Episodes

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.  The film unwinds a tale of a bridegroom possessed by an unquiet spirit (a “dybbuk”) in the midst of his own...

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 only to be sucked into a parallel cartoon universe he...

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 Rupert Everett as Francesco Dellamorte, the beleaguered caretaker of Buffalora cemetery where the...

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 as a scissor-wielding psychopath who terrorizes a pregnant widow (Alysson...

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 turns of “Psycho” as if you're seeing it for the...

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 hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. ...

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 struggling to cope with inattentive parents, jr. high bullies, her annoying younger...

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 woman who thirsts for vengeance after she is raped...

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 historical epic film infused with…uhh…hardcore pornography.  ...

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 and tormented her as a child, which leads leads her and a...