Progressively Horrified

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...

Fear Level: Spooky Trigger Warnings:   Welcome to the watch along guide for Progressively Horrified Episode 67. Here’s some things you might want to know before you watch the movie or listen to the episode. This week we are discussing the  2011 home invasion thriller “You’re Next”  It is directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. Our hosts ranked this movie as spooky, meaning it has so...

Fear Level: Existentially Disconcerting Trigger Warnings: exploitative nudity, graphic violence HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? You're having ok day at school but then you go outside to check on your school bunny cages and all of the bunnies are dead but then you discover that there's one alive and he's hiding under the mulch in the cage but when you take him out to protect him the local gang that...

Fear Level: Existentially Disconcerting Trigger Warnings: exploitative nudity, graphic violence HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? You're having ok day at school but then you go outside to check on your school bunny cages and all of the bunnies are dead but then you discover that there's one alive and he's hiding under the mulch in the cage but when you take him out to protect him the local gang that...

Support us on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified On our first anniversary as a podcast, Jeremy, Ben, and Emily sat down to reminisce and rate the first fifty movies we watched! They are now on a list you can access at Letterboxd! Each entry helpfully says which episode we discussed it in and you can follow along with what we've done in any order you'd like! ★ Support thi...

Fear Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings:  Bugs and clowns THIS IS HALLOWEEN MOTHER F***ERS! Director: Henry Selick (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, and Monkeybone) Writers: Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands, Addams Family, Corpse Bride) Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice, Tales from the Darkside), based on a poem by Tim Burton Stars: Danny Elfman/Chris Sarandon, Katherine O’Hara, Ken Page Topics...

Fear Level: Terrifying/Existentially Disconcerting Trigger Warnings:  Sexual Assault, Gaslighting, homophobia, gore, violence, kids with drugs and alcohol What if Home Alone, but terrifying. Director: Chris Peckover Writers: Zack Kahn, Chris Peckover Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton Topics of Discussion: Seething Rage Home Alone Christmas movies...

Fear Level: Spoopy/Spooky Trigger Warnings:  Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, violence to animals, elderly abuse, classism, capitalism A boy gets a pet that can talk, watches tv, and reproduces asexually and nobody even thinks it's weird Director: Joe Dante Writers: Chris Columbus Stars: Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, and Hoyt Axton Topics of Discussion: Joe Dante and Chris...

Fear Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings:  Gore, violence, anti-semetic violence, lynching, dead children, miscarriage, gun violence Ben's quest to find and watch a horror movie that deals with Jewish themes finally hits pay dirt. Get it? Dirt! Golems! Topics of Discussion: History Judaism and Horror Various Bar Mitzvahs Madonna, a lot, you'd be surprised Jewish National Treasure Bad sex Marginally bet...

Fear Level: Spoopy/Scary Trigger Warnings: Gore, animal death, human trafficking question mark Santa Claus, threat or menace? Topics of Discussion:  Joulupukki Dicks like tree roots Finnish stoicism Mad uncle energy Rules of Christmas The judgement of horny Santa Christmas Onslaught Emily vs Nordic Men Hair dryer elf Potato farm elf Six kid village Peatari's Boss Ass Hero Moment Are these old men...

Fear Level: Scary/Terrifying Trigger Warnings: Psychological and emotional manipulation, sexual assault imagery, body horror, gore, abuse, murder, world war II and Holocaust discussion and imagery The dance fights in this one give Cats a run for its money! Topics of Discussion: The German Autumn The Wall Thom Yorke Preying on the young vs Investing in the young All art is dangerous, Morf Poor Olga...

Fear Level: Trigger Warnings:  What happens if you let Clive Barker make X-Men? Director: Clive Barker Writers: Clive Barker Stars: Craig Schaeffer, David Cronenberg, Anne Bobby Topics of Discussion: What is Baphomet here? Sorry, Bapho-may Morlocks A Marcy as a Peppermint Patty Definitely straight So straight, his girlfriend would commit suicide if he leaves her So straight he hates the Nightbreed...

Fear Level: Existentially Disconcerting Trigger Warnings: Misogyny, racism, assault, emotional and psychological manipulation, body horror, alcoholism, self-performed surgery, classism What a great movie to be a bisexual coward. Director: Alex Garland (Annihilation) Writers: Alex Garland Stars: Oscar Isaacs, Alicia Vikander, and Domhall Gleason Topics of Discussion: A24 - A Mood Long Island Perfor...

Fear Level: Scary/Terrifying Trigger Warnings: Blood, guts, gaslighting, stalking, severing of limbs, infection, (quick cuts and flashing lights may be difficult or painful for people with certain conditions) Two men enter a bathroom. Only one can leave. TJ Finecey Twitter: @troyfin2 Podcast: Gotham Outsiders Bre Indigo Twitter: @ndgoarts Insta: @ndgoarts Steve Seigh Twitter: @dead_anchoress Talki...

Fear Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Attempted sexual assault, stabbing, strangling, racism, voodoo, descriptions of childhood trauma Support us on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified Sometimes a cop chases a strangler into a toy store and before he can die, that strangler uses his correspondence course in voodoo to transfer his consciousness to a stuffed doll. Director:...

Support us on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified "The Girl in the Woods" is a new series from Peacock about a girl named Carrie who is part of a cult that guards a mysterious door in the woods of the Pacific Northwest that leads to a world of monsters. After a traumatic event, Carrie goes on the run from her cult to the local logging town where she makes friends with loc...

Fear Level: Terrifying Trigger Warnings: Jump scares, gaslighting, gore, cops, violence against women, knife trauma, alcoholism, metal on metal screeching Support us on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified In 1984, Wes Craven brought Robert Englund to haunt our dreams as the blade handed, dream haunting, gone but not forgotten psychopath Fred Krueger. To this day, he's bee...

Fear Level: Scary Trigger Warnings: Jump scares, racism, nudity, mild gore, stalking, cops, violence against women Support us on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified Twenty years ago, an unmonitored camper drowned at Camp Crystal Lake. The next year, someone murdered two counselors. It's been closed since then. Now a spoiled rich kid is half-assing having some teens repair...

Fear Level: Scary Trigger Warnings: Jump scares, nudity, mild gore, stalking, cops, bad portrayals of therapy, violence against women Support us on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified In 1978 there was no such thing as the "slasher" genre. Psycho and Black Christmas were oddities in the thriller genre. Until one very tall man stole a tan station wagon and drove it Haddonf...