Out To Get You

In Episode 14 of Out To Get You , we are joined by writer and host of Best Issue Ever , Sara Century (When I Walk Into The Darkness, The Forgotten Five, et al., ) to gaze into the maw of mankind's avian anxieties, and all things left unsaid, in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 monster mood piece, The Birds . Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, workplace abuse, groom...

In Episode 13 of Out To Get You , we are joined by Jadzia Axelrod, author of The DC Book of Pride , Galaxy: As The World Falls Down , and the upcoming Justice League: Dream Girls , to take the shape of Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers !  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of gaslighting, systemic othering and eradication, referring to a character by the...

In this bonus episode of Out To Get You , we fold space and time for Transgender Day of Visibility in order to rerelease our 2023 pre-launch collaboration with the Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network as we take on Good for Her Horror and Brian Michael Elmore's Bit . Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of rape and sexual violence, drug abuse, kidnapping, suicidality, homophobia,...

In Episode 12 of Out To Get You , we are joined by writer, researcher, and host of Referential , Dr. Khaliden Nas , to read between the margins of Stephen King's convalescent spine-chiller, Misery . Content warning: This episode contains discussion of torture, substance abuse, molestation, stalking, racism, infanticide, and many more topics that may be sensitive for listeners. This episode was...

In this bonus episode of  Out To Get You , we launch our series on the dread of deep space, fears of future past, and more, with a Class 7 probe of Star Trek’s The Gorn.  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of speciesism, space opera, and having beloved stories co-opted by right-wing corporate fascists.  Drop in for a casual chat on intergalactic blood libel, the diminishing returns...

In Episode 11 of Out To Get You , we are joined by software developer, Justin Park , to punch in for 2019's sublime and darkly comic award-winning powerhouse, Parasite .  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of extreme poverty, social abuse, gaslighting, grooming, poisoning, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.  In this episode, recorded April 13th 2025, we discus...

In Episode 10 of Out To Get You , we are joined by Eisner Award-Winning Women Write About Comics ' small press editor and writer, Kat Overland , to debug the soul of Alex Garland's 2014 psychological thriller, Ex Machina . Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism, medical/technological torture, slavery, colonialism, misogyny, dicks who have way too much money, and other...

In Episode 9 of Out To Get You , we are joined by award-winning cartoonist, printmaker, and educator, Cathy G. Johnson (Black Hole Heart, The Breakaways) to light a fire under the folk horror forebearer, 1973's cult classic, The Wicker Man , from Anthony Shaffer and Robin Hardy. Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse and grooming, misogyny, colonialism, ritual...

In Episode 8 of Out To Get You , we are joined by writer, academic, and paleontologist, Taryn Freeman , to gestate the horror that is Ridley Scott’s 1979 xenomorph masterpiece, Alien . Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, forced birth, misogyny, capitalist exploitation, colonialism, bodily fluids of various viscosities, and other topics that may be sensitive for li...

In this bonus episode of Out To Get You , we are joined for Pride by author Lindsay King-Miller (Tiny Nightmares, The Jewish Book of Horror, more) to peel back the flesh of her intimate and vicious debut novel, The Z-Word !  Content Warning: If you're with us in 2024, this one's pretty breezy. Drop in for a spoilers-free discussion of her electric queer apocalypse, as we dig in to what zom...

In Episode 7 of Out To Get You , we are joined by author Tucker Lieberman ( Most Famous Short Film of All Time, It Came From The Closet ) to open the doors on Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror of the hearth, The Shining .  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism, genocide, domestic violence, ableism, misogyny, that old chestnut interge...

In Episode 6 of Out To Get You , we are joined by cartoonist and author of Four Years, Karen Charm , to dial in on the party line for 1996’s masterclass slasher send-up, Scream ! Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of domestic violence, gaslighting, misogyny, the 90s, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this episode, we discuss living in the shadow of inherited t...

In Episode 5 of Out To Get You , we are joined by writer and horror filmmaker, Brant Lewis , to talk about Julia Docuranu’s mechanophilic body-horror / psychological thriller, Titane ! Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of graphic violence, pregnancy complications, self-managed abortion, body transformation, racism, ableism, transphobia, sexual violence, domestic abuse, loss of a ch...

In Episode 4 of Out To Get You , we are joined by co-writer and co-creator of the queer punk fantasy comic Blade Maidens , Zoe Tunnell , to talk about Marti Noxon's and Craig Gillespie's underrated, Great Recession reimagining of '80s cult classic, Fright Night ! Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of homophobia, misogyny, sexual violence, substance abuse, aging magician...

In Episode 3 of Out To Get You , we are joined by the author of Manhunt , and creator of The Deadlights Theater , Gretchen Felker-Martin , to talk about her upcoming novel, Cuckoo , and unpack the earthen grave of 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula . Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence and rape culture, racism and xenophobia, homophobia, colonialism, misogyny, m...

In Episode 2 of Out To Get You we are joined by writer @lilahsturges to ring in the summer and tackle one of film's most notorious depictions of trans bodies on film, Robert Hiltzik's controversial summer slasher, Sleepaway Camp !  Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of transphobia, forced transitions, sexual assault and rape culture, homophobia, ableism, maladaptive age gap...

In Episode 1 of Out To Get You , we are joined by writer/artist @valentinemsm1th , co-creator of queer punk fantasy comic @blademaidens , to discuss Clive Barker's 1987 directorial debut, Hellraiser !  Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence, mutilation, animal abuse, incest, homophobia, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this season opener,...