Progressively Horrified

🏳‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! The Basics Director: Jim Sharman (Shock Treatment, “The Night, The Prowler”) Writers: Richard O’Brien, Jim Sharman Stars: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf Recommendations: Emily- Phantom of the Paradise Ben - Venom Jeremy - Iron Widow Kathleen - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Alici...

🏳‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! We had originally planned to release our Rocky Horror Episode this week, but then Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness dropped and boy does it have exactly the required amount of queer content to earn some kind of "LGBT+ Friendly" tag in a time and with a character that really could have used good queer rep. So we're here to talk about Monster Mothers, Pride flag pi...

🏳‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! The Basics Director: Joel Schumacher Writers: Jan Fisher, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam Stars: Jason Patrick, Kiefer Sutherland, Diane Wiest, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, and Alex Winter What’s it about? IMDB says: After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires. Recommendations: Emmett- Enigma (Vertigo, 1993) Emily- Vampire in the Garde...

🏳‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! The Basics Director: Renny Harlin Writers: J.S. Cardone Stars: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Taylor Kitsch (it Gambit), Laura Ramsey, Chace Crawford What’s it about? IMDB says: Four young men who belong to a New England supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Meanwhile, jealousy and suspicion threaten to tear th...

🏳‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! We are kicking this month off with Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Scream, Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street The Basics Director: Jack Sholder (Alone in the Dark, Generation X) Writers: David Chaskin (21 Jump Street) Stars: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund What’s it about? IMDB says: A teenage boy is haunted in his  dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who...

Trigger Warnings:   bugs, cutting/self harm, extreme violence to women and children, mind/body control, repeated and intense references to sexual assault of minors, misogyny, intense gore and body horror, body dysmorphia   Scare Level: Terrifying The Basics Director: Kimo Stamboel Writers: Joko Anwar Stars: Ario Bayu, Hannah Al Rashid, Adhistry Zara What’s it about? IMDB’s description of this one...

Trigger Warnings:    an intense scene of traumatic sexual assault, several often graphic depictions of suicide and attempted suicide, intense jump scares, dental trauma, and automobile accidents. Scare Level: Scary   The Basics Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom Writers: Parkpoom Wongpoom, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Sophon Sakdaphisit Stars: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongm...

Trigger Warnings:   children in danger, death, zombies, instensely stressful situations throughout, blood, gore, intense violence  Scare Level: TERRIFYING  The Basics Director: Sang-Ho Yeon Writers: Joo-Suk Park, Sang-ho Yeon Stars: Gong Yoo, Yu-mi Jung, Ma Dong-seok (you may also know as Don Lee), Su-an Kim, Kim Eui-sung, Choi Woo-sik, and former K-Pop star Sohee IMDB says: While a zombie virus b...

Trigger Warnings:  jump scares, child abandonment, suicide Scare Level: Spooky??? Sukob (2006) Director: Chito S. Rono Writers: Chito S. Rono, Chris Martinez Stars: Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto Recommendations and Where to Find Us: Kuya P ( @thelegendkuyap ) - Trese (2021), ShoPowSho , New Release Wednesday and The Sukob Wedding Cake Ben ( @BentheKahn ) - The Parent Trap (1998) Emily ( @MegaMoth...

House (1977) - Nobuhiko Obayashi IMDb says that this movie is about "a schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted" which isn't technically inaccurate but... there's so much more. Recommendations and Where to Find Us: Jamie ( @AngryZenMaster on Twitter and @JamieNoguchi on Instagram): Garo: The Animation (2005). Brownyn ( @ShinyBabyB on Twi...

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Fear Level: Spooky (But not really...) Trigger Warnings: Sexual Violence The Scream franchise gets more meta than ever with its third installment. Director: Wes Craven Writer: Ehren Kruger Stars:  Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Parker Posey, Scott Foley, Emily Mortimer Recommendations: Ben: Chucky (TV Series - 2021) Emily: Josie and the Pussycats (2001) TJ: Black Swan (2010) Jeremy:...

