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Welcome back to Fright School! This week, Joshua cries Elder Millennial Abuse and continues to pine for Hugh Jackman. Joe has thoughts on MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and LILO & STITCH. Joshua joined a GEEKSCAPE live to break down the new Paul Reubens documentary PEE WEE AS HIMSELF. We took a trip to our local cinema to check out BRING HER BACK! Spoilers abound! We discuss the psycho biddy genre, the cult of counseling, and grief as a means to an end. ‘Bring Her Back' Review: A Foster Mother Like No Other The Geekscape "Pee-Wee As Himself" Discussion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We catch up on 4 year old information about Marjorie Taylor Greene. Joe is studying the geopolitical ramifications of Eurovision. What new movies are we most excited about? This week, we take another trip with CLIMAX. This film has everything you could want in French cinema: suffering children, sexual misconduct, incest, Le Dance. This movie is like if PARIS IS BURNING took place at the SUSPIRIA dance academy after a hostile takeover by Timothy Leary. Oh, incidentally, have you heard about the FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL? Exploring The Meaning Of Gaspar Noe's 'Climax' By Travis Bean Climax By Peter Kim George Gaspar Noé Retrospective: ‘Climax' by Raúl Alejandro Mendoza Tatty Macleod on French Cinema Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joe is doing physically well while Joshua is dying of the consumption. Joshua hopped on the Geekscape YouTube channel to give his chaotic thoughts on ANDOR. Joe talks Joshua into seeing THUNDERBOLTS* because Julia Louis-Dreyfus. This week, we sink our teeth into SINNERS. Well, we take a nibble because this film is DEEP. We chat about the cautionary tales of horror, the film's rather classic take on vampires with an interesting twist on invitation, and the mind-blowing, blues soaked soundtrack. Recommended Reading: Sinners Is Bold, Ambitious, and Just Misses Greatness By Angelica Jade Bastién SINNERS: How Ryan Coogler Shook Hollywood! with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes Check out Joshua discussing ANDOR on the Geekscape Channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week, we predict how the horror genre will respond to the Trump Era. We reflect on the subject of fatness in horror after reading Dread Central's recent article on CARRIE. Joe's takeover continues with IDLE HANDS (1999). We remind our listeners that cannabis is legal for recreational use in California. We discuss the Columbine Massacre's affect on the film, overcomplicate the film with a discussion of our bodies in revolt, and pick some of our favorite teen horror films that climax at a dance! Recommended reading: Why Has a Fat Girl Still Never Been Cast as Carrie White? by Josh Korngut Charting the Dumb Charm of ‘Idle Hands' Through its Soundtrack by Emma Garland Horror: A study on Cliver Barker part 19, The Body Politic by OJB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! This week Joe is taking over once again and we're getting lost in the weeds literally... We're examining the relationship between cannabis and horror by kicking it off with a stoner horror double feature of SCARY MOVIE and SCARY MOVIE 2! We chat about parody films, why getting high pairs well with getting scared, and 25 years of the original SCARY MOVIE! Recommended reading: Why Weed Makes Horror Movies Way Better by Nicole Flanigan Blunt Force Trauma: A Look At Cannabis In Horror by Andrew Ward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School, kiddies! We discuss our DIE initiatives. Joshua and Joe recap the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary (well isn't that) Special! Joshua shares about some favorite SNL movies while Joe is first in line for tickets to The Culps comeback tour. This week, we wrap up (for now...) our Tales From The Crypt deep die-ve with THE ASSASSIN (season 6 episode 8). We interrogate the early 90s precarious, and often preposterous, depiction of Trans people in the 90s. 5 Tales of Queer Terror from TV Anthologies By Paul Lê  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week, we are picking back up with our TALES FROM THE CRYPT franchise deep dive! But first! Please welcome to the stage Miss Nora Virus! What are Joe's thoughts on WICKED, you ask? We chat about our feelings of musical adaptations in general. We watched two episodes of TALES FROM THE CRYPT this week: ONLY SIN DEEP and DEAD RIGHT! We discuss the dubious morality plays of TFTC, fatphobia and further villainization of fat bodies, and the double edged sword at the throats of ambitious women. Also, White people doing Voodoo in the 80s? Groundbreaking. Further Reading: Lessons of Virtue in Tales From The Crypt? by Briana Brucato. