We are the Mother Aphid! Our experience with drugged out cinema in our theme “Rrrrrreal f*ckin’ High on Drugs” takes us to the itchiest corner of cinema with master filmmaker William Friedkin’s BUG! We have arguably one of our richest film discussions digging into this fever dream of meth-soaked cinema and along the way we talk more about Cody’s Only Child Chair, Super Bowl nonsense, and some classic blindspots!

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00:00 - 15:15ish - Intros - Super Bowl commercials + trailers, Cody’s Only Child Chair

15:15ish - 39:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Hard Boiled, Hold the Dark, Goat, The Worst Person in the World

Austin - Train Dreams

Lucas - The Northman

Cody - Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Jeopardy, Sisu: Road to Revenge

39:00ish - 1:15:30ish - BUG - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:15:30ish - End - The fourth and final film of “Rrrrreal f*cking High on Drugs” brought to you by Lucas!

Hi Brian, not feeling too well, are we Brian? Well you’re about to chipper on up as we bring to you our discussion of Frank Henenlotter’s 1988 creature classic, BRAIN DAMAGE. It’s Curtis’ pick in Cody’s theme of “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs” and we also discuss the results of our Patreon poll in which a winner for “Coolest List” in our 2026 Horror Movie Draft was crowned, some Bone Temple action, some Sam Raimi goodness, and a whole other host of horrors both real and cinematic!

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00:00 - 11:00ish - Intros - Harry Styles (why not?), Cody’s gum grafts, our Patrons’ vote on the coolest 2026 horror movie draft list, laserdiscs

11:00ish - 1:12:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Curtis - Kindred Spirits, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, A Knight’s Tale, Horror in the High Desert 2-4, This is Spinal Tap, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, A Cursed Man, Ghost Station, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Rip, The Naked Gun (2025), Mother of Flies, Bugonia, Saturday Night Fever, Send Help

Austin - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, About Time, Dead Man’s Wire, The Ugly Stepsister, Together,

Cody - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Eddington, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Is This Thing On?, School of Rock, Harry Potter 7 Pt. 1, A Minecraft Movie, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, The Hobbit 1-3, LOTR 1-3, Deathstalker, Send Help, Pluribus, Ancient Aliens

Lucas - The Rip, Bugonia, Play Date, Land of Bad, Marty Supreme, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, The Running Man, Shelter, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Best in Show

1:12:30ish - 1:38:00ish - BRAIN DAMAGE - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:38:00ish - End - Austin’s pick for our next movie in our theme, “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs”!

Light some candles, sink into a saline bath, and turn into your primordial self as we get “Rrrrrreal F*ckin’ High on Drugs”, our new theme brought to you by Cody! As his first pick of the theme we take a trip back down Ken Russell Avenue for ALTERED STATES. Along the way we round out our holiday watching with a bevy of flicks new and old!

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00:00 - 9:00ish - Intros: Cody wants to get rid of us, forgotten subscriptions

9:00ish - 59:00ish - The other stuff we watched this time!

Cody - How the Grinch Stole Christmas, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Flesh + Blood, Shrek 2, Anaconda, Krampus, A Christmas Story, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Gremlins, Nosferatu, The Housemaid, Harry Potter 4 & 5, Marty Supreme, Before Sunset, Highlander, Stranger Things

Austin - A Christmas Story, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Gremlins, The Long Walk, Wake Up Dead Man, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Eddington, F1

Curtis - Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Nosferatu, Marty Supreme, Stranger Things, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Shelby Oaks, Dream Eater, Keeper, It Ends, Born to Fight, The Protector, Clue: The Movie, Queens of the Dead, Die My Love, Meek’s Cutoff, The Mastermind, The Lord of the Rings, Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now, Horror in the High Desert,

Lucas - Anaconda, The Muppets Christmas Carol, The Housemaid, Die My Love, Sunshine

59:00ish - 1:27:00ish - ALTERED STATES - SHUDdown and discussion!

1:27:00ish - End - The next movie in “Rrrrrrrrrreal F*cking High on Drugs - Horror Movies about Drugs