Brenna and Joe kick off scary season with Norman Partridge's 2007 Stoker award winning novel Dark Harvest and David Slade's 2023 adaptation.

The book isn't exactly YA (and intriguingly features a second person narrator), but it mostly works as a Vietnam war allegory.

The film has elements of camp and great practical FX, though its incredibly grim ending doesn't entirely satisfy.

Overall, though, this is a great start to our annual creepy tradition!

While Brenna may be disappointed that the film doesn't exactly feature a pumpkinhead creature

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Theme music: Letra “Like A Bird”

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Brenna and Joe unofficially wrap up summer with Sasha Nathani's feature directorial debut Last Swim (2024). The UK film is about Ziba (Deba Hakmat), a girl with an undisclosed terminal disease, who plots one perfect day with her friends.

It's beautiful, intimate, has a great friend group and secretly does a great job of addressing class and race.

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Theme music: Letra “Like A Bird”

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At the urging of past guest Alex Heeney, Joe and Brenna finally check out Skam, the "Norweigan Skins" that began airing in 2015.

In the first two episodes, we under why the show translates to "Shame" as our main character Eva struggles with a terrible boyfriend, bad grades, and uncertain social popularity.

Plus: two Chrises, absent parents, and a Degrassi-like production.

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