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We start off discussing holiday presents! Joe is journaling... or trying to. Have you read A NOUN of NOUN and NOUNS by Proper Noun Initial. Initial. Proper Noun? Was it any good? Joe is building his TBR and needs recs. We prepare to enter the Drag Race Cinematic Universe (DRCU). This week, we took a trip to see the new remastered version of SE7EN in IMAX! Despite being set in Vague Metropolis, we discuss New York as a character in film. We also revisit the discussion of the apocalyptic visions of horror from way back in season 1 of FS, SE7EN's juxtaposition of apathy and hope, and explore the possible Magical Negro trope in the film as informed by HORROR NOIRE. While Joshua enjoys the relentless rain of the film, Joe gives us an update on the 7 Deadly Sins. Here at Fright School we have been very lucky to meet, talk with, and become friends with so many horror creators across the seasons of our show. Now we find that so many of our wonderful community are directly being affected by the fires burning in Los Angeles, California. Our hearts are with everyone affected and who have lost so much. Please consider helping in any way you can: Resources To Support Those Affected By The L.A. Fires Further reading about SE7EN: ‘Se7en': A Rain-Drenched, Somber, Gut-Wrenching Thriller that Restored David Fincher's Faith in Filmmaking By Sven Mikulec Colors and visual storytelling in SE7EN by Debaditya Sekhar Jena Writing The Horror Movie: The Inner Psychology of Se7en, Drag Me To Hell & Dawn of the Dead By Jacob Krueger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy New Fear, FRIGHT SCHOOL! We kick off the year venting about vaguebooking. We share our New Year's resolutions... or whatever. Joshua turned 40! This week, we kick off our January Franchise Deep Dive with a twist! Yes, Boils, Ghouls, Slays, and Grims we're crawling into the coffin with the Cryptkeeper and TALES FROM THE CRYPT! Inspired by our participation in ranking the top 10 episodes of TFTC, we're watching 5 of those episodes of the creepy classic and breaking them down as only Fright School can. Gird your loins for more macabre puns than should be legal! Geekscape's Top 10 Episodes of Tales from the Crypt Recommended reading: Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives Hardcover by Digby Diehl  Follow the whole GEEKSCAPE horror squad: Jersey Ghouls The Monster Rally Podcast Horror Movie Night Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIGHT SCHOOL! We have so much to catch up on! We chat about WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. Joshua is watching a serial killer's life flash before his eyes with DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN. Joe is taking a joy ride with the LINCOLN LAWYER. We try and fail with the harmonies of the HALLELUJAH choir. This week we took a trip to the thee-ay-tuh to see Robert Eggers reimagining of NOSFERATU! We discuss the ghoulish titular vampire, Willem Defoe's casting, and Joe conjures his own incubus.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from us at Fright School! This week we reflect on the FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL! Joe and Joshua both started new jobs! Instead of chatting about a specific movie this week, we discuss our favorite Halloween watches and traditions. If you STAY spooky, you don't have to GET spooky! Here's to another season! Check out the Geekscape's Top 10 Episodes of Tales from the Crypt! Going to be in San Diego? Check out Backyard Renaissance's production of Stephen King's MISERY adapted for the stage by William Goldman! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Willkommen zurück in der Fright School! This week we welcome Pia Thrasher to the Wes Craven Memorial Library! Pia is an award winning actor, writer, director, and multi-media artist drawn to dark and surreal themes. Joe discusses DIDI and his connection to the film. Joshua and Pia bond over their love of ATOMIC BLONDE. This week, the group engages in Joshua's favorite self-care activity: THE DEVIL'S BATH. TRIGGER WARNING! The group discusses the "rationality" of suicide-by-proxy, Catholic death rites, the struggle for those that do not fit into neat boxes to survive in any society, and the role context may play in depression. Find out more about Pia Thrasher HERE! Join her Childless Cat Ladies Club! A hell of an incentive for murder: a