The Fear of God: A Horror Movie Podcast

The work of Guillermo del Toro has received a lot of love and attention on this show, so we were excited when this week's #20/20/2020 installment gave us an excuse to cover his gothic, taboo romance with ghosts in it: CRIMSON PEAK. While we take the film to task for some of its missteps, it provides us a chance to talk about one of its most compelling central ideas... namely what happens when what...

We fire up the Camaro for some treacherous nighttime car chasing as we log another installment of #20/20/2020 and have a full discussion about Dan Gilroy's thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, NIGHTCRAWLER. We count down your listener voted FAVORITE HORROR FILMS OF 2014, before buckling up for a passionate (and potentially quite dangerous) discussion about Gyllenhaal's incredible performance in Gilr...

You want a ride? Well, have we got a wild one for you as we dive back into our OTHER year-long umbrella series, examining your favorite horror films from each year since 2000 with #20/20/2020. This week, we count down the listener voted TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF 2013 and feature a conversation about the unique and incredibly challenging film by Jonathan Glazer, UNDER THE SKIN. While we both enter th...

Hello and welcome back to another installment of Quarterly King, an every-25-episodes-or-so exploration of the work of Stephen King. This release, corresponding by no coincidence at all with 2020's Election Day in America, we explore Stephen King's first #1 bestselling novel, THE DEAD ZONE, and the 1983 film adaptation starring Christopher Walken and directed by David Cronenberg. We've gathered ou...

Happy Halloween Eve everyone! All month long, we've been celebrating #thisishalloween by making our way through Ray Bradbury's classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. As a coda to those discussions, friend of the show and award-winning actor Bill Oberst Jr. stopped by to chat with Reed about the work of Ray Bradbury and the one-man stage show about the legendary author which Bill crafted an...

It's Halloween everybody! We hope you have a very special, delightful, safe, fun-filled and very happy Halloween this year and we celebrate this annual festivity with our concluding discussion surrounding Ray Bradbury's legendary literary classic novel, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. After a brief summary of the concluding chapters of the book (and a rather detailed discussion around our dream c...

Can you believe it??!! 200 EPISODES!!! We wanted to go BIG! Like... most sincere podcast big. Like... "I've got a signed document" big. Like... we got a rock. That's right ladies and gentlemen, we celebrate our landmark 200th episode the only way we know how: by hearing from our listener community, by waxing poetic and thoughtful about a good book, and by taking what could be considered simple, mi...

Stay off our lawn!!! Just kidding, y'all come on over because we're discussing one of the most inventively fun and spooky children's Halloween movies ever made: MONSTER HOUSE! In this week's installment of #thisishalloween, we take our usual detour through Greentown Illinois for the next installment in Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES before venturing into the creepy unknown as we kn...

First of all, it was October, a rare month for The Fear of God... as Nathan and Reed venture into a brand new mini-series of episodes simply and directly titled #thisishalloween. All month long, we'll be discussing stories not only at the intersection of faith and fear, but also at the intersection of Halloween and Childhood. We start our journey by diving into the first handful of chapters of Ray...

We began this journey called #inthemourning with a conversation about Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War. It prompted a months-long exploration about learning how to lose as we discussed each episode of HBO's The Leftovers and more than a dozen films which dealt with ghost stories, paradigm shifts, and apocalypses. Now, in this coda, we return again to the MCU for a discussion about AVENGER'S: ENDGAM...

In a remote part of the podcast world, over a cup of proverbial tea, Nathan and Reed sit and reflect upon learning how to lose, as #inthemourning draws to a close and they examine the series finale of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, with all of the joys, fears, hopes, and questions that come along with it. Nothing is explained. Everything is explored. And then it ends. -All the FoGgy links- On the web Facebo...

Our journey through HBO's THE LEFTOVERS is nearly concluded, but first, one last stop through a desolate future where humanity has stopped being able to have children as we discuss Alfonso Cuaron's incredible film, CHILDREN OF MEN. Equal parts bleak and hopeful, devastating and inspiring, Children of Men is a film that is so rich in theme and artistry we find it difficult to tame our praise for it...

