The Fear of God: A Horror Movie Podcast

It feels like an unbelievable landmark, but The Fear of God Podcast has reached episode 300. After 6 1/2 years of "not the end of the conversation", we're taking things back to a very, very early beginning. THE VICTIM, written and directed by Michael Biehn, is a grindhouse-flavored suspense thriller where every character has something to hide and no one quite knows who to trust. It's made in the t...

As 2022 began, we made our way through a sequence of the best films from 2021. Along that way, we also spent many conversations with the fictional inhabitants of Crockett Island and Mike Flanagan's mini-series, MIDNIGHT MASS. The show sits at our unique intersection of discussion better than nearly anything we've previously covered, and yielded some of the most vulnerable and thoughtful discussion...

We close down this current series of films curated for us by our annual FoGoween attendees (lovingly dubbed #FoGgoweeners) with David Bruckner's 2018 film THE RITUAL. This chilling story of four friends on an excursion who get lost in the woods and find themselves in the path of an unspeakable and seemingly ageless threat is not only haunting for the ways it challenges us to confront our own lack...

We're continuing in our series of films which are otherwise unrelated except that they were selected for coverage by the attendees of this year's annual FoGgoween, #foggoweeners. It's time as well to step back into the halls of the Quarterly Queens as Asia, Vera, and Jess unpack 2020's haunting exploration of illness and generational legacies: RELIC. This gruesome and meticulously crafted frighten...

We have a truly unique discussion for you this week about a truly unique film. Continuing our series #FoGgoweeners covering otherwise unrelated films which were recommended to us at this year's FoGgoween, we cover a film from Hungary called WHITE GOD, about an abandoned dog who leads an uprising among the canine community against his human oppressors.  Remarkably thoughtful and sensitively ma...

We're continuing our year-end series of films which are otherwise unrelated, but were curated by our FoGgoween guests: #foggoweeners. This week's stop is the moody and bleak film from Oz Perkins, THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER. Featuring a patient and methodical approach to an incredibly creepy story, Blackcoat's Daughter presents a haunting portrait of the extents to which we'll go to try to recapture...

Continuing our new series on recommendations we received directly at this year's FoGgoween -- #foggoweeners -- we're going back to the 1980s and the cast of Universal's classic monsters for Fred Dekker's THE MONSTER SQUAD. Grab your backpack and pedal those bicycles for a fun, wonderfully visualized send up of all your favorite monsters. While the film does have some dated, problematic elements th...

We launch a brand new series this week gleefully titled #foggoweeners, representing films which are otherwise unrelated but linked by being recommended to us by our patrons during our annual FoGgoween event. We start with Denis Villeneuve's endlessly fascinating and provocative film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, ENEMY. It's a film which invites shock upon first viewing, but then quickly proceeds to in...

Lock yourselves in yours cars friends and FoGgers, there's a monster around and perhaps, that monster might even be you. That's right, we're diving into our next installment in the recurring series of Quarterly Kings, taking an in-depth look at the works of Stephen King. This time, we're tackling his rabid dog terror tale: CUJO.  Most people know at least a bit about Cujo even if they haven't...

We've spent the entire spooky season marching through each entry in the legendary Halloween franchise. As a kind of breath at the closure of that run, and as a special Halloween bonus, we decided to devote a unique epilogue episode to chart our favorite sequels in the franchise, answer some listener questions, solidify the Shape Kills Hall of Fame, and ponder the richer elements of the franchise a...

So it comes to this. Following Rob Zombie's efforts to reimagine the horror of Michael Myers, the franchise lay dormant for nearly a decade until Blumhouse and David Gordon Green revived the franchise with a trilogy of films that both invigorated and occasionally frustrated fans, effectively bringing Michael Myers roaring back into cultural immediacy. They brought back John Carpenter to produce an...

This stop in our journey of Halloween @ Halloween was inevitable. In 2007, following years of developmental misfires for a sequel in the franchise, Rob Zombie was tasked with bringing his unique vision to a remake of the original Halloween. The result was a highly controversial -- but also highly successful -- film. Zombie then followed up with a sequel two years later (with much more reluctance a...

