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The creatures dive into the lurid and wonderful world of Sergio Martino with his Black Cat adaptation Your Vice Is A Locked Room and Only I Have The Key. They discuss the masters of Italian film and adaptive screenwriting, as well as cats who eat eyes. cw: SA

The creatures are back in Japan for the Gothic B&W classic Kuroneko. They discuss the term "Lynchian", touch on the Oscars and hash out editing techniques across cultures. cw: SA

The cats are back to tackle a double-feature: one shadowy classic of psychological horror and one erotic fantasy set to incendiary David Bowie tunes. And they're both called Cat People! Black Cat Strut continues here on HFC. cw: incest

In this brand new non-canon miniseries, the creatures are paying tribute to their nocturnal feline friends with nine monumental cat movies. The first insallment is an analysis of Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat, starring legends Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. The creatures also tackle Flash Gordon, Argylle and Profondo Rosso as they streeeetch out and watch a Universal classic.

The creatures are once again stirring to bring a triple-feature of Christmas fear. The call is coming from inside the podcast. cw: SA, r*pe culture

What is this; a crossover episode?! The creatures were stoked to join their new favorite podcast The Infinite Library (John and Ben) to talk about Koji Suzuki's novel Ring and Hideo Nakata's subsequent horror movie classic of the same name. The creatures and librarians go deep down the well to discuss the themes and legacy of this enormous franchise just in time for Halloween. cw: SA Check out The Infinite Library! https://open.spotify.com/show/3K8XLcPeaAnYbs8NzBXmXI

The creature are taking a break from their break to review the brand new film from Jennifer Reeder: Perpetrator. They struggle to say the name of the film and then dive into the blood to make sense of this crazy new vision of horror.

It's been a wonderful season, creatures. Let's smooch some witches.

The creatures explore the quiet countryside of macedonia and explore the world from different points of view through 2022’s You Won’t Be Alone. They discuss shoegaze, allegories and plans for a post-season special.

The creatures are back with Addams Family indie darling Hellbender! They cough up blood and dish on regional filmmaking, COVID productions and CGI. Spring eats winter, baby...

This week Rob & Dylan watched Robert Zemeckis's The Witches. They're lucky to be alive.

In one of their most divisive eps yet, the creatures debate the quality of Oz Perkins's Gretel & Hansel. They talk nepo babies, child actors and a chance encounter with Alucarda

The creatures are back in the new year to discuss the 2020 box office smash The Wretched. Dylan tells the story of meeting on of his heroes, Rob muses on the personalities and streaming services and the two mine the canon for unrecognized auteurs. Happy New Year!

Happy holidays beautiful creatures! The creeps are here to finally cover 2015’s Krampus (The Naughty Cut). They discuss film scores, Tron: Legacy, Spielberg and the recent Violent Night while squaring off with the Anti-Santa himself. Maybe the real Xmas present was the friends we made on the way.

The creatures briefly convene after their radio silence to plot out their 2023 holiday special! They bring the gift of movies and try to remember how to podcast!

For the first and last time on this podcast the creatures are diving into Gaspar Noe’s oeuvre to see his singular take on witches in 2019’s Lux Æterna. They pay tribute to Charlotte Gainsbourg, discuss the film’s messages of misogyny in filmmaking, and talk about where in the world of cinema they would want to move. Cw: gendered industry abuse

The creatures are joined by screenwriter, playwright and theatre practitioner Julian Sky Aldana-Tejada to discuss the most difficult film they've ever reviewed: the polarizing remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria. They go through some new physcial media acquisitions and straight into the weeds to decipher this mind-bending reimagining. It's all a mess, isn't it?

A little review cut from the Pyewacket episode for Phil Tippett's Mad God. No spoilers here!

Angst. The final frontier. The creatures are watching indie darling Pyewacket and reliving their young almost-goth days with the summoning of a witch-demon. They compare the film to other indie offerings, discuss sci-fi nomenclature and film noir, getting as nerdy as possible for your listening pleasure. Cw: self-harm, familial trauma

The creatures are ready to dissect this 2016 horror/thriller with a doctor’s precision, taking on The Autopsy of Jane Doe. They discuss the trappings of late 2000’s horror, the connections between this movie and the earlier witch classics and, of course, how Star Wars could be rebooted to amazing effect.