Horrorscope

Grab Chekhov's gun and your red solo cups, there's a rager at Ma's! This week, we watched Tate Taylor's 2019 psychological horror film and we...certainly were horrified. This movie has bizarre twists and turns, a surprisingly star-studded cast, and more red flags than we knew what to do with. 

Content warnings: pedophilia, sexual assault, kidnapping, gore, violence towards minors, mutilation, animal injury, mental illness portrayed a plot point, parental abuse, needles, torture, and brief nudity. 

This week, we donated to Wikipedia! 

Show Notes: 

https://www.gq.com/story/ma-tate-taylor-interview

Grab your guns and your grudges, it's time for us to dive into one of Blumhouse's incredibly lucrative franchises! We started with The Purge: Anarchy and had a lot of thoughts about class, race, and how to make the purge at least a little more fun. 

Content warnings: violence, a scene of threatened sexual assault, mention of child death, and an intense depiction of grief at the end.

This week, we're highlighting Climate Emergency Fund. Learn more about them here: 
https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/

Show Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMA2iF6RuXk

Happy Birthday, Horrorscope! It's our one-year anniversary, so we decided to visit a cornerstone of the horror genre and finally watch Scooby Doo (2002). This live-action spectacle is a wild ride from start to finish—  Eric and Jaime discuss the surprises and pitfalls of this movie as well as the history of the show, the possibilities of #SpookyIslandSummer, and the enduring thirst for Velma. 🔥

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We hope you're pumped for an atmospheric B movie full of 80s tropes and bad ideas—  we watched Death Spa! This movie has some wild kills, an excellent score, and a whole bunch of problems. Eric breaks down the appeal of a B movie while Jaime pitches some fixes.

Content warnings: nudity, blood, gore, body horror, suicide, trauma surrounding childbirth, child loss, transphobia, brief mention of incest.

This week, we're highlighting Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro. Learn more about them here: https://blmphxmetro.org/

Show Notes:
How Did This Get Made: Death Spa (An Oral History)
https://www.slashfilm.com/death-spa-oral-history/

WE'RE BACK, BABY! (In theaters, that is!) Eric and Jaime ventured into the wild to watch A Quiet Place Part 2. This sequel was full of surprises, jumpscares, and a lot of violence against children. Eric goes in blind for this one while Jaime rethinks some things. 

Content warnings: spooky monsters, jumpscares, enclosed spaces, a brief moment of gore, implied threat of sexual violence, violence against children, mummified corpses. 

Show Notes: 

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/entertainment/movies/2021/05/28/quiet-place-ii-john-krasinski-interview/7429726002/

Grab your quietest shotgun and all of your children for our latest episode breaking down John Krasinski’s 2018 smash hit, A Quiet Place. 

We talk about the weird treatment of parenthood in this movie, the logistics of resource management, and child actors showing up their adult castmates in a huge way. Eric revisits a bad theater experience and Jaime almost loses it entirely. 

Content warnings: child death, pregnancy and childbirth, child endangerment, spooky Stranger Things style monsters, and brief body horror. 

This week, we’re highlighting Deaf Women United. Learn more about them here: http://www.dwu.org/

Show Notes:

When John Krasinski test screened 'A Quiet Place' he thought he had just made the 'worst greatest comedy' ever
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-krasinski-in-motion-capture-suite-for-a-quiet-place-2018-12

Grab your Alienware™️ merch and your closest friends for William Brent Bell's 2006 supernatural slasher, Stay Alive! This movie is a real time-capsule of its time, and...that's all we'll say about that. Eric shares the background behind Disney's only slasher movie (no, really, it's a Disney movie), while Jaime navigates the twists and turns.

Content warnings: brief eye trauma, graphic violence, strobe, jumpscares, video game violence, fire trauma, sibling death.

This week, we're highlighting Girls Who Code. Learn more about them here: https://girlswhocode.com/

Show Notes:

Stay Alive: (Comparison; Theatrical Version v. Director's Cut)
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=3729&fbclid=IwAR2CsZAhUqqbKt0_pXMtcvPufuoepivrqVoa0E-KZQYgWFzxaBaOwlsPP6w#:~:text=The%20Unrated%20Version%20contains%20only,from%20the%20Theatrical%20Version%20combined
 
The Disney Wiki: Stay Alive
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Stay_Alive

Y’all ready for prom? Grab your blood buckets and corsages, it’s time to watch Brian De Palma’s supernatural horror film, Carrie (1976)! Eric re-evalutes this horror classic, while Jaime makes some enemies. We have a lot to say, so settle in for this one. 

Content warnings: domestic and physical abuse and violence, animal death, electrocution, violence, lots of blood, religious trauma and dubious sexual consent in one scene.

This week, we’re highlighting The Trevor Project. Learn more about them here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Show Notes:

https://archive.ica.art/bulletin/de-palmas-women

Let’s dive into extreme hobbies, Gollum-knock offs, betrayal, grief, and a whole cave of girl bosses! This week, we watched The Descent (2005), our first adventure horror film. There’s a reason why this movie is so popular; we both hooted and hollered our way through this one. 

Content warnings: offscreen but referenced child death, claustrophobia, dead animals, blood in general, grief, leg trauma with a broken bone, violence in general, and hallucinations. 

This week, we’re highlighting Safe Horizon. Learn more about them here: https://www.safehorizon.org/get-informed/about-us/

Show Notes: 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/subterranean-sick-blues-1.466370

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jul/04/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrvflNZPCM

In space....we've got to be honest, it's just really fucked up, since our episode today starts in Transylvanian salt mines and ends in SPACE HELL. It's time for Paul W. S. Anderson's 1997 science-fiction horror nightmare, Event Horizon! Eric tries to hunt down the lost lore surrounding this movie while Jaime bolsters her bravery by leaning into the chaos.

Content warnings: Body horror, gore, especially a lot of eye trauma, a graphic depiction of suicide, images of a burned person, brief implied sexual assault, and a ton of strobing lights.

This week, we're highlighting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Check out the good work they do here: https://afsp.org/

National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

Show Notes: 

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/8/12/21364035/event-horizon-paul-ws-anderson-retrospective-amazon