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Season 23 Movies & Stories
PGttCM Season 23 Order(all episodes will be recorded
1. Sinners (2025) August week 4
Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft
Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world.
Complete YouTube reading
2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Story: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover.
3. Ready or Not (2019)
Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell
Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition.
4. Blade II (2002)
Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson
A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire.
Complete YouTube reading
5. Obsession (2026)
Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected.
Complete YouTube reading
6. RoboCop (1987)
Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe
A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire.
7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster
Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain.
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8. Strange Days (1995)
Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells
A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience.
9. Brainstorm (1983)
Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells
A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man’s body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare.
10. Burst City (1982)
Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster
A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system.