A podcast where we talk about our favorite movies two at a time!
Derek and Jake - two filmmakers, cinephiles, and physical media cheerleaders - pair up some of their favorite films to create undeniably fun double features!
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This week, we are going mad over Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986).These aren't your typical cosmic horror stories; they are trashy, neon-soaked adaptations that dragged H.P. Lovecraft kicking and screaming into the zenith of '80s practical effects gore. We analyze how Lovecraft's deeply paranoid, insular worldview, coupled with his fear of the modern world and puritanical hang-ups, inadvertently created the template for cosmic terror. Then, we look at how Stuart Gordon took that unspeakable, abstract cosmic dread and dragged it onto the stage, soaking it in outrageous sexuality, body horror, and theatrical energy.
It is a double feature about the madness of scientific obsession, the horror of primal desire, and the low-budget ingenuity of mid-'80s horror filmmaking. Both films prove that '80s schlock and cosmic terror make the ultimate nightmare pairing.
🎬 Movies Discussed
Re-Animator (1985, Dir. Stuart Gordon)
From Beyond (1986, Dir. Stuart Gordon)
🕰️ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:41 Welcome to PhantasmaCast OR H.P. Lovecraft was certainly...special
13:59 Today's Double Feature: Re-Animator & From Beyond
14:23 Re-Animator52:06 From Beyond
1:19:43 Final Thoughts OR The Guys Gush Over Barbara Crampton
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21 Sept 2026
Sphere and Loathing in Outer Space
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft
This week, we board two late nineties sci-fi thrillers that dare to ask: what happens when human curiosity reaches beyond the edge of the known universe? We're watching Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon (1997) and Barry Levinson's Sphere (1998), two films that take cosmic horror to its most claustrophobic extremes.
We look at how Event Horizon transforms a deep space rescue mission into a gory, hellish nightmare, while Sphere plunges deep beneath the Pacific Ocean to confront an entity that feeds on human paranoia. It is a double feature about the terror of isolated environments, the limits of human comprehension, and the madness waiting for us in the abyss.
🎬 Movies Discussed
Event Horizon (1997, Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson)
Sphere (1998, Dir. Barry Levinson)
🕰️ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:58 Welcome back to PhantasmaCast 🎶
2:04 Cosmic Horror 101
16:00 Event Horizon
53:49 Sphere
1:19:48 Outro
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8 Sept 2026
Not Your Dad's Zombie Movies
Ep. 43 - The Signal & Pontypool
This week, we are tuning in to the end of the world with David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry’s The Signal (2007) and Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool (2008).
Forget flesh-eating ghouls, late 2000s indie horror realized that our obsession with mass communication was the real threat. In The Signal, airwaves hijack human minds and spark immediate, bloody paranoia. In Pontypool, an isolated radio station becomes ground zero for a virus carried entirely through spoken language. We look at how both films ditch standard outbreak tropes to expose our terror of technological overload, proving that the scariest contagion isn't physical, it's the media we absorb every day.
🎬 Movies Discussed
The Signal (2007, Dir. David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry)
Pontypool (2008, Dir. Bruce McDonald)
🕰️ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:59 ...Zombies...
6:54 Double Feature Reveal
7:00 The Signal
49:45 Pontypool
1:27:28 Outro
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