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| 09 Jan 2023 | Witching and Bitching (2013) with Cintra Wilson | 01:23:48 | |
Determined to make better lives for themselves, Madrid town square "mascots" Tony and Jose, in their guises as a silver-hued Jesus and a green-skinned toy soldier, rob a shop specializing in the exchange and purchase of gold. Joined by Jose’s son Sergio, who has forsaken his homework for a day with dad, the men make off with countless rings and other gold trinkets, commandeering a taxi driven by Manuel, and containing a passenger who just wants to get to Badajoz. Their goal: make it to France, safety, and prosperity. Just one problem: Sergio left his backpack in the store, and his notebook has Jose’s address on it. It soon becomes clear to Jose’s wife Silvia that her son has been involved in a robbery and is being pursued through the country. She jumps in a car and joins the pursuit herself, only to be followed by two cops, Calvo and Pacheco. Soon, all wind up in the Basque town of Zugarramurdi, which, legend has it, is the centuries-old home of a coven of brujas, witches, posing an almost insurmountable obstacle to the mens’ frantic escape. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 0:00-18:50 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 18:51-1:05:42 Superlatives (so. many. spoilers.) 1:05:43-1:23:49 Director Álex de la Iglesia Screenplay Jorge Guerricaechevarría & Alex de la Iglesia Featuring Carlos Areces, Carolina Bang, María Barranco, Javier Botet, Mario Casas, Secun de la Rosa, Gabriel Delgado, Macarena Gómez, Carmen Maura, Pepón Nieto, Jaime Ordóñez, Terele Pávez, Santiago Segura, Hugo Silva, Manuel Tallafé, Enrique Villén Cintra Wilson is a culture critic, author, and former fashion critic for the New York Times. Her books include "A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As A Grotesque, Crippling Disease," the novel "Colors Insulting to Nature," "Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny,” and "Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Fashion.” Her weekly Substack/podcast is free at cintra.substack.com. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Witching and Bitching” by Joan Valent. | |||
| 21 Nov 2022 | The Wicker Man (1973) with Tom Foley | 01:13:11 | |
Summoned to a remote island off the coast of Scotland by a report claiming a young girl, Rowan Morrison, has gone missing, West Highland Constabulary Sergeant Neil Howie finds himself far from any reality he’s ever known, due to the strange customs and people of the island, called Summerisle. A god-fearing, Christian man in every way, Howie is put off, then shocked by the the island’s free-thinking, sexually explicit ways. He refuses the advances of Willow, a landlord’s daughter, and threatens to arrest Miss Rose, a schoolteacher, for discussing phallic symbols. Summerisle, Howie comes to understand, believes only in gods of fertility, and pagan ways, as overseen by Lord Summerisle, a tall, imposing chap with a fantastic house and even snappier wardrobe. When no one can seem to recall having met or seen Rowan, Howie’s investigation leads down a series of increasingly strange dead ends. And as May Day approaches, he becomes increasingly convinced that he has become the subject of a bizarre, dangerous game. | |||
| 29 Jul 2024 | Interview with the Vampire (1994) with Matt Saldivar | 01:24:31 | |
Crawling out of the swamp to close out Season 3, Eric and Bradford are joined by Broadway actor-musician Matt Saldivar for a rollicking discussion of Neil Jordan's grand guignol ode to undying love. With a cast headed by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as comedy duo Lestat and Louis, interesting turns from Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Stephen Rea, Anne Rice adapting her novel, and great effects work by Stan Winston, there's enough baroque to ba-reak the bank... but is it, as one character says, "of the Mississippi"? An uneven tone, plot threads that go nowhere, and SO MUCH FIRE threaten to sink the #1 horror movie of 1994, but not even THIS podcast can keep a bloodthirsty creature of the night down. Let's get started.
Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:56-1:02:57 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:02:58-1:24:31 Director Neil Jordan Screenplay Anne Rice, based on her novel Featuring Antonio Banderas, Tom Cruise, Kristen Dunst, Laure Marsac, Helen McCrory, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, Sara Stockbridge Matt Saldivar is a Mexican-American New York City-based actor. He grew up at The United States Military Academy at West Point. He has originated and appeared in principal roles on Broadway in Bernhardt/Hamlet, Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, Act One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan, The Wedding Singer, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Grease. Matt has performed in dozens of Off-Broadway and regional productions as well as in film and television. Matt also composed songs, played bass and guitar, and portrayed the character of Julio de los Flacos as a long-time member of the band and theater/cabaret/comedy troupe The Petersons. He received his BA with a double major in Theater and Spanish from Middlebury College, and his MFA in acting from NYU. He has been an actor and vocalist in the development process of new works for the theater with such artists as Elvis Costello, Stephen Sondheim, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bruce Hornsby, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel, and Randy Newman. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth. Music from Interview with the Vampire by Elliot Goldenthal. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 31 Oct 2022 | Tragedy Girls (2017) with Sarah Parvis | 01:11:35 | |
McKayla and Sadie are best friends with a mutual love of social media and murder. The proprietors of the Instagram, Twitter, and every other platform account Tragedy Girls, the ladies initially befriend, then capture serial killer Lowell, and, over the course of the film, proceed to use him as a rationale for a series of grisly murders around their small, midwestern town of Rosedale. Meanwhile, Jordan, the son of the local sheriff, is assisting the girls with their online videos, but soon comes to suspect there may be more to their story than they’re letting on. Tragedy Girls is a dark comedy about the course of true love and friendship, and what happens when a town beset by terrible misfortunes falls prey to a couple of influencers who only have mayhem on their minds. | |||
| 03 Jun 2024 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) with Clark Collis | 01:09:26 | |
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright were on to something. Taking a well-worn subgenre and fusing it with the distinct style they'd perfected on Channel 4's "Spaced," the two concocted a script like no other and produced a cult classic. Twenty years since its premiere, we look at the production and legacy of Wright's breakthrough film with Clark Collis, former Entertainment Weekly reporter and author of You've Got Red On You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life. So pack up your Breville and jam toasties, grab a Cornetto and whatever blunt instrument is by the doorway, and join us at the Winchester. Tonight, we're taking out some z-words. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:06 Director Edgar Wright Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth. Music from Shaun of the Dead by The Specials. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 20 Feb 2023 | The Thing (1982) with Suzanne Keilly | 01:26:59 | |
An American research crew at a base in Antarctica finds they are not alone in the desolate, freezing landscape when a nearby Norwegian team accidentally awakens an alien presence that’s been frozen in the ice for a hundred thousand years. As the American crew determines just what the alien’s M.O. is, they are overcome by a creeping distrust, and the paranoid group slowly unravels as an unseen, deadly force runs rampant on the base. | |||
| 05 Jun 2023 | Daughters of Darkness (1971) with Carolyn Raship | 01:23:40 | |
Newlywed couple Stefan and Valerie are traveling across Europe by train, bound for Belgium, then England, where they are to meet Stefan’s mother. But when the train makes an unexpected stop, the couple decide to hang out for a while in a seaside hotel in the town of Ostend. Fortunately, It’s winter, so they have their pick of suites. But why is Stefan so hesitant to call his Mother to tell her he and Valerie are married? And who is this new visitor, one Countess Elizabeth Bathory and her secretary Ilona? Whoever they are, they soon begin to fixate on the newlyweds. Meanwhile, a series of grisly murders of young women are taking place in neighboring towns, and during a trip to Bruges, Stefan shows a strange interest in a murder that’s just taken place. What do Elizabeth and Ilona have to do with the murders, and why are they so determined to befriend Stefan and Valerie? And why do the hotel concierge and a retired policeman think Elizabeth looks exactly like someone they knew 40 years ago? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-33:25 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 33:26-1:08:17 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 1:08:18-1:23:41 Director Harry Kümel Screenplay Pierre Druout, Jean Ferry & Harry Kümel Featuring Paul Esser, Georges Jamin, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Fons Rademakers, Andrea Rau, Delphine Seyrig Carolyn Raship draws pictures and tells stories. She is an illustrator, writer, fine artist, and maker of comics who has written and directed theater and has written a short horror film based on Edgar Allen Poe’s classic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher. And she would like you all to know that she is currently in exile from her beloved Brooklyn. Check out Carolyn’s Patreon channel. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Daughters of Darkness” by François de Roubaix. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 16 May 2022 | Martyrs (2008) | 01:06:10 | |
Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards.
