Episode 36 / Feb 23rd 2021
It Follows
As they continue digging into the slasher genre, our hosts examine the 2014 film It Follows, a post-slasher film that lives firmly in the world of (80’s? 90’s? 00’s?) slasher movies, but just never really gets around to the slashing. So, is It Follows a condemnation of teenage sex? A rumination on getting older? Or …
Episode 35 / Feb 16th 2021
The Purge: Election Year
“This is your Emergency Broadcast System announcing the commencement of the annual Purge.” This week our hosts watch The Purge: Election Year, the film that imagines a world where the U.S. politicians are lying to the public in order to screw over the poor. Could you even imagine such a thing?? The Purge series has …
Episode 34 / Feb 9th 2021
Scream
Do you like scary movies? No examination of the slasher genre would be complete without talking about Scream, a film that made horror “cool” again in the 1990s. Scream defined its own subgenre full of big named stars and snappy, self-aware dialog, and finally established a world in which the protagonists had watched a horror …
Episode 33 / Feb 2nd 2021
Predator
GET TO THE PODCAST! This week our hosts watch Predator, the movie that sees how many muscular guys you can cram into a jungle before something explodes. It also does a great job of using the traditional slasher framework that had been growing in the 80s, but instead of having a superhuman killer descend on …
Episode 32 / Jan 26th 2021
Sleepaway Camp
This week our hosts continue to explore the slasher genre by looking at some of the outliers that slipped out of the slasher boom of the 80s. In this case it’s Sleepaway Camp (1983), the film that starts as a derivative camp slasher but has an unforgettable ending. What does this film tell us about …
Episode 31 / Jan 19th 2021
Halloween
You can’t kill the boogeyman, but you can sure as hell poke him in the eye with a coat hanger! This week our hosts brave the suburbs to watch Halloween, the quintessential slasher movie from 1978 that spawned both a franchise and a genre. Not to mention it launched the careers of John Carpenter and …