You good, Memo? Monica and Zenaida are Guillermo del Toro evangelists, but when we watched Nightmare Alley (2021) something didn't sit right. We try to put our finger on what went amiss in this VULNERABLE special episode, a RISKY departure from our WELL-ESTABLISHED form that's sure to alienate long-time listeners.

We return to our hackneyed genre fan-girling in the next episode.

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Zenaida quotes articles from the LA Times and The Independent. DRAG HER.

It's the one that started this whole thang: Monica and Zenaida get all gushy over Guillermo Del Toro's wildly underrated gothic romance Crimson Peak (2015). Like REAL gushy. We gush like loose eggs in Jessica Chastain's pale fingers. She won the Oscar for the wrong movie - @ us!

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Fan fic passions run amok with an insane budget: it's Jupiter Ascending (2015)! The Wachowski sisters peered into the Universe's soul and found Monica's essence distilled into an immortality bath with a shot of Omegaverse. Can Monica convince Zenaida to open her dusty, crusty, sci-fi-loving-but-kinda-pretentious heart to it?

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The film so destined to be a vice they named it twice: Monica and Zenaida watched Thir13en Ghosts (2001). Dutch angles + Matthew Lillard's spittle + light-up plastic accessories = peak Y2K alt aesthetic in a horror/sci-fi box. You're welcome, Steve Beck stans.

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Monica & Zenaida are hungee for camp, blood, and tearing down American colonialsm. We watched cannibalist classic Ravenous (1999) directed by Antoina Bird. Homoerotic AF. Haven't you ever wanted someone inside you so much you gotta eat 'em? #relatable

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