We go in circles with the 2009 Australian feature Triangle.

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

* Updates and Horror News – 00:37 – 11:22

* Triangle discussion (pre-spoilers) – 12:38 – 22:21

* Triangle discussion (post-spoilers) – 22:41 – 54:34

* What we’ve been up to – 55:38 – 1:05:22

* Next episode’s movie – 1:05:23 – 1:06:17

Updates and Horror News:

* Variety’s article on Neil Gaiman writing episodes of “American Gods” for Starz

* Shudder.tv

* “American Horror Story: Hotel” first look

Triangle (2009)

Directed by Christopher Smith

Starring:  Melissa George, Michael Dorman, Liam Hemsworth, and Rachael Carpani

A group of passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.

* DO NOT LOOK FOR THE TRAILER – it is rife with spoilers and I did not include it here or in the episode for a reason!

* Dead of Night feature from The New York Times “Critics’ Picks”

* Article from The Guardian explaining how Dead of Night inspired the “solid state” model of the universe.

* Memento trailer

* The myth of Sisyphus

Various Theories about the film:

* An excellent blog post written by Dave Chen, the host of one of my favorite film critique podcasts – /Filmcast

* A YouTube video in which a fan explains his theory.

* A very detailed theory explained over several posts on the IMDB message board

Clip: “Bermuda Triangle” by Fleetwood Mac

What We’ve Been Up To

* The Slasher Movie Book by J.A. Kerswell

* Fangoria Issue #343

* Who Goes There? podcast

* Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age

* The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

* The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

* The Horror of it All by Adam Rockoff

* You Must Remember This podcast

 

The Girls in the Back Row:

www.thegirlsinthebackrow.com

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Check out our recommendations for age-appropriate Halloween and horror favs!

Show Notes:

Time Stamps:

The Shining and a Correction – 1:26 – 9:43

Early Elementary – 9:44 – 1:02:49

Late Elementary – 1:02:50 – 1:20:01

Tweens and Teens – 1:20:02 – 1:29:15

Next episode’s movie – 1:29:50

 

MHFF Booths

Joe Oliver portfolio

Laser Party website

Prim and Grim Etsy site

 

Early Elementary (Kindergarten – 3rd Grade)

Halloween Specials:

* “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” (1966) – available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* The Dana Gould Hour – “Halloweenery“

* “Garfield’s Halloween Adventure” (1985) – available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* “Mad Monster Party” (1967) – available for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* “Halloween is Grinch Night” (1977) available on YouTube

* “Disney’s Halloween Treat” (1982) – Available on YouTube

* “A Disney Halloween” (1983) – available on YouTube

* Mickey’s House of Villains (2002) – available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) – available for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video

Movies:

* Hocus Pocus (1993) – available for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* The Worst Witch (1986) – available on DVD from Amazon

* The Addams Family (1991) – available on Netflix, or for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* Addams Family Values (1993) – available for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* The Halloween Tree (1996) – available for rent or purchase

We devour Ravenous, a horror satire set during the Gold Rush!

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

* Updates and Horror News – 00:42 – 4:34

* Ravenous discussion (pre-spoilers) – 7:34 – 22:30

* Ravenous discussion (post-spoilers) – 22:52 – 54:48

* Telluride Horror Show – 56:28 – 1:02:37

* Next episode’s movie – 1:02:37 – 1:03:38

Updates and Horror News:

* The Visit (2015) trailer

* /Filmcast review episode

* Bloody Good Horror episode

* Cooties (2014) trailer

* Crimson Peak (2015) trailer

 

Ravenous (1999)

Directed by Antonia Bird

Starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle

Captain John Boyd’s promotion stations him at a fort where a rescued man tells a disturbing tale of cannibalism.

