Horror and a Half

It's our second bonus of the season, and this time we're featuring Coldly, Tho - a sci-fi horror podcast that definitely isn't usually about Star Trek. It sure isn't about Trek this week: instead we're discussing The Thing, an absolute masterpiece that we're happy to chat about about! Join us for logo secrets, accounting brains, and seriously trying to figure out who all these damn guys are.

What's this?! Back from the dead, it's Coolihans! I'm sorry, I'm hearing in my ear piece- Ghoulihans, today it's Ghoulihans. No matter! Come be a ghost in conversation, as Kelly and Sean reunite (jk, we talk in real life) to do what they do best: ramble about bullshit, with a nominal structure! This time: horror! Sean did spooky homework and we just chat about it, so strap in for decisions about the spookiest sport, reality tv recommendations fulfilled, and honestly way more fighting game lore than I ever anticipated discussing in my whole damn life.

Listen, it's a weird week, but we're still here! October has started, our season, and hurricanes won't stop us from talking about things like: dollification, alien husbands, art satire, ill-defined ghosts, and mildly scaring cooking competitions. Then, it turns out we're heading to the Pacific Northwest to talk about 2024's Arcadian! Fix a golf cart with us as we talk about bad farm neighbors, the kinds of sons you can have, and, uh, these monsters? These weird ass monsters???

I hope you like movies, because we do! We're talking bonkers psychological thrillers, a panoply of fingernail removal, and not one but two separate instances of speaking no evil! Then, we complete 2024's double nun event with The First Omen! Seriously, move to some religious building in Italy with us as we discuss surprising births, weird nuns, and the shackles of prequel-ism.

We went to Halloween Horror Nights and are here to talk about it! That and evil baseball, boring slashing, and made for TV vampires, and all this is before this year's Immaculate! Move to Italy with us as we discuss unhelpful hair thieves, mysterious time periods, and nun training montages.

Kelly has finally gotten a sense of Junji Ito (it's a pun, trust me), before we take a bit of a mulligan and talk about 2006's Christmas classic (???) Dracula! You know, the Masterpiece Theater adaptation of Dracula that's only 89 minutes long? What could possibly go wrong?? Get in the Blair Witch basement with us as we discuss blood cults, how much the Harkers are characters for sure, and syphilis, way more than you might guess.

Hope you enjoy horror comics and semi to full on baffling movies, because that's the beginning of the episode, pretty much. Then we're back in the theater for Trap! Join us at the afternoon Lady Raven concert as we discuss murder apps, dad vibes, and how M. Night Shyamalan's tics and choices pay off or drag down his newest film.

This week we've got some books about gross jerks, and also a vibe-y movie about a messed up family, and then! We cover the brand new Longlegs, so join us for discussing yelling orbs, percentages of psychicness, and the devil, I guess.

It's Kelly's birthday and you want to know how we're celebrating? With haunting visions of sexy ladies, with so many spirals, with letting them badly describe some foundational J-horror! Also, a train. ALSO! Time to cash in some long promised chips (that got away from me) and discuss In the Mouth of Madness! It's 90s John Carpenter, so you know it's cynical, rockin', and also maybe not the best movie to watch for the first time while taking notes - sorry, Rose! Try not to get edited out with us as we discuss Sutter Cane, creature chases, books that are movies that are books, and how chips and drivers should interface.

(Nearly posted this with the title info of my Star Trek podcast, doing great!)

Happy July, friends! We're here to tell you about some pretty little liars, and the aging habits of evil immortal teens, and babysitters, and also Godzilla. Then we have some shark... well, I want to say shenanigans, but we're discussing Jaws 3D, which is, uh, not good! Still, enter the undersea kingdom with us as we long for Jaws 2, laugh at the death of wooden puppets, review the ecology of this film, and highlight all the 3D, ahem, "wonders."