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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 1972’s Horror Express and 1976’s Land Of The Minotaur.

          First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

          We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. We talk about the films 28 Years Later, Predator: Killer Of Killers, Found Footage: The Making Of The Patterson Project, and K-Pop Demon Hunters, as well as the manga Blood On The Tracks.

           Up first is Horror Express. Liam gives a brief history of his viewing of the film and how the film had Hammer Film vibes, and how the film has a distinctly different vibe from the classic monster movies of the 1950s in that it’s a bit “meaner” and strangely sophisticated for a film from the time.

We talk about how it feels like everyone in the film is genuinely in danger and how the film is classic Lee and Cushing, as well as the elements of ‘60s spy movies that show up throughout the film. Justin talks about how the film could have simply rested on the laurels of the plotline of having Christopher Lee smuggle a frozen creature onto a train that thaws out but instead veers off into a weird cosmic horror direction, as well as the film bearing a strong resemblance to The Thing From Another World.

The shoddy visual FX of the film and how they become uncanny in their shoddiness is discussed. The film tiptoeing into Lovecraftian territory is touched upon.

          Up next is Land Of The Minotaur. We talk at length about the films lazy and seemingly confused messaging on religion and how it’s a bit of a letdown that it relies upon well-worn Judeo-Christian themes when it comes to good and evil.

Liam talks about the extremely bad ADR and Donald Pleasance’s less than stellar performance. We talk about the icons of Christianity in horror film and its implications of the objective reality of Christianity and how that makes for a weak conflict since God cannot be defeated in the logic of Christianity.

The film’s suggestion that Peter Cushing’s villainy stems from him being foreign is discussed. We talk about the costume choice of the cult in that they very much are “fancy Klan outfits”.  Brian Eno’s work on the soundtrack is also touched upon.

          As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 2016’s The Wailing and 2025’s Exhuma.

            First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

            We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. We talk about the films Sinners, Clown In A Cornfield, and Heart Eyes, as well as the television series The Last Of Us and the novel The Devils by Joe Abercrombie.

             Up first is The Wailing. We start by talking about actor Jun Kunimura’s extensive filmography. We talk about our initial experience with the film, with Liam talking about how much he enjoyed it the second time around.

Justin talks about the convoluted but not messy nature of the plot, and how the concept of a character whose presence incites violence in those surrounding him.

We spend a goodish amount of time discussing the history of Japanese imperialism and how that has essentially scarred the collective psyche of Korea, and how the result Korean prejudice towards the Japanese is, if nothing else, understandable.

We talk about how the Japanese character in the film feels almost like a red herring set up but ultimately is far worse than what we’re led to believe. We brief talk about the original ending of the film and how that affects the rest of the movie and why the director may have chosen to change it.

            Up next is Exhuma. Justin talks about how the film draws upon religious ecstasy and the nature of ritual for a source of horror.

We discuss how the film could’ve simply been about a geomancer dealing with a restless vengeful ghost but instead chooses to, just as The Wailing did, fold Korean history into the mix by once again using Japanese atrocities a source of horror.

The films use of generational trauma and family shame as a source of horror is discussed, and we talk about how it avoids using grief as horror which is something of a trope at this point.

Nationalism and nature of national shame is discussed. We talk about the strange hierarchy of Japanese ghosts. We talk about some of the unorthodox and frightening imagery of the film.

            As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 1981’s The Wolfen and 2014’s Late Phases.

            First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

            We briefly talk about what we’ve been doing involving horror recently.  Liam’s manga/anime obsession rolls on with Kaiju Number Eight, as well as reading Stephen King’s The Long Walk and Margaret Killjoy’s The Sapling Cage, the films Mickey 17 and The Shrouds, and Justin talks about the quiet existential horror of the Apple series Severance.

             Up first is The Wolfen. We give a summary of the film and talk about some of the tropier elements of the film involving Native Americans. Justin talks about one of his rules of werewolf films (the werewolf design being the keystone of the entire film) and how the film got around this by just having larger than usual wolves as the werewolves.

We talk about how the film and novel take a slightly different path than the traditional werewolf movie by having it just be super intelligent wolf-like creatures that live secretly amongst people and hunt them.

We touch upon the film’s inclusion of environmentalist themes and how it strangely fits in with the source novel’s author Whitley Strieber and his history of environmental advocacy. We talk about the film’s use of the late ‘70s Bronx being utterly destroyed by urban blight and how it lends a very dreamy feel to the film in a sinister way.

Justin brings up the unsettling clash of “savage beast in modernity” during the climax where the wolves show up in the top floor of an office building.

            Up next is Late Phases. Justin talks about his first viewing of the movie and loving but not being as nuts about it on rewatch.

We talk about how the film has enough weight in its initial plot without the added kind of human gravitas that Ethan Embry’s (who rules) character brings.

We discuss how the film doesn’t do the best job of setting up any kind of mystery as to who the werewolf is.

We briefly discuss lead actor Nick Demici’s filmography and how he always delivers, and how unlike a lot of the “classic” werewolf films it loses a lot of its punch when you’ve seen it once, as opposed to films like Dog Soldiers and The Howling and An American Werewolf In London that is always rewarding every time you watch it. We discuss the unsettling and unorthodox nature of the werewolf design.

            As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 1977’s The Incredible Melting Man and 1989’s The Vineyard.

            First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

          We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. Liam talks about seeing Oz Perkins’ The Monkey and reading the horror/sci-fi manga Dandadan, and Justin talks about attending a screening of Mulholland Drive.

          Up first is The Incredible Melting Man. Justin talks about being familiar with the film’s poster before actually seeing it, and Liam talks about how a few years back he was somewhat ostracized for not liking this movie at a past Exhumed Film’s Horrorthon, and discuss how boring the film is despite the hype.

We talk about how the film has somewhat unexpectedly dark tones to it, one of them being the concept the objectification of the working class by the government. Liam brings up some of the film’s quirkier elements such as the strange fashion choices, and we talk about the odd casting choice of director Jonathan Demme.

Justin talks about how it felt that the very beginning and very end of the film are the best parts and stand out in stark contrast to the rest of the film.

We discuss the lack of tension in the film despite having a clear menacing presence, as well as the film still attempt to have a sense of drama to it.

         Up next is The Vineyard. We give a summary of the film, and how it is objectively a poorly made film. We talk about actor James Hong’s career, and how his performance is the only compelling one in the film.

We discuss how the film is bad but it’s not boring, and how the film throws a lot at the wall. We talk how about it’s a rare American film of the time that doesn’t contain a hint of Christianity brushing up against it.

We discuss how the film feels like something that would be on Cinemax at one in the morning in the early ‘80s.

As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys, as we’re talking about our favorite films of 2024!

First off, thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or koozie. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently, specifically the passing of esteemed filmmaker and absolute legend, David Lynch. Be sure to head here to check out the Mulholland Drive shirt that Liam and Justin of Rough Cut are doing to benefit victims of the LA wildfires.

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As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys, as we’re talking about 1980’s To All A Good Night and 1989’s Elves.

First off, thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or koozie. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you, also, to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And, as always, thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. Liam talks about partaking in the programming on Shudder focusing on classic Christmas ghost stories and we talk about the peculiar Victorian custom of telling ghost stories around Christmastime. Liam talks about catching a screening of Chuck Norris’ Invasion USA and Justin throws a fit about Liam’s apathy towards Steven Siegal. We talk a bit about the HBO series Creature Commandos and the films Smile 2, Never Let Go, The Substance, AfrAId, Replicator, The Becomers, Terrifier 3, and A Different Man.

Up first is To All A Good Night. We talk about this history of Christmas horror and scary Santas, and how this movie doesn’t really feel like it has any right to stand in the same category as Christmas Evil.

Justin talks about the difficulty in seeing early slashers as fun, because the formula for them has been so beat to death. Liam talks about how the film seems to want to be a classically horny slasher, but it hesitates to go all the way in that direction.

We discuss the seemingly cynical nature of the film in that it feels utterly without heart. We briefly discuss some of our favorite kills in the film, despite the relative lack of gore in it, and how despite the movie not being awful, it still lacks the sincerity and earnestness that will sometimes push a mediocre film over the finish line.

Justin brings up how despite the film being technically competent, following a tried-and-true formula for a “good” slasher film, it still falls flat, because it honestly lacks the passion. Liam criticizes the “Scooby Doo” moment in the reveal of the killer.

Up next is Elves. Justin talks about the unexpected Nazi element in the film and we touch upon the absurdity of Dan Haggerty in general in this film. We talk about how despite the title being plural, the singular "elf" is effective enough.