If there ever were a singular, unique piece of film we've ever covered, Mel Gibson's exploration of the last days of the Mayan civilization through the eyes of a survivor desperate to save his family is it. APOCALYPTO received tremendous praise upon its release, despite the rising controversies surrounding Gibson's personal struggles. We heap no small amount of praise upon it ourselves as we explo...

Come with us if you want to live... because we're heading all the way back to 1984 for James Cameron's original installment in the landmark sci-fi franchise THE TERMINATOR. After a brief detour through the Australian outback for episodes 3 & 4 of Season 3 of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, we go full temporal displacement to combat the machines and save the future. Along the way, we have more than a hand...

It's time to warm up those vocals, find you some mistletoe and... get ready to battle zombies? That's right, we launch our final phase of our recurring series #inthemourning about learning how to lose with an examination of 2017's unique zombie Christmas musical, ANNA & THE APOCALYPSE. After a detour through Jarden, Texas again for the first two episodes of Season 3 of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, we...

We take to the skies this week with a countdown of your top ten horror films of 2012 (for #20/20/2020) and an extended discussion about Josh Trank's unconventional, found-footage, super-being film CHRONICLE. The conversation quickly yields itself to a heartfelt and vulnerable discussion about the relationship we have with our own power and the responsibility we carry with how we display and wield...

We take another brief intermission from our series #inthemourning to tag back in on 20/20/2020, where we count down your favorite horror films from each year in the 2000s. This episode, we focus on 2011, counting down YOUR top ten favorite horror films from the year, and featuring an extended conversation on the Adam Wingard thriller, YOU'RE NEXT. While it is a fun and inventive subversion of the...

It has come to this: the resolution of the mystery of the missing girls, the fulfillment of the plans of Meg, the fallout from Kevin's sleepwalking and his travels to the purgatory hotel he wanders through, and a song that calls the dead back home. We can only be talking about the stunning conclusion to THE LEFTOVERS, Season 2. After a brief detour through our own exploration of the songs we would...

In this penultimate installment of phase two of #inthemourning, we have one of our most surprising and challenging conversations yet as we explore Alejandro Amenabar's haunted chiller, THE OTHERS. After a stopover in Jarden for Season 2, Episode 9, of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, we confront the complicated conversation that arises when a film is remarkably effective in its craft, but wears its message a...

Time to "tune in" as we continue our journey through phase two of #inthemourning with new discussions about HBO's THE LEFTOVERS Season 2 and a full conversation about the visionary and ground-breaking film by Alex Proyas, DARK CITY. The conversation this time around explores the complicated efforts we all must make to carry the light in dark spaces, or at the very least learn how to reflect it. We...

Picture us in an orange grove... but first we have to stop by a rustic old rainy motel where the guests are as varied as their birthdays are the same, and some mysterious forces are taking them down one by one. It's James Mangold's IDENTITY on this week's continuation of #inthemourning, exploring Season 2 of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS and films with paradigm-shifting narratives. We are joined this week o...

We take a notably more light-hearted approach to this week's film in our installment of #inthemourning as we examine yet another paradigm-shifting narrative: this time in the form of Sir Kenneth Branagh's Hitchcockian thriller DEAD AGAIN. After our usual stop through Jarden, Texas and episodes 3 & 4 of HBO's THE LEFTOVERS, we have a delightful time discussing this disarmingly romantic and surp...

It's time once again to let the mystery be, everyone. We're diving back in on our sequence of episodes covering the HBO series THE LEFTOVERS called #inthemourning, and as we begin our journey through Season 2, we're looking at a handful of films that deal with paradigm-shifting revelations. Our first stop -- after a detour through Jarden, Texas with our gang in The Leftovers -- finds us tackling t...

BOOK CLUB! We inaugurate our first official Fear of God Book Club with a lengthy and insightful conversation with new friend of the show, bestselling author Matt Ruff. We get to know Matt a bit -- his history with the horror genre and what he's been watching lately -- before doing a deep dive into a discussion on his outstanding book, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, soon to be airing as an HBO series produced...

Finishing our brief intermission from our lengthy series #inthemourning this week with another installment of #20/20/2020, covering your top ten favorite horror films of 2010! This week's edition has your countdown of listener voted favorites from that year and an extended conversation about Darren Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN. There is some fascinating conversation that arises as we explore the complex...