Out To Get You

In Episode 10 of Out To Get You, we are joined by Eisner Award-Winning Women Write About Comics' small press editor and writer, Kat Overland, to debug the soul of Alex Garland's 2014 psychological thriller, Ex Machina.Content Warning:This episode contains discussion of racism, medical/technological torture, slavery, colonialism, misogyny, dicks who have way too much money, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this episode, we discuss the terrifying onus of consciousness through the lens of technocratic overreach, the lie of the great man, and the horror of who pays the price for progress, in this slow burn sci-fi nightmare starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, and Oscar Isaac.You can follow Kat on Bluesky, and check out more about her work, as well as Ex Machina: A (White) Feminist Parable for Our Time by J. A. Micheline, and much more, at Women Write About Comics (@WWAComics on Bluesky.)You can follow Out To Get You on Bluesky.New episode announcements coming soon!You can send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.comGet your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic!If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 9 of Out To Get You, we are joined by award-winning cartoonist, printmaker, and educator, Cathy G. Johnson (Black Hole Heart, The Breakaways) to light a fire under the folk horror forebearer, 1973's cult classic, The Wicker Man, from Anthony Shaffer and Robin Hardy.Content Warning:This episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse and grooming, misogyny, colonialism, ritual murder, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss the nature of sacrifice through the lens of social stratification, context collapse, and the fear of being unmoored from modernity, in this timeless diamond in a rough, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, and more.You can follow Cathy on Instagram and Bluesky.Tune in to Drawing a Dialogue to hear more from Cathy, and catch up on her latest work, Charger County.You can follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky.Questions are still open for Mulholland Drive (2001) with Connor Goldsmith and Perfect Blue (1997) with Jordan Blok!You can send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.comGet your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic!If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 8 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer, academic, and paleontologist, Taryn Freeman, to gestate the horror that is Ridley Scott's 1979 xenomorph masterpiece, Alien.Content Warning:This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, forced birth, misogyny, capitalist exploitation, colonialism, bodily fluids of various viscosities, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss the nightmare of our future present through the lens of even-later-stage capitalism unleashed, the evisceration of bodily autonomy, and the loneliness of space and survival, in this timeless sci-fi horror starring Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Bolaji Badejo, and more.You can follow Taryn on Instagram and Bluesky .You can follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky.Questions are still open for Ex Machina (2014) with Kat Overland, and Mulholland Drive (2001) with Connor Goldsmith. And questions have been re-opened with Perfect Blue (1997) with Jordan Blok!You can send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.comGet your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic!If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In this bonus episode of Out To Get You, we are joined for Pride by author Lindsay King-Miller (Tiny Nightmares, The Jewish Book of Horror, more) to peel back the flesh of her intimate and vicious debut novel, The Z-Word! Content Warning:If you're with us in 2024, this one's pretty breezy.Drop in for a spoilers-free discussion of her electric queer apocalypse, as we dig in to what zombies hunger for, all our ends of the world, the sinister compact of rainbow capitalism, and more!You can set the mood for San Lazaro's messiest Pride by tuning in to Lindsay's handcrafted The Z-Word playlist!Follow Lindsay on Bluesky and Instagram, and stop by lindsaykingmiller.com, or your local bookstore, for your copy of The Z Word and more.Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky.Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.Questions are open for the following episodes:Mulholland Drive (2001) with literary agent, writer, and host/creator of the Cerebro podcast, Connor Goldsmith.Ex Machina (2014) with x3-time Eisner-award-winning writer and small press editor, Kat Overland.  Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic!If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 7 of Out To Get You, we are joined by author Tucker Lieberman (Most Famous Short Film of All Time, It Came From The Closet) to open the doors on Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror of the hearth, The Shining. Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism, genocide, domestic violence, ableism, misogyny, that old chestnut intergenerational trauma, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss the terror of the ones you love through the lens of queer visibility, possession, and the clarion call of history's twisted specter in the 1980 off-season classic starring Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers.Follow Tucker on Instagram and Bluesky, and visit tuckerlieberman.com to get your copy of Most Famous Short Film of All Time, and more!Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky.Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.At the airdate of this episode, questions are open for the following episodes:Mulholland Drive (2001) with literary agent, writer, and host/creator of the Cerebro podcast, Connor Goldsmith.Ex Machina (2014) with WomenWriteAboutComics' x3-time Eisner-award-winning writer and small press editor, Kat Overland.  Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic!If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 6 of Out To Get You, we are joined by cartoonist and author of Four Years, Karen Charm, to dial in on the party line for 1996's masterclass slasher send-up, Scream!Content Warning:This episode contains discussion of domestic violence, gaslighting, misogyny, the 90s, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss living in the shadow of inherited tragedy, the unintended consequences of media saturation, and more in Kevin Williamson's and Wes Craven's seminal hit, starring Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Jamie Kennedy.Follow Karen on Instagram, BlueSky, and Patreon, and visit CharmGardens.com for your copy of Four Years and more!Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky at OutToGetYouPod.Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 5 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer and horror filmmaker, Brant Lewis, to talk about Julia Docuranu's mechanophilic body-horror / psychological thriller, Titane!Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of graphic violence, pregnancy complications, self-managed abortion, body transformation, racism, ableism, transphobia, sexual violence, domestic abuse, loss of a child, homophobia, and many topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss the power of love, through the lens of homosocial bonding, the dangerous eroticism of steel, and the gulfs from which in family can be forged, in 2021's Palme d'Or winner starring Agathe Rouselle, Vincent Lindon, and Garance Marillier.Follow Brant on Instagram and Bluesky @brant.lewis.Follow The Blog in the Woods on Instagram @thebloginthewoods.Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky @OutToGetYouPod.Follow Margot and Bex on BlueSky at @pearlsnapped and @phoenixforce.Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.Get your very own Valentine Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic!If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 4 of Out To Get You, we are joined by co-writer and co-creator of the queer punk fantasy comic Blade Maidens, Zoe Tunnell, to talk about Marti Noxon's and Craig Gillespie's underrated, Great Recession reimagining of '80s cult classic, Fright Night!Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of homophobia, misogyny, sexual violence, substance abuse, aging magicians, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss the means by which vampires take root, through the lens of horror's mimetic nature, the casualties of capitalism, and 21st Century suburban America, in the 2011 horror-comedy starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Ferrell, Toni Collete, and David Tennant. Follow Blade Maidens @blademaidens and Zoe at @zoewritestuff on Instagram, on BlueSky @zoewithasword, and check out the story thus-far at blademaidens.com.You can also follow fellow Blade Maidens co-creator, friend of the pod, and designer of our brand new logo, Valentine M. Smith, on Instagram, BlueSky, or visit their website, valentinemsmith.com.Follow Out To Get You on Instagram at OutToGetYouPod. Follow Margot and Bex on BlueSky at @pearlsnapped and @phoenixforce.Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 3 of Out To Get You, we are joined by the author of Manhunt, and creator of The Deadlights Theater, Gretchen Felker-Martin, to talk about her upcoming novel, Cuckoo, and unpack the earthen grave of 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula.Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence and rape culture, racism and xenophobia, homophobia, colonialism, misogyny, monster-fucking, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we discuss the exquisite ecstasy of excess through the lens of maximalist movie magic, the clash of myth and modernity, and the enduring power of horror's most infamous aristocrat, in Francis Ford Coppola's love letter to the gothic, starring Wynona Rider, Gary Oldman, and Anthony Hopkins. Follow Gretchen on Twitter and BlueSky at scumbelievable, pre-order your copy of Cuckoo , and check out The Deadlights Theater on Patreon for more!Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Twitter at OutToGetYouPod.Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