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| 13 Nov 2023 | Dead Silence (2007) with Luisa Colón | 01:25:35 | |
Following the unexpected arrival of a ventriloquist dummy on his doorstep, and the sudden, violent death of his wife – two events that might be related – Jamie Ashen is arrested by Detective Lipton, a cop with a thing for electric razors. Lipton’s also a by the books kind of guy who’s convinced Jamie is responsible for his wife’s death. But Jamie doesn’t have time for games — he’s determined to find out who or what killed his wife and tore her tongue out in the process. His search takes him back to his home town of Raven’s Fair, where the superstitious residents suspect the spectral Mary Shaw, a long-dead ventriloquist, may be to blame. Seems Shaw was connected to the disappearance and ritual murder of families years back, then became the victim herself of a heinous crime. With Lipton on his tail, Jamie visits his aging father Edward, his young wife Ella, local mortician Henry and his demented wife Marion, who unspool a tale too fantastic to be true. And slowly, the truth about Raven’s Fair reveals itself to Jamie’s unsuspecting, and for now human, eyeballs. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:04 Director James Wan Luisa Colón is a New York City native who began her career as a journalist in the late 90s. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online publications such as New York, Latina, USA Today, The New York Times, and many more. Her first novel. Bad Moon Rising was published in August, and she has a short story in the upcoming horror anthology, DREAD, which is published by the aptly-named Cemetery Dance Publications. Luisa's other creative work includes illustration as well as two murals currently displayed at the World Trade Center. Her Substack, Disaster Class, can be found here. As an actor she starred in the award-winning 2006 indie film Day Night Day Night and played the titular role in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2007 short film Anna. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Dead Silence by Charlie Clouser. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 22 May 2023 | Peeping Tom (1960) with Mickey Boardman | 01:10:50 | |
A film studio focus puller moonlighting as a DIY pornographer, Mark Lewis has a problem. And he’s not sure he wants to get rid of it. You see, Mark has a certain kink, a turn-on: he loves, gets off even, on the sight of women in fear. Fear of death, fear of Mark, fear of the unknown. His weapon is a film camera, and after he stalks and kills a prostitute, he films the police’s response to it, all in the name of creating what Mark calls a “documentary.” At home, in the house his family once owned but now is filled with tenants, he soon meets 21 year old Helen, who takes a liking to the young man, intrigued by his mysterious ways. Will this relationship be the thing to help Mark with his issues? Will Helen, and her blind, intuitive mother, succumb to Mark’s bizarre predilections? And where the hell did Vivian, the film’s lead stand-in, learn to dance like that? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-22:47
Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Peeping Tom” by Brian Easdale. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 13 May 2024 | Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) with Louisa Krause | 01:22:04 | |
Take a seat at the dining room table and gaze through that planchette. We're attempting to connect with the spirit world in Mike Flanagan's 2016 prequel-to-beat-all-prequels OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas. Joining us to battle Demons from the Great Beyond is the amazing Louisa Krause, she of Starz's "The Girlfriend Experience" Season 2 and the films The Dive, Maggie Moore(s), Ava's Possessions, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and many more. And this week, we introduce a new segment, "Campus Radio," with a special appearance by Jocelin Donahue, one of the stars of the new film The Last Stop in Yuma County (17:14). Intro, Debate Society, Campus Radio, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-34:44 Director Mike Flanagan Louisa Krause appears in the independent features The Dive (in which she stars alongside Sophie Lowe) and Maggie Moore(s) (opposite Jon Hamm and Tina Fey). On television, she was one of the leads of the Starz series “The Girlfriend Experience,” and had memorable recurring roles on Showtime’s “Ray Donovan” and “Billions.” Her extensive list of film credits includes Todd Haynes’s Dark Waters opposite Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway; Billy Crystal’s comedy feature Here Today; the A24 feature Skin opposite Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald; Young Adult; Martha Marcy May Marlene; The Phenom; Ava's Possessions; King Kelly (Best Actress, PiFan Film Festival); Jane Wants a Boyfriend (Best Actress, Napa Film Festival); and Bluebird (Best Actress, Karlovy Vary Film Festival). On stage, Louisa starred in Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick, directed by Sam Gold. Jocelin Donahue is an American actress known for her breakout role in Ti West’s critically-acclaimed The House of the Devil, turning in what IndieWire called “one of the all-time great final girl performances.” In the years since, Donahue has appeared in many popular studio, independent, and genre films. Her lead performances in The Frontier, Offseason, and Summer Camp are roundly praised by critics and audiences alike. Donahue has worked with preeminent directors like James Wan on Insidious: Chapter 2 and Terrence Malick in Knight of Cups, playing opposite Christian Bale and Antonio Banderas. In 2019, Jocelin appeared in Warner Bros’ Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan. Her TV credits include a memorable role as a rookie FBI agent and partner to Martin Freeman on the crime series “StartUp” and guest starring roles on episodes of “Lethal Weapon,” “The Rookie: Feds,” “The Affair,” and “CSI,” among others. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Ouija: Origin of Evil by The Newton Brothers. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 05 Feb 2024 | The Mephisto Waltz (1971) with David Cote | 01:22:18 | |
When music journalist Myles Clarkson visits ailing piano virtuoso Duncan Ely at his palatial California home, ostensibly to interview the man, Duncan notices something distinct about Myles: his hands – they’re beautiful, the bone structure perfect for a concert pianist. Myles, it turns out, is a Juilliard-trained musician whose career tanked after receiving some bad reviews. Taking an interest in Myles, Duncan introduces him to his artist daughter Roxanne. Soon Myles has entered the pianist’s inner circle, much to the chagrin of Myles’ wife, Paula, who feels more than a tinge of jealousy at the attention being paid to her husband. But things are about to take a turn for the uncanny. Roxanne casts a plaster life mask of Myles, and with Duncan on his way out, Myles donates blood to help him. While Myles is asleep, something happens, and when he awakes, he’s changed. It’s almost as if he’s someone else. His urge to live, to love, to play music, is revived, leaving Paula to wonder: just what, or who, is inhabiting the body of the man she loves? Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:50 Director Paul Wendkos David Cote is a playwright, opera librettist, and critic based in New York. His operas include Lucidity – which will be produced by On Site Opera in New York and Seattle Opera in fall 2024, Blind Injustice, which premiered at Cincinnati Opera and will be presented at Peak Performances at Montclair State University February 16 & 18. Other operas include Three Way at Nashville Opera and BAM; The Scarlet Ibis for the Prototype Festival; and 600 Square Feet with Cleveland Opera Theater. His plays include The Müch, Saint Joe, and Otherland. David wrote lyrics for Nkeiru Okoye’s Black Lives Matter monodrama, Invitation to a Die-In and the dating-app song cycles In Real Life, composed by Robert Paterson. David’s TV and theater coverage appears in The A.V. Club, Observer, 4 Columns, and American Theatre. He was the longest serving theater editor and chief drama critic of Time Out New York. He’s also the author of popular companion books about the Broadway hits Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, and Wicked. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from The Mephisto Waltz by Jerry Goldsmith. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 05 Dec 2021 | The Strangers (2008) | 00:49:28 | |
Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards. “There’s someone out there.” Bradford and Eric debate whether every home invasion movie is “inspired by true events” while discussing Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers, featuring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a couple whose rocky relationship is about to hit an all-time low. Background (spoiler-free) 0:00-9:57 Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with selections from "The Strangers" soundtrack by Tomandandy. For more information on this film, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast in Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating! | |||
| 02 Jan 2024 | Jennifer's Body (2009) with Kate Thompson | 01:18:27 | |
Jennifer Check and Anita “Needy” Lesnicky are best friends living in the town of Devil’s Kettle, best known for its waterfall and high school football team. When Jennifer suggests she and Needy step out to see a band, Low Shoulder, at the local roadhouse, Melody Lane, Needy’s reluctant. She’s rather spend the night with Chip, her boyfriend. But Jennifer's nothing if not persuasive. Upon arriving at Melody Lane, it’s clear the band is a bunch of locals posing as hipsters from the city. But Jennifer’s entranced by the lead singer, Nikolai, who she finds “salty,” and as the set heats up, so does Melody Lane. A fire soon engulfs the bar, and after escaping, Jennifer and Needy are beckoned to the band’s van. Jennifer succumbs, but Needy runs home, only to find Jennifer in her kitchen, beaten, bloody, and gorging herself on Boston Market chicken. What's happened? And what does it mean when certain members of their high school class end up dead, mangled, drained of their blood? Needy suspects something bigger than a few random murders at play, and wonders if maybe, just maybe, her bestie’s at the center of it all. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-31:16 Director Karyn Kusama Kate Thompson is a small animal veterinarian by day and a horror movie aficionado by night who has a special affinity for the campy, gory, and feminist side of horror. As co-host of The Nightlight Horror Movie Club podcast with her best friend and fellow vet, Ariana, they explore the darkest corners of horror cinema, presenting a unique blend of movie reviews and mini-episodes, true crime, creepypastas, urban legend, and all things 'spoopy.’ Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Jennifer’s Body by Andrew Ampaya and Ryan Levine. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 28 May 2024 | The Amityville Horror (2005) with Gretchen McNeil | 01:22:45 | |
So... you think you can remake a classic horror movie. That's what Michael Bay thought, anyway, when his production shingle Platinum Dunes embarked on a new adaptation of Jay Anson's tale of mayhem on Long Island. Citizen Kane the 1979 Amityville Horror may not be, but it holds a special place in the hearts of horror fans worldwide. So who's to blame for the mess that is the 2005 version? First (and last) time director Andrew Douglas? Frequently shirtless Ryan Reynolds, miscast as axe-wielding George Lutz? Or screenwriter Scott Kosar, who picks up a surprise nomination this week for the Michael Myers Award? Whatever your take is on this misbegotten footnote in the annals of horror history, we had a blast discussing it with Gretchen McNeil, back for her 5th episode, and the second in our Amityville mini-exploration. Due to some technical issues, the quality of some of the audio is below our standards. Apologies. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-23:30 Director Andrew Douglas Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels including Dig Two Graves, Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending, #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel is Four Letter Word, pitched as an homage to Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. "Ten: Murder Island," the film adaptation of Ten, premiered on Lifetime, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar, and, this week, by Duck Sauce. Music from The Amityville Horror (2005) by Steve Jablonsky. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 29 May 2023 | Ready or Not (2019) with Kim Burns & Ketryn Porter | 01:19:59 | |
Marrying into the wealthy Le Domas family, one-time foster child Grace thinks she’s going to have it all: a handsome, loving husband in Alex, all the amenities she desires, and of course, a loving extended family. But, as one character says, the rich really are different. The family invites Grace to partake in a ritual designed for all new members of the family. It’s a formality, part of a bargain struck many years ago with a certain Mr. Le Bail. If the Le Domas family doesn’t hold up their end of the deal, a horrible fate awaits them. It all comes down to one card, what’s printed on that card, and whether Grace draws it or not. Because if she does, terrible events will ensue, and the life she envisioned for herself might just explode before her eyes.
Kim Burns and Ketryn Porter are best friends who host the podcast Kim and Ket Stay Alive… Maybe. Along with looking for any excuse to make the other one laugh, they are also positive that, if they found themselves in a horror movie, they’d be the ones to make it out alive. Each week they put that theory to the test, and often find themselves sorely mistaken. One of the girls tells the other about a horror movie she hasn’t seen, stopping at different points to ask what she would do to stay alive. Listen to Ket & Kim’s episode on Ready or Not. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Ready of Not” by Brian Tyler. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 07 Nov 2022 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) with David Grimm | 01:01:58 | |
Based on a true story, The Exorcism of Emily Rose opens on a desolate landscape, a weathered farmhouse the only dwelling in sight. One thing we learn right away: Emily Rose, a girl of 19, is dead, and her condition shakes the medical examiner who comes to visit. Emily, we discover, has died as the result of demonic possession… or six demonic possessions… or maybe none. Erin Bruner, a top-notch defense attorney, is assigned to defend the priest who exorcised Emily, Father Richard Moore, who stands accused of having cut off the girl from medical treatments she was undergoing. Father Moore is offered a plea deal, but rejects it, as he feels Emily’s story must be told. Hoping to make partner at her law firm, Erin is determined to follow her instincts, but between Father Moore’s compelling testimony and some very strange happenings in her own life, Erin starts to wonder if perhaps, against all odds, possession is real, and can be proven in a court of law. | |||
| 29 Apr 2024 | House of 1000 Corpses (2003) with Ariel Powers-Schaub | 01:11:43 | |
Hooray for Captain Spaulding! And some Fireflies. Writer and early-00s horror authority Ariel Powers-Schaub joins us to vivisect Rob Zombie's 2003 roadside attraction of sin and debauchery, House of 1000 Corpses, starring Sid Haig, Karen Black, Rainn Wilson, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, and a young, nubile, young Walton Goggins as "Deputy Steve Naish." So strap in, (fish)boys and girls. It's gonna be a bumpy night. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:27 Director Rob Zombie Ariel Powers-Schaub is a horror film critic and analyst from the great American midwest. She is a writer and a podcaster who champions 2000s horror. Ariel served as a senior contributor to and Administrative Assistant for Ghouls Magazine, and is a regular contributor to The Pod and the Pendulum. Her first book, Millennial Nasties, will be released on September 17th from Encyclopocalypse Publications. Pre-order the book here. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie and Scott Humphrey. Thanks to Liz DeGregorio and Jerry Sampson for introducing us to Ariel. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 02 May 2022 | The People Under the Stairs (1991) | 00:44:27 | |
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| 12 Dec 2022 | Inside (2007) with Kimberley Elizabeth | 01:15:05 | |
Four months after surviving a car crash that killed her husband, pregnant Sarah is alone and depressed on Christmas Eve, and due to have her baby the next day. Violent protests are happening in the streets, but she doesn’t want to be with anyone, despite her mother and boss Jean-Pierre offering her opportunities to come to parties, or keep her company. So Sarah settles in for a night of knitting, when suddenly… a knock on the door. Who is it? The woman behind the door just wants to use a phone, but she also knows Sarah’s name. And what begins as an indoor-outdoor game of cat and mouse turns into a cascading symphony of violence, with nothing less than the fate of Sarah’s baby hanging in the balance. | |||
| 23 Jan 2023 | The Bad Seed (1956) with Michael Musto | 01:13:19 | |
Eight year-old Rhoda Penmark is angry. Not because her father, a colonel, is heading off to Washington for four weeks. Not because her apartment building’s janitor, LeRoy Jessup, is hovering a little too close for comfort. No, Rhoda’s pissed because her classmate Claude Daigle has won the school’s penmanship medal, and in Rhoda’s mind, that just isn’t fair. Meanwhile, Rhoda’s doting mother, Christine, has begun to wonder whether Rhoda might be a little too interested in the medal, and when word comes that Claude has met a suspicious end at the school picnic, Christine’s curiosity turns to worry. Is Rhoda really as sweet and innocent as she looks? Is LeRoy really just a mixed up fool who monologues on occasion? Or is something more nefarious afoot – something to do with heredity, with nature vs nurture, and a certain coincidence that takes place whenever Rhoda is in the vicinity of those she considers obstacles to her desires? | |||
| 12 Jun 2023 | Evil Dead 2 (1987) with Doug French | 01:18:21 | |
A couple, Ash and Linda, are driving to what they believe will be a romantic getaway at a cabin in the woods that Ash claims is deserted. The cabin, we discover, once belonged to an archaeologist, Dr. Raymond Knowby and his wife Henrietta, who, while on an archaeological… mission of some kind, discovered the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead. Upon arrival, Ash finds a reel to reel recording of Dr. Knowby discussing his mission and reciting lines from the Necronomicon. Harmless stuff, you’d think. Harmless, that is, until Linda and Ash’s world starts coming alive, with evil spirits pouring out of every crack, crevice, and ditch. When Dr. Knowby’s daughter Annie arrives, along with her lover, a pair of locals, and new pages from the Necronomicon, all are in for a rude awakening. Fortunately, Ash is there, and proves mighty handy with a chainsaw and sawed-off shotgun.
Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy) 27:01-58:09 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier) 58:10-1:18:21 Director Sam Raimi Screenplay Sam Raimi & Scott Spiegel Featuring Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, Bruce Campbell, Richard Domeier, Dan Hicks, Theodore Raimi, Kassie Wesley Doug French is a writer, podcaster, speaker, and conference organizer who is preparing for artificial intelligence to put him completely out of work. And now that his last child has graduated high school, he feels like Chuck Noland at the end of CAST AWAY. His latest project is "When the Flames Go Up," a podcast community he started with his ex-wife about the unique challenges of late-stage parenting. Whatever we thought we were preparing for, this isn’t it. His favorite movie used to be “Brazil,” until it came true. Now it's “Adaptation.” Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Evil Dead 2” by Joseph LoDuca. To read reviews from Eric & Doug’s first collaboration, Filmington (1999-2003), click here. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 07 Nov 2021 | Night of the Living Dead (1968) | 00:59:21 | |
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| 22 Apr 2024 | House (1977) with Dawn Luebbe | 01:15:41 | |
Watch out for that piano! And the well! And the light fixture! And the... clock? This week, we're joined by the one and only Dawn Luebbe (co-director, Greener Grass, Wayfair's "Welcome to the Wayborhood") to discuss Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's mindbending horror cult comedy House. Will we make it out alive? Only Auntie's cat Blanche knows for sure. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:40 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:41-58:48 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 58:49-1:15:41 Director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Screenplay Chiho Katsura, based on a story by Chigumi Ôbayashi Featuring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Asei Kobayashi, Ai Matsubara, Yôko Minamida, Masayo Miyako, Kumiko Ôba, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Mieko Satô, Eriko Tanaka Dawn Luebbe is known for her debut feature, Greener Grass, which she wrote and directed with Jocelyn DeBoer. Variety deemed the film, “The most pleasant surprise of this year’s Sundance” following its 2019 world premiere. Their screenplay was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. It was theatrically distributed by IFC and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and AMC. Dawn and Jocelyn have directed two episodes of TruTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything.” They've made four short films which have appeared in over 100 film festivals across the globe. Most recently Dawn directed a documentary short called Dress A Cow which premiered at the SXSW film festival. She has directed dozens of commercials in the US, Mexico, and Europe for brands such as GEICO, Coca-Cola, Wayfair, and Google, as well as environmental campaigns for the organization "Science Moms" and the fossil-free hydrogen company, Vattenfall. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from House by Asei Kobayashi and Mickie Yoshino. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 26 Dec 2022 | The Loved Ones (2009) with Gina Gionfriddo | 01:22:56 | |
Lola Stone wants to go to prom with Brent, the school hottie, but he’s already going with his girlfriend Holly. So Lola does what any jilted high schooler would do: she and her father kidnap Brent, tie him to a chair, and proceed to torture him in excruciating ways -- all while hiding a long-buried secret concerning the disappearance of several of their towns' residents. | |||
| 15 Jan 2024 | She Will (2021) with Jerry J Sampson | 01:23:23 | |
Following a double mastectomy, and hoping to recover in peace, actress Veronica Ghent travels to what she believes will be a solitary retreat in the Scottish Highlands. She’s accompanied by a young nurse, Desi, who through sheer will and a good heart is able to put up with Veronica’s brusque, standoffish nature. There are other forces at work: the land on which their cabin sits was the burial ground of thousands of alleged witches, whose ashes have fertilized the soil and created ground rich with supernatural power. When her dreams are haunted by visions of witches being burned and silenced, we learn of an incident from Veronica’s past involving a famous director and possible abuse. It’s an incident that’s scarred Veronica as much as her recent surgery. But now, imbued with powers thanks to the the Highlands, Veronica finds herself able to confront the damage done to both mind and body. Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:52 Director Charlotte Colbert Jerry J Sampson is a female horror screenwriter whose main thematic focus is on generational trauma and the effects of repression on the psyche. She has four feature scripts in various forms of production, including one feature supernatural horror optioned and filming in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She is currently in pre-production on her directorial short film debut, In Dreams, working together with local crew and talent to create a truly haunting short that encapsulates the feeling of grief and loss through a lyrical and gorgeous narrative. In addition to her filmmaking pursuits, Jerry is also a film critic for such online publications as Ghouls Magazine, Rue Morgue, Moving Picture Film Club, and others, offering deep dives and editorials on current and classic horror films. She features on podcasts and panels, attends film festivals as both a creative and as press. Her collection of fiction The Scream & Other Dark Stories can be ordered here. Per her website, “She is here to offer a different voice in the horror sphere, always striving to prove the value of the horror genre as a means of catharsis and social commentary. The genre is so often overlooked, but she believes that through horror we, especially women, are able to safely explore the dark corners of the world, of our communities, of our homes.” Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from She Will by Clint Mansell. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 29 Jan 2024 | Theatre of Blood (1973) with Ben Viccellio | 01:28:17 | |
