Progressively Horrified

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

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In which Emily's mind is completely and entirely blown.

Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: Mind control, abusive parents, blood, embarrassment 

• Directors: Zoe Lister-Jones
• Writers: Zoe Lister-Jones, Peter Filardi
• Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, David Duchovny, Michelle Monaghan  

Did you ever meet somebody who seemed really great and begin what felt like it was going to be a deep and fulfilling relationship and then it turned out that they never made good on any of their promises?

Nevermind, I don't know why I brought that up.

The Craft: Legacy is the sequel/reboot/remake of the classic The Craft for 2020 that has so much going for it. The young actresses are all great. One of the main characters is trans and is played by a young trans actress. David Duchovny is here to handle the creeping you out so that none of our girls have to go mad with power and pull a Dark Phoenix.

So why doesn't it work? Well...there are a few reasons but you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out for sure.

Topics of Discussion:
-Princess Nokia
-Mysterious self-cleaning jeans
-Shadows
-Dangling plot threads
-Meaningful representation
-Daddy Duchovny
-The Red Flag Factory
-Dickensian orphans

Recommendations:
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Teen Witch
Riverdale
Sailor Moon
The Books of Jonathan Stroud
Witch Hunt Atelier
Gideon the Ninth

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When you live in Northern California and you're into witchy stuff, at some point you are point to meet a guy that breeds unicorns.
Emily did.
This is her story.

Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary) w/mild hatred of who you used to be
Trigger Warnings: Snakes, bugs, rats, suicide, suicidal ideation, abuse, sexual assault, mind control

• Directors: Andrew Fleming
• Writers: Peter Filardi, Andrew Fleming
• Stars: Rachel True, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Breckin Meyer, Christine Taylor

If you grew up in the nineties, at any point had an all black wardrobe, and ever had a friend who warned you about particular herbs because they could be used to put a love spell on you (hi Jennifer) then the odds are pretty good at some point you were very well acquainted with the 1996 film "The Craft".
It's about four high school girls who are very into magic, very bad at wearing their catholic school uniforms to regulation, and each have one very specific life problem that they decide to change with the practical application of magic. Of course, in any nineties movie, girls strive to get some kind of power and control in their lives and when they get it they go immediately insane and begin killing people and turning on each other (sigh). We all remember this movie (except Ben, who is a literal infant) but just how well do we remember it? Is it the "Whedonesque" girl power phenomenon that some people remember or is it "Whedonesque" in all the wrong ways? Jump in and let's find out!

Points of Interest:
Which element are you?
What's your favorite 90's fashion accessory?
This soundtrack
Jewel
The many thunderstorms of Los Angeles
90's Suicidal ideation and the "right way to commit suicide"
Unrealistically barren magic shops
Don't steal from local witches
We find out a lot about each other (everybody was a witch, except Jeremy who was a football player. TWIST!)
WHY IS EVERYBODY IN LOVE WITH CHRIS HOOKER?! HE'S THE WORST!
Large chunks of this plot don't make sense.
So many snakes
Did The Craft change the ecosystem of Los Angeles?
This movie hates people experiencing homelessness and victims of abuse.
Please invite Rachel True to your convention you racist trash people

Recommendations:
Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Hex Wives
Bit
Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love
Witches of Eastwick
The Love Witch
Season of the Witch
The VVitch
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Marvel's The Runaways - The TV Series
Runaways - The Comics
Phonogram

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Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"

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This Friday a new episode of Progressively Horrified is coming out where we talked about The Craft. We could have talked about it all night...and we basically did. In the course of that, we began discussing the diversity problems that The Craft had and how it stacked up to things coming out about the same time.
Then we started talking about Buffy.
Then Ben said "It's weird how I can follow this even though I've never seen an episode of Buffy"
Then Alicia pointed out that as a black woman in America, she is constantly expected to know about things that she doesn't care about and have nothing to say to her.
Friends came up...

Anyway, enjoy, see you Friday when we talk about THE CRAFT

Fear Level: Spooky (a little scary)
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, violence, moderate gore, demonism, rich people

• Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
• Writers: Guy Busick, R. Christopher Murphy
• Stars: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Andie MacDowell

It's a Progressively Horrified All-Stars episode as both Samara Weaving (from Mayhem) and Adam Brody (from Jennifer's Body) play hide and seek with our hearts in the amazing 2019 horror comedy "Ready or Not". We are joined by horror author and all around great person Justina Ireland to discuss the most complicated contract that the demon lawyer has written up yet.

Grace (Samara Weaving) has just married in to a very rich family with a board game empire and she finds out there's just one catch: that family got all their money as part of a deal with the devil and if she wants to be part of the family, she has to play a game. When she pulls the card that says "hide and seek" it means that the rest of the members of the family have until dawn to sacrifice her. It's wild. It's funny. Hopefully you don't have a thing about trauma involving hands.

