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We're taking a bit of a pivot here at the podcast factory with this one, pinching from the season-opening episode of Writer's Bone, our flagship podcast at the Writer's Bone Podcast Network.  “As Told To” producer and Writer's Bone host and founder Daniel Ford featured a conversation with the writing team of Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, co-creators of the enchantingly poignant HBO series “Somebody Somewhere,” starring actress/comedian Bridget Everett—a conversation that brushed up against so many relatable aspects of collaborative writing that we decided to rebroadcast it (to re-podcast it?) here.  “Somebody Somewhere” ended its three-season run in December, shortly after the creators sat with Daniel Ford to discuss the series—hailed by The Los Angeles Times as “epic television”—and we were charmed by their conversation, inviting listeners behind the scenes to reflect on how the show came about, and the singular place it now holds in the annals of bittersweet television.    Paul Thureen is a founder and co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society, a Brooklyn-based theater company.  He received an OBIE Award for his performance in the company's Blood Play. Hannah Bos, also a founder and co-founder of the company, received a Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Signature Theater Company's production of Will Eno's The Open House. Together, they have written for “Mozart in the Jungle” and “High Maintenance,” and developed pilots for HBO, FOX, Amazon and Paramount.  “This has been a dream come true,” Hannah reflected on the duo's “Somebody Somewhere” run as the series came to a close. “It was a dream that they made the pilot. It was a dream that they made the first season, the second season, the third season. And it was a dream that we made it with really fun, good people. So I hope we can do it again.” Paul's reflections were a little less…well, reflective, as he shared what it was like to write for a group of midwestern-ish characters who weren't used to talking about their feelings. “If it gets a little too real,” he said, of the pain and heartache that could often be found at the show's core, “then you have to make a fart joke.”  Indeed.  Learn more about Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen: “Somebody, Somewhere” Season Three Trailer Hannah Bos Website Paul Thureen Instagram The Debate Society Please support the sponsors who support our show: Ritani Jewelers Daniel Paisner's Balloon Dog Daniel Paisner's SHOW: The Making and Unmaking of a Network Television Pilot Unforgiving: Lessons from the Fall by Lindsey Jacobellis Film Movement Plus (PODCAST) | 30% discount Libro.fm (ASTOLDTO) | 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 when you start your membership Film Freaks Forever! podcast, hosted by Mark Jordan Legan and Phoef Sutton Everyday Shakespeare podcast A Mighty Blaze podcast The Writer's Bone Podcast Network Misfits Market (WRITERSBONE) | $15 off your first order  Film Movement Plus (PODCAST) | 30% discount Wizard Pins (WRITERSBONE) | 20% discount

Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, creators of "Somebody Somewhere" on HBO, talk with Daniel Ford about crafting a show with comedian and actress Bridget Everett, how they assembled the perfect ensemble cast, and some of their favorite moments from the series. To learn more about Hannah Bos, visit her official website. Also follow Paul Thureen on Instagram and check out The Debate Society. Writer's Bone is proudly sponsored by Libro.fm, Authors for Voices of Color Auction, The Stacks Podcast, As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast, and The Shit No One Tells You About Writing. 

Who is absolutely loving HULU's Only Murders in the Building? I am! On this episode of Dear Multi-Hyphenate, we have the loveable Michael Cyril Creighton who plays Howard Morris on Only Murders in the Building on HULU. We discuss how Michael was compelled to create his own work and how it created a domino effect of constant work in the industry. It's all about writing what you know, and Michael certainly proves that theory. How did he end up from working the box office to working on some of the most successful tv shows and films of all time? TELEVISION: Hulu's “Only Murders in the Building” (Series Regular), Amazon's “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (recurring) Showtime's “Dexter: New Blood” (recurring), Netflix's “Dash & Lily” (recurring), HBO's "High Maintenance" (recurring), EPIX's "Graves" (recurring), Amazon's “A League of Their Own”, Netflix's “AJ & the Queen”, FOX's "Bob's Burgers," Showtime's "Billions," "Horace and Pete," FOX's “Bob's Burgers,” CBS's "The Good Fight," Adult Swim's "Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter," Showtime's "Nurse Jackie," Netflix's “Orange is the New Black,” NBC's “30 Rock,” FX's “Louie,” CBS's "2 Broke Girls," CBS's “Person of Interest," FX's "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll," LOGO's “Jeffery & Cole Casserole.” FILM: Cord Jeffereson's “American Fiction,” Steven Spielberg's "The Post," "Game Night," "Spotlight," "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," “Seneca,” "Home Again," "Coin Heist," "Sleeping With Other People," "Fits and Starts," "3rd Street Blackout," “Towheads,” “How To Follow Strangers,” “Paper Spiders” and “The Outside Story.” THEATRE: Jordan Harrison's The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons), Blood Play, Buddy Cop 2, You're Welcome and Cape Disappointment (all with The Debate Society), Joshua Conkel's MilkMilkLemonade and more. I was a founding member of the New York Neo-Futurists and performed weekly in “Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.” WEB: Michael created a web series called “Jack in a Box,” which he starred in, produced, wrote and co-directed. The series ran from 2009-2012 and consisted of 31 episodes, dozens of cupcakes and a fair amount of funny-sad humor. It was written about in several publications and on several websites, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, Le Monde Paris, The New York Daily News, The AV Club and Michael was named a “Digital All Star” by Backstage. The series won Best Web Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original New Media two consecutive years in a row (2012 & won in 2013). Other work on the web includes "High Maintenance," "The Outs," "Very Mary-Kate," "Eat Our Feelings" and more. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity and the Writers Guild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, in our annual summer bonus episode, we're joined once again by Mr. Hale "Satan" Appleman, of stage, screen, "The Magicians," "American Horror Story," Teeth, and more. Our assignment: Longlegs, Osgood Perkins' insidiously stylish brain-twister featuring off-the-hook performances by Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, and a barely recognizable Nicolas Cage. Also along for the fun, in the next installment of our "Campus Radio" segment, is Mr. Marcus Dunstan, director of the new film #AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead. Intro, Math Club & Debate Society, Campus Radio, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:04Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 29:05-1:06:40Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:06:41-1:21:39 Screenplay/Direction Osgood PerkinsFeaturing Nicolas Cage, Michelle Choi-Lee, Maika Monroe, Kiernan Shipka, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt Hale Appleman is perhaps best known for playing Eliot in “The Magicians,” currently streaming on Netflix, and Tobey in the Sundance horror comedy Teeth.  Genre fans have seen him in the eleventh season of “American Horror Story,” and he's appeared in the NBC series “Smash,” AppleTV's “Truth Be Told,” and in the films Beautiful Ohio, Pedro, and Private Romeo. He is also an accomplished stage actor whose credits include the Roundabout Theatre Company, ART, the Berkshire Theater Festival, and The Old Globe.  Hale can be heard on the L.A. Theatre Works recording of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.  Marcus Dunstan's screenwriting with his partner, Patrick Melton, include such horror films as Feast 1-3, Saw IV-V-VI and Saw 3D The Final Chapter, Pirahna, Pacific Rim, God Of War, Final Destination 6, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. #AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead marks Dunstan's sixth feature as a director. Dunstan's previous directing credits include The Collector, The Collection, The Neighbor, Blumhouse's Pilgrim, and 2022's Blumhouse Presents: Unhuman. He is a producer of The Candidate, and executive producer of 2022's horror-thriller Take Back the Night. Fall 2023 saw the release of the Dunstan-directed, Clio Award-winning Jack In The Box horror short film Feeding Time. Currently, Dunstan and Melton are collaborating on Saw XI for Director Kevin Greutert and Lionsgate, an animated take on Gris Grimley's Frankenstein, as well as the horror film Escape: Halloween with Live Nation and Insomniac. This fall, Dunstan returns behind the camera for production of the horror-thriller film Death Valley, co-written by Melton and Dunstan. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth. Music from Longlegs by Elvis Perkins. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Crawling out of the swamp to close out Season 3, Eric and Bradford are joined by Broadway actor-musician Matt Saldivar for a rollicking discussion of Neil Jordan's grand guignol ode to undying love. With a cast headed by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as comedy duo Lestat and Louis, interesting turns from Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Stephen Rea, Anne Rice adapting her novel, and great effects work by Stan Winston, there's enough baroque to ba-reak the bank... but is it, as one character says, "of the Mississippi"? An uneven tone, plot threads that go nowhere, and SO MUCH FIRE threaten to sink the #1 horror movie of 1994, but not even THIS podcast can keep a bloodthirsty creature of the night down. Let's get started. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:55 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:56-1:02:57 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:02:58-1:24:31 Director Neil Jordan Screenplay Anne Rice, based on her novel Featuring Antonio Banderas, Tom Cruise, Kristen Dunst, Laure Marsac, Helen McCrory, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, Sara Stockbridge Matt Saldivar is a Mexican-American New York City-based actor. He grew up at The United States Military Academy at West Point. He has originated and appeared in principal roles on Broadway in Bernhardt/Hamlet, Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, Act One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan, The Wedding Singer, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Grease. He has performed in dozens of Off-Broadway and regional productions as well as in film and television. Matt also composed songs, played bass and guitar, and portrayed the character of Julio de los Flacos as a long-time member of the band and theater/cabaret/comedy troupe The Petersons. He received his BA with a double major in Theater and Spanish from Middlebury College, and his MFA in acting from NYU.  He has been and actor and vocalist in the development process of new works for the theater with such artists as Elvis Costello, Stephen Sondheim, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bruce Hornsby, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel, and Randy Newman. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth.  Music from Interview with the Vampire by Elliot Goldenthal. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The house in Harrisville, Rhode Island is not clean. In fact it's filthy, lousy with supernatural yuck. That's bad news for whoever inhabits it, and no one's going to have it worse than the Perrons—father Roger (Ron Livingston), mother Carolyn (Lili Taylor), and their five daughters. When the otherworldly rumblings get out of hand, who they gonna call? In this case, it's the OG Ghostbusters, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). To say what happens next would be a spoiler, and we don't do that without a warning. But after our forays into James Wan's Dead Silence and Insidious, allow us to say that The Conjuring is a cool breath of delightfully fetid air. Director, dramaturg, and Columbia University professor Christian Parker joins us for academically incisive commentary. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:12Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 29:13-1:01:32Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:01:33-1:20:57 Director James WanScreenplay Chad Hayes & Carey W. HayesFeaturing Joseph Bishara, John Brotherton, Shanley Caswell, Kyla Deaver, Vera Farmiga, Mackenzie Foy, Joey King, Hayley McFarland, Shannon Kook, Ron Livingston, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor Christian Parker is a director, dramaturg, and former Chair of the graduate Theatre Program at Columbia University, where he is currently a professor of Professional Practice, leading the MFA concentration in Dramaturgy.  His work has been on view at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, the Rattlestick, the New Harmony Project, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and many others. Christian has served as the Associate Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company, was on the Tony Awards Nominating Committee for four years, and was a resident at the American Academy in Rome in Spring 2024.  Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth.  Music from The Conjuring by Joseph Bishara. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright were on to something. Taking a well-worn subgenre and fusing it with the distinct style they'd perfected on Channel 4's "Spaced," the two concocted a script like no other and produced a cult classic. Twenty years since its premiere, we look at the production and legacy of Wright's breakthrough film with Clark Collis, former Entertainment Weekly reporter and author of You've Got Red On You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life. So pack up your Breville and jam toasties, grab a Cornetto and whatever blunt instrument is by the doorway, and join us at the Winchester. Tonight, we're taking out some z-words. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:06Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:07-56:12Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 56:13-1:09:26 Director Edgar WrightScreenplay Simon Pegg & Edgar WrightFeaturing Kate Ashfield, Nicola Cunningham, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, Simon Pegg, Peter Serafinowicz, Rafe Spall, Penelope WiltonClark Collis is an entertainment journalist who grew up in the small English town of Wells and studied history at Cambridge University. Clark recently concluded an 18-year stint at Entertainment Weekly, writing cover stories about Jay-Z, Doctor Who, The Crown and 2018's Jamie Lee Curtis-starring Halloween. He is the author of You've Got Red On You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life and is currently working on a second book about the horror genre. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth.  Music from Shaun of the Dead by The Specials. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

So... you think you can remake a classic horror movie. That's what Michael Bay thought, anyway, when his production shingle Platinum Dunes embarked on a new adaptation of Jay Anson's tale of mayhem on Long Island. Citizen Kane the 1979 Amityville Horror may not be, but it holds a special place in the hearts of horror fans worldwide. So who's to blame for the mess that is the 2005 version? First (and last) time director Andrew Douglas? Frequently shirtless Ryan Reynolds, miscast as axe-wielding George Lutz? Or screenwriter Scott Kosar, who picks up a surprise nomination this week for the Michael Myers Award? Whatever your take is on this misbegotten footnote in the annals of horror history, we had a blast discussing it with Gretchen McNeil, back for her 5th episode, and the second in our Amityville mini-exploration. Due to some technical issues, the quality of some of the audio is below our standards. Apologies. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-23:30Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 23:31-1:06:30Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:06:31-1:22:45 Director Andrew DouglasScreenplay Scott Kosar, based on the book by Jay AnsonFeaturing Jimmy Bennett, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall, Jesse James, Chloe Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols, Ryan Reynolds Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels including Dig Two Graves, Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending, #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel is Four Letter Word, pitched as an homage to Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. "Ten: Murder Island," the film adaptation of Ten, premiered on Lifetime, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar, and, this week, by Duck Sauce.  Music from The Amityville Horror (2005) by Steve Jablonsky. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

