Scare U (2021-24) was a podcast that dissected horror, one terrifying film at a time.
Scare U
Claim This Podcastby Bradford Louryk & Eric Winick
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Scare U (2021-24) was a podcast that dissected horror, one terrifying film at a time.
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August 5, 2024
BONUS EPISODE: Longlegs (2024) with Hale Appleman
<p>This week, in our annual summer bonus episode, we're joined once again by Mr. <strong>Hale</strong> "Satan" <strong>Appleman</strong>, of stage, screen, "The Magicians," "American Horror Story," <em>Teeth, </em>and more. Our assignment: <em>Longlegs,</em> 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. <strong>Marcus Dunstan</strong>, director of the new film <em>#AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead</em>.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Intro, Math Club & Debate Society, Campus Radio, To Sir With Love</strong> (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:04<br><strong>Honor Roll and Detention</strong> (spoiler-heavy): 29:05-1:06:40<br><strong>Superlatives</strong> (spoiler-heavier): 1:06:41-1:21:39<br> <br>Screenplay/Direction <strong>Osgood Perkins</strong><br>Featuring <strong>Nicolas Cage,</strong> <strong>Michelle Choi-Lee,</strong> <strong>Maika Monroe, Kiernan Shipka, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Hale Appleman</strong> is perhaps best known for playing Eliot in “The Magicians,” currently streaming on Netflix, and Tobey in the Sundance horror comedy <em>Teeth</em>. 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 <em>Beautiful Ohio</em>, <em>Pedro</em>, and<em> Private Romeo.</em> 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 <em>Buried Child</em>.<strong> </strong></p> <p><br><strong>Marcus Dunstan’s</strong> screenwriting with his partner, Patrick Melton, include such horror films as <em>Feast 1-3, Saw IV-V-VI a</em>nd <em>Saw 3D The Final Chapter, Pirahna, Pacific Rim, God Of War, Final Destination 6,</em> and <em>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark</em>. <em>#AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead</em> marks Dunstan’s sixth feature as a director. Dunstan’s previous directing credits include <em>The Collector, The Collection, The Neighbor,</em> Blumhouse’s <em>Pilgrim,</em> and 2022’s <em>Blumhouse Presents: Unhuman</em>. He is a producer of <em>The Candidate</em>, and executive producer of 2022’s horror-thriller <em>Take Back the Night</em>. Fall 2023 saw the release of the Dunstan-directed, Clio Award-winning Jack In The Box horror short film <em>Feeding Time</em>. Currently, Dunstan and Melton are collaborating on <em>Saw</em> <em>XI</em> for Director Kevin Greutert and Lionsgate, an animated take on Gris Grimley’s <em>Frankenstein</em>, as well as the horror film <em>Escape: Halloween</em> with Live Nation and Insomniac. This fall, Dunstan returns behind the camera for production of the horror-thriller film <em>Death Valley,</em> co-written by Melton and Dunstan.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Our theme music is by <strong>Edward Elgar</strong> and <strong>Sir Cubworth. </strong>Music from <em>Longlegs</em> by <strong>Elvis Perkins.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, <a href="https://scareupod.com/">scareupod.com</a>. 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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/scareu">Facebook group</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scareupod">Instagram</a>.</p>
July 29, 2024
Interview with the Vampire (1994) with Matt Saldivar
<p>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, featuring a wildly miscast Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and interesting turns from Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, and Stephen Rea. With Anne Rice adapting her own novel, there certainly is enough baroque to ba-reak the bank, but in the end, an uneven tone, plot threads that don't tie together, and, most egregiously, the two leads, threaten to sink the #1 horror movie of 1994. But can you keep a bloodthirsty creature of the night down? Let's get started.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love</strong> (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:55</p> <p><br><br></p> <p><br><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Director <strong>Neil Jordan</strong></p> <p>Screenplay <strong>Anne Rice</strong>, based on her novel</p> <p>Featuring <strong>Antonio Banderas, Tom Cruise, Kristen Dunst, Laure Marsac,</strong> <strong>Helen McCrory, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, Sara Stockbridge</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Matt Saldivar</strong> 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 <em>Bernhardt/Hamlet, Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, Act One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan, The Wedding Singer, Honeymoon in Vegas,</em> and <em>Grease</em>. 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.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Our theme music is by <strong>Edward Elgar</strong> and <strong>Sir Cubworth.</strong> Music from <em>Interview with the Vampire</em> by <strong>Elliot Goldenthal.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, <a href="https://scareupod.com/">scareupod.com</a>. 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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/scareu">Facebook group</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scareupod">Instagram</a>.</p>
June 10, 2024
The Conjuring (2013) with Christian Parker
<p>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 <em>Dead Silence</em> and <em>Insidious</em>, allow us to say that <em>The Conjuring</em> is a cool breath of delightfully fetid air. Director, dramaturg, and Columbia University professor Christian Parker joins us for academically incisive commentary.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love</strong> (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:12<br><strong>Honor Roll and Detention</strong> (spoiler-heavy): 29:13-1:01:32<br><strong>Superlatives</strong> (spoiler-heavier): 1:01:33-1:20:57</p> <p><br></p> <p>Director <strong>James Wan</strong><br>Screenplay <strong>Chad Hayes & Carey W. Hayes</strong><br>Featuring <strong>Joseph Bishara,</strong> <strong>John Brotherton,</strong> <strong>Shanley Caswell, Kyla Deaver,</strong> <strong>Vera Farmiga,</strong> <strong>Mackenzie Foy</strong>, <strong>Joey King,</strong> <strong>Hayley McFarland,</strong> <strong>Shannon Kook,</strong> <strong>Ron Livingston,</strong> <strong>Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Christian Parker</strong> 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. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Our theme music is by <strong>Edward Elgar</strong> and <strong>Sir Cubworth.</strong> Music from <em>The Conjuring</em> by <strong>Joseph Bishara.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, <a href="https://scareupod.com/">scareupod.com</a>. 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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/scareu">Facebook group</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scareupod">Instagram</a>.</p>
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