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Join English grads (and husband and wife duo) Nik Oliver, MFA and Katy Oliver, PhD as they bring a literary twist to horror movie analysis. Using the Iowa Writers' Workshop model, they discuss and critique the storytelling in beloved but flawed horror films. Then, each of them attempts to fix the movie's flaws by writing a new revised draft of the story.
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English
United States
27 episodes
since Oct. 31, 2025
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Get on those diving suits, folks, because today we're mining for content in George P. Costmatos' Leviathan (1989).
Come for our critique of a movie that implodes under the pressure of its third act, and stay as we try to breathe a little fresh air into a film that can't decide if its a jaunty…
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Is anyone else hungry? Because we just watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), and boy, did that meat look good.
Is the (Leather)face that launched a thousand remakes all its cracked up to be? Will the grit and the grime of the all-timer original survive and what will be left of it amidst…
Throw on your straitjacket and poke a hole in that frontal lobe, because we're entering the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Jack Sholder's Alone in the Dark (1982)!
Listen as Katy attempts to make the movie's final siege worth the wait, while Nik cranks the social commentary about a world gone insane …
Have you ever wondered how much cooler The Silence of the Lambs would be if it were shot like a music video? Then boy do we have a movie for you: Tarsem Singh's The Cell (2000)!
Come for the thoughtful discussion of the tactile delights of physical movie sets, then stay for Nik's utter contempt fo…
Evil has never looked more banal than it does in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (1999)... but in a good way!
Listen as Katy goes toe-to-toe with her archnemesis, the ending of the movie, then revel as Nik tightens the thumbscrews on that most slippery of snakes: character development.
Workshop …
Evil has never looked more banal than it does in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (1999)... but in a good way!
Listen as Katy goes toe-to-toe with her archnemesis, the ending of the movie, then revel as Nik tightens the thumbscrews on that most slippery of snakes: character development.
Workshop …
This episode, we're just a couple of babes in toyland as we cavort with David Schmoeller's Puppet Master (1989).
Cackle with glee as Nik cranks the gore up to 11, and then goggle with delight as Katy gives this movie more of what it really needs: PUPPETS.
Workshop begins at 9:42.
Revisions beg…
We're headed into the underworld--that is, the world down under--as we tackle Zak Hilditch's Tasmania-bound zombie-drama, We Bury the Dead (2026)!
In a wild Uno Reverse that no one saw coming, Nik reaches for a classical mythological reference while Katy stays almost suspiciously on task (???).
W…
Put on your straw hats and overalls and throw away that toothbrush, folks, because we're headed to the West Virginia mountains for Rob Schmidt's Wrong Turn (2003).
Listen as Katy tries to flesh out the thin as a whisper conceit behind this movie, while Nik takes a movie that is completely contempt…
We're hitting the grimy streets of late-80s New York City to investigate a very upset public servant in William Lustig's Maniac Cop (1988).
Listen as both Nik and Katy play the role of good cop for a movie that misses the mark - but only just barely - as we attempt to revise the movie from a flawe…
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