We’re back with an old school, two person podcast. We kept it loose this week with a lengthy talk about the new Star Wars: Battlefront game, and we catch up on Doctor Who. We also take a hard look at the real quality of the Star Wars franchise and Gedge hits a couple of personal milestones with his first trip to Krystal and a reevaluation of an infamous Doctor Who companion.
Episode 13: Double Oh… Crap
We’re back! We took last week off so we’d rested and ready to dig into some James Bond action. This is like Christmas for John, so on top of some spirited SPECTRE discussion, get ready for spy themed digressions and Bond history trivia.
Also: We dig into the gory goodness of Ash vs. Evil Dead and the rest of the Evil Dead series.
Horror Comics: We Built a World and Filled It With Monsters
As a day after Horror Month treat, here’s Grahame with one more scary insight to close out the month.
In Which Disney Nearly Ruins Superman III
When I was younger, one of the most terrifying films I’d ever seen was a late ’70s sci-fi flick, and it was not Alien. Apologies in advance for any spoilers about the 1979 film I’m about to discuss, but seriously guys, this movie is older than I am. If you’re going to watch it, you probably would have done so by now.
Episode 12: The Final Chapter
It’s the final week of Horror Month, and as a special treat, we brought along our friend Josh Dobeck to join in on the festivities!
We talk about all things slasher: from the rules, to the killers, to the kills. Josh even brings along his top 10 list of favorites. Plus: we wax nostalgic about video stores, VHS box art, and endless reruns on basic cable.
Episode 11: Horror Sub-Genres
We continue Horror Month with a discussion on Cross-Genre Horror. We’re talking Comedy Horror, Romantic Horror, Sci-Fi Horror and more. Plus, John and Dana erupt in drama over the finer nuances of Big Foot as Dana asserts her feminist dominance; John’s sleeping on the couch over this one.
In a turn of events, we also talk about the new Star Wars trailer, and somehow end up discussing original series Star Trek.
Episode 10: Anniversary Horror Spectacular
Dana is back for our landmark 10th episode to discuss the Horror Masters. Can she hack it in this oppressive man’s world? Does she have the skills to communicate her ideas to the oppressive megalomaniac John?
Plus, Gedge talks about the horror movies he’s been watching, and we discuss their connections to masters of horror, from H.P. Lovecraft to Dario Argento.
Zombies and You: Overload of the Living Dead
So zombies… I can’t think of anything in pop culture that I have more of a love/hate relationship with than zombies. The concept is deceptively simple: the dead rise from the grave and want to eat brains. You can really layer whatever other story elements you want on top of that core concept. You can have zombie war movies, zombie love stories, zombie comedies; pretty much anything works. It’s such a broad concept that casual fans can tune in and out without having to worry about any complex mythos, but still malleable enough that horror buffs can argue the merits of fast zombies versus slow zombies, or comet zombies versus radioactivity zombies (I like my zombies slow and of unknown origin).
Which Wytch do I Switch?
This post is part of a series on horror fundamentals, exploring the monsters and the reasons we fear them.
It’s a little tough to pin down what exactly a witch is, because everyone has a slightly different perception of who and what a witch really is; a cursory example would be the fact that the Wikipedia disambiguation page for the word is one of the longest I’ve encountered. Digging even slightly deeper, we learn that witches are divided into good and bad camps from the Wizard of Oz universe. Joss Whedon tells us that the girl next door, on whom literally everyone has a crush, could well be a witch. MacBeth’s run-ins with the witches shook the royal courts of Scotland. Closest to home, at least for this writer, a small Massachusetts down forever defined the phrase “witch hunt” by burning a group of innocent women at the stake.
Episode 9: Horror Fundamentals
It’s time to kickoff Horror Month with a whole podcast devoted to the big question: What is horror? In this super sized episode we go all the way back from Dante up to the present and look at different types of horror, why we like horror, what it all means, and why some people just plain get it wrong. There’s a lot to chew on here, so sit back, relax, and let the terror take you over.
It's Cool, But It Sucks. 