Award-winning media literacy podcast from a horror lens. Gabe & Kae discuss real-life influences on our cinematic fears every Wednesday.
Blink Twice (2024): the Violence of Forgetting
Blink Twice (2024) · Jul 22, 2026
Obsession (2026): The Subtle Violence of the Nice Guy
Obsession (2026) · Jul 1, 2026
The Menu (2022): The Cult of Fine Dining
The Menu (2022) · Jun 17, 2026
Opus (2025): The Monster of Cult Celebrity
Opus (2025) · Jun 3, 2026
Invincible: A Sup[er Heroic Reckoning
Invincible (2021) · Nov 26, 2025
Seoul Station: A Plague on a Vulnerable Population
Seoul Station (2016) · Nov 12, 2025
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REC (2007): Demonic Zombies & Found Footage Fears
[REC] (2007) · Oct 29, 2025
Blood Quantum (2019): Red They Dead, White They Bite
Blood Quantum (2019) · Oct 22, 2025
28 Years Later (2025): Growing Pains & Toxic Masculinty
28 Years Later (2025) · Oct 1, 2025
Until Dawn: Slasher Summer Fun
Until Dawn (2025) · Aug 27, 2025
Clown in a Cornfield: Slasher Summer is Here
Clown in a Cornfield (2025) · Aug 13, 2025
Companion (2025): A Bloody Honest Take on New Age Romance
Companion (2025) · Jul 2, 2025
Sinners: A Love Letter to Black Culture, Resiliency, and History
Sinners (2025) · May 23, 2025
Severance: Innies, Exploitation & Modern Company Towns
Severance (2022) · May 7, 2025
Interview with the Vampire: A Bold Reimagining of Queerness, Race & Abuse
Interview with the Vampire (1994) · Mar 5, 2025
From Grief to Gore: 'Lisa Frankenstein' Brings the Dead to Life
Lisa Frankenstein (2024) · Jan 22, 2025
Alien: Romulus – Corporate Greed, Bodily Autonomy, and the Fight for Freedom
Alien: Romulus (2024) · Dec 26, 2024
The Substance (2024): Beauty Is a Beast
The Substance (2024) · Dec 11, 2024
Late Night with the Devil (2024): Cults, Conspiracies, and Celebrity Secrets
Late Night with the Devil (2024) · Oct 30, 2024
Longlegs (2024): Satanic Panic, Government Hysteria, and Horror in Girlhood
Longlegs (2024) · Oct 23, 2024
Suspiria (2018): Witchcraft, Dance, and Post-WWII Germany
Suspiria (2018) · Oct 16, 2024
Maxxxine (2024): A Neon Drenched Video Nasty
MaXXXine (2024) · Oct 9, 2024
The Witch (2015): A Folklore of Fanaticism and Family
The Last Witch Hunter (2015) · Oct 2, 2024
I Saw the TV Glow (2024): A Tale of Transition
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) · Sep 4, 2024
The Craft (1996): Teen Girl Justice, Sisterhood, and Witchcraft
The Craft (1996) · Aug 10, 2024
Talk to Me (2023): Addicted to Possession
Talk to Me (2023) · Jul 10, 2024
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (2022): Gen Z Struggles for Connection
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) · Jun 26, 2024
Last of Us: The Resilience of Love at the End of the World
The Last of Us: All Gone (2022) · May 29, 2024
Infinity Pool (2023): An Unhealthy Obsession with the Rich
Infinity Pool (2023) · Feb 28, 2024
Possessor (2020): Labor Alienation & Data Mining Horrors
Possessor (2020) · Feb 22, 2024
They Cloned Tyrone (2023): Subverting Stereotypes & Government Conspiracies
They Cloned Tyrone (2023) · Feb 14, 2024
Get Out (2017): Black Horror and White Liberal Villains
Get Out (2017) · Jan 31, 2024
Us (2019): America's Selective Memory
Us (2019) · Jan 24, 2024
Culture Shock (2019): Horrors of Immigration & the Veiled Threat of the American Dream
Culture Shock (2019) · Jan 17, 2024
Don't Worry Darling (2022): Confused Feminism
Don't Worry Darling (2022) · Jan 12, 2024
Anaconda (1997): There's Snakes this Big?!
Anaconda (1997) · Dec 27, 2023
Crawl (2019): Gators & Florida Man
Crawl (2019) · Dec 13, 2023
The Birds (1963): Horrors Behind the Scenes and in the Skies
The Birds (1963) · Nov 29, 2023
Beast (2022): Battle of the Dads
Beast (2022) · Nov 22, 2023
Slotherhouse: the Slowest Slasher
Slotherhouse (2023) · Nov 15, 2023
Cocaine Bear: Rules to Survive a Bear Encounter
Cocaine Bear (2023) · Nov 8, 2023
Malignant: Family Trauma & Flawed Memory
Malignant (2021) · Nov 1, 2023
Dune (2021) : What's the Deal with Spice?
