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Here’s a collection of recent posts and podcast episodes.

See No Evil?
Jason Jason

See No Evil?

The Pang brothers' cult Hong Kong horror film The Eye (2002) is inspired by a tragic real life event. It's also an imaginative story that brings together organ transplantation, clairvoyance, and folks who see dead people. Jason and Ali can't keep their eyes off this creepy classic.

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Roth Strikes Again
Jason Jason

Roth Strikes Again

Eli Roth is one of the contemporary masters of horror. For the last twenty years, his films have delighted and disgusted the fans and foes of the genre. Jason and Ali reflect on his latest, Thanksgiving (2023) as well as Hostel (2005) and The Green Inferno (2013).

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Freaks
Jason Jason

Freaks

The 1932 talkie directed by Tod Browning became one of the most controversial and most censored movies of all time. Why? Have you seen the lost half hour of this horror classic? If so, Jason and Ali would very much like to know.

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The Human Centipede: Muck or Masterpiece?
Jason Jason

The Human Centipede: Muck or Masterpiece?

Here's a movie that even hardcore horror fans fear. Does Tom Six's infamous 2009 film deserve its infamy? Does he need psychiatric help? Join Jason and Ali for a truly frightening conversation about scary doctors, useless cops, and hapless tourists in Germany.

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Halloween Ends
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Halloween Ends

For the Halloween episode, Jason and Ali do the right thing and discuss a movie from the popular franchise. Is the latest instalment really the last? Does Laurie have a crush on Michael Myers? Is that a weird question? If so, why is her granddaughter, Allyson, so attracted to the masked one's apprentice, Corey, in this, the final chapter of the slasher saga, Halloween Ends (2022).

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Pazuzu Power
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Pazuzu Power

The Exorcist: Believer (2023) revives one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Heads are turned, crucifixes are flung, holy water sizzles and teenage girls speak in the gravelly voice of an unrepentant chain-smoker. But is this movie anywhere nearly as bad as some critics would have you believe? And why is there no green pea soup spew? Jason and Ali consider these and other burning questions.

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Found Footage Fiends
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Found Footage Fiends

Do you love or do you despise The Outwaters (2022)? Why are found footage horror films so divisive? In this episode, Jason and Ali follow a group of artsy thirtysomethings who come to a very sticky end in the Mojave Desert.

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Clothes that Kill
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Clothes that Kill

Can a dress be demonic? Should you be scared of your jeans? Definitely. In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about two excellent examples of sartorial horror, In Fabric (2018) and Slaxx (2020).

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The Number of the Beast
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

The Number of the Beast

Do you have a strange birthmark? Does it look like three sixes? We hope not. In this episode, Jason and Ali will talk about the Antichrist, rottweilers and the classic movie with a creepy child, The Omen (1976).

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Science and Terror in Outer Space
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Science and Terror in Outer Space

The 1997 movie Event Horizon perplexed moviegoers upon release but has since become a cult favourite. In this episode, Jason and Ali put on their spacesuits and travel to the uncharted realms where the adventurous crew of a futuristic spaceship come face to face with absolute, unhinged evil.

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Peck or Perish: The Birds and Ornithological Horror
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Peck or Perish: The Birds and Ornithological Horror

Are birds terrifying? Will their different species one day unite to exterminate us? Apparently so, according to Alfred Hitchcock's classic creature feature The Birds (1963) and Daphne du Maurier's short story (1952) which inspired the film. In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about the real-life terrors of getting pooped on and swooped by birds, as well as the feathered furies of the horror genre.

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Who Dooked Up the House?
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Who Dooked Up the House?

In this episode, Ali and Jason discover their capacity to tolerate the glass-shattering screams of a gaslit child. They also do their best to enter the emotional world of a single mother trying her hardest not to succumb to the demons that threaten to tear apart an already fractured and fragile family unit. We find that neither in a word, nor in a book, are we able to escape The Babadook (2014).

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Pumpkins and Other Demons of Vengeance
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Pumpkins and Other Demons of Vengeance

How far would you go to seek retribution if you've been horribly wronged? Would you seek out a witch called Haggis, dig up the skeleton of a terrifying demon from a pumpkin-patch graveyard, and watch it turn into one of the most memorable monsters of horror cinema? Well, that's exactly what you'd do if you were the traumatised hero Ed from the brilliant 1988 cult classic, Pumpkinhead.

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Maritime Menace: Dracula on the Demeter
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Maritime Menace: Dracula on the Demeter

In this episode, Jason and Ali put on their life jackets and talk about the latest Dracula movie, The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). Does this film's fusion of vampiric horror and nautical adventure work? Do you get seasick? And why does the Transylvanian monster need to travel to England, anyway?

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Kids these days! On Demonic Dancing Teens
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Kids these days! On Demonic Dancing Teens

In this episode Jason and Ali join the partygoers of Night of the Demons (1988), the quintessential teen party horror film. They talk about goths, geeks, frat boys and other 80s youth culture stereotypes, and wonder if young people are inherently terrifying.

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Woof! Cujo, the Killer Canine
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Woof! Cujo, the Killer Canine

In this episode Jason and Ali hide from one of the most terrifying monsters of horror cinema, the rabid St Bernard of Cujo (1983). Based on a Stephen King novel, this movie has it all: adultery, alcoholism, breakfast cereals and loads of terror. It is also one of the greatest creature features of all time.

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Lights, Camera, Slash!
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Lights, Camera, Slash!

Jason and Ali mark the 13th episode of the podcast by revisiting the seminal slasher films Friday the 13th (1980) and Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). Would you stay at a summer camp with a very sinister backstory? Were Pamela and Jason Voorhees anywhere near as brutal as the posh film critics who tried to shut down the films?

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Talk to Me, or the Terrors of Personal Trauma
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Talk to Me, or the Terrors of Personal Trauma

Can kangaroos be creepy? Would you attend a séance and hold the severed hand of a shady shaman? In this episode, Jason and Ali talk about the terrific new Australian film, Danny and Michael Philippou's Talk to Me (2022) and talk to you about trauma, teenage daredevilry and celebrity YouTubers.

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The D'oh of Doom
Jason Jason

The D'oh of Doom

The Simpsons is quite possibly the most iconic TV show of the contemporary world. It also features regular tributes to the horror genre, in its annual Halloween episodes. Listen to Jason and Ali talk about some of their favourite Treehouse of Horror segments, Homer's devilish appetites, and Lisa's encounters with the ghouls of Asian horror cinema.

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Hellraiser, or the Horrible Pains of a Puzzle Box
Ali Alizadeh Ali Alizadeh

Hellraiser, or the Horrible Pains of a Puzzle Box

What do you get if you cross a Rubik's Cube with malignant demonic entities such as a follically-challenged dude with nails in his head? You get Clive Barker's classic 1987 film Hellraiser, that's what. In this episode Jason and Ali discuss the hugely influential movie, its first sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), as well as Barker's brilliant novella The Hellbound Heart (1986).

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