Horror Pod Class

Welcome back to The Horror Pod Class! Today's discussion will center around the 2008 Swedish film, Let The Right One In.  Specifically, we will be discussing why this movie is better than your average vampire move and how it captures the stages of adolescence.

S02E17-Race, Class, Gender, bad reviews, and ideas for the remake

Welcome back after the Thanksgiving break!  Hope you all are rested and ready to learn about Psychogeography.  If you have never heard of the concept, don't worry!  Its really cool, fun, and not as hard to understand as its way too long and overly complicated Wikipedia entry indicates.

Welcome back class!  Today Tyler and Mike are talking about The Strangers (2018) and what it has to tell us as an exemplar of the Home Invasion Subgenre.  Is there even such a thing?  What does it mean and why does it scare us?  Did 9/11 change horror?  Those are some of the topics we cover, as well as "Tyler's Taxonomy of Home Invasion Movies."

Today we are discussing a franchise that we have all heard of and watched, the Saw franchise!  Yep, it doesn't matter if you love or hate Saw, you have to admit that at least the first one was pretty powerful.  Instead of hating on Saw, which we do a little bit, we take a look back at Jigsaw through the lens of French philosopher Michel Foucault's conception of "biopower" and "biopolitics."  Plus, hear Mike's take on S.T. Joshi's latest nonfiction work, 21st Century Horror.

Howdy boys and girls, welcome back to another Horror Pod Class!  Today we are all going to learn about the "Screenlife" movie making technique, why it works or doesn't, and what it could mean to the future of movie making.  What is "Screenlife?" Screenlife is an innovative digital language that tells a whole narrative within the frames of a screen. The method was created by Timur Bekmambetov, whose name Tyler doesn't even try to pronounce correctly.

What does Children of the Corn tell us about our fear of kids?

Welcome back class!  This week we are talking about horror movie sequels, why we love them and why we hate them.  So many are so lackluster, yet every year we get a new crop.  Obviously, both movie studios and moviegoers keep finding a reason to make them relevant, so seriously, what gives?

Hey Class This one is gonna be a fun one.  Strap in and get ready for Gendered Violence and The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Thanks for joining us for another episode of The Horror Pod Class! Today we are going to be talking about one of our favorite movies, David Cronenburg's eXistenZ.  Specifically, we are going to be exploring how the film uses body horror to accentuate the themes of manufactured reality and transformation.

On today's horror Pod Class we are discussing Fascist Horror, or more specifically anit-fascist horror. After discussing what new horror and horror related books and movies we are currently enjoying, we take a deep dive into the movie Pan's Labyrinth and discuss some of the subtext that American audiences may have missed.

Holiday time is just around the corner so the Horror Pod Class is starting the season a bit early with a discussion of Holiday Horror and why it endures as a genre.  After discussing what we are reading, watching, and who we are picking fights with on the internet, we talk about our favorite holiday horror movies.

Class is back in session and today we are looking at the classic horror film Rosemary's Baby.  It has quite a bit of Gothic influences, but what makes it such a great movie is how it blends those older motifs with the film style of the New Wave Cinema.  We talk all out what the New Wave is, how to spot it, and how it was better (or at least more naked) in France.

Hey Class today we are talking all about Get Out   What are you reading   Tyler:  Tyler is reading Brian Hodge West of Matamoros North of Hell, Edge of the Known Bus Line by Brian Gapinksi out of Etchings Press.  John Langan's The Wide Carnivorous Sky Mike:  Jon Padgett's Broker of Nightmares, Charitable Chatbooks from Nightscape Press.  Ashes and Entropy by Nightscape as well.  An Anthology of Victory in Defiance by Apex     Dark Corners of The Web Post Mortem Pod Cast, Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing.     Bell Rings   Tyler Mentions White Zombie, and The Rainbow and The Serpent.  He says Get Out is a zombie movie We mention an article in Atlantic Monthly by Lenika Smith Nike Advertisement The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll ONSET DISCOVERY CONFIRMATION CONFRONTATION Hippocampus by Adam Neville  Black Bark by Brian Evenson The Invitation High Times Article by Tim Kohut            

Lots of what we are watching and reading. Followed by a bigger conversation about the hit show Castle Rock.

Hey guys, we are back this week with a deep dive into Gothic Literature!  The Gothic casts a long, dark, and creepy shadow over modern horror and has spawned many sub-genres and reinterpretations.  Specifically, we are going to be discussing the "New American Gothic" and how the 1979 film The Amityville Horror breathes new life into Gothic themes.

Class is back in session and this time we are going to try to talk smart about a dumb movie!  Truth or Dare made a whole bunch of money, but it wasn't exactly a deep film.  It did use a very interesting motif in horror called "the liminal space" and today we are going to discuss how that space works and why it made Truth or Dare an engaging movie.