What's that, by the side of the road? Is that a... vomiting nun, played by star of stage and screen Irene Dailey? And what's that, up in the sewing room? Is that a... priest covered in flies, played by Oscar-winner Rod Steiger? However you feel about it, there's no question that Stuart Rosenberg's O.G. THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) is an iconic launch of a never-ending franchise, one that's produced more clunkers than most—but which seems to have legs like no other. With '70s icons Margot Kidder and James Brolin along for the ride, plus plenty of ferrofluid and a requisite microfiche scene, we don't need to be told twice to GET OUT. Joining us for the first of two episodes is our pal, YA horror author extraordinaire Gretchen McNeil. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:42Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:43-1:04:42Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:04:43-1:21:32 Director Stuart RosenbergScreenplay Sandor Stern, based on the book by Jay AnsonFeaturing James Brolin, Irene Dailey, Murray Hamilton, K.C. Martel, Margot Kidder, Meeno Peluce, Natasha Ryan, Michael Sacks, Helen Shaver, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Amy Wright Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels including Dig Two Graves, Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending, #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel is Four Letter Word, pitched as an homage to Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. "Ten: Murder Island," the film adaptation of Ten, premiered on Lifetime, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar, and, this week, by Duck Sauce.  Music from The Amityville Horror (1979) by Lalo Schifrin. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Take a seat at the dining room table and gaze through that planchette. We're attempting to connect with the spirit world in Mike Flanagan's 2016 prequel-to-beat-all-prequels OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas. Joining us to battle Demons from the Great Beyond is the amazing Louisa Krause, she of Starz's "The Girlfriend Experience" Season 2 and the films The Dive, Maggie Moore(s), Ava's Possessions, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and many more. And this week, we introduce a new segment, "Campus Radio," with a special appearance by Jocelin Donahue, one of the stars of the new film The Last Stop in Yuma County (17:14). Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-34:44Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 34:45-1:01:10Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:01:11-1:22:04 Director Mike FlanaganScreenplay Mike Flanagan & Jeff Howard, based on characters created by Stiles White & Juliet SnowdenFeaturing Annalise Basso, Doug Jones, Parker Mack, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, Lulu Wilson Louisa Krause appears in the independent features The Dive (in which she stars alongside Sophie Lowe) and Maggie Moore(s) (opposite John Hamm and Tina Fey).  On television, she was one of the leads of the Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience,” and had memorable recurring roles on Showtime's “Ray Donovan” and “Billions.”  Her extensive list of film credits includes Todd Haynes's Dark Waters opposite Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway; Billy Crystal's comedy feature Here Today; the A24 feature Skin opposite Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald; Young Adult; Martha Marcy May Marlene; The Phenom; Ava's Possessions; King Kelly (Best Actress, PiFan Film Festival); Jane Wants a Boyfriend (Best Actress, Napa Film Festival); and Bluebird (Best Actress, Karlovy Vary Film Festival).  On stage, Louisa starred in Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick, directed by Sam Gold. Jocelin Donahue is an American actress known for her breakout role in Ti West's critically-acclaimed The House of the Devil, turning in what IndieWire called “one of the all-time great final girl performances.” In the years since, Donahue has appeared in many popular studio, independent, and genre films. Her lead performances in The Frontier, Offseason, and Summer Camp are roundly praised by critics and audiences alike. Donahue has worked with preeminent directors like James Wan on Insidious: Chapter 2 and Terrence Malick in Knight of Cups, playing opposite Christian Bale and Antonio Banderas. In 2019, Jocelin appeared in Warner Bros' Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan. Her TV credits include a memorable role as a rookie FBI agent and partner to Martin Freeman on the crime series “StartUp” and guest starring roles on episodes of “Lethal Weapon,” “The Rookie: Feds,” “The Affair,” and “CSI,” among others. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Ouija: Origin of Evil by The Newton Brothers. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Strap on your gas mask, crack open that sketch pad, and astrally project yourself into The Further as we continue our James Wan mini-series with an assessment of Wan's 2010 Insidious. With a script by key collaborator Leigh Whannell and a cast featuring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, and the ethereal Lin Shaye, this is the Insidious that started them all. Joining us at the séance table is Allison Broder, host of the Who's There? podcast. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:58Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 28:59-1:04:02Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:04:03-1:21:19 Director James WanScreenplay Leigh WhannellFeaturing Joseph Bishara, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Angus Sampson, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Leigh Whannell, Patrick Wilson Allison Broder has been the host of the Who's There? podcast since 2020; on the pod she interviews horror fans and creatives about why they love the genre.  Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Insidious by Joseph Bishara. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Hooray for Captain Spaulding! And some Fireflies. Writer and early-00s horror authority Ariel Powers-Schaub joins us to vivisect Rob Zombie's 2003 roadside attraction of sin and debauchery, House of 1000 Corpses, starring Sid Haig, Karen Black, Rainn Wilson, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, and a young, nubile, young Walton Goggins as "Deputy Steve Naish." So strap in, (fish)boys and girls. It's gonna be a bumpy night. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:27Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 28:28-54:47Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 54:48-1:14:46 Director Rob ZombieScreenplay Rob ZombieFeaturing Karen Black, Erin Daniels, Dennis Fimple, Walton Goggins, Sid Haig, Chris Hardwick, Jennifer Jostyn, Matthew McGrory, Bill Moseley, Michael J. Pollard, Rainn Wilson, Sheri Moon Zombie Ariel Powers-Schaub is a horror film critic and analyst from the midwestern United States. She is a writer and a podcaster who champions 2000s horror. She served as a senior contributor to and Administrative Assistant for Ghouls Magazine for two years, and is a regular contributor to The Pod and the Pendulum. Ariel's first book, Millennial Nasties, will be released on September 17th from Encyclopocalypse Publications. Pre-order the book here. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie and Scott Humphrey. Thanks to Liz DeGregorio and Jerry Sampson for introducing us to Ariel. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Watch out for that piano! And the well! And the light fixture! And the... clock? This week, we're joined by the one and only Dawn Luebbe (co-director, Greener Grass, Wayfair's "Welcome to the Wayborhood") to discuss Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's mindbending horror cult comedy House. Will we make it out alive? Only Auntie's cat Blanche knows for sure. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:40 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:41-58:48 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 58:49-1:15:41 Director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Screenplay Chiho Katsura, based on a story by Chigumi Ôbayashi Featuring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Asei Kobayashi, Ai Matsubara, Yôko Minamida, Masayo Miyako, Kumiko Ôba, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Mieko Satô, Eriko Tanaka Dawn Luebbe is known for her debut feature, Greener Grass, which she wrote and directed with Jocelyn DeBoer. Variety deemed the film, “The most pleasant surprise of this year's Sundance” following its 2019 world premiere. Their screenplay was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. It was theatrically distributed by IFC and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and AMC. Dawn and Jocelyn have directed two episodes of TruTV's “Adam Ruins Everything.” They've made four short films which have appeared in over 100 film festivals across the globe. Most recently Dawn directed a documentary short called Dress A Cow which premiered at the SXSW film festival. She has directed dozens of commercials in the US, Mexico, and Europe for brands such as GEICO, Coca-Cola, Wayfair, and Google, as well as environmental campaigns for the organization "Science Moms" and the fossil-free hydrogen company, Vattenfall. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from House by Asei Kobayashi and Mickie Yoshino. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠our blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠scareupod.com⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

We're back from Spring Break, discussing James Whale's 1935 classic featuring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, and Ernest Thesiger. Our guests are the authors of the new book Peggy Webling and the Story Behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster, about the woman who wrote the stage play from which Universal's Frankenstein (1931) was adapted. Also: a new superlative honoring one of our favorite actors, the inimitable Béatrice Dalle. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:40 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:41-56:04 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 56:05-1:16:04 Director James Whale Screenplay William Hurlbut, adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley by John Balderston & Hurlbut Featuring Colin Clive, E.E. Clive, Dwight Frye, Gavin Gordon, O.P. Heggie, Valerie Hobson, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor, Ernest Thesiger, Douglas Walton Bruce Graver has taught British Romantic literature and art at Providence College since 1985.  He has prepared scholarly editions of the works of the Wordsworth family, has a special interest in 19th-century 3D photography (The Stereoscopic Picturesque is about to be published), and is a classically trained pianist and tenor who has performed with various New England choirs and chamber ensembles. In good weather, Bruce can be found hiking along the Appalachian Trail, or across the mountains of the English Lake District, where the Wordsworths and Beatrix Potter once lived. Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is an ancient historian who teaches postgraduates at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and writes on the history of astrology, divination, and ancient medicine. She has been an amateur genealogist for the past 23 years. Peggy Webling is Dorian's great-grandaunt, and she grew up hearing family tales about her writing of the play Frankenstein. In 1991, she and her mother discovered a large cache of letters that Peggy and her sisters wrote to Dorian's great-grandmother over almost 30 years, and Dorian now owns an unpublished archive of Peggy's letters, papers, manuscripts, and photographs. To find out more about Bruce and Dorian's book, click here. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman. For more information on this film, essays from your hosts (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The return of Deputy Biscuit Officer Aiken to the podcast allows him to speak on a similar topic to one that he chose for a particularly controversial real life Discussion and Debate Society session (Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 ER149), but unfortunately couldn't attend. Gabriel strongly believes in shifting focus from obesity to health in general, Will has various opinions opposing Gabriel including one involving the military, and Aiken argues for the increased responsibility that people should have for their own health.

When music journalist Myles Clarkson visits ailing piano virtuoso Duncan Ely at his palatial California home, ostensibly to interview the man, Duncan notices something distinct about Myles:  his hands – they're beautiful, the bone structure perfect for a concert pianist.  Myles, it turns out, is a Juilliard-trained musician whose career tanked after receiving some bad reviews.  Taking an interest in Myles, Duncan introduces him to his artist daughter Roxanne. Soon Myles has entered the pianist's inner circle, much to the chagrin of Myles' wife, Paula, who feels more than a tinge of jealousy at the attention being paid to her husband.  But things are about to take a turn for the uncanny.  Roxanne casts a plaster life mask of Myles, and with Duncan on his way out, Myles donates blood to help him.  While Myles is asleep, something happens, and when he awakes, he's changed.  It's almost as if he's someone else. His urge to live, to love, to play music, is revived, leaving Paula to wonder:  just what, or who, is inhabiting the body of the man she loves? Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:50Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 28:51-1:02:54Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:02:55-1:22:19 Director Paul WendkosScreenplay Ben Maddow, based on the novel by Fred Mustard StewartFeaturing Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Bradford Dillman, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curt Jurgens, Barbara Parkins, Kathleen Widdoes, William Windom David Cote is a playwright, opera librettist, and critic based in New York. His operas include Lucidity – which will be produced by On Site Opera in New York and Seattle Opera in fall 2024, Blind Injustice, which premiered at Cincinnati Opera and will be presented at Peak Performances at Montclair State University February 16 & 18. Other operas include Three Way at Nashville Opera and BAM; The Scarlet Ibis for the Prototype Festival; and 600 Square Feet with Cleveland Opera Theater. His plays include The Müch, Saint Joe, and Otherland. David wrote lyrics for Nkeiru Okoye's Black Lives Matter monodrama, Invitation to a Die-In and the dating-app song cycles In Real Life, composed by Robert Paterson. David's TV and theater coverage appears in The A.V. Club, Observer, 4 Columns, and American Theatre. He was the longest serving theater editor and chief drama critic of Time Out New York. He's also the author of popular companion books about the Broadway hits Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, and Wicked. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from The Mephisto Waltz by Jerry Goldsmith. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Behold – the late, great Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor whose performances in Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Cymbeline, and others left him the laughingstock of London theatre critics, is dead.  And yet somehow, someone is knocking off said critics one at a time in truly Shakespearean fashion… albeit with slight alterations to the text.  Shylock may have wanted his pound his flesh – this killer takes the heart.  Joan of Arc might have burned at the stake – this killer fries his victims in a hair salon.  Peregrine Devlin, head of the London Critics Circle, is baffled, as are the police.  And yet – the order of the killings bear a striking resemblance to Lionheart's last repertory season.  What's going on with the Thames-side meths drinkers that have taken up residence in the crumbling Burbage Theatre?  And what might Edward's daughter, Edwina, have to do with everything?  Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend us your ears – for herein lies the tale of the deceased actor who set out to exact revenge, and succeeded, and the rest – is silence. Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:10Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:11-1:07:38Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:07:39-1:28:17 Director Douglas HickoxScreenplay Anthony Greville-Bell, based on an idea by Stanley Mann and John KohnFeaturing Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Diana Dors, Jack Hawkins, Ian Hendry, Joan Hickson, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Milo O'Shea, Dennis Price, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Eric Sykes Ben Viccellio is an actor, writer and Associate Professor of Drama & Film at Kenyon College. His acting credits include the role of Oedipus in Frank Galati's Oedipus Complex at The Goodman Theatre; Cherry Orchard, Theatrical Essays, and the world premiere of Men of Tortuga at Steppenwolf; the role of Petruchio in Short Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth in Short Shakespeare: Macbeth, and Guildenstern in Hamlet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.  Ben has also also acted for film and television, as well as in the odd commercial... some of them, he claims, very odd. His writing for the stage has been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Aspen. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Theatre of Blood by Michael J. Lewis. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

