Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People

Depot Devoid is taking on the fifth films in multiple franchises, for no good reason, and you get to come along!

In the second installment of our "Five Vs. Five" series, we dive into the dismal A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 5: THE DREAM CHILD. Plopped unceremoniously into theatres less than a year after the previous installment, this sequel squanders a promising idea and then doesn't seem to care about its own ending. A capable cast tries their best, but even Freddy's enthusiasm can't save this stinker.

The best thing about this movie is that...

After a six month hiatus, the boys are back for a New Beginning with Depot Devoid Season 2!

We've never talked about a Friday the 13th movie before, so we are starting Halloween season with an episode about Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning (without watching any of the other movies first.)

Now we're kicking off a "Battle of the Fives," pitting this one against the likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5: The Dream Child and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers!

Matt Fagan loves the 1999 Reese Witherspoon vehicle ELECTION because it's a dark comedy filled with irredeemable characters. For some reason, Ted Fagan had some negative feelings about ELECTION. Maybe because of all the irredeemable characters!

We recorded this conversation in January of 2024, before Depot Devoid had ever even published a single episode. And before the actual Election, which makes this episode a quaint artifact of more hopeful times. In real life, it's July of 2026, the country's on fire, and Depot Devoid hasn't recorded in a while because Ted is recovering from a significant injury. So...

The Fagan brothers revisit CLOAK & DAGGER, a staple of their childhoods that neither had seen in many, many years. Henry Thomas (E.T.) plays Davy Osborne, an insane 12-year-old who listens to the voices in his head and goes on a murder spree across San Antonio, because his dad won't let him play his favorite video game!

Weirdly, that is not a complete misrepresentation of the story. CLOAK & DAGGER is a family film about Davy, whose Dad works a lot and whose mom recently passed away. He and his best friend Kim become accidentally embroiled...

This episode about Swiss Army Man has been laying in the vault for a couple of years, untouched, yet still eerily alive like Daniel Radcliffe.

We haven't recorded in a few weeks, as Ted was busy moving for work, and then immediately decided to go to the hospital. He is okay, but watching movies and talking about them over Zoom has not been the priority lately.

Instead, let's roll out some of this increasingly burdensome backlog, which contains both pearls and swine. Swiss Army Man, at least, is delightful.

Hosts Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan are joined by the ghost of their brother Ian, in this very special episode of the Depot Devoid Podcast. The brothers have defied natural law, and violated the delicate balance of life and afterlife, in order to discuss the 2002 supernatural thriller "The Mothman Prophecies," starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. But not the 1996 legal thriller "Primal Fear," starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney.

Matt Fagan does a dramatic reading of his children's poem, Up A Hippopotamus' Bottom.

We are no strangers to the works of Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment, so when MANDROID pulled into the Depot Devoid, we thought we knew what was coming. But Mandroid was more than just underdeveloped or inept, with actors who can't deliver, all of which would be fully expected.

No, Mandroid was different, because it also had a script that nobody involved in its production seemed to care about, even though it was obviously trying to be the first entry in a franchise. But Mandroid is so thin on story that it found time...

Once upon a time, we watched the movie 'Ravenous', a 1999 cannibal superhero comedy (?) set in 1847. Then we recorded this episode, without watching it again. The result was... funnier than it was accurate.

For extra fun, check out the full video episode on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube!

It's destruction and disorder in the Depot when the boys face their biggest challenge yet: Godzilla himself! Preschool-aged Ted watched Godzilla 1985 every week for a year, but will middle-aged Ted be able to make it through even once?

It's a sequel to Godzilla that ignores about fourteen movies in between, and brings back Raymond Burr to reprise his role from the bowdlerized American version of the film. Yes, having now defeated Hamilton Burger almost 270 times, Perry Mason now sets his sights on taking down the King of the Monsters.

We wanted...

Note: some parts of this episode make more sense if you watch the full video version (available on the Depot Devoid YouTube channel), but those parts are mostly dog-related and not strictly relevant to the movie.

THE COMPLEAT AL brought the music videos of "Weird Al" Yankovic into our homes back in 1985, but was also a significant and often-overlooked entry in the nascent mockumentary genre. For the terrible gentlemen of the Depot Devoid, and their dead brother Ian, THE COMPLEAT AL was a formative childhood experience, one that ultimately paved the way for the much-better-known WEIRD: THE...

