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Welcome back to The Nightmare Feed.  Today we're gonna talk about ZOMBIES.  Yes finally, we're bridging the subject into the more popular sub genre in horror.  Now, we won't just be talking about the undead, but also horror where the victims are scientifically classified as "Zombified." What is it about the walking dead and zombification that captures horror fans so deeply?  Is it the taboo of our corpses shambling around, or the fact that their always cannibalistic in some way.  Whatever it is, there is something that captures an almost universally accepted sense of horror when it comes to Zombies.In This Episode:Trending: Evan Peters Cast as Jeffrey Dahmer in Ryan Murphy's Monster at NetflixBooks: The Hobgoblin of Little Minds by Mark MatthewsGames: MundaunAnd, of course, Reed and Joe's picks of some of their favorite Zombie movies!SUPPORT THE NIGHTMARE FEED

Welcome back to The Nightmare Feed.  Today Reed and Joe are talking about one of their favorite decades in horror... The 90'sBoth Reed and Joe are kids of the 90's, meaning this was the horror they were consuming when they were teenagers.  Today they want to talk about some hidden gems of the 90's that they loved growing up, and share them with you!Discussed In This Episode:Trending Horror Rumor: Rob Zombie - Munsters MovieUpcoming Horror Movie: Antlers (2021)Horror Books: 3 Hits from the HollerAnd, of course, Joe and Reed's picks for Hidden Gems of the 90's!

Welcome back to The Nightmare Feed!Reed and Joe are back after taking a break over the holidays. To kick off season 2 they are discussing what they watched over the last few months!In This Episode:Pale Blue Eye starring Christian Bale goes straight to NetflixThe Gates Of Chaos - In 2020, amidst the panic and confusion of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the online group Horror Writers Net tasked its most twisted and deranged minds with imagining the worst. This anthology of 20 short tales of Horror fiction is the result of their efforts. A work of passion and fear, the collection features illustrations by pen & ink artist Will Jacques, and stories by B.T. Noonan, Jesse D'Angelo, N.M. Brown, Wayne Hartshorn, Florence Ann Marlowe, Adam Michael Dodds-Wade, Brianna Van Riet, James Miles, Valkyrie Kerry, Nelson Hurley, Chris Stenson, Scott Dyson, Jim Falcon, and Rob Harman.Returnal - an upcoming third-person shooter psychological horror video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is set to be released for the PlayStation 5 on April 30, 2021.And of course, their top picks of the week!We hope you enjoy this return to The Nightmare Feed!

Welcome back, Horror Heads!In this Halloween edition of The Nightmare Feed, Reed and Joe are joined by writer/director Erik Kristopher Myers. In this episode they discuss some of their favorite horror movies to watch around Halloween ranging from American Werewolf in London to Suspiria.Make sure to also check out the movies by Erik Kristopher Myers - Butterfly Kisses and Roulette.Happy Halloween!

Welcome back Horror Heads! In this week's episode Reed and Joe square off on who is the better Final Girl - Sidney Prescott or Laurie Strode.They talk about who has the better story, who is a part of the better franchise, who has the best story development, who would win in a fight and what would happen if the roles were reversed. So join them and voice your opinion on who was the best Final Girl!!

Welcome to this episode of the Nightmare Feed where Reed and Joe take a look at some of their favorite apocalyptic horror movies.They discus how the end of the world can be stopped if it can at all.So take a listen....it could almost be the end.

Welcome back, horror heads! In this episode we discuss one of our favorite horror icons, Dracula! We also decided it would be fun to have a few drinks before (and during) the show. So enjoy this slightly tipsy episode where we talk about Dracula and other vampires!Note: Since we did have a few drinks this episode contains a bit more adult language than our usual episodes. Enjoy!

Join us as we sit down and chat with horror author, publisher and poet John Baltisberger about Kaiju horror, movies, books, video games and a whole lot of other awesome stuff! Make sure you check out John's work at www.kaijupoet.com and his publishing company, Madness Heart Press at www.madnessheart.press.

