Fear Coded

This month, to celebrate our second year of being on the air, we are covering some favorite media that has been on the brainstorm list, and we start with David’s pick, the 2007 video game Bioshock , developed by Ken Levine of Irrational Games. Modify your vocal chords and shove every consumable you find directly into your mouth as we talk about stark moral decision making, the utility of ice power...

As we wrap up our June - Pride Month! - celebration of media created by queer folks all month long, we take a wrong turn and end up with the Tubi original Slay from 2024, written and directed by Jem Garrard. Thankfully, we are joined by Chels Eichholz from The Q Division to help us read these queens for filth. Gas up the RV named Campy, slay a vampire or two, and remember that gender-affirming car...

It's June - Pride Month! - and we are celebrating by looking at media created by independent artists with textually queer characters all month long. We continue by coming home from college for a Night in the Woods , an narrative adventure game from 2017 developed by Scott Benson, Bethany Hockenberry, and Alec Holowka. Rounding out our band is Katie from Novel Gaming! One of simply has had it w...

It's June - Pride Month! - and we are celebrating by looking at media created by queer folks all month long. To kick it off, we're discussing the Netflix series, Dead End: Paranormal Park and the episode "Night of the Living Kids." Stall your demon summoning with procedural calls to order, because this episode , we're privy to some real big lore drops care of our guest, creat...

Happy Pride listeners! This month's bonus episode, Merrilee guides Tyler and David through a list of monsters we'd like to ... well, you know ... as we talk through 30 creatures that we'd smash or pass. This is a preview of the whole episode, which is available for everyone all Pride Month, and afterwards for patrons of our Fear Coded Patreon. You can check out the full episode here: h...

Glitterjaw Survey: ⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/GlitterjawPodSurvey ⁠⁠ Ghost month comes to a close, and we asked our patrons to choose the form of our destructor, so we covered the 2003 strategy video game Ghost Master, developed by Sick Puppies. From the sorority house to the high seas, we deploy ghosts to haunt mortals with confusing gameplay controls and frustrating navigation. If you can survive a gaunt...

Glitterjaw Survey: ⁠ https://bit.ly/GlitterjawPodSurvey Check out your Dark Zodiac forecast as we visit an absolute petting zoo of a film by finally discussing Thirteen Ghosts written by Neal Marshall Stevens and Richard D'Ovidio and directed by Steve Beck. Since we find ourselves in the bowels of 2001, it only made sense to have on our friend Slate from the Not Another 2001 Movie Podcast to help...

Glitterjaw Survey: ⁠ https://bit.ly/GlitterjawPodSurvey ⁠ We are back in the suburbs as our ghostly adventures continue all month long, this time with the 1982 film Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper with a screenplay by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor. Don't step on a de-marked grave or you'll have to answer to a sassy salon owner only known as "the beast." Bu...

Glitterjaw Survey: https://bit.ly/GlitterjawPodSurvey Message delivery from Post-mortem Union: it's our month-long journey into ghosts in media and we start with the 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House . Did that planchette just write "LGB without the T?" Get out of here! Fear Coded can be supported on Patreon at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ patreon.com/fearcodedpodcast ⁠⁠⁠...

Heat up your chili dogs and set up the board game as we wrap up our monthlong pratfall into Horror Comedy with the 2010 film Tucker and Dale vs. Evil directed by Eli Craig and written by Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson. We brought in our Take-Me-Home-Country-Roads special correspondent (but sadly, not Yellow Ranger) ⁠ ⁠Tommy⁠ ⁠ from the ⁠ ⁠Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast⁠ and ⁠Lee Carvallo'...

It's good to be king, especially if you're thrown back in time to retrieve The Necronomicon, which is exactly what happens as we join the already in progress Army of Darkness by Sam Raimi. The gender politics probably belong in The Middle Ages, but the cartoon humor is exactly what we need to battle and army of skeletons! Remember to repeat these words exactly , or you'll be sucked rig...

Are you more of a keymaster or a gatekeeper? No matter which, you can come along the bumpy revisiting of a beloved classic with the 1984 film, Ghostbusters . Does this comedic romp through haunted New York have a greater villain hiding just beneath the ectoplasm, or is it just Ronald Reagan in a Slimer mask? Dana Barrett was really trend-setting all these viral videos of prepping food directly on...

