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Produced by CCBC's New Media Collective and ForReal Media, cover art by Emerald Lodgen, "Soul Groove" by Josh Woodward. Free download: https://www.joshwoodward.com/ Hosted by: Students at the Community College of Baltimore County
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The Hitchcock Effect: How a Master of Suspense Changed Cinema
What makes an Alfred Hitchcock movie feel like an Alfred Hitchcock movie? In this episode of Know-It-All, CCBC student Chris Sargent explores the filmmaking techniques that helped Alfred Hitchcock become one of cinema's most influential directors. Through films including Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and North by Northwest, Chris examines how Hitchcock used camera movement, editing, sound, point of view, and carefully constructed suspense to control what audiences see, know, and feel.
23 Sept 2026
What Scares Us: How Culture Shapes American Horror
Why do the things that scare us on screen change from one generation to the next?
In this episode of Know-It-All, CCBC student Brayden Buckalew explores how American horror films reflect the cultural anxieties and real-world fears of their time. From the mysterious monsters of early horror to Cold War-era fears of science and mass destruction, and eventually the self-aware scares of Scream and the rise of psychological horror, the genre has continually evolved alongside American society.
Drawing on the documentary Nightmares in Red, White & Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film and research on the psychology and cultural significance of horror, Brayden examines why scary movies can be about much more than shock value. Horror gives audiences a controlled space to experience fear while offering filmmakers a way to explore society's anxieties about war, violence, social change, and an uncertain future.
So, what makes a scary movie scary? Sometimes, it may have less to do with the monster on screen and more to do with what we're already afraid of.
This week's host, Brayden Buckalew, is a 21-year-old General Studies student at the Community College of Baltimore County and a Baltimore native. He is graduating from CCBC and hopes to transfer to the University of Maryland, with an ultimate goal of becoming a firefighter.
A longtime horror movie fan, Brayden created this episode for MCOM 150: Movies: History & Art, taught by Professor Beth Baunoch. After watching Andrew Monument's documentary Nightmares in Red, White & Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film in class, Brayden became interested in looking beyond horror's scares and shock value to understand how the genre reflects cultural and societal fears.
1 Sept 2026
Pod People and Paranoia: The Fear Behind Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In this episode of Know-It-All, CCBC student Andrew Sauers explores the 1956 science-fiction horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the very real fears lurking beneath its story. Released during the Red Scare, the film arrived at a time when McCarthyism, political suspicion, suburban conformity, and the pressure to fit in were shaping American life.
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