Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes.

Today’s theme: Physical Media

I know, I know, microbudget anthology films are all over microbudget films and streaming horror. But what if someone did it right?

Director Ryan Petrillo and his co-writer Dan Lisowski got it right.

This is a movie made by people who actually care more than just to tell people that they’re filmmakers. The colors are intentional. The music and sound design absorb you. And there are wild colors, ooze, and so much strangeness, as well as bottles of J&B and post-dubbed sound.

What’s it about?

“Each autumnal equinox, a group of humanoids meets at the nexus of dreams and reality to celebrate the strangest mysteries of the universe: monsters, ghosts, the inexplicable, the outrageous. As they slurp their ceremonial slime and join their minds, they share these stories of horror and fantasy. This is the Weird Visions Society! A post-dubbed, micro-budget, horror-sci-fi anthology consisting of five tales woven together by the hallucinatory mind-melding of ceremonial slime-drinking humanoids from another dimension.”

Those humanoids meet in a room with a gold curtain and what appears to be a picture frame that opens into the universe from The Astrologer. In this sanctum, they pour ooze into bowls and lap it up before tripping out into these stories, then, you know, destroying one of their number. Each story may not have the best pacing, but when does an anthology ever all add up? Instead, the sum is way greater than the whole of the parts, and you’ll be left loving the drone, the neon, the moments that make this feel a lot more like an Italian 80s direct-to-VHS wallow in scuzz than something on Blu-ray from 2024, and that’s the highest compliment I can give.

Also: The ambient extras on the Blu-ray will totally be my new writing meditation soundtrack.

You can get the movie, merch and slime here.