Welcome to another episode of The Nightmare Feed, today we'll be discussing Contemporary American Noir. In the days of the classic black and white, there was another tradition of films that was not quite horror, not quite thriller, but rather just speculative fiction that was intended to be dark and get inside your head. Sure, some of these would later be classified as horror, such as Freaks (1932), but they were arguable different, special, and unique. This style of film eventually fell out of fashion, being replaced by exploitation films such as circa 60's and 70's Grindhouse. However, in the early 90's and as recent as the 2010's it's come back into the lime light with cult classics such as May (2002), and Teeth (2007).There was even a sweeping movement of contemporary French Noir including films like Raw (2016), which you may remember from our Pride Month Podcast last week. That, however, is a subject for another podcast and will likely include a dozen Revenge Horror flicks.

Welcome to another episode of The Nightmare Feed, today we're going to talk about 'Mad Science' horror! Science gone wrong is a common theme in horror as it connects the audience through the plausibility of the science. Could some mechanized terror be just around the corner? Could some human/alien hybrid be loosed upon us all? The quasi reality behind the stories in this sub genre can compel the deep imagination. When Science Fiction and Horror intersect, it's almost always a treat. Indeed, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is considered to be the founding novel of science fiction and is largely considered to be one of the greatest horror stories ever written...

Welcome to another episode of The Nightmare Feed. Today we're gonna be starting a new tradition on our podcast. While we're not short on topics, we just felt like adding a fun and new idea to the list! Versus! We're gonna talk about a pair of famous horror movie baddies and argue about which one comes out on top. Instead of a pick 5, Reed and Joe each pick a horror movie monster or slasher and square them off. For our purposes, all canon is valid.This time Reed has picked Jason Voorhees and Joe has pickedThe Predator, so stick around till the end, and you be the judge of who won the debate! Don't forget, you can leave comments at Nightmarefeed.com, to add your own opinions, suggestions, and declare a winner.

Join Nightmare Feed for a very special bonus episode where we get a chance to sit down with Harrison Smith, director/writer of Camp Dread and Death House!We talk about his film making and writing processes, how he handles reviews and loads of other topics! So come along and learn more about some amazing movies and a wonderful director/writer!

Welcome to another episode of The Nightmare Feed. This week, for Pride Month, we wanted to focus solely on horror creators, and horror creations that celebrate members of the LGTBQAI.In fact, the foul mouth horror critic himself, and my co-host of The Nightmare Feed, horror author Reed Alexander, describes himself as pansexual. Being attracted to all spectrums of gender.Join us as we discuss our top picks including:Residue (2017)Raw (2017)The Perfection (2018)Let The Right One In (2008)Suspiria (2018)

This week on The Nightmare Feed we will be celebrating the African Americans of Horror. If you're familiar with Reed's Reviews, you know one of the easiest ways to piss Reed off, is to kill off the minorities of a horror movie first, before they get any real screen time. The trope, often coined as "Black Man Dies First" specifically mentions that black actors were frequently used as fodder for movies, so the white actors could get more screen time. In Reed's Horror Rules, he goes on to explain, this includes all minorities now, "Being a minority in the movies is hard enough. But far too often it’s impossible for minority characters to get decent air time as they’re usually the first to die. This is just sad B.S. the industry has been rehashing over the past 50 years. It still counts if an undeveloped white character dies first, if the next to die is a fully developed minority character."

This week on The Nightmare Feed, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We're going to be discussing one of the worst decades in horror, a decade when we experienced the genre completely dry up, with only the occasional oasis. We're talking about 2000 to 2010. The 00 was remarked as arguably the worst decade in horror as it leaned hard on thoughtless, boring fanfare, and bandwagon after bandwagon of rehashed garbage, such as zombies and found footage. It seemed no one had any original ideas, and this was the decade that started franchise remakes. Interestingly enough, one of Reed's all time favorite movies is both a remake, and a zombie bandwagon film of the 00's.We'd also like to take this time on The Nightmare Feed, to talk about real life horror. Over the past week, city after city had become the staging ground for one of the biggest protests we've seen involving BLM. This eventually erupted into violence as police attacked protesters and looters began to take advantage of the social discord. It reminds us here at The Nightmare Feed, that there are two Americas, and for our Black Lives Matter friends, that other America is a dangerous and scary place, where the people you rely on for safety could instead kill you.

