Fear Coded

At long last we take Lost at Sea-tember to the stars! And who better to be by our sides than the exceptional Cass Proffitt from the Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast as we discuss the 1997 film, Event Horizon . Join us and get lost in a blood orgy while exploring a large shaft ready to explode at any moment! That's a lot of spikes, innit? This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Our exploration of the breadth and depth of the terrifying oceans continues with Lost at Sea-tember now sending us into a place visited before only by puppet-makers and biblical figures: inside a whale! Follow the stars and check your technical gear as we discuss the 2023 novel by Daniel Kraus, Whalefall . *slaps the old oxygen tank* This bad boy can fit in so many daddy issues! This podcast is a...

Our misadventures with the fickle mother that is the ocean continues with our month-long celebration in nautical horror, Lost at Sea-tember! This time we've finally found solid ground with the 2019 film by Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse . Joined by our friend Andrew Corns from The Revisionist Almanac , we obliterate seagulls, fancy some dino nuggets, and remark about Bjork somehow as we discuss the...

Haul the sails ya filthy currs as Lost at Sea-tember continues, this time solving mysteries in the 2018 puzzle game, Return of the Obra Dinn developed by Lucas Pope. We enjoy "1-bit" graphics, are startled by maritime horrors, and spend a lot of time looking at men's feet as we find the fates of all who sailed the Obra Dinn . Wait a second, who left all this unknown seaman all over t...

To some, it may be the worst movie ever, but there's gems - and gold! - to discover here, so we're excited to kick off a month of nautical horror with Lost at Sea-tember and the 2002 Steve Beck film Ghost Ship . Betrayal! Ghosts! Ships! This things has it all! This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Follow th...

Unnamed aliens are being tormented by a clown of their own making - the very representation of fear, which helps us to wrap up Auguste - our month-long celebration into clown horror. This time, the clown du jour is none other than legendary actor Michael McKean who wears the face paint and terrorizes his captives in the Star Trek Voyager episode "The Thaw." Here's the executioner fro...

The jokes just keep on coming because it's still Auguste! This time, that means we are covering the clown prince of Gotham, the Joker, with the 1989 graphic novel, Batman: The Killing Joke , written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland. We talk about the history of "fridging" and how this well known example might not be as exemplary of the trope as it is known for! Also: throne of babies...

Auguste continues, as we take the whole month to look at various clowns in horror! And you might not hear them coming, but it's time to talk mimes and we do so with the low-budget gore-fest from 2022, Terrifier 2 , written and directed by Damien Leone. We talk about the very nature of art - and the nature of Art the Clown - as we try to sift through (unintentional?) missteps into misogyny, what is...

We are kicking off a new theme month by talking about clown horror all month long. It's Auguste! And that means it is time to head through a perfectly silly little goblin door as we talk about the 1990 television mini-series, It , directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen from Stephen King’s 1986 novel. Bring along some friends to face the horrors of a demented clown, but also...

We wrap up a monthlong celebration of Summer Blockbusters with the 2022 film, Nope , written and directed by Jordan Peele. We make an absolute spectacle of ourselves discussing animals, what expectations art carries with a filmmaker, and one of us makes a really hard sell to get a date with Keke Palmer. Dance, Skydancers, dance! This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Glitterjaw Q...

Fashion icon Mrs. Voorhees hits the stage as we continue our celebration of Summer Blockbusters all month long with the 1980 slasher film Friday the 13th directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. These teens are obnoxiously heterosexual, but will some gruesome kills help us see the shining lights reflected off of Crystal Lake? Or will long sequences of making coffee and animal v...

The beach is open as our celebration of Summer Blockbusters all month long continues with the original summer blockbuster, Jaws from 1975 directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, based on the book Peter Benchley. We prepare a Fourth of July roast just like mother used to make as we talk about the surprisingly folk horror and pandemic adjacent classic, the terror t...

Get your cold drinks and fire up the barbecue, because we are celebrating Summer Blockbusters all month long, starting with not-actually-released-in-Summer, I Know What You Did Last Summer directed by Jim Gillespie, and adapted to the screen by Kevin Williamson from a novel by Lois Duncan. What are you waiting for?! This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Glitterjaw Queer Podcast...

