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Hello everyone and welcome to The Friday Nightmares Podcast. Join your hosts Heather and Smokeshow as we talk about a massive list of what we have watched and listened to, our main topic, Pets in Horror: Cats and Dogs, and our Out of the Dark Segment, what is next for pets in horror. So cuddle up with your fur babies and give this episode a listen!

Intro Song: Dark Glitch – 0:00:00 – 0:00:38

Intro – 0:00:38 – 0:14:20

What We Watched – 0:14:20 – 1:26:10

   Sorry I Killed You (2021)

   Butchers (2021)

   Horizon Line (2021)

   Curse of Aurora (2021)

   Fanny Lye Deliver’d aka The Delivered (2021)

   Hunted (2021)

   All My Friends Are Dead (2021)

   Don’t Tell A Soul (2021)

   Bloody Hell (2021)

   Ten Minutes to Midnight (2021)

   Run, Hide, Fight (2021)

   Skull (2021)

   We Are the Missing (2021)

   The 100 Candles Game (2021)

   Psycho Goreman (2021)

   The Shortcut (2009)

   Bay of Blood (1971)

   Cat’s Eye (1985)

   Hostel 3 (2011)

   The Uncanny (1977)

   Uninvited (1988)

   Monster Dog (1984)

   The Brides of Dracula (1960)

What We Listened To: – 1:26:10 – 1:32:41

    Cinema Beef

    The Horror Show

Main Topic: Pets in Horror – 1:33:44 – 3:02:21

     Spoilers for Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), Cujo (1983), Pet Sematary (1989), Strays (1991), Pet Sematary (1992), Ropes/Prey (2020)

Out of the Dark – 3:02:21 – 3:16:48

      What is next for pets in horror?

Outro Music: Dark Glitch – 3:16:48

Cinema Beef

The Horror Show

PhantomX

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Works Cited

IMDb. 2021. Top 25 Animal Actors – IMDb. [online] Available at: [Accessed 31 January 2021].

Learningtogive.org. 2021. Animals in Entertainment | Learning to Give. [online] Available at: [Accessed 31 January 2021].

Readersdigest.co.uk. 2021. A brief history of movie animals in photos – Reader’s Digest. [online] Available at: [Accessed 31 January 2021].

EPISODE 46 – ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DYSTOPIA – Yet again Vanessa & Daeron dive into the dystopian future. This time David joins us to discuss the 1995 Keanu Reeves picture “Johnny Mnemonic”, which coincidentally takes place during a global plague in January 2021 (this seriously wasn’t planned). Then we take a look at the feminist dystopian graphic novel “Bitch Planet Book One: Extraordinary Machine” by Kelly Sue Deconnick & Valentine De Landro. Coming next month: The 1984 film “Top Secret!”

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As always, this review of The Queen of Black Magic will contain no spoilers, only enough information to convey the basic plot of the film. Rest easy, Review Reader!

This time around we have a gruesome little tale of black magic and buried secrets, 2021’s The Queen of Black Magic. Director Kimo Stamboel has been working for a while. I haven’t seen his other releases, but that may change soon. It helps that the current king of Indonesian horror, Joko Anwar, furnished the script. Joko Anwar is, of course, the writer and director who turned in a terrific remake of Satan’s Slaves, and his latest, Impetigore, is going to be Indonesia’s entry for the Academy Awards. Not too shabby, right?

The Queen of Black Magic is a remake, too, and for those unfamiliar, you’ll be able to check out the original 1981 film when horror powerhouse Shudder brings it to their streaming service in February of 2021.

The Queen of Black Magic is a largely traditional horror film. Three couples and their children return to the orphanage in which the men were raised. The orphanage’s director lies dying, and this reunion of sorts is arranged so that they can see the man who cared for them one last time. At the orphanage, those who moved on are reunited with the orphanage’s new caretakers and their old friends, Maman and Siti, both of whom are physically deformed in different ways. Maman has an uncontrollable facial tic, reminiscent of someone with Tourette’s, while Siti has been burned on one side of her face, leaving one eye wounded and sagging.

Also looming over the trip, too, is an accident on the road, where one of our leads, Hanif, struck a deer. Only maybe it wasn’t a deer. Soon, revelation after revelation will be uncovered and the titular Queen of Black Magic will be revealed.

There is a common thread in a lot of the recent Indonesian horror offerings, perhaps because Joko Anwar is such a force in cinema there. This feels like prime Joko Anwar, using the dramatic trappings of this reunion of childhood friends, and then swerving into the macabre. It’s not unlike Stephen King’s philosophy of horror, in which the ordinary collides with the supernatural in violent and often gruesome ways. I maintain that the best example of this remains Joko Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves, which nails both the atmosphere and the shocks with equal aplomb. This is a good formula, and it works here, too, although not with the same success.

