Episode 14

Pass Thru (2016)

Published on: 22nd April, 2022

A story about corruption, kidnapping, yelling, and walking through rocks.

Listen in as me and returning guest Richard, our resident specialist in Breenism, dive into indie auteur wunderkind Neil Breen's fourth feature film.

Written and directed by filmmaker Neil Breen (Fateful Findings, I Am Here....Now, Double Down, Twisted Pair), HorrorNews.net said the film "reaches hilarious levels of ineptitude that is hard to believe exists until you witness it for yourself," while WeAreCult.rocks call it "Breen's most consciously surreal and dreamlike work." It's a far cry from Double Down and, man, it's great to be back with the Breen I know and love!

It tells the story of an AI entity from the distant future (played of course by Breen) who comes back to present day to annihilate 300,000,000 "bad and corrupt people" to save humanity. That's pretty much it. There are time planes, an side plot about an old man and some kids trying to track down a mysterious signal, a group of immigrants who are kidnapped, and a superimposed tiger. It's magnificent.

The film is only available through Neil's official purchase site: pass-thru-film.com

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Subversive Cinema
The show about the weird, whacky, and downright wrong entries in cinema history.
There are a lot of films out there, so it's only natural that a decent amount of strange content exists. These are the films we examine.

Each week, I sit down with a guest and we take a look a one of these weird, whacky, or downright wrong cinematic entries. Each of them has something about it that makes it special — I call it the "Subversive Sauce" — and that is recipe we try to break down.

Is it scientific? Absolutely not. Will you learn things you didn't know? Maybe. Might you hear about films worth checking out? Most definitely.

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Art started in the podcasting ecosphere back in 2007 with the outrageous, yet short lived, scripted variety show "WBKR: Buckwilde Radio," which claimed listeners from over 20 different countries. After hanging up his headphones and heading west to move to Los Angeles, he kept podcasting in his heart but only made appearances rather than producing or hosting. It only took a global pandemic, boredom, and the pleading from his buddy, Joe, to get back into the mic booth.