The Fear of God: A Horror Movie Podcast

Welcome to another installment in 20/20/2020-2.0 as we log another favorite 2020 film discussion in the books. This time, it's the directorial debut on Netflix from Remi Weekes, HIS HOUSE. A gripping, terrifying story of two people who have suffered tremendous loss and faced incalculable desperation to flee Sudan in the hopes of a new life in London, His House is a powerfully human nightmare couched in an intensely relevant social issue. Nathan and Reed's dissection of this hauntingly effective film unearths the dreadful dilemma of wrestling with individual transgression versus societal evils, how the two beget each other, and the hope we might have to finally face them with hope and generosity of spirit.

This is a conversation we don't think you'll want to miss and we hope you enjoy it.

6:58 - Business Time

13:18 - Whatcha Watchin' / Readin' / Listenin' To?

31:10 - HIS HOUSE

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We hope you're awake now! Because we're heading the wintry landscape of Utah for our next discussion in 20/20/2020-2.0 -- THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW. A quirky and unique horror-comedy from writer/director Jim Cummings, this film is remarkably subversive and in addition to being highly entertaining, has quite a bit on its mind about gender, self-awareness, and the condition of realizing when you're not ok. We have a fun and heartfelt conversation about it that we really think you're gonna enjoy!

5:02 - Business Time

8:14 - Whatcha Watchin' / Readin' / Listenin' To

17:15 - THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW

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Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to radio station TFOG, playing you all the hits and all of those strange sounds from all that goes bump in the night. We're continuing our collection of hits from last year called 20/20/2020-2.0 with this impressive science fiction gem called THE VAST OF NIGHT. This independent thriller is one of the most impressively inventive bits of cinema in recent memory, and launches Reed and Nathan into a vibrant conversation about the ways we can quickly find ourselves way over our heads, and the simple words of wisdom which might provide the hope to anchor us along the way.

This is a lively and thoughtful conversation and we hope you enjoy it!

4:26 - Business Time

8:27 - Whatcha Watchin' / Readin' / Listenin' To?

28:45 - THE VAST OF NIGHT

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We're back everybody! Starting things off with 20/20/2020-2.0, where we take a look at some of the films from 2020 we didn't yet have the chance to discuss. We check in first at the provocative and challenging film from the directors of Goodnight Mommy, THE LODGE. The conversation takes on a different format for us given the heaviness and difficulty of the material, but yields some heartfelt and vulnerable conversation about the ways in which lies, given too much freedom and propagation, can shackle and devastate us with irreparable consequences. It's a discussion deeply rooted in our mission to explore, not explain, and one we hope you enjoy.

5:23 - Important Announcement!

7:20 - Whatcha Watchin' / Readin' / Listenin' To?

20:24 - THE LODGE

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2021 has arrived! And we have some special things planned that involve -- and frankly won't work without -- YOUR participation. Listen to this brief little warm-up to find out what this year's general slate of films are going to be centered around and how YOU can directly select a good chunk of what we cover. We have frequently had listeners ask us if we'd be willing to cover "this" or would consider a conversation about "that" and this year we have a really intentional way for that to become a reality.

Check out this pre-cap episode to see what that will entail and we'll look forward to making our way through 2021 together!

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Welcome to 2021 everybody! And welcome back to the Fear of God. We're kicking things off this year -- get it? -- with an episode a bit out of our typical format. Nathan welcomes his brother Josh Rouse -- author, blogger, pastor, and all around excellent guy -- to join him and Reed on a discussion about the hit series continuing the Karate Kid Franchise on Netflix and YouTube Premium: COBRA KAI!

After some fun general questions about the franchise as a whole, we prune the bonsai tree a bit further diving into why the series, which could have easily been little more than a nostalgic joke, is one of the most interesting, entertaining, and often quite moving television series in recent history.

We'll be back with our regularly scheduled programming next week, but meanwhile -- QUIET!.... now, wax on, wax off and don't forget to sweep the leg!

11:28 - Whatcha Watchin' / Readin' / Listenin' to?

21:29 - Strike first, strike hard, no mercy!

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And so we reach the end of our extended series on learning how to lose, anchored most directly in HBO's THE LEFTOVERS. Season 3 was a bold and unpredictable season, and our conversations about it reflect that, including all of the pain and the joy and the mystery and the discovery that come with our perpetual mission to explore and not explain.

Collected here are each of the individual segments from that series, including our extended discussion about the show's finale, our brief moment to reflect upon the sudden untimely passing of Chadwick Boseman in light of loss and grief, and the themes of the show as a whole.

Nothing is explained. Everything is explored. And then it ends.

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The journey to letting the mystery be continues. Phase 2 of our extended series on learning how to lose, anchored in the full seasons of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, dealt with paradigm shifts -- the places we find ourselves where what we knew and thought we knew is completely turned upside down. Narratively, the Leftovers pivoted to the town of Jarden, Texas -- the only place in the country where no one had vanished in the Departure. But the people who live there holds secrets of their own, and despite their collective repetition that "we are spared", they would come to know how fragile that security truly was.

This season presented a chance to not only discuss some incredible character-based storytelling, but also to come to terms with the painful and difficult question the arc of the season was asking us: "Why are we losing?" And in our hopeful and haunted attempts to be honest about what our faith is really telling us, we explore what it might mean if the answer is, "Because we are supposed to."

Collected here are the complete segments breaking down each episode of the stunning Season 2, including appearances from show regulars Vera Goudie and Ian Olsen. So let's check in to the hotel between the worlds and sing our way out...

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The year 2020 taught us more things than we were really ready -- or willing -- to learn. Early in the year, Nathan and Reed began a conversational journey through a sequence of films all centered around one idea: learning how to lose. More than just a treatise on grief or defeat, there was a hope that by exploring the trauma of navigating the world when it's been suddenly shifted so intensely, we might find the substance of hope amidst the evidence of things not seen. In other words, digging in to what scares us in order to find what saves us.

This lengthy series was bookended by two films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame. But the thread that really bound these discussions together was the HBO series, THE LEFTOVERS, wherein characters tried to navigate a world in which 2% of the population had suddenly vanished. Presented here are the collected segments centered around Season 1 of The Leftovers, focusing on the "remnant" of what's left over after what has gone.

The conversations are thoughtful, occasionally fun and silly, and -- as always -- honest. So, as Matt Jamison so deftly observed, let's be in it then...

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As the centerpiece of our October season in 2020, we made our way through Ray Bradbury's classic novel of dark carnivals, illustrated men, witches, lightning rods, and humble library janitors: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. The novel held a unique relevance given the climate of 2020, with all of the social and political turmoil amidst an ever increasing threat of a global pandemic. But beyond the common fears of time, age, death, and madness, this beautiful and powerful novel also reminded us that the most common cause of all was love, and that perhaps evil ultimately has only the power that we give it.

Presented here are the collected Book Club installments in a singular discussion, including a few excerpts from interviews with Bradbury himself. We'll be back in February with new, regularly scheduled content, but meanwhile we hope you all are safe and well and we can't wait to be back in the FoG with you again.

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