Behold – the late, great Edward Lionheart, a Shakespearean actor whose performances in Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Cymbeline, and others left him the laughingstock of London theatre critics, is dead. And yet somehow, someone is knocking off said critics one at a time in truly Shakespearean fashion… albeit with slight alterations to the text. Shylock may have wanted his pound his flesh – this killer takes the heart. Joan of Arc might have burned at the stake – this killer fries his victims in a hair salon. Peregrine Devlin, head of the London Critics Circle, is baffled, as are the police. And yet – the order of the killings bear a striking resemblance to Lionheart’s last repertory season. What’s going on with the Thames-side meths drinkers that have taken up residence in the crumbling Burbage Theatre? And what might Edward’s daughter, Edwina, have to do with everything? Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend us your ears – for herein lies the tale of the deceased actor who set out to exact revenge, and succeeded, and the rest – is silence. Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:10 Director Douglas Hickox Ben Viccellio is an actor, writer and Associate Professor of Drama & Film at Kenyon College. His acting credits include the role of Oedipus in Frank Galati's Oedipus Complex at The Goodman Theatre; Cherry Orchard, Theatrical Essays, and the world premiere of Men of Tortuga at Steppenwolf; the role of Petruchio in Short Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth in Short Shakespeare: Macbeth, and Guildenstern in Hamlet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Ben has also also acted for film and television, as well as in the odd commercial... some of them, he claims, very odd. His writing for the stage has been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Aspen. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Theatre of Blood by Michael J. Lewis. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 22 Jan 2024 | Frankenstein's Army (2013) with Bobby Frederick Tilley | 01:24:28 | |
World War II. Somewhere in Germany. Accompanied by a cameraman shooting propaganda for Mother Russia, a ragtag platoon fighting the Nazis receives a distress signal from fellow soldiers and heads off to investigate. They approach a church where no Russians can be found, but the church is inhabited by creatures who appear to be constructed from weapons, parts of machines and vehicles, but still have blood flowing through their veins. The creatures seem like part of the Nazi war machine, but then, one can’t be sure in the fog of war. Soon, cut off from the outside world, the platoon is surrounded, their C.O. down. It’s up to the rest to get inside the factory of a mad scientist, and soon discovers just where the creatures are from, who created them, and why they exist. Intro, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:30 Director Richard Raaphorst Bobby Frederick Tilley is a costume designer for theater, film, and TV. His theater credits include Be More Chill on Broadway, for which he received one of his two Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Costume Design. His work has also been seen at the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Geffen Playhouse, the Signature Theatre, the Roundabout, Second Stage, LAByrinth Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, and Ars Nova, among other venues. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 30 Jan 2023 | I, Madman (1989) with Erik Piepenburg | 01:15:46 | |
Virginia, an actress, bookstore employee, and voracious reader of trash fiction, becomes convinced that the author of the books she’s reading – who died some 30 years ago – is out there, on the streets of Los Angeles, committing grisly murders similar to the ones in his books. Her detective boyfriend, Richard, along with the rest of the LAPD, is skeptical. Is Virginia crazy? Seeing things? Drinking too much tea? Or is she on to something, and everyone else has failed to see the ugly truth right under their noses, ears, lips, and scalp? | |||
| 11 Dec 2023 | Thirt13en Ghosts (2001) with Jason Ragosta | 01:15:27 | |
It’s a cage match in a used car graveyard, with soul hunter Cyrus Kriticos taking on soul preserver Kalina Oretzia. Lost amidst the metal is The Breaker, a murderous ghost Cyrus wishes to add to his collection. Assisting Cyrus is Dennis, a medium whose ability to sense ghosts sends him into spasms of pain. Kalina’s only wish is to set souls free and let them roam the earth. Cyrus succeeds in capturing Breaker, but loses his life in the process. We cut to the home of Cyrus’s nephew, math teacher Arthur Kriticos, his two children Bobby and Kathy, and their nanny, the sassy Maggie. They’ve got a visitor today, a lawyer, Ben Moss, representing Cyrus’s estate. The news: Cyrus is bequeathing his house to Arthur, who’s spent the last few months mourning the death of his wife in a fire. The house, it turns out, is a modern masterpiece of architecture, a glass structure with Latin etched on the walls, and walls that slide back and forth like a living organism. Arthur’s flattered, but… he can’t pay for this. He barely gets by as it is. But Ben assures him, Cyrus has everything figured out. All Arthur and the kids need to do is move in and get settled. But once they start looking around, the Kriticos family realizes they’re being watched, and the inhabitants of the basement are none too happy to be under new management. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:31 Director Steve Beck Jason Ragosta is a horror writer, director, and illustrator who has created award winning short films such as Boy In The Dark and ZTV: Sympathy For The Devil, and “Mother Love” which was part of Sinphony: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology released in 2022. He is currently in various stages of development on several feature films and episodic series. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Thirt13en Ghosts by John Frizzell. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 05 Aug 2024 | BONUS EPISODE: Longlegs (2024) with Hale Appleman | 01:21:38 | |
This week, in our annual summer bonus episode, we're joined once again by Hale "Satan" Appleman, he of stage, screen, "The Magicians," "American Horror Story," Teeth, and more. Our assignment: Longlegs, Osgood Perkins' insidiously stylish brain-twister featuring off-the-hook performances by Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, and a barely recognizable Nicolas Cage. Along for the fun, in the next installment of our "Campus Radio" segment, is Mr. Marcus Dunstan, director of the new film #AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead. Intro, Math Club & Debate Society, Campus Radio, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:04 Hale Appleman is perhaps best known for playing Eliot in “The Magicians,” currently streaming on Netflix, and Tobey in the Sundance horror comedy Teeth. Genre fans have seen him in the eleventh season of “American Horror Story,” and he’s appeared in the NBC series “Smash,” AppleTV’s “Truth Be Told,” and in the films Beautiful Ohio, Pedro, and Private Romeo. He is also an accomplished stage actor whose credits include the Roundabout Theatre Company, ART, the Berkshire Theater Festival, and The Old Globe. Hale can be heard on the L.A. Theatre Works recording of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.
Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth. Music from Longlegs by Elvis Perkins. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 24 Jul 2023 | Haunted Honeymoon (1986) with Michael Pressman | 01:17:45 | |
What’s wrong with Larry Abbot? The radio star is having bouts of fear, perhaps a remnant of childhood trauma. Otherwise, everything’s swell: he’s engaged to be married to his scene partner, Vickie Pearle. But the radio show, hosted by the Manhattan Mystery Theater and lead sponsor Ralston-Purina, are concerned about Larry’s mental health, so they’ve hired Larry’s Uncle Paul, a psychiatrist. to employ a radical cure that will rid Larry of his fears in 36 hours. Larry and Vickie travel to Larry’s ancestral stomping grounds, a palatial estate. The cast of characters that assemble at the estate for Larry and Vickie’s wedding — Larry’s cousins Charles, Nora, Susan, and Francis Jr.; the family butler, Pfister; and the maid, the diminutive Rachel — all seem to have ulterior motives of one kind of another, which may include inheriting the fortune of the family matriarch, Aunt Kate. Will Larry and Vickie make it through the next couple days alive? Will we, the audience, make it through the next 82 minutes without clawing our eyes out? Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free): 00:00-33:30 Director Gene Wilder Award-winning director/producer Michael Pressman has worked across most entertainment genres and mediums, including comedies, dramas, social commentaries, short films, feature length studio and indie films, series television and movies, Broadway stage productions, and regional theater. His directing credits for film include The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, Doctor Detroit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, and Frankie and Johnny Are Married. His television movies include To Heal a Nation, about the building of the Vietnam memorial, and the Anne Tyler adaptation Saint Maybe, starring Tom McCarthy, Blythe Danner, and Mary-Louise Parker (Hallmark Hall of Fame). He co-executive produced and directed David E. Kelley’s “Picket Fences,” which lasted four seasons and won him two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. Pressman then launched Kelley’s next show, “Chicago Hope,” which earned him another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. Other series that Pressman has produced and directed include multiple episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series “Law & Order: SVU,” and two seasons of “Blue Bloods.” He executive produced the fifth and sixth season of NBC’s “Chicago Med,” earning that show its highest ratings to date. Pressman’s stage work includes directing the Los Angeles premiere of To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, and a Los Angeles production of Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune, the 2008 Broadway revival of Come Back, Little Sheba with S. Epatha Merkerson in the lead role. His most recent stage experience was directing Diane Frolov’s Come Get Maggie for L.A.’s Rogue Machine Theatre. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Haunted Honeymoon” by John Morris. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 19 Jun 2023 | Let the Right One In (2008) with Joshua Conkel | 01:17:12 | |
When we meet Oskar, it’s 1982 and he’s a meek 12-year-old with a shameful blonde pageboy haircut. His parents are divorced, making for a lonely existence on a nondescript housing estate in a suburb of Stockholm. On top of this, local bully Conny’s been taunting him at school, his jabs becoming increasingly violent. Meanwhile, people are dying in Oskar’s neighborhood, especially around his apartment complex. Could it have something to do with the middle-age man and 12 year old girl that just moved into the building, the ones that placed cardboard on their windows, seemingly to shield them from the outside world? Why one night does that man subdue and hang a pedestrian upside down, slitting his throat until hid blood drains into a funnel? That’s when Oskar meets Eli, the girl next door, and takes a liking to her when she solves his Rubik’s cube. But Eli’s smarts don’t come from school – she’s been around a while, you see – and she may not even be a she at all. What transpires when Oskar and Eli become friends, and what happens when others in town catch on to Eli’s nocturnal habits, are only the beginning of this icy but romantic coming of age drama. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-26:58 Director Tomas Alfredson Joshua Conkel is a Los Angeles based writer, filmmaker, and podcaster. His short film, He Watches, is in festivals now, and he is the co-host of Bloodhaus, a weekly arthouse horror comedy podcast. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Let the Right One In” by Johan Söderqvist. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 31 May 2022 | BONUS EPISODE: Men (2022) | 00:58:31 | |
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| 25 Apr 2022 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | 01:10:54 | |
Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards. Background (spoiler-free) 0:00-8:05 Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with selections from the "TTCSM" soundtrack by Wayne Bell and Tobe Hooper. For more information on this film, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast in Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating! | |||
| 14 Nov 2021 | The Exorcist III (1990) | 01:03:23 | |
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| 24 Oct 2021 | Scare U Season 1 Trailer | 00:01:43 | |
Note: Scare U was known in season one as 21 Jump Scare. This was the trailer for that season. In October 2022, the title was changed to Scare U. The original introduction follows:
One’s a horror veteran. One’s new to the game. Together, they reside at the internet’s latest address for horror... 21 Jump Scare.
