Porcelain Peak

Ring-ding-ding-a-ling Porcelain Peeps. Here’s another fun and exciting wintery episode for ya. NEWS consist of a lengthy discussion on Christopher Nolan’s newest film, Tenet. We do our best to stray away from spoils as we discuss this highly anticipated sci-fi feature. We have a huge tie, which leads to a double round of TRIVIA this week. For our MAIN DISCUSSION, we put the names of some classic Christmas movies into a Santa hat, and a bunch of Horror subgenera into a stocking. We selected one from each list and gave our best attempt at a new darker, more horrific version. What if A Christmas Story was a body-horror movie? You won't believe what we come up with, but as the old adage goes, “hearing is believing,” so tune in and enjoy by a nice cozy fire. For the FINAL CUT this week, we briefly discuss the “movies” we had to watch last week for our gift exchange, and exchange a few more. Can you guess the themes of everyone’s trios before they are revealed next week? Speaking of next week, we have a fun holiday-hoobie-whatie surprise lined up. Additionally, be on the lookout for our Naughty and Nice bonus episodes coming soon! Thanks for listening. Happy Holidays

Let’s continue decking them halls with another fun and festive episode. We share NEWS regarding Krampus coming and taking away physical media! Santa slays his way through Slash Cards during TRIVA. For the MAIN DISCUSSION, we hook up with the ghost of Christmas past and travel back to our last holiday season to revisit Hitchcock Holidays. We each pick a classic film by Hitchcock that we haven’t seen, watch them, and discuss them with each other. We wrap up with our FINAL CUT continuing with our movie gift exchange. We discuss the picks from last week, then give each other three more movies to watch. Next week, we try something completely new by attempting to make classic Christmas movies into horror movies. Should be a chilling good time. Thanks for listening. Keep it creepsmas.

Season’s greetings from On Or Around the Winter Solstice. We return to form to bring you our first holiday episode. We have TRIVIA as usual. NEWS consist of potential entries into the Gremlins franchise, as well as a new project that’s got John on his knees. For our MAIN DISCUSSION we discuss 3 movies taking place on or around the winter solstice. These are not your traditional Christmas viewings, but damn are they fun. The FINAL CUT for the month will consist of some digital movie gifting. Each host has picked their own theme and the other’s have to watch, no questions asked. Join us next week for the short revival of the Hitchcock Holidays, and our continuing gift exchange. Keep it creepy.

This is the second half of our GIANT 100th episode. If you haven’t already, we suggest listening to Part 1 before diving into Part 2. Again, we skip NEWS and the FINAL CUT, and merge TRIVIA and the MAIN DISCUSSION into an all absorbing blob for Season 3’s installment of the Trivia Tirade (see Season 1 Episode 18 for our first trivia tirade and Season 2 Episode 13 for our second). To spice the tirade up, we decided to enlist the horror podcast community to join us for trivia. For Part 2 we have: The Radio Nasties, The Homies of Horror, Xtreme Horror Replay, The Fang Girls, and A Podcast On Elm Street. Basically, we play a round (sometimes more) of trivia with each individual show. We let them pick the level of difficulty they wanted to play, and whether or not they wanted to play as a team. Once the round is over, we give our valedictions and start a new round with the next guest. Join us next week as we kick off the holiday season with some Season’s Greetings and a gift exchange that could equate to free movies for you!

This is our GIANT 100th episode. It is so big that we had to split it into 2 parts. We skip NEWS and the FINAL CUT, and merge TRIVIA and the MAIN DISCUSSION into a single entity for Season 3’s installment of the Trivia Tirade (see Season 1 Episode 18 for our first trivia tirade and Season 2 Episode 13 for our second). To spice the tirade up, we decided to enlist the horror podcast community to join us for trivia. For Part 1 we have: Totally Weird and Twisted podcast, Creepy Crap podcast, Fear the Talking Queers, Horror Movie Crew, Scaring Sam, and Chuck Goes to the Movies. Basically we play a round (sometimes more) of trivia with each individual show. We let them pick the level of difficulty they wanted to play, and whether or not they wanted to play as a team. Once the round is over, we give our valedictions and start a new round with the next guest. Part 2 will be the same set up, but with different guests. Those guests are: The Radio Nasties, Homies of Horror, Extreme Horror Replay, the Fang Girls, and A Podcast On Elm Street. Look out for Part 2 very soon.