rationalist's guide to suicide by Mike Pottenger Suicide by Proxy: In early Modern Europe, suicide was a sin to be punished with eternal damnation. Some women found an awful workaround: committing murder. Tragic History Informs the Slow Burn Horrors of The Devil's Bath By Kathy Michelle Chacón   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua and Joe are both drink goblins! Joe kicks off Spooky Season with some pumpkin spice. We continue to work on the FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL! this week we traveled to the BORDERLAND (2007). We discuss the ethics of horror films "based on actual events," the Mexico border in the American Imagination, and how the ongoing War on Drugs informs more horror films than it helps people struggling with addiction. The Narcosatanist (HBO): A docuseries chronicling a rash of brutal murders linked to alleged drug-dealing satanic serial killers Adolfo Costanza and Sara Aldrete. The Narco Saint: How a Mexican folk idol got conscripted into the drug wars by Ann Neumann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we are celebrating Summerween! Joshua doesn't know shit about THE FLINTSTONES but he has been catching up on INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Joe is once again attacked by fatphobia and he has the scar to prove it! We're dedicating the next few episodes to an exploration of fact versus fiction starting with WINCHESTER (2018)! We break down the myths associated with Sarah Winchester, her spooky house, and the famous rifle. Is the true horror just patriarchy and capitalism?! We're throwing a BALL! Visit our links for all the info on the FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL! Winchester: The True Ghost Story Behind Helen Mirren's Haunted House Thriller By Joanna Robinson Labyrinth of Lies: The Truth Behind the Sarah Winchester Mystery House Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bienvenue à Fright School! We're going French again this week! But first, we're going to Comic Con! Find us hanging out at the Geekscape booth #1632 all week long. Keep an eye on our social media for dispatches from the con throughout the week. We share some CC memories and look forward to seeing our friend and Podfather, Matt Kelly (from Horror Movie Night, White People Problems, Christmas 365, Weird Al-gorithm, One Hit Thunder and the many other shows he produces since he does not seem to need sleep)! This week we watched CALVAIRE. What could go wrong when a cabaret singer gets stranded in the Belgium countryside? We discuss the brutal intimacy of the film, debate whether a film can be feminist without centering women characters, and Joshua teaches Joe a new word. Follow us everywhere @FrightSchool! Check out our links HERE We're throwing a ball! Check out the Freaky Kiki Horror Ball coming this October! ‘Calvaire' and Horror in the Absence of a Matriarch by Jenn Adams THE DISQUIETING GUEST — CALVAIRE AND THE TYRANNIES OF DESIRE by Skiffy Fanty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to FRIGHT SCHOOL! Happy Pride Week, San Diego! Joshua saw LONGLEGS and IN A VIOLENT NATURE with mixed results. Joe spent an evening in a women's prion with Melissa Etheridge. What's up with Joe and prisons lately? Joshua does a terrible David Attenborough impression. This week, we get back to Joe's Catholic roots with SAINT MAUD! We discuss the allusions to CARRIE, THE EXORCIST, and DON'T LOOK NOW, how faith can sometimes look like mental illness and vice versa, reality testing, and the ecstasy of godgasms. Recommended reading: Saint Maud and the Terror of God's Presence by Christina Pasqua Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joe went to Palm Springs to study Queer zoology. Joshua gives Joe a fashion lesson (again). This week the Queers bash back in DEPARTING SENIORS! Is this HEARTSTOPPER with a slasher? We discuss the ongoing SCREAM influence in meta horror, James Baldwin's thoughts on White gays, and internalized homophobia. Fun stuff, kids! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School! Happy St. Patrick's Day! How many pints of Irish are you? Joe is having a reunion with GIRLS5EVA and taking all of that girl power one step further with LOVE LIES BLEEDING. Joshua saw Madonna in Silver Daddy Land aka Palm Springs. This week, we are finishing up our mini salute to the Mary Shelley's enduring work FRANKENSTEIN with LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)! This neon piece of comedy horror gets a bit overshadowed by its reverence for its references, but it is fun spotting the many and varied Easter eggs hiding in it. We wonder what the Future Legendary Spooky Children will think of the film in a few decades, chat about Diablo Cody's universe, and realize there is little to actually compare the film to in Mary Shelley's original novel. Oh well! Dig up some cans of TAB from the graveyard of 80s nostalgia, pop some popcorn, grab LISA FRANKESNTEIN, WEIRD SCIENCE and BEETLEJUICE and you may have the makings for a perfect slumber party with the Monster High Ghouls... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua catches Joe up on 22 years of SOUTH PARK history. Joe breaks down SCHMIGADOON. Joe is also gifting the world with a Cabaret to benefit Lambda Archives! This week we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of EX MACHINA (2014). We compare the film to BLACK MIRROR, discuss human responsibility and AI, explore the film's relationship to FRANKENSTEIN, and debate the ethics of ChatGPT. Can a fashion forward gynoid drink a Cosmo? Monstrous Creators and Exploited Creatures: Ex Machina and Frankenstein by Screen Queens An Examination of Themes of Consciousness and Humanity in Ex Machina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is doing some deep processing. Joe is seeking thoughts on the state of new Beyoncé music. This week we're taking it back 30 years to MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN! We compare the film with previously discussed adaptations, learn about Romanticism, and find ourselves in awe of Robert De Niro's Monster. MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994): A RETROSPECTIVE by Keri O'Shea 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein': The (Almost) Perfect Adaptation of a Horror Classic by Matthew Mosley The Cultural Historical Context of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Sandra M. M. Gastaldi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joe got his hair did! We discuss THE NEW LOOK and FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS. This week we chat about THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER (2023). We break down the FRANKENSTEIN references at work in the film, discuss systemic violence, the state of mental health and substance use treatment, and the pressure on Black women to save us all. The Humanity at the Heart of The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster by JP Nunez THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER IS A HARROWING TAKE ON THE FRANKENSTEIN TALE by Tai Gooden ‘The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster' Review: A High Schooler Tries to Bring Back Her Dead Brother in Uneven Indie Horror By Murtada Elfadl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we get into it about our shifting Queer culture. We compare and contrast Queer As Folk, Looking, and Love, Simon. We're continuing our Black Horror History dive with ABBY (1974)! Hitting theatres almost a year to the day of THE EXORCIST's release, Abby was quickly mired in legal troubles from Warner Bros. We compare the two films, discuss the Queerness of the film, and get curious about the Christian and Yoruba themes and the way Africa is envisioned in the western imagination. Spectacular Degradation: Exploitation Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine in ABBY and THE EXORCIST by Lea Anderson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We are excited to be joined once again by Professor T.J. who tells us all about their return to JEOPARDY! Joe revisits DISTRICT 9. We are once again celebrating Black History Month with an ode to HORROR NOIRE with MA (2019)! T.J. called it a "misfire on every level" back in 2019 and we're very excited to hear about his current thoughts on the film. We also compare MA to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, recast the film with Melissa McCarthy in order to interrogate the racial themes, explore Black women's access to their rage, and briefly discuss mental health themes in the film. Joshua and T.J. bond over bad alcohol choices in their misguided youth. Did everyone have a MA in their neighborhood? The Trouble with the Movie MA by Isabella L Price We Asked A Psychiatrist To Analyze 'Ma' By Matthew Jacobs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joe can't stop singing "Live and let Die.'" Joshua goes all ASMR trying some of Joe's cookies. We debate seeing MEAN GIRLS: THE MUSICAL. We also get nostalgic with QUEER AS FOLK and Joe shares his top 3 sex scenes. This week we wrap up Jigsaw January with SAW IV! We break down the ongoing father/son relationship trope in the series, discuss some of the confusing politics at play, and wonder about the film's role in building radical empathy. Using Saw IV as a Primer on Social Justice Brian C. Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We welcome back to the show Young David! We catch up with him and discuss how the new year is going so far. David offers his best of 2023 picks. We discuss Oscar nominations and post hot strike summer. This week, we're continuing our Jigsaw January with SAW III! We break down our favorite traps, finding a sense of purpose, and discuss the family dynamics often highlighted in the SAW franchise. Take notes kids, THIS is what back alley neurosurgery is supposed to look like! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! It's a whole new year of FEAR! We start off with a chat about our New Year's experiences. Joshua read some books. Joe plans to read the other 11 books he meant to read last year. We share our thoughts on SALTBURN. Feeling thirsty? Whose bathwater would you most like to drink? In honor of the 20th anniversary of SAW we are dedicating our 2024 January Franchise Deep Dive to the sequels in the sadistic series. This week, the secret word is trypanophobia as we find ourselves trapped in the filthy needle pit that is SAW II. We compare Jigsaw to Job, Joshua gives a lesson in blood-injection-injury phobias, and Joe is grateful for his escape room experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy New Fear! We're looking back at 2023 and sharing our favorite moments! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Horrordays, Fright School! To celebrate, we thought we'd release this chat between Joshua and Jacki from the JERSEY GHOULS celebrating 50 years of THE EXORCIST! This streamed as part of Geekscape's Holiday Livestream-tacular! We hope your holiday season, however you may celebrate, has been kind to you! Scary Cryptmas, children, and here's to a New Year filled with FEAR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Thank you for sticking with us while we navigated some technical issues behind the scenes! This week we took in SAW... X? 10? 1.5? Whatever! We were just happy to see Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith taking the franchise back to basics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua threw his annual Halloween party! Thanks again to everyone who came out to our THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW screening with Lambda Archives and Diversionary Theatre! It was a wild and untamed success! This week it's more Hammer Horror with CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to another Fright School Field Trip! We went to see THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER and have some thoughts that are about as convoluted as the plot of this film... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we welcome director (among many other things) Sam Irvin to the show! We discuss Sam's horror pedigree, his fanzine BIZARRE, and his books I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER HUNTER: How I Met Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, & More! and The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY! Joshua and Sam, who just so happens to have directed ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS, reminisce about their trip to Romania with Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. This week, we continue our Hammer Horror jaunt with BRIDES OF DRACULA! We discuss the Queerness of the film, connections to our discussion of Hitchcock's ROPE, Sam's changing relationship with the film, and some fun behind-the-scenes tidbits! We are celebrating LGBTQ History Month with a discussion on Queer horror and THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Get tickets NOW! Titillation And Trepidation: Revisiting Hammer's Queer Outings by Samantha McLaren Find Sam on Facebook and Instagram Get a copy of Sam Irvin's book I Was a Teenage Monster Hunter! Signed copies at Dark Delicacies! We're giving away a copy so check our Instagram for all the details! Sam Irvin's latest book The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY now available on Amazon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We are kicking off our EIGHT season! In honor of LGBTQ History Month, we are teaming up with LAMBDA Archives and the Diversionary Theatre for a showing of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! Join us for a discussion of the enduring legacy of the film and new perspectives on its meaning to Queer audiences. Joe is catching up on the GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW. Our 2023 Halloween Horror Film Challenge is out NOW and it's all about horror sequels. This Spooky Season we are reflecting on the history of Hammer Film Productions and Hammer Horror which has brought us some of the most iconic portrayals of famous monsters like Christopher Lee's Dracula. This week we focus on HORROR OF DRACULA. We discuss the updates to Bram Stoker's original story, comparisons to the Bela Lugosi film, the repression inherent in Victorian age sexuality and morality, and the influence of contemporary British culture of the 1970s on the story. The House of Horror: A History of Hammer Films by Stephen Carver Horror of Dracula from Senses of Cinema by Tony Williams Queer Horror: Screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Panel Discussion with LAMBDA Archives and Fright School! 31 Days of Horror Sequels 2023 Challenge Calendar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! The summer tourists are leaving San Diego just in time for the Invasion of the College Students from OUT OF STATE! Joshua forgot about scratched CDs! Count yourself among the lucky if you have no idea what he is talking about. This week we take on teenage alienation- literally- with THE FACULTY. It's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS meets THE BREAKFAST CLUB with a twist of THE THING! Oh, the late 90s! What a time! We discuss the pressures of conformity, invasion anxiety, the rather subversive pro-drug messaging in the film, and small town nihilism. Let's get high and stay alive! The Faculty is the bleakest and most subversive film of the '90s studio teen-horror cycle By Alex McLevy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joe talks about drag on Guam! Joshua tries some Chamorro Chip Cookies! This week we take it back with the cult classic PROM NIGHT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to get back to Fright School! Joe regales us with tales from Guam! We discuss plane rides as we age. Once you get that taste of a few more inches of space, it is hard to go back! Joshua catches Joe up on the state of his practicum experience. She's therapisting ya'll! This week, we went to the movies (though thousands of miles apart) to see TALK TO ME! We take on the comparisons to HEREDITARY, addiction narratives, and internalizing the dangerous messages we come across on social media. Fright School Patreon! Join now for access to video episodes and watch as Joe flips the tables on Joshua on the After Fright School Special! Talk to Me Ending and Meaning Explained By Aaron Sagers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We are wrapping up our PRIDE season! We welcome Ben to the show. Joe's a volunteer. We need Vanjie's List. Ben's a SCREAM! This week, we take another French turn with TITANE. We chat about objectophilia, gender affirmation, techno anxiety, and how family is often what you make of it. What a great theme to end PRIDE season on! We are taking a few weeks off for a summer break! See you in the fall! It's almost SPOOKY SEASON! Sex Drive: ‘Titane' and the Meaning of Horror Titane Movie Explained: Ending, Themes & Identity Crisis Analysed Interview: Julia Ducournau on Building Her Own Modern Mythology with Titane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bonsoir et bienvenue à Fright School! We're going French again! Joe has jury duty! We discuss the importance of showing up and trying to make the justice system a little better. This week we watched STRANGER BY THE LAKE, a cautionary tale for the Promiscuous Homosexual trope. We give a lesson in cruising culture, the French film's meditations on sex, death, and desire, and the visceral (almost boring) sex on display. Joshua discusses a theory on incel behavior and the economics of Queer sex that may benefit us all. We share some of the most dangerous things we have done while trying to find a hook up. Straight Men Who Have Sex With Other Men: In Their Own Words by Michael Shelton Dangerous Undertow in a Cruisers' Haven by A.O Scott Stranger by the Lake review: Alain Guiraudie's spellbinding erotic mystery by Ben Walters Silence Equals Death in “Stranger By The Lake” by Richard Brody Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We kick off by discussing what we've been watching. Joshua finally saw RENFIELD! We also get into some BEEF. Joe gets down to some Bidi Bidi Padam Dam and is feeling GLAMOROUS. This week we watched WINDOWS from 1980! Made at the same time as CRUISING, it experienced similar significant (well deserved?) backlash. It's another story of a predatory lesbian on the prowl that almost everyone involved regrets making. WINDOWS 1980 analysis by Ken Anderson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices