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44 minutes
Engels
Verenigde Staten
105 afleveringen
sinds 21 mei 2024
episodic

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***WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD*** Brian and Jeff cut deep into the 2016 film The Autopsy of Jane Doe as part of their witch-themed Horror Joy series. Set almost entirely in a Virginia morgue, the film follows father-son coroners Tommy (Brian Cox) and Austin Tilden (Emile Hirsch) as an unidentified, ex…

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Brian reunites with author Brianna N. Cox to discuss her March release, Indigent, after earlier conversations about Sinners and Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory. Cox frames horror as a genre of empathy and connection that makes taboo fears communal and cathartic, and she compares horror and romanc…
Jeff returns with a “Horror Joy Stale Slice” to discuss Resident Evil after missing opening night due to post-BlizzCon illness. He teases future Horror Joy topics from Blizzard news (a Diablo announcement, a long-horizon StarCraft title, and World of Warcraft’s upcoming roguelite “Talebound” set in…
Brian and Jeff Horror Joy begin a spooky-season series on witches by discussing Robert Eggers’ 2015 film The Witch, outlining its colonial New England setup in which an exiled Puritan family suffers escalating losses and turns toward suspicions of witchcraft and the devil, culminating in Black Phil…
Brian shares spoiler-free thoughts after seeing Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil. He argues Cregger’s work (from Barbarian to Weapons to this film) carries a sense of fun, and praises Resident Evil for evoking video-game mechanics through camera perspective, rule-bound worldbuilding, and a self-aware c…
Jeff interviews British author Craig Wallwork about the connection between horror and joy, his early exposure during Britain’s “video nasty” era, and how his father desensitized him by explaining gore effects, creating a rare bond through film. Wallwork describes becoming a writer via transgressiv…
Brian and Jeff continue their camp horror series with Charlie Polinger’s 2025 film The Plague, set at a 2003 summer water polo camp where the central terror is not a slasher but toxic masculinity, bullying, and an ambiguous “plague” used to create in-groups and out-groups. They discuss how the pla…
Brian and Jeff interview Glasgow-based award-winning writer, editor, and musician Neil Williamson about the relationship between horror and joy.. Neil frames horror as the fun of “relishing the darkness” through traditions like Halloween and campy horror. Williamson recounts his path into writing v…
Brian Onishi and Jeff Stoyanoff continue their summer camp slasher theme with 1983’s Sleepaway Camp They are joined by guests Jo Vallese (editor of It Came From the Closet) and T (Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies), and frame the film through queer horror, trans horror, and the queer …
Horror Joy: Meet Your Maker with Kailee Pedersen Brian interviews horror writer and opera singer Kailee Pedersen on Meet Your Maker about the relationship between horror and joy, which Pedersen links to the genre’s transgressive freedom, including psychological unsettlement and marginalized protag…
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