A horror aficionado chooses the curriculum, and expounds on what makes the films great. A genre newbie sees the films for the first time and responds, as people seeing films for the first time are wont to do.
Produced and presented by Bradford Louryk and Eric Winick, 21 Jump Scare is a podcast about horror films told from two points of view.
Whatever your pleasure or poison, we hope you’ll give us a listen, and subscribe. Follow us on Instagram or visit us online.
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| 20 Nov 2023 | Sinister (2012) with Hannah Cabell & Ryan King | 01:23:12 | |
It’s been a while since true crime writer Ellison Oswalt had a bestseller, and the strain is starting to show on Ellison, his wife Tracy, and their kids Trevor and Ashley. Local law enforcement isn’t keen on him, either, as his last few books didn’t cast them in too fond a light. So Ellison and his family take up residence in a modest Pennsylvania ranch house with something of a history – something we learn when we watch as a family is lynched in the house’s back yard. Unfortunately, this may be his last chance at the big time, so Ellison neglects to inform Tracy of this, and when things start going bump in the night, and the home movies left behind reveal ominous clues about a killer’s identity, Ellison finds himself turning from the hunter to the hunted. A helpful deputy steps in to assist, as well as a professor of the occult, but by the time they reveal their own information, the situation has devolved from strange… to sinister. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:47
Hannah Cabell is a New York-based actor, director, and writer. She wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Lost Nation, which won Best NH Short at the 2023 New Hampshire Film Festival. As well as the feature version of Lost Nation, she has written The Hills and the Sky, about an archivist’s obsession with Betty and Barney Hill’s 1961 alien abduction, and the comedy television pilot Brother Husbandry. Hannah’s acting credits include “The Black List,” “The Good Fight,” “Madam Secretary,” “Mr. Robot,” and “The Leftovers,” and she currently plays Judge Renee Gittens on “Law & Order.” Film work includes The Surrogate, Luce, and Thine Ears Shall Bleed (upcoming). She has been nominated for Lortel and Drama Desk awards for her stage performances. MFA, NYU.
Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Sinister by Christopher Young. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 10 Jul 2023 | The Void (2016) with John DeVore | 01:24:18 | |
It’s late one night in America, and two men are chasing tweakers from a local meth den. One escapee, James, gets away. The other, a girl, is set on fire by the men before they drive off. Meanwhile, local police chief Daniel Carter is asleep on the job, again, when he spots James crawling out of the woods, and transports him to the nearest medical facility, Marsh General, where he estranged wife Allison works as a nurse. The hospital is on the verge of closing after a fire took out most of it, and they're working with a skeleton crew: besides Allison, there are two nurses, Kim and Beverly; one doctor, the mysterious Richard Powell; and only two patients, Cliff and pregnant Maggie. It’s upon Daniel’s arrival that the world tilts on its axis: strange robe-clad figures emerge from the forest, Beverly is caught performing impromptu surgery on Cliff, and Maggie goes into labor. What happens from here defies logic, description and expectation, but as Daniel and Allison determine to face down the wickedness that comes their way, they soon find themselves enmeshed in a plot that goes way beyond medical science, and maybe, beyond the reaches of time and space itself.
Director Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski John DeVore is a two-time James Beard award-winning essayist and editor. He currently writes a column for Decider called 'Is It Woke?' and his first memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' will hit bookstores in 2024. His favorite movie is 'Fiddler on the Roof,' followed by 'Hellraiser.' Favorite recess snack: Lunchables. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Void” by Jeremy Gillespie. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts on our blog, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. This is our SEASON 2 FINALE. Thank you for joining us! We'll be back with some bonus episodes this summer, then will be back in the fall for a whole new season of SCARE U. | |||
| 06 Nov 2023 | Sleepaway Camp (1983) with Jack Sholder | 01:21:08 | |
Ricky and his shy, reserved cousin Angela are spending the summer at Camp Arawak, a bargain basement overnight camp in upstate New York run by Mel, cigar-chomping shyster, and staffed by a bunch of adult and teenage degenerates. Angela is initially withdrawn, occasionally catatonic – but is soon brought out of her shell by Ricky’s friend Paul, who takes a liking to Angela in the hopes he might be able to make it with her before summer’s end. But there are forces are at work – forces determined to put the strangely distant Angela in her place. Bunkmate and camp harlot Judy sees Angela as a weirdo, then a threat when she attracts Paul’s attention. Counselor Meg, who can’t get Angela to eat, play sports, or swim, constantly berates Angela for her failure to thrive. That’s when the murders begin, one at a time, first a staffer, then a camper, and on and on. Mel tries to hide it due to the bad publicity, but as any good camp director knows, murder’s bad for business, and the more we learn about Angela’s murky past, the more things at Camp Arawak take a turn… for the deadly. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:29
Jack Sholder began his career as a film editor, working on the feature documentary King: From Montgomery to Memphis which was nominated for an Academy Award. He won an Emmy for his editing work on 3-2-1 Contact. After writing and directing several award-winning short films, Jack wrote Where Are The Children starring Jill Clayburgh for Ray Stark and Columbia. In 1982, Jack directed Alone In The Dark for New Line Cinema with Martin Landau, Jack Palance, and Donald Pleasence. He then directed A Nightmare On Elm Street II: Freddy’s Revenge. His next feature, The Hidden, won many awards including the Grand Prix at the Avoriaz Film Festival, Jury Award at the Sitges Film Festival, and Best Director at Fantasporto. Premiere Magazine called it “one of the ten most underrated films of the 80s.” This was followed by Renegades with Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips and By Dawn’s Early Light for HBO with Martin Landau, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Rebecca de Mornay, and Powers Boothe. Jack has directed movies and television for MGM, Paramount, Universal, Warners, Fox, United Artists, Lionsgate, HBO, Showtime, NBC, Discovery, and others. He is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from FantaFest and the Grossman Festival. In 2004, he founded the Film & Television Production program at Western Carolina University where he was Professor and Director of the FTP program until 2017. Jack has received Life Achievement Awards from Fantafestival (Rome), Grossmann Film Festival (Slovenia), and Fantastic Fest (Austin). Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Sleepaway Camp by Edward Bilous. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 02 Jan 2023 | A Field in England (2013) with Bobby Frederick Tilley | 01:05:17 | |
The 17th century. The English Civil War. Whitehead, a man of letters, maker of lace, and self-described coward, is tasked with finding and arresting the colleague and rival alchemist who stole his master’s papers. He enlists the aid of Cutler, a soldier who claims he can take them to a nearby alehouse, and two deserters, the wily Jacob and dull-minded Friend. Upon arriving at Cutler’s destination – not the alehouse, but a wide open field strewn with hallucinogenic mushrooms, the group locates the alchemist, O’Neil. But instead of taking in his man, Whitehead, along with Jacob and Friend, find themselves O’Neil’s prisoners. And as Whitehead becomes a literal tool in O’Neil’s plot to seek out a deposit of gold in the field, this one-time familiar place quickly turns strange and otherworldly. | |||
| 15 May 2023 | In the Mouth of Madness (1995) with Mary Wild | 01:25:19 | |
We begin in an asylum for the criminally insane. A man in a straitjacket is hauled into the facility and thrown into a padded cell. Visited by a psychiatrist, the man begins telling his story, while acknowledging that something awful is happening in the outside world. We flash back: renowned horror writer Sutter Cane has disappeared. Seeking to locate Cane, and collect his new novel, In the Mouth of Madness, the head of Arcane publishing, Jackson Harglow, hires crack Insurance investigator John Trent – a man with a nose for frauds and whose skepticism seemingly knows no bounds. Trent has already run into a spot of trouble – after reading a couple chapters of Cane’s latest, Cane’s agent becomes an axe-wielding maniac, crashing through the window of a local café where Trent is dining. The why, for now, is left unexplained, but as we learn, Cane’s novels have a strange, disorienting effect on its ‘less stable’ readers. Trent and Cane’s editor, Linda Styles, head to Hobb’s End, New Hampshire, where they believe Cane is living. Trent and Styles discover a place that seems almost too quaint to be real, and almost immediately, a terrible secret that upends Trent’s life as he knows it, and has major repercussions for Sutter Cane fans worldwide. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-32:15
Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “In the Mouth of Madness” by John Carpenter & Jim Lang. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 20 May 2024 | The Amityville Horror (1979) with Gretchen McNeil | 01:21:32 | |
What's that, by the side of the road? Is that a... vomiting nun, played by star of stage and screen Irene Dailey? And what's that, up in the sewing room? Is that a... priest covered in flies, played by Oscar-winner Rod Steiger? However you feel about it, there's no question that Stuart Rosenberg's O.G. THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) is an iconic launch of a never-ending franchise, one that's produced more clunkers than most—but which seems to have legs like no other. With '70s icons Margot Kidder and James Brolin along for the ride, plus plenty of ferrofluid and a requisite microfiche scene, we don't need to be told twice to GET OUT. Joining us for the first of two episodes is our pal, YA horror author extraordinaire Gretchen McNeil. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:42 Director Stuart Rosenberg Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels including Dig Two Graves, Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending, #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel is Four Letter Word, pitched as an homage to Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. "Ten: Murder Island," the film adaptation of Ten, premiered on Lifetime, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar, and, this week, by Duck Sauce. Music from The Amityville Horror (1979) by Lalo Schifrin. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 08 May 2023 | The Black Cat (1934) with Hope Cartelli & Jeff Lewonczyk | 01:27:07 | |
