Director Lucky McKee’s best film (to anyone with taste) is obviously 2011’s “The Woman”, but nine years before that he directed a movie about another woman. Yessir, May’s her name (as well as the name of the film) and watching creepy dolls and making friends from human body parts is her game. If you want Zooey Deschanel’s character in “New Girl” to be less whimsical and more of an addled creep, this is for you.
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Episode 345 - Sardonicus, Part 2
Wipe that grin off your face, part 2 of Ray Russell’s “Sardonicus” is here, and it’s taking a turn for the grim. A turn, if you will, like a smile dropping into a frown. We promise it’s better than the mouth prosthetics in the 1961 “Sardonicus” film at least, even if it does lack the “punishment pole” gimmick. William Castle was nuts y’all.
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Episode 344 - Sardonicus, Part 1
Long before Parker Finn made creepy smiling a thing, there was Ray Russell’s 1961 story ‘Sardonicus’. You may have seen images of a dude with a really bad prosthetic mouth from the film adaptation ‘Mr. Sardonicus’, but the story does a much better version of this because you only see images from reading IN YOUR MIND. Also, “Mr.” Sardonicus was my father, please call me Marek.
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Episode 343 - Better Horror Remakes 2: Fright Night (2011)
2011’s “Fright Night” is, of course, a remake of the 1964 classic Spanish film “Noche de Miedo” starring Carlos Larrañaga, Rafael Guerrero, and Aurora Bautista. Not only that, it’s one of the rare remake exceptions where a good movie is remade into a movie that is equally good. Is that even legal? Oh damn, are we going to get disappeared to a foreign prison now? Never forget us listeners….
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Episode 342 - Better Horror Remakes 1: The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
We all know the GOOD horror movie remakes; The Thing, The Fly, The Blob, etc, but what about the remakes that are a little more underappreciated? Everyone now is foolishly remaking good movies into meh/garbage films, but what about taking a solidly meh movie to begin with and giving it a loving touchup? Wes Craven’s 1977 ‘The Hills Have Eyes” is a bland version of the Sawney Bean legend, but what if that was jazzed up a bit into, say, a 2006 retelling focusing on the dangers of nuclear testing in the American Southwest? Well say what if no longer, because that’s what we’re covering today.
Join marginally popular dark fiction author J.R. Hamantaschen (“You Shall Never Know Security,” “With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer,” several unrequited love letters) and Derek Sotak (“Nachonomics,” “The Field Guide to Nachos,” “Nachos & You,” and a violent call to arms to be uncovered circa 2025) as they discuss the world of horror in (what is hopefully perceived to be) a light-hearted, frivolous and irreverent way. Those are all three words they’ve never previously been associated with, but here’s hoping! Expect horror fiction, horror movies, horror culture, and interviews / hang-out sessions with authors and creators in the field.
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