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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.
Complete YouTube audiobook
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.
Complete YouTube reading
11. Neo Tokyo (1987)
Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith
A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull.
Complete YouTube reading
12. Total Recall (1990)
Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick
Humanity’s understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured.
13. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe
A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice.
14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells
A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat.
15. Slither (2006)
Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson
An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body.
Complete YouTube reading
16. Swiss Army Man (2016)
Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells
A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him.
17. Happy Death Day (2017)
Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell
A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time.
18. The Gorge (2025)
Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt
An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below.
Complete YouTube reading
Reality Comes Apart
19. The Fourth Kind (2009)
Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick
An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human.
20. Dark City (1998)
Story: “The Street That Wasn’t There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi
Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants.
Complete YouTube reading
21. Stir of Echoes (1999)
Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions
A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both.



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