Ted was excited because he'd never even heard of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Matt had uncertain memories of a single viewing 17 years ago. Join the meandering Fagan brothers for a lively discussion about this musical - and other musicals!

Is it true that the dystopian world of 2056 that we see in Repo! is actually the same world from The Apple, after all the good people got raptured in 1998? Will Ted learn horrifying truths about Sweeney Todd? Will Matt say some things about Stephen Sondheim that he can't take back?

The answers to these questions and...

Recorded three years ago, and only now dragged screaming from the vault, the meandering Fagan brothers are here to discuss THEY LIVE! John Carpenter's unabashedly anti-Reagan science fiction picture is, sadly, even more relevant now. Laugh to keep from crying as we revisit one of our favorite flicks from the eighties.

Matt wanted to reassess this movie he watched thirty years ago, and decided to inflict it on Ted along the way.

The debut film from Jennifer Lynch, BOXING HELENA is plagued with problems. Uneven pacing. An indecisive relationship with reality. Julian Sands' haircut. But beneath all of that is a fascinating idea that could have worked, and it's an idea worth talking about.

Who better to discuss GHOST WORLD - a movie about teenage girls navigating life after high school - than two middle aged men? Matt has loved it for over 20 years, but Ted requires some convincing.

Desperate to find a terrible introduction to the themes and stories of H.P. Lovecraft? Look no further than BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM - a lushly animated, lazily written pastiche of Lovecraftian themes, splattered across the Batman mythos without inspiration or reason.

Guest voice Jeffrey Combs (an actor whose association with Lovecraft adaptations goes back to Re-Animator in the mid-1980s) is pretty much the only reason to be here, but here we are! The terrible men of the Depot Devoid have sat through THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM so you...

1979's "LOVE AT FIRST BITE" proved to be so aggressively forgettable that we completely forgot recording this episode a year and a half ago! But it's a perfect complement to our recent offerings, which featured Saturday the 14th and Pandemonium. Like those films, Love at First Bite seems to be something like a horror comedy, but never truly fulfills either mandate.

An absurd Dracula in the form of George Hamilton, and a bumbling Van Helsing provided by Richard Benjamin, prove to be capable foils for the normal person (Susan St. James, as a human woman...

In 1982, PANDEMONIUM tried to be a horror comedy, and couldn't. Put into production as THURSDAY THE 12th, but then beaten to the gag by Roger Corman's SATURDAY THE 14th, this misbegotten movie lost its way and never quite figured out what to be. In spite of a dozen familiar faces (Tommy Smothers, Carol Kane, Paul Reubens, Eileen Brennan, Eve Arden, Judge Reinhold, Phil Hartman, John Paragon, it just goes on!) most of the comedy falls pretty flat. But every once in a while, PANDEMONIUM serves up something truly strange and interesting, making you wonder what this movie might have...

Saturday the 14th was the very first horror comedy movie Matt ever watched, way back in the early eighties. Maybe not the most sophisticated film, but strangely influential to an impressionable youngster with a love of monsters!

Matt drags this 1981 Roger Corman production into the Depot Devoid this week, and makes his little brother Ted watch it - something he hasn't done for about thirty years. It's a movie PACKED with jokes, and we appreciate it differently now than we did as children, but for all its many (many!) flaws, Saturday the 14th is still...

"So that was a Hellraiser?"

Matt has been reading and watching the Hellraiser franchise for nearly forty years, but his brother Ted was an innocent. For this week's experiment, Ted had to start with the 2022 reboot starring Jamie Clayton as the hell priest. With nothing to compare it to, would Ted like the new Pinhead? Would he think the Cenobites were cool? Would he even know what the (ahem) Hell was going on?

Join us in the Depot for Ted's first look at Hellraiser. As for Matt? He didn't open the...

It's rare enough that the Depot brings us a movie neither of the brothers has ever seen, but a genuine 1980s slasher movie? Unprecedented!

Famously written as a parody of the slasher genre by Rita Mae Brown, but then rewritten and directed by Amy Jones as a mostly straight slasher, The Slumber Party Massacre is a curiously uneven Dead Teenager movie. Ted is not convinced that the murderer made the best choice of weapon, even though it was metaphorically necessary. Matt, being immune to the power of breasts, is able to assess the film with...

