Quiet Little Horrors

We continue our month of discussing the intersection between horror and noir with the 2021 adaptation of Nightmare Alley. We compare it to the original adaptation and delve into the differences in character motivations, plus we consider if director Guillermo del Toro's influence tips this film into full "horror" territory.

We continue this month's discussion of the horror of old age and generational trauma with 2020's Relic, directed by Natalie Erika James. A slow-burn psychological horror woven among three women of the samily but different generations, this one leads to surprisingly tender hidden places.

We begin a month of discussion about films dealing with age, disease and generational trauma with 2021's The Manor, which tells us that getting old is really scary and sometimes there are ancient tree demons.

There's something out there on the prairie. Isolation, jealousy, psychosis, demons—or maybe it's just the wind. We cover it all in our discussion of 2018's The Wind from director Emma Tammi.

It's the end of the year and so it's time for some reflection. We look back on our second season, discuss our favorite episodes and list the goals we have for the podcast next year.

This is also a great opportunity to send us feedback or suggest a future film to cover! Email us at [email protected].

Thank you for coming along with us! Happy New Year!

We're ending 2021 and our second season with a big one: Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho. It's dazzling, twisty and maybe a little thematically muddled, but talking about what works and what doesn't is a fun ride.

This episode's related recommendations:

• Stir of Echoes
• Sixth Sense
• Peeping Tom
• Black Swan

We kick off this month's pairing with a classic of the psychological horror genre: Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski in 1965. Isolation, untreated trauma, the downsides of moving through the world as a woman and also why people should maybe just leave women alone already.

We continue our Candyman discussion with the sequel/reimagining from 2021, directed by Nia DaCosta. Spoiler alert: we're a little mixed on this one, with one half of the podcast warmer on it than the other. We cover the threads picked up from the original film, what has happened to Cabrini-Green and Chicago in the meantime and how this film takes on themes of historical racial violence and segregation more deliberately than the first.