Scare Level: Existentially Terrifying Trigger Warnings: ableism, gaslighting, dismemberment, and transphobic violence "One of us!" Freaks (1932) - YouTube Recommendations: The Greatest Showman (2017) Monster Squad (1987) Archive 81 (2022) Häxan (1922) Les yeux sans visage (1960) Need the transcript?  Visit our website at progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm! Or visit this link for a dynamic transc...

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Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: extreme gore, torture, mild mind control, and bullying Andy discusses working on the Psycho Goreman  comics, comic soon from Lethal Comics - which you should definitely check out. Recommendations: The Void (2016) Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Bio-Cop (2012) Mandy (2018) Need the transcript?  Visit our website at progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm! Follow A...

Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: extreme gore, torture, mild mind control, and bullying Psycho Goreman is what we always wanted from 80s kid horror. Director and Writer: Steven Kostanski Stars: Nita-Josée Hanna, Owen Myre, Adam Brooks, and Alexis Kara Hancey IMDB says: After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to...

Scare Level: Existentially disconcerting Trigger Warnings: body horror, gaslighting, manipulation, gore, dead fetuses, Nightmare Alley is Guillermo Del Toro's stab at doing a classic noir and Cate Blanchette is here to show all of you how it's done. Get ready for a devious psychiatrist named Lilith with femme fatale hair that doesn't quit. Director: Guillermo Del Toro Writers: Guillermo Del Toro a...

Scare Level: Scary Trigger Warnings: Trauma, Gore, PTSD, body horror, and gaslighting This neo-Western from Kathryn Bigelow is, ostensibly, about a cowboy who gets bitten by vampire-drifters and spends the rest of the movie failing to vampire correctly. Director: Kathryn Bigelow Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Reed Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jeanette Goldstein, and Jenny Wr...

Scare Level: Terrifying Trigger Warnings: Self-harm, abortion, unwanted pregnancy, car accidents, EXTREME body horror, graphic violence and nudity, attempted rape, assault, injections, drugs, drinking, sex, murder, and prolific nudity. Whatever you think you're ready for, this movie has more. This French movie from director Julia Ducournau is about a father and son reconnecting and having adventur...

Scare Level: Spooky Trigger Warnings: Child abuse, drowning Our parents turning on us is everyone's first horror fantasy. Director: Zandashe Brown Writers: Zandashe Brown (Horror Noire’s “Bride Before You”) Stars: Idella Johnson, Farrah Martin IMDB says: When a woman undergoes a frightening transition, her vigilant five year old daughter must decide between saving her or protecting herself in this...

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings and digital showings online at  https://carolinatheatre.org/festival/nevermore-film-festival/ Now we were lucky enough to partner with The Nevermore Film Festival to get advance screenings of some of th...

Scare Level: Existentially Terrifying Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Racism, Bees. Who can take the sunrise?  Mix it with the dew?  Hide up in your mirror and slash a screen or two? Director: Nia DaCosta Writers: Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo IMDB says: A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that retur...

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings and digital showings online at  https://carolinatheatre.org/festival/nevermore-film-festival/ Now we were lucky enough to partner with The Nevermore Film Festival to get advance screenings of some of th...

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings and digital showings online at  https://carolinatheatre.org/festival/nevermore-film-festival/ Now we were lucky enough to partner with The Nevermore Film Festival to get advance screenings of some of th...

Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Abuse, pregnancy as punishment, voodoo You wanna make an omelet, you gotta murder a few men. Director: Bree Newsome Writer: Bree Newsome Stars: Sahr Ali, Christina Falson, Benton Greene IMDB says: 'Everybody knows if you're fixin' to GOSSIP, you gotta have a little dirt on somebody. And everybody knows if you're fixin' to BURY, you gotta throw a little dirt on...