A man murders his wife, is recruited as a spy, and enters a drug-fueled world of literature, homosexuality, and deeply erogenous typewriters! NAKED LUNCH attempted, in 1991, to adapt the wild nonlinear narrative of William S Burroughs' novel into a surprisingly coherent film.

Ted's audio is weird for the first two minutes, but after that, the Fagan brothers are able to make complete and utter sense of every single thing that happens in the movie. Especially the typewriter sex robots.

Happy Anniversary! In this 40th episode, the Depot Devoid Podcast looks back on our first year of publication. We're a movie podcast, but the Depot Devoid has always actually been about the death of our brother Ian. It's a show about nostalgia and grief, and the ways we find to heal.

While barely discussing Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, we talk about the lives that are changing around us, and how something as simple as recording this podcast can keep us sane in an insane world. Ted has a lot to say about his recent dealings with the...

Audiences think of Ghostbusters as one of the classic comedy films of the 1980s, but you know what they forget? Ghosts are people who used to be alive, so Ghostbusters is all about death!

Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan started the Depot Devoid Podcast after they lost their brother Ian. And they recorded this episode just three weeks after Matt lost his dog to bone cancer. Not for the first time, the brothers find themselves revisiting a pivotal comedy from their youth with fresh eyes, and raw hearts. Sometimes, the Depot Devoid is all fun and games – bu...

We've got a whole Depot full of Pride this week! And you can watch the full video version of this episode on YouTube.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the queer redemption story we all need right now: messy, cruel, and challenging, but also transformative, inspiring, and filled with love. Bursting at the seams with amazing music, performed by a truly complicated leading lady, Hedwig gets under your skin in the best possible way.

Host Matt Fagan is an unabashed fan, and is clearly excited to share this movie with his little brother, co-host Ted...

The Goonies is turning forty years old, and our brother Ian should have turned 45 this week. Growing up on the Oregon coast in the 1980s, The Goonies was an indelible part of our childhoods! Puzzles, treasure, friends with bicycles and dangerous ideas: The Goonies was everything a kid could want. For us - Matt Fagan, Ian Fagan, and Ted Fagan - it gave shape to fantasies we played out every day.

Today we are, for better or worse, adults, and we are looking back at The Goonies as grown men who have lost the brother...

Full video episode available on our Youtube channel!

Matt Fagan introduces his brother, Ted Fagan, to a magical film that answers the question: what if your dreams came true and everybody else in the world disappeared? Thanks for Nothing, Canada!

Canadian superstar David Hewlett wishes the whole world away - even the smell of rotting beef carcasses! - in this intimate, experimental fantasy from 2003. Written by, directed by, and starring the folks who brought us Cube in 1997, Nothing defies easy categorization.

David Hewlett and Andrew Miller play childhood best friends whose relationship experiences...

Full video episode available on our YouTube channel!

We love you, Canada, but "Space Vegetarians Conquer the World!" is not your best work.

This convoluted mess of a sci-fi thriller fell into the Depot Devoid almost by mistake. In fact, it accidentally became the first episode of the "O Canada" run that we recorded, but wound up as chapter four because it came out the same year as CUBE.

Some of the worst movies are the most fun to talk about, and in a time where a lot of stuff in America isn't...

Full video available on our YouTube channel!

A low-budget sci-fi thriller... or an ingenious, claustrophobic meeting of the philosophy club? Matt's favorite Canadian (David Hewlett) stars in the 1997 indy film Cube, which combines apocalyptic nihilism with insightful social analysis and delivers something wholly unique. Ted Fagan and brother Matt Fagan are on a roll with another unforgettable movie from Canada, the maple-drenched home of some of the best science fiction to ever hit the American market.

Continuing our celebration of Canadian film excellence, Matt Fagan introduces little brother Ted to one of the strangest (and most Canadian) movies he's ever seen! This 1988 psychodrama from Sandor Stern has fascinated Matt since high school; will Ted ever be the same once the episode is over? Will he see Pin's spooky face every time he closes his eyes? Terry O'Quinn, David Hewlett, and Cynthia Preston star in a uniquely creepy, moderately suspenseful motion picture that you won't soon forget.

Also check out the full video on the Depot Devoid channel on YouTube!

