We Are Definitely Afraid of the Dark

Once upon a time there was a podcast with a shadow. The podcast got to watch fun rom-coms, but the shadow podcast had to see scary movies, in the dark, in a theater, before noon! We watched Jordan Peele's latest masterpiece, Us, with our friend Andrew Miculka (Prayer Circle, Stool Pigeon). As the lights dimmed, Andrew admitted he hates scary movies. Whoops! Didn't know that! We're terrible friends! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Stephen King Month continues with The Shining, the movie so nice they made it twice...and improved on it the second go around. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a copy of the miniseries remake so we had to watch the Kubrick original. Our loss! This eps got Brian May (Pendulum)! Wolf mask fellatio! Arousal then revulsion! Spectral racists! And no references to Maine. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Uh oh, looks like there's a Nor'easter blowing in, and...wait, what's that, riding the Nor'easter like a bucking bronco? Why it's legendary author Stephen King! That can only mean one thing: it's Stephen King month! And what better way to start than with his most beloved creation: dat boi Pennywise in IT (2017)! We told Emma this movie wasn't scary. WHOOPS! We're joined by comedian Nicole Russell to break down this modern horror classic. Just kidding, we talked about jerking off when we were kids. Let's go! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Our guest for the final week of our vampire month is Tevis Paxton (Pendulum, business), a person who loves the 1998 Wesley Snipes film BLADE so much that we let him come on the show to talk about it even though it's not really a horror movie. Despite that, we had a blast and Tevis baptized us into the Church of Blade. So now we're all wearing a lot of leather and we're looking for a hematologist to befriend. #LilyTomlin4Whistler Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

"Mamma Mia", here we go again! #LoveBites month continues with the Swedish vampire classic LET THE RIGHT ONE IN! Kyle and Steven are saying "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", but Emma is sending out an "SOS". "When All Is Said and Done", will she "Take a Chance On Me" (me = the movie)? Or will this one uhh..."Slipping Through My Fingers"? Did we mention this movie is Swedish? "Dancing Queen"! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Listen to them — children of the night. What sweet...PODCASTS they make! Sharpen up those fangs, because #LoveBites continues this week with the batshit (lol) BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA. Keanu and Winona are woefully miscast, Tom Waits rules, there’s a weird cowboy, a toddler gets dropped, Gary Oldman turns into a tower of rats...this one is all over the place, gang. Bleh! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

As the calendar rolls over into February, so too must WADAD roll over into our new theme, which is...#LoveBites! That’s right, we’re talking vampires, baby! The first movie on the docket is the 80s classic THE LOST BOYS. We loved it, but instead of talking about it we mostly discuss what buildings we would like to fuck if we were like that lady who married the Eiffel Tower. It’s real. Look it up! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

For the last week of #BabyNewFear we watched the modern haunted house classic, THE ORPHANAGE! Ay dios mio! Our friend Minda Wei (Pendulum, Y'all We Asian) joins us, and judging by the level of literal screaming, this might be our spookiest viewing yet. We also design the doll version of ourselves, Steven pines for a detachable felt penis, Emma does more accent work, and Kyle reaches the heights of athletic achievement. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Oh hell yeah y’all, it’s getting GOOPY this week! Because Steven picked THE BROOD, our first David Cronenberg joint! Finally, a movie with the courage to say what we all know in our hearts: ALL. CHILDREN. KILL. MOTHERS. ARE. THE PROBLEM. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

CREEPY KIDS month continues with Emma’s selection: The Bad Seed (1956). This is just an elaborate excuse for us to discuss who we would love to murder from our childhoods. Probably not a good idea to record these admissions and share them publicly. Please don’t send this episode to the cops or we’re all going to get a spanking! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

It's January, so to celebrate the arrival of that little bundle of joy Baby New Year, the theme this month is CREEPY KIDS. And what better way to kick it off than with a movie about the king of kings of killer toddlers, THE OMEN!  Look at us, Wet Daddies! It's all for you! Please be sure to leave a rating and review on iTunes, and if you like the show, share it with a friend! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

It's our second week of DEADcember and this time we're watching KRAMPUS, a horror-comedy (ugh) from writer/director Michael Dougherty. It also stars Adam Scott and Toni Collette. I'm giving you basic facts about this movie because we felt nothing at all while watching it. It is a movie, that's definitely true. We are a podcast that you can rate and review on iTunes. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

We're back, baby! After a brief hiatus, the OG Wet Daddies return to dissect GREMLINS, a movie whose place in the culture as a beloved film is frankly inexplicable. It's like Looney Tunes with none of the charm but the same amount of racism. Kyle argues for Gremlins as a leftist work but it is a BIT OF A REACH. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

