Randall and Mel's Month of Halloween Hell: Week 1
Added 2021-10-06 17:49:47 +0000 UTCMel and Randall kick off their month of Halloween Hell with incisive discussions around Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Fog, Raw, Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, You're Next, The Strangers, and more.
Musings on alienation, repression, and post-9/11 fatalism arise in between digressions about found footage horror, self-hating freaks, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
This is a spoiler-heavy discussion so note the timestamps:
(1:00) Intros
(3:15) Horror talk
(15:35) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
(40:30) The Fog
(47:00) Carnival of Souls
(57:30) Raw
(01:04:13) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
(01:17:00) You’re Next
(01:23:34) The Strangers
(01:36:23) The Empty Man
(01:45:00) Hostel III
(02:03:50) Themes
(02:09:30) Lightning Round
Comments
I didn’t think people could have bad taste in horror until my brother said he hated the slow atmospheric movies because they don’t have enough jump scares. He didn’t think It Chapter 1 was “fun” enough, and that’s one of my favorite movies 😆 I agree about what you like in horror. I don’t want to feel good after a movie, I want that unsettled feeling that will stick with me.
Jesse
2021-10-09 17:50:46 +0000 UTCDamn, that theme music is great
Damien Kiely
2021-10-07 19:24:20 +0000 UTCHostel 3 is forgettable but Spiegel’s Intruder is a pretty great slasher. It’s a lot of fun.
Chad Fey
2021-10-07 15:02:05 +0000 UTC