Beginning a multi-episode tribute to our Northern superiors, Matt introduces his brother Ted to the 1987 thriller THE STEPFATHER, starring Terry O'Quinn. Canada has been producing some of the best science fiction and horror series on American television since the 1980s, and also some of Matt's video-rental favorites! This one made a big impression on his teenage mind, forever cementing his loyalty to Canada and distrust of stepfathers, in perpetuity throughout the universe.

In the full video version of this episode, you can fully appreciate Matt's fetching homemade vest, which he made for a super special occasion: along...

Pitching a tent down by the creek at the back of the Depot Devoid this week, it's MULTIPLE MANIACS! Longtime John Waters fan Matt Fagan drags his brother Ted all the way back to 1970 for this cheap, nasty, black-and-white feature that carefully walks the line between arthouse and outhouse. Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, and Mary Vivian Pearce, Multiple Maniacs was Waters' first "talkie," and he still had a lot to learn. But so much of what would eventually define a John Waters movie is already on display here: the criminal outsider heroes, the glamourless ridicule of human...

What are Jersey girls made of? In this 1990 comedy, she's made of 8 prostitutes from New York, but love finds a way.

Matt Fagan gets his brother Ted to watch Frankenhooker for the first time since he was nine years old (which is too young to see Frankenhooker but just the right age to appreciate the humor.) Join the brothers in the Depot Devoid for a movie with lots of heart, and several other spare parts.

Highly recommended: the full video version on YouTube https://youtu.be/F9lWo04tfBI has some secret delights.

The Old Testament disco musical you never realized you needed, The Apple pulls into the Depot Devoid this week... just in time for the rapture! Join the meandering Fagan brothers for a discussion of the deep religious themes, finely crafted musical compositions, and a message that will endure for the ages.

Just kidding. It's delirious garbage, and the songs are ass. But The Apple is the best kind of belly-flop: a film wholly committed to a greater vision that we cannot possibly understand.

From deep in the vaults, the second recording we ever made was this conversation about Heathers, the ultimate high school movie. We were still figuring out our equipment (the first episode we recorded didn't work at all!) and only the audio is usable, but Heathers is one of our favorite movies. And maybe one of yours! We had a good talk, and I think it was worth preserving.

Recorded during some Halloween past, but inexplicably released around Valentine's day, this episode is all about The Babadook! Two adult brothers who started a podcast after their brother died, talking about a movie where the monster is a living incarnation of grief and loss? That's an obvious recipe for upbeat entertainment!

But that isn't all. We're also here to dish about Halloween plans, amazing costumes, and the innate joylessness of those who don't participate! And for an episode with meaningful themes about the cost of unprocessed emotional trauma, we spend a surprising amount of time talking about...

Maybe the world didn't want THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME in 1988, but man, the world sure needed it. And still does.

Your hosts, the meandering Fagan brothers, traditionally take a more cynical view of movies, but one might accurately describe this one as "magical" or "a feel-good movie" and guess what? We fucking love it. The story of a talented but unsuccessful special-effects filmmaker attempting to navigate the bureaucracy and ineptitude of Hollywood, THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME is a piece of celluloid origami that is about the making of itself. And yet, that's not...

The "Special Edition" is the exact same episode as the regular version, except for an added droning radiator sound permeating the entire runtime.

Depot Devoid recorded this episode nearly a year ago, but this week we lost legendary filmmaker David Lynch so we finally decided to do something about it. Here is the first episode we ever made about a David Lynch movie.

Ted had never seen Eraserhead at all, so this was a pretty fun experience for both of us! Join us in the bleakest Philadelphia, a grimy, colorless wasteland that is...

Depot Devoid recorded this episode nearly a year ago, but this week we lost legendary filmmaker David Lynch so we finally decided to do something about it. Here is the first episode we ever made about a David Lynch movie.

Ted had never seen Eraserhead at all, so this was a pretty fun experience for both of us! Join us in the bleakest Philadelphia, a grimy, colorless wasteland that is all the more perfect now - as a symbol for a world without David Lynch.

In this first episode of 2025, the sparkling romantic comedy FRESH pulls into the Depot Devoid. Matt and Ted enjoyed this cheeky critique of modern dating, and now they're hungry for justice! Matt gets carried away, Ted tries to insert a disclaimer, but nobody is safe from their woke nonsense. Gnash into the new year and start FRESH with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan!

Full video of this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube