Progressively Horrified

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...

JOIN JEREMY'S ZOOP CAMPAIGN AND HELP MAKE GREAT COMICS! https://zoop.gg/c/slay Take our listener survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-survey Sign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

JOIN JEREMY'S ZOOP CAMPAIGN AND HELP MAKE GREAT COMICS! https://zoop.gg/c/slay Take our listener survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-survey Sign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

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...

Trigger warnings: Blood, gore, mild racism, child endangerment, childhood trauma, ptsd The Basics Director: Jordan Peele Writers: Jordan Peele Stars: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul Mateen, and Anna Diop. What’s it about? IMDB says: A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them. Recommendations:...

Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Child abuse, alcohol abuse Sometimes you get in your own head? Am I talking about the film or the filmmakers? I don't even know anymore. Director: Ciara Boniface Writers: Ciara Boniface, Mikaela Dapremont Stars: Benjamin Abiola, Alex Arvie, Kevin Locks IMDB says: A young black man wants to reveal the truth about his traumatic childhood to his significant other...

Trigger warnings:  Child abuse, sexual assault, gaslighting, snakes, gun violence, alcohol abuse, misogyny. The Basics Director: Kasi Lemmons Writers: Kasi Lemmons Stars: Samuel L Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield What’s it about? IMDB says: What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it'...

Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Racism, cultural appropriation, racial microagressions Look out for the horrors of Count Beckula! Hair Wolf is a sharp satire of white appropriation of black culture that cast the appropriations and microaggressions of day to day life in America as a supernatural plague. This movie is an absolute must. Director: Mariama Diallo Writer: Mariama Diallo Stars: Kar...

Scare Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Homophobia, racism, bury your gays, several homophobic slurs, the n-word (though used entirely by people in the community), blood and gore, potential gaslighting or hypnotism (unclear), one racist ass Dracula It's time to talk about the original black horror movie about the man himself, Mamuwalde aka Blacula! An African Prince appeals to Count Dracula to stop...

Scare Level: Scary Trigger Warnings: sexual assault, attempted rape, blood, body trauma, child death and autopsy, religious cult, flashing lights, animal death, dog death, dead nude child The definition of a troubled production makes for an interesting if overall disappointing feature, but boy do we have a lot to say about it! If you haven't listened to our episodes on Alien and Aliens, we recomme...