Posts Tagged ‘As Above So Below’
Episode Sixteen: 2014 – The Year in Horror
Happy New Year! 2014 was a great year for horror — if you were willing to dig for it. While there were only a mere handful of big studio releases — and they were uniformly disappointing — there were a lot of fantastic indie films out there, which generally received limited theatrical releases, assuming they didn’t go straight to Netflix or VOD.
Jennifer and Michael walk you through the best this past year had to offer, with special guests Jeff Harris from Fanboy News Network and Jillian Venters from Gothic Charm School. Let us know what you think, and tell us if there are any gems we missed.
(We also recorded the “Geek Culture Review Of 2014″ episode of Fanboy News Network that day, in one long epic podcasting session. You should definitely check that out, too!)
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Episode Fourteen: Remakes!
Whether you love them or hate them, the horror remake is here to stay. (Hollywood loves to feast on its own dead.) Join Jennifer and Michael as they delve into the best, the worst, and the most completely pointless.
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Episode Eight: Found Footage
“It’s not like [Rob Zombie] is out there strong-arming small children for their candy money.”
“Although — you can kinda picture that, can’t you?”
“I kinda can, yeah.”
Felicitations, fright fans! Are you ready to face a fantastic festival of fearsome found footage films?
…. All right, that’s enough alliteration for one post. Welcome to another episode with your hosts Jennifer Lovely and Michael Montoure, as we bring you the skinny on horror cinema’s fastest-growing sub-genre, and discuss its strengths and limitations.
Expect chills, thrills, and more:
- Why found footage films don’t try to emulate Blair Witch‘s improvised scenes
- Scooby Doo as a gateway drug to horror
- Our guilty fondness for the recent Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated series
- How The Blair Witch Project lead the way for small-budget productions like The Battery and Jug Face
- Jennifer rants entertainingly about Rob Zombie, Amanda Palmer, and crowdfunding
- A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it LMFAO reference, and a mention of Christian Bale’s spectacular on-set meltdown
- Montoure has this episode’s “Fuck This Noise” moment, with the indie horror feature “All Cheerleaders Die”
Let us know what you think, and thanks for listening!
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Episode Two: What Is Horror, Anyway?
“Does everything fail to be a horror movie? Oh my God, nothing’s actually horror!”
“Why do we even have this podcast — ? All right, folks, that’s it, there’s not going to be an episode three ….”
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Welcome back to our second episode, where we decide to tackle a highly subjective and ultimately completely unanswerable question! What is horror? Because we don’t shy away from the hard topics! (We’re not smart enough to yet.)
Join us as we talk about:
- Watching color films in black and white
- The War of the Worlds TV series
- Bleak endings, and when they’re earned
- Rob Zombie’s learning curve as a director
- … And something about taking off a dirty dress — ?
- Movies on the border between thrillers and horror, and Montoure takes a stab at defining the distinction between the two
- Montoure tries to remember what movie a terrifying scene he remembers from his childhood could possibly be from
- Jennifer has never read the Internet creepypasta short story “Candle Cove”
- When the suck fairy comes to visit movies you used to love
- movies that take a gleeful fun-house approach to their mayhem
- Horror comedies
- Horror movie theme ringtones
- Movies based on real-life horrors
- Why people don’t help when faced with real-life horrors
- What movies we’re looking forward to
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