Progressively Horrified

Fright Level : Terrifying (Very Scary) with overwhelming existential dread Trigger Warnings: Violence toward animals, violence toward children, jump scares, light gore, gaslighting, insomnia, hallucinations, abusive familial relationships. Good gracious guys, this one is a wild ride. We sat down on the day after the American presidential election to discuss the scariest and hardest to process movi...

OH MY GOD! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN! Actually I can tell you how it happened! We recorded a podcast about Anna and the Apocalypse and since we talked about our favorite tiny queer girl, Steph North, a whole bunch I tagged actress Sarah Swire in the tweet about the episode and then both she and Alan McDonald, the writer of Anna and the Apocalypse got in touch to say thanks for the shout outs in the epis...

Fright Level: Spoopy Trigger Warnings: Extensive gaslighting, violence toward women, extensive gore, disturbing images, Joss Whedon. It's the first episode of this podcast we've ever done to necessitate and upfront creator based content warning as we talk about the meta horror of "The Cabin in the Woods" and having grown up with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly in a post Justice League world....

Happy American Thanksgiving! In the midst of this stressful time, we wanted to take a second to talk to you about family. Cause around here, at Progressively Horrified, we don't got friends, we got family. That's right, babies. Chris and Ben talked Jeremy into it and now we know what our Patreon exclusive series is going to be. That's right, we're launching "Progressively Furious". If you support...

Fright Level : Spooky (a little scary) Trigger warnings : Egyptian/Middle Eastern exoticism, bugs, mild gore, jump scares Is progress an illusion? Because we're talking 1999's "The Mummy" with Rachael Weisz and Brendan Frasier and how even though it traffics in Eastern exoticism and white people digging up dead brown people to steal their ancient artifacts, it's somehow way better at meaningful re...

Fright Level: Spooky (a little scary) with large amounts of existential dread Trigger Warnings: attempted sexual assault, jump scares, violence, gore, racial violence, depictions of white supremacy groups, explosions The First Purge is about as subtle as a brick to the face and it's about as affective too. This movie finally realizes the ideas that previous iterations of The Purge have been circli...

Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary) with mild jump scares and moderate existential dread Trigger Warnings: zombies, gore, pandemics, high school, musicals, Christmas Anna and the Apocalypse is a 2017 horror/comedy/musical from Scotland that combines our love of musicals set in high schools and zombie horror comedies set in England. It's directed by John McPhail and it stars Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming...

Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary) Trigger Warnings: gaslighting, kidnapping, cannibalism, possession, toxic friendships, use of disability slurs Jennifer's Body is the 2009 horror/comedy from director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Girlfight) and writer Diablo Cody (Juno) starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Brody. It was torn up by critics and well known for having one of the worst adverti...

Jennifer's Body is a fantastically queer horror movie from 2009 and it is here to eat your face and climb into your window. Listen to clips from the show of Chris, Ben, and Jeremy talking about what makes this movie feminist and queer and why Batman opens all the windows when he enters rooms. Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58 Follow Chris on twitter @themythofps...