Progressively Horrified

We are so psyched about this interview! It was so awesome to talk to Brad Michael Elmore! If you haven't watched Bit, we spoil the crap out of it so go watch it first then come back and listen to our podcast about it, then listen to this interview.

Have you ever sat down with the director of a movie you loved and they just immediately confirmed everything you thought about the movie without even being prompted? WELL NOW WE HAVE!

Follow Brad on twitter at @bradmichaelelm1
You can watch his first movie, "The Wolfman's Hammer" here
The trailer for his second movie, "Boogeyman Pop" is here
Bit is available to buy wherever good movies are sold including Prime and Vudu. The trailer is here.

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Fear Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings:  Gaslighting, blood, violence, references to self-harm and suicide

• Director: Brad Michael Elmore
• Writers: Brad Michael Elmore
• Stars: Diana Hopper, Nicole Maines, Zolee Griggs

Topics of Discussion:
-Gender dysphoria and Hollywood
-Fuck Gender binaries
-Gorgeous nihilist psychopaths
-Duke. That's it. Duke
-She's intense.
-Characters who can step on us
-What makes a sexy Dracula
-The Sapphic Gaze
-Mental Health
-Gay best friends in refrigerators
-Call your mom
-No really, call your mom
-Call your mom is still active on your quest list
-Have you called your mom yet
-The Foot Clan
-Pink grenades
-Snipes Cast: Discussing all your favorite Wesley Snipes Sci-Fi Films of the 90s.
-Just when LA thought it was safe, Frog.
-The spin-off one shot comics we may or may not already be writing.
 

Recommendations:
Black Leopard Red Wolf
Priory of the Orange Tree
Anime
Near Dark
The Lost Boys
Renegade Rule
Gryffen: Galaxy's Most Wanted
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts
What Keeps You Alive

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Follow our guest:
Eva Nicholls: @evatheother

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Come back next week to talk about Host!

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Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: Gore, brutal assault, mild racism, homophobic slurs (all by bad people), Vince Vaughn, body swapping. 

Body swapping movies always feel a bit squiggy going in, especially when you look at them through the lens of trans and non-binary folks. That's why we had two guests this week as we all gushed over the amazing way this body swapping slasher starring a man not known for his ability to be funny and mindful of the LGBTQIA+ community. It's a modern day miracle, but this movie actually does a really amazing job of handling trans issues and even goes out of its way to get the pronouns right!

• The Basics
  • A little bit about the movie before we start
  • Director: Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Paranormal Activity -Marked ones, Disturbia, Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse) outspoken gay filmmaker
  • Writers: Michael Kennedy, Christopher Landon
  • Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O'Connor, Mischa Osherovich
• What’s it about?
  • After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.

Topics of Discussion:

• Friends from Mean Girls, high school from Scream
• Local teen murder app
• Homecoming: do people care?
• Why wouldn't you have the homecoming game on a Friday?
• Things a teen girl likes or things a 30 something gay man likes?
• The sound of Vince Vaughn's penis
• Woodshop? In this economy?
• Az-teck-i-an
• ACAB (All Charlene's are bad)
• An explanation of how to change the time on your apple devices
• Who the fuck is Aaron Rogers? 

Recommendations:

• Happy Death Day
• Scream and it's sequels
• Heathers
• Cursed
• Red Eye
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare
• Crosswinds (comic)
• Freaky Friday

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Terra Acevedo
Twitter: @ThatsSoTerra
Instagram: @HoneyTwat

DO NOT PERCEIVE MILA!

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Be sure you tune in this Friday for our new episode about the 2020 body swap slasher Freaky!
And if you haven't checked it out, Monday we put out a rebroadcast of our episode on Scream.
And last week we talked all about the Bowie-tastic lesbian vampire curtain advertisement, The Hunger!

Fear Level: Scary/Terrifying
Trigger Warnings:  Massive amounts of gaslighting, blood, gore, jump scares, harassment, stalking

• Director: Wes Craven
• Writers: Kevin Williamson
• Stars: Drew Barrymoore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedey, Liev Schreiber(?)

Topics of Discussion:
-The called shot of Drew Barrymore
-The manic glee of Matthew Lillard
-How did Skeet Ulrich get so much hotter between Craft and this, discuss:
-Horror movie rules
-The ten year old hero that told Wes Craven he was going soft
-Kevin Williamson, superstar of 90's-00's teen culture
-High School Kids are ghouls
-Courtney Cox is great
-Sidney Prescott, an all-star final girl
-The Penguin
-Horror movies will kill you
-Did anybody ever actually think it was the dad?
-Release the Lion King 1 1/2 cut
-My parents are gonna be so mad at me

Recommendations:
The Craft
Scream 2-4
Ready or Not
Clueless
Millenium
The X-Files
Hackers
SLC Punk
Scary Movie 3
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Red Eye
Cursed
Better Watch Out
You're Next

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TJ Finecey
Twitter: @troyfin2
Podcast: Gotham Outsiders

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Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: Assault, sad animal death, sitting in a lobby and waiting for health care until you are almost dead, strobe lights, addiction, consent issues

This is a movie with a lot of nipples and a very loose grip on lesbian sex. You wanna talk about the male gaze...

