Dave and Kayte are joined by writer Madeline Lane-McKinley to talk about a different kind of body horror, in the Todd Haynes masterpiece Safe (1995). We discuss class, gender, genre, illness, cults and milk drinking. Plus, we dig into Douglas Crimp's seminal essay "How to Be Promiscuous in an Epidemic".Extra credit:"How To Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic" by Douglas Krimp, October Magazine, 1987."Safe: Nowhere to Hide" by Dennis Lim, Criterion Collection, December 10, 2014.Madeline Lane-McKinley is a feminist writer, parent, and teacher based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy, Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times and Dear Z, the coauthor of Fag/Hag, and an editor for Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, and Protean Magazine.Dave is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party and hosts This is Your Afterlife Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here!
8 Jun 2026
Frightmare with Jo Isaacson
This week, Kayte and Mae are joined by writer/professor Jo Issaacson to devour 1974's cult cannibalism classic Frightmare! We talk about crazy old biddies, British politeness, Julia Ducournau, psychiatry and tarot. Plus Kayte tries and fails to say Canibanthropy multiple times.
Where to find Jo:
@StepfordDotter on TwitterStepford Daughters bookWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane bookFacebook horror groupBlind Field JournalMae is co-host of the podcast Pleasers and Punishers, is a Scooby on Slayerfest98 and makes music at eversonpoeKayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here.
1 May 2026
Midnight Meat Train
This week, Kayte and Dave descend deep into the tunnels of the New York city subway, with author/professor Eleanor Russel to slice into 2008's The Midnight Meat Train (directed by Ryuhei Kitamura). We talk about public transit, the art world on film, the meat industry and why it's so disorienting to film a movie about one city while filming in a different city. Naturally our discussion turns to Clive Barker's original short story, one we highly recommend to horror fiends!
Other Media: "The Midnight Meat Train" by Clive Barker, Books of Blood
Eleanor is a Doctor of philosophy on what it means to play pretend and writes about stand-up comedy, sound studies, and the avant-garde.has a podcast called Virtue Signal and a substack here!
Dave is also a co-host on Genre Reveal Party and hosts This is Your Afterlife Kayte is also a co-host on Fangs for the Memories and makes art here!
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
9 ratings
Spotify
4.6 / 5
21 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
22
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
77
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