The ALTER Tapes

This week on The ALTER Tapes, Sharai and Bobby discuss Kelsey Bollig’s short “Kickstart My Heart”. We talk about siblings, life and death situations, and representation in genre television shows.

Premise: After a gruesome car accident, a young woman fights her mind's 3 levels of hell to survive.

Connect with your co-hosts:

> Sharai: @Misssharai / @NightmareFierce / @blerdymassacre

> Bobby: @BobbyTorrez / @People_Scares

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Joe is joined by new co-host Nichole Goble to discuss Marcus Anthony Thomas' 'The Retreat' (2020), which has cult vibes, great framing, and has us asking about the economic model of running a murder farm.

Premise: When Mia, a distraught single mother, arrives at a retreat that uses revenge as a form of therapy, she must face her pain and decide which path is right for her.

Connect with your co-hosts:

Nichole: @BodiesHorror

Joe: @bstolemyremote / @HorrorQueers

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Joe is joined by new co-host Mark O. Estes to discuss Dominic Haxton's 2016 short 'Tonight It's You'. We're talking bad gay hook-up stories, religious intolerance, and why CJ won't just turn away when the situation gets weird!

Premise: When a young man meets up with his dating app hookup, he encounters something much more sinister than he could ever imagine.

Connect with your co-hosts:

> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @horrorqueers

> Mark: @theanticritic / @KingzScream / Midnight Social Distortion

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Bobby and Joe reunite to discuss Brian Sepanzyk's 'In the Shadow of God' (2022), a short about a symbol (possibly witchcraft?) that causes people to kill themselves.

It's a ~17 minute short that's simultaneously not long enough for all of its ideas, but also too long for how little follow through there is. We're not mad; we just need more!

Connect with your co-hosts:

Bobby: @BobbyTorrez / @People_Scares

Joe: @bstolemyremote / @HorrorQueers

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Kat & Sharai  discuss director Bryan M. Ferguson’s short “Satanic Panic ‘87”. This short follows a pair of metalheads who are ready to get lit with the Devil. Tune in to hear our hosts thoughts on this flick, Satanic Panic in the US, human sacrifices, & more!

Premise: Two metalheads open a gateway to hell when following the instructions of a satanic aerobics tape.

Connect with your co-hosts:

> Sharai: @Misssharai / @NightmareFierce / @BlerdyMassacre

> Kat: @girlthatsscary /@dannithekidd

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Kat and Joe discuss Noah Campagna's 'And Away' (2022). We're talking Nope comparisons, Black hair, tearing up, and freaking out over the rung on a ladder.

Premise: A young mother must protect her child as she finds the world around her is vanishing.

Connect with your co-hosts:

> Joe: @bstolemyremote / @horrorqueers

> Kat: @@DanniTheKidd / @GirlThatsScary

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Adrian and Ryan discuss Yue Ma’s short ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They discuss relationship breaking points, toxic male tendencies and if they would use a hand cannon to give a “helping hand”.

Premise: A lonely 50s housewife undertakes radical atomic surgery to win back her husband's wandering eyes and to become the perfect wife in the process.

Connect with your co-hosts:

>Ryan: @BrotherGhoulish / @blerdymassacre

>Adrian: @adrianraee / @slash_her_pod

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Jamie and AJ discuss Kristine Gerolaga’s short ‘Concealer.' Pretty hurts. Jazz and Joe previously talked about this short on S01E23.

Premise: When Ivy agrees to let her old friend Bless treat her to a spa day, she soon learns that Bless has joined a cosmetics pyramid scheme.

Connect with your co-hosts:

> Jamie: @glitterburrito /@bloodybroadspod

> AJ: @_ButWhoisshe / @d180podcast

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Jamie and Sharai discuss Mike Williamson’s short ‘Deathly’. Our jokes are fire today but we also talk about Alan Ruck and how any of us can be monsters without erasing parts of our identities.

Premise: After the tragic death of his wife in a house fire, Richard returns home on the night of her funeral to find he may not be as alone as he thought.

Connect with your co-hosts:

> Jamie: @glitterburrito / @BloodyBroadsPod

> Sharai: @Misssharai / @NightmareFierce / @blerdymassacre

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This week on The ALTER Tapes, Bobby and AJ discuss Maxwell Nalevansky & Carl Fry’s short ‘With Pleasure”. This short takes us on an otherworldly trip that has us questioning, do we actually know if we’re in purgatory right now?

Premise: An unsuspecting robber chooses the wrong bar to hold a stick up.

Connect with your co-host:

Bobby: @BobbyTorrez / @People_Scares

AJ: @_ButWhoIsShe/ @d180podcast

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