The Rants Macabre

We bring you Clay McLeod Chapman! Writer and performer of The Pumpkin Pie Show (on the FANGORIA podcast network), screenwriter of 2015's festival favorite, The Boy, writer of Self Storage, and middle grade's book series, the Tribe Trilogy. We talk comic books, podcasting and movies (he's done it all!). Follow @claymcleod on Twitter and download The Pumpkin Pie Show - https://t.co/Hy2T2rPROU

We talk about two movies: the oldie but goody, 1984's Children of the Corn, based on the Stephen King short story, and 2015's Bone Tomahawk by S. Craig Zahler.

Check them out! Children of the Corn is on Netflix now and holds up (mostly). Totally worth a watch. Bone Tomahawk (on iTunes & Amazon Video) is a western with horror elements starring the indomitable Kurt Russell.

It's a New Year, and a great new episode! Like the viking ancestors of the region, for this episode we explore some epic Scandinavian Horror. 1922's Häxan, Dead Snow 1&2, Trollhunter (2010), Frostbite (2006), and the brilliant Swedish Let The Right One In (2008). #ScandiHorror

For our last podcast of 2015, we talk about our favorite horror films of the year. Through this Lunch Hour Year-in-Review we also review our favorite discoveries this year. Thank you for joining us! Stay with us, we've got some great plans for 2016.

For this bonus episode we took a trip to our local theater to check out Mike Dougherty's new holiday horror, Krampus!

Merry Christmas all, and to all a bloody night! For our Christmas episode we cover sorority psychos, Crazy Santas, and Finnish Krampus fallout. Black Christmas from 1974 starts us off, then Silent Night, Deadly Night (1980), and Rare Exports from 2010. All great installments for a chilly holiday night at home.

We went on the interactive theater adventure, and lived to talk about it. The Walking Dead Experience: Chapter 1 was at the Meadowlands and we've got a review. Check it out when it comes to your city! Next we follow up with a recap of the first half of season Six of TWD recap (warning, spoilers inside).

Monster Squad! A cornerstone of my childhood, and Mindy finally watched it. We talk about the 1987 classic, and compare notes on the 1972 Blaxploitation cult hit, Blacula!

In 1996 Mindy's former residence in Queens was the setting of a brutal murder. Seriously, the case was never solved and even recently posters offering a reward for information were posted in the neighborhood. She recently moved, but wanting to use the last minute opportunity we wanted to try and engage. We did our research and took our audio gear to the basement of her building.

EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomena is the means of recording voices, or signals beyond what our senses can interpret. The movies 'White Noise & White Noise 2: The Light' explore the medium as a premise. In-between our recordings we review the two films and compare them with our own experience.

This week we check in with each other with recommendations spanning horror comic books, TV, and a movie. Darren had a lot of fun with Todd Strauss-Schulson's slasher homage, horror comedy, The Final Girls, while Mindy loves this season of American Horror Story: Hotel so far, and Darren wraps up with some of Scott Snyder's horror comics, Severed and The Wake. Then we finish up with talk of newer turns in the The Walking Dead graphic novels.