World War II.  Somewhere in Germany.  Accompanied by a cameraman shooting propaganda for Mother Russia, a ragtag platoon fighting the Nazis receives a distress signal from fellow soldiers and heads off to investigate.  They approach a church where no Russians can be found, but the church is inhabited by creatures who appear to be constructed from weapons, parts of machines and vehicles, but still have blood flowing through their veins.  The creatures seem like part of the Nazi war machine, but then, one can't be sure in the fog of war.  Soon, cut off from the outside world, the platoon is surrounded, their C.O. down.  It's up to the rest to get inside the factory of a mad scientist, and soon discovers just where the creatures are from, who created them, and why they exist. Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:30Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:31-1:01:38Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:01:39-1:24:28 Director Richard RaaphorstScreenplay Chris Mitchell & Miguel Tejada-Flores, story by Richard Raaphorst & Miguel Tejada-Flores, original idea by Richard RaaphorstFeaturing Cristina Catalina, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury, Luke Newberry, Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Mark Stevenson, Hon Ping Tang, Andrei Zayats Bobby Frederick Tilley is a costume designer for theater, film, and TV.  His theater credits include Be More Chill on Broadway, for which he received one of his two Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Costume Design.  His work has also been seen at the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Geffen Playhouse, the Signature Theatre, the Roundabout, Second Stage, LAByrinth Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, and Ars Nova, among other venues.  Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Following a double mastectomy, and hoping to recover in peace, actress Veronica Ghent travels to what she believes will be a solitary retreat in the Scottish Highlands.  She's accompanied by a young nurse, Desi, who through sheer will and a good heart is able to put up with Veronica's brusque, standoffish nature.  There are other forces at work:  the land on which their cabin sits was the burial ground of thousands of alleged witches, whose ashes have fertilized the soil and created ground rich with supernatural power.  When her dreams are haunted by visions of witches being burned and silenced, we learn of an incident from Veronica's past involving a famous director and possible abuse.  It's an incident that's scarred Veronica as much as her recent surgery.  But now, imbued with powers thanks to the the Highlands, Veronica finds herself able to confront the damage done to both mind and body. Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:52Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 29:53-1:01:52Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:01:53-1:23:23 Director Charlotte ColbertScreenplay Charlotte Colbert & Kitty PercyFeaturing Jonathan Aris, Layla Burns, Kota Eberhardt, Olwen Fouéré. Rupert Everett, Alice Krige, Amy Manson, Malcolm McDowell Jerry J Sampson is a female horror screenwriter whose main thematic focus is on generational trauma and the effects of repression on the psyche. She has four feature scripts in various forms of production, including one feature supernatural horror optioned and filming in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She is currently in pre-production on her directorial short film debut, In Dreams, working together with local crew and talent to create a truly haunting short that encapsulates the feeling of grief and loss through a lyrical and gorgeous narrative. In addition to her filmmaking pursuits, Jerry is also a film critic for such online publications as Ghouls Magazine, Rue Morgue, Moving Picture Film Club, and others, offering deep dives and editorials on current and classic horror films. She features on podcasts and panels, attends film festivals as both a creative and as press. Her collection of fiction The Scream & Other Dark Stories can be ordered here. Per her website, “She is here to offer a different voice in the horror sphere, always striving to prove the value of the horror genre as a means of catharsis and social commentary. The genre is so often overlooked, but she believes that through horror we, especially women, are able to safely explore the dark corners of the world, of our communities, of our homes.” Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from She Will by Clint Mansell. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Somewhere on the outskirts of Paris, a woman, Louise, is driving alone at night.  There's a body in the back seat of her car.  Its face is obscured, and it's slumped over, lifeless. Because said body is a corpse, and Louise is soon dragging it into the Seine.  Meanwhile, after giving a speech about the perils and pleasures of skin grafts, a doctor, Genessier, is called to the morgue to identify a body.  It is that of his missing daughter?  So he claims.  On his way out, Gennessier is accosted by a man, Tessot, who asks if the body is that of his missing daughter, Simone.  Gennessier tells him no, it's his daughter, and that's that.  But back at the doctor's home/clinic is indeed his daughter, Christiane, alive and well, but hiding behind a white mask that obscures a badly scarred face, the result of a recent car accident.  The police, meanwhile, are suspicious – who is the body in the river, and why is IT missing its face?  And why does it appear someone surgically removed said face with a scalpel?  Louise, meanwhile, has located and lured a new facial donor / candidate / victim back to the clinic, a victim who's soon undergoing a gruesome surgery that may or may not spell freedom, as it were, for poor faceless Christiane Genessier. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:46Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:47-1:06:09Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:06:10-1:26:50 Director Georges FranjuDialogue by Pierre Gascar, adaptation by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Jean Redon, and Claude Sautet, based on the novel by Jean Redon Featuring Béatrice Altariba, Pierre Brasseur, François Guérin, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Edith Scob, Alida Valli Liz DeGregorio is a poet, writer, and editor. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Lucky Jefferson, Anomaly, Catapult, Dread Central, BUST, Ghouls Magazine, OyeDrum Magazine, and many other publications. She's also performed at Providence's Dorry Award-winning storytelling series Stranger Stories. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Eyes Without a Face by Maurice Jarre. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Jennifer Check and Anita “Needy” Lesnicky are best friends living in the town of Devil's Kettle, best known for its waterfall and high school football team.  When Jennifer suggests she and Needy step out to see a band, Low Shoulder, at the local roadhouse, Melody Lane, Needy's reluctant.  She's rather spend the night with Chip, her boyfriend.  But Jennifer's nothing if not persuasive. Upon arriving at Melody Lane, it's clear the band is a bunch of locals posing as hipsters from the city.  But Jennifer's entranced by the lead singer, Nikolai, who she finds “salty,” and as the set heats up, so does Melody Lane.  A fire soon engulfs the bar, and after escaping, Jennifer and Needy are beckoned to the band's van.  Jennifer succumbs, but Needy runs home, only to find Jennifer in her kitchen, beaten, bloody, and gorging herself on Boston Market chicken.  What's happened?  And what does it mean when certain members of their high school class end up dead, mangled, drained of their blood?  Needy suspects something bigger than a few random murders at play, and wonders if maybe, just maybe, her bestie's at the center of it all. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-31:16Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 31:17-1:03:26Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:03:27-1:18:27 Director Karyn KusamaScreenplay Diablo CodyFeaturing Adam Brody, Megan Fox, Kyle Gallner, Chris Pratt, Amy Sedaris, Amanda Seyfried, J.K. Simmons, Johnny Simmons, Cynthia Stevenson Kate Thompson is a small animal veterinarian by day and a horror movie aficionado by night who has a special affinity for the campy, gory, and feminist side of horror.  As co-host of The Nightlight Horror Movie Club podcast with her best friend and fellow vet, Ariana, they explore the darkest corners of horror cinema, presenting a unique blend of movie reviews and mini-episodes, true crime, creepypastas, urban legend, and all things 'spoopy.' Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Jennifer's Body by Andrew Ampaya and Ryan Levine. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Driving instructor Rose Dooley lives alone in rural Ireland, but in fact she's hardly ever alone.  The local residents call Rose any time they have a, shall we say, ghost problem. Which happens more often than you'd think. You see, Rose's father, the late ghost hunter Vincent Dooley, has imbued Rose with certain ‘talents' to divine and chat up ghosts that are giving people a hard time. That's when she's approached by one Martin Martin, a woodworker whose late wife has been making his life hell for the past several years, constantly berating him and his choices from beyond the grave. Martin's daughter Sarah is growing up and has ideas of her own.  At the same time, determined to sell his soul for a revived career, washed up American pop star Christian and his wife Claudia have been picking out virgins to sacrifice, and soon set their sights on Sarah Martin. It's up to Rose and Martin to foil the Winters' nefarious schemes, and to make sure it's "curtains for Christian." Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-25:32Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 25:33-56:00Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 56:01-1:14:13 Directors Mike Ahearn & Enda LoughmanScreenplay Mike Ahearn & Enda Loughman and Maeve Higgins & Demian Fox Featuring Jamie Beamish, Terri Chandler, Emma Coleman, Risteard Cooper, Will Forte, Maeve Higgins, Claudia O'Doherty, Barry Ward Wendy MacLeod's play The House of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, and was produced by many theaters including The Magic Theater, Soho Rep, The Washington Shakespeare Company, The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and The Gate Theater in London. Her other works for the stage include Sin and Schoolgirl Figure, both of which premiered at The Goodman, Juvenilia and The Water Children, both of which premiered at Playwrights Horizons, and Things Being What They Are, which premiered at Seattle Repertory Theatre, had an extended run at Steppenwolf in Chicago, and was produced by The Road Theatre in LA. She was the first writer selected for The Writer's Room residency at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia, where she wrote Women in Jeopardy! which was selected for The Kilroys' List and premiered at GEVA. The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky was commissioned by and produced at ACT's Young Conservatory in San Francisco. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Salon, POETRY magazine, and on NPR's All Things Considered. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, she is the James E. Michael Playwright-in-Residence at Kenyon College. Her plays are available through Dramatists Play Service and at Playscripts.com. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Extra Ordinary: “A Woman's Heart” by Eleanor McAvoy, performed by McAvoy and Mary Black. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Eccentric billionaire Rudolph Deutsch wants someone to figure out what (or who's) been haunting the old Belasco mansion, the “Mt Everest of haunted houses.” Apparently the house has something to do with the secret to life after death, so Deutsch enlists a team of potential rivals to get to the bottom of it:  physicist and sometime paranormal investigator Barrett and his wife Ann; mental medium Florence Tanner; and physical medium Ben Fischer, the sole survivor of the last attempt to exorcise the old home. Almost from the jump, something's off – no one trusts each other, science butts heads with pseudoscience, and when the actual haunting comes, no one really wants to discuss it.  No one, that is, except for Florence and Ben, who've seen enough in their time to recognize the dangers that lie within Belasco House.  And by the time the possessions begin, furniture starts shaking, and chandeliers start tumbling, it's too late to turn back.  The team must see this through, and get to the bottom of what's been driving Hell House's off-the-charts psychic energy. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-30:32Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 30:33-1:04:30Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:04:31-1:20:20 Director John HoughScreenplay Richard Matheson, based on his novel Hell HouseFeaturing Peter Bowles, Roland Culver, Pamela Franklin, Michael Gough, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill Christopher Shinn is a playwright and screenwriter who lives in New York. Several of his plays have premiered at the Royal Court Theatre: Four, Other People, Where Do We Live (Obie Award), Dying City (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Now or Later, which was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre), Teddy Ferrara (Goodman Theatre and Donmar Warehouse), An Opening in Time (Hartford Stage), Picked (Vineyard Theatre), What Didn't Happen (Playwrights Horizons), On the Mountain (South Coast Rep), The Coming World (Soho Theatre), and Against (Almeida Theatre). His adaptation of Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway in 2009 and his adaptation of Judgment Day premiered at Park Avenue Armory in 2019 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation. His awards and grants include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, a grant from the NEA/TCG Residency Program, and the Robert Chesley Award. He was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard in 2019-2020, a Cullman Fellow at New York Public Library in 2020-2021, and a MacDowell Fellow in 2023. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

