From the depths of the Podcavern comes the Halloween miniseries: How'd We Get Here? Horror!
Hosts Taylor Fleming and Stephanie Ridgeway watch the first and final installments of you're favorite horror movie series and ask the important question, "How'd we get here?" From the twisted and macabre to the cheesy and convoluted, join us to see just how off the rails these scary franchises can get.
Happy Halloween!
How'd We Get Here? HORROR is back with bonus episode 13! Travel to a modest San Francisco walk-up in Troll, then to the beautiful town of Nilbog (Troll 2) before listening to The Spookies, one of the oldest and most prestigious awards given in the Horror genre.
30 Oct 2020
Halloween
Just in time for Halloween, this episode explores one of the most iconic and influential movies of all time: Halloween! Discover how an old Captain Kirk mask transforms a sleepy Illinois suburb into a portrait of pure evil. One of the first entries to carve its way into the Slasher genre, follow original Final Girl, Laurie Strode, as she battles her on-again-off-again brother through the decades.
26 Oct 2020
Paranormal Activity
Did... did that door just move?
Paranormal Activity did the unthinkable: made just about everyone afraid of their own homes. In a stroke of genius, the series strips the haunted house story to its core and makes it relatable. Everybody knows the feeling of hearing footsteps at night, or maybe seeing some lights flickering, or portals that transport you to the early 1990s-- wait, what? The Paranormal Activity series starts firmly planted on a tripod but quickly eschews that for secret covens and time travelling camcorders. Yep.
22 Oct 2020
Tremors
Imagine the shark from JAWS and the aliens from A Quiet Place had a baby. That basically explains the giant sand-worms from Tremors. So grab Kevin Bacon and some sticks of dynamite because these suckers are hungry! From Perfection, Nevada to the South Pacific in Tremors: Shrieker Island, learn all about legendary battles with the Graboids, Shriekers, Dirt Dragons and Ass-Blasters.
19 Oct 2020
Child’s Play
"Hi, I'm Chucky, and I'm your friend 'till the end! Hidey-ho, ha-ha-ha!"
Holster your video game controllers and pick up your LEGO because this year’s hottest toy is the Good Guy™ doll from Play Pals! And with friends like these, who needs enemies?
For a limited time only, listeners get two-for-the-price-of-one: the original Child’s Play (1988), modeled after lifestyle influencer Charles Lee Ray, and the brand new A.I. from Child’s Play (2019)!!
15 Oct 2020
Saw
John ‘The Jigsaw Killer’ Kramer has done the unthinkable: somehow made the Saw movies the most popular horror franchise of the mid-00s. Swapping a coherent plot for buckets of blood and gore, the Saw series leans on its shock value to distract from its overly convoluted and under-written continuity. "Want to play a game?” No. Now take your pig mask and get out of here.
12 Oct 2020
The Howling
The mantle for best werewolf story is a hotly debated subject: Is it An American Werewolf in London? What about The Wolfman? Goosebumps’ Werewolf Skin? Well screw all that because this episode is about The Howling series! 1988’s psycho-sexual horror mystery The Howling and 2011’s The Howling: Reborn, a bargain bin Twilight with a shoestring budget. Grab a Coors Light and give it a listen!
9 Oct 2020
Friday the 13th
Come on down to Camp Crystal Lake where we haven't had a single camper die for weeks!
For a fun throwback we'll be checking out some old reels from the 1980/2009 seasons! Watch as the counselors enjoy various camp amenities such as track and field, archery and ax throwing. (Pay attention, because there just might be a cameo from every camper's favorite former cook: Mrs. Voorhees!) If movies aren't your thing, you can always go for a nature run with former camper/current groundskeeper Jason!
5 Oct 2020
JAWS
What could be worse than a giant shark stalking the residents of Amity Island? How about a much bigger, cheaper, magic shark following you to the Bahamas!
Find out how the JAWS series went from one of the greatest movies of all time to a Bohemian Christmas with Michael Caine a vindictive Great White.
1 Oct 2020
Final Destination
Death has a plan... and apparently that plan involves a horror movie pentalogy of wavering quality. The Final Destination series turns Death into an unstoppable force with a penchant for overly complicated Rube Goldberg killing machines. Boasting a cast of horror icons from Devon Sawa (Casper) to David Koechner (The Comebacks), you need to listen to this episode before it's too late!
28 Sept 2020
Resident Evil
Are you a fan of the Resident Evil games and awesome movies!? If you answered 'Yes' to either, this might not be franchise for you. Taylor and Steph are locked-and-loaded to make their way through Paul W. S. Anderson’s horror/sci-fi/action FILMS! Grab some popcorn for the nu-metal nightmare that is Resident Evil (2002) and throw out the continuity for the series conclusion Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016). Find out how things went so off the rails for Alice, the Umbrella Corps. and the fans(?) of this series.
28 Sept 2020
The Conjuring Universe
They’re no Ed and Lorraine Warren, but hosts Stephanie and Taylor investigate The Conjuring Universe to see what makes it so successful. The Conjuring (2013) pioneered one of the most elaborate and well-received horror franchises of all time, filled with sequels, prequels, spinoffs and tie-ins. Discover how the stories of the Warrens, Annabelle, Valak and others twist, turn and overlap to build a fully realized cinematic universe. From a ghost-witch terrorizing the Perrons to haunted board games and typewriter in Annabelle Comes Home (2019), this episode has it all.
26 Sept 2020
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
On their inaugural horror movie journey, hosts Taylor Fleming and Stephanie Ridgeway travel to rural Texas to see what Leatherface and the Sawyer family have been up to. From the terror, grit and almost documentary feel of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) to an unnecessarily confusing and derivative origin story with Leatherface (2017). How does Leatherface transform from chainsaw-wielding icon to the pretty young teen love interest? Tune in and find out how we got here.
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