Just in time for Halloween, Hugo Emmerzael is joined by filmmaker Connor Sen Warnick and horror writer, scholar and critic Mike Thorn for two avant-garde horror gems from 1989, both newly restored in 4K. E. Elias Merhige’s black-and-white creation myth Begotten, long passed around as the ultimate cursed text of obscure horror, meets Stephen Sayadian’s gleefully sexualized, unofficial sequel to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Along the way: drone horror, creepypasta, a theory about hand job scenes, porn as avant-garde cinema, and why horror doesn’t always need to explain itself.

Listen to In Review On Mic #3: Outré Horror, with Begotten and Dr. Caligari.