This time, we take on the role of a cowboy turned vampire turned therapist as we discuss the 2024 narrative video game, Vampire Therapist, written and designed by the team at Little Bat Studios led by Cyrus Nemati. It's some real Nosferatu Thinking to assume that all games are perfect art, so we talk about what we liked and didn't like with this well-reviewed game about how immortals navig...

It's time to celebrate Halloween in the summer with the Alex Hirsch created, animated mystery series, Gravity Falls and the episode "Summerween." Save your candy corn tears for someone who will appreciate them! Also, we talk a lot about Joni Mitchell for some reason? Fear Coded can be supported on Patreon at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ patreon.com/fearcodedpodcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - anyone can join o...

We don't get to proclaim "It's Alive!" with the 2025 telling of the classic tale Frankenstein , written, directed, and produced by Guillermo del Toro, but we do get to engage in the messy narcissism of the title protagonist. Luckily, returning guest and Frankenstein superfan, ⁠Alyssa Gray of the Silver Scream podcast⁠ , joins to help us navigate through the subtext (and lack thereof). Go down the...

All good things must come to an end, even Valloween , our month-long celebration of horror and romance together. To wrap up the month, we asked our patrons to vote, and you selected the 1990 film Misery , directed by Rob Reiner. How romantic! Get ready for the return of Coatwatch™ while we navigate the icy roads of Silver Creek, Colorado, keep our pump strong by lifting typewriters, and have a coc...

We continue on with Valloween , a month-long celebration of horror and romance together. This time, we explore how finding the incarnation of your love can free you from your eternal torment in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula , based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Most things are gayer in the novel, so how did we feel about this film adaptation that is so bold to name th...

Error loading episode description. Resolving error. Description loading. This week, we're writing poems to earn love as we discuss the 2017 visual novel/dating sim Doki Doki Literature Club . We are joined by guest Ryan Honig , developer of the upcoming Flipping Phantom game to talk about game development, horror twists, and glitches. Fear Coded can be supported on Patreon at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ patreo...

Get your Nova Scotia on as we revisit a theme with Valloween a month-long celebration of horror and romance together, starting with the film My Bloody Valentine from 1981 directed by George Mihalka. We've only got eyes for Hollis despite some serious Team Edward/Team Jacob politics down in the coal mines. Join us for a turbulent (if slow-moving) cart ride down into the depths of this surprisin...

It's time for a spiritual remake of the 1997 film Face/Off as we play peek-a-boo with the face of our host body while creating destructive violence in the James Wan 2021 film Malignant . Luckily, we have our friend Ben from the Little Dead Aliens podcast to join us as we reveal our shocking secrets via video tape all episode long. What are we even doing here? Fear Coded can be supported on Pat...

MARKOS! We talk about a divided Berlin and a divided hosting panel as we cover the controversial 2018 remake of Suspiria , directed by Luca Guadagnino. Luckily, we're joined by Brittany Reinholz-Hobson, co-host of the 1001 by 1 and The Owls Are Not What They Seem (coming soon!) podcasts. Come for the horror, but stay for the witchcraft. You'll learn about dance, you'll learn about Germ...

We roll right into 2026 - or do we?! - as we cover the psychological horror Black Swan from 2010, directed by Darren Aronofsky. He doesn't take us to go see a campy vampire movie, but instead subjects us to question reality as we battle ourselves and perfection itself. This episode may just end up being a figment of your imagination, but the looks are totally worth it. It's a night of 1,00...

It's time to wrap up the holiday-adjacent horror we've been in all month long as Doll-cember comes to a close with the instantly campy M3GAN. She's stylish, caring, enigmatic, and looks her best when she's been dragged through the mud. We talk about the right number of times to swear, the blood of the unrated version, a month of excellent child actor performances, and we dance alon...

We dive into a prequel of a prequel of a scare from the first few minutes of the original film as we continue Doll-cember , our month-long look into dolls in horror with the entry Annabelle: Creation from the ongoing universe of The Conjuring. Annabelle may not do much but look pretty, but isn't that enough to read as a queer hero? Also, will she bite you in the butt in the next film? And woul...

We're back in The Twilight Zone as our dive into doll horror all Doll-cember long. And this time, Rod Serling welcomes us into "Living Doll." Talky Tina ratchets up the tension as she terrorizes a man, all with a sweet smile and cheerful voice. There's disaster ahead, but could Tina have missed her calling to work as a telephone operator? "Klondike-5! Just a minute, doll, le...