An American couple, Peter and Joan Allison, are traveling by train through Hungary when they’re told their cabin has been double booked. Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a psychiatrist just released from eighteen years in a prison camp, soon joins them for the short ride to their destination – the same place Werdegast is going, he claims, to visit an old friend, along with his manservant, Thamal. On their way into town, the bus that the four are in runs off the road, killing the driver and injuring Joan. They hike to the home of Werdegast’s former military comrade, one Hjalmar Poelzig, a renowned architect. Poelzig’s home may be a modern masterpiece of construction, but it’s also built on the site of a World War I battlefield where thousands of Hungarians lost their lives, and where Werdegast was captured. Now, having returned, Werdegast is ready to take revenge on the man he claims stole his life, and perhaps, his wife. But Poelzig has his own surprises in store. And by the time the Allisons realize what terrors await in Poelzig’s home, it may truly be too late for all of them. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-28:41
Hope Cartelli and Jeff Lewonczyk are creative polymaths who’ve been deeply involved with New York’s independent theater scene for 15 years now, having worked as associate directors of Williamsburg's Brick Theater for nearly a decade, producing hundreds of shows and festivals. They’ve created dozens of shows through their own theater company, Piper McKenzie, including horror-adjacent outings, especially through their "Bizarre Science Fantasy" series of silent, dance-theater works. More recently, the two have been acting, directing, presenting, and entrepreneuring. Hope is appearing in the ongoing stage soap opera It's Getting Tired Mildred (now in its eighth year), currently running monthly at the Kraine Theater in NYC’s East Village. She has also acted (alongside Jeff) in America Unanswered, a special video episode of the hit horror podcast Tell Me a Story: The True Life of Jakob Stanley. Jeff is a writer and illustrator who’s published two short books: the art zine Better Bones, and the first installment of an ongoing serial, The Congress of the Monsters, with Book 2 coming out later this year. Jeff also directed (and Hope acted in) a musical comedy written by William Peter Blatty, based on his screenplay for the 1965 film John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “The Black Cat” by Heinz Roemheld. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 23 May 2022 | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | 00:50:20 | |
Program note: This was one of the earliest episodes we recorded, and as such, the audio isn't great in certain spots. We enjoyed recording this episode, though, and IOHO, think it's smart and funny enough to include in the season. Also, from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards.
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| 06 Feb 2023 | Drag Me to Hell (2009) with Hale Appleman | 01:14:48 | |
When Christine Brown, a young bank loan officer, must decide whether to grant a third extension on the loan of one Sylvia Ganush, who’s already defaulted on two – she’s in a real quandary. She really wants that Assistant Manager position, and Stu Rubin seems to have the inside track with her boss, Mr. Jacks. But Christine’s determined, and so, with all the heartlessness she can muster, she denies Mrs. Ganush the extension. It’s a decision that will come to haunt her – for Mrs. Ganush curses Christine with the Lamia, an ancient goat spirit that makes Christine’s life a living hell. The only solution: the sacrifice of an animal, and giving away the cursed object. Will a kindly medium, Rham Jas, be able to help Christine? Will the woman who met the Lamia years before, Shaun Sen Dena, be able to lend her expertise? Will Christine’s psychology professor boyfriend Clay ever figure out what’s going on? What will stop the spirit’s relentless assault, and put a button on Christine’s nightmare? | |||
| 26 Dec 2023 | Extra Ordinary (2019) with Wendy MacLeod | 01:14:13 | |
Driving instructor Rose Dooley lives alone in rural Ireland, but she’s hardly ever alone. The local residents call Rose any time they have a, shall we say, ghost problem. Which happens more often than you’d think. You see, Rose’s father, the late ghost hunter Vincent Dooley, has imbued Rose with certain ‘talents’ to divine and chat up ghosts that are giving people a hard time. That’s when she’s approached by one Martin Martin, a woodworker whose late wife has been making his life hell for the past several years, constantly berating him and his choices from beyond the grave. At the same time, determined to sell his soul for a revived career, washed up American pop star Christian and his wife Claudia have been picking out virgins to sacrifice, and soon set their sights on Martin's daughter, Sarah. It’s up to Rose and Martin to foil the Winters’ nefarious schemes, and to make sure it's "curtains for Christian." Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-25:32
Wendy MacLeod’s play The House of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey, and was produced by many theaters including The Magic Theater, Soho Rep, The Washington Shakespeare Company, The Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and The Gate Theater in London. Her other works for the stage include Sin and Schoolgirl Figure, both of which premiered at The Goodman, Juvenilia and The Water Children, both of which premiered at Playwrights Horizons, and Things Being What They Are, which premiered at Seattle Repertory Theatre, had an extended run at Steppenwolf in Chicago, and was produced by The Road Theatre in LA. She was the first writer selected for The Writer’s Room residency at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia, where she wrote Women in Jeopardy! which was selected for The Kilroys' List and premiered at GEVA. The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky was commissioned by and produced at ACT's Young Conservatory in San Francisco. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Salon, POETRY magazine, and on NPR's All Things Considered. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, she is the James E. Michael Playwright-in-Residence at Kenyon College. Her plays are available through Dramatists Play Service and at Playscripts.com. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Extra Ordinary: “A Woman’s Heart” by Eleanor McAvoy, performed by McAvoy and Mary Black. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 14 Nov 2022 | Session 9 (2001) with Jason Ragosta | 01:10:45 | |
Time: the present. Location: Danvers, Massachusetts. Given the opportunity to clear asbestos from the long-dormant Danvers State Hospital, a sprawling asylum for the insane, abatement specialist Gordon jumps at the chance, claiming in his bid that he and his crew can do the job in one short week. Gordon brings on four guys: the dependable yet hot-headed Phil, would-be lawyer Mike, self-styled ladies man Hank, and Gordon’s nephew Jeff, who suffers from nyctophobia. Things seem to be moving along, but when Mike discovers the reel to reel tapes of a former patient named Mary Hobbes and becomes fascinated by her story, a larger tale begins to play out – one that shows startling parallels to the lives of the men shucking fiber in the hospital today. | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | BONUS EPISODE: Crimes of the Future (2022) | 01:03:21 | |
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| 04 Dec 2023 | Candyman (1992) with Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. | 01:26:21 | |
Grad student Helen Lyle is determined to find out why the residents of the Cabrini-Green housing development in Chicago are petrified by the Candyman, a ghost who allegedly appears if you say his name in the mirror five times. After jokingly summoning him with Trevor, her philandering professor husband, Helen heads to Cabrini-Green with her pal Bernadette to interview residents and track down the truth. Instead she discovers what might just be the Candyman’s lair, an abandoned apartment laid out strangely like her own. Soon enough, she’s standing face to face with the man himself. And he hasn’t brought a bag of Skittles. This guy’s got a hook for a hand, bees on his knees, and a desire to possess Helen, who may or may not resemble the woman he once loved. After her encounter with the Man, Helen awakes to find herself on the floor of an bathroom covered in blood, her crazy nightmare just beginning. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-26:43 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 26:44-1:11:26 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:12:26-1:26:22 Director Bernard Rose Screenplay Bernard Rose, based on “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker Featuring Xander Berkeley, Michael Culkin, DeJuan Guy, Kasi Lemmons, Virginia Madsen, Ted Raimi, Tony Todd, Vanessa Williams Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. is Artistic Director of HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford’s Public Theatre and Visiting Lecturer in Theatre at Trinity College. He is also co-founder of Civic Ensemble, a community-based theatre company in Ithaca, NY. At HartBeat he has appeared in My Children! My Africa! and Possessing Harriet. For Civic, he appeared in My Children! My Africa!, Fast Blood and his adaptation of Mike Daisey’s The Trump Card. Godfrey taught for several years at Cornell University, where he co-produced and directed Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings and The Next Storm, in collaboration with Civic Ensemble. Godfrey was Producing Artist in charge of New Artist Development for Off-Broadway’s Epic Theatre Ensemble, appearing in A More Perfect Union, Widowers' Houses (which Godfrey co-adapted with Ron Russell), and Measure for Measure, among other plays. At Epic, he also co-wrote and starred in a documentary play about the election of President Barack Obama, Dispatches From (A)mended America. Godfrey is a 2012 TCG/Fox Fellow, a participant in the TCG SPARK Leadership Program, and a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has also taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Binghamton University, UConn Hartford and John Jay College. Additional New York theatre credits include The Old Settler (Primary Stages), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), Free Market (Working Theater), Leader of the People (New Georges), and microcrisis (Ensemble Studio Theater). Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Candyman by Philip Glass. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 21 Nov 2021 | Black Sabbath (1963) | 00:48:12 | |
Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards. Background (spoiler-free) 0:00-14:15 For more information on this film, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with selections from the "Black Sabbath" soundtrack by Roberto Nicolosi. Excerpt from the song “Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath (1970). Please subscribe to this podcast in Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating! | |||
| 31 Oct 2021 | It: Chapter One (2017) | 00:53:51 | |
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| 06 May 2024 | Insidious (2010) with Allison Broder | 01:21:19 | |
Strap on your gas mask, crack open that sketch pad, and astrally project yourself into The Further as we continue our James Wan mini-series with an assessment of Wan's 2010 Insidious. With a script by key collaborator Leigh Whannell and a cast featuring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, and the ethereal Lin Shaye, this is the Insidious that started them all. Joining us at the séance table is Allison Broder, host of the Who's There? podcast. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:58
Allison Broder has been the host of the Who's There? podcast since 2020; on the pod she interviews horror fans and creatives about why they love the genre. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Insidious by Joseph Bishara. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 28 Nov 2021 | Carrie (1976) | 00:53:01 | |
Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards. Background (spoiler-free) 0:00-14:19 Hear Bradford's impression of Piper Laurie doing Margaret White's "filthy roadhouse whiskey" monologue at 5:38. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with selections from the "Carrie" soundtrack by Pino Donaggio. For more information on this film, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast in Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating! | |||
| 15 Apr 2024 | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Bruce Graver & Dorian Greenbaum | 01:16:04 | |
We're back from Spring Break, discussing James Whale's 1935 classic featuring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, and Ernest Thesiger. Our guests are the authors of the new book Peggy Webling and the Story Behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster, about the woman who wrote the stage play from which Universal's Frankenstein (1931) was adapted. Also: a new superlative honoring one of our favorite actors, the inimitable Béatrice Dalle. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:40 Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 27:41-56:04 Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 56:05-1:16:04 Director James Whale Screenplay William Hurlbut, adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley by John Balderston & Hurlbut Featuring Colin Clive, E.E. Clive, Dwight Frye, Gavin Gordon, O.P. Heggie, Valerie Hobson, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor, Ernest Thesiger, Douglas Walton Bruce Graver has taught British Romantic literature and art at Providence College since 1985. He has prepared scholarly editions of the works of the Wordsworth family, has a special interest in 19th-century 3D photography (The Stereoscopic Picturesque is about to be published), and is a classically trained pianist and tenor who has performed with various New England choirs and chamber ensembles. In good weather, Bruce can be found hiking along the Appalachian Trail, or across the mountains of the English Lake District, where the Wordsworths and Beatrix Potter once lived. Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is an ancient historian who teaches postgraduates at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and writes on the history of astrology, divination, and ancient medicine. She has been an amateur genealogist for the past 23 years. Peggy Webling is Dorian’s great-grandaunt, and she grew up hearing family tales about her writing of the play Frankenstein. In 1991, she and her mother discovered a large cache of letters that Peggy and her sisters wrote to Dorian’s great-grandmother over almost 30 years, and Dorian now owns an unpublished archive of Peggy’s letters, papers, manuscripts, and photographs. To find out more about Bruce and Dorian’s book, click here. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Bride of Frankenstein by Franz Waxman. For more information on this film, essays from your hosts (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 18 Dec 2023 | The Legend of Hell House (1973) with Christopher Shinn | 01:20:19 | |
Eccentric billionaire Rudolph Deutsch wants someone to figure out what (or who's) been haunting the old Belasco mansion, the “Mt Everest of haunted houses.” Apparently the house has something to do with the secret to life after death, so Deutsch enlists a team of potential rivals to get to the bottom of it: physicist and sometime paranormal investigator Barrett and his wife Ann; mental medium Florence Tanner; and physical medium Ben Fischer, the sole survivor of the last attempt to exorcise the old home. Almost from the jump, something’s off – no one trusts each other, science butts heads with pseudoscience, and when the actual haunting comes, no one really wants to discuss it. No one, that is, except for Florence and Ben, who’ve seen enough in their time to recognize the dangers that lie within Belasco House. And by the time the possessions begin, furniture starts shaking, and chandeliers start tumbling, it’s too late to turn back. The team must see this through, and get to the bottom of what’s been driving Hell House’s off-the-charts psychic energy. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-30:32 Director John Hough Christopher Shinn is a playwright and screenwriter who lives in New York. Several of his plays have premiered at the Royal Court Theatre: Four, Other People, Where Do We Live (Obie Award), Dying City (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Now or Later, which was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre), Teddy Ferrara (Goodman Theatre and Donmar Warehouse), An Opening in Time (Hartford Stage), Picked (Vineyard Theatre), What Didn't Happen (Playwrights Horizons), On the Mountain (South Coast Rep), The Coming World (Soho Theatre), and Against (Almeida Theatre). His adaptation of Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway in 2009 and his adaptation of Judgment Day premiered at Park Avenue Armory in 2019 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation. His awards and grants include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, a grant from the NEA/TCG Residency Program, and the Robert Chesley Award. He was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard in 2019-2020, a Cullman Fellow at New York Public Library in 2020-2021, and a MacDowell Fellow in 2023. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 05 Dec 2022 | The House of the Devil (2009) with Adrienne Celt | 01:10:22 | |
Seeking some extra cash to pay for her new off-campus apartment, college sophomore Samantha answers an ad for a babysitting job. Her friend Megan suspects something weird is going on and insists on joining Samantha for the evening. On the night of a total lunar eclipse, the two drive to a grand Victorian on the outskirts of town and meet the Ulmans, an older couple going out for the evening – but there’s a catch. There’s no child. Instead, Mrs. Ulman’s mother is upstairs, and Samantha is asked to hang out in the house, in case anything should happen to Mother. Initially reluctant to take the job, Samantha is able to wring 400 bucks out of the couple, and settles in for an evening alone in a dark, dark house, on a dark, dark night. | |||
| 16 Jan 2023 | The Old Dark House (1932) with Jason Kravits | 01:26:09 | |
It’s a stormy night somewhere in Wales, and three travelers are having a rough go of it: married couple Phillip and Margaret Waverton, and their passenger in the back seat, the dapper Penderel. That’s when they come upon a house, which is, shockingly, old… and dark. They manage to gain entrance after convincing the mute, lumbering butler, Morgan, that they are indeed in distress, and are soon greeted by the house’s main occupants, the elderly Femms, Horace and his hard of hearing sister Rebecca. The Femms offer the travelers supper, but as the sternly religious Rebecca finds it inappropriate, no beds. As they sit down to eat a meal of meat and potatoes, two more travelers burst in – the jolly Sir William Porterhouse and his personal companion, Gladys Duquesne. Or is it Perkins? As the evening wends from dinner to conversation to an interest in the rest of the house, things take a turn for the weird, and soon, all are ensnared in a trap – not just to make it through the storm, but to get out of the house alive. Director James Whale | |||
| 27 Nov 2023 | The Dunwich Horror (1970) with John DeVore | 01:24:26 | |
Wilbur Whateley wants the Necronomicon, and although the library’s closing, local coed Nancy is so entranced by Whateley that she’s inclined to let him read it. Her professor, Dr. Armitage, isn’t thrilled with the idea of someone borrowing the book – even for five minutes – until he realizes who the reader is. Eager to find out more about Wilbur, and his family history of seeking out transdimensional creatures, he invites Wilbur and Nancy to dinner. But Wilbur’s not interested in becoming one of Armitage’s biographical sketches – he wants Nancy to come back to his home, drink some tea, and… stay there forever. That’s when his grandfather, Old Man Whateley arrives, causing Nancy to raise an eyebrow. Why is he so determined to keep her away from the house? What on the upper floors is making all those wind and ocean sounds? And why is Wilbur so desperate to introduce Nancy to the Devil’s Hopyard, a stone altar where, it is rumored, his ancestors once performed sacred rituals to call forth a race of creatures that would bring about the end of life as we know it? Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:20
John DeVore is a two-time James Beard award-winning essayist and editor. He's written about pop culture for Decider, Esquire, and Premiere (RIP), among many others. John's first memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' will hit bookstores in 2024 Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from The Dunwich Horror by Les Baxter. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 19 Dec 2022 | Black Christmas (1974) with Zac Locke | 01:26:26 | |
