ScaryCrit: A Black Horror Podcast

In the season 2 finale, Melle and Jared walk the halls of a late 90s high school in The Faculty (1998), pin-pricking character tropes, successful and attempted subversions, a plethora of meta genre homages, and shocking, kick-in-the-teeth casting/editing choices.   Gems from Episode 20 Aberration (1997) See No Evil (2006) Scream (1996) Scary Movie (2000) Them (2021) The Faculty (1998) Spy Kids (20...

In E19, the Negronomicon is filled with expressions of excitement and doubt concerning the upcoming Amazon Prime Video terror anthology series Them (2021). Afterward, join the fun as Lauren and Jared play around with everybody’s favorite pint-sized terror, Chucky.  Your hosts examine the “nobody believes the child!” trope, Brad Dourif’s stellar voice work, Chucky’s characterization, and Karen Barc...

“Rog? Rhere?”  After working through which 90s children’s horror anthology series is king and touching on this past Superhero weekend, Jared and Lauren take a walk down memory lane and exhume a bunch of nostalgia as they crit every 90s babies’ fave, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998). The animation, humor, storyline, and that killer soundtrack (shoutout to Skycycle!)--ahhh! So turn up your volume...

In E17, Lauren and Jared talk about non-horror movies that still scared them and other things they're watching now, Avatar vs. Avatar vs. Avatar, TikTok trends that need to go, and deep dive into the 2020 horror/thriller Spell.  Gems from E17  The Half of It (2020) Behind Her Eyes (2021) The Mortuary Collection (2020) Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) No Country for Old Men (2007) Breaking B...

In E16, Lauren and Jared talk top ramen top three (03;19), movie theaters and John K in COVID (05:09), Wanda ViShawn (08:19), and  FINALLY have a look at Apple TV’s Servant (9:15). Get strapped in as we hoist up our spinnanight bags for an evening in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s whacky 1977 ghost tale House . This J-Horror classic explores grief, loss, and inter-generational trauma in this adventure of a g...

It's a very special episode! Scary Crit has our very first special Guest Critter. Folx of podcast land, allow us to introduce you to the one, the only, ElJa Bowens (@ eljapoetry ). In E15, we talk about the movies that got us Hooked on Horror, break down the good and the bad of Pixar's Soul ,  and critique the latest installment of the Tales from the Hood franchise. We have a tangent or...

In E14, we call out the Negronomicon to talk about the face crack that is WandaVision before getting into (see what I did there?) Jordan Peele’s 2017 cultural phenomenon Get Out. It is the fourth anniversary, during Black history month, in the middle of a panini. How could we not? Want to support ScaryCrit? Leave us a five-star review! Gems from E14: Basketball Wives (2010) Love & Hip Hop (201...

In E13, Lauren and Jared discuss the feelings behind some of horror's most brutal deaths (01:05), call the Negronomicon (10:30) off the shelf to raise their eyebrows at the casting in Amazon's Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV reboot, and drop a favorite rap line (17:28),  and get cozy in the dark as we crit (22:48)  Remi Weeke's His House (2020). Like this episode? Support your favorite podc...

In E12, we Ask and Answer (01:15), the Negronomicon (03:55) flies off the shelf as we examine the shocking Golden Globes snubs and really get into the awesome social subtext of Joe Cornish’s debut Sci-fi -Horror-Action-Comedy, Attack the Block (2011) (15:01). Like this episode? Leave us a five-star review!  Gems from E12: The Exorcist (1973) Citizen Kane (1941) Scream (1996) Promising Young Woman...

Queue "Black" by Buddy - We’re back and still Black, y’all! Season 2 of ScaryCrit is here, it's different and the same! We ask questions the world needs to know (01:32), crack open the Negronomicon (03:44) and get sucked into the wacky world of WandaVision, and kick off Black History Month with the 1995 cult classic Vampire in Brooklyn (12:31) .   We got an Announcement ! We got a n...

May your Gregorian New Year be filled with blood, guts, and horror! In the first episode of this new year, Lauren and Jared talk scholastic book fairs and childhood fears (1:35), crack open the Negronomicon (6:20)to dissect the FAIL that is WW84, and talk about some of the most anticipated Black films of 2021, and crit what some critics called the scariest film of 2020, The Dark and the Wicked (27...

It's the last episode of 2020! In E9, Lauren and Jared talk X gene and the #negrosoulstice (00:30), crack open the Negronomicon (03:34) to announce a surprise crit switch up (04:00)  -Krampus wasn’t doing it for us -  talk about one of the most anticipated films of December, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (09:40), break down Slant Mag's Top 10 of 2020 Horror Movie List (19:40) and invite...

In E8, Jared and Lauren have some questions (3:58) and some announcements (11:38), crack open the Negronomicon (14:14) for the final December releases and the new Warner+HBO collab, and get into Selena and survival, the significance of the color red, to find out what the infected might’ve really been mad about in the crit of Danny Boyle’s zombie-classic-but-not-a-zombie-movie 28 Days Later (36:32)...

As the world has been extremely uneventful these past two weeks, we've left the Negronomicon on the shelf for E7 and went straight into the Crit: unpacking the inner workings and social/political implications of The First Purge and fangirling over Black Rambo. Get into it. Special shouts out to Kaitlin for requesting a crit on The First Purge ! Got a movie you want us to crit? Slide into our...

In E6, Lauren and Jared talk about what they're currently watching (08:09), and we take the Negronomicon off the shelf (13:23)  to talk about the desperate state of the movie theatre business, say our condolences for everyone's favorite game show hose Alex Trebek (22:27),  give our new Bond her flowers (29:40),  and discuss Wes Craven's hidden gem The People Under the  Stairs (50:00...

In E5 Lauren and Jared agree to disagree!  We say a Lovecraft Country last word (16:00), check to see if Justin Simien’s Bad Hair has split ends (43:00), touch on Netflix's remake of Lauren's favorite film Rebecca (1:21:16), break down the beauty that is Henry Selick’s Coraline (1:31:33), and for some reason this week Jared can not seem to correctly pronounce words to save his life! At t...

In Episode 4, Lauren and Jared talk politics, flies, and capitalism (4:30) , Lovecraft country and pickaninny problems (12:10), the most beautiful television in the world (31:19) , how vampires tried - and failed - to gentrify the Bronx (36:10) , a quick tangent to remember The Descent (44:51) , the whelmed-ness of Bly Manor - (49:09), cringe at Netflix trying so hard to be down (1:02:43) , access...

It's Episode 3! We talk about structure as gatekeeping (01:55) , the injustice in Louisville and other politics (12:30) , Zendaya's Emmy win (19:47) ,  virtual awards show season (29:12) A little bit of Lovecraft (35:06) . Then we open the Negronomicon (39:17) to talk about Netflix canceling Emmy Award Winning The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the live adaptation of Peter Pan, and TV...

Back back back again! In Episode 2, we talk about the best vacuum cleaner ever (04:30) , recap Auntie Patti and Auntie Glayds most wholesome VerzUz (06:32), remembering Brendan Fraser while we gush over Lovecraft Country (14:06) , and girl summer is ending (22:15) .  We crack open the Negronomicon to discuss, among other things, the Academy and their foolishness (26:10), the dishonor of Mulan (40:...

YERRRR. It's our very first episode!  In E01, we get into why we started this podcast in the first place (2:51) , pay our respects to Chadwick Boseman (24:30) and Joe Ruby (34:40) , crack open the Negronomicon for the first time (38:30) , and talk about maybe the most famous Black-almost-final-girl, Karla from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. **A note from the future! What's up, Po...