Brutal Film Girl Experiment
Two longtime friends meet once a week to share some laughs and watch a classic cult, horror, or disturbing arthouse film. Sarah loves them, but Emma might not have the stomach for it. Will their already unstable friendship survive the Brutal Film Girl Experiment?
Episodes
25 episodes
Funny Games (1997) - home on derange
In this very giggly episode of BFGE, Emma shocks Sarah by warming up to Michael Haneke’s infamous home invasion satire "Funny Games." The ladies debate the film's artistic merit, Sarah reads angry zero star film reviews, and Emma urges au...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:09:28
The Room (2003) - you're tearing me apart, emma
In this wildly silly episode of BFGE, Emma treks over to Sarah's freezing apartment to eat soup, huddle under a blanket, and watch "The Room" with Spanish subtitles off youtube.com. Mmmm feels like it's 2008 and our meal cards just got de...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:05:57
Misery (1990) - dirty bird special
On this very chilly episode of BFGE, Sarah and Emma get together in the bleak midwinter to watch Stephen King's infamous 1990 thriller "Misery." The ladies ask all the pressing questions including:Is there anything more terrifying t...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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56:29
Ebola Syndrome (1996) - saturday night hemorrhagic fever
On this very contagious episode of BFGE, Emma endures 98 minutes of Herman Yau’s infamous Category III Hong Kong shocker "Ebola Syndrome." The film tells the rags-to-riches story of Kai, a psychopathic and unhygienic restaurant worker who...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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53:14
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) - the surreal world
On the season 2 premiere of BFGE, the ladies tuck into the 1970 Czech surrealist masterpiece "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" in advance of their upcoming trip to Prague (selected by you, the listeners). The film follows a young girl on ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:09:30
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) - emma's revenge
In this never-to-be-repeated BFGE special, Sarah lets Emma choose the film as a special birthday surprise, and emma seizes the opportunity to subject Sarah to a whole new species of brutality: the 2001 romantic comedy nightmare "Bridget Jones's...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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45:12
Demon (2015) - unholy matrimony
On the season finale of BFGE, the ladies watch "Demon" (2015): a genre-defying (horror? comedy? drama?) Polish film written and directed by Marcin Wrona, released shortly prior to his tragic and untimely death. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:02:57
Cool World (1992) - men just wanna have fun (& sex with cartoons)
In this very goofed up episode of BFGE, the ladies get a cinematic lobotomy by watching Ralph Bakshi's legendary disaster film "Cool World." The film stars Gabriel Byrne as Jack Deebs, as ex-con cartoonist who gets released from prison on...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:08:42
Cemetery Man (1994) - zombies, sex, and guns (oh my)
In this very special episode of BFGE, Sarah celebrates Emma's return from Italy by making her watch one of her favorite Italian horror films, Cemetery Man (Italian: Dellamorte Dellamore) directed by Michele Soavi. The film stars ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:18:20
Inside (2007) - natal attraction
In this very maternal episode of BFGE, Sarah treats her pregnant friend Amanda to a showing of "À l'intérieur" (Inside): a 2007 French slasher film written and directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. The film stars Béatrice Dalle...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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59:06
Psycho (1960) - mommy tissues
Halloween month at BFGE continues with the ladies watching the godfather of slashers, Hitchcock's "Psycho": a film Emma has never seen because she's lived under a rock like a small beetle-woman for 30+ years. Experience the twists and tu...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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54:52
The Thing (1982) - MacReady or not
Sarah and Emma kickoff Halloween month by watching John Carpenter's arguably best film (in Sarah's opinion): his 1982 science fiction horror masterpiece "The Thing." The film follows a spunky all-male research team in Antarctica as it is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:14:30
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) - the special people's podcast
In this very silly and stupid episode of BFGE, the ladies watch Todd Solondz' 1995 coming-of-age black comedy film "Welcome to the Dollhouse." The film centers around the life of Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward seventh-grader ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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51:56
Revenge (2017) / The Substance (2024) - butts 'n' guts
On this week's XXL episode of BFGE, Angelique fills in for Emma and the ladies discuss the TWO feature films of newcomer Coralie Fargeat. For an appetizer, the ladies dissect "Revenge": Fargeat's debut film, a 2017 thriller about a young ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:55:47
Caligula: the Ultimate Cut (1979) - when in Rome
In this week's episode of BFGE, the ladies take a field trip to the movie theater to catch "Caligula: the Ultimate Cut (1979)" -- a complete reimagining of the reviled 1979 cult epic "Caligula," which is the world's first and last big-budget hi...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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53:59
Martyrs (2008) - two broke girls
In this harrowing episode of BFGE, the ladies watch "Martyrs": a 2008 French-language psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier. The film centers on a young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:00:26
Dancer in the Dark (2000) - the killing of a sacred björk
In this very emotional episode of BFGE, the ladies celebrate Sarah's birthday by watching the infamous musical tragedy "Dancer in the Dark." Written and directed by professional sadboy Lars Von Trier, the film stars Icelandic singer Björ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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58:42
Bad Lieutenant (1992) - full frontal keitel
In this week's episode of BFGE, the ladies dissect Abel Ferrara's delightfully scuzzy 1992 crime drama "Bad Lieutenant" starring Harvey Keitel as a drunk, drug-addled crooked cop investigating the rape of a young a nun. In this episode:
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:06:58
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) - a punk rock incest odyssey
On this week's very special episode of BFGE, Sarah and Emma enlist the services of a third friend, Melbourne-native Angelique, to watch Rolf de Heer's singular and indescribable Australian absurdist black comedy "Bad Boy Bubby". The film ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:14:18
Boxing Helena (1993) - hot simp summer
In this very sensual episode of BFGE, the ladies watch nepo baby Jennifer Lynch's 1993 box office dumpster fire, Boxing Helena: a film about a wealthy surgeon (Julian Sands) who becomes obsessed with a seductive woman (Sherilyn Fenn) with whom ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:02:19
Nekromantik (1988) - ze germans are c*mming
In BFGE's most gross-out episode to date, Sarah and Emma watch Jörg Buttgereit's depraved West German exploitation classic about a man that loses everything after his hot bitchy girlfriend leaves him for a comely corpse he brought home for a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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49:38
The Warriors (1979) - a testosterone-soaked urban male fantasy
On this week’s episode of BFGE, Sarah & Emma celebrate their annual trip to Coney Island by watching Walter Hill’s 1979 hyper-masculine New York City fairy tale, the Warriors. The film centers on a fictitious NYC street gang who must travel...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:01:12
Street Trash (1987): goo girls gone wild
In this week’s episode of BFGE, the ladies enjoy pre-show cocktails before they tuck into J. Michael Muro’s “democratically offensive” horror-comedy, Street Trash: a film in which a group of vagabonds living in a Brooklyn junkyard falls prey to...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:00:43
The Piano Teacher (2001): girl r u ok?
This week, Sarah and Emma bond over Michael Haneke’s (Funny Games) unnerving character study of a repressed middle-aged piano instructor who seeks an outlet for her controversial sexual desires while in the grasp of her controlling mother. &nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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58:49
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Sarah starts a podcast to lure Emma to her apartment to watch one of her favorite films, Tobe Hooper's 1974 grindhouse classic "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Emma reveals her trauma from the civil war ghost tours she was forced to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:04:22