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Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 108: Favorite Scenes!

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Feb 17 2020

You know that one part in a movie that really sticks with you? The one that resonates and reverberates deep in your soul? Well, Rhias Hall and Jennifer Lovely are here to tell you what theirs are! Do they match yours, or are yours entirely different ones? Let us know!

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Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 75: Fairy Tales Revisited!

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Apr 16 2018

It’s that time again, and Jennifer and Rhias are joined by Lisa (from the Noir! episode), and Jillian Venters of Gothic Charm School to talk about fairy tales: their horrifying origins, the stories of women they contain, and the movies that hold those things close to their celluloid hearts. Join them as they rip those hearts out and feast, including a few movies that you might not have thought of as fairy tales, then wind down with them as they discuss their own childhood stories and movies.

Handsome Boyfriend Jim note: At no point in this episode do they even mention “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” which I think is criminal, and Jen thinks I’m criminally tasteless for loving as much as I do. But I write these blurbs, so Hansel and Gretel gets its time in the sun!

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A Quiet Place, A Tale of Two Sisters, Alien, Avengers, Beauty and the Beast, Big Fish, Black Panther, Captain America: The First Avenger, Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, Company of Wolves, Coraline, Counterpart [TV], Crimson Peak, Donkey Skin, Edward Scissorhands, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Freeway, Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig, Hannibal [TV], Hard Candy, I Kill Giants, I Walk Along, Insidious: The Last Key, Into the Woods, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Legend, Legion [TV], Little Otik, Moulin Rouge, Mr. Rogers and Me, Night of the Hunter, No Questions Asked, November, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Pan's Labyrinth, Pattycakes, Seven Psychopaths, Snatched, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Suspiria, Tale of Tales, The Babysitter, The Boys Next Door, The Brothers Grimm, The Fall, The Hallow, The Red Shoes, The Ritual, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, The Shape of Water, The Spiral Staircase, The Terror [TV], Thor, Uncle Drew, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Veronica

Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 66: Classic Black and White Gems!

2 Comments | This entry was posted on Oct 09 2017

Hey, Don’t Read the Latin listeners, it’s time for another episode, and this one’s done in black and white. Maybe some grays and sepia, too.

This week’s co-host is returning favorite Rhias Hall of The Villain Edit, and she and Jennifer drink habanero cider and talk classic colorless cinema they love. Enjoy!

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Bedlam, Bride of Frankenstein, Bucket of Blood, City Lights, City of the Dead, Corridor of Mirrors, Dead Man's Curve, Dead of Night, Dracula, Dracula's Daughter, Dragonwyck, Eyes Without a Face, Frankenstein, Freaks, Gerald's Game, Gold Rush, Hands of Orloff, His Kind Of Woman, I Walked With A Zombie, In a Lonely Place, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Last Man on Earth, Laura, Leave Her To Heaven, Little Shop of Horrors, Lost Souls: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley and the Island of Dr. Moreau, M, Mad Love, Mad Max: Fury Road Black and Chrome, Metropolis, Modern Times, Night of the Demon, Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Nosferatu, Psycho, Rebecca, Sleight, The Amityville Horror, The Call of Cthulhu, The Golem, The Haunting, The Innocents, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Kid, The Lady of Shanghai, The Leopard Men, The Man Who Laughs, The Mist, The Mummy, The Omega Man, The Phantom Carriage, The Seventh Victim, The Spiral Staircase, The Unholy Three, The Uninvited, The Unknown, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Wolf Man, Them, Thirteen Women, Village of the Damned, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Young Frankenstein

Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 64: Asylums!

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Sep 04 2017

Hello, Don’t Read the Latineers! This episode is about horror movies set in asylums: open or closed, haunted or populated. Joining me this time once again is Rhias Hall of The Villain Edit. It’s one of my favorite genres of horror movies!

