The Rants Macabre

We review Nicolas Pesce's impressive feature film debut The Eyes of My Mother. A beautiful career start, you might be reminded of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). Check it out when it hits theaters and VOD on December 2!

We review our outing to The Nitehawk Shorts Festival and a chat with Sam Zimmerman about Shudder's role in selecting the films for the fest. We go over our favorite horror shorts, name-checking directors with focus on the strong outing by women filmmakers.

Check out http://nitehawkshortsfestival.com/2016/ & https://www.shudder.com/

Back into Brad Falchuk & Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story Asylum! We breakdown the episodes and follow the narratives of Nazi mad scientists, demon-possessed nuns, alien abductees, and the legend of Bloodyface.

Returning to the scene of the crime, we're back to talk about American Horror Story. This time we follow Ryan Murphy into Briarcliff Manor to explore America's history with bedlam, demons, and mad scientists.

Moving between Halloween, and Día de los Muertos we feature a few films produced by Guillermo del Toro. Stories centered around the perspective of the children in The Orphanage, Mama & Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

First we talk 2011's The Awakening from Nick Murphy, the story of a paranormal investigator in 1921 England starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West. Then we go full spoilers on the Season 7 Premiere of The Walking Dead. We explore our feelings and discuss the brutality of Negan.

Also Mindy ran into an old friend who's comedy group Above Average have made a few funny Halloween videos. Check 'em out here https://youtu.be/t-sEv-I5aW4 & here https://youtu.be/k2mMHI9RcjE

For another Latin themed Día de los Muertos episode we bring you the anthology México Bárbaro. 8 different short films by 8 different Mexican filmmakers. Some good, some awful, but we make the most of them.

As a Halloween month bonus we review the new film Little Sister by Zach Clark bring you an interview with Clark and producer Joe Swanberg. A drama set among 'That' Halloween loving family in suburban North Carolina. Featuring an all star cast with Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Barbara Crampton, and Keith Poulson. Little Sister is available now on VOD, iTunes and Amazon Video.

Diving deep into the worlds imagined by Guillermo del Toro, Darren & Mindy explore The Devil's Backbone (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Crimson Peak (2015). His contributions to horror-fantasy serve as the high bar for the genre. Ghosts, fairies and haunted mansions... this is our first entry into the season's Día de Muertos.

In this bonus episode Mindy & Darren compare their heroes and villains for Save Horror's Halloween Showdown event.

Also Clay McLeod Chapman joins Darren for a talk about the live Pumpkin Pie Show 'Stump Speeches.' If you're in the NY area, you need to get to the Horse Trade Theater to see this show! The show runs October 20th, 2016 - November 5th, 2016. Get your tickets here.