Millie and Rina are back, baby! We catch-up after a short summer hiatus, check in on the SAG-AFTRA strike (and how it’s affecting our pod format), chat at length about AI art at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and wildly speculate on some local true crime happenings before diving into Alex Garland’s intimate, AI-focused, sci-fi horror: "Ex Machina" (2014). Tune in for this wild ride of a second (but actually, third) episode.

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Millie & Rina debrief on their “photo shoot,” Armie Hammer’s disturbing proclivities, OpenAI’s recent legal hot water, and share shark attack stories before diving into horror picks: Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow (2016) and Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space (2019). Tune in to find out if June's movies were Mad Scary 👻 or Mad Corns 🌽 and learn all about the “lore of the Djinn.”

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Welcome to the Mad Scary Podcast! In this intro episode, your hosts (Rina & Millie 🙂) discuss what drew us to the horror genre, our relationship to writing (& each other), and ask ChatGPT to recommend horror movies to watch and discuss. We explain what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and what to expect if you join us through this creative fever dream (nightmare?).   

Each month, we’ll dig into movies that explore scary themes and tropes as inspo for a horror movie script. To make matters worse, we’re throwing in a healthy curiosity for and discussion of Generative AI, from the POV of two millennial women, ex-teachers, women in tech, brunettes with bangs, and best friends from the Bronx. 

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