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In the fifth episode of Season 4 (The Horror, The Horror) Kyle is joined by composer Austin Howard and writer/traveler Reagan Osborne to discuss Lewis Allen's deeply tragic and tonal shifting first attempt at a "serious" ghost story, the exquisitely shot and clearly influential The Uninvited (1944).
In the fourth episode of Season 4 (The Horror, The Horror) Kyle is joined by multi-instrumentalist Ben Childs and writer/traveler Reagan Osborne to discuss the psychological and repressive implications of masculinity, culture, and art in John Brahm's adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square.
In the third episode of Season 4 (The Horror, The Horror) Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) to discuss Carl Theodor Dryer's borderline experimental and deeply personal rumination on suicide, damnation, and vampirism in the stunningly visual and psychological impactful Vampyr.
In episode two of Season 4 (The Horror, The Horror) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and creature actor Alan Maxson to discuss the highly influential and illegal adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, F.W. Murnau's eerie and haunting monster rumination in Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.
In the premiere of Season 4 (The Horror, The Horror) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and new guest Robert Lowe (of the 30 Year Old Boomercast) to discuss the first official full length narrative Horror, Robert Wiene's twisted artifice of German post-war anxiety in the maddening The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
In the season finale of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the reaffirmation of the Western as poetry in the reflective deconstruction of genre, star, and history in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.
In the forty-ninth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny, Kyle is joined by performer/film teacher Adam Tunney and actor Ben McGinley to discuss the messy production woes and the streamlined epic that never came to be in the incredibly popular yet dated version of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corall in Tombstone.
In the forty-eighth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss Sam Peckinpah's western magnum opus in shooting up the genre to oblivion in the dying gray moral world of outlaws and equally corrupt businessmen in The Wild Bunch.
In the forty-seventh episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by a panel of guests, including actor Dan Bauer, novelist Alex Buda, and actor Ben McGinley, to discuss one of the most outrageous and downright groundbreaking satires of genre, culture, and racism in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles.
In the forty-sixth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by script supervisor Katy Baldwin and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss an oddly tender addition to the filmography of Sam Peckinpah, the often times bizarre and incredibly thoughtful ode to the end of the West in The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
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A film history and theory podcast that delves deep into a variety of favorites and elusive gems one specific genre at a time. Join the journey and together we can learn about film, auteurs, genre,…