Progressively Horrified

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Fear Level: Terrifying
Trigger Warnings: Visuals of hanging/suicide, pandemic, jump scares, blood, violence

• Director: Rob Savage
• Writers: Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd
• Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore (Wonder Woman), Emma Louise Webb (The Crown), Radina Drandova, Caroline Ward, Edward Linard

It's the great pandemic of 2020 and a group of friends is just trying to stay in touch by meeting up through Zoom. But when Hayley books them for an online seance, some people fuck around and find out that demons don't think their zoom antics are funny. This movie is fucking incredibly and so of the moment that's it's honestly difficult to express. And at 55 minutes, you can watch it while you pop your popcorn to watch a different movie!

Topics of Discussion:
-Spooky filters
-Bad Yelp reviews
-People who know technology
-Moving backgrounds are cancelled. they're over, that's cancelled
-Return to Hocus Pocus rules
-#demon #yesfilter
-The Emma toss championships
-Pub demons

Recommendations:
Collingwood Story
Poughkeepsie Tapes
Marble Hornets
Broken Movie
Fatal Frame
The Magnus Archives
Creep & Creep 2

Follow our guest:

Steenz
Twitter: @oheysteenz
Instagram: @oheysteenz
Book: Archival Quality
Strip: Heart of the City

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Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth
Emily's Website: Megamoth.net

Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.

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Fear Level: Mostly Spoopy with existential dread
Trigger Warnings:  Racism, colorism, trauma, body horror, sexual assault, violence, blood

• Director: Justin Simien
• Writers: Justin Simien
• Stars: Elle Lorraine, Judith Scott, Vanessa William s, Jay Pharoah, James Van Der Beek, Lena Waithe, Kelly Rowland, Usher, Blair Underwood, Michelle Hurd, MC Lyte, Robin Thede, Laverne Cox, Nicole Byer

"Bad Hair" is a politically and socially relevant drama, filled with the real life challenges that black women faced and continue to face in the workplace and in their daily lives. It's a thoughtful consideration of the pressure to conform to traditional Eurocentric beauty standards even in creative fields and the damned if you do, damned if you don't nature of what we as a society demand of black women. It highlights the way in which Anna, a young black woman working in television is overlooked, mistreated and betrayed.

Psych! Actually it's a campy horror movie about a woman that decides to get a weave that turns out to suck blood, physically violates her, and murders her friends. It's "Little Shop of Horrors" if Seymour wore Audrey II around on his head and Audrey II occasionally stuck its plant tentacles down his pants and into his bodily orifices.

Psych! Actually it's both of those movies and we had just as much trouble trying to figure out what it was saying as that description implies. Come be completely stumped with us!

Topics of Discussion:
-Hair drama
-Hair trauma
-Bad Hair/Good Hair/Bad Hair
-If you want to have a magical negro, but your movie is full of black people, do you just have a magical trans woman?
-The late 80's career minded black issues drama that Ben was here for.
-The 80's camp horror movie about killer hair Bre was here for.
-The blood oath that forced Lando to be here.
-Welcome to our podcast about black hair. No, really, this episode contains a lot of discussion about black hair by black women and non-binary folks.
-Jeremy does his best not to talk about his hair. It just makes everyone mad.
-Horror movies and fantasy movies have to have rules.
-Elle Lorraine acts good
-Who cast Blair Underwood as Laurence Fishburne in this movie?
-Witches: who are they and what do they want?
-Can you make a movie about racism and colorist affecting black people and still completely exoticize Native Americans?
-This movie sure tried.
-James Van Der Beak - down or clueless?

Recommendations:
Get Out
Mixed-ish
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Bamboozled
Pose
Good Hair
Nailed It
Eve's Bayou

Follow our guests:

Bre Indigo
Twitter: @ndgoarts
Insta: @ndgoarts

Lando Toothman
Insta: @proflando or @landobakes

Alicia Whitley
Twitter: @aliciawhitley
Instagram: @alburnet

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We're out here.