In many ways, this feels like a lost entry in Lucio Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy, where melodrama is met with a mean-spirited gore. Or maybe it’s just all the centipedes. I couldn’t shake the comparison, though, and it had me missing Fulci’s lush colors in comparison with the plainer lens of The Queen of Black Magic. And not only is the color a little less grand, the family drama loses ground to a familiar slasher path in the soggy second act. If you’ve seen any of the mostly terrible Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, you know that when someone starts talking about their moral failings, like vanity or germaphobia, it’s a pretty safe bet their end will feature those elements.

Join Billy Stuart and Rik Morgan as we talk about all things awesome.This episode we talk about the awesomeness that is the Phantasm  story  and how the Tall Man is one of the greatest villains in horror history. And we are joined once again by  our Legion Podcasts brother Gary Hill. Enjoy!

Steven Kostanski has a vision. As a guy who previously wrote Manborg and The Void, it’s pretty clear that Kostanski is a fan of 80s VHS horror. He was also one of the guys wrapped into Astron-6, with founders Adam Brooks and Jeremy Gillespie. Astron-6 you may recall, is the team behind the previously-mentioned Manborg, Father’s Day, and the very funny The Editor, among others. Each of these movies speaks to a very specific kind of horror. If not a direct reference to another film, or subgenre of films, it is a reference to the way we remember these movies. With PG: Psycho Goreman, Kostanski has delivered the most entertaining and most well-realized concoction yet.

Mimi makes friends in PG: Psycho Goreman

It begins with an introduction to two of our three central characters, Mimi and Luke, a sister and brother team engaged in a made-up game called Crazyball. This is not dissimilar from Calvinball, the game invented for the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. In both cases, the rules are a jumbled pile of nonsequiturs and delirious afterthoughts, but it’s a nice introduction to the chaos of the movie ahead. Clearly in charge, Mimi demands that brother Luke dig his own grave to be buried alive following his defeat, which naturally leads to the discovery of an ancient space gem. This gem allows Mimi to control the hideous monstrosity that describes itself as the Archdemon of the Nightmare Realm, but that Mimi names Psycho Goreman. Her possession of the gem discovered in their back yard enables Mimi to wield total power over Psycho Goreman, PG for short. This is worrying for Luke, who understands that his sister might have just a hair of sociopathy in her.

Beneath all of this is a very silly family drama of lazy and hapless dad Greg and fed-up mother Susan. But don’t think for a second that any of this adds up to some sweet tale of a young girl who learns a lesson about power and responsibility, or that Dad might finally realize that pitching in a little around the house might make a world of difference to Mom. PG: Psycho Goreman goes out of its way to tell the audience that no lessons will be learned and no saccharine smiles at the end will mark a return to life as it was, only better.

Instead, Psycho Goreman is a gleefully over-the-top fan letter to goofy movies and shows featuring rubber-covered actors doing battles against tentacled baddies. Think Power Rangers after an 8-ball. Googly-eyed skulls in jars and space templars suited up like Gundams live alongside one another in this world, and I want to go to there so much. Nothing looks real, but that’s not the point. The point, I would humbly argue, is to have a good time inside a universe of space warriors come to earth to fight (and occasionally get lost in) the woods. The gore is silly and wonderful, rivaling some of the work of Noboru Iguchi in its insanity.

You don’t mess with Mimi!

Special praise for Steven Vlahos, who supplied the voice of PG. The performance of this evil space lord-turned-plaything of children is hysterical,

Simon and Richard tried hiding but all that happened was they got beat to death for some heavy metal tapes. It was extremely erotic (at least in the Cadillac). They also talk about The Hidden from 1987 and a little bit about The Hidden 2 from 1993. These are the words. Listen, please!

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Join RJ as he takes you on an adventure in the Jungle of Columbia as he reviews the action packed comedy, Romancing the Stone from 1984.

CinePsyEP284: Death Race 2000 (1975)

In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in a cross country automobile race. 

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Grab your coffee, slam a Red Bull, and pop a caffeine pill… because the boys are taking you on a terrifying journey you can’t sleep through! You’ll never sleep again after hearing these tales…

HORROR IN THE MOVIESIt’s finally time: we’re talking all about Nancy’s Dream with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, DREAM WARRIORS, and NEW NIGHTMARE!

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She’s Too Young or The One Where They All Got Syphilis, is a 90s era cautionary tale of high school students gone wild and absent parents that are well…just gone. Marcia Gay Harden delivers a performance worthy of a “Greatest TV Movie Mom Ever” statuette and there’s a bunch of other actors and actresses that you may know form something you kind of remember. Join us as we head down to the school nurse to see if this is something we should be worried about in EP5 of this season’s theme “Once in a Lifetime” featuring 6 made for Lifetime Network TV movies.