Happy Spooky Season, all! We're kicking off our October programming this year with a bang and covering two of our favorite things: horror movies and beautiful hardcover books.

Clark Collis is a British entertainment journalist and a long time senior writer for Entertainment Weekly along with being a regular contributor to other outlets covering film. He's also a life long horror fan. Modern horror cinema is in a fascinating place and in his new book, Screaming and Conjuring, Clark charts the period of horror cinema that immediately preceeds our current time (from Scream to The Conjuring) to chart the course of how we got here and what we may expect going forward. In our conversation we cover:

• The life of an entertainment journalist when that was a valued position
• Clark learning about Tommy Wiseau's The Room on a day trip with Tim & Eric
• The BFI library's impressive Fangoria collection
• How the DVD boom was big business (and a precurser to many film podcasts)
• "Is horror finished/back?"
• Familiar vs Fresh in relation to horror premises
• Don Coscarelli and the lovely legacy of Phantasm
• Lionsgate becoming the horror powerhouse of the aughts
• Meeting the real Warrens & Annabelle
• and MORE!

Substantive Cinema Episode List

Buy Clark's books!

You've Got Red on You

Screaming and Conjuring

Shoutouts:

Shaun of the Dead

The Descent

Barbarian

Weapons

The Chucky series

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