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(Chad Lott & Marc Kate)
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Scary Thoughts #129 - Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos – 2025)
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean the Andromedans aren't after you. Chad and Marc give a brief Stranger Things wrap up before disentangling this Yorgos Lanthimos madness. They explore the…
Scary Thoughts #128 - "What was your first scary movie and what was the damage?"
For Halloween, we always like to do something a little special, and this year we decided to ask some of our fellow fiends (Meg Elison, Joshua Grannell aka Peaches Christ, Carmen Maria Machado, Daniel…
Scary Thoughts #127 - 28 Years Later (2025)
28 Years Later (2025) seems to have divided fans of the franchise. The original film raged into theaters with an absolutely fresh take on the zombie, with new and prescient rules based on gain of…
Scary Thoughts #126 - Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) is the sixth installment in a (mostly) beloved franchise of fright films. Fans consider it one of the best in the series, and even the less enthused have found…
Scary Thoughts #125 - Companion (Drew Hancock – 2025)
Companion (2025) comes to us at a great time in our culture's history. As of this writing, AI hucksters are incinerating the planet so anyone can prompt Harry Potter fan fiction and the innumerate…
Scary Thoughts #124 - Nosferatu (Robert Eggers –2024)
In this episode, we sink our yellowed fangs into Nosferatu (2024). It's one of our best conversations in a while. Likely due to our occult powers ascending and a potent peasant stew of nicotine and…
Scary Thoughts #123 - The Substance (Coralie Fargeat – 2024) with Monique Jenkinson aka Fauxnique
The Substance (2024) is a nearly perfect example of what we like in movies. It's dripping with weighty ideas about bodies and power's putrid hold on humanity. The director is an alluring French woman…
Scary Thoughts #122 - Alien3 (David Fincher – 1992)
David Fincher's first film, Alien 3 (1992), is a notorious example of studio meddlers clashing with an auteur-minded director, leaving a franchise in the khazi. It's a shame, because xenomorphs are…
Scary Thoughts #121 - Aliens (James Cameron – 1986)
Alien$ made an enormous amount of money because James Cameron asked "What if there were a lot of aliens?" and "What if there were a ton of machine guns?" Answering "Yes, and" to these bold questions…
Scary Thoughts #120 - Alien (Ridley Scott – 1979) [part two]
Behold! In part two of our conversation about Alien (1979), we get more into speculative territory about UFO sightings, how a trillion dollar space-faring company might operate, and how notes from…
Scary Thoughts #119 - Alien (Ridley Scott – 1979) [part one]
Alien (1979) is a perfect movie. Which is why there is an entire Weyland-Yutani freighter worth of commentary about it. In this, our first ever two-part episode, we explore what makes the film…
Scary Thoughts #118 - Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock – 1954)
Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) is responsible for dozens of film studies books and an inexhaustible number of undergrad student theses–and now a new episode of your favorite podcast featuring our…
Scary Thoughts #117 - Fallout (2024)
Chad and Marc return from the prison of their career commitments to the nihilist hellscape of Amazon Prime's dystopic series Fallout Marc is a noob to this take on this apocalypse-as-western. His…
Scary Thoughts #116 - Clueless (1995)
Clueless (1995) is one of those films that almost everyone has a soft spot for. It defined a time and place, riffed on a classic, upholds pretty good values, is extremely quotable, and makes you feel…
Scary Thoughts #115 - Rick and Morty, Season 7, Episode 10, Fear No Mort (2023)
When faced with the recent dreary Christmas horror offerings of the past year or two, we felt nothing but apathy. Which is a terrible position to be in when you're looking for a holiday episode idea.…
Scary Thoughts #114 - Top Ten Tropes and Grievances of 2023
It's been a while—but fear not—we have returned, just in time for Halloween! This episode covers 10 loosey-goosey horror themes that we've been pondering as of late. We praise stuff we love and do…
Scary Thoughts #113 - The Martian
Andy Weir's novel The Martian (2011) is top-shelf hard sci-fi for nerds who love space and MacGyver situations. Just four years after (official) publication, Ridley Scott made a film version starring…
Scary Thoughts #112 - The Craft
The Craft (1996) is a beloved teen witch movie that helped define the 90s mall goth experience. It also made supporting actress Fairuza Balk a bit of an icon for the heavy eyeshadow crowd. Does…
Scary Thoughts #111 - Soviet Horror with Alexander Herbert
This episode we talk with our comrade Alexander Herbert about his great new book, Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union. Alexander is a PhD candidate in Soviet History at…
Scary Thoughts #110 - Sunn O)))
Hear Chad and Marc tackle the monolithic drones of metal duo Sunn O))). They discuss witchery and ritual, gear and sculpture, fandom and influence, and (as usual) capitalism and art.
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