How To Be Scared

If you’re looking for a family melodrama with added blood and guts, you’ve come to the right place!

This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan travel back to an undefined time in the 19th Century thanks to Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Perhaps the greatest work of fiction ever written by an 18 year old genius in a snowstorm.

• Is this whole mess the product of harsh victorian parenting?
• Is this what Edinburgh looks like outside of the Fringe?
• If Mia Goth are you also a goth?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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Listen to this podcast before you book an AirBnB!

This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan travel to Detroit for their most spoiler filled and possibly scariest episode to date.

• Should you drink a bottle of wine before a job interview?
• Do you need planning permission for a dungeon?
• Where is she getting the milk?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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Don’t fall asleep! If you do, you might be killed in an elaborate and disgusting way. 

This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan travel back to 1984 to see just how badly things can go wrong if the police forget to sign a search warrant. 

• Could this be a children’s film?
• Exactly how big IS that boiler room?
• Do dreams come from your chin?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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Travel to Amity Island, USA for a 4th July weekend with added bite. 

This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan watch the film that put sharks on the map and made a generation scared to go into the water. 

Fondly remembered as the first summer blockbuster and also ‘the greatest movie ever made’ according to Quentin Tarantino. 

1. Can you arrest a shark?
2. What’s with all the barrels?
3. Will they need a bigger boat?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

Recorded on the anniversary of our first ever episode, How To Be Scared is one year old! Thank you for sticking with us for this journey, and if you’re just joining… welcome! 24 horror films down, many more to come.

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This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan leave the safety of the cinema and head to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre for a live encounter with Dracula! A new stage production that reimagines Bram Stoker’s classic novel. Directed by Emma Baggott and written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm.

• Can a play be a horror movie?
• Is it a good idea to sit on the front row?
• Is it nice to find a coffin with your name on?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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After a summer of horror... We’re back! This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan travel to Sunnydale a sleepy town in Southern California where all is just as it seems… or is it? Join them as they ask: 

• Was Bethany’s Mum right to ban this?
• Why do all the vampires know Kung-Fu?
• What is the best Top-Trump?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan return to the Prince Charles Cinema to continue their journey into John Carpenter’s apocalypse trilogy.

• Is that Satan or a slushie machine?
• Have you seen Susan?
• Is the title sequence still going?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan travel to a miscellaneous American city to watch as Madonna’s favourite video director reinvents the grisly police drama.

• Is this the most horrible film they’ve seen yet?
• Will they ever use a library again?
• Is that all Gwyneth Paltrow gets to say?

But most importantly, will they be scared? (Also, what’s in the box?)

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This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan visit Phoenix, Arizona and then quickly leave with $40,000 in the boot of their car. Join them as they watch Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece which presumably decimated the motel industry. 

• Will they ever take a shower again?
• Is milk and sandwiches an acceptable dinner? 
• What is that Busta Rhymes song called? 

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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YeeHaw! This week Daniel Vallender, Bethany Sharp and Christopher Ryan travel to rural Oklahoma to witness the birth of the sexy vampire, in Kathryn Bigelow’s genre melding directorial debut.

• Is this really a western?
• That child can’t be smoking, can they?
• Is that the guy from Aliens?

But most importantly, will they be scared?

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