FRIGHT SCHOOL

Season's Grievings, Fright School! We're celebrating Scary Cryptmas in JULY! We welcome the Jersey Ghouls to the show to chat about ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE! First the group chats about their states' quarantine measures. Joshua and Joe come for Arizona like they're Spirit Airlines and this is FINAL DESTINATION. Marissa has a real THE SHINING situation brewing. All Disney and No Horror makes Marissa...

Welcome back to Fright Schooooool! We are wrapping up our PRIDE 2020 Celebrations with DEATH BECOMES HER! We welcome back to the studio Adriane and her Puglic Defender Minnie! SO much has been going on. Check the show notes for all of our latest guest appearances! Joshua definitely would attend the opening of an envelope if it means he can leave the house, but he'll be gargling Duncan Hines Creamy...

Welcome to another round of Fright School! Are you following us? We follow back, if you get my drift. wiggles eyebrows awkwardly We do a quick catch up with Joshua falling down a PARKS AND REC rabbit hole and Joe finishes up SPACE FORCE. We welcome Young David back to the show right as he is in the middle of a BluRay Buying Bonanza. How many will he buy before the end of the show? Seven. The answe...

Welcome back to Fright School! With this ongoing isolation we'd be happy to float down in the sewers with Pennywise just to get out of the house! Joe has been watching SPACE FORCE. Joshua is revisiting the early 2000s on SHOWTIME with DEXTER and WEEDS. The boys get caught up on RuPaul's Drag Race ALL STARS and all the conflama drama mamas of the season. We revisit Derry, Maine with IT CHAPTER TWO...

Happy Pride! Welcome back to Fright School, your favorite Queer Horror podcast. Right? RIGHT?! Just tell us you love us and everything will be okay. We kid! We're still going to kill you for the insurance money because it's what we do. We get caught up as usual. Joe discusses the joys of FUNemployment. Joshua wants to assault Ben Platt which Joe thinks is, like, totally uncool, dude. Have you hear...

Bentornati a Fright School! This week we're going abroad to welcome our friend Justine Hince to the program! She is an artist and teacher in Arezzo, Italy so beware of lots of unnecessary Italian and hand gestures ahead... Recommended Reading: Original theatrical trailer INFERNO) (1980) Code Blue: Color Theory in Dario Argento's Inferno by Stewart Jester For the love of smoke and mirrorsl DARIO AR...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week Joshua and Joe get serious about the state of the world over the last few weeks. We discuss the complicated history of Blackness in horror through the fantastic documentary HORROR NOIRE which is absolutely REQUIRED viewing for everyone, especially fans of horror. There is so much history and analysis packed into the documentary's short time span. Black Live...

Welcome back to Fright School! We are so happy to welcome actress, writer, producer, and friend Jennie Olsen Six to the show! We are still physically distancing in the remote learning center. Joshua has been catching up on THE EXORCIST tv series and reading LOVECRAFT COUNTRY ahead of the HBO television adaptation coming this fall. We take a rocky little trip down Joe's stream of consciousness that...

Welcome back to Fright School: Isolation. It's been a year in the making, but we are finally joined by web programmer, activist, and dear friend of the show Zakiya! We catch up on all thingz Dragz now that Joe has watched it AWWWWLL. Henny. GOOORL. Yaaaass. Joshua and Zakiya share in their mutual love for MRS. AMERICA. The Samsquanch has been watching HOARDERS all morning and eyeing the Wes Craven...

Welcome back to Fright School! Join us in the John Lafia Memorial Remote Learning Annex. Joshua is just giving up in quarantine and letting the students (Joe) pick all of the movies. We catch up on this week's entertainment. Joshua brings up Lovecraft Country and we chat a little about H.P. Lovecraft's preoccupation with White Supremacy. So fun. Joe talks about unapologetic Blackness in Ugly Betty...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we're logging in to the Amelia Earhart Memorial Remote Learning Facility. We're QUEERantining with the fabulous Ashley this week. We get caught up on what's happening: NOTHING. Everything is cancelled. 2020 so shady, ya'll. Joe is watching MONK. Ashley checked out MOM: Mother Of Monsters and recommends it for your isolation viewing. Joshua watched brand new...

Welcome back to Fright School! This week we're taking up cyberspace in the Howard Hughes Physical Distancing Lounge in the OCD Remote Learning Center. In honor of this week's family focused films, it's just Joe and Joshua. We give some Corona Virus Fashion tips. Joshua is re-watching THE FALL with Gillian Anderson on NETFLIX. Joe has finished Reba and moved on to some other TGIF type happy show to...