It's a cage match in a used car graveyard, with soul hunter Cyrus Kriticos taking on soul preserver Kalina Oretzia.  Lost amidst the metal is The Breaker, a murderous ghost Cyrus wishes to add to his collection.  Assisting Cyrus is Dennis, a medium whose ability to sense ghosts sends him into spasms of pain.  Kalina's only wish is to set souls free and let them roam the earth.  Cyrus succeeds in capturing Breaker, but loses his life in the process.  We cut to the home of Cyrus's nephew, math teacher Arthur Kriticos, his two children Bobby and Kathy, and their nanny, the sassy Maggie. They've got a visitor today, a lawyer, Ben Moss, representing Cyrus's estate. The news:  Cyrus is bequeathing his house to Arthur, who's spent the last few months mourning the death of his wife in a fire.  The house, it turns out, is a modern masterpiece of architecture, a glass structure with Latin etched on the walls, and walls that slide back and forth like a living organism.  Arthur's flattered, but… he can't pay for this.  He barely gets by as it is.  But Ben assures him, Cyrus has everything figured out.  All Arthur and the kids need to do is move in and get settled.  But once they start looking around, the Kriticos family realizes they're being watched, and the inhabitants of the basement are none too happy to be under new management. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:31Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:32-55:27Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 56:27-1:15:27 Director Steve BeckScreenplay Neal Marshall Stevens & Richard D'Ovidio, story by Robb WhiteFeaturing F. Murray Abraham, JR Bourne, Embeth Davidtz, Rah Digga, Shannon Elizabeth, Matthew Lillard, Shawna Loyer, Alec Roberts, Tony Shalhoub Jason Ragosta is a horror writer, director, and illustrator who has created award winning short films such as Boy In The Dark and ZTV: Sympathy For The Devil, and “Mother Love” which was part of Sinphony: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology released in 2022.  He is currently in various stages of development on several feature films and episodic series. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Thirt13en Ghosts by John Frizzell. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Grad student Helen Lyle is determined to find out why the residents of the Cabrini-Green housing development in Chicago are petrified by the Candyman, a ghost who allegedly appears if you say his name in the mirror five times.  After jokingly summoning him with Trevor, her philandering professor husband, Helen heads to Cabrini-Green with her pal Bernadette to interview residents and track down the truth. Instead she discovers what might just be the Candyman's lair, an abandoned apartment laid out strangely like her own.  Soon enough, she's standing face to face with the man himself.  And he hasn't brought a bag of Skittles.  This guy's got a hook for a hand, bees on his knees, and a desire to possess Helen, who may or may not resemble the woman he once loved.  After her encounter with the Man, Helen awakes to find herself on the floor of an bathroom covered in blood, her crazy nightmare just beginning. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:43 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:44-1:11:26 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:12:26-1:26:22 Director Bernard Rose Screenplay Bernard Rose, based on “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker Featuring Xander Berkeley, Michael Culkin, DeJuan Guy, Kasi Lemmons, Virginia Madsen, Ted Raimi, Tony Todd, Vanessa Williams Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. is Artistic Director of HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford's Public Theatre and Visiting Lecturer in Theatre at Trinity College. He is also co-founder of Civic Ensemble, a community-based theatre company in Ithaca, NY. At HartBeat he has appeared in My Children! My Africa! and Possessing Harriet. For Civic, he appeared in My Children! My Africa!, Fast Blood and his adaptation of Mike Daisey's The Trump Card. Godfrey taught for several years at Cornell University, where he co-produced and directed Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and The Next Storm, in collaboration with Civic Ensemble. Godfrey was Producing Artist in charge of New Artist Development for Off-Broadway's Epic Theatre Ensemble, appearing in A More Perfect Union, Widowers' Houses (which Godfrey co-adapted with Ron Russell), and Measure for Measure, among other plays. At Epic, he also co-wrote and starred in a documentary play about the election of President Barack Obama, Dispatches From (A)mended America. Godfrey is a 2012 TCG/Fox Fellow, a participant in the TCG SPARK Leadership Program, and a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has also taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Binghamton University, UConn Hartford and John Jay College. Additional New York theatre credits include The Old Settler (Primary Stages), Betty's Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), Free Market (Working Theater), Leader of the People (New Georges), and microcrisis (Ensemble Studio Theater). Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Candyman by Philip Glass. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Wilbur Whateley wants the Necronomicon, and although the library's closing, local coed Nancy is so entranced by Whateley that she's inclined to let him read it.  Her professor, Dr. Armitage, isn't thrilled with the idea of someone borrowing the book – even for five minutes – until he realizes who the reader is.  Eager to find out more about Wilbur, and his family history of seeking out transdimensional creatures, he invites Wilbur and Nancy to dinner.  But Wilbur's not interested in becoming one of Armitage's biographical sketches – he wants Nancy to come back to his home, drink some tea, and… stay there forever.  That's when his grandfather, Old Man Whateley arrives, causing Nancy to raise an eyebrow.  Why is he so determined to keep her away from the house?  What on the upper floors is making all those wind and ocean sounds?  And why is Wilbur so desperate to introduce Nancy to the Devil's Hopyard, a stone altar where, it is rumored, his ancestors once performed sacred rituals to call forth a race of creatures that would bring about the end of life as we know it?  Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:20Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:21-1:07:56Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:07:57-1:24:26 Director Daniel HallerScreenplay Curtis Hanson, Henry Rosenbaum, and Ronald Silkosky, based on the novella by H.P. LovecraftFeaturing Donna Baccala, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner, Sandra Dee, Beach Dickinson, Sam Jaffe, Barboura Morris, Jack Pierce, Talia Shire, Dean Stockwell John DeVore is a two-time James Beard award-winning essayist and editor. He's written about pop culture for Decider, Esquire, and Premiere (RIP), among many others. John's first memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' will hit bookstores in 2024 Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from The Dunwich Horror by Les Baxter. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

It's been a while since true crime writer Ellison Oswalt had a bestseller, and the strain is starting to show on Ellison, his wife Tracy, and their kids Trevor and Ashley.  Local law enforcement isn't keen on him, either, as his last few books didn't cast them in too fond a light. So Ellison and his family take up residence in a modest Pennsylvania ranch house with something of a history – something we learn when we watch as a family is lynched in the house's back yard.  Unfortunately, this may be his last chance at the big time, so Ellison neglects to inform Tracy of this, and when things start going bump in the night, and the home movies left behind reveal ominous clues about a killer's identity, Ellison finds himself turning from the hunter to the hunted.  A helpful deputy steps in to assist, as well as a professor of the occult, but by the time they reveal their own information, the situation has devolved from strange… to sinister. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:47Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 28:48-1:00:57Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:00:58-1:23:12 Director Scott DerricksonScreenplay C. Robert Cargill & Scott DerricksonFeaturing Michael Hall D'Addario, Vincent D'Onofrio, Clare Foley, Ethan Hawke, James Ransone, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson Hannah Cabell is a New York-based actor, director, and writer. She wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Lost Nation, which won Best NH Short at the 2023 New Hampshire Film Festival. As well as the feature version of Lost Nation, she has written The Hills and the Sky, about an archivist's obsession with Betty and Barney Hill's 1961 alien abduction, and the comedy television pilot Brother Husbandry. Hannah's acting credits include “The Black List,” “The Good Fight,” “Madam Secretary,” “Mr. Robot,” and “The Leftovers,” and she currently plays Judge Renee Gittens on “Law & Order.” Film work includes The Surrogate, Luce, and Thine Ears Shall Bleed (upcoming). She has been nominated for Lortel and Drama Desk awards for her stage performances. MFA, NYU. Ryan King is a screenwriter, playwright, and actor who grew up in Central Texas and now lives in New York with his wife and daughter. He wrote the screenplay for Black Flies, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, starring Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan, after being selected for the 2018 Black List of Hollywood's favorite unproduced screenplays. His original thriller screenplay, The Tutor, starring Garrett Hedlund and Noah Schnapp. HAs a playwright, he's been a member of the Ars Nova Playgroup, the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Working Farm @ SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group. His plays have been developed by Cape Cod Theatre Project (twice), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Naked Angels, Rattlestick Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Primary Stages, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ars Nova, Theater of NOTE, Tofte Lake Emerging Artists Program, and Ground Up Productions, and his short play Antares Returning was produced as part of Fit Club's 2017 Spring Fling festival and nominated for Best Short Play by the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. As an actor, he has appeared regionally and Off-Broadway. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Sinister by Christopher Young. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Following the unexpected arrival of a ventriloquist dummy on his doorstep, and the sudden, violent death of his wife – two events that might be related – Jamie Ashen is arrested by Detective Lipton, a cop with a thing for electric razors. Lipton's also a by the books kind of guy who's convinced Jamie is responsible for his wife's death. But Jamie doesn't have time for games — he's determined to find out who or what killed his wife and tore her tongue out in the process. His search takes him back to his home town of Raven's Fair, where the superstitious residents suspect the spectral Mary Shaw, a long-dead ventriloquist, may be to blame. Seems Shaw was connected to the disappearance and ritual murder of families years back, then became the victim herself of a heinous crime. With Lipton on his tail, Jamie visits his aging father Edward, his young wife Ella, local mortician Henry and his demented wife Marion, who unspool a tale too fantastic to be true.  And slowly, the truth about Raven's Fair reveals itself to Jamie's unsuspecting, and for now human, eyeballs. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:04Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:05-1:07:52Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:07:53-1:25:35 Director James WanScreenplay Leigh Whannell, based on a story by Wan and WhannellFeaturing Michael Fairman, Bob Gunton, Joan Heney, Ryan Kwanten, Laura Regan, Judith Roberts, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg Luisa Colón is a New York City native who began her career as a journalist in the late 90s. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online publications such as New York, Latina, USA Today, The New York Times, and many more. Her first novel. Bad Moon Rising was published in August, and she has a short story in the upcoming horror anthology, DREAD, which is published by the aptly-named Cemetery Dance Publications. Luisa's other creative work includes illustration as well as two murals currently displayed at the World Trade Center. Her Substack, Disaster Class, can be found here. As an actor she starred in the award-winning 2006 indie film Day Night Day Night and played the titular role in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2007 short film Anna. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Dead Silence by Charlie Clouser. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Ricky and his shy, reserved cousin Angela are spending the summer at Camp Arawak, a bargain basement overnight camp in upstate New York run by Mel, cigar-chomping shyster, and staffed by a bunch of adult and teenage degenerates.  Angela is initially withdrawn, occasionally catatonic – but is soon brought out of her shell by Ricky's friend Paul, who takes a liking to Angela in the hopes he might be able to make it with her before summer's end.  But there are forces are at work – forces determined to put the strangely distant Angela in her place.  Bunkmate and camp harlot Judy sees Angela as a weirdo, then a threat when she attracts Paul's attention.  Counselor Meg, who can't get Angela to eat, play sports, or swim, constantly berates Angela for her failure to thrive.  That's when the murders begin, one at a time, first a staffer, then a camper, and on and on.  Mel tries to hide it due to the bad publicity, but as any good camp director knows, murder's bad for business, and the more we learn about Angela's murky past, the more things at Camp Arawak take a turn… for the deadly. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:29Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:30-1:02:16Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:02:17-1:21:08 Director Richard HiltzikScreenplay Richard HiltzikFeaturing Christopher Collet, Paul DeAngelo, Desiree Gould, Karen Fields, Owen Hughes, Robert Earl Jones, Katherine Kamhi, Mike Kellin, Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten Jack Sholder began his career as a film editor, working on the feature documentary King: From Montgomery to Memphis which was nominated for an Academy Award. He won an Emmy for his editing work on 3-2-1 Contact. After writing and directing several award-winning short films, Jack wrote Where Are The Children starring Jill Clayburgh for Ray Stark and Columbia. In 1982, Jack directed Alone In The Dark for New Line Cinema with Martin Landau, Jack Palance, and Donald Pleasence. He then directed A Nightmare On Elm Street II: Freddy's Revenge. His next feature, The Hidden, won many awards including the Grand Prix at the Avoriaz Film Festival, Jury Award at the Sitges Film Festival, and Best Director at Fantasporto. Premiere Magazine called it “one of the ten most underrated films of the 80s.” This was followed by Renegades with Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips and By Dawn's Early Light for HBO with Martin Landau, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Rebecca de Mornay, and Powers Boothe. Jack has directed movies and television for MGM, Paramount, Universal, Warners, Fox, United Artists, Lionsgate, HBO, Showtime, NBC, Discovery, and others. He is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from FantaFest and the Grossman Festival. In 2004, he founded the Film & Television Production program at Western Carolina University where he was Professor and Director of the FTP program until 2017.  Jack has received Life Achievement Awards from Fantafestival (Rome), Grossmann Film Festival (Slovenia), and Fantastic Fest (Austin). Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Sleepaway Camp by Edward Bilous. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

We meet Lucie on Halloween morning, at a bus stop by a pier that is festooned with flyers with the names and faces of missing children.  She's soon picked us by Catherine Wilson, a wisecracking nurse who makes house calls to elderly residents.  Lucie, who is interning for Ms. Wilson, is none too happy about the work, and at the end of her first day, relates her experiences to her friends Will and Ben over beers at the local pub.  Will is a fisherman who works for his father, and Ben works for his mother at the pub.  Like Lucie, the boys aren't thrilled with the quality of their lives – and so they hatch a plan to break into the home of one of Ms Wilson's patients, the comatose Ms. Jessel, whose house allegedly contains treasure which will, the kids hope, set them on the paths to prosperity.  There's just one catch:  Ms. Jessel's home is not what it seems.  Nor is Ms. Wilson.  And when the residents of the home extend a hearty welcome to the thieving trio, the result is a Halloween night of chaos and spiritual mayhem that changes their lives forever. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-31:13Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 31:14-1:02:42Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:02:43-1:26:52 Directors Alexandre Bustillo & Julien MauryScreenplay Julien Maury and Alexandre BustilloFeaturing Chloé Coulloud, Béatrice Dalle, Catherine Jacob, Jérémy Kapone, Chloé Marcq, Félix Moati, Marie-Claude Pietragalla Alix Austin and Keir Siewert are co-founders of Switchblade Cinema. Alix is a British/Swiss Director and Creative Producer with an all-consuming passion for action-fuelled films driven by practical effects & lethal sound design. Her work has screened at festivals including Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Raindance and Brussels International Fantastic Festival. After completing work on leech creature short SUCKER (2022), which released on SHUDDER and ALTER, she directed her first feature film, toxic relationship body horror KILL YOUR LOVER, with creative partner in crime Keir Siewert, which opened the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in October 2023. Other work includes co-directing the London segment of Horror Anthology Feature ISOLATION (2021) with Siewert, alongside Larry Fessenden (WENDIGO). Alix is a member of Directors UK and was the recipient of the Raimi Productions Scholarship in '23. Recess snack: BabyBel cheese. Keir is a Scottish and American filmmaker who is partial to making visceral, genre-bending films and a BFI Network X BAFTA Crew 2021 Alum. Writer/Director of award-winning horror short RETCH, which toured over 30 festivals, including London Short Film Festival and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival; KILL YOUR LOVER (with Alix Austin), which opened the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in October 2023; MMA short film DUCHESS, and Genera grant winner PORTRAIT. Besides narrative films, he has directed over 100 music videos. You can find more of his work, including music videos, promos and commercials here. Recess snack: Penny candy. EPISODE NOTES Music from “Livid” by Raphaël Gesqua.

