Episode 159 - The Dirty Seven + Dune + eXistenZ + Footprints + The Warrior + Les enfants miserables + Weird Science + Jail Bait

On The Stacks this week, in part one (0:00-1:33:45), we return to Severin's Black Emanuelle box with another bit of apocrypha, The Dirty Seven (also known as Emanuelle, Queen of the Desert), in addition to the 9th episode of Star Trek (TOS), "Dagger of the Mind." Part two (ranging 1:33:47-2:56:08) features briefer discussion on 7 additional films: Denis Villeneuve's 2021 version of Frank Herbert's Dune, David Cronenberg's twisted 1999 VR body horror film eXistenZ, Luigi Bazzoni's 1975 art-giallo Footprints, Sisworo Gautama Putra's gory anti-colonialist religious action exploitation feature The Warrior (aka Jaka Sembung), Matt Mitler's 1993 Surf Reality Movie of the Month Les enfants miserables, John Hughes' 1985 bizarro low fantasy coming of age film Weird Science, and Ed Wood's 1954 poverty row noir with a twist, Jail Bait. In part three, as usual we talk about everything else we've watched on physical media since last time and make our picks for next week, starting our Spooky Season.

The live list of The Spooky Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks-1/