Progressively Horrified

It's May and that means it's Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month! We are jumping into a group of beloved films from the Asian diaspora. We are starting with the amazing "One Cut of the Dead". It's a low budget Japanese horror film about a low budget Japanese horror film, but just when you think you've seen all the layers, you hit the midpoint of the movie and you realize you've just been staring at a tree and you're in the middle of the forest. It's an incredible work of heart and staggering genius about finding the art and love in making movies of moderate mediocracy. It's a movie about movies, but not in that way. Like, in a good way. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jeremy, Ben, and Emily are joined by Jorri Roberts, AMC Networks Creative Strategist, for a chat about Interview with a Vampire (1994). ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's Romeo and Juliet but with vampires and werewolves and a lot more sparkle. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Which kind of horror creature are you? Are you the wet shirtless sewer dwelling kind or the or the dry in lingerie kind? Underworld is a movie that will have you asking how it can be so full of ideas that seem good on paper and still somehow make something so boring. Guns that shoot bullets full of daylight? A sexy vampire assassin played by Kate Beckinsale? A centuries old blood feud between sexy vampires and sexy werewolves? A secret history? An evil mentor? Werewolf Michael Sheen vs Vampire Bill Nighy? It seems impossible to screw up... and yet! You do have to admire a movie about vampires and werewolves that constantly tells you that everything you know about vampires, werewolves, and even the details they just told you about the plot up until now is actually wrong! We're finally talking about Underworld and you don't want to miss it! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's time for the final installment of our Fear Street watch! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

S. E. and Craig are back to brave another discussion about needle drops as Emily, Ben, and Jeremy chat about the second installment of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

There once was a street named Fear. Actually, this has nothing to do with a street. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This is the true story, of four strangers, one stranger's wife, and an indeterminate number of ghosts picked to live in a house, work together, and have their lives recorded by a psychopathic psychiatrist. Find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting haunted! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our beloved friend and the writer of the new comic Deprog, Tina Horn is back for a tale of cannibal twinks and jealous guys who make their feelings your problem. Bones And All is a masterpiece and a wild alternate take on Wonka, if we're honest. Come join us for a wild ride of bisexual cannibalism the likes of which you only used to get from network television. We miss you, Hannibal. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's like the horror film version of "is this a trash can or is it part of the art exhibit?" ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're back and if you don't think this Voots Riley satire is a horror movie, you just don't understand horror friend. Corporate America is the most terrifying horror of all! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We talk about the spooky race drama, mini-series "The Other Black Girl" all about Checkov's elevator ghost and how sometimes the real villain is the friends you braid along the way. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Aaron and Alicia join The Horror Squad to talk about The Blackening (2022), which was directed by Tim Story and written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins. The movie is a good ol' fashioned slasher whodunit parody, that asks a simple question: who dies first if the entire cast is Black? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Happy Black History Month! And, as such, Happy Black Director's Month here on Progressively Horrified. We're starting off hot with a new take on the Frankenstein story, "An Angry Black Girl and her Monster". In a way, it's a little bit of a "what if Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was a horror story?" but it's also got a little bit of "The Wire" flavor to it. It's clearly made with not a lot of money, but some excellent casting choices. Some of the direction late in this one is a little puzzling, but we think it's still very much worth a watch! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The episode you’re about to listen to is about Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and some relevant trigger warnings for this discussion include allusion to drug overdose and animal death, and our hosts ranked this movie as spoopy, and totally metal. Also, big thanks to special guest Amanda Albrecht (@Robofeather) - who is totally metal as well. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's our first movie of the new year and we are starting out UPSETTING! "Soft and Quiet" is a movie that sneaks up on you and ruins your day. It is absolutely and completely without chill of any kind. It's about a group of white women who start out by attending a regular old Nazi bookclub and by the end of the night will have committed multiple felonies/hate crimes. It's a tight film. It's short. It's filmed in "one take" and follows these white women as things get wildly out of control. You're along for the whole ride AND WE DID NOT WANT TO BE... but... this movie does a few things really well. It's incredibly made, incredibly acted, brilliantly scripted. If it wasn't one of the single most traumatic watches we've had on this show, I'd say everybody should watch it. It is, however, incredibly traumatic and we are still talking about who we think the audience is for this and who should see it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

You thought we could wrap up a whole year worth of movies in one episode? Nah, son. We know how to talk and talk and talk. This time we're covering all our favorite new takes on old favorites, our Latin American History month films, and a mélange of other great stuff. After this, you will know what the best horror movies for you to go watch are. Whether you choose to do it, well, that's up to you. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

2023: that was a fucking yeah, huh? We discovered that watching their movies back to back four weeks in a row was enough to make us hate any director. My eye has only recently stopped twitching when people say the name Cronenberg. Would you believe I even got tired to Guillermo Del Toro? Whodathunk? We caught up with Scream just in time for it to implode very publicly. We fell in love with a goofy black lesbian and her softspoken brother as they fought a sky manta ray. We learned how to murder someone with a Menu, we learned that babies are made when a woman grows an external rage womb, and we learned perhaps the least effective way to stop an apocalypse by showing up at a gay couple's cabin. But perhaps most importantly, Hellbender taught us that the real magical powers were the friends we ate along the way ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We've been talking about this movie since we started the podcast and now we finally did it! Unfortunately, this film's John Constantine is from LA. Mercifully, that means Keanu doesn't have to do a British accent. Not that he can't do it. I mean, forsooth, we all remember Bram Stoker's Dracula, do we not? Instead, this time we leave it to Rachel Weisz to do an accent which basically just equates to "Americans talk low and mumble, right?". Hey, did she teach Benedict Cumberbatch? That's definitely a Greenwich Village accent, right? But just like The Prophecy, nothing that happens in this movie really matters until Gabriel and Satan show up! Tilda Swinton's Gabriel is The Angel of Gender and Stormare's Satan is really just having the time of his life for the whole five minutes he's in the movie. This is how you become THE DEVIL. Oh and for some reason Shia LeBeouf is here. Why? Unclear. Ask again later. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★