Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary) with mild jump scares and moderate existential dread
Trigger Warnings: zombies, gore, pandemics, high school, musicals, Christmas

Anna and the Apocalypse is a 2017 horror/comedy/musical from Scotland that combines our love of musicals set in high schools and zombie horror comedies set in England. It's directed by John McPhail and it stars Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, Paul Kaye, and the podcast's new girlfriend Sarah Swire and new boyfriend Ben Wiggins.

This movie has us co-sleeping in ballpits, fantasizing about power throuples, and examining the effects of toxic masculinity on how we deal with apocalypses and friendships. We also talk extensively about Sarah Swire's portrayal of Steph North and how rare it is to have a non-sexualized queer woman with social anxiety, a warm winter wardrobe, and a hatchback in a horror movie, despite the fact that that describes a quarter of our friend group. We are Soldiers at War for this movie and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.

Recommendations:
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Feed by Mira Grant
Cobra Kai
Paper Girls

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Fear Level: Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, dismemberment, blood, frightening imagery, pretentious assholes 

• Director/Writers: Dan Gilroy (Writer: Freejack, Kong Skull Island, Real Steel, Bourne Legacy and director of Roman J Israel and Nightcrawler)
• Stars: Jake Gyllanhal, Renee Russo, Toni Colette, Zawe Ashton, John Malkovich, Daveed Diggs, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer

This week we bring you something notably less moist than the Alien movies! It's a movie about art that kills you (and of course all the assholes in the art market who join in along the way). We've got bisexual Jake Gyllenhaal. We've got neurotic John Malkovich. We've got absolutely magic (and gay) Rene Russo! What more could you want? If you answer was murderous monkeys, well, somehow you're in luck. It's Velvet Buzzsaw time!

Topics of Discussion:

• The magic of Gyllenhaal
• Malkovich!
• I built a railroad!
• No you didn't you white son of a bitch!
• Put your hand in me and see what happens!
• Evil cat
• Magic monkeys of the ghost gas station and other Goosebumps titles
• Poor Coco
• My respect for your work has evaporated
• Always a critic, never a mourner
• What's the point of art if it's never seen?

Recommendations:
Nightcrawler
The Cell
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "Dee Makes a Smut Film"
Basquiat
Memory & Dream
House of Leaves
The Fall
Donnie Darko

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It's our extra long pride month, so be sure you check out our new episodes about queer horror movies and our rereleases of some of our favorite episodes about LGBT Horror films! New ones every Friday, rereleases every Monday!

It's a rerelease of our first episode just for Pride! Hear all about Jennifer's Body, one of our favorite movies and cult queer horror at its finest

Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: gaslighting, kidnapping, cannibalism, possession, toxic friendships, use of disability slurs

Jennifer's Body is the 2009 horror/comedy from director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Girlfight) and writer Diablo Cody (Juno) starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Brody. It was torn up by critics and well known for having one of the worst advertising campaigns ever, but has since become a cult classic with queer horror fans and especially queer women. Why?

Because it's actually really freaking good! It's a story about toxic friendships, blossoming queer relationships, 2000's indie emo bands, and ritual sacrifice and we're gonna tell you why it might be a modern queer feminist horror masterpiece.

Also: Megan Fox is great, actually and we as a society owe her a huge apology.

Recommendations:
Shaun of the Dead
The Descent
Ready or Not

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Fear Level: Scary/Terrifying
Trigger Warnings: violent death/gore, impaling, racism and sexism, claustrophobia

• Director: James Cameron
• Writers: James Cameron, David Giler, and Walter Hill, based on the characters by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusset
• Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henrickson, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, and Al Matthews

Did the excessive moistness of Alien bother you? Well, buckle up! This one is slimy and covered in a hardening resin! Our good friends Ben Acker and Ben Blacker of The Thrilling Adventure Hour Podcast drop by to talk about the battle of the girl bosses, the life changing power of listening to women, and being absolutely soaked in robot milk. It's time for Aliens!

Topics of Discussion:

• 57 years
• Wayland Yutani
• Paul Reiser/Burke - space New York's biggest asshole
• LV-246
• How many humans does it take to wallpaper a reactor?
• Xenomorph Godzookie
• Bill Paxton can sweat on command
• Acting is sweating a lot
• Kenner toys Aliens
• Listen to women, you just might survive
• Poorly build rough terrain landers
• Alien vaginas
• Warm gushing robot milk
• Yass queen
• Newts and chosen names
• BROWN FACE, WTF!

Recommendations:
Alien 3
Alien Ressurection
Super Ego
I Was There Too
Predator 2
Predators
Terminator 2
Soldier
Starship Troopers
The Abyss

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Ben Acker
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Ben Blacker
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Podcast: The Thrilling Adventure Hour

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Renegade Rule is out today from Dark Horse and our very own Ben Kahn along with their cowriter Rachel Silverstein and illustrator Sam Beck are here to talk about the process of making queer comics, disaster gays, and which one of the characters each of them secretly is!

Order Renegade Rule from you local comic shop or buy it digitally on Comixology! Make sure your local library orders a copy too! Happy Pride!

A crossover with the Talking Comics podcast! Ben and Jeremy brought Kathleen over to casa comics to talk about the 2021 adaptation of the video game franchise about ripping people's spines out, Mortal Kombat!

ENJOY!

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Fear Level: Terrifying
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, Violent death, space, creatures, infection

• Director: Ridley Scott
• Writers: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shussett
• Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Sir Ian Holm, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto

Topics of Discussion:

• The cast is stacked!
• Two knights in this movie!
• space, yo
• Everything is wet all the time
• The makeup of your away team is questionable
• Lots of questions about Jones the space cat
• The wet chain room
• Stow the chit chat!
• Ellen Ripley: A hero who understands quarantine
• This juicy face fucker
• Everything's penises and vaginas, thanks Geiger!
• Kane's son
• Blue collar sci-fi
• "The Company"
• What is the deal with Mother anyway
• Drenched in robot milk
• Murder by porn
• Bad goo or normal goo?
• Why can't Ripley get panties that fit?

Recommendations:

• Aliens
• Gravity
• Dark Star
• Dark Star (Geiger)
• Aliens RPG
• 1984
• Brazil
• Silent Running
• The Thing
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Alien: Isolation
• Soldier
• The Expanse
• Mars Corp.
• We Fix Space Junk
• Planetes

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Our last Digression from our big special episode!

Only two days before you get to hear us talk with Kathleen Kralowec about the all-timer "Alien". Yes, it is a horror movie. I don't care what that person said on twitter. Space is horrifying.

Hey Horribles!

Did you listen to last week's episode? Why not? It's about one of the modern horror classics "Attack the Block" and it features Morgan from Diversity in Horror!

This week we've got a big one for you! We're taking on the film "Alien". Have you heard of it? Ben's partner and super artist Kathleen will be here to discuss it with us! See you Friday!