It’s Christmas at a college somewhere in North America, and the girls of a campus sorority house are welcoming the season with boys and libations. For Clare, Jess, Phyl, Barb and their house mother, Mrs. Mac, it’s an especially sweet time, as the house welcomes kids from the neighborhood for a party and the spirit of giving is in the air. But soon, giving turns to screaming as one of them finds herself confronted by a mysterious stranger who has seemingly entered the house via an upstairs window. Soon, the case of one missing girl draws in the residents of the house, the local police, and the town, and an oddly hard-to-locate killer initiates a game of hide-and-seek, sororicide, and some truly awful telephone etiquette. | |||
| 01 May 2023 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) with Clay McLeod Chapman | 01:21:11 | |
It’s Halloween 1968 in Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, a town best known for its Mill and its Valley. Friends Stella, Auggie, and Chuck decide to take revenge on some local bullies, led by Tommy, who’s dating Chuck’s sister Ruth. After removing his feces from the toilet to hand to Tommy, and throwing the requisite eggs at his car, the bullies track the friends to a drive-in movie theater showing Night of the Living Dead. That’s when Stella, Auggie, and Chuck hop in the car of Ramon, a mysterious drifter who has come to their town to escape the draft. Afterwards, the four make their way to a dilapidated home on the edge of town that once belonged to the wealthy Bellows family, who mysteriously disappeared shortly after the town’s titular mill shut down. The Bellows’ daughter Sarah was, we learn, a prolific teller of stories who was hidden away in a cellar by a family hellbent on keeping a terrible secret at bay. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free) 00:00-30:00
Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Scary Stories” by Marco Beltrami & Anna Drubich. For more information on this film, the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. | |||
| 31 Oct 2023 | Livid (2011) with Alix Austin & Keir Siewert | 01:26:52 | |
We meet Lucie on Halloween morning, at a bus stop by a pier that is festooned with flyers with the names and faces of missing children. She’s soon picked us by Catherine Wilson, a wisecracking nurse who makes house calls to elderly residents. Lucie, who is interning for Ms. Wilson, is none too happy about the work, and at the end of her first day, relates her experiences to her friends Will and Ben over beers at the local pub. Will is a fisherman who works for his father, and Ben works for his mother at the pub. Like Lucie, the boys aren’t thrilled with the quality of their lives – and so they hatch a plan to break into the home of one of Ms Wilson’s patients, the comatose Ms. Jessel, whose house allegedly contains treasure which will, the kids hope, set them on the paths to prosperity. There’s just one catch: Ms. Jessel’s home is not what it seems. Nor is Ms. Wilson. And when the residents of the home extend a hearty welcome to the thieving trio, the result is a Halloween night of chaos and spiritual mayhem that changes their lives forever. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-31:13
Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from “Livid” by Raphaël Gesqua. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 13 Feb 2023 | The Mist (2007) with Gretchen McNeil | 01:29:11 | |
After surviving a torrential Nor’easter that rips parts of his home and adjoining properties to shreds, Bridgton, Maine resident and graphic artist David Drayton, his son Billy and wife Steff notice a strange fog rolling in on the lake behind their house. After confirming that his boathouse was crushed by neighbor Brent Norton’s old tree, a source of old resentments, David gathers Billy and Brent into his jeep and heads into town for supplies. Upon arrival at the local supermarket, The Food House, into which half the town seems to have crammed, it becomes apparent that the mist is no longer on the lake: in fact, it’s now is at the doorstep of the supermarket. Inside the store, we meet a gaggle of characters: Ollie Weeks and Bud Brown, the store’s co-managers; Mrs. Carmody, a god-fearing woman who’s convinced that Man has brought shame and disgrace upon the world; feisty old Mrs. Reppler, who’s not a fan of Mrs. Carmody; locals Jim, Myron, Hattie, and Ambrose; and Dan Miller, whose frantic first appearance in the store heralds the danger to come. For there are terrors lurking in The Mist, the stuff of Hieronymous Bosch nightmares, monstrous beings that make even the act of venturing outside dangerous and deadly, and perhaps portend the coming of the apocalypse. | |||
| 09 May 2022 | The Devil Rides Out (1968) | 00:44:19 | |
Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the Scare U podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards. For more information on this film, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com, Please subscribe to this podcast in Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating. | |||
| 10 Jun 2024 | The Conjuring (2013) with Christian Parker | 01:20:49 | |
The house in Harrisville, Rhode Island is not clean. In fact it's filthy, lousy with supernatural yuck. That's bad news for whoever inhabits it, and no one's going to have it worse than the Perrons—father Roger (Ron Livingston), mother Carolyn (Lili Taylor), and their five daughters. When the otherworldly rumblings get out of hand, who they gonna call? In this case, it's the OG Ghostbusters, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). To say what happens next would be a spoiler, and we don't do that without a warning. But after our forays into James Wan's Dead Silence and Insidious, allow us to say that The Conjuring is a cool breath of delightfully fetid air. Director, dramaturg, and Columbia University professor Christian Parker joins us for academically incisive commentary. Intro, Debate Society, To Sir With Love (spoiler-free): 00:00-29:00 Director James Wan Christian Parker is a director, dramaturg, and former Chair of the graduate Theatre Program at Columbia University, where he is currently a professor of Professional Practice, leading the MFA concentration in Dramaturgy. His work has been on view at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, the Rattlestick, the New Harmony Project, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and many others. Christian has served as the Associate Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company, was on the Tony Awards Nominating Committee for three years, and was a resident at the American Academy in Rome in Spring 2024. Our theme music is by Edward Elgar and Sir Cubworth. Music from The Conjuring by Joseph Bishara. For more information on this film, writing by your hosts (on our blog), and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get yours. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 14 Aug 2023 | BONUS EPISODE: Talk to Me (2023) with Gretchen McNeil | 01:28:41 | |
Who doesn’t love a party? And what’s better at a party than a good party game, especially one that involves grasping an embalmed hand and speaking the words, “Talk to me.” For the full effect, you then say, “I let you in” and allow yourself to be fully possessed by whatever lies beyond the spirit realm. It’s terrifying, but also a total rush, provided you keep your trip under 90 seconds. For Mia, it's a welcome distraction from a rough year. She recently lost her mother for reasons unexplained, and her best friend Jade’s little brother Riley keeps tagging along with them to parties. Jade and Riley’s mother is concerned the kids might be into something nasty, like pot, or booze. Little does she know, the kids are into something far more addictive, and when one of the games goes a little too far, all hell breaks loose, unleashing spirits best left undisturbed. Intro, Math Club, and Debate Society (spoiler-free): 00:00-25:33 Directors Danny & Michael Philippou Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels including Dig Two Graves, Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and Ten, as well as the horror/comedy novels #murdertrending, #murderfunding, and #noescape. Her most recent novel is Three Drops of Blood, pitched as a YA Rear Window, and she has yet another book in the works, titled, They Fear Not Men in the Woods. "Ten: Murder Island," the film adaptation of "Ten," premiered on Lifetime, and Get Even and Get Dirty have been adapted as the series “Get Even” and “Rebel Cheer Squad: a Get Even series” for the BBC and Netflix. Her next book, Four Letter Word, arrives in March 2024. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Talk to Me by Cornel Wilczek. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||
| 28 Nov 2022 | April Fool's Day (1986) with Gretchen McNeil | 01:24:19 | |
Gathering for a weekend at the sprawling island home of their friend Muffy, a gaggle of Vassar students find themselves in a bit of a pickle as they start disappearing one at a time, apparently at the hand of a murderer who kills them in a series of increasingly bizarre ways. | |||
| 08 Jan 2024 | Eyes Without a Face (1960) with Liz DeGregorio | 01:26:50 | |
Somewhere on the outskirts of Paris, a woman, Louise, is driving alone at night. There’s a body in the back seat of her car. Its face is obscured, and it’s slumped over, lifeless. Because said body is a corpse, and Louise is soon dragging it into the Seine. Meanwhile, after giving a speech about the perils and pleasures of skin grafts, a doctor, Genessier, is called to the morgue to identify a body. It is that of his missing daughter? So he claims. On his way out, Gennessier is accosted by a man, Tessot, who asks if the body is that of his missing daughter, Simone. Gennessier tells him no, it’s his daughter, and that’s that. But back at the doctor’s home/clinic is indeed his daughter, Christiane, alive and well, but hiding behind a white mask that obscures a badly scarred face, the result of a recent car accident. The police, meanwhile, are suspicious – who is the body in the river, and why is IT missing its face? And why does it appear someone surgically removed said face with a scalpel? Louise, meanwhile, has located and lured a new facial donor / candidate / victim back to the clinic, a victim who’s soon undergoing a gruesome surgery that may or may not spell freedom, as it were, for poor faceless Christiane Genessier. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-27:46 Director Georges Franju Liz DeGregorio is a poet, writer, and editor. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Lucky Jefferson, Anomaly, Catapult, Dread Central, BUST, Ghouls Magazine, OyeDrum Magazine, and many other publications. She’s also performed at Providence’s Dorry Award-winning storytelling series Stranger Stories. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar. Music from Eyes Without a Face by Maurice Jarre. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on Our Blog), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, scareupod.com. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our Facebook group. Follow us on Instagram. | |||