FRIGHT SCHOOL

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is having some kind of existential crisis. We're grateful for movies we've lost and found. Joshua and Joe talk graduation ceremonies. This week is the finale of our musicians in horror series, at least for now. We watched THE STRINGS! This odd little film had us discussing the nature of creativity, string theory, and loneliness and isolation. We're still not s...

Welcome back to Fright School! We're commemorating the 2 year anniversary of the pandemic by honoring all the events we lost. We reiterate that capitalism sucks. We're discussing ROCK N ROLL NIGHTMARE. We should've taken it as a bad omen when Amazon stopped about ten minutes in to tell us that "something went wrong." Yeah, we know... we're watching the movie, too, Alexa. Maybe it's time to end Fri...

Welcome back to Fright School! We're catching up on our sleep after the Renegade Film Festival. Joshua is trying to be a lighter packer. Joe goes in on Disney. This week we watched the wonderfully bizarre PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE. We discuss the music industry, horror influences on the film, Queer Beef, and share our weird asks. Recommended Reading/Viewing: Original Theatrical trailer PHANTOM OF TH...

Welcome back to Fright School! We spent the weekend at the RENEGADE FILM FESTIVAL! It was such a fantastic time filled with great conversations, horror films, and tons of pizza. We were delighted to moderate a Q&A with FREAKY screenwriter Michael Kennedy and are so happy we were able to record it and share it with you, Dear Listener! We chat about finding ourselves in horror, his adorable dog Scoo...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we've invited the one and only Jimmykins to the Wes Craven Memorial Library to discuss STUDIO 666 (SPOILER ALERTS abound and CW/TW for discussions of suicide)! We're headed to the Renegade Film Festival THIS WEEK! It's finally here! James has been sashaying his way through the entire herstory of RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE. Joe schools us on Robert Johnson. Joshua i...

Happy Valentine's Day Fright School! We've been cooking this week! Joshua doesn't know shit about football... still. Joe is rewatching THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL in anticipation of the fourth season FINALLY coming this week. Joshua is excited about Screambox streaming FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES (check out our friend Brennan's podcast miniseries WELCOME TO PRIMETIME for a deep dive into this bizarre artifa...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week Renegade Film Festival director Vanessa Ionta Wright joins us in the Wes Craven Memorial Zoom Lounge! We chat about her history with horror and all the exciting plans she has for the Fest this year! We have been looking forward to it for so long! We also go spelunking in the terrifying caves of THE DESCENT! We discuss monstrous men metaphors, bad ass women,...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we welcome our Final Girl Ashley back to chat about SCREAM (2022)! We've been watching MIDNIGHT MASS on Netflix. Ashley recommended the Shudder Doc WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED A History of Folk Horror. Joshua tries to explain the spectacular oddity that is Björk's sci-fi opera CORNUCOPIA which he saw in Los Angeles this past weekend. We are stoked to...

Welcome back to Fright School! This we week we are so happy to welcome Brennan Klein back to the show! We catch up on what Brennan's been up to during the pandemmy and he shares his favorite films of 2021. This week, we are continuing our SCREAM franchise deep dive with SCREAM 4. We discuss fame culture, fandom, and victim vs survivor. Brennan Klein is a writer for Screen Rant and Alternate Ending...

Welcome back to Fright School! We catch up on the week! Joshua caught Fortune Feimster's live show in San Diego. Joshua and Joe both checked out THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. We discuss the tendency towards pretentiousness with Shakespeare and some of our favorite adaptations of the plays. This week we wrap up the original SCREAM Trilogy with an attempt to make sense of SCREAM 3. We discuss horror in th...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we are joined by Professors T.J. and Conor! We are keeping our promise by dedicating January to the SCREAM franchise. This week we take on SCREAM 2 and discuss ironic racism, media sensationalism and complicity, Greek life on college campuses, and FERPA. Recommended Reading/Viewing: Official Theatrical Trailer Scream 2 (1997) Take it back with our original...

Happy New Year Fright School! We are celebrating with a 2021 year in review! We have Top 5 lists for days... Extra Credit: Check out THE LIST WE MISSED "Have you seen this movie? Nope, but we'll put it on the list!" Besties AJ & Jacki will finally get to "the list" and watch all of the movies that they told people they would watch. We can't wait for the RENEGADE FILM FESTIVAL! Follow all of their...

SCARY CRYPTMAS FRIGHT SCHOOL! Joe's Queer Christmas Playlist on Youtube Recommended Reading/Viewing: Official Theatrical Trailer GREMLINS (1984) For 35 Years Gremlins Has Warned of the Dangers of Cultural Appropriation by Sezin Koehler HOW THE CLASSIC 1980S FILM “GREMLINS” PREDICTED TRUMP’S AMERICA Extra Credit: Check out THE LIST WE MISSED "Have you seen this movie? Nope, but we'll put it on the...