* Original trailer

* Wendigo Wikipedia post (referenced from several scholarly books about the subject)

* Guy Pearce

* As Adam/Felicia in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

* As Leonard in Memento

* Robert Carlyle

* As Rumplestilskin in “Once Upon a Time”

* As Begbie in Trainspotting

* Collaborative films of Robert Carlyle and Antonia Bird prior to Ravenous:

* Face (1997) trailer

* Priest (1994) trailer

* We Are What We Are (2013) trailer

* “Hannibal” – Stag Man/Wendigo transformation scene

* Wendigo POP! figurine

* “Skin and Bones” episode of “Fear Itself” starring Doug Jones

Clip: “The Donner Party” from The Shining

What We’ve Been Up To:

* Telluride Horror Show

* He Never Died (2015) directed by Jason Krawczyk – trailer

* The Invitation (2015) directed by Karyn Kusama – interview with Karyn Kusama

* Shorts:

* “The Chickening“

* “Night of the Slasher” trailer

* “The Witching Hour“

 

The Girls in the Back Row:

www.thegirlsinthebackrow.com

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We’re tackling French slasher/psychological mind bender High Tension (2003), directed by Alexandre Aja.

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

* Updates and Horror News – 1:14 – 11:12

* High Tension discussion (pre-spoilers) – 13:02 – 19:41

* High Tension discussion (post-spoilers) – 20:00 – 46:28

* What we’ve been up to – 48:57 – 1:03:38

* Next episode’s movie – 1:03:39 – 1:04:19

Updates and Horror News:

* Wes Craven obituary from Birth. Movies. Death.

* The awesome picture of Craven Tab referenced in the episode.

* “Scream Queens” trailer

* Upcoming podcast events

* October 2nd – The Shining screening at Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton

* October 16th-18th – Telluride Horror Show

* October 24th – Dismember the Alamo at Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton

 

High Tension (2003)

Directed by Alexandre Aja

Starring: Cécile De France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, and Andrei Finti

Two college friends, Marie and Alexa, encounter loads of trouble (and blood) while on vacation at Alexa’s parents’ country home when a mysterious killer invades their quiet getaway.

* Original trailer

* Plot of Intensity by Dean Koontz

* The Celluloid Closet (1996) – available for rent or purchase from Amazon Instant Video

**Clip played between the Main Feature and What We’ve Been Up To sections comes from Wes Craven’s interview on “Post Mortem with Mick Garris – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4**

What We’ve Been Up To:

* “The X-Files” (1993) – available on Netflix streaming

* The Lavender Hour podcast, hosted by Duncan Trussell and Natasha Legerro

* Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

* Opinion piece by Joe Nocera on the publishing of Go Set a Watchman

* “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” – available on Netflix Streaming

* The New York Times review of the miniseries

* Mark Cousins’ book of the same name, on which the miniseries was based

* The Rants Macabre podcast,

We talk about a classic Universal horror movie which neither of us have seen – The Black Cat (1934).  The Black Cat brings horror icons Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff together for the first of their eight co-starring films.

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

* Updates and Horror News – 0:42 – 8:23

* The Black Cat discussion (pre-spoilers) – 8:24 – 19:51

* The Black Cat discussion (post-spoilers) – 20:12 – 53:41

* What we’ve been up to – 55:48 – 1:03:53

* Next episode’s movie – 1:03:54

Updates and Horror News:

* “Ash vs. Evil Dead” premieres on Starz on Halloween Night

* “Bruce Campbell stands tall in new ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ poster” – article by Michael Gingold on Fangoria.com featuring the show’s official trailer (released at  San Diego Comic Con) and the promotional poster

* Horrorhound Volume 54 – exclusive interview with Bruce Campbell

* Trailers for The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), Army of Darkness (1992), and Evil Dead (2013)

* New A Nightmare on Elm Street remake in the works

* “Ranking the A Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise from Best to Worst” – article by Matt Molgaard on Dread Central discussing the news of the new remake and ranking the existing movies in the franchise

* Trailers for the original (1984) and remake (201) of A Nightmare on Elm Street

 

The Black Cat (1934)

Directed by Edgar Ulmer

Starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff

American honeymooners in Hungary are trapped in the home of a Satan- worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

* Ennis House

* “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments” clip

* Notable horror films starring at least one of the three male leads

* Dracula (1931)

* Frankenstein (1931)

* The Mummy (1932)

* Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat“

* TCM’s article about The Black Cat

* “Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World” – article by Josh Jones on OpenCulture about the occultist, which features a link to the BBC 4 episode of the same name from the four-part Masters of Darkness series

* “The sprawling, obsessive career of Fritz Lang” – a comprehensive biography article by Noel Murray on The Dissolve

* Philip French’s review of The B...