Our next stop in our October series Halloween @ Halloween features a returning legendary heroine and inexplicable kung fu as we explore HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER and HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION. Following the messy production and reception of The Curse of Michael Myers, the franchise recalibrated back to basics and brought back Jamie Lee Curtis to reprise her role as the iconic Laurie Strode. But f...

We continue our murderous parade through the exploits, the escapades, and the eviscerations of the one and only Michael Myers with a truly unique entry in horror franchise canons. The 6th Halloween film was much contested among its creatives as the production rights came into dispute, and the Haddonfield slasher came under new management at Dimension Films. This led to drastically different vision...

We are continuing our spooky season journey this week through the landmark Michael Myers franchise we call Halloween @ Halloween where we assess every adventure in the Halloween franchise. Our next stop is HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS and HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS. These two films made an intentional effort to course correct after Halloween III: Season of the Witch left...

We begin a new adventure at the Fear of God by making our way through an entire landmark franchise. We begin our journey though every sequel, every kill, and every jumpy music cue of the HALLOWEEN franchise. That's right, it's Halloween @ Halloween. Since we've already covered the original back on episode 10, we're starting this journey with HALLOWEEN II from 1981, the sequel that practically had...

We conclude our summer of Stranger Things by diving into the details of episode 9, The Piggyback, and expressing our thoughts on the season as a whole with the Quarterly Queens: Vera Goudie, Asia Swartzentruber, and Jess Fischli. A mega series deserves a mega episode and not only do we take the season to task for its narrative missteps, we also highlight what makes the show such a resonant and aff...

In celebration of the release of Season 5 of Cobra Kai to Netflix, please enjoy this special preview of our full B-Side conversation on Season 4 of Cobra Kai featuring friend of the show Josh Rouse. Hear the full episode by becoming a Patron at the $5 or above level and enjoy all of the additional bonus content that comes with that as well. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Calif...

We've made it to the last track on our #mixtape covering the major influences of Stranger Things. We trek our way alongside the pinnacle of adventure heroes with INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. While Temple of Doom may largely be regarded as the third best in the original Indy trilogy (for some understandable reasons), it still has a propulsive and fun energy and is anchored by the impressiv...

For the next installment of our #mixtape where we take a look at films that largely inspired the hit series Stranger Things, we explore a landmark work in animation: AKIRA. Featuring returning guest and continuity guru Steven Beckley, we unpack the myriad of ways this epic film of children with psychic powers, apocalyptic societies on the verge of collapse, and lots and lots of motorcycles has end...

It's time for the next track in our #mixtape as we make our way through some of the influences of the TV series Stranger Things. Here, we have a very special conversation as we invite guest Ian Olson to discuss THE ROAD WARRIOR, as well as his enthusiastic thoughts on the entire Mad Max franchise. What emerges from all the dust and fire and gasoline is a compelling portrait of a man who is not a h...

We're continuing our journey through Season 4 of STRANGER THINGS and its myriad of influences by celebrating a bygone 80s tradition: the mixtape. In our own little rendition, we're stacking up a handful of 80s influences starting with a classic of adventure and buried treasure where imagination never says die. It's THE GOONIES as we're joined by foreign correspondent and Quarterly Queen Vera Goudi...

For this special conversation we welcome back to the show, Dr. David Gushee, who has been referred to as "one of the best Christian ethicists alive today." It's a substantive dialogue primarily centered on Dr. Gushee's most recent book, INTRODUCING CHRISTIAN ETHICS. This discussion particularly focuses on the subjects of scriptural interpretation, feminism, and truthfulness as a Christian norm. It...

We continue this week with the concluding half of our epic conversation about the work of John Carpenter and Kurt Russell featuring guest, friend, and bestselling author Matt Ruff. This week, you'll hear us dive deeper into the themes and importance of THE THING as well as a lively and light-hearted traipse through BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA before going back into all three films (including ESCAP...

We have something really special for you today folks. In what is our penultimate installment in #carpenterredux, we present to you the first half of a mega conversation we had with bestselling author and returning FoG favorite Matt Ruff about the work of legendary horror master John Carpenter. Specifically, we focus on three of his iconic films starring Kurt Russell: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE THIN...