It’s November 6th, so you know what that means...that’s right, we watched HALLOWEEN (2018)! It just makes sense! We’re joined by Wet Daddy Maester Dylan Garsee to gush over how much this movie fucking rules. We also pitch Kathryn Bigelow on an Alien reboot set in the post-9/11 Middle East. Pay attention, Hollywood power brokers! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Happy Halloween, Wet Daddies! Our treat for you this spooky season is a live show with super special guest Christina Parrish (The Say, TEMTEC), recorded at Fallout Theater in Austin, TX! We're talkin' The Exorcist, Kyle's favorite movie of all time, and a movie Emma thought was funny. Debatable!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Our pal Javier Ungo (LatiNacional & Queertowne) blesses the pod by bringing us another chapter from our favorite quippy ghoul Freddy, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE! This movie is gay as hell and we LOVE IT. We stan an extra crispy legend, bitch!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

We get extremely French again with our pal Allison Webster (Friends For Now) who brings us Raw, a movie about a rowdy veterinarian school. This movie is like if Animal House was shot with the female gaze and also way more people got eaten. In other words: IT SLAPS. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

We take another trip to the cineplex this week to see The Nun, which is a bad movie. Join Kyle and Steven and their pal Devon Coleman as they struggle to understand why this movie made...(checks notes)...$330 MILLION DOLLARS?! Other suggested talking points: the lost art of the movie tagline, the circuitous continuity of The Conjuring franchise, and the inspiring nature of teen goths. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Fantastic Fest correspondent and world's happiest lil' boy Kyle Romero sits down with the team behind DEADWAX, a new horror series premiering on Shudder later this year. We talk with writer/director Graham Reznick, producer Peter Phok, and actor Evan Gamble about the origins of and inspirations for the series and whether Sprite really is better than water for quenching your thirst.

It's the second of our series of Fantastic Fest interviews! This time, Kyle sits down with Demian Rugna, the writer and director of the much buzzed about new film TERRIFIED, which was just awarded the Fantastic Fest 2018 Jury Prize for Best Picture in the Horror Features category! This is a really unique movie, and contains no less than 5 of what are maybe the scariest images we've ever seen in a horror film. True to form, Demian turned out to be the nicest dude and we had a lovely chat! Horror geniuses are very kind people!   TERRIFIED premieres on the streaming service Shudder on October 11th!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Our Fantastic Fest 2018 corespondent Kyle sits down with Diane Michelle, the writer and director of Goodnight, a short film premiering this week at the festival. They’re joined by her partner Luke Jaden, the director of the upcoming horror film BOO!, which he co-wrote with Diane. And if you’re thinking “hey, that’s a Tyler Perry movie”, don’t worry, WE GET INTO IT! We are hard-nosed journalists! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Our friend Adam Hrabik (stand-up comedian, co-host of Adam and Avery's Christmas Committee podcast) helps us get meta this week with Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Is it an insightful satire or just a trite, lesser version of the thing it’s commenting on? YOU decide! Just kidding, we decide: it’s trash! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Our guest this week is Griffin May (Pendulum, The Rose)! He tricked us into watching Drag Me to Hell, a movie that Kyle believes is a masterpiece but Emma and Steven have NO TIME FOR! Listen closely and you can hear the exact moment Kyle loses respect for his co-hosts. Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Comedian Ashley Leisten (Second City, Two Kids in a Trenchcoat) brings The Babadook, a movie about a mother coping with the trauma of her weird kid wanting to be a magician. Grab your dead husband's violin, draw up a fully-clothed bath, and try your best not to scream mean things at children because that's (apparently) not cool!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