In Episode 2 of Out To Get You we are joined by writer @lilahsturges to ring in the summer and tackle one of film's most notorious depictions of trans bodies on film, Robert Hiltzik's controversial summer slasher, Sleepaway Camp! Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of transphobia, forced transitions, sexual assault and rape culture, homophobia, ableism, maladaptive age gaps, child predators, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this episode, we dredge up the bloodiest holiday season at Camp Arawak and examine the mangled history of trans representation in film through the lens of the violent social structures, arcane puberty rituals, and the meat grinder that is coming of age in 1983's infamous cult classic, starring Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, and Christopher Collet!Follow Lilah on Twitter, and check out her new graphic novel with El Garing, The Science of Ghosts, coming soon to a bookstore near you! You can find her latest book, Girl Haven (with illustrator Meaghan Carter,) and much more, in bookstores now!Follow Out To Get You at @OutToGetYouPod on Instagram and Twitter. Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.Follow Margot and Bex at @pearlsnapped and @phoenixfcrce on Twitter. If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!Editor's Note: We recognize that there are moments of noise and artifacts we were unable to remove from tracks at varying points in the episode, but we have done our best to minimize and clean them up. In time we will attempt a remastered version of the episode, but letting go can be cathartic!

In Episode 1 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer/artist @valentinemsm1th, co-creator of queer punk fantasy comic @blademaidens, to discuss Clive Barker's 1987 directorial debut, Hellraiser! Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence, mutilation, animal abuse, incest, homophobia, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.In this season opener, we discuss the messy nature of self-discovery through the lens of haunted houses, outgrowing lovers, and cruising for murder, as we pick apart the sinew and leather of the beloved gothic fairy tale starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and Andy Robinson.Follow Valentine and Blade Maidens on Instagram and Twitter and check out the latest pages and merch at blademaidens.com and valentinemsmith.com!Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!