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua and Joe recap their ill fated trip to see Jinkx Monsoon and BenDelaCreme. Joshua spent his birthday with Libbie Higgins and Trailer Trash Tammy. Joe decides what is and what isn't comedy. This week we attend THE VIGIL. With echoes of THE EXORCIST, this film tackles an ultra Orthodox Jewish community, grief and how it haunts us, and demons that want to scare us...

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua chokes on his adrenochrome. Joe saw HOUSE OF GUCCI and has some thoughts. We continue our Maddy Morphosis chat and the changing world of Queerness. This week we continue our holiday season with more Jewish horror in THE GOLEM (2018). This spin on the classic Jewish folk tale has Kabbalistic magic, a golem in the form of a child, and leaves us discussing femini...

Welcome back to Fright School! We are feeling refreshed after our November break (though a bit rusty...) and ready to dive into the Ghoultide! Joshua talks about the Melissa Etheridge Cruise. Joe went to Las Vegas. We start the conversation about Rupaul's Drag Race season 14 and the internet drama surrounding a cisgender male, heterosexual cast member. This year's holiday horror episodes are dedic...

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is dealing with the After Halloween Blues. Every year brings the funk, but the bright side is we're one week closer to NEXT Halloween! Showtime's DEXTER reboot is out and it's good to see America's favorite serial killer again! Joe has been watching DANCING WITH THE STARS, HOME ECONOMICS, and he breaks down the reboot of THE WONDER YEARS. Are you watching? Thi...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Fright School! We're celebrating our Five Year Anniversary! We catch up on American Horror Story: Double Feature. Listen to us go down a rabbit hole of alien conspiracy theory. We watched PUMPKINHEAD! Joe is most disturbed that the creature doesn't look anything like a pumpkin. We discuss themes of grief, vengeance, transformative and restorative justice. Fright School: overth...

Welcome back to Fright School! It's Halloween Week 2021! Joshua is feeling way more in touch with Spooky Season after a venture to Knott's Scary Farm. Joe took in CHUCKY on SyFy. Joshua tells a story about THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND. This week we are kind of wrapping up our Folk Horror series with the Director's Cut of MIDSOMMAR! We're revisiting this lovely Swedish commune to reevaluate our init...

Welcome back to Fright School! It has been a busy week for Joshua! The 25th Anniversary screening of SCREAM was almost marred by a VERY amorous couple. SyFy debuted its new CHUCKY series. Halloween Kills slashed its way onto Peacock and into theaters. Joe did some things, too. With just a few weeks left in October and our Folk Horror exploration, we wacthed APOSTLE on Netflix! Clearly inspired by...

Welcome back to Fright School! We're still celebrating Spooky Season and starting to watch our favorite Halloween movies and shows! Joe has been watching SQUID GAMES. Joshua checked out THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2. We chat about foreign films and what might get lost in translation. Maybe we're all way smarter and cooler than Hollywood gives us credit for? This week we are continuing our Folk Horror explor...

Welcome back to Fright School! Happy Spooky Season, Dear Listener! We're so excited for all the Halloween content coming in. Joe has been catching up on DANCING WITH THE STARS and Joshua is feeling a little called out by ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING. We are kicking off our Halloween 2021 series! This year we are dedicating October to Folk Horror! Finding its inspiration in folklore, Folk Horror em...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we are celebrating a week of surprises from Elvira, Mistress of the Dark! She released her long awaited autobiography YOURS CRUELLY, ELVIRA and it has been quite a read. We chat about the woman behind Elvira, Cassandra Peterson and the big reveal in her book that she has been in a relationship with another woman for almost 20 years! Welcome to the family, g...

Welcome to another episode of Fright School! This week we catch up on exercise, the IATSE story, and American Horror Story: Red Tide. We debate taking the black pill. Today we went to the movies AT HOME with James Wan's latest offering MALIGNANT. We know something terrible is going to happen the second Madison shows up pregnant. We discuss the film's Giallo like vibes, melting setpieces, the bizar...

Welcome to another Fright School Field Trip! This week we are checking out Nia DaCosta's CANDYMAN! Recommended Reading/Viewing: Official Theatrical Trailer CANDYMAN (2021) “Be My Victim”: Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ and The Insidious History of Racism In the United States Candyman Wrings Terror Out of the Horror of Gentrification by LEONARD PIERCE Extra Credit: Check out THE LIST WE MISSED "Have you...