Peter Friedman - has been in the original New York productions of works by Wendy Wasserstein, Simon Gray, C.P. Taylor, Charles Fuller, Annie Baker, Amy Herzog, Max Posner, Greg Pierce, Jennifer Haley, Deborah Zoe Laufer, The Debate Society, Rachel Bonds, Lauren Yee, Will Eno, Michael Mitnick, Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly, Gunnar Madsen, Joy Gregory, John Lang, Susan Stroman, David Thompson, John Kander, Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty. He's performed in NYC revivals of plays by Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Donald Margulies, Chekhov, and Shakespeare. Film: The Savages, Safe, Single White Female. TV: “Brooklyn Bridge,” “High Maintenance,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Affair,” “The Path,” “Succession.” Sydney Lemmon - Off-Broadway debut. Broadway: Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman. Film: TÁR, Firestarter, Velvet Buzzsaw. Television: “Helstrom,” “Succession,” “Fear the Walking Dead” (Saturn Award Nomination). She can next be seen alongside Halle Berry in the forthcoming feature film The Mothership. Sydney is a graduate of Boston University, LAMDA and the Yale School of Drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey, who doesn't love a party?  And what's better at a party than a good party game, especially one that involves grasping the hand at the end of an embalmed arm, and intoning the words, “Talk to me.”  For the full effect, you say the words, “I let you in,” allowing yourself to be fully possessed by whatever lies beyond the spirit realm.  It's terrifying, sure, but it's also a total rush, provided you keep it under 90 seconds.  For Mia, it's a welcome distraction from a rough year. She recently lost her mum for reasons unexplained, and her bestie Jade's little brother Riley keeps tagging along with them to parties.  Jade and Riley's mum is concerned the kids might be into something nasty, like pot, or booze.  Little does she know, the kids are into something much worse, much more addictive, and when one of their games goes too far, all hell breaks loose, unleashing spirits best left undisturbed. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free): 00:00-25:33Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 25:34-1:08:36Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:08:37-1:28:42 Directors Danny & Michael PhilippouScreenplay Danny Philippou & Bill HinzmanFeaturing Chris Alosio, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Alexandra Jensen, Marcus Johnson, Sunny Johnson, Ari McCarthy, Miranda Otto, Zoe Terakes, Sophie Wilde Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels including Dig Two Graves, Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending, #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel is Three Drops of Blood, pitched as a YA Rear Window, and she has yet another book in the works, titled, They Fear Not Men in the Woods. "Ten: Murder Island," the film adaptation of "Ten," premiered on Lifetime, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Her next book, Four Letter Word, arrives in March 2024. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Talk to Me by Cornel Wilczek. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠Our Blog⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

What's wrong with Larry Abbot?  The radio star is having bouts of fear, perhaps a remnant of childhood trauma.  Otherwise, everything seems to be swell:  he's engaged to be married to his scene partner, the delightful Vickie Pearle.  But the radio show, hosted by the Manhattan Mystery Theater and lead sponsor Ralston-Purina are concerned about Larry's mental health, so they've hired Larry's Uncle Paul, a psychiatrist. to employ a radical cure that will rid Larry of his fears in no more than 36 hours.  And off go Larry and Vickie to Larry's ancestral stomping grounds, a palatial estate that bears a striking resemblance to, well, let's just say we've seen it before.  Just like the Abbot family butler, Pfister, and the maid, the diminutive Rachel – there's something familiar about them as well.  What's new are the cast of characters that assemble at the estate for Larry and Vickie's wedding – Larry's cousins Charles, Nora, Susan, and Francis Jr., all of whom seem to have ulterior motives of one kind of another, some of which may include death or inheriting the fortune of the family matriarch, Aunt Kate.  Will Larry and Vickie make it through the next couple days intact?  Will we, the audience, figure out what's really going on?  Maybe so, but we'll have to sit through all 82 minutes of this film to find out. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free): 00:00-33:30Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 33:31-1:00:18Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:00:19-1:17:45 Director Gene WilderScreenplay Gene Wilder & Terence MarshFeaturing Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jim Carter, Dom DeLuise, Eve Ferret, Bryan Pringle, Jonathan Pryce, Gilda Radner, Jo Ross, Paul L. Smith, Peter Vaughan, Ann Way, Gene Wilder Award-winning director/producer Michael Pressman has worked across most entertainment genres and mediums, including comedies, dramas, social commentaries, short films, feature length studio and indie films, series television and movies, Broadway stage productions, and regional theater.  His directing credits for film include The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, Doctor Detroit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, and Frankie and Johnny Are Married.  His television movies include To Heal a Nation, about the building of the Vietnam memorial, and the Anne Tyler adaptation Saint Maybe, starring Tom McCarthy, Blythe Danner, and Mary-Louise Parker (Hallmark Hall of Fame). He co-executive produced and directed David E. Kelley's “Picket Fences,” which lasted four seasons and won him two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. Pressman then launched Kelley's next show, “Chicago Hope,” which earned him another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. Other series that Pressman has produced and directed include multiple episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series “Law & Order: SVU,” and two seasons of “Blue Bloods.” He executive produced the fifth and sixth season of NBC's “Chicago Med,” earning that show its highest ratings to date. Pressman's stage work includes directing the Los Angeles premiere of To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, and a Los Angeles production of Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune, the 2008 Broadway revival of Come Back, Little Sheba with S. Epatha Merkerson in the lead role. His most recent stage experience was directing Diane Frolov's Come Get Maggie for L.A.'s Rogue Machine Theatre. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Haunted Honeymoon” by John Morris. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

It's late one night in America, and two men are chasing tweakers from a local meth den.  One escapee, James, gets away.  The other, a girl, is set on fire by the men before they drive off.  Meanwhile, local police chief Daniel Carter is asleep on the job, again, when he spots James crawling out of the woods, and transports him to the nearest medical facility, Marsh General, where he estranged wife Allison works as a nurse.  The hospital is on the verge of closing after a fire took out most of it, and they're working with a skeleton crew:  besides Allison, there are two nurses, Kim and Beverly; one doctor, the mysterious Richard Powell; and only two patients, Cliff and pregnant Maggie.  It's upon Daniel's arrival that the world tilts on its axis:  strange robe-clad figures emerge from the forest, Beverly is caught performing impromptu surgery on Cliff, and Maggie goes into labor.  What happens from here defies logic, description and expectation, but as Daniel and Allison determine to face down the wickedness that comes their way, they soon find themselves enmeshed in a plot that goes way beyond medical science, and maybe, beyond the reaches of time and space itself. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-29:22Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 29:23-1:03:19Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 1:03:20-1:24:18 Director Jeremy Gillespie & Steven KostanskiScreenplay Jeremy Gillespie & Steven KostanskiFeaturing Stephanie Belding, Mik Byskov, Daniel Fathers, Art Hindle, James Millington, Grace Munro, Kathleen Munroe, Aaron Poole, Evan Stern, Kenneth Welsh, Ellen Wong John DeVore is a two-time James Beard award-winning essayist and editor. He currently writes a column for Decider called 'Is It Woke?' and his first memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' will hit bookstores in 2024. His favorite movie is 'Fiddler on the Roof,' followed by 'Hellraiser.' Favorite recess snack: Lunchables. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “The Void” by Jeremy Gillespie. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. This is our SEASON 2 FINALE. Thank you for joining us! We'll be back with some bonus episodes this summer, then will be back in the fall for a whole new season of SCARE U.

This week, we're airing an encore presentation of our interview with Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, writers and creators of the HBO series Somebody Somewhere, which just finished airing its second season on HBO. In the interview, Hannah and Paul discuss their close collaborative relationship and share some of the creative practices they developed with their theater company, The Debate Society. Then they talk about the development and writing process behind Somebody Somewhere, which is set in rural Kansas and stars actor and cabaret singer Bridget Everett, who grew up there. After the interview, hosts Isaac Butler and June Thomas talk about the effectiveness of writing exercises and the difficulty of describing one's own creative processes. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Hannah and Paul explain why they chose not to include any details about the pandemic in Somebody Somewhere. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're airing an encore presentation of our interview with Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, writers and creators of the HBO series Somebody Somewhere, which just finished airing its second season on HBO. In the interview, Hannah and Paul discuss their close collaborative relationship and share some of the creative practices they developed with their theater company, The Debate Society. Then they talk about the development and writing process behind Somebody Somewhere, which is set in rural Kansas and stars actor and cabaret singer Bridget Everett, who grew up there. After the interview, hosts Isaac Butler and June Thomas talk about the effectiveness of writing exercises and the difficulty of describing one's own creative processes. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Hannah and Paul explain why they chose not to include any details about the pandemic in Somebody Somewhere. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're airing an encore presentation of our interview with Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, writers and creators of the HBO series Somebody Somewhere, which just finished airing its second season on HBO. In the interview, Hannah and Paul discuss their close collaborative relationship and share some of the creative practices they developed with their theater company, The Debate Society. Then they talk about the development and writing process behind Somebody Somewhere, which is set in rural Kansas and stars actor and cabaret singer Bridget Everett, who grew up there. After the interview, hosts Isaac Butler and June Thomas talk about the effectiveness of writing exercises and the difficulty of describing one's own creative processes. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Hannah and Paul explain why they chose not to include any details about the pandemic in Somebody Somewhere. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're airing an encore presentation of our interview with Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, writers and creators of the HBO series Somebody Somewhere, which just finished airing its second season on HBO. In the interview, Hannah and Paul discuss their close collaborative relationship and share some of the creative practices they developed with their theater company, The Debate Society. Then they talk about the development and writing process behind Somebody Somewhere, which is set in rural Kansas and stars actor and cabaret singer Bridget Everett, who grew up there. After the interview, hosts Isaac Butler and June Thomas talk about the effectiveness of writing exercises and the difficulty of describing one's own creative processes. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Hannah and Paul explain why they chose not to include any details about the pandemic in Somebody Somewhere. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we meet Oskar, it's 1982 and he's a meek 12-year-old with a shameful blonde pageboy haircut.  His parents are divorced, making for a lonely existence on a nondescript housing estate in a suburb of Stockholm.  On top of this, local bully Conny's been taunting him at school, his jabs becoming increasingly violent.  Meanwhile, people are dying in Oskar's neighborhood, especially around his apartment complex.  Could it have something to do with the middle-age man and 12 year old girl that just moved into the building, the ones that placed cardboard on their windows, seemingly to shield them from the outside world?  Why one night does that man subdue and hang a pedestrian upside down, slitting his throat until hid blood drains into a funnel?  That's when Oskar meets Eli, the girl next door, and takes a liking to her when she solves his Rubik's cube.  But Eli's smarts don't come from school – she's been around a while, you see – and she may not even be a she at all.  What transpires when Oskar and Eli become friends, and what happens when others in town catch on to Eli's nocturnal habits, are only the beginning of this icy but romantic coming of age drama. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-26:58Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 26:59-55:57Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 55:58-1:17:12 Director Tomas AlfredsonScreenplay John Ajvide LindqvistFeaturing Peter Carlberg, Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Ika Nord, Per Ragnar, Patrik Rydmark Joshua Conkel is a Los Angeles based writer, filmmaker, and podcaster. His short film, He Watches, is in festivals now, and he is the co-host of Bloodhaus, a weekly arthouse horror comedy podcast. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Let the Right One In” by Johan Söderqvist. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠.

