Dead Air is what happens between Fear Archive episodes — no research, no structure, no plan. Just Amanda and Mike talking until something disturbing comes up. It always does.
Big news first: The Fear Archive is officially on Patreon. Five dollars a month gets you every episode ad-free with zero mid-rolls, a bonus Dead Air every month that nobody else hears, full Watch List breakdowns and archive ratings, bonus mailbag episodes where Amanda and Mike read your theories and sleep paralysis stories on the record, complete case files with all the research and sources that do not make it into the episode, and a vote on what gets covered next. Link is in the bio.
The first thing on Patreon is The Watch List — Amanda and Mike's new ongoing horror movie club — starting with No Return Flight, a summer-long series covering international horror outside the American canon. First slate: Aswang (Philippines, 1992), Martyrs (France, 2008), Tigers Are Not Afraid (Mexico, 2017), Rec (Spain, 2007), Lake Mungo (Australia, 2008), and Marquis (Belgium/France, 1989) — which Mike picked, and which Amanda has not forgiven him for yet.
Also this week: Mike went to Maine on vacation and sat down to a lobster roll next to a drunk stranger in a Grateful Dead Hawaiian shirt who seemed friendly right up until he did not. The guy was waiting outside when they left, and Mike spent the walk back to the hotel armed with brass knuckles and a knife, fully convinced he was being followed.
Amanda finally saw The Odyssey and loved it. Mike watched Evil Dead Burn and has thoughts, then found what may be an actual underground speakeasy operating inside an abandoned Sears in a dead mall in Kingston, New York. They get into the discourse around Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn's new film, and whether arthouse cinema playing at AMC is doing audiences a disservice. They cover the ongoing David case, including the four chainsaws and the burn cage entered into evidence this week. And they cover the story of a film crew that tore open a motel wall in Los Angeles and found blood evidence connected to the Black Dahlia murder — eighty years after Elizabeth Short's body was found completely drained of blood in a vacant lot.
Also: the deaths of Brenda Fricker and director Chuck Russell, the new Crystal Lake series premiering on Peacock, CERN's Large Hadron Collider shutdown feeding an entire online conspiracy ecosystem, and a typhoon in southern China that freed between 800 and 900 snakes, including venomous cobras, into flooded neighborhoods.
Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production.
LISTENER WARNING: This program contains strong language, discussion of true crime including crimes against children, and a genuinely upsetting number of snakes.
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