Test Pattern: A Horror Movie Podcast

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Episode 88: The Dark Holiday - Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree & The Halloween Tree (1993) Oct 17, 2018

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We celebrate one of Tab's favorite Halloween traditions with Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree and the 1993 animated adaptation!

Sources:

The Legend of Disney's Halloween Tree, D23 (Official Disney Fan Club)

Episode 87: Pale Shadows and Ghostly Dreams - Nosferatu (1922) & Shadow of the Vampire Oct 10, 2018

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We travel to Count Orlok's castle to dine with the OG film vampire! We watched F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire!

Sources:

Nosferatu (1922)

Drakula halala

Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture, and the Arts edited by Isabel Ermida, pg 139

Writing the Horror Movie by Marc Blake and Sara Bailey

"Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story" by Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today

Clips from Horror Europa, hosted by Mark Gattis

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

"E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire", Filmmaker Magazine

Episode 86: Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch? - The Witches & Hocus Pocus Oct 03, 2018

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We kick off our October programming with a look at two allegedly family-friendly favorites ... featuring women who want to eat children. We watched The Witches and Hocus Pocus!

Sources:

The Witches:

www.roalddahl.com

"Gobsmacked!: Memories of Editing The Witches" by Stephen Roxburgh

"20 Banned Books That May Surprise You" by Molly Driscoll, The Christian Science Monitor

"In Which Consider the Macabre Unpleasantness of Roald Dahl" by Alex Carnevale. This Recording

"Bewitched, Bothered, Buried Under Latex" by John M. Wilson, Los Angeles Times

"There's Nothing Better Than Making Children Scream" by Kirsten Tranter, The Sydney Morning Herald

"11/19/1988 - Screen Witches in London - test with audiences - Pinewood - Give notes to Trim Down" Jim's Red Book, jimhenson.com

"The Fantastically Adaptable Mr. Dahl" by David Gritten, The Telegraph

Hocus Pocus:

"The Magical Tale of How Hocus Pocus Went From Box-Office Flop to Halloween Favorite" by Jen Chaney, Yahoo Movies

"Hocus Pocus Turns 25" by Leanne Aguilera, Entertainment Tonight

"Kathy Najimy Shares the Secrets of Hocus Pocus to Celebrate its 25th Anniversary" by Kristy Puchko, SyFy Wire

Monster Kid Marathon 2018 Oct 01, 2018

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We discuss our 2018 Monster Kid Marathon lists and pick favorites from yours!

Episode 85: Iranian Horror - A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night & Under the Shadow Sep 26, 2018

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Godzilla Level patron Frank brings us a double feature of horror films helmed by directors of Iranian heritage. We watched A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Under the Shadow!

Sources:

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

"Behind the Scenes of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Part 1)", Vice

"Behind the Scenes of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Part 2)", Vice

Under the Shadow (2017)

"Under the Shadow: the films that influenced this creepy Iranian horror" by Samuel Wigley, BFI

Episode 84: Horror in the Elements - Frozen (2010) & Black Water (2008) Sep 19, 2018

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Godzilla level patron Mad Max takes us out into the elements to suffer the horrors of nature, with Adam Green's Frozen and the Australian horror film Black Water!

Sources:

Frozen (2010)

"Director's Cut: Adam Green Reveals the Inspirations Behind Frozen", Complex

"Frozen Director Adam Green Unthaws" by Alex Nunnelly, from The Harvard Crimson

"The Real Life Frozen: Woman Stranded on Ski Lift for Five Hours" by Amanda Tullos, The 13th Floor

Black Water (2008)

"The Night of the Hunter" by Barbara McMahon, The Guardian

"Andrew Traucki Goes Deep into Black Water" by Brian Gallagher, Movie Web

You may notice that we didn't announce what we're doing next week. Originally, we had recorded an episode with Ryan S. (@thegiantbewithu), but his audio got corrupted and we are still working on repairing, so we had to pull an audible. Next week, we'll be doing Frank's episode on Iranian Horror, featuring A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and Under the Shadow!

Episode 83: Sing a Song of Horror - Repo! The Genetic Opera & Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sep 12, 2018

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Godzilla level patron Fred sings us a song of horror with Repo! The Genetic Opera and Sweeney Todd!

Sources

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

"Repo! The Genetic Opera is a gory, disturbing, awful musical that defied all the odds" by Julia Alexander, Polygon

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

"The story behind the legend of Sweeney Todd" by LM Jackson, Timeout

"Penny Dreadful: From True Crime to Fiction" PBS

"Tim Burton's Slasher Film" by Paul Brownfield, Los Angeles Times

"Sweeney Todd: Inside a Cutting-Edge Musical" by Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly

"Demon Barber, Meat Pies and All, Sings on Screen" by Sylviane Gold

Episode 82: #SatanicBorgnine - Race With the Devil & The Devil's Rain Sep 05, 2018

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Tommy gives a devil of a time with this week's episode! We look at two AWESOME films from 1975 about Satanic cults - Race With the Devil and The Devil's Rain!

Satanic Panic:

"The History of the Satanic Panic in the US - And Why it's Not Over Yet" by Aja Romano, Vox

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s by Kier La-Janisse

Race With the Devil:

"The Gist - Race With the Devil (1975)" by Jeff Stafford, TCM

The Devil's Rain:

"The Devil's Rain: One of the Strangest Horror Movies of All Time" by Jim Knipfel

Episode 81: Attack of the 90s Monsters - Anaconda & Deep Rising Aug 29, 2018

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Shin Godzilla level patron Mando (from Thematic Elements!) joins us to talk about two of his favorite 90s creature features - Anaconda and Deep Rising! We had a great time with Mando and really unearthed some of the deeper themes of these movies. Are all snakes in love with JLo? Is the Converse/sock combination the worst footwear choice for a boat? What was Roger Ebert's criteria for determining whether a giant monster movie is good or bad in the 90s? Listen to find out!

Anaconda (1997)

Sources

"Anaconda (1997)", And You Call Yourself a Scientist?

Deep Rising (1998)

Sources:

"Deep Rising (1998)" by Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending

Find Armando Online:

@blinkbomber - Twitter & Instagram

Thematic Elements

@themelementspod - Twitter
facebook.com/themelementspod - Facebook
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Episode 80: Do You Like 90s Slashers? - Scream & Urban Legend Aug 22, 2018

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Shin Godzilla patron Casey joins us to talk about 90s slashers - Scream (one of her favorite films) and Urban Legend (a guilty pleasure clearly inspired by Craven's film)!

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