A couple, Ash and Linda, are driving to what they believe will be a romantic getaway at a cabin in the woods that Ash claims is deserted.  The cabin, we discover, once belonged to an archaeologist, Dr. Raymond Knowby, and his wife Henrietta, who, while on an archaeological… mission of some kind, discovered the ⁠Necronomicon Ex-Mortis⁠, the Book of the Dead.  Upon arrival, Ash finds a reel to reel recording of Dr. Knowby discussing his mission and reciting lines from the Necronomicon.  Harmless stuff, you'd think.  Harmless, that is, until Linda and Ash's world starts coming alive, with evil spirits pouring out of every crack, crevice, and ditch.  When Dr. Knowby's daughter Annie arrives, along with her lover, a pair of locals, and new pages from the Necronomicon, all are in for a rude awakening.  Evil spirits gonna evil.  Fortunately, Ash is there, and proves mighty handy with a chainsaw and sawed-off shotgun. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-27:00 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 27:01-58:09 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 58:10-1:18:21 Director Sam Raimi Screenplay Sam Raimi & Scott Spiegel Featuring Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, Bruce Campbell, Richard Domeier, Dan Hicks, Theodore Raimi, Kassie Wesley Doug French is a writer, podcaster, speaker, and conference organizer who is preparing for artificial intelligence to put him completely out of work. And now that his last child has graduated high school, he feels like Chuck Noland at the end of CAST AWAY.  His latest project is "When the Flames Go Up," a podcast community he started with his ex-wife about the unique challenges of late-stage parenting. Whatever we thought we were preparing for, this isn't it.  His favorite movie used to be “Brazil,” until it came true. Now it's “Adaptation.” Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Evil Dead 2” by Joseph LoDuca. To read reviews from Eric & Doug's first collaboration, Filmington (1999-2003), ⁠click here. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week the Ghouls discuss 1969's sexy Italian giallo, Umberto Lenzi's Orgasmo (or Paranoia as it's called in the United States.) “Orgasmo (Italian for "orgasm") is a 1969 giallo film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, and Colette Descombes. It follows a wealthy American socialite who finds herself preyed upon by two nefarious young siblings who indulge her in sex, drugs, and alcohol while she vacations at an Italian villa. This film helped launch the second phase of Baker's career, during which she became a regular star in Italian productions.[3]  “But first: airports! Also, Drusilla saw Zachary Wigon's Sanctuary, Christopher Abbot's hotness, Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool, Dark Castle Entertainment's Thirteen Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill, House of Wax, Dr. Caligari (80s version), Josh loves Somebody, Somewhere, Videodrome, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Mother of Tears, The Debate Society and Buddy Cop 2, Le Tigre, Peaches, a rant against film ratings, Delicatessen, Young Girls of Rochefort, we both love Bye Bye Birdie, NEXT WEEK: Titane (2021)Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.comDrusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/Joshua's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaConkelJoshua's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel  

Newlywed couple Stefan and Valerie are traveling across Europe by train, bound for Belgium then England, where they are to meet Stefan's mother.  But when the train makes an unexpected stop, the couple decide to hang out for a while in a seaside hotel in the town of Ostend.  Fortunately, It's winter, so they have their pick of suites, but why is Stefan so hesitant to call his Mother to tell her he and Valerie are married?  And who is this new visitor, one Countess Elizabeth Bathory and her secretary Ilona?  Well, whoever they are, they soon begin to fixate on the newlyweds. Meanwhile, a series of grisly murders of young women are taking place in neighboring towns, and on a leisurely trip to Bruges, Stefan shows a strange interest in a murder that's just taken place. What do Elizabeth and Ilona have to do with the murders, and why are they so determined to befriend Stefan and Valerie?  And perhaps most mysterious, why do the hotel concierge and a retired policeman think Elizabeth looks exactly like someone they knew 40 years ago? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-33:52 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 33:53-1:08:48 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 1:08:49-1:24:13 Director Harry Kümel Screenplay Pierre Druout, Jean Ferry & Harry Kümel Featuring Paul Esser, Georges Jamin, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Fons Rademakers, Andrea Rau, Delphine Seyrig Carolyn Raship draws pictures and tells stories. She is an illustrator, writer, fine artist, and maker of comics who has written and directed theater and has written a short horror film based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher. And she would like you all to know that she is currently in exile from her beloved Brooklyn. Check out Carolyn's Patreon channel. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Daughters of Darkness” by François de Roubaix. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.  Join our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠.

Marrying into the wealthy Le Domas family, one-time foster child Grace thinks she's going to have it all: a handsome, loving husband in Alex, all the amenities she desires (thanks to the Le Domas gaming fortune), and of course, a loving extended family.  But, as one character says, the rich really are different.  Not only does the family welcome Grace with open arms, they also invite her to  a certain ritual designed for all new members of the family.  It's just a formality, part of a deal struck many years ago with a certain Mr. Le Bail.  You see, if the Le Domas family doesn't hold up their end of the deal, a horrible fate awaits them.  Maybe.  It all comes down to one card, and what's printed on that card, and whether Grace draws it or not.  Because if she does, terrible events will ensue, and the life she envisioned for herself might just explode before her eyes. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-24:40Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 24:41-58:12Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 58:13-1:19:59 Directors Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-OlpinScreenplay Guy Busick & R. Christopher MurphyFeaturing Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Nicky Guadagni, Elyse Levesque, Andie MacDowell, Mark O'Brien, John Ralston, Melanie Scrofano, Samara Weaving Kim Burns and Ketryn Porter are best friends who host the podcast Kim and Ket Stay Alive… Maybe. Along with looking for any excuse to make the other one laugh, they are also positive that, if they found themselves in a horror movie, they'd be the ones to make it out alive. Each week they put that theory to the test, and often find themselves sorely mistaken. One of the girls tells the other about a horror movie she hasn't seen, stopping at different points to ask what she would do to stay alive. Listen to Ket & Kim's episode on Ready or Not. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Ready of Not” by Brian Tyler. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.  Join our ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠.

A film studio focus puller moonlighting as a DIY pornographer, Mark Lewis has a problem.  And he's not sure he wants to get rid of it.  You see, Mark has a certain kink, a turn-on:  he loves, gets off even, on the sight of women in fear.  Fear of death, fear of Mark, fear of the unknown.  His weapon is a film camera, and after he stalks and kills a prostitute, he films the police's response to it, all in the name of creating what Mark calls a “documentary.”  At home, in the house his family once owned but now is filled with tenants, he soon meets 21 year old Helen, who takes a liking to the young man, intrigued by his mysterious ways.  Will this relationship be the thing to help Mark with his issues?  Will Helen, and her blind, intuitive mother, succumb to Mark's bizarre predilections?  And where the hell did Vivian, the film's lead stand-in, learn to dance like that? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-22:47Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 22:48-52:46Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 52:47-1:10:51 Director Michael PowellScreenplay Leo MarksFeaturing Maxine Audley, Keith Baxter, Carl Boehm, Brenda Bruce, Shirley Ann Field, Pamela Green, Esmond Knight, Anna Massey, Martin Miller, Moira Shearer, Jack Watson Mickey Boardman is a writer, socialite, philanthropist, and media personality. From 1993 to 2023, he served as an editorial director and wrote three columns for Paper magazine:  the “Ask Mr. Mickey” advice column, a body positivity column called “Fat and All That,” and the column “Reserved,” for which he interviewed fashion legends like Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, and Virgil Abloh. His writing has also appeared in a little paper we like to call the NY Times. Mickey is also an active commentator on the New York social/fashion scene and has appeared as a cultural commentator, lifestyle expert, and fashion guru for networks like VH1, A&E, CNN, and E!.  He has also been recognized as one of New York magazine's “Most Photographed Faces in New York” and voted by Fashion Week Daily as one of its Most-Invited People. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Peeping Tom” by Brian Easdale. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.   Join our ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠.

We begin in an asylum for the criminally insane.  A man in a straitjacket is hauled into the facility and thrown into a padded cell.  Visited by a psychiatrist, the man begins telling his story, while acknowledging that something awful is happening in the outside world.  We flash back: renowned horror writer Sutter Cane has disappeared.  Seeking to locate Cane, and collect his new novel, In the Mouth of Madness, the head of Arcane publishing, Jackson Harglow, hires crack Insurance investigator John Trent – a man with a nose for frauds and whose skepticism seemingly knows no bounds.  Trent has already run into a spot of trouble – after reading a couple chapters of Cane's latest, Cane's agent becomes an axe-wielding maniac, crashing through the window of a local café where Trent is dining.  The why, for now, is left unexplained, but as we learn, Cane's novels have a strange, disorienting effect on its ‘less stable' readers.  Trent and Cane's editor, Linda Styles, head to Hobb's End, New Hampshire, where they believe Cane is living.  Trent and Styles discover a place that seems almost too quaint to be real, and almost immediately, a terrible secret that upends Trent's life as he knows it, and has major repercussions for Sutter Cane fans worldwide. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-32:15Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 32:16-1:07:24Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:07:25-1:25:20 Director John CarpenterScreenplay Michael De LucaFeaturing Frances Bay, Julie Carmen, John Glover, Charlton Heston, Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Wilhelm von Homburg, David Warner Mary Wild is a 'Freudian Cinephile' and pop psychoanalyst, creating content related to cinema, philosophy, and the modern cultural landscape.  She is the founder of the Projections lecture series at Freud Museum London, applying psychoanalysis to film interpretation, which has been running since 2012. She teaches film at City Lit and Picturehouse Cinemas, and has produced events for London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Picturehouse Cinemas, White Cube Gallery, and Morbid Anatomy. She also co-hosts Projections Podcast, contributes to The Evolution of Horror Podcast, and posts exclusive content on Patreon. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “In the Mouth of Madness” by John Carpenter & Jim Lang. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠scareupod.com⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.   Join our ⁠Facebook⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠.

An American couple, Peter and Joan Allison, are traveling by train through Hungary when they're told their cabin has been double booked.  Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a psychiatrist just released from eighteen years in a prison camp, soon joins them for the short ride to their destination – the same place Werdegast is going, he claims, to visit an old friend, along with his manservant, Thamal.  On their way into town, the bus that the four are in runs off the road, killing the driver and injuring Joan. They hike to the home of Werdegast's former military comrade, one Hjalmar Poelzig, a renowned architect.  Poelzig's home may be a modern masterpiece of construction, but it's also built on the site of a World War I battlefield where thousands of Hungarians lost their lives, and where Werdegast was captured.  Now, having returned, Werdegast is ready to take revenge on the man he claims stole his life, and perhaps, his wife.  But Poelzig has his own surprises in store.  And by the time the Allisons realize what terrors await in Poelzig's home, it may truly be too late for all of them. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-28:41Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 28:42-1:04:12Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:04:13-1:27:07 Director Edgar G. UlmerScreenplay Peter Ruric, based on a screen story by Ruric and Ulmer, suggested by an 1845 story by Edgar Allan PoeFeaturing Egon Brecher, Harry Cording, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lucille Lund, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells Hope Cartelli and Jeff Lewonczyk are creative polymaths who've been deeply involved with New York's independent theater scene for 15 years now, having worked as associate directors of Williamsburg's Brick Theater for nearly a decade, producing hundreds of shows and festivals.  They've created dozens of shows through their own theater company, Piper McKenzie, including horror-adjacent outings, especially through their "Bizarre Science Fantasy" series of silent, dance-theater works.  More recently, the two have been acting, directing, presenting, and entrepreneuring.  Hope is appearing in the ongoing stage soap opera It's Getting Tired Mildred (now in its eighth year), currently running monthly at the Kraine Theater in NYC's East Village. She has also acted (alongside Jeff) in America Unanswered, a special video episode of the hit horror podcast Tell Me a Story: The True Life of Jakob Stanley.  Jeff is a writer and illustrator who's published two short books: the art zine Better Bones, and the first installment of an ongoing serial, The Congress of the Monsters, with Book 2 coming out later this year.  Jeff also directed (and Hope acted in) a musical comedy written by William Peter Blatty, based on his screenplay for the 1965 film John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “The Black Cat” by Heinz Roemheld. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠scareupod.com⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.   If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.  Join our ⁠Facebook⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠.

Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-30:00Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 30:01-1:02:58Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:02:59-1:21:11 Director André ØvredalScreenplay Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman, screen story by Guillermo del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunston, based on the books by Alvin SchwartzFeaturing Austin Abrams, Gil Bellows, Javier Botet, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Natalie Ganzhorn, Michael Garza, Troy James, Dean Norris, Gabriel Rush, Mark Steger, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur It's Halloween 1968 in Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, a town best known for its Mill and its Valley.  Friends Stella, Auggie, and Chuck decide to take revenge on some local bullies, led by Tommy, who's dating Chuck's sister Ruth.  After removing his feces from the toilet to hand to Tommy, and throwing the requisite eggs at his car, the bullies track the friends to  a drive-in movie theater showing Night of the Living Dead.  That's when Stella, Auggie, and Chuck hop in the car of Ramon, a mysterious drifter who has come to their town to escape the draft.  Afterwards, the four make their way to a dilapidated home on the edge of town that once belonged to the wealthy Bellows family, who mysteriously disappeared shortly after the town's titular mill shut down.  The Bellows' daughter Sarah was, we learn, a prolific teller of stories who was hidden away in a cellar by a family hellbent on keeping a terrible secret at bay. Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of novels Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middle-grade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. His new novel, What Kind of Mother, arrives on September 12, 2023. Other projects include Quiet Part Loud, a 12-part horror podcast series from Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions, written by Chapman and Mac Rogers. Chapman's story late bloomer was adapted into a short film, directed by Craig William Macneill. An official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the short won Best Short at the Lake Placid Film Festival and the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Their second short, Henley, based on the chapter “The Henley Road Motel” from Chapman's novel miss corpus, was an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. It won Best Short at the 2011 Gen Art Film Festival and the 2011 Carmel Arts and Film Festival. The Boy (SXSW 2015), a feature-length adaptation of Henley, co-written with director Macneill, was produced by SpectreVision (Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller) in 2015. In comics, Chapman is the writer of the Marvel series Scream: Curse of Carnage, and has written Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Typhoid Fever, as well as for Edge of Spider-Verse and Venomverse, The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, American Vampire, Scream: King In Black, and ORIGINS among others. Chapman is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show. In the twenty years of its existence, it has performed internationally. He currently teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from “Scary Stories” by Marco Beltrami & Anna Drubich. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating.   Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram.