(A note from Handsome Boyfriend Jim: The video game they misidentify as “Homecoming” and “Home Again” is “Gone Home”. For some reason Jen can never, ever remember the title of it.)

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12 Monkeys, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, American Horror Story: Asylum [TV], Anatomy of a Murder, Asylum, Bad Dreams, Bedlam, Blue Black Hussar, Boo, Citadel, Colossal, Cropsey, Death Tunnel, Exorcist III, Fragile, Gone Home [video game], Gothika, Grave Encounters, Halloween, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Holy Hell, House on Haunted Hill (1999), Manhunter, Mister Frost, Morgan, Primer, Resolution, Session 9, Shutter Island, Silence of the Lambs, Something About Me and Ann, Split, Stonehearst Asylum, Sucker Punch, Suddenly Last Summer, The Baby's Room, The Battery, The Black Cat, The Brood, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Changeling, The Defenders [TV], The Monster, The Ninth Configuration, The Spiral Staircase, The Town of Light [video game], The Ward, Thir13en Ghosts, Titicut Follies, Triangle, Vampira and Me

DRtL Episode FIFTY: Our Top Fifty Favorite Horror Movies!

1 Comment | This entry was posted on Oct 10 2016

“Let’s make this bullshit happen!”

” …. Is that going to be our new motto from now on? Actually, that might look good on stickers, now that I think about it.”

So hey, check us out! Fifty episodes! That’s kind of a lot! And to celebrate, we are counting down the TOP FIFTY HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME!

Okay, well, no. We’re not going to pretend that we’re being at all objective. What we’re actually doing is our Our Top Fifty Favorite Horror Movies! You’re actually getting more than fifty, because Jennifer and Michael have each brought their own lists, so listen in as they compare the movies they love the most. (Presented in chronological order, so as not to descend into complete chaos.) Just in time for you to figure out what you want to watch for Halloween!

All this and more, as Jen tells us about a recent unpleasant incident in a movie theater, a documentary on the murder of Kitty Genovese, and completely spoils the ending of “The Changeling!”

We also talk about movies we’ve seen recently, including Blair Witch. If you just want to skip directly ahead to the Top Fifty goodness, you will find it at the 27-minutes-and-15-seconds mark.

Hope you enjoy this one!

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28 Days Later, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Tale of Two Sisters, Alien, American Horror Story [TV], Audition, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Blair Witch, Bride of Frankenstein, Burnt Offerings, Candyman, Carrie (1976), Child's Play 2, Company of Wolves, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Creepshow, Critters, Cube, Dark Water, Event Horizon, Exorcist III, Frailty, Freddy vs. Jason, Fright Night (1985), Halloweentown, Hellraiser, Here Comes the Devil, Hocus Pocus, Honeymoon, I Walked With A Zombie, In the Mouth of Madness, It Follows, Just Desserts, Kairo, Lake Mungo, Late Phases, Let the Right One In, Let Us Prey, Lifeforce, Luke Cage [TV], Near Dark, Night of the Living Dead, Nightbreed, One Missed Call, Paperhouse, Phantasm, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Poltergeist, Pontypool, Pumpkinhead, Ravenous, Re-Animator, Rebecca, Resolution, Ringu, Session 9, Shadow of a Doubt, Shutter, Slither, Starman, Starry Eyes, Stir of Echoes, Stoker, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, The Babadook, The Battery, The Changeling, The Company of Wolves, The Descent, The Descent 2, The Devil's Backbone, The Evil Dead, The Final Girls, The Fly, The Frighteners, The Haunting, The Innocents, The Lost Boys, The Loved Ones, The Mist, The Night of the Hunter, The Return of the Living Dead, The Ring, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Shining, The Spiral Staircase, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, The Uninvited, Thesis, They Live, Thir13en Ghosts, Under the Skin, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, You're Next

DRtL Episode 42: The Book Was Better!