This discussion includes some favorites:
-How does Samara Weaving make smoking look so cool.
-Adam Brody = Always Bi and always Byronic
-Andie MacDowell with a bow is some real queen shit. Can we get her a horse to ride on?
-Rich people really are different
-Being offered something by an old woman or in a fairy tale is a lose/lose situation
-When is it acceptable to punch a child in the face?
-It's so hard to keep good help these days.
-Is furious girl / depressed guy our favorite ship type?
-What do you even call that?
-Is it just Percy and Mary Shelley? Is that ship "Shelleys"
-Is Shellies also a term for furies, but with turtles?
-Be gay, eat people
-The vengeance of the demon lawyer
-Wait, is that Alexi's Rose's old boyfriend Art?

Recommendations:
-Happy Death Day
-Mexican Gothic
-Succession
-Bill and Ted Face the Music

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Join us the next two weeks as we talk about The Craft and The Craft Legacy with some of our favorite guests!

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Fright Level: Terrifying
Trigger Warnings: Claustrophobia, grizzly violence, broken/exposed bone, jump scares, gaslighting.

How do you sell your sporty vehicles to a millennial? We know how!

It's time to talk about one of the scariest movies we've ever seen, The Descent. It's a dark, scary, bloody, grizzly, absolutely horrifying movie - then the monsters show up. Come join us as we leave finger prints in our armrests as we watch six women voluntarily climb through spaces they can't stand up in and wonder how that could possibly go wrong.

We discuss such diverse topics as:
-Proper storage of pipes on a moving vehicle
-A little place called Appalachian Mountains, USA
-Night eagles
-How much easier it would be to tell people apart if you didn't cast five out of six bright white people
-Why you're not getting any of us near a cave
-Is this movie made by an anti-cave lobby?
-Everything is a Jacob's Ladder
-Double majoring in nursing and xenobiology
-Your buddy, Holly, and why she sucks
-Rebecca, the most competent person on the planet
-Monster merkins
-Flares make caves look really pretty, but we're still not going to any
-The revolutionary feminism of showing competent women on screen
-The not so revolutionary feminism of this movie's subplot
-A detailed list of when you should mercy kill us and which celebrities and fictional characters we would allow to eat our intestines.
-Killer rabbits
-Marketing to millennials

Recommendations:
The Descent 2
Buried
The Descent (The Unrelated Book)
Trollhunter
Annihilation (The Book Series)
{REC}
Tomb Raider (2013) - Videogame

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Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"

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Fright Level: Spooky with intense amount of existential dread
Trigger Warnings: Intense depictions of and lengthy discussion of sexual violence and rape. Violence. Mild gore. Jump scares. Home Invasion. Stalking. Cyber Stalking. Christmas.

Merry Christmas and/or Happy Friday!
We got you a Christmas and/or Friday present! We did a very merry episode of the podcast with our very own Santa Claus, Talking Comics' Bob Reyer! Bob brought us some figgy pudding and we talked about the 2019 film "Black Christmas" directed by Sophia Takal and starring Imogen Poots and an army of amazing young female actors. Fair warning, this movie is extensively about misogyny, sexual assault, rape, and the way all of those things intersect with college. Just be cautious going in, we don't want to ruin anybody's Christmas or Friday.

Topics of conversation for this one include:
-Cary Elwes and how he can sell us anything, fixing leaky busts
-How funny the word bust is (to Ben) and how Emily just won't stop saying it.
-Bob brings the knowledge of all the other movies that are also called Black Christmas (I didn't check to see if he knew about Black Friday, but I'm guessing he does).
-Honestly, who steals a diva cup?
-Actual toxic masculinity
-Mean Girls (again).
-Why it's uncool to hang out at your friend's work and talk about their sexual assault.
-Archery
-Alternate uses for dry cleaning bags
-One overly aggressive analogy about what it's like to be Jewish on Christmas

Recommendations:
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Paper Girls
Bring It On
Happy Death Day
Rabid (2019)
Under the Skin
Heathers
Just the last scene of Deathproof
Alice Isn't Dead (Podcast)
Alice Isn't Dead (Book)

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Fright Level: Spoopy with a side of existential dread about capitalism
Trigger Warnings: Pandemic, disease, blood and gore, mild workplace sexism, a disability slur, horrible workplace, mild nudity

Let's establish something real quick: there are two opposing types of action movies:

-A "Die Hard": Work your way down through a building to rescue hostages / escape

-A "Game of Death": Work your way up through a building, taking out level bosses on the way, to reach a final boss at the top.

Now that we have that out of the way, you have everything you need to understand what I mean when I say that "Mayhem" is an Office Space Game of Death, in which you have to work your way through your evil coworkers to reach and fight the evil CEO of your company. Sound fun? Well, then it's time you met Mayhem!

Directed by Joe Lynch, Mayhem is a blood splattered, nail shooting, mug smashing good time. It may not have anything even remotely not straight to offer you, but what's less straight than fighting for the downfall of late stage capitalism, right? Maybe that's a stretch, but this movie is jam packed with class conversation and features an effortlessly diverse cast including Steven Yuen and Samara Weaving, who are cutting a bloody swath through an office under quarantine for a disease that causes you to lose all inhibitions.

Recommendations:
Parasite
Aggretsuko
Evil Dead 2
Train to Busan
They Live
Raising Arizona

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Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"

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