We’re talking Italian horror with Suspiria and Demons!  Suspiria brings us into the dream-like world of a horror fairytale in vivid Technicolor, while we get philosophical about the movie within a movie aspect of Demons.

Show Notes

Time Stamps:

* Suspiria discussion (pre-spoilers) – 1:37 – 14:18

* Suspiria discussion (post-spoilers) – 14:31 – 50:29

* Demons discussion (pre-spoilers) – 50:30 – 57:00

* Demons discussion (post-spoilers) – 57:13 – 1:33:04

* Reading/Watching/Listening/Playing – 1:34:55 – 1:38:17

* Next episode’s movie – 1:38:18

Suspiria (1977)

Directed by Dario Argento

Starring Jessica Harper and Stefania Casini

 A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders.

 

*  Original trailer

* “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments” clip

* “Expressionist Use of Color Palette and Set Design in Dario Argento’s Suspiria from Cinergie by Giulio L. Giusti – awesome article which links the color palette of Suspiria to the influence of German Expressionism on Argento

* Dario Argento: An Eye For Horror – documentary about Argento’s films

* “Bluebeard“

* Stills from many of the scenes we talk about can be found here.

* “Dario Argento’s Horror Classic Suspiria and the Most Vicious Murder Scene Ever Filmed, 1977” from Dangerous Minds, written by Bart Bealmear – excellent article about the film’s first death

* Photo of Alida Valli as a young woman

* MC Escher paintings referenced in the film

* Sky and Water II

* Relativity

 

Demons (1985)

Directed by Lamberto Bava

Starring Natasha Hovey and Urbano Barberini

A group of people are trapped in a large movie theater in West Berlin that is infected by ravenous demons who proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.

 

* Original trailer

* “Bravo’s Scariest Movie Moments” clip

* “Simulacra and Simulations” by Jean Baudrillard

* Sense and Stigma in the Gospels: Depictions of Sensory-Disabled Characters by Louise J. Lawrence (pg. 50)

* Kathy’s transformation scene (includes the demon emerging from her back)

* Motorcycle scene

* Helicopter scene from Dawn of the Dead

* Eye gouging scene from Zombie (NSFW)

* The Evil Dead,

In our pilot episode, we talk about what made us horror fans!   Topics include the books, television shows, and movies that got our love for horror started, as well as what it was like growing up as female horror fans!

Show Notes:

Time Stamps:

* Kate’s origin story – 3:35

* Tab’s origin story – 16:31

* Reading/Watching/Listening/Playing – 44:23

* Next episode’s movies – 55:22

Books:

* Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark edited by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell

*  The 15 Most Disturbing Illustrations from “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”

* Goosebumps  series by R. L. Stine

* Richard Laymon

* One Rainy Night

* Body Rides

* Tab’s favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories

* “The Masque of the Red Death“

* “The Cask of Amontillado“

* Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

Magazines:

* Fangoria

* Rue Morgue

* Famous Monsters of Filmland

* Forrest Ackerman

* “Uncle Forry” statue at Entertainment Earth

TV:

* “Unsolved Mysteries” theme song – select episodes available on DVD

* “Are You Afraid of the Dark” opening – show available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video

* “The Twilight Zone” opening – show available on Netflix Streaming

* “The Outer Limits” opening – original show (1963-1965) available on Hulu Plus, revival (1995-2002) available on DVD and on YouTube

* “Tales From the Darkside”