This week on the Nightmare Feed join us as we discuss films that were not meant to be horror! We will be talking about a lot of family or children's movies from our past that had some of the most terrifying and disturbing imagery imaginable.We ask ourselves quite a bit in this episode - "What were they thinking?!"

This week on the Nightmare Feed we wanted to focus on a specific subset of slashers, that don't even necessarily have to be horror, but even suspense and thriller. While we won't be delving into any documentary of actual real life serial killers, we may discuss some dramatizations based on the real thing. We're talking psychos! Psychos, serial killers, and mass murderers arguably have just as big a fan-base as horror, that in many ways shares the same space. And yes, most fans of the subset are even Horror Heads.

Hey Horror Heads! This is Reed Alexander! Me and Co-Host Joe-Kernozek sat down with EKM, the writer and director of the indie Horror Butterfly Kisses!We found out, he's just as much a huge horror nerd as me and Joe, and we spent a lot of time discussing our influences, and his most recent movie Butterfly Kisses!Don't forget, you can check out my review of his indie masterpiece on my Vocal.media page: Butterfly Kisses (2018) And if you haven't seen it! Watch that shit on Amazon Prime, Google Play, and Tubi! Check the trailer of Butterfly Kisses!**CAUTION - CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS**

This episode is for the fans. This one is about the movies that turned us into horror heads. This is the episode where we make you feel nostalgic about why you grew to love horror. And to do that, we here at The Nightmare Feed are going to talk about how we became super horror fans.And with any luck, this week will include an interview with Erik Kristopher Myers, director of the indie horror movie, Butterfly Kisses (2018)

In this week's episode we're not just talking about movies, we're talking about the Rubber Monsters that go with them. Our picks are not just based on the quality or entertainment value of the movies themselves, but just how much we love the good ol' Rubber Monsters themselves.For that reason, we won't be talking about CGI Monsters like from Cloverfield (2008). And if the monster doesn't have a specific, consistent form, we can hardly call it a rubber monster. So this excludes Reed's favorite, The Thing (1982). So join us in this Nightmare Feed look into our favorite Rubber Monster Creature Features!

Welcome back to the Nightmare Feed!! This week's episode is a much shorter one. Reed Alexander is recovering from the zombie virus and will be returning next week for our discussion on Rubber Monsters: Our Favorite Creature Features before CGI, but until then I (Joe) decided to spend a few minutes talking about some Horror Video Games including the Resident Evil remakes and some upcoming horror games.Visit the Nightmare Feed website for more reviews on the Resident Evil games and possibly some livestreams of the games!

This week on The Nightmare Feed, we discuss Psychological Horror! The key dynamic that makes psychological horror so damn good, is messing with the viewer's perception to incite terror. This can take many forms. Walking the line between reality and madness, or horror movies that stay completely cerebral by forcing the audience to decide if what they're viewing is really happening to the protagonists, or if it's all in their head. While not one of my top picks, the best use of cerebral horror was arguably Mothman Prophecies (2002). Was Klien's character crazy, or was there really a supernatural creature -The Mothman- terrorizing him. The point is that they never answer this question. On last week's pod, we also discussed the film The Possession of David O'Reilly, which also never completely confesses whether David is actually seeing demons or is just going completely insane.Then there are movies that simply mess with the viewer's perception. Movies where we the audience get to know what's going on the whole time, but it's never certain if what the protagonists are experiencing is real. I'm immediately reminded of Oculus (2013), which reminded me what a tough nut this genre is to crack. If the audience knows what's happening is essentially real to the protagonists, tricking the audience into second guessing the horror can be difficult. While reed personally believe Oculus failed that test, it was later reconstructed masterfully by The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), which at one point held the #4 spot on Reed's 'All Time Top 10.'But we're not here to discuss horror that focuses on the supernatural and simply adds an element of psychological horror. If we did that John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) would end up #1 on this list again and it would get really old pretty fast. What we're discussing here are horror movies that focus almost completely on the psychological elements of horror and are great for having mastered that.

As the curve finally starts to flatten, people are breathing a sigh of relief, and life is slowly returning to normal. Still not sure if they're gonna have theaters open here in NY by mid April, so look for time changes to the movie Antlers (2020), which I'm particularly excited for.BUT, it's not over yet! COVID-19 is still largely an issue so please continue to socially distance appropriately.This week on the Nightmare Feed, we're going to be discussing "Found Footage" or what Reed Alexander likes to call 'Shaky Camera.' In fact, Reed was once quoted as referring to Found Footage Horror as "The newest, shiniest, most polished, and overused piece of shit that's been taking over horror as a genre" and once suggested that as a genre "This trend needs to die, be cremated via incinerator, stuffed in a mirrored box, placed at the bottom of a well, and the well filled with concrete."Well eventually Nightmare Feed's own foul mouthed horror critic warmed to the 'Shaky Camera' genre and even found a few gems hidden in it that he will share with you later, on the pod cast.

Keeping things light here on the Nightmare Feed as we hopefully round the long end of the 2020 Pandemic Shut-in. This week we decided to talk B Movie Horror. And not just any B Horror movies, but those that intentionally aspired to be B Horror.What is it about the B rolls that almost seems to command more admiration than the Hollywood A listers? Is it because part of what makes them so charming is how bad they are? Maybe it’s because they’re absolute trash that makes them so damn fun? Or maybe, it’s the tenacity of the director to “shoot no matter what!” Indeed, Ed Wood, the original master of the B roll saw it as almost his duty to shoot, no matter the hang-up. As a matter of fact, Wood kept horror alive when it was starting to get stale; even overlooked by the rest of the industry.This week on the Nightmare Feed we celebrate the ‘New B’ with gems keeping it alive as a tradition, even though Hollywood now takes Horror seriously. We’ll talk about B from the 90s to the 2010’s and we’ll look at total disasters to come (hopefully once this plague is over).

Horror To Make You Laugh! After over two weeks of being shut in, things are starting to get tense, so we here at Nightmare Feed felt we'd lighten it up and give you a rainbow at the end of the storm. Since most of us are still stuck inside (and will be for the foreseeable future) we decided this week would be dedicated to horror movies that will break some of that tension with comedic elements. On this week's episode we discuss: What's going on in the world. What's trending in internet media. Some fun horror games. And our top picks for horror comedies. We hope everyone is safe and doing well and that these movies (as well as our podcast) will bring a smile to your face.

Binge Worthy Movie and TV Franchises! This week on Nightmare Feed, we are discussing what to binge while you're socially distancing! At the moment, NY, NJ, and CT have baned groups over 10 and closed casinos, malls, theaters, and schools! Even restaurants can only provide food through delivery or take-away, and non-essential travel has been banned. Recently FL also canceled Spring BreakSo, while you're stuck home, what do you watch and what do you play? Nightmare Feed is here to answer just that questions with our recommended list of top franchises, top horror streaming, top horror shows, and top horror games! In this week's episode we discuss: Reed & Joe's picks for best horror streamingReed & Joe's picks for best binge worthy horror franchisesReed & Joe's picks for best horror showsReed & Joe's picks for best horror games

This week's topicsWith COVID-19 topping the news, of course, so is Contagion Survival Horror! There's an important but subtle difference between Contagion Thriller, and Contagion Survival Horror. Thriller is more about the struggle to cure (or fail to cure) the contagion. Horror survival is about exactly that... survival. If you're not surviving the virus, you're surviving the monsters it creates, or you're surviving the social meltdown and what it does to the people. If there's a cure at the end, its almost a fluke. World War Z was more of a contagion action flick than a Zombie film. In my review, I explained that the zombies could be replaced by Terrorists, and Invading Army, or Robots, and it wouldn't change anything about the movie.However, Contagion Survival Horror is hard to pull off unless it's zombies or zombie like creatures. Very often, there isn't a lot about surviving social meltdown unless it includes zombies or monsters. It's like the reveal from The Happening, -SPOILERS- when we find out the trees are killing people. An outbreak movie where the victim just kills themselves was already pretty weak.So, what does Outbreak Horror need to be good? In my opinion, it requires global pandemic. Meaning movies like REC, are really more like Quarantine Horror. I guess that makes The Thing (1982) something like Quarantine Horror in some respects (just kidding). It also requires that struggle for survival. The 'brink of madness, on the edge of oblivion' sense of struggle that makes Zombie Survival so right. In a sense, Outbreak Horror, needs to be Zombie Survival Horror, without the biters.

H. P. Lovecraft, Cosmic Horror, and its influence on cinemaThe popularization of H. P. Lovecraft and Cosmic horror has been sweeping horror media over the last decade. From the 90s through 00s it had almost completely disappeared from horror movies, but was taking over comics and books, keeping it alive. Even still, masters of horror like John Carpenter, Clive Barker, and David Cronenberg were keeping the genre with their creature features and body horror which were deeply influenced by H. P. Lovecraft. Indeed, Carpenters Lovecraftian influences can be see in many of his movies such as my second all time favorite The Thing (1982) which seemed a lot more like At The Mountains of Madness than Who Goes There?, the book it was based on.The 2010's have seen a sudden uptick, not just in cinema, but even in comics and books which, at one point, seemed to be Lovecraft last bastion. Cosmic Horror fandom has been taking over horror and sci-fi conventions alike, nowadays seeming to be almost as popular as Zombie Survival Horror. Indeed, even I got swept up as a writer in the craze, all three of my cosmic horror novellas getting picked up for publication for three consecutive years in a row. In the Shadow of the Mountain (2019), In The Beginning (2020), and Parabiosys (2021).With the 2020 release of Color Out Of Space, featuring Nicolas Cage, this trend shows no sign of slowing. For me, it's a good time to be a cosmic horror writer. For fandom, it's just a great time to be live.In the coming weeks, NightmareFeed will explore the Lovecraftian genre of Cosmic Horror. We'll take a look at some of the works of H. P. Lovecraft, how they've influenced the media, fandom, and even us here at Nightmare Feed. We'll look at Color Out Of Space (2020), and the tumultuous horror career of Nicolis Cage. I'll also be dropping a review of Color Out Of Space (2020), as well as recommending dozens more Lovecraftian movies, starting with my Top 5 Lovecraft Inspired Movie List.

Thank you for joining us for the launch of the NightmareFeed. Hosted by Joe Kernozek and Horror Author Reed Alexander.A little about how we intend to get under your skin. Me and Joe are huge horror heads from way back in the days but with interestingly separate and unique tastes in horror. While I'm better known for my brash, foulmouthed horror review, which celebrates violence and entertainment, Joe is more a fan of the subtle and the imposing. We very frequently part ways on horror which should make for some interesting debates during our weekly podcast.Every Monday, we'll release a horror themed podcast discussing last weeks news, events and developments in horror, then give our astute opinion on these thing. Throughout the week, we'll post news, reviews, quizzes, and other viral content such as our meme of the day. Wanna know what kind of serial killer you'd be? Take one of our many up and coming horror surveys and find out!Tune in regularly for updates, as we'll eventually commit to short videos featuring real local urban legends, urban decay exploration, reaction videos to some of the worst movies horror has to offer, and even live stream events like 'lets plays' and conventions!