The Horror Pod Class

Tyler and Orrin are at the Outer Dark Symposium of the Greater Weird

Mike is touring Columbia

Enjoy one of our favorite topics from Season 1 as we revisit The Weird. 

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Hey Class!  On this episode of Horror Podclass we talk about the upcoming movie Annihilation and one of our favorite genres, The New Weird.  We discuss weird fiction, what it is, what it isn't, how it works, and where you can find more of it!

Here are some useful links to some things we discuss in the show:

Annihilation News and Trailer Worry Fans of the Book at our website, SignalHorizon.com.  You can see the trailer for the upcoming movie and read a little bit about the problems adapting the book into a film.

You can also read for yourself what H.P. Lovecraft wrote about the genre, why it works, and how to write it.

Don't forget to head on over to Audible.com and start your free trial!  We recommend that you get a copy of Area X by Jeff VanderMeer, which contains the entire trilogy that starts with Annihilation.  Tyler recommends Karin Tidbeck as another great weird fiction author you can check out.

If you are looking for some weird fiction podcasts, check out Pseudopod, an excellent short horror fiction podcast with excellent stories and equally excellent narration.  We recommend you start your weird fiction journey with episodes 574: While the Black Stars Burn by Lucy Snyder, episode 568: The Room in the Other House by Kristi Demeester, and Episode 578: Alarm will Sound by Christopher Shultz.

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Welcome back to another exciting lesson in classroom management with The Horror Pod Class. Not really. We just talk about horror here. Anyhow, this week we are talking all about secret societies, why we love to talk about them, what they are up to, and why audiences seemed so lukewarm about the movie Kill List. Also, IMDB tags can help you find movies with similar themes. Like public nudity. Before we get there, we talk about some of the great works of horror fiction we are currently reading and watching.

On this week’s Horror Podclass we are talking all about one of our deepest anxieties: how to feel about a movie that you thought was pretty good, but not really good at the same time.  That and our other big anxiety, money.  Specifically, the burgeoning subset of financial horror movies, Stakeland being our current target.  Also, what do horror and finances have to do with each other?

The Writer/Director Al White joins Tyler to discuss his 2018 festival darling Starfish which opens its wider release very soon.

Hey Class.  Its Tyler doing the show notes.  So get outta here. It's time to Party!!!

 

It's all about loser teachers!!!

 

Mike is excited about socialism...mostly libraries and the USPS. Pretty Pinko commie stuff if you ask me.

 

I am excited about Ararat.  It’s awesome. Also Books in the Freezer is great.  Here is the episode we were on. It was a ton of fun. Jonathan Janz The Dark Game.  Also Meta found footage movie Butterfly Kisses

 

Mike:  True Detective.  Open Curtain by Brian Evenson.  

 

Dark Corners of the Web

 

Body Parts Magazine

Bad Boy Kristen Roupenian. Bad Boy 

 

Essential Question:  How do the invasion of the body snatcher movies reflect the different cultural anxieties of the time.  

 

Screen Prism has a great body snatcher article

Capgras Delusion is pretty messed up.

Dudes that use logic

Teaching The Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Weird people who don’t exist

Teachers in the era of accountability and testing.  We are the POD PEOPLE. Emotionless and robotic.  Found in:

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue Volume 18 2016 by Michael Bailey

Not linking to the Washington Examiner.  Go find it yourself.

 

World Health Organization best practices guide for medical professionals to respond to vaccine deniers.  Or, HOW TO ARGUE WITH IDIOTS

Patreon for Signal Horizon

Twitter for Signal Horizon and The Horror Pod Class

Facebook Group for HPC

Facebook for Signal Horizon

 

On this week’s Horror Podclass we are doing a deep dive into the brand new Blue-Ray release of the 2018 movie Overlord.  This movie has everything: Nazis, zombies, motorcycles with sidecars, explosions, and jumping out of airplanes.  It just doesn't really have much to say about the horrors of war or the nature of evil... but hey, that's OK.  It is still a really fun movie.  Plus, Tyler gives us a sneak peek at some of the cool features on the Blue-Ray disk.

On this week’s Horror Podclass we are doing a deep dive into the 2008 zombie horror movie Pontypool, language, philosophy, and rhetoric.  Pontypool is easily one of our favorite movies, but not everyone liked it.  As evidenced by our anonymous Amazon reviewer, not everyone thought it was a zombie movie.  Whether you liked it or hated it, the movie does offer up some very interesting critiques on language and at least makes you think.

This week we are talking with writer and director Phil Gelatt about one of his favorite movies of all time, The Ninth Gate.  Phil also gives us a bit of a heads up about a new Netflix project that he worked on entitled Love, Death, and Robots.  Then we get down into the gritty rare book dealing world of The Ninth Gate, how and why it has captivated Phil's attention, and what the creepy, magical, and powerful book trope means to the genre.

On this week’s Horror Podclass we are jumping back into one of our favorite subgenres: the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!  Specifically, we are discussing the rather subdued movie, The Night Eats the World.  It's French.  It lacks machine guns.  Not too much gore.  But don't let that hold you back, as we have found Night Eats the World is a wonderful character study and a really complex exploration of loneliness.

On this week’s Horror Podclass we invited two friends of the podcast, the first is JR Hamatachen one of our favorite horror writers of 2018.  The other is Carson Winter, who writes about punk rock on Dying Scene and also happens to write about horror on Signal Horizon. We discuss the 2015 movie The Green Room, all things punk rock, bad reviews, and Nazis.