The start of a new year can be a chaotic period. Recalling personal milestones from the previous year while scrambling to create lax resolutions for the new one can be a chore. Thankfully, we have the medium of games to turn to when it’s time to ground ourselves. And much like with other aspects of […]
Podcasts
Five Years with Stephen King: The Losers’ Club Podcast Turns a Page Into 2022
Five years ago, a bunch of friends in Chicago gathered around a single Yeti microphone and spent a few hours talking about Stephen King‘s first novel, Carrie. Two weeks later, they dusted off ‘Salem’s Lot. Then The Shining. Hell, they even covered Rage, King’s first novel under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. To their surprise, it […]
The Boo Crew Talks Ari Aster, ‘Evil Dead’ and Horror Memories With Singer Brandon Boyd! [Podcast]
Horror, paranormal and the occult seem to be themes that weave in and out of the work of Brandon Boyd, visual artist, best-selling author, and singer. Aside from the fact that his multi-platinum band Incubus shares its name with an ancient demon, it might not seem so glaringly obvious thru the band’s catalog of some […]
The “Bromance” at the Center of ‘Witchboard’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Taking “Classes” After celebrating 2021 last week with a recap and blooper reel, we’re closing out the year by teaming up with the folks over at Kill By Kill to discuss Kevin Tenney‘s bromance-y supernatural horror film Witchboard! In the film, Linda (Tawny Kitaen) becomes entranced into using her friend Brandon’s (Stephen Nichols) Ouija board […]
Celebrating ‘Scream’ at 25 and Horror Queers at 3! [Horror Queers Podcast]
Tits and Tongues &The Screw-Up Showcase We’re nearly ready to wrap up December – and 2021! It’s been another silly month on the podcast, including episodes on the bizarre queer antichrist/oatmeal zombie film Fear No Evil (1981), David Fincher’s feel bad holiday film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) and the queerest superhero film of all […]
‘The Faculty’ Is the ‘Season of the Witch’ of the ‘Scream’ Franchise [Halloweenies Podcast]
We’re not aliens, we’re discontent. For the final installment of this season’s Randy’s Recs, which finds the Halloweenies dissecting a film that inspired the Scream franchise, the gang heads to Ohio. No, not Springwood, but the small town of Herrington, where young Midwestern teens are having close encounters with the third kind. The only way […]
‘Hearts in Atlantis’ at 20: Director Scott Hicks Revisits the Stephen King Drama [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
“You know, when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness. You think you’re living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two.” –Sir Anthony Hopkins as Ted Brautigan The Losers are still in Harwich, Connecticut, only now they’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scott […]
Unwrapping Glen Morgan’s ‘Black Christmas’ 15 Years Later [Halloweenies Podcast]
“I’m sorry, but that fuckin’ voice, that was not Megan or Kyle. That was the fucking devil, and he was not talking to us, he was talking to Billy.” It’s Christmas Eve and the Halloweenies are shacking up at New Hampshire’s Clement University — more specifically, Delta Alpha Kappa. Things are … festive, to say […]
The Camp, the Kink, and the Queerness in ‘Batman Returns’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Gay Sewer Gremlin. After closing out November with some Satanists in The Seventh Victim, we kicked off December with the queer-coded antichrist in Fear No Evil before getting into the rape-revenge weeds with David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Now it’s time to really get into the holiday spirit with what may be one of the kinkiest […]
The 2021 Safe Room Horror Game of the Year Awards [Safe Room Podcast]
To say it has been one hell of a year would be an understatement. Fortunately, the medium of horror was faithfully standing at the ready to provide spooky solace in these uncertain times. As the year comes to a close, Neil and I are counting down our top five horror games of 2021, a task […]
Stephen King Goes To War With the Past In ‘Hearts In Atlantis’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
“But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything.” Hearts in Atlantis is a weird book. It begins with “Low Men in Yellow Coats”, a wistful tale that breezes by the Dark Tower as it touches on classic Stephen King themes of childhood, magic, and the underlying […]
Exploring Rape Revenge in David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Tic for Tac. After spending our 150th episode extravaganza with The Lost Boys and closing out November with some Satanists in The Seventh Victim , we kicked off December with the queer-coded antichrist in Fear No Evil. Now, we’re getting into the winter season with David Fincher‘s 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson‘s novel that set the world […]
‘Until Dawn’ Remains a Thrilling Trip to a Cabin in the Woods [Safe Room Podcast]
The line between cinematic presentation and player interactivity has been a fine line within the horror games space. Giving the player enough agency while still contending with an experience informed mainly by decades of horror filmmaking can be challenging to maintain. Something that Supermassive Games managed to pull off in spades with their first foray […]
Is Christmas Actually the Best Holiday for Horror Movies? [Halloweenies Podcast]
The holidays have hit Woodsboro, and the Halloweenies are about three drinks in at their delightfully delirious office Christmas party. VHS tapes are everywhere. There’s cake on the television. And, for god sake’s, where did Caffrey run off to? He was just here a second ago! As you can see, things are a little wild […]
Stephen King Delivers a Devastating Dark Tower Detour With ‘Hearts in Atlantis’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion?” Is “Low Men in Yellow Coats” a good title or a dumb one? Is it a novel or a novella? And is it best remembered as a gutting portrait of lost innocence or an integral stop on the road to […]