It's the story of bisexual vampire Catherine Deneuve and her catfishing both David Bowie and Susan Sarandon 

Topics of Discussion:

• More nipples than Bowie
• Caged Bauhaus
• One Piece Ankh Knives
• Don't say vampire
• Sarah's body disposal confessions
• The public crematorium
• The vampire T.A.R.D.I.S.
• Charlie's glasses
• Susan Sarandon: a very 80's snack...a lunchable, if you will.
• The Osmosis Jones/Blade crossover
• Hot curtain on curtain action
• French ancient Egyptians
• THE SMOKING
• THE LACK OF CONSENT!
• Oh no, she's hot!
• The Kimmy Gibbler of vampires
• Piss mummy shipping costs
• Pony tail backstories
• Bryan Fuller's OK Cupid profile
• Perpendicular sex
• What even happens in the last fifteen minutes of this movie?

Recommendations:

• Interview with a Vampire
• Bit
• Let the Right One In
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Near Dark
• The Lost Boys
• Communion
• Labyrinth
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Last Temptation of the Christ
• Blue Velvet
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• The Man who Fell to Earth
• Vamp
• First Bitten
• Vampire's Kiss

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Sarah Miles
Twitter: @IAmGiantWoman

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Hope you're still enjoying our supersized pride celebration!
On Friday we're talking about the lesbian vampire movie featuring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie! It's The Hunger! We can't wait to talk to you guys about it!
If you haven't checked out last week's discussion of Hard Candy DEAR LORD! check that one out. You may or may not want to watch that movie, but you should definitely listen to the episode about it. It's the downward spiral we all keep signing up for!

Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: Blood, suicidal ideation, moderate violence, several uses of “the r word”

• Directors: Holly Dale
• Writers: Andrew Rai Berzins
• Stars:   Gordon Currie, Louis Ferreira, Helene Clarkson

Tonight we learned a new term thanks to our special guest, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh. That term is "CanCon". In Canada they actually invest in their creators and their are mandatory minimums and grants for content created in Canada and using Canadian creators and actors. And that, dear friends, is how you end up with a little movie called "Blood and Donuts" about a vampire who went to sleep in 1969 and woke up in mid-nineties Toronto. Now he's eager to see all the sights, like the world's most run down block of flats, the graveyard where he buried his vampire coat and squeezebox, and the world's dingiest all-night donut shop.

But that's not all! Before his first day is over he'll be dealing with the Toronto mob (led by David Cronenberg himself) and he'll be part of a bizarre love rhombus with his old girlfriend, the spunky bat-wielding clerk at the donut shop, and a cab driver with a deeply inexplicable accent.

Topics of Discussion:
-pansexual vampires
-cabbies who know it's okay for men to cry
-David Cronenberg's cowboy boots
-shoe rental
-astral vampire sex
-selective sun allergies
-popular men's v-neck styles
-Vincent Valentine and the definition of a cape
-the strangest block in Toronto
-research on important topics like "circus" and "dream"
-Vampire the Masquerade
-bargain priced 2 for 1 guns
-name brand lemon juice
-90's urban fantasy landscapes: a world of brick, steam, and plastic sheeting - an audio essay by Emily Martin

Recommendations:
Existenz
Last Night
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
The Lost Boys
The Hunger
Nadja
Pet Shop of Horrors
Vampire's Kiss
Innocent Blood

Follow our guest, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh
On twitter: @shinybabyb
Check out her podcast: "Ladies of Valhalla"
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Come back next week when we talk Horror Noire!

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Fear Level: Terrifying, Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: Rape, pedophilia, grooming, body mutilation, violence against youths, predatory behavior, allusions to child molestation, extended suspense, implied gore 

Literally this whole field could be a trigger warning and it wouldn't be enough! Katie Schenkel joins us to talk about the Elliot Page / Patrick Wilson claustrophobic, nauseating, incredibly tense drama about grooming, child molestation, murder, revenge, and mutilation.

Topics of Discussion:

• Oh boy
• this is a heavy one
• Discussions of pronouns
• RIP Goldfrap
• This ain't a cabin and it ain't in the woods
• How to make a movie about sexualizing minors without sexualizing minors
• JEFF IS SWEATING SO HARD!
• Indiscram
• Gritty?
• Ohio, you bastards!
• Judy Takuda's Malevolent Children
• Elliot Page, acting champion

Recommendations:

• Oldboy
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Gladiator
• John Wick
• Revenge
• Lady Vengeance
• Audition
• Whip It!
• Freeheld
• Promising Young Woman
• Parasite
• Kill Bill Vol 1
• Black Christmas (2019)
• The Witches of Eastwick
• 9 to 5
• The Brave One
• Jennifer's Body
• Carrie
• I Spit on Your Grave (for research, it's problematic and contrasts interestingly with Hard Candy)

Follow our guest:

Katie Schenkel
Twitter: @justplaintweets
Buy The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast NOW!

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Join us on Friday for our brand new episode about Hard Candy, the hardest movie for us all to talk about yet!
Hope you're enjoying our super-sized Pride event! Did you hear last week's episode about Black Swan? That one was messed up! And if you haven't heard our rebroadcast episodes about Anna and the Apocalypse and Jennifer's Body, take the opportunity to fill your summer with queer horror! We're here for you!