Night School Horror Session

The boys tackle perhaps the most influential work of horror ever: The Bible. Specifically, the apocalyptic prophecies of John's Book of Revelation. They discuss their personal histories with Christianity, the book's surreal imagery, it's unavoidable impact on scary stories, and get in a fight over what qualifies as a dream vs. a vision. NOTE: This is the 2nd upload of this episode, to fix a corrupted file that cut off around the one hour mark, with 20 minutes still to go.

The boys discuss the much-hyped new movie Hereditary. They had a very different opinion than most, but they're not just doing it to be contrarian, they swear. They get into how the movie failed to deliver on the promise of its wonderful first half, and how it kinda felt like two different movies stuck together. They also wonder what the deal is with all the moms in horror lately, and what, if anything, Hereditary was going for with all that symbolism.

She is beauty, she is grace, she'll throw acid on your face. Bill and Bill take on Kyoko Okazaki's psychological thriller/body horror comic Helter Skelter and discuss impossible beauty standards, cycles of abuse, and whether Okazaki predicted the way the nature of our interactions with celebrities would fundamentally change in the years after her manga was released.

In this one, the two Bills discuss on of the granddaddies of horror fiction, Edgar Allen Poe! His life was definitely horrific at times, but we mostly focus on some of his notable stories and poems. We cover The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Masque of the Red Death.

Bill and Bill dive into The Lure, a massively entertaining and utterly baffling musical horror riff on The Little Mermaid. We flounder around for a bit but eventually find out legs and discuss the film's dreamlike plotting, clever sound design, and how its strip club setting potentially reflects stereotypes and/or realities of it Eastern European setting.

In this episode we check out Usamaru Furuya's surreal, hyperviolent manga nightmare Lychee Light Club. We try our best to dissect its tangle of themes and find something you can latch onto amid all the disembowelings. Puberty, homosexuality, folkloric imagery....little boy Nazis? It's an interesting one, that's for sure.

In this episode we discuss The Shining, both the book and the movie. We go over adaptational differences, its impossible-to-overstate influence, and some...questionable ideas the creators of each may have had.

In this episode, we discuss a film series that managed to both change the horror genre forever and be a laughing stock among movie critics. What did it do right? Where did it go wrong? And how has its influence managed to reach outside the realm of movies and into real life?

An introduction to your hosts, Bill and Bill. How we got into horror, what our backgrounds are, and what we're hoping to do with this show.