The farce continues! It’s another “mini” episode that’s over an hour long!

In this one, we discuss some of our formative experiences with horror media and list our biggest early influences.

Notes:

Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone

City of the Living Dead by Lucio Fulci

Tetsuo: the Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto

Ulver (band)

Terrestrials by Sunn O))) & Ulver

Scary Muzak by Ulver

Poltergeist II: The Other Side by Brian Gibson (with effects by H.R. Giger!)

Phantasm by Don Coscarelli

Spectrophobia

Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

EC Comics - Tales from the Crypt was an EC series, so a “duh” moment for Wyatt’s commentary.

Creepshow by George A. Romero

Bordello of Blood by Gilbert Adler

Cannibal Corpse (band)

Metalocalypse (TV series)

Beetlejuice (TV series)

Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstäcker, possible source of the Brigadoon story.

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Thomas Ligotti

Super Mario Bros. 2 (video game)

The Gate (film trailer)

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley

The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade

William Blake

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Robert Anton Wilson

Counterculture

Thomas Metzinger

The Imp of the Perverse

Modular synthesizer

Intrusive thoughts

China Miéville

Miéville talking about octopus intelligence

The Secret Tradition of the Soul by Patrick Harpur

The Osiris myth

Vacation Vinyl

Harrassor (band)

The Thing by John Carpenter

Escape from New York by John Carpenter

American Movie by Chris Smith

The Ring (2002) by Gore Verbinski

Hurt (Johnny Cash version)

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails version)

Venture Bros. henchmen clip

JG Thirlwell

Music by Wyatt Keusch

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