Struggle Session is the world's finest politics and pop culture podcast. Leslie Lee III and Jack Allison talk video games, movies, TV, wrestling, comic books, music, anime, and all of your problematic faves.
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Filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell (Failed State, Miss Me Yet) joins me for a special Halloween edition of Struggle Session. We delve into some of our favorite horror films and recent releases including Weapons, Hellraiser, Saw, Cure, Ganja & Hess, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and more.
We also talk about Chris' short film The Confection starring Alex Ptak and Simone Norman, free to watch here: https://vimeo.com/816045136/42279aaa29 (https://vimeo.com/816045136/42279aaa29)https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell (https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell)
Films mentioned:
The Confection
Saw series
Spiral (Saw)
Twilight series
Hellraiser series
Hellraiser 2: Leviathan
Piranha 3D
Weapons
Barbarian
Eddington
The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
Silence of the Lambs
Deep Red
Tenebrae
Suspiria
Mother of Tears
Dracula (Argento)
Ganja &Hess
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Cure
Longlegs
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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22 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
We Want them Infected with Dr. Jonathan Howard
Dr. Jonathan Howard chief of the neurology service at Bellevue Hospital joins us to discuss his book We Want Them Infected: How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of COVID.
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22 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
Fetishized w/ Kaila Yu
Writer Kaila Yu joins me to discuss her new book Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty.
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Inside a recent episode
Halloween 2025 w/ Christopher Jason Bell
Published 31 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that was really yeah, like that and the angiography scene that you mentioned when she's in this weird machine and her like blood is being sucked out and it's just horrific. And it's real world horror that really grounds this obviously sort of ridiculous premise of demonic possession. […]
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