Dune (2021) · Jun 28, 2023
American Psycho: the Monster of Wealth and Consumerism
American Psycho (2000) · Jun 7, 2023
Severance: Horrors of Corporate Culture
Severance (2022) · May 31, 2023
The Platform (2019): A Hunger for Economic Reform
The Platform (2019) · May 24, 2023
The Mist (2007): A Disaster Society to Fear
The Mist (2007) · May 17, 2023
Candyman (2021): Generational Trauma & the Power of Folklore
Candyman (2021) · May 10, 2023
Swarm (2023): Finding Connection through Fanaticism
Swarm (2023) · May 3, 2023
Skinamarink: Experimental Horror Gets Real on Fear
Skinamarink (2023) · Apr 26, 2023
M3GAN (2022): An AI Companion for Grief & Parenting
M3GAN (2022) · Apr 12, 2023
Pearl (2022): Love in the Time of the 1918 Flu
Pearl (2022) · Feb 28, 2023
I'm Totally Fine (2022): Friendship is Love
I'm Totally Fine (2022) · Feb 22, 2023
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Break-Ups and the Pain in Your Brain
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) · Feb 8, 2023
Crimes of the Future (2022): Human Evolution
Crimes of the Future (2022) · Jan 31, 2023
Slash/Back (2022): Alien Imposters & Embracing Your Culture
Slash/Back (2022) · Jan 25, 2023
Haunted Internet: Unfriended & Unfriended Dark Web
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) · Nov 15, 2022
Haunted People: The Others, A Tale of Two Sisters, & the Ghosts of Grief
The Others (2001) · Oct 18, 2022
Haunted People: The Others, A Tale of Two Sisters, & the Ghosts of Grief
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) · Oct 18, 2022
The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret's Warnings
The Handmaid's Tale (1990) · Aug 2, 2022
Titane: Hot Cars and Found Family
Titane (2021) · Jul 5, 2022
Rosemary's Baby (1968): In Desperate Need of Feminism
Rosemary's Baby (1968) · Jun 22, 2022
Men (2022): A Green Man is Hard to Find
Men (2022) · Jun 14, 2022
Underwater (2020): Aquatic Horrors & Lovecraftian Creatures
Underwater (2020) · May 3, 2022
Turning Red (2022): It's Okay to Feel All Your Feels
Turning Red (2022) · Apr 26, 2022
Fresh (2022): Horrors of Modern Dating LIVE
Fresh (2022) · Apr 13, 2022
Jakob's Wife (2021): More Than a Preacher's Wife
Jakob's Wife (2021) · Mar 22, 2022
Ginger Snaps (2000): Puberty Can be a Real B*tch
Ginger Snaps (2000) · Mar 15, 2022
Jennifer's Body (2009): I Was a Teenage Succubus
Jennifer's Body (2009) · Mar 8, 2022
Don't Look Up (2021): Science Deniers & the End of the World
Don't Look Up (2021) · Mar 1, 2022
Spoor (2017): Hunters Become the Hunted
Spoor (2017) · Feb 8, 2022
The Bay (2012): Horror Ecological Mockumentary & Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay
The Bay (2012) · Feb 1, 2022
So Vam: Interview with Director Alice Maio Mackay
So Vam (2021) · Nov 4, 2021
Sweeney Todd: Cannibalism is Never the Answer
Sweeney Todd (2006) · Oct 26, 2021
Nightmare Before Christmas with Roland Boyden
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) · Oct 19, 2021
Phantom of the Opera with Angelina Meehan
The Phantom of the Opera (2004) · Oct 6, 2021
The Lure (2015): Monstrous Polish Mermaid Musical
The Lure (2015) · Sep 28, 2021
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008): Goth Opera for Theatre Kids & Organ Repossession
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) · Sep 14, 2021
Anna and the Apocalypse with Bobby Torrez
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018) · Sep 10, 2021
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013): Indian Agents & Forced Assimilation
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) · Aug 31, 2021
Deep Blue Sea with Slash Her Pod
Deep Blue Sea (1999) · Aug 24, 2021
The Seer & the Unseen with Sara Dosa
The Seer and the Unseen (2019) · Aug 17, 2021
Take Back the Night with Gia Elliot & Emma Fitzpatrick
Take Back the Night (2022) · Aug 9, 2021
Gundala with Wi-Moto Nyoka of Dusky Projects
Gundala (2019) · Aug 3, 2021
Hereditary (2018) with Victims & Villains Podcast
Hereditary (2018) · May 18, 2021
The Promised Neverland
The Promised Neverland (2020) · Mar 30, 2021
Vampires Vs. the Bronx
Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020) · Feb 2, 2021
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) · Jan 26, 2021
Impetigore (2019)
Impetigore (2019) · Jan 19, 2021
Good Manners (2017)
