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In this episode, we're out for blood. We read Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire and watched the film adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise! Sources: Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice "Anne Rice: The Interview with the Vampire novelist on her daughter's death, living through her own funeral and the dangers of Oxford" by Adam Jacques, The Independent "What is Postmodernism?", Victoria & Albert Museum "Why the Grand Guignol was so shocking" by Holly Williams, BBC  "Literary Blueprints: The Byronic Hero" by Amber Kelly, Ploughshares at Emerson College   Interview with the Vampire (1995) Directory commentary "In the Shadow of the Vampire", featurette

James joins us to talk about his upcoming anthology picks and, well, we get derailed.   Music is "Supernatural" by Kevin MacLeod, Incompetch Find it at https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4446-supernatural Carpenter quotes from the documentary, Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue

In this edition of the Mailbag, we read your answers to the listener question, answer a couple of questions from you guys, and tell you what we've been up to! Monster Kid Projects Hamish's horror movie review blog For Dying Out Loud James D's (@jamesd7004) short film "The Monster" Pete's band The Smart Folk Andrew Tibbs - My Horror Listen to @DJBadHombre spin metal on Thursdays at 6PM Eastern - The Stress Factor on 91.5 WUML Superfight! Setting: Abandoned shopping mall Handicap: Ground is slick with blood and gore Jacob - Army of the undead, posessed by demonic Buffalo Bill Tab - Cujo, multiplies when wet

We're exploring the darker side of TV journalism and the desire for fame with To Die For and Nightcrawler! Sources To Die For (1995) "Grins, Gore, and Videotape: The Trouble With the Local TV News" by Eric Pooley, New York Magazine "A Role to Die For" by Bob Strauss, South Florida Sun Sentinel "Women Who Kill Part 2" by Katherine Ramsland, TruTV Crime Library   Nightcrawler (2014) "Dan and Tony Gilroy of Nightcrawler Talk Media Ugliness in the Digital Age: Q&A" by Mike Fleming, Jr., Deadline "Jake Gyllenhaal's Grueling Nightcrawler Transformation", ABC News "WWE", "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" "Facebook", "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" "THAT'S CRINGE: Jake Paul Teacher Diss", Cody Ko  

We sit down to a nice family dinner with Parents and Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are! Sources: Parents (1989) Director/producer commentary with Bob Balaban and Bonnie Palef "Leftovers to Be" featurette "Inside Out" featurette "Vintage Tastes" featurette "Mother's Day" featurette "Once Upon a Honeymoon" short   We Are What We Are (2013) "We Are What We Are Director Q&A" by Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly "Director Jim Mickle sinks teeth into We Are What We Are remake" by Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times  

In this edition of the Mailbag, we read your answers to the listener question, answer a couple of questions from you guys, and tell you what we've been up to! Monster Kid Projects Hamish's horror movie review blog For Dying Out Loud James D's (@jamesd7004) short film "The Monster" Pete's band The Smart Folk Andrew Tibbs - My Horror Listen to @DJBadHombre spin metal on Thursdays at 6PM Eastern - The Stress Factor on 91.5 WUML Superfight! Setting: Antarctic research station Handicap: Surrounded by a horde of final girls Jacob - Birds, wearing razorblade gloves Tab - Leatherface, wearing a razorblade glove

Mando joins us to talk about two excellent films dealing with creatures that aren't quite human, but aren't exactly monster either - The Descent & Pandorum! Sources: The Descent (2005): "Millar's Movie: Shauna loved working in the dark" by John Millar, The Sunday Mail "Descent into hell" by Nick Morrison, The Northern Echo "10 Fun Facts You Didn't Know About the Descent" by Kayleigh Marie Edwards, The Spooky Isles "Beneath The Descent", featurette   Pandorum (2009) "Underrated Film: Pandorum (2009)" by Simon Andrews, ScreenGeek "Interview with Infinity Chamber and Pandorum's Travis Milloy" by Taylor Holmes, taylorholmes.com  

Can we last the night?  We talk siege narratives with the criminally underrated Demon Knight and the Tarantino/Rodriguez mashup From Dusk Till Dawn! Sources Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995) Director commentary with Ernest Dickerson Special effects commentary with special effects creator Todd Masters, visual effects supervisor John Van Vilet, special effects coordinator Thomas Bellissimo, and demon performer Walter Phelan Under Siege: The Making of Demon Knight, featurette   From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Full Tilt Boogie (1996), making of documentary "From Dusk Till Dawn - The Oft Forgotten 90s Classic", Scaretissue "Robert Kurtzman Interview", Backwoods Horror "15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About From Dusk Till Dawn", IFC

We're joined yet again by James to discuss a more modern take on cyclical anthologies, Southbound! Sources: "TIFF 2015: Southbound directors discuss their horror film" by Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly "Meet the Crew: Composers: Nick Castle and James Bairain", Ain't it Cool News Dana Gould: "Let Me Put My Thoughts In You" "Funhouse" The Dana Gould Hour Podcast   Find James on Twitter - @CalamityJames4  