Remember, you are one as you listen to this week's episode. We're wrapping up diva month which we have celebrated all month long, and we are joined by guest ⁠Doug Fink⁠ to discuss the 2024 film The Substance , directed and written by Coralie Fargeat. Leave your body wherever, and if you get hungry, just pull a whole chicken leg out from your belly button. Everything is exactly where it belongs. Th...

Well, that was rude! You can see right through us as we discuss the 1992 camp classic Death Becomes Her , directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan. Joining us each episode this month is a fellow Glitterjaw host, and this time, we welcome ⁠Gavin from the Mixed Reviews podcast and the ⁠Q Division: A James Bond Movie Marathon podcast⁠ . Strap yourself in to your Vitru...

"Now, here's the part you're really going to hate" as we continue to celebrates divas all pride month long, this time pestered by a feminist fuckboy as we discuss the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick directed by George Miller and based on the 1984 novel of the same name by John Updike. Joining us each episode this month is a fellow Glitterjaw host, and this time, we welcome ⁠ To...

Daddy, watch me twirl as we discuss the 1962 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? directed by Robert Aldrich and adapted by Lukas Heller from a novel of the same name written by Henry Farrell as we discuss the divas of film all month long in our celebration of queer pride month. Joining us each episode this month is a fellow Glitterjaw host, and this time, we welcome Chels from the Q Division: A J...

We go way back to the very beginning to look at one of the earliest glimpses into the nature of the vampire as we wrap up MAY we suck your blood where we have been looking at vampires all month long. This may be it for the month, but something tells me that we'll be hearing the soft voices of bloodsuckers later this year. But for now, we respond to a frequent refrain to come snuggle by the tit...

"Shall we try this again, Daniel?" is the question on everyone's mind as MAY we suck your blood? - our month-long set of episodes about vampires - continues with the 2022 Interview With The Vampire series, developed by Rolin Jones and based on The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice, particularly the first book of the same name, published in 1973. This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

A new month deserves a new theme, so we ask each and every one of you MAY we suck your blood? as we talk about vampires all month long, starting with the 1987 comedy horror film, The Lost Boys , directed by Joel Schumacher, and written by Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer, and James Jeremias. This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ....

Time to wrap up Excommunic-April by attending Midnight Mass, specifically the episode of revelations, "Book III: Proverbs." We talk about career pathways in the Catholic church, weaponizing faith as a means of control, and just how restoration and sin are tied together in this compelling series. Next week is the ⁠May the Fierce Protect You drag brunch⁠ , hosted by ⁠Distant Echoes: A Star...

When joined by Alyssa Gray of the Silver Scream podcast , we couldn't help but to think that it's "an excellent day for an exorcism" as we cover the 1973 religious horror tentpole film, The Exorcist , directed by William Friedkin and adapted for the screen by William Peter Blatty, based on his own novel. Hot take: this is a good movie, and to support that thesis, we'll look at how the cosmic stake...

Excommunic-April continues with an ancient evil once sealed away that has been unleashed! No, I'm not talking about the character who influenced Halloween costumes everywhere in 2016, the demon Valak, but instead the horror unleashed is the 2018 film, The Nun, directed by Corin Hardy. We talk about the film's ability to skillfully dodge interesting subplots to provide more time for zombie...

Welcome to Excommunic-April where we are covering religious and Catholic horror all month long. And there's no better place to start than the 2022 video game compilation, Faith: The Unholy Trinity developed by Airdorf Games and published by New Blood Interactive! We gush about rotoscoping, hot priests, computer voices, and the incredibly effective pray-em-up mechanics of this righteously diffi...

Prepare to be edged by four guys in the woods as we're joined by guest Doug Fink to discuss the 2017 film The Ritual , directed by David Bruckner and adapted by Joe Barton from the novel by Adam Nevill. We talk about what works which is not a lot as we pitch ideas for a much better film, but Moder watches us all, even as we discuss how we would pull off a multi-person Halloween costume of this anc...