Justin talks about how it’s commendable that the filmmakers decided to inject an element of Nazi occult into a film that could have very easily just leaned in on the “evil elf” element. We reference back to the prior film on this episode in that even though Elves is a mess, it at least takes chances that To All A Good Night didn’t.

As always, thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about 1977’s Kingdom Of The Spiders and 1982’s Visiting Hours.

First off thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or coozy. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter CINEPUNX in the promo code for ten percent off your order! And as always thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. We have a lengthy discussion on the film Werewolves, and Liam talks about the recent premiere of James Gunn’s Creature Commandos. Justin talks about the Russell Crowe The Exorcism and the Jon Benet Ramsey series on Netflix.

Up first is Kingdom Of The Spiders. We talk about how the movie is ridiculous and horribly overacted but still a lot of fun to watch, and how a bad movie made earnestly still has some value.

We talk about how the movie relies heavily on “less is more” when it comes to showing tarantulas attacking people. We then spend a long amount of time discussing the various absurd moments in the film, and briefly talk about the creepy performance of William Shatner.

Up next is Visiting Hours. We discuss our history with the film, with both of us sort of not really catching it a horrorthon. We talk about some of the more creative cinematography in the film, and the use of the unique architecture of the hospital. We talk about the strange dreamlike feel of much of the film.

We discuss the films unique approach to a message about feminism mixed with a film that wants to be very ‘grindhouse’ and exploitive, while also the fact the film doesn’t have an overt amount of blood.

The films use of a clear misogynist as a villain while including several more benevolent male characters who also display more subtle signs of misogyny is discussed.

>We talk about the film loses some of its focus at one point when it shifts emphasis away from the initial protagonist. We talk at length about Michael Ironside’s performance and the intensity he brings to the film, and how the film may have brought a realistic depiction of serial killers without realizing it.

As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys, as we’re talking about two films from Oz Perkins: The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Longlegs.

First off, thank you to the fine folks over at Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, the premiere screen-printing company of the Lehigh Valley. Chris Reject and his merry band of miscreants are ready to work with you to bring to life your vision of a t-shirt for your business, band, project, or whatever else it is you need represented by a shirt, sweater, pin, or koozie. Head on over to www.xlvacx.com to check them out. Thank you also to Essex Coffee Roasters, our newest sponsor. Head to www.essexcoffeeroasters.com to check out their fine assortment of coffee and enter "CINEPUNX" in the promo code for 10% off your order! And, as always, thank you to our Patreon subscribers. Your support means the world to us and we are eternally thankful. If you would like to become a Patron, head to patreon.com/cinepunx. Thanks in advance!

We briefly talk what we’ve done involving horror recently. Liam talks about the film Maggie, as well as the films The Substance, Alien: Romulus, Hellboy: The Crooked Man,  and VHS: Beyond. Justin talks about Venom: The Last Dance and the new HBO Max series Dune: Prophecy, as well as the new Crow film.

 Up first is The Blackcoat’s Daughter. We talk about the very Christmas-y, Midwestern feel to the movie, as well as the deeply melancholic tone that hangs over the entire film. We talk about how a theme of the film is yearning for someone you love and the subsequent rejection.

We briefly discuss how the film dabbles in the realm of the “house of psychotic women” subgenre and how Perkins seems to be a fan of smushing true crime-style drama with the overtly supernatural.

Perkins’ own personal history with the realm of horror filmmaking is briefly touched upon, in that his family’s history with the genre very likely placed him at ground zero for many of the changes to the genre over the years.

We talk about how this film’s supernatural elements are never objectively confirmed and any sort of strange, uncanny aspects of it might just be in the protagonist’s head.

Next is Longlegs. We start by talking about the film's early marketing in the form of short 9-1-1 audio clips. We briefly talk about the phenomenon of people bashing this film as being a rip-off of films such as The Silence of the Lambs, and how we are argue that this film doesn’t really feel any more derivative of TSOTL than any other random horror film from the last twenty years about serial killers.

Justin argues that the film feels more like a darker version of The X-Files. We briefly talk about the possibly problematic depictions of some form of transness in both films.

We talk about how one of Perkins’ trademark shots, an unnerving silhouette, makes its way into this film as well and was one of the more overtly scary elements of the film. We briefly touch upon the relatively recent phenomenon of horror films and series using subtle background details like spooky ghosts that you might not catch at first.

As always, thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating.

Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. It’s been a bit since we’ve recorded due to some outside circumstances, so we decided to just do a kind of free form “what we’ve been doing lately” episode. Please excuse my occasional scolding of my dog!