1 Comment | This entry was posted on May 12 2016

“I’ve never seen the 50’s Vincent Price version . . . or, now that I stop to think about it, I don’t think I’ve seen the 60’s version, either . . . and I’m not sure I saw I Am Legend . . . . “

“Oh, my God — move on!”

Welcome to our only slightly late episode! This time, we’re exploring that strange territory where the silver screen and your local bookstore collide. That’s right, this episode is all about horror movies based on books! Bad movies based on good novels, good movies based on bad novels, and everything in between. Did we miss any of your favorites? Let us know!

Worthy of Note: Hopefully you will notice a big improvement in the sound quality over previous episodes. We’re trying a totally new audio set-up, and we think it sounds a lot better. Let us know what you think of that, too. We’re still experimenting and learning, and after two years of doing this, we’re finally making a little progress! Eventually, we catch on.

Speaking of which, also Worthy of Note — we’ve missed it by just a few days, but May 9th was the second anniversary of our very first episode! I know, we can’t believe it, either! For those who have been with us from the beginning, thank you so much for listening and for your comments and support, and for telling your friends about us. For those of you just joining — welcome! Grab some popcorn and settle in, because we’re not going to stop watching horror movies any time soon. See you in two weeks!

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American Psycho, Audition, Audrey Rose, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Battle Royale, Bone Tomahawk, Burnt Offerings, Captain America: Civil War, Cemetery Man, Coraline, Daredevil [TV], Don't Look Now, Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dragonwyck, Duel, Eyes Without a Face, Flowers in the Attic, Found, Frankenstein, Hellraiser, I Am Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Interview with the Vampire, Jennifer's Body, Jessica Jones [TV], Julia, Nightbreed, One Missed Call, Penny Dreadful [TV], Pontypool, Project Almanac, Psycho, Pulse, Rebecca, Relic, Secret Window, Silence of the Lambs, Somewhere in Time, Steven Universe [TV], Stir of Echoes, The Amityville Horror, The Birds, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Guy Who Was In That Thing, The Haunting, The Hole, The Hunger, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Innocents, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Keep, The Legend of Hell House, The Other, The Ring, The Spiral Staircase, The Tenant, The Thing, The Thing From Another World, The Uninvited, The Wicker Man, The Witch, The Woman in Black, Top Gun, tWorld War Z, What Dreams May Come, What We Do in the Shadows, Who Can Kill a Child?, Willard, Witchfinder General

DRtL Episode 33: Horror Romances!

3 Comments | This entry was posted on Nov 23 2015

Wooo-hooo, look at us! We swore we would have a new episode ready in two weeks and by God we actually did it.

Inspired by our recent viewing of Crimson Peak, this time we’re taking a look at Horror Romances! Even though the course of true love never quite runs smooth in a horror movie — it’s hard to give someone your heart when they really do want your heart, and they’re willing to use their sharpest knives to get it — we’re cuddling up as close to this topic as we can get. Do join us, won’t you, dear?

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Ash Vs. Evil Dead [TV], Bone Tomahawk, Bride of Frankenstein, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Candyman, Cat People (1942), Children of the Corn, Cloverfield, Corridor of Mirrors, Crimson Peak, Daredevil [TV], Dead Alive, Doctor Who [TV], Dracula (1992), Dragonwyck, Edward Scissorhands, Fright Night (1985), From Beyond, Hannibal [TV], Haunted, Hellraiser, Honeymoon, I Walked With A Zombie, Incident at Loch Ness, Kiss of the Damned, Kissed, Let the Right One In, Let Us Prey, Life After Beth, Love Object, May, My Left Eye Sees Ghosts, Natural Born Killers, Nightbreed, Only Lovers Left Alive, Possession, Q: The Winged Serpent, Rebecca, Resolution, Return of the Living Dead Part 3, Shaun of the Dead, Shock Waves, Sightseers, Snow White: a Tale of Terror, Spring, Stoker, Supernatural [TV], Tales of Halloween, The Beyond, The Final Girls, The Fly, The Hobbit, The Hunger, The Innocents, The Legacy (1978), The Martian, The Signal, The Spiral Staircase, The Vanishing, Thirst, Twilight, Warm Bodies, Who Could Kill a Child?, You're Next, Zombieland

Episode Fourteen: Remakes!

