’ll talk media literacy, serial killers, religion, and more as we drink our “dead baby boy” cocktails and trash Ryan Murphy for his salacious true crime adaptations.
CW for discussions of sexual assault
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...And so we bring Animalistic April to a close with David Cronenberg’s breakout body horror hit, featuring some of the most incredible and disgusting practical effects ever put to film.
Giggles abound, as always, but we also dive into serious topics such as the AIDS epidemic, abortion laws, and more. So grab your baboon and sear up that steak before your flesh starts to melt off!
Oh, and Ronald Reagan rest in piss!
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