We briefly talk about one of the films we were supposed to cover, Cathy’s Curse, and how…unpleasant it was. Liam talks about the plethora of Halloween related events in Portland, and Justin talks about some of the film festivals he’s attended recently. We briefly go on a tangent about the phenomenon of short films being adapted into feature length films and how they’re relative hit or miss, and how one such film (Blake Simon’s Faces) has quite a bit of potential. We talk about the films The Demon Disorder and Strange Darling. We go off on a tangent about Justin revisiting a few of Rob Zombie’s filmography, and Liam talks about the film Last Straw. We talk about the much-maligned new version of ‘Salems Lot and how it almost entirely misses the mark of capturing the utter dread of the source material. Liam talks about vending at Cinema Wasteland, a cult movie expo in the Pacific Northwest, as well as checking out a new Stephen King book Holly. Justin talks about recently visiting Bangor Maine and doing the Stephen King tour. We talk about the films Apartment 7A and In A Violent Nature, as well as I Saw The TV Glow and Daddy’s Head, and Mr. Crocket.

As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys because we’re talking about two films directed or produced by the late great Roger Corman: 1964’s The Masque Of The Red Death and 1978 The Evil.

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We start by talking about some of the things we’ve done involving horror recently. We talk about seeing the film The First Omen, and Liam talks about I Saw The TV Glow. Justin talks about the films Arcadian, Imaginary, as well as some of the films he watched at Chattanooga Film Fest, which you can read about at Cinepunx.com!

Up first is The Masque Of The Red Death. We discuss the film’s depiction of theistic satanism, which differs from traditional satanism in that it worships Satan, in addition to the film’s ambivalence as to whether God and the Devil are real, as opposed to its depictions of plagues as anthropomorphized characters.

We discuss the film’s theme of class consciousness; in that it not only depicts Prospero as evil because he worships the devil but also because he is rich and negligent towards his poorer charges. Justin talks about the source materials criticism of the decadence of the rich and their disdain of the lower classes and how ahead of the curve it was, and we discuss the film’s criticism of royalty and inherited power and its connection to the immoral nature of kleptocracy as well.

We talk about how Prospero’s objectification of the lower class is even more evil than mere apathy for them, and some of the film’s “stellar” production choices, including the colored rooms, costumes, and set design.

We talk about Vincent Price’s ability to add dignity to an otherwise less than dignified film, and how even though it’s not traditionally scary it’s still a successful horror film. We close with discussing Roger Corman’s far reaching impact on the history of film.

            Up next is The Evil. We give a summary of the film and talk about the somewhat absurd setting of it to begin with. We discuss how we weren’t particularly fond of this movie but at least it’s a bad movie made earnestly and talk about some of the more ridiculous elements of it.

Liam discusses the film’s inability to transition from “upsetting part to not upsetting part”, which leads into a discussion of the appreciation we have for movies that acknowledge even if the characters survive, they are still going to be emotionally devastated and how movies that don’t acknowledge that often strain the suspension of disbelief.

We talk about the frustration with the character’s initial refusal to admit anything is strange or off about the house, as it completely negates the purpose of a horror movie about ghosts.

As always thank you for listening and to everyone and anyone who donated on Patreon, checked this episode out, or shared a tweet/shared a post on FB/gave us love by recommending us to someone. We love you forever for listening and donating. Any questions, comments, suggestions for movies and guests, or if you yourself want to join us for a movie viewing or even an episode, can be sent to [email protected]. We would love to hear from you! Thanks always to Justin Miller, Jacob Roberts, Paul Sharkey, and Doug Tilley for their technical contributions and fliers, Mike Smaczylo for the shirts and fliers (you can check more of his work out at here), and also thanks to Josh Alvarez for the theme song, Chris, Brad, and LVAC for the support and buttons (check them out at www.xlvacx.com and on Twitter), Essex Coffee Roasters (www.essexcoffeeroasters.com) and a HUGE thank you to anyone who retweeted us or shared something on Facebook that we posted. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @thehorrorbiz666, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thehorrorbiz66, check out our Spotify account at Cinepunx, and remember to rate, review, and subscribe to us on ITunes. In fact, if you write us a review, email us with your mailing address and we’ll send you some free pins and stickers!  Check out www.cinepunx.com for more info on some of our other podcasts, some ultra stylish Cinepunx related merchandise, and how you can donate to our Patreon! Until next time…thanks!