Home Movies Podcast

Episode 013 “Night of the Living Dead” (1968)

The mother of all Zombie movies was a reluctant watch for Juno. Thankfully a Special Guest - Juno’s mom, Angee — sat in on the pod for a discussion on the birth of the modern zombie movie, the politics of casting, messaging messiness and how important copyright is for you all you creatives.

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Episode 012 “The Others” (2001)

This 2001 twist on the ghost story had Juno feeling all “Sixth Sense” vibes. The classic “things that go bump in the night are not quite what they seem” plot leads to some interesting conversation about good writing being the best special effect in any horror movie.

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Episode 011 “Psycho” (1960)

Everybody goes a little crazy sometimes. And Juno isn’t crazy about black and white movies but she gave this Hitchcock classic that gave birth to the modern slasher a watch she didn’t regret. We talk Hitchcock’s film culture footprint, family vacations and the Bates Motel’s questionable business plan.

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Episode 010 - “Silence of the Lambs” (1991)

Can a horror film about a serial killer who skins his victims, an incarcerated cannibal and a trainee profiler be a crowd pleaser? Apparently it can because Juno loved this one. She wasn’t tickled by the “gross stuff” but she has plenty to say on damsels in distress who save themselves, classic movie villains and whether the only horror film to win Best Picture is actually a horror film.

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 Episode 009 “The Changeling” (1980)

When George C. Scott is only like the fourth scariest thing in your horror movie, somebody did something right. Juno was skeptical of this forgotten gem of a ghost story from 1980 but by the end, she was not only a fan of the movie’s righting a wrong storyline, she found Scott strangely compelling as a movie star.

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Episode 008 “The Sixth Sense” (1999)

Juno’s introduction to M. Night Shyamalan had her guessing to the end. She doesn’t see dead people but she had no trouble recognizing a truly great kid acting performance from Haley Joel Osment. On the pod, we talk the importance of casting, the Shyamalan mystique, easter eggs and twist endings.

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Episode 007 “The Blair Witch Project” (1999)

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Episode 006 - “The Cabin in the Woods” (2011)

A meta textual examination of horror as a genre that’s as much a deconstruction of the genre as a demonstration of it? Yes, please. Juno discovers horror has many moving parts and while plots and characters change, the one consistent trope that matters most is also the hardest to achieve: it’s gotta scare yah. 

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Episode 005 - “Child’s Play” (1988)

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Episode 004 - “Freddy Vs Jason” (2003)

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