In this edition of the Mailbag, we read your answers to the listener question, answer a couple of questions from you guys, and tell you what we've been up to! Monster Kid Projects Hamish's horror movie review blog For Dying Out Loud James D's (@jamesd7004) short film "The Monster" Pete's band The Smart Folk Andrew Tibbs - My Horror Listen to @DJBadHombre spin metal on Thursdays at 6PM Eastern - The Stress Factor on 91.5 WUML Superfight! Setting: Transylvanian Castle Handicap: Fighting on top of a cursed Native burial ground Jacob - Edgar Allan Poe as a ghost, can only be defeated by destroying his physical remains Tab - Pazuzu, can command armies of the undead

We're joined yet again by James to discuss one of the first horror anthologies - the Ealing Studios classic Dead of Night! Sources "Horror", British Board of Film Classification "Appreciating Dead of Night, the Birth of the Horror Anthology" by Kyle Anderson, Nerdist "Dead of Night", Encyclopedia Brittanica "Dead of Night - the movie that changed the universe" by Simon Singh, The Guardian   Find James on Twitter - @CalamityJames4

In a theme four years in the making, we dissect two films that out-Hitchcocked Hitchcock - Les Diaboliques and Peeping Tom! Sources Les Diaboliques (1955) "Diabolique: Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" by Terrence Rafferty, Criterion Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) by Susan Hayward. 2005. University of Illinois Press. Peeping Tom (1960) "Film Legend Karlheinz Bohm" by Benjamin Maack, Spiegel Online "Martin Scorsese on Peeping Tom and Michael Powell" M A

In our latest episode, we examine Ari Aster's two feature films - Hereditary and Midsommar and Aster's expertise in conveying grief through his work. Ari Aster's short "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons" Ari Aster's short "Munchausen"   Sources Hereditary (2018) "11 Memorable Facts About Hereditary" by Michele Debczak, Mental Floss "How the Creepy Models were Made in Hereditary" Movies Insider "Hereditary: Director Ari Aster Breaks Down the Film's Ominous Opening Scene" by Jenna Marotta, Indiewire "Hereditary writer-director Ari Aster reveals incidents from his own life have inspired the horror film" Firstpost "Director Ari Aster Says Hereditary is a Family Drama At Its Core" by Mallory Yu, NPR "Toni Collette Didn't Want to Scare You Shitless in Hereditary. But She Will." by Kevin Fallon, Daily Beast "Alex Wolff Tells Us How Gnarly Hereditary Scene Drew Real Blood" by Beatrice Verhoeven, The Wrap "The biggest shock in Hereditary was almost much worse" by Bryan Bishop, The Verge "Explaining the End of Hered

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We delve into the world of high fantasy with one of Tab's favorites, The Last Unicorn, and the once maligned cult favorite The Black Cauldron! Sources The Last Unicorn (1982) Writer/Publisher Commentary with Peter S. Beagle "Immortal Characters", BluRay featurette "Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, Immortal at 50" by Ceridwen Christensen, Barnes & Noble "Joy, Sorrow, Regret, and Reassurance: The Singular Beauty of The Last Unicorn" by Bridget McGovern, tor.com   The Black Cauldron (1985) "Revisiting The Black Cauldron, the movie that almost killed Disney" by Dan Kois, Slate "The History of Disney's Scariest Attraction, Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour" Defunctland

Tab reads Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol a chapter a night before Christmas! Scrooge is a new man and sets off immediately to make things right and show that he will keep Christmas in his heart all the livelong year . . .  "The Story Behind Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" by Hugh Mulligan "A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary, and Notes" by Rich Bowen

Tab reads Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol a chapter a night before Christmas! The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come forces Scrooge to confront what might await him if he continues his miserly ways . . . "The Story Behind Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" by Hugh Mulligan "A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary, and Notes" by Rich Bowen

Tab reads Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol a chapter a night before Christmas! Scrooge is taken on a tour of the current Christmas Day to observe the people to whom he is closest . . . "The Story Behind Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" by Hugh Mulligan "A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary, and Notes" by Rich Bowen

Tab reads Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol a chapter a night before Christmas! We continue our story with a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past and a look at Scrooge's younger days . . . "The Story Behind Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" by Hugh Mulligan "A Christmas Carol: Glossary, Commentary, and Notes" by Rich Bowen

In our second installment of our Going Ape series, we look at the two darkest entries in the Planet of the Apes franchise - Escape From the Planet of the Apes and, Jacob's favorite, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! Sources: "Behind the Planet of the Apes" documentary Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971) "Why Escape From the Planet of the Apes was Ahead of its Time" by Don Kaye, Den of Geek "The Secret Behind Escape", Legacy Collection featurette The Celluloid Closet, documentary Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) "Riots and Revolutions: Confronting the Times", Legacy Collection featurette