An American research crew at a base in Antarctica finds they are not alone in the desolate, freezing landscape when a nearby Norwegian team accidentally awakens an alien presence that's been frozen in the ice for a hundred thousand years. As the American crew determines just what the alien's M.O. is, they are overcome by a creeping distrust, and the paranoid group slowly unravels as an unseen, deadly force runs rampant on the base. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-31:42 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 31:43-1:07:36 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:07:37-1:26:59 Director John Carpenter Screenplay Bill Lancaster, based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. Featuring Wilfrid Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Jed, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Kurt Russell, Thomas Waites Suzanne Keilly is a screenwriter in Los Angeles, known for adapting and reimagining 80s cult genre fare including Slumber Party Massacre, Leprechaun Returns, and “Ash Vs Evil Dead.” Despite her penchant for horror, Suzanne got her start writing and performing sketch comedy and improv at stages across North America including UCB, the Groundlings, Second City, and Just for Laughs. She was most recently a writer on Netflix's cancelled, yet beloved series “Warrior Nun,” and is currently writing a horror whodunnit for Viacom. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Thing” by Ennio Morricone. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

After surviving a torrential Nor'easter that rips parts of his home and adjoining properties to shreds, Bridgton, Maine resident and graphic artist David Drayton, his son Billy and wife Steff notice a strange fog rolling in on the lake behind their house. After confirming that his boathouse was crushed by neighbor Brent Norton's old tree, a source of old resentments, David gathers Billy and Brent into his jeep and heads into town for supplies. Upon arrival at the local supermarket, The Food House, into which half the town seems to have crammed, it becomes apparent that the mist is no longer on the lake: in fact, it's now is at the doorstep of the supermarket. Inside the store, we meet a gaggle of characters: Ollie Weeks and Bud Brown, the store's co-managers; Mrs. Carmody, a god-fearing woman who's convinced that Man has brought shame and disgrace upon the world; feisty old Mrs. Reppler, who's not a fan of Mrs. Carmody; locals Jim, Myron, Hattie, and Ambrose; and Dan Miller, whose frantic first appearance in the store heralds the danger to come. For there are terrors lurking in The Mist, the stuff of Hieronymous Bosch nightmares, monstrous beings that make even the act of venturing outside dangerous and deadly, and perhaps portend the coming of the apocalypse. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-24:33 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 24:34-1:08:31 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:08:32-1:29:12 Director Frank Darabont Screenplay Frank Darabont, based on the novella by Stephen King Featuring Andre Braugher, Alexa Davalos, Jeffrey DeMunn, Marcia Gay Harden, Nathan Gamble, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, Thomas Jane, Chris Owen, William Sadler, Frances Sternhagen, Sam Witwer Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels for Disney*Hyperion and Balzer + Bray including Possess, 3:59, Relic, I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending—the #1 YALSA Teens' Top Ten pick for 2019— #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel for Disney*Hyperion is Dig Two Graves, pitched as a YA Strangers on a Train; Three Drops of Blood arrives this March (2023) and Four-Letter Word in 2024. Gretchen's books have been published in more than a dozen languages all over the world. Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of Ten starring China Anne McClain, premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Gretchen is repped by Ginger Clark of Ginger Clark Literary. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Mist” by Mark Isham. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When Christine Brown, a young bank loan officer, must decide whether to grant a third extension on the loan of one Sylvia Ganush, who's already defaulted on two – she's in a real quandary. She really wants that Assistant Manager position, and Stu Rubin seems to have the inside track with her boss, Mr. Jacks. But Christine's determined, and so, with all the heartlessness she can muster, she denies Mrs. Ganush the extension. It's a decision that will come to haunt her – for Mrs. Ganush curses Christine with the Lamia, an ancient goat spirit that makes Christine's life a living hell. The only solution: the sacrifice of an animal, and giving away the cursed object. Will a kindly medium, Rham Jas, be able to help Christine? Will the woman who met the Lamia years before, Shaun Sen Dena, be able to lend her expertise? Will Christine's psychology professor boyfriend Clay ever figure out what's going on? What will stop the spirit's relentless assault, and put a button on Christine's nightmare? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-26:51 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 26:52-53:53 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 53:54-1:15:43 Director Sam Raimi Screenplay Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi Featuring Adriana Barraza, Molly Cheek, Kevin Foster, Alison Lohman, Justin Long, David Paymer, Dileep Rao, Lorna Raver, Chelcie Ross Hale Appleman has been seen onstage at major American theaters including the Roundabout Theater Company, American Repertory Theater, The Old Globe, and the Berkshire Theater Festival. He can be heard on the L.A. Theatre Works recording of Sam Shepard's Buried Child and starred as Jesus in the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play. Hale may be best known for playing Eliot in TV's “The Magicians”; other film and TV credits include Beautiful Ohio, Pedro, Private Romeo, and the Sundance horror comedy Teeth, and he's recurred on TV in "Smash" (NBC), the currently streaming “Truth Be Told” (Apple TV), and FX's “American Horror Story: NYC” as a David Wojnarowicz analog in the 1980s East Village art scene. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Drag Me to Hell” by Christopher Young. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Virginia, an actress, bookstore employee, and voracious reader of trash fiction, becomes convinced that the author of the books she's reading – who died some 30 years ago – is out there, on the streets of Los Angeles, committing grisly murders similar to the ones in his books. Her detective boyfriend, Richard, along with the rest of the LAPD, is skeptical. After all, how can a long-dead author be alive and killing people? Is Virginia crazy? Seeing things? Drinking too much tea? Or is she on to something, and everyone else has failed to see the ugly truth right under their noses, ears, lips, and scalp? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-23:34 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 23:35-55:13 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 55:14-1:15:46 Director Tibor Takács Screenplay David Chaskin Featuring Randall William Cook, Michelle Fozounmayeh, Stephanie Hodge, Steven Memel, Clayton Rohner, Murray Rubin, Vance Valencia, Jenny Wright Erik Piepenburg writes about horror for The New York Times, including a monthly column about new horror movies to stream. He also writes regularly for The Times about other topics, including gay culture and television. He is currently writing a book about the history of gay restaurants in America. Originally from Cleveland, he now lives with his partner in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “I, Madman” by Michael Hoenig. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Eight year-old Rhoda Penmark is angry. Not because her father, a colonel, is heading off to Washington for four weeks. Not because her apartment building's janitor, LeRoy Jessup, is hovering a little too close for comfort. No, Rhoda's pissed because her classmate Claude Daigle has won the school's penmanship medal, and in Rhoda's mind, that just isn't fair. Meanwhile, Rhoda's doting mother, Christine, has begun to wonder whether Rhoda might be a little too interested in the medal, and when word comes that Claude has met a suspicious end at the school picnic, Christine's curiosity turns to worry. Is Rhoda really as sweet and innocent as she looks? Is LeRoy really just a mixed up fool who monologues on occasion? Or is something more nefarious afoot – something to do with heredity, with nature vs nurture, and a certain coincidence that takes place whenever Rhoda is in the vicinity of those she considers obstacles to her desires? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-27:34 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 27:35-56:19 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 56:20-1:13:19 Director Mervyn LeRoy Screenplay John Lee Mahin, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, based on the novel by William March Featuring Gage Clarke, Joan Croydon, Paul Fix, Eileen Heckart, William Hopper, Henry Jones, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Evelyn Varden, Jesse White Michael Musto is best known as the long running "La Dolce Musto" columnist for the Village Voice, for which he is still a contributor. Musto's articles about show biz and clubbing have also appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Vanity Fair, and he currently writes a gossip column for Queerty.com, in addition to contributing to the Daily Beast. Musto has written four books—including the non fiction guide "Downtown" and the novel Manhattan on the Rocks—and he has long been a TV commentator on pop culture, popping up on CNN, as well as in documentaries on Showtime, Netflix, FX, Vice and Amazon Prime. He has won the Glam Award for Best Nightlife writer nine times. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Bad Seed” by Alex North. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's a stormy night somewhere in Wales, and three travelers are having a rough go of it: married couple Phillip and Margaret Waverton, and their passenger in the back seat, the dapper Penderel. That's when they come upon a house, which is, shockingly, old… and dark. They manage to gain entrance after convincing the mute, lumbering butler, Morgan, that they are indeed in distress, and are soon greeted by the house's main occupants, the elderly Femms, Horace and his hard of hearing sister Rebecca. The Femms offer the travelers supper, but as the sternly religious Rebecca finds it inappropriate, no beds. As they sit down to eat a meal of meat and potatoes, two more travelers burst in – the jolly Sir William Porterhouse and his personal companion, Gladys Duquesne. Or is it Perkins? As the evening wends from dinner to conversation to an interest in the rest of the house, things take a turn for the weird, and soon, all are ensnared in a trap – not just to make it through the storm, but to get out of the house alive. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-27:40 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 27:41-1:06:53 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:06:54-1:26:09 Director James Whale Screenplay Benn W. Levy, with additional dialogue by R.C. Sherriff, based on the novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley Featuring Lilian Bond, Melvyn Douglas, Elspeth Dudgeon, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Eva Moore, Gloria Stuart, Ernest Thesiger, Brember Wills Jason Kravits has been appearing on stages and screens, large and small, for over 30 years. Best known for his long-running role as ADA Richard Bay on ABC's “The Practice,” he has appeared in dozens of shows, including memorable roles on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Kominsky Method,” “30 Rock,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Young Sheldon,” “Grey's Anatomy,” “B Positive,” “NCIS,” and “Gilmore Girls.” He recently appeared opposite Nicole Kidman on HBO's “The Undoing” and Ewan McGregor in Netflix's Halston. Kravits has appeared in several Broadway shows, including The Drowsy Chaperone, Relatively Speaking, and City Center Encores production of The Golden Apple. In 2015, Jason created Off the Top!, a “one-man, completely improvised cabaret.” Since then he has performed the show over a hundred times to sold out crowds in London, Edinburgh, Adelaide, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, and regularly plays the world-famous Birdland Theater in New York City. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music under the synopsis is “A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet” by Gus Kahn and Harry Woods, performed by Isham Jones and His Orchestra. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Determined to make better lives for themselves, Madrid town square "mascots" Tony and Jose, in their guises as a silver-hued Jesus and a green-skinned toy soldier, rob a shop specializing in the exchange and purchase of gold. Joined by Jose's son Sergio, who has forsaken his homework for a day with dad, the men make off with countless rings and other gold trinkets, commandeering a taxi driven by Manuel, and containing a passenger who just wants to get to Badajoz. Their goal: make it to France, safety, and prosperity. Just one problem: Sergio left his backpack in the store, and his notebook has Jose's address on it. It soon becomes clear to Jose's wife Silvia that her son has been involved in a robbery and is being pursued through the country. She jumps in a car and joins the pursuit herself, only to be followed by two cops, Calvo and Pacheco. Soon, all wind up in the Basque town of Zugarramurdi, which, legend has it, is the centuries-old home of a coven of brujas, witches, posing an almost insurmountable obstacle to the mens' frantic escape. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-18:50 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 18:51-1:05:42 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:05:43-1:23:49 Director Álex de la Iglesia Screenplay Jorge Guerricaechevarría & Alex de la Iglesia Featuring Carlos Areces, Carolina Bang, María Barranco, Javier Botet, Mario Casas, Secun de la Rosa, Gabriel Delgado, Macarena Gómez, Carmen Maura, Pepón Nieto, Jaime Ordóñez, Terele Pávez, Santiago Segura, Hugo Silva, Manuel Tallafé, Enrique Villén Cintra Wilson is a culture critic, author, and former fashion critic for the New York Times. Her books include "A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As A Grotesque, Crippling Disease," the novel "Colors Insulting to Nature," "Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny,” and "Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Fashion.” Her weekly Substack/podcast is free at cintra.substack.com. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Witching and Bitching” by Joan Valent. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The 17th century. The English Civil War. Whitehead, a man of letters, maker of lace, and self-described coward, is tasked with finding and arresting the colleague and rival alchemist who stole his master's papers. He enlists the aid of Cutler, a soldier who claims he can take them to a nearby alehouse, and two deserters, the wily Jacob and dull-minded Friend. Upon arriving at Cutler's destination – not the alehouse, but a wide open field strewn with hallucinogenic mushrooms, the group locates the alchemist, O'Neil. But instead of taking in his man, Whitehead, along with Jacob and Friend, find themselves O'Neil's prisoners. And as Whitehead becomes a literal tool in O'Neil's plot to seek out a deposit of gold in the field, this one-time familiar place quickly turns strange and otherworldly. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-20:20 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 20:21-50:34 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 50:35-1:05:17 Director Ben Wheatley Screenplay Amy Jump Featuring Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Ryan Pope, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley Bobby Frederick Tilley is a costume designer for theater, film, and TV. His theater credits include Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater, Broadway, Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Costume Design, 2019 Theatre Fans Choice Award Best Costume Design); Bulldozer: The Legend of Robert Moses starring Constantine Maroulis; Hot Mess; The Legend of Georgia McBride; the World Premiere of Guards At The Taj (Henry Hewes Design Award nomination for Costume Design), The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, and the World Premiere of Annie Baker's Body Awareness (Atlantic Theatre Company); Joe Iconis's Broadway Bounty Hunter starring Annie Golden; The Power of Duff (Geffen Playhouse); the World Premiere of Open House (Signature Theatre); the World Premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout); the World Premiere of All New People (2econd Stage); Thinner Than Water (LAByrinth Theater Company); the World Premiere of Annie Baker's The Aliens (Rattlestick); Nora and Delia Ephron's Love Loss and What I Wore (Westside Theater); and Lizzie Borden (The Living Theater, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design and Henry Hewes Design Award nomination for Costume Design). His costume designs for film and television include Hello, I Must Be Going, The Green, Four Lane Highway, Little Kings, Rubout, Robert Smigel's “TV Funhouse” for Comedy Central, “Manhattan Valley,” and “Once in a Lifetime.” With Laura Bauer, he worked on Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, Peter Hedges' Pieces of April, Theresa Rebeck's Spinning Into Butter, and Tom Donaghy's Story of a Bad Boy. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “A Field in England” by Jim Williams. “Baloo My Boy” performed by Richard Glover. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Lola Stone wants to go to prom with Brent, the school hottie, but he's already going with his girlfriend Holly. So Lola does what any jilted high schooler would do: she and her father kidnap Brent, tie him to a chair, and proceed to torture him in excruciating ways -- all while hiding a long-buried secret concerning the disappearance of several of their towns' residents. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-21:20 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 21:21-1:03:20 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:03:21-1:22:56 Director Sean Byrne Screenplay Sean Byrne Featuring John Brumpton, Robin McLeavy, Jessica McNamee, Xavier Samuel, Anne Scott-Pendlebury, Victoria Thaine, Richard Wilson Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright and television writer. She is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her plays, Becky Shaw, and Rapture, Blister, Burn. Her other plays include After Ashley (Obie Award), U.S. Drag (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and Can You Forgive Her? She has written for the television dramas “The Alienist,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Cold Case,” “Borgia,” “House of Cards” and three incarnations of “Law & Order.” Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Loved Ones” by Ollie Olsen. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's Christmas at a college somewhere in North America, and the girls of a campus sorority house are welcoming the season with boys and libations. For Clare, Jess, Phyl, Barb and their house mother, Mrs. Mac, it's an especially sweet time, as the house welcomes kids from the neighborhood for a party and the spirit of giving is in the air. But soon, giving turns to screaming as one of them finds herself confronted by a mysterious stranger who has seemingly entered the house via an upstairs window. Soon, the case of one missing girl draws in the residents of the house, the local police, and the town, and an oddly hard-to-locate killer initiates a game of hide-and-seek, sororicide, and some truly awful telephone etiquette. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-34:52 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 34:53-1:04:45 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:04:46-1:26:26 Director Bob Clark Screenplay Roy Moore Featuring Keir Dullea, Lynne Griffin, Art Hindle, Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Doug McGrath, Michael Rapport, John Saxon, Marian Waldman Zac Locke is an experienced producer and business affairs executive who recently moved into writing and directing. As a producer, he's shepherded more than a dozen films from inception through production and release, including THE VOYEURS, BLACK CHRISTMAS, THE WIND, BLOODLINE, and AGNES. His directorial debut, FLOAT, was released December 8, 2022 by XYZ Films. Zac lives in Portland, OR. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Four months after surviving a car crash that killed her husband, pregnant Sarah is alone and depressed on Christmas Eve, and due to have her baby the next day. Violent protests are happening in the streets, but she doesn't want to be with anyone, despite her mother and boss Jean-Pierre offering her opportunities to come to parties, or keep her company. So Sarah settles in for a night of knitting, when suddenly… a knock on the door. Who is it? The woman behind the door just wants to use a phone, but she also knows Sarah's name. And what begins as an indoor-outdoor game of cat and mouse turns into a cascading symphony of violence, with nothing less than the fate of Sarah's baby hanging in the balance. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-17:31 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 17:32-58:00 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 58:01-1:15:06 Director Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo Screenplay Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo Featuring Beatrice Dalle, François-Régis Marchasson, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel Kimberley Elizabeth is the Co-Founder, Editor, and Host of Nightmare on Film Street, a horror outlet and top film review podcast. She's a Rotten Tomatoes certified film critic, Spooky Screenwriter, and Sometimes Director. As mentioned, her home base is in Manitoba -- but she spends much of her time on the road exploring across North America in her motorhome. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Inside” by François Eudes. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Seeking some extra cash to pay for her new off-campus apartment, college sophomore Samantha answers an ad for a babysitting job. Her friend Megan suspects something weird is going on and insists on joining Samantha for the evening. On the night of a total lunar eclipse, the two drive to a grand Victorian on the outskirts of town and meet the Ulmans, an older couple going out for the evening – but there's a catch. There's no child. Instead, Mrs. Ulman's mother is upstairs, and Samantha is asked to hang out in the house, in case anything should happen to Mother. Initially reluctant to take the job, Samantha is able to wring 400 bucks out of the couple, and settles in for an evening alone in a dark, dark house, on a dark, dark night. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-27:42 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 27:43-54:41 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 54:42-1:10:23 Director Ti West Screenplay Ti West Featuring AJ Bowen, Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Dee Wallace, Mary Woronov Adrienne Celt is the author of the novels “End of the World House” (Simon & Schuster 2022); “Invitation to a Bonfire” (Bloomsbury 2018), which was an Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and is currently being adapted into a TV show for AMC; and “The Daughters” (Norton/Liveright) which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, as well as a collection of comics: “Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary” (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2016). Her writing has been recognized by an O. Henry Prize, the Glenna Luschei Award, and residencies at Jentel, Ragdale, and the Willapa Bay AiR. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Zyzzyva, Strange Horizons, Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Electric Lit, among other places, and her comics and essays can be found in Catapult, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, the Tin House Open Bar, The Millions, and elsewhere. She publishes a webcomic (most) every Wednesday at loveamongthelampreys.com. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The House of the Devil” by Jeff Grace. To read Adrienne's New York Times article that brought her love of horror to Eric & Bradford's attention, click here. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Gathering for a weekend at the sprawling island home of their friend Muffy, a gaggle of Vassar students find themselves in a bit of a pickle as they start disappearing one at a time, apparently at the hand of a murderer who kills them in a series of increasingly bizarre ways. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-25:33 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 25:34-1:06:39 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:06:40-1:24:19 Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels for Disney*Hyperion and Balzer + Bray including Possess, 3:59, Relic, I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending—the #1 YALSA Teens' Top Ten pick for 2019— #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel for Disney*Hyperion is Dig Two Graves, pitched as a YA Strangers on a Train, to be followed by Three Drops of Blood in 2023 and Four-Letter Word in 2024. Gretchen's books have been published in more than a dozen languages all over the world. Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of Ten starring China Anne McClain, premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Gretchen is repped by Ginger Clark of Ginger Clark Literary. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “April Fool's Day” by Charles Bernstein. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Summoned to a remote island off the coast of Scotland by a report claiming a young girl, Rowan Morrison, has gone missing, West Highland Constabulary Sergeant Neil Howie finds himself far from any reality he's ever known, due to the strange customs and people of the island, called Summerisle. A god-fearing, Christian man in every way, Howie is put off, then shocked by the the island's free-thinking, sexually explicit ways. He refuses the advances of Willow, a landlord's daughter, and threatens to arrest Miss Rose, a schoolteacher, for discussing phallic symbols. Summerisle, Howie comes to understand, believes only in gods of fertility, and pagan ways, as overseen by Lord Summerisle, a tall, imposing chap with a fantastic house and even snappier wardrobe. When no one can seem to recall having met or seen Rowan, Howie's investigation leads down a series of increasingly strange dead ends. And as May Day approaches, he becomes increasingly convinced that he has become the subject of a bizarre, dangerous game. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-18:05 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 18:06-55:11 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 55:12-1:13:11 Tom Foley is an award-winning filmmaker. He has helmed national TV commercials for iconic brands like Nike, Harley Davidson, and Burger King, and recently created branded content films for Tito's Vodka and the Alzheimer's Association. Tom's work keys on human emotion — from narrative comedy to heartfelt documentary storytelling. Always presenting a strong visual point of view, Tom emphasizes the unique humanity of his subjects. Tom is currently represented by Element Productions (Boston/LA) and is a member of the Directors Guild of America. Learn more about Tom at www.tomfoley.tv. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Wicker Man” by Paul Giovanni. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Time: the present. Location: Danvers, Massachusetts. Given the opportunity to clear asbestos from the long-dormant Danvers State Hospital, a sprawling asylum for the insane, abatement specialist Gordon jumps at the chance, claiming in his bid that he and his crew can do the job in one short week. Gordon brings on four guys: the dependable yet hot-headed Phil, would-be lawyer Mike, self-styled ladies man Hank, and Gordon's nephew Jeff, who suffers from nyctophobia. Things seem to be moving along, but when Mike discovers the reel to reel tapes of a former patient named Mary Hobbes and becomes fascinated by her story, a larger tale begins to play out – one that shows startling parallels to the lives of the men shucking fiber in the hospital today. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-17:18 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 17:19-52:05 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 52:06-1:10:42 Jason Ragosta is a horror writer, director, and illustrator. He has written and directed multiple short films including Boy In The Dark, Ztv: Sympathy For The Devil, and Mother Love (a section of Sinphony: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology). He is also the writer and illustrator of “ZTV: Undead Empire,” a graphic novel expansion of his ZTV universe. By day, Jason serves as the editorial manager at Halon Entertainment, an NEP Virtual Studios Company. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Session 9” by Climax Golden Twins. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Based on a true story, The Exorcism of Emily Rose opens on a desolate landscape, a weathered farmhouse the only dwelling in sight. One thing we learn right away: Emily Rose, a girl of 19, is dead, and her condition shakes the medical examiner who comes to visit. Emily, we discover, has died as the result of demonic possession… or six demonic possessions… or maybe none. Erin Bruner, a top-notch defense attorney, is assigned to defend the priest who exorcised Emily, Father Richard Moore, who stands accused of having cut off the girl from medical treatments she was undergoing. Father Moore is offered a plea deal, but rejects it, as he feels Emily's story must be told. Hoping to make partner at her law firm, Erin is determined to follow her instincts, but between Father Moore's compelling testimony and some very strange happenings in her own life, Erin starts to wonder if perhaps, against all odds, possession is real, and can be proven in a court of law. Intro, Math Class, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-15:20 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 15:21-41:47 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 41:48-1:01:58 David Grimm is a Brooklyn-based award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His plays include Ibsen in Chicago (Seattle Rep.); a new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac (Perseverance Theatre); Tales From Red Vienna (Manhattan Theatre Club); Measure for Pleasure (Public Theater; Bug 'n Bub Award; GLAAD Media Award nominee, Outstanding New York Theater, Broadway and Off-Broadway); The Miracle at Naples (Huntington; Best New Play IRNE Award); Steve & Idi (Rattlestick); Chick (Hartford Stage); The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue (Hartford Stage); Kit Marlowe (Public Theater; GLAAD Media Award nominee, Outstanding New York Theater, Broadway and Off-Broadway); Sheridan, Or Schooled In Scandal (La Jolla); Enough Rope (Williamstown Theatre Festival, starring Elaine Stritch), and Susanna Centlivre's The Gaming Table (for which he wrote additional material; Folger Library Theatre). Grimm's film work includes the dialogue for Matthew Barney's River of Fundament. His work for television includes “The Exorcist” (FOX Television, Seasons 1 and 2) and “NOS4A2” (AMC, Season 2). David is the recipient of an NEA/TCG Residency Grant and has received commissions from The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Seattle Rep., Huntington Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, and Pittsburgh's City Theatre Company. He has developed work at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Old Vic New Voices, and New York Stage & Film. David holds an MFA from NYU, a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has lectured in Playwriting and Screenwriting at the Yale School of Drama, Brown University, Columbia University, and NYU. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Exorcism Of Emily Rose” by Christopher Young. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

McKayla and Sadie are best friends with a mutual love of social media and murder. The proprietors of the Instagram, Twitter, and every other platform account Tragedy Girls, the ladies initially befriend, then capture serial killer Lowell, and, over the course of the film, proceed to use him as a rationale for a series of grisly murders around their small, midwestern town of Rosedale. Meanwhile, Jordan, the son of the local sheriff, is assisting the girls with their online videos, but soon comes to suspect there may be more to their story than they're letting on. Tragedy Girls is a dark comedy about the course of true love and friendship, and what happens when a town beset by terrible misfortunes falls prey to a couple of influencers who only have mayhem on their minds. Intro, Math Class, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-14:05 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 14:06-51:18 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 51:19-1:11:35 Sarah Parvis is a writer and editor by day, having published more than 40 books on topics ranging from haunted castles and superheroes to bird-watching and starting your own business, and she's worked with brands including DC Comics, PBS Kids, Disney, Time for Kids, and Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club. Her first favorite book was “There's A Monster at the End of This Book.” She's been chasing that high ever since. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with selections from the "Tragedy Girls" soundtrack by Russ Howard III. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app