Let’s get this party started with our first true crime episode of the season. Before we dive into the Grey Man, we give some shoutouts to our final 100th episode guests. During news, we talk about a new release, other films that studio has to offer, and what a famous director has to say about the current state of films. Trivia is anyone’s game this week (even John’s) and we have a special serial killer quiz. Our main discussion consists of a look at the life and crimes of the infamous Albert Fish. From his childhood, to his torrid love affairs, to his taste for flesh, we look into all aspects of his life that we can stomach. On our final cut, we share our November watchlist, full of movies we do and don’t recommend you checkout. Join us next week for our BIG 100th episode and third trivia tirade. Thanks for listening.

For this highly anticipated episode, we decide to mix things up a bit. We decide to skip NEWS this week in favor of a length discussion with a special guest. Before the main discussion, we have fun round of trivia per usual. Then we dive in with all the hosts of Porcelain Peak past, present, and future to discuss The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. There are spoilers for both shows as we discuss what works, what doesn’t, and what broke our haunted hearts. For our FINAL CUT, we cap off our discussion on Tim W. Burton as we explore the peaks and valleys of the second half of his wavering career. Join us next week for a True Crime episode revolving around the Werewolf of Wysteria—Albert Fish. Thanks for listening

With an unexpected change of plans, we bring you the newest addition to our Uncaught Gems Segment by viewing and discussing A Scanner Darkly. We give some shoutouts regarding our upcoming 100th episode. How soon is too soon for COVID-19 related horror? Find out our thoughts on this week’s NEWS segment (8:58). See how our Substance D brains hold up during TRIVIA (19:05). Our MAIN DISCUSSION (35:37) consists of a surprise Phillip K. Dick related game and a dive into this rotoscoped masterpiece about much more than what’s on the surface. The FINAL CUT () continues with the classic era of Tim Burton. Join us next week to discuss The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor with a special guest.

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 5. With Halloween and the Terror Tales over, we jump back into one of our favorite reoccurring segments—a redemption. During NEWS (5:38) we share information about our big plans for our 100th episode. TRIVIA (11:41) returns to normal with John selecting the game this week. For the MAIN DISCUSSION (28:49) we dive into 3 of our horror misses to redeem ourselves. This round we watched and discuss The Bride of Frankenstein, Carrie, and Hush. On our FINAL CUT (1:17:04) we begin part 1 of a series looking at the career of director Tim Burton. Part 1 consists of his early life up to the pod favorite Beetlejuice. Join us next week to discuss The Haunting of Hill House and the Haunting of Bly Manor with a special guest. And the rise of the career of Time Burton. Thanks for listening.

The time has come! Halloween is here and we’re ready to get our spook on with you. Grab your stakes, silver bullets, water, and salt as our journey through the supernatural 31 Terror Tales 2020 comes to a close. Before it all ends, we have a ravenous beast of an episode. We share NEWS (7:34) about the good and bad of streaming. Our brain jack-o-lanterns get lit with the creepiest and strangest round of TRIVIA (19:53) we might have ever had. With our MAIN DISCUSSION (38:04) we throw our costumes on as we go door-to-door of not 7, but 10 Halloween themed movies ranging from listener suggestions to Porcelain Peak favorites. For the FINAL CUT (1:40:22), we present an extended watchlist of all that we’ve been watching outside of the Terror Tales. Join us next week for our first redemption of the season—Horror Redemption 4, which will consist of Carrie, Hush, and The Bride of Frankenstein. Happy Halloween!