Fear Coded

( throws a file across your desk ) Ever heard of queer horror podcast aliens, Scully?! We follow these iconic federal agents into rural Pennsylvania(?) while trusting no one as we talk about The X-Files episode "Home," perhaps one of the scariest episodes of the series. We navigate the very model of a modern major heterosexual of Mulder's character and we all get a bit feline, musically speaking....

You opened the puzzle box and you summoned us. We came with this new episode featuring guest Cass Proffitt ( Distant Echoes ) to talk Hellraiser from 1987 written and directed by Clive Barker. We have such sights to show you as we protect ourselves with squishy stuffed animals, enjoy repulsive glamor, combat toxic masculinity, and support sex workers in this seminal horror piece. Jesus may have we...

Trick or treat you ghosts and ghosties! We have a king-sized candy bar of a bonus episode for each of you as we answer the many questions you all sent in all month long. We talk about some truly exceptional media on this one, so to help with "did they just reference that?" we have made a Letterboxd list of every film we mention or make reference to (even if it is a passing reference): Fear Coded Q...

Hello, listener! Prepare yourself a Randy sandwich and get ready for a review of the rules you need to survive a horror movie podcast as we invite our first guest, Derek B. Gayle ( Walloping Websnappers , Gimmicks , Falling with Style , Skreeonk! , Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge ) to talk about the referential masterpiece Scream from 1996 directed by horror legend Wes Craven and written by Kevin...

We talk about three short works from one of the most well known writers in the genre: Edgar Allan Poe. It's our second bonus episode celebrating the scariest of months and we each bring a story to share with our co-hosts and each of you. We are answering your questions as a special Halloween treat! Please submit questions by October 25 to our social media or to fearcodedpod@gmail.com. This pod...

We dodge the Hays Code while proclaiming that we are divine as we roll back to talk about one of the classics, the 1931 film by James Whale, Frankenstein . Names get changed, brains get zippy zapped, and heads get bonked as we talk about this original monster movie. We will answer the hard questions! Who is Frankenstein? Why do queers betray each other? Is science gay? In the end, the conversation...

From found footage to early internet forum posts, we each share an entry from the deep well that is Internet Horror for our first bonus episode for October! David's pick, The Dionaea House by Eric Heisserer: Read most of the story on the Creepypasta Wiki Read the full story using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Tyler's pick, The Backrooms: Read one of the foundational forum posts using the In...

You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrously queer land whose heteronormative boundaries are made to be broken by your imagination. That's a signpost up ahead. It reads, your next stop: Fear Coded covering the anthology television series by Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone ! In particular, we take a queer readin...

We are watching X-Files with no lights on (I hope the Smoking Man's in this one) as we simulate walking through our return home in the 2013 video game Gone Home by The Fullbright Company. We hunt ghosts with our girlfriend and adorn our lockers with starlets exclusively covered on The Mixed Reviews podcast as we walk into not just a horror story, but a love story, and the most zine-filled of a...

At the crossroads of high camp and arthouse, we find ourselves in the basement bedroom discussing the 2000 film by John Fawcett, Ginger Snaps . Take a big bite of your syrupy shortcake, iron your field hockey uniform, and track your cycle as we answer the question on everyone's minds: what is scarier? A werewolf? Or puberty? This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Col...

We just cannot fight this feeling anymore, so wax your mustaches, build some expensive Lego sets, and fill yourself with canned fish derivative recipes as we talk about the 2024 (but very much 80s throwback) film, Lisa Frankenstein by Zelda Williams. We hold faux goth bullies accountable while going full tilt into early 1990s Hot Topic, thinking about the Hamburglar, and pitching a new Fox reality...

Attention Flan-a-fans and victorian ghost children! We don't lose ourselves or get trapped in a gravity well for ghosts while talking about the 2020 series, The Haunting of Bly Manor , and its thrilling and queer conclusion episode "The Beast in the Jungle." We may not end up ghosts forever, but we do talk about Sinjin traps, cute 90s lesbian romance AU, and weirdly prescient plague...

Start your showers and follow us closely (like a certain graduate of the Bob Hoskins School of Stout Handsome Gentleman, Arbogast) as we go back to one of the foundational films for the horror genre: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho . We all go a little mad sometimes, but along the way, we talk about the real villains of housing markets, toxic masculinity, and 1960s homophobia. You think w...

Heat up your unidentifiable bowls of porridge, knock your cousin off a treehouse, and LET US IN to talk about the 2014 film The Babadook . Has this always been a queer hero, or was that status only the result of clerical error? We'll be talking the man, the meme, and all the creepy crawlies that lie beneath that stylish hat. This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collect...

Who are we? How did we get here? What do we think of horror? And most importantly: does a cilantro aversion and roller coaster predilection have a relationship with how big of a scaredy cat you are? Find out the answer to all of these questions, and others with this introductory episode of the podcast. Each co-host gets a chance to tell you our journey and then we go all Randy Meeks on setting up...

David, Merrilee, and Tyler introduce you to their new podcast which takes a single entry in the deep bench of the horror genre, and talk about just how queer it can be. Music credit to Alex Besss ( @AlexBesss_Music on YouTube ) "Dance with Fate" ( CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 )