Horror Hangover

This time, Ryan puts Cass in the interviewee spot -- digging into their upcoming horror novella debut, The Caretaker. Please be gentle with this one as it contains lots of thoughts about the horrors of grief.

Synopsis: Cara, an overworked ICU nurse, could think of one million other things to do than sort through her dead mother's house. Still, she's here -- cleaning a home she thought she abandoned long ago. Of course, it doesn't take Cara long before she stumbles upon her mother's buried secrets and becomes curiously stuck with a haunted hospice bed. Roping in her ride-or-die cousin Dylan and witchy ex-girlfriend Beth into the proceedings, Cara unwittingly drags her beloveds into a gauntlet of horrors.

 

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We open up the Horror Hangover vault to unleash a delightful chat we had with The Horror Hour's Yutaka! about brutal vampires in horror.

 

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• A fantastic video essay on Nosferatu by Vintage Soup
• Image of Drakula - cinema's first (debated) Dracula!
• What's a monumental horror image?

 

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• FeliceY for our logo design
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• Long, gnarly fingernails ftw!

Join us, dear listener, as our co-host Ryan C. Bradley interviews Ashley Deng about her upcoming novella from Tenebrous Press, DEHISCENT!

 

Synopsis: As the world's climate swings rapidly between oppressively hot and freezing cold, the remnants of civilization huddle in small communities to scrape together what they can to survive.

All except the Zhu family.

Yi has lived in her ancestral house her entire life, sheltered and safe from the scarcity that plagues her community. Her family enjoys a secret life of running water, electricity, and an abundance of food.

But as Yi seeks a way to share their fortune, she learns the terrible secret of the Zhu house.

DEHISCENT is an Eco-Horror tale of a future that has practically arrived, and the humanity that lurks in the most inhuman of places.

 

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• FeliceY for their logo design
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• Medical anatomy illustrations for creeping us out... in the best of ways!

Danger Slater joins us this month on the pod to discuss his latest book -- House of Rot -- coming out from Tenebrous Press on June 14!

 

Synopsis:

The pink mold growing on the walls isn’t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles’ brand-new fixer-upper. There are also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can’t be bothered to help. Soon, there’s no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It’s practically become a second skin. Welcome to the House of Rot. You’re never getting out.

 

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• Spores!

In celebration of Michelle Garza Cervera's debut feature film, Huesera: The Bone Woman, hitting Shudder on May 12, we're reviewing it with our special guest Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional.

Also, thank you to the women who anonymously lent their voices to this episode to express their feelings about being pregnant, having a birthing body, and the frustrations they have with motherhood.

 

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• Gay aunties with micheladas 
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This month we chat with horror journalist, critic, author, & lovely human all around -- Richard Newby! -- to discuss disfigured killers in horror. We dive into 1960's Eyes Without a Face & Noroi: The Curse & how utterly weird face transplants are!

 

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• The Cripped-Up Horror of Halloween Movies by Brianna Schunk
• The Psychology of Scary Faces by Stuart Vyse
• Noroi: Realistic J-Horror | Video Essay by Accented Cinema
• Face Transplants: An International History by Fay Bound Alberti & Victoria Hoyle
• Check out Richard Newby's book, We Make Monsters Here!

 

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• FeliceY for our logo design
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• Sack masks rule!

This month we rewind our clocks back to 2022 when we chatted with Miguel Myers of My Horror Confessional podcast fame about nunsploitation films! We focus on the 1977's Alucarda & 2021's Benedetta & why the genre is hella radical! Sometimes!

As a warning, we do discuss trauma associated with the Catholic Church, anti-queer & trans protestors, sexual assault, & rape. Please skip ahead to another one of our chats if these are triggering topics for you.

 

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• Grindhouse Database directory of all nunsploitation films
• BFI's best of bad habit films
• Candice Drouet's killer video essay on Benedetta
• Exorcism & Sexuality: The "Thick Description" of an 18th-century Transylvanian Catholic Priest's Transgression essay by Daniel Barth

 

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• FeliceY for our logo design
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• Alucarda's impeccable stare
• Sister Act I & Sister Act II 

Gals, ghouls, & badass they's of the world, tune in this time to catch our three trivia teams: Ryan C. Bradley & Valerie Ettenhofer, Queer Quadrant, & Horror Hour compete for the FINAL GIRL/BOY/ZADDIE crown. We're joined by special guest, Michael Varrati, who ups our rematch ante with a RAPID HEARTS ROUND.

Let's see who survives this time & really knows their queer rom-com trivia in honor of the happiest (but sometimes sweet) time of the year! Wanna play along? Check out the films to watch & rules below:

 

Rules

• Everyone starts off with a queerdo hangman that has a wig, 2 monster hands, 2 feet, 2 arms, 2 legs, & a head. For every wrong question, a body part gets slashed!
• Rapid Heart Round: When you hear the bell, this means double the trouble or double the reward. For every right answer, you gain back 2 body parts. But for every wrong answer, you lose 2 body parts. Are you game enough to try?

 

Films to watch:

• 1997's Sparkler
• Bound
• The Handmaiden
• Fire Island
• Imagine Me & You
• Rope
• Saving Face
• Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) 
• Shiva Baby
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Until next time...

We return to our mini-vampire arc to explore how vampire comedies work with special guest, author-podcaster-historian-internet voicey guy: Mac Boyle! We cover Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, all things Universal Horror, & the delightful joy of Netflix's Vampire vs. the Bronx!

 

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• The Once And Future Orson Welles by Mac Boyle
• Ryan's review of Vidar the Vampire at Wicked Horror
• "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein: The Continuity Question" from Den of Geek's Jim Knipfel
• "BOO's On First: Abbott, Costello, And The Universal Monsters" from Fangoria's Diana Prince

 

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• FeliceY for our logo design
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• Jaden Michael to become Miles Morales!
• Bela Lugosi's Dracula

As a special treat to our listeners, join us around the cozy campfire as we interview Max Booth III & Lori Michelle about Ghoulish Book's Kickstarter for 2023's releases, their upcoming/geekiest wedding in history, why bathroom doors DO open outward, & more! 

 

If you're looking for a good horror read, we have several delights to show you...

 

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• Year of the Ghoul: 13 Terrifying Tomes From Ghoulish Books: Back Ghoulish Books' upcoming 13 horror titles, a new brick n' mortar bookstore, two issues of Ghoulish Tales, & more to come!

 

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• FeliceY for our logo design
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