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Dec 06 2014

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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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A Nightmare on Elm Street, As Above So Below, Beauty and the Beast, Blue Ruin, Cabin Fever, Cape Fear, Carrie (1976), Cat People (1982), Citadel, Cobalt [TV Movie], Dark Water, Dawn of the Dead, Double Indemnity, Dracula, Dracula Untold, Dreamcatcher, Earth Girls Are Easy, Evil Dead (2013), Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th, Fright Night (2011), Grim Prairie Tales, High Plains Drifter, House of Wax (2005), House on Haunted Hill, Insidious, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jessabelle, Leprechaun, Maniac, Mockingbird, Mother's Day, Night of the Living Dead, Nightbreed, Oculus, Ouija, Paranormal Activity, Poltergeist (2015), Primer, Psycho, Pulse, Ring, River's Edge, Shadow of a Doubt, Shutter (2004), Shutter (2008), Silent House, Snowpiercer, Starry Eyes, Stoker, The Amityville Horror, The Babadook, The Battery, The Blob, The Brood, The Conjuring, The Fly, The Fog, The Grudge, The Guest, The Haunting, The Last House on the Left (1972), The Last House on the Left (2009), The Night of the Hunter, The Omen, The Quick and the Dead, The Ring, The Sci-Fi Boys, The Shining [TV Mini-Series], The Silence of the Lambs, The Spiral Staircase, The Thing, The Walking Dead [TV], Them, Thir13en Ghosts, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Willard

Episode Eleven: Horror Comedies

0 Comments | This entry was posted on Oct 17 2014

Welcome to another Halloween season episode of your favorite horror movie podcast! (At least, we assume we’re your favorite horror movie podcast. If we’re not, please don’t tell us.)

In this episode, Jennifer rants about Kevin Smith, whose recent film, “Tusk,” seems to be one inside joke aimed at the fans of podcast. (We here at Don’t Read the Latin promise that if we ever make a movie of our own, we’re not going to just pander to our existing fanbase — we intend to pander to everyone.)

We also talk about economy of storytelling, Harlan Ellison, Jen’s Big Black Gothic Yard Sale, and Michael’s upcoming Halloween reading!

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“Speaking of soft-core pornography …. ”
“I’m Aware I’m making poor choices.”
“I have a whole bunch of ‘Night of the … ‘ movies.”

Speaking of Michael’s Halloween reading:

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ABCs of Death 2, Absentia, American Psycho, American Werewolf in London, Annabelle, Arachnophobia, Beetlejuice, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Black Sheep, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cabin in the Woods, Cheerleader Massacre, Critters, Dracula Untold, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Event Horizon, Feast, Fido, Fletch, Frankenhooker, Fright Night (1985), Grabbers, Gremlins, High Spirits, House, In the Mouth of Madness, Leprechaun, Metallica's Through the Never, Monster Squad, Night of the Comet, Night of the Creeps, Night of the Demons, Oculus, Phantom of the Paradise, Possession, Psycho Beach Party, Re-Animator, Severance, Sightseers, Slither, Slumber Party Massacre, Stage Fright, The Guest, The Spiral Staircase, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Tremors, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Tusk, V/H/S Viral, Vamp, Vampire Academy, Warm Bodies, Waxworks, You're Next, Zombieland

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Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 108: Favorite Scenes!

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Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 75: Fairy Tales Revisited!

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Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 66: Classic Black and White Gems!

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Don’t Read The Latin! Episode 64: Asylums!

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DRtL Episode FIFTY: Our Top Fifty Favorite Horror Movies!

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Episode Fourteen: Remakes!

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