Original broadcast date October 18, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/10/binary-system-podcast-148-as-above-so-below-the-cell-and-other-horror-movies-we-like/

It took us a long time before we'd watch horror movies, a LONG time. By the time we graduated high school we'd seen most of Poltergeist (a friend warned us about the face-falling-off scene) and one Freddy Krueger movie (The Dream Warriors, still our favorite, oh shut up.)

So even we think it's weird that we have a collection of horror movies we actually like, though a lot of them aren't considered "successful" or "good" or even "scary." Listen in as we break down what we loved about 2014's As Above, So Below, and 2000's The Cell, and the rest of Kathryn's imdb list of horror movies. (With frequent tangents into Twin Peaks, Fantastic Planet, and our shameless addiction to imdb trivia and jump scares.)

This week's outro music is a clip from Scratch Massive's Nuit de mes reves, featured on the As Above So Below soundtrack. https://youtu.be/6Hufzuj5weo

We talked about the artist who inspired some of the disturbing images in The Cell but we never mentioned his name, it's Odd Nerdrum. (And he's Swedish, not Flemish.) http://nerdrum.com/paintings/

And the sculpture that inspired the horse-sliced-apart scene in The Cell (and also Hannibal's display of one of his victims) is Damien Hirst's "Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything." http://www.damienhirst.com/some-comfort-gained-from-the-a