We’re joined by Wet Daddy Supreme Nathan Sowell (The Rose, Frankenfriends) to watch John Carpenter’s extremely underrated movie In the Mouth of Madness! Are we driven irreversibly mad by the stygian horrors of this film? Did Emma watch the movie? No, to both! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Our guest this week is Yola Lu (The Rose, Uncomfortable), who crowd-sourced her movie selections from her Facebook friends and ended up showing us The Witch, which she hated. The gang discusses the finer points of maggot extraction and skinning babies. Kyle finally reaches his breaking point, but we all agree that witchcraft rules. Hail Satan!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Special guest Katie Stone (Martini Ranch, Stool Pigeon) joins us live at ColdTowne Theater to discuss The Ring. Everyone is legitimately scared except for Emma who lets slip that her childhood bedroom was in a barn loft and she has driven horses to suicide. Is Emma Samara? How many nipples do you need to make a belt? Is wet hair grosser than throat hair? This episode is filled with answers! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Special guest Ryan Darbonne (Sugar Water Purple, I AM TX) brings us the extremely under-appreciated Wes Craven film The People Under the Stairs! This movie has it all: gimp suits, booby traps, mole men, literal treasure, and pointed criticism of the capitalistic structure that allows racial oppression to continue unabated. Emma likes this one! Smash that subscribe button, comrades!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Emma is on vacation in sunny New England. So Steven and Kyle step outside the confines of their recording crypt and visit an actual movie theater to see Unfriended: Dark Web! They're joined by #1 Wet Daddy Dylan Garsee (Pendulum, Hail to the Queen). Get ready for a 20 minute rant about Cards Against Humanity when you step inside ~*~T H E  B O Y  Z O N E ~*~!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraidInstagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraidTwitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Put on your darkest lip liner and wriggle through that garage doggie door because we're watching Scream, baby! The gang is joined by Ashlee Jordan Pryor (Hellhole, Secret Mountain) to put the finishing touches on their slasher education. This is the slasher movie that pretty much murdered slasher movies. "Do you like scary movies?" To be honest, we can go either way! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraidInstagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraidTwitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Recorded live on Friday the 13th at ColdTowne Theater, we discussed Jason Voorhees' origin story (sort of? not really?) with super special guest Jen Brown (Women In Caskets)! Since most of us were a tad bored by the movie, we spend most of the time talking about Jen's crush on Freddy Krueger and whether or not Michael Myers is good at sex. Spoiler: he is! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraidInstagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraidTwitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

This week, the gang is joined by special guest Veronica Rubens (Harlequin, Stool Pigeon) to watch The Silence of the Lambs, a movie Emma's childhood friend described to her, beat by beat, after which she vowed never to see it. This one seems to ruin everyone’s day. Except for Kyle because he is a terrible ghoul who is numb to everything. Tickets available now for our live show on Friday, July 13th at ColdTowne Theater in Austin, TX! Go to coldtownetheater.com for more info! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraidInstagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraidTwitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Ahhh! What’s that? Did you hear that? It sounded like comedian Lance Gilstrap (Movie Riot, Midnight Society), but that can’t be...he’s been dead for FIFTEEN YEARS!!! Oh well, we still watched THE CHANGELING (1980), the prototypical haunted house movie starring Academy Award winning curmudgeon George C. Scott. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter: @wearedefafraid

This week, the gang is joined by comedian and Batman-American, Devon Coleman (Sugar Water Purple, Hellhole)! And good news, we’re watching a normal movie: Wes Craven’s classic "A Nightmare On Elm Street." Listen as Kyle and Devon lull Steven and Emma into a false sense of security because they forgot that Freddy is still pretty scary in this one. Tickets available now for our live show on Friday, July 13th at ColdTowne Theater in Austin, TX! Go to coldtownetheater.com for more info! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraidInstagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraidTwitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid

Comedian Dylan Garsee (Pendulum, Hail to the Queen) makes us watch "Inside (À L'intérieur)", a brutal French horror film that includes liberal use of huge scissors, pregnant bellies and a Final Girl that is covered in blood by the end of the first act. This episode threatens to knock the whole podcast off the rails. Good job, Dylan! We are no longer friends!!! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Comedian Danielle Gonzalez (Say Uncle, Pendulum, +1000 other good shows) makes us watch The Invitation, a slow-burner about a dinner party with a bunch of horny friends that really and truly hate each other so much that they have to spill one another's blood all over a perfectly good red velvet cake. We really liked this movie!   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefinitelyafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Scary movie trailers are scarier than scary movies. FACT! Kyle is excited for the release of Hereditary this weekend. Steven and Emma unfortunately have other plans that they made a long time ago and can't change, they wish they could but a dear friend is visiting from out of town and you know how it is, maybe next time, thanks for being so understanding! Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefinitelyafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid

Comedian Nicole Russell (Say Uncle, Pendulum, Movie Riot) makes Steven and Emma watch Creep, a 2014 found footage film starring Mark Duplass. On a scale of Obama-era Drone Attacks to Toilet Sharks, it's a solid Golden State Killer.   Facebook: facebook.com/wearedefinitelyafraid Twitter: twitter.com/wearedefafraid Instagram: instagram.com/wearedefafraid/

In our first episode, Steven and Emma come clean about all of the stuff that scares them. Kyle pretends their fears are justified before introducing this week's movie: the original Halloween! It's got Jamie Lee Curtis, first-person kills, pointless nudity and no character development. We were very scared!   Join us on Facebook at facebook.com/wearedefinitelyafraid