Welcome to “This Week in Genre History,” where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
Hollywood has its famous sibling directing duos. The Coen brothers. The Wachowskis. Joe and Anthony Russo. But in the world of mid-budget fare, there’s an Australian pair that’s less well-known but consistently bringing new wrinkles to familiar genre tropes: Peter and Michael Spierig. Twin brothers who were born in Germany but grew up in Sydney and Brisbane, they’ve specialized in left-of-center horror and sci-fi films, paying homage to the classics while trying to reimagine the thematic terrain. And their breakthrough occurred with their second feature, which hit theaters on Jan. 8, 2010. Eleven years later,
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