By 13 O'Clock Podcast
The Hour of Horror, Haunts & Hilarity
Tom and Jenny discuss one of the quintessential cult classic films of the goth subculture, Gypsy 83 from 2001, about a pair of goths traveling to a Stevie Nicks festival. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget...
The Children’s Crusade of 1212 was a remarkable yet tragic episode in European history. Motivated by religious fervor and a desire to reclaim the Holy Land, thousands of children, led by figures like Stephen of Cloyes and Nicholas, embarked on...
Tom and Jenny discuss the latest film from Alex Garland, a dystopian road-trip movie distributed by A24. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also...
Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On...
Rosaleen Norton, a New Zealand-born occultist and artist born in 1917, led a controversial life marked by rebellion and mysticism. Embracing paganism, witchcraft, and esotericism, Norton gained notoriety for her unconventional practices and beliefs, becoming known in the tabloids as...
Tom and Jenny discuss Christopher Nolan’s brilliant 2000 film Memento, a crime thriller presented with its scenes in reverse order. It stars Guy Pearce as a man with anterograde amnesia, trying to find and take revenge on the man who...
Between October of 1980 and February of 1981, a perpetrator known as the I-5 Bandit or the I-5 Killer terrorized Oregon, Washington, and California, raping and murdering women and girls in a frenzied spree of violence. The culprit was apprehended...
Tom and Jenny discuss the 2005 legal drama/horror film, directed by Scott Derrickson and loosely based on the real-life case of Anneliese Michel. Thanks Calexico Mom for the suggestion! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to...
Every single one of us has had bad dreams at one time or another, and the universality of this very human experience means that there are fascinating legends and bits of folklore surrounding the causes of nightmares and sleep paralysis....
Tom and Jenny discuss the excellent found-footage horror with a 70s talk-show flair; it was written, directed, and edited by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, and stars David Dastmalchian as the host of a late-night talk show in 1977 who gets...
The remote farmhouse known as Heol Fanog is nestled among the Brecon Beacons mountain range in Wales. Built in the 1950s in an area rumored to have a history of witchcraft, the house became infamous in the late 1980s when...
Tom and Jenny discuss an underrated sci-fi neo-noir gem from the 1990s, directed by Alex Proyas (of The Crow fame), in which a man who can’t remember his identity is suspected of murder and pursued by the police as well...
The Stockton State Hospital, formerly known as the Stockton State Insane Asylum, was built in 1853 and was California’s first facility for housing the mentally ill. But like most such facilities at this point in history, conditions in the hospital...
Tom and Jenny discuss Oliver Stone’s controversial 1994 film, which was originally written by Quentin Tarantino and stars Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, and Robert Downey Jr. Thanks Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on...
Between 1987 and 1991 in the American Midwest, an unknown individual was prowling Interstate 65 in Indiana and Kentucky, raping and murdering at least three women in roadside motels. The perpetrator, variously known as The Days Inn Killer or the...
Tom and Jenny discuss the debut film from Tarsem Singh, a grotesque science fiction thriller about a woman who must enter the terrifying mind of a serial killer in order to find his latest victim before it’s too late. The...
In 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh went to a Sears store with his mother in a mall in Hollywood, Florida. His mother left him at an Atari kiosk with several older boys to play games, but when she returned a few...
Tom and Jenny discuss the excellent 2006 political action thriller directed by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou. Thanks Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget...
In 2002, Steven Spielberg released a film called Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a con man being pursued by Tom Hanks’s dogged FBI agent. The movie was loosely based on a 1980 autobiography of the same...
Tom and Jenny discuss the classic 2001 gothic horror ghost story, written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Nicole Kidman. Thanks Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe...
At the dawn of the 1990s, with the explosion of punk and grunge into the mainstream, Nirvana rode the wave to superstardom, becoming the signature sound of disaffected Gen-X’ers. Nirvana’s troubled frontman, Kurt Cobain, had long had problems with drugs...
Tom and Jenny discuss the classic 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov, widely considered one of the best films ever made. Thanks Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget...
Serial killer and cult leader Adolfo Constanzo, between 1986 and 1989, led the drug-trafficking and occult sacrifice gang that came to be known as either the Matamoros Cult or the Narco-Satanists. Along with his companion and self-professed witch Sara Aldrete,...
Tom and Jenny discuss Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning gangster film from 2006, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg. Thanks Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to...
Only one week after the deadly terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, letters began arriving at various news media offices and the offices of a couple of US Senators. Inside these letters were cryptic messages as well as anthrax spores,...
Tom and Jenny discuss Christopher Nolan’s masterful, dreamlike, sci-fi heist film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Thanks to Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook,...
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Back in 1977, in the historic Glensheen Estate in Duluth, Minnesota, two women were brutally murdered. At first, police suspected a robbery gone wrong, but as the investigation continued, authorities began to suspect that the killer or killers might have...
Tom and Jenny discuss Martin Scorsese’s 2010 noir mystery, based on the book by Dennis Lehane and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us...
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The subject of this episode should need no introduction to anyone following any kind of news in the past few years. Jeffrey Epstein, wealthy financier and convicted sex offender, moved in the most elite social circles and was eventually found...
Tom and Jenny discuss an experimental animated film from 1973, originally known as La Planète sauvage, about a planet where humans are little more than tiny vermin and pets for their giant alien masters. Audio version: Video version: Please support us...
Back in 2021, a viral video on TikTok appeared to show a massive shark swimming alongside a ship off the coast of Massachusetts, fueling rumors that the gigantic fish might be a surviving megalodon. Then, in 2023, another TikTok video...
Jenny talks about Robert Siodmak’s 1946 thriller, one of the best horror films of the 1940s, about a mute woman who becomes the target of a serial killer. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe...
Like every other organization run by human beings, militaries are fallible, and sometimes the mistakes they make can cost massive amounts of money and/or lives. On this episode of 13 O’Clock, Tom and Jenny discuss a random sampling of some...
Tom and Jenny discuss Terry Gilliam’s whacked-out 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s classic of gonzo journalism. The movie stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Thanks Xánada for sending us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on...
There are a lot of weird cults out there, but one of the strangest ones to emerge in recent years is the so-called Twin Flames Universe, founded in the 2000s by a couple called Jeff and Shaleia Divine. Their belief...
