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Weirdhouse Cinema: Demonwarp

March 20, 2026·1 hr 34 min·5 clips

Discover why Demon Warp is secretly an alien invasion and zombie movie disguised as a Bigfoot horror film.

A long ad block comes first. Before the film talk settles in, the feed moves through iHeart promotion for 2%, Math & Magic, Michael Easter, Bob Pittman, and marketing talk around Liquid Death. Then the movie shows up sideways. The hosts pick up mid-scene, laughing at the film's habit of forcing an unlikely plot turn to happen by whatever means are lying around. Michelle Bowers gets real credit. She comes across as naturally charismatic, the kind of performer who can steady a B movie even when the material is wobbling all over the place. Shannon Kennedy becomes the sweeter oddity. Because she is George Kennedy's daughter, her brief acting turn reads as both a strange genre footnote and a family project. The Sasquatch bit lands dryly. Her character is remembered as someone looking for marijuana, failing, and then getting an abrupt monster-movie exit while sunbathing. It is ridiculous, but not mean. The hosts mostly sit with the funny affection of a father and daughter ending up together in a picture like this. George Kennedy seems unfazed. They picture him as someone who had already seen enough of the movie business to treat the film as another stop on the route. The 80s texture gets its moment too. Shannon Kennedy's look is compared to a Cyndi Lauper mode, which gives the scene a clean period stamp without turning it into costume trivia. Then the minister enters. John Durbin gives the movie its needed creep, a thin, animated genre presence with the right nervous charge. The hosts keep their usual rhythm: one names the actor and brings the research, while the other follows the thread into performance type, industry initiation, and the odd comfort of low-budget horror. The ending gets practical. They point listeners to the Weirdhouse Letterboxd list, ask for feedback through the Stuff To Blow Your Mind address, thank audio producer JJ Posway, and close with the iHeart production tag.

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A wry, actor-minded Demonwarp chat where Sasquatch mayhem shares space with 80s texture and a surprisingly sweet George Kennedy footnote.

Stuff To Blow Your Mind's Weirdhouse Cinema: Demonwarp finds the hosts in their comfort zone: amused, actor-focused, and happy to follow a movie where Sasquatch attacks sit alongside young people, a creepy minister, and whatever plot turn gets everyone to the next ridiculous…

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George Kennedy's daughter loses her head to a Sasquatch, and two thoughtful hosts want to know why.

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