Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYour Vice Is a Locked Room And Only I Have the Key (1972): Sex, Sadism, and Satan the Cat
Episode 26
Bill and Stephanie are joined by film scholar Christopher Hoppe to unlock Sergio Martino’s Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972),…
1 year ago
The Brood (1979): Government Subsized Cinematic Birth Control
Episode 25
This week, Bill and Stephanie drag Atlanta filmmaker Nicole Kemper into the delivery room to talk David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), a horror movie…
1 year, 1 month ago
Mae West: I’m No Angel (But the Catholic Censors Might Think Otherwise)
Episode 24
Mae West struts into the spotlight in I’m No Angel (1933), the pre-Code sensation that saved Paramount and scandalized the censors. Co-hosts Bill and…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Pope's Exorcist: From The Crazy, Mixed-Up Files of Father Gabriele Amorth
Episode 23
Bill and Cisco take a deep dive into The Pope’s Exorcist, the horror film where Russell Crowe channels his inner Super Mario Bro, and chews scenery a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Stigmata (1999): Bleeding Saints, Banned Scriptures and Billy Corgan
Episode 22
The wounds of Christ. A chain-smoking atheist. Gabriel Byrne as a brooding Vatican investigator in designer black. Welcome back to Hot Priest Summer.…
1 year, 2 months ago
Dogma (1999): Kevin Smith vs. The Catholic League and Bill Donohue
Episode 21
Dogma looms large in the canon of Morally Offensive films, casting a long shadow over many millennial Catholics. For those of us who were teens when …
1 year, 3 months ago
The Devils (1971): The True Story of Witch Hunts, Mass Hysteria, and Moral Panic in the Catholic Church
Episode 20
On this episode of Morally Offensive, Cisco takes a break, so Bill is joined by frequent guest and film presenter Stephanie Sack along with televisio…
1 year, 3 months ago
Cruising (1980): Kink, Controversy, and Catholic Guilt with Jim Marcus
Episode 19
Jim Marcus (author, musician, and designer) joins us to dissect the controversy surrounding Cruising (1980), the William Friedkin thriller that pushe…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bonus Episode: Baby Face (1933) Extras!
Episode 18
This week, we were slightly concerned that we would not have our Freddy Got Fingered Episode done in time, so we prepared a backup episode to buy us …
1 year, 4 months ago
Freddy Got Fingered: The Worst Comedy of the 2000s...or Surrealist Masterpiece?
Episode 17
On this episode of Morally Offensive, Bill and Cisco dive headfirst into Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Tom Green’s aggressively unhinged film that migh…
1 year, 4 months ago