Brutal Film Girl Experiment Podcast

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 Björk as OSHA's worst nightmare: a blind Czechoslovakian immigrant operating heavy machinery while daydreaming about musicals.  Also in…

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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: Emma loves drinking water, but Sarah thinks it's stupid and overrated. Sarah sheds some light on the…

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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 centers around the titular Bubby: a man who has spent thirty-five years trapped in a small room with…

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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 he once had an affair.  Refusing to accept that she has zero romantic interest in…

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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 ménage à trois. In this episode: The ladies discuss whether polyamory can ever work (no)….

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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 30 miles from the the Bronx to their home turf on Coney Island, fighting…

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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 Tenafly Viper—$1 booze that’s gone bad and turns anyone who drinks it into a technicolor puddle…

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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.   The ladies discuss the film's central theme of the dynamics of power & control.  An 18-year old…

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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 endure as a young girl scout, Sarah discusses the grisly inspiration for the film…

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