The concept of the video game character creator has existed for years, but some of y'all still want to throw the binary gender choice and people up front and, somehow, some of y'all haven't even figured out the non-hetero romance thing. On the other hand, there's The Outer Worlds and Saints Row IV

Fear Level: Terrifying
Trigger Warnings:  Racism, gaslighting, mild gore

• Director: Jordan Peele
• Writers: Jordan Peele
• Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Betty Gabriel, LaKeith Stanfield, Caleb Landry Jones, Lil Rel Howard, Erika Alexander

Topics of Discussion:
-Racisms
-Pay attention to how your black friends want you to act re: cops
-Incorrect ways to eat cereal
-Biting across the kitkat bar
-What happens to a nod unacknowledged?
-Connecticut: threat or menace?
-Redbone or "oh, so this IS for black people"
-The Dap shake: a horror undreamt of
-nonononononono, that's not my experience
-Does Jordan Peele owe Jay life rights?
-Sarah Lawrence?
-I see you running, I'm running. We'll figure out why later
-Chris can't even drop a spoon anymore
-The TSA, unlikely heroes?
-Detectives who are or were Living Single
-Bring a portable charger if you plan on being in a horror movie

Recommendations:
-Step-Up 2: The Streets
-A Black Lady Sketch Show
-Astronomy Club
-Key and Peele
-Telltale's "The Walking Dead" Videogame
-Attack the Block
-The Muppets Take Manhattan
-Sorry to Bother You
-Us
-Horror Noire
-The Sunken Place Course
-Lovecraft Country - By Matt Ruff
-Grand Army
-Roots (2016)
-Hatfields and McCoys

Follow our guests:

Aaron Amos
Twitter: @aaronjamos
Podcast: Talking Comics Podcast

Emmanuel Lipscomb
Twitter: @elipscomb2

Jay Joseph Jr.
Twitter: @CynicalAngst
Website: NetworkJay.com

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Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com

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Come back next week 

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F*ck waiting for you to get it on your own.

Also, JCrow might be the funniest thing I've ever said. Sorry, not sorry.

Fear Level: Documentary
Trigger Warnings: Historical images of lynching and racial violence, excerpts from a variety of horror films that include blood, violence, racism, and terror. They say Candyman several times in a row.

• Director: Xavier Burgin
• Writers: Ashlee Blackwell, Danielle Burrows
• Based on the book by: Robin R. Means Coleman
• Stars: Robin R.Means Coleman, Tananarive Due, Tony Todd, Keith David, Rachel True, Ken Foree, Jordan Peele, Paula Jai Parker, Loretta Devine

Covering the entire history of black people in horror films is a huge task, which Horror Noire decides to take on and it's up to the task. With an awesome format, an array of amazing black horror stars, directors, and critics, and clips from dozens of films - it's a movie you absolutely have to watch...but we're gonna describe it to you anyway!

Danny Lore, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Allie Mullin join podcast host Jeremy Whitley to talk about all the amazing movies we've have seen, the trash fires we look forward to finding on Tubi, and the classics we've missed.

Topics of Discussion:
-Keith David's buttery smooth voice
-"Birth of a Nation" and where you can stick it.
-Sci-Fi and the things "black folks just don't do"
-Duane Jones, George Romero, and the OG zombie movie
-A man's gotta see himself
-Pam Grier, the friend you're always psyched to see at the party
-A dramatic reading of the plot of "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Black" by Danny Lore
-We crack on The Craft one last time, but not nearly as hard as we come for The Shining
-Why we ABSOLUTELY do not want a 2021 Nightmare on Elm Street reboot
-Candyman
-Candyman
-Candyman
-Is Def by Temptation real and do we have proof?
-Hey, Eve's Bayou was thirty years ahead of the rest of FILM.
-Bones, Crow, and Def Jam: Fight for New York
-Attack The Block, mother fuckers!
-Get Out, the horror movie so real, we just had this deep ass conversation in the middle of this whole thing
-All of our dating histories
-That time Jeremy wrote a comic where Iron Fist did Misty Knight's hair
-Dads/white boys, You don't get cookies for learning how to take care of the people you love.
-Unless you make them cookies, then you share, I guess.

Recommendations:
Spiral
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Nightlight - A Black Horror Podcast
The First Purge
The Queen of Bad Dreams - Danny Lore and Jordi Perez

Follow our guests:

Danny Lore
Twitter: @weredawgz
Instagram: @weredawgs
Website: dannylore.com

Emmanuel Lipscomb
Twitter: @elipscomb2

Allie Mullin
Twitter: @alliemullin
Instagram: @alliemullin
Website: alliemullin.com

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Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com

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We will go to our deaths defending Guy Ritchie movies.

No, really, if you want to talk horror with a community who's progressive and diverse and isn't gonna give you shit about what you like, please feel free to reach out to the podcast or to any of us online.

We love you and we're here for you!