The Rants Macabre

Sneaking up behind you comes SLIME! We bring you tales of goo, sludge, and ooze come to terrorize mankind. Starting with Larry Cohen's The Stuff, The Green Slime (1968) by Kinji Fukasaku, Steve McQueen's 1958 The Blob, and the 1988 Blob remake directed by Chuck Russell.

A first for us, we recorded this episode in Mindy's car! Darren talks Crazyhead, the British comedy-horror series created by Howard Overman, and Mindy and Jaxon report on The Purge: Election Year.

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Mindy is quickly consuming Penny Dreadful so we dive back into John Logan's tales of God's & Monters. Darren found a new love in Under the Shadow, the Iranian horror film in the style of The Babadook. Babak Anvari's haunted wartime story and Penny Dreadful are both on Netflix Streaming now.

In our second installment of Home Invasion Horror we take aim at those without motive. From the hyper-verbal Michael Pitt in Funny Games (2007) to the faceless children in Them (2006), and The Strangers (2008) grand plan. Three intense movies and some home invasion advice for your listening pleasure.

We start the New Year with a recap of the awful-for-the-world, but good-for-independent-horror films 2016. Our Top Fives, favorite show moments of the year, the news that we're now on letterboxd.com!

Also in this episode is a sort of preview to our Home Invasion 2 episode, a horror retooling of Baby It's Cold Outside.

Throwing together a collection of easily accessible Christmas Horror films: Jack Frost (1996), A Krampus Christmas (2016), and the new-to-Netflix A Christmas Horror Story (2015). And to spice up the nog, we've also got some alternate Christmas lore.

We're back to open up The Autopsy of Jane Doe! André Øvredal, the man behind Troll Hunter (2010) in his masterful American debut! Starring Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox and Olwen Kelly, this haunting story-by way of an investigation is one to check out on December 21st when it hits theaters.

Plus we have a sit down interview with Øvredal and Emile Hirsch, and moments from the movie's debut at Lincoln Center!

For our latest Lunch Hour Review Mindy suffered through The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) and for some reason the newest installment in the Paranormal Activity series, The Ghost Dimension, but turned it around with her dive into the Glory Daze (2016), a documentary about Michael Alig and the NYC party monsters. Darren thoroughly enjoyed Oz Perkins's atmospheric poem of a film, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016).

After losing the Save Horror Halloween Showdown tournament to 'Spooky' Sean Thompson, we were tasked to review an awful movie. Dick Shark is that movie. Don't ever watch it- it's barely a movie, and definitely not a horror film (Dammit, Sean!). Here we have the best jokes and comments we made while watching the movie, cut together.

For our massive 100th episode we explored Meta-Horror with Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Scream (1996), and Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods (2012). (Including material from our live Tweet with fans for New Nightmare.) We also shed a little light on perhaps the first Meta-Horror movie, Rolfe Kanefsky’s There’s Nothing Out There (1991).

“Not in my Movie”: The 90s Slasher Cycle and Grrrl Power by Alexandra West 

Horror Film and Psycho Analysis; Freud’s Worst Nightmare by Jonathan Crane

Watch Copycat, the story of Rolfe Konefsky's There's Nothing Out There.