Good Manners (2017) · Dec 15, 2020
Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation (2018) · Jul 28, 2020
Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You (2018) · Jul 21, 2020
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man (2020) · Jul 14, 2020
The First Purge
The First Purge (2018) · Jul 7, 2020
See You Yesterday & Dragon Ball Z - Time Travel
See You Yesterday (2019) · May 26, 2020
Nerve: Apps for Manipulation
Nerve (2016) · Apr 28, 2020
The Handmaid's Tale: Oppression of Women pt. 2
The Handmaid's Tale (1990) · Mar 24, 2020
The Stepford Wives: Oppression of Women pt. 1
The Stepford Wives (1975) · Mar 17, 2020
Snowden & Orwell: Surveillance
Snowden (2016) · Mar 10, 2020
The Island & Never Let Me Go: Clones
The Island (2005) · Feb 18, 2020
The Island & Never Let Me Go: Clones
Never Let Me Go (2010) · Feb 18, 2020
Her & Zoe: Artificial Intelligence
Her (2013) · Feb 11, 2020
Her & Zoe: Artificial Intelligence
Zoe (2018) · Feb 11, 2020
UnReal & The Truman Show: Reality TV
TRON: Legacy (2010) · Jan 28, 2020
UnReal & The Truman Show: Reality TV
unReal (2015) · Jan 28, 2020
Get Out & Us - Jordan Peele: Part Two
Get Out (2017) · Dec 31, 2019
Get Out & Us - Jordan Peele: Part Two
Us (2019) · Dec 31, 2019
Ana Lily Amirpour
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) · Dec 10, 2019
Guillermo Del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) · Dec 4, 2019
Guillermo Del Toro
Crimson Peak (2015) · Dec 4, 2019
The Endless & A Dark Song: Occultism
A Dark Song (2016) · Nov 26, 2019
The Endless & A Dark Song: Occultism
The Endless (2017) · Nov 26, 2019
Before I Wake & Paprika: Dreams
Paprika (2006) · Nov 19, 2019
Before I Wake & Paprika: Dreams
Before I Wake (2016) · Nov 19, 2019
The Conjuring (1 & 2) and Hostage to the Devil: Demonology
The Conjuring (2013) · Nov 12, 2019
The Conjuring (1 & 2) and Hostage to the Devil: Demonology
The Conjuring 2 (2016) · Nov 12, 2019
The Terror: East Asian Representation
Ad Astra (2019) · Sep 24, 2019
Midsommar: Mental Health & Disability Representation
Midsommar (2019) · Sep 12, 2019
What Keeps You Alive: Queer LGBTQIA+ Representation
What Keeps You Alive (2018) · Sep 3, 2019
Ma (2019): Black Women Representation
Ma (2019) · Aug 20, 2019
Melancholia: Cosmic Apocalypse
Melancholia (2011) · Jul 30, 2019
Chernobyl & Dr. Strangelove: Nuclear Apocalypse
You & Swimfan: Stalkers
Sorry to Bother You (2018) · Feb 19, 2019
American Mary: Body Modification
American Mary (2013) · Jan 8, 2019
Jennifer's Body: Monstrous Women
Jennifer's Body (2009) · Jan 1, 2019
Alien: Space Exploration
Alien (1979) · Nov 27, 2018
Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff: Classic Horror
Dracula (1931) · Oct 23, 2018
Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff: Classic Horror
The Raven (1935) · Oct 23, 2018
The Strangers & Them: Home Invasion
The Strangers (2008) · Sep 10, 2018
The Strangers & Them: Home Invasion
Them (2006) · Sep 10, 2018
The Strangers & Them: Home Invasion
Home Invasion (2012) · Sep 10, 2018
Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity series & GHOSTWATCH: Found Footage
The Blair Witch Project (1999) · Jun 5, 2018
Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity series & GHOSTWATCH: Found Footage
Paranormal Activity (2007) · Jun 5, 2018
Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity series & GHOSTWATCH: Found Footage
Ghostwatch (1992) · Jun 5, 2018
Suspiria: Horror Movie Music Scores
Suspiria (1977) · Mar 21, 2018
Child's Play & Annabelle: Dolls
Child's Play (1988) · Jan 1, 2018
Child's Play & Annabelle: Dolls
Child's Play (2019) · Jan 1, 2018
Dawn of the Dead: Zombies
Dawn of the Dead (1978) · Dec 4, 2017
Dawn of the Dead: Zombies
Dawn of the Dead (2004) · Dec 4, 2017
The Blair Witch Project & The Witch: Witches
The Blair Witch Project (1999) · Nov 13, 2017
The Blair Witch Project & The Witch: Witches
The Last Witch Hunter (2015) · Nov 13, 2017
Nightmare on Elm Street & The Nightmare: Nightmares & Sleep Disorders
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) · Oct 23, 2017
Nightmare on Elm Street & The Nightmare: Nightmares & Sleep Disorders
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) · Oct 23, 2017
Stephen King‘s IT, IT (2017), & CLOWN: Clowns
Clowns (2017) · Oct 2, 2017