Welcome back to Fright School! We are in the Greta Garbo Physical Distancing Remote Learning Center and joining us today is Inspirational Eve, a fellow Halloween Queen and horror hound who helped Joe get his First Time in Drags merit badge! We catch up on RuPaul's Drag Race. Eve tells us about her love of Hammer films, her Quarantine Confession Project and explains what a Psychodrama Therapist doe...

Ack! Ack! We're logging on for another week of Fright School on the Social Distancing Network! We welcome Young David back to the show! It's been so long he's going to be Old David before we know it! Hey, hey! Joe has been catching up on REBA. She's a survivor ya'll. Joshua has been taking advantage of Shudder's FRIDAY THE 13TH film series release. Young David talks tattoos. Make sure you are foll...

We're logging on to the Fright School Social Distancing Network for this week's online class! We welcome the delightful Delia to the show! Delia is a fantastic playwright and Joe's co-host for MFK Ultimate! We get caught up on everyone's self-isolation entertainment. After the break we discuss both the 1958 and 1988 versions of THE BLOB! We talk communism, conspiracy, the Cold War, craving and The...

We're packing up our bags and heading out for THE HUNT! We kid! We're staying locked indoors where it's safe... for now. We welcome back the ever informative and fabulous TJ! First we hear what everyone has been watching from their different self-queerantines. Then we chat about the latest episode of RuPauls Drag Race. LESLIE JONES is all of our spirit guides through these dark times. After a quic...

Welcome to our Queer-antine! We are practicing social distancing and good hygiene after Joe had a panic attack due to La Corona! She's comin' for your lungs! We give you a few recommendations for apocalyptic viewing in these end times. Joe plugs his new show MFK Ultimate. We do a deep dive into the brand new documentary SCREAM QUEEN: MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST starring Mark Patton of Freddy's Revenge...

Welcome back! We're ripping off- we mean- paying homage to the Jersey Ghouls by looking back at our first few years! We've had such a fun time making this show and we've had so many incredible guests so we wanted to take a moment and celebrate it all! First we get caught up on the week including the RuPaul's Drag Race DRAMA (is that redundant?) involving Sherry Pie. We also play a game of "Would Y...

Welcome back! We took a little field trip to see THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020) and we’re welcoming Marcella Maggio in to the Library to discuss the film. First, we get caught up on Nia DaCosta’s exciting CANDYMAN reboot! We also discuss THE SHINING, DOCTOR SLEEP and generational trauma. Joshua and Joe have both been meditating on their younger years. Marcella gives us the rundown on her important work...

Welcome back! We're continuing our Tainted Love series with FATAL ATTRACTION (1987)! Recommended reading: Mind Over Pop Culture article on Fatal Attraction 11 Surprising Facts about Fatal Attraction by GARIN PIRNIA FOLLOW US! Facebook Twitter Instagram Fright School Recommended Texts: The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern H...

We're running a little late, but welcome back to Fright School! The boys get caught up as usual. Joshua is watching and reading Locke and Key. Joe is anticipating Oscar winners and losers. We continue our Tainted Love series with Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA (1940)! Queer coding and an interesting ghost story perspective are dragged out of the quagmire of this film. We give a little advice on love....

Welcome back to Fright School! We are kicking off a month of tales of tainted love! The boys catch up on a few things and discuss the state of love in their life. Later, we welcome Erlingur Thoroddsen back to the Wes Craven Book Mobile to discuss his film RIFT (ROKKUR) (2017). Erlingur dishes up a plethora of behind the scenes stories and his personal connections to the film's various locations. W...

This week we welcome another fantastic guest lecturer: horror director and writer Erlingur Thoroddsen! The fellas have spent their week re-watching SCANDAL, NURSE JACKIE, and THE KILLING. We're excited for new CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA! Joshua continues bumping the francophile frights while forgetting the title MIDNIGHT SUN. We deep dive into Erlingur's childhood in Iceland and his horror ins...

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Welcome to Fright School... for real! Joshua spent the morning watching VAMPIRA AND ME and getting a lesson in Maila Nurmi's original goth horror hostess. The gents sum up their thoughts on "when animals attack" films in this first series on Natural Horror. Later, Michael Varrati, screenwriter, host of DEAD FOR FILTH, and all around awesome person, joins us for a discussion of one of his favorite...