The Fear of God: A Horror Movie Podcast

We continue our Spooky Season (AHHHHH) run through the Alien franchise with unquestionably the silliest and most absurd entry in the franchise: ALIEN: RESURRECTION. After Ellen Ripley is cloned centuries following her death, she is forced to unite with a renegade group of space pirates to destroy the newest iteration of the Xenomorph species, including facehuggers, Xenomorphs, a queen, and a new m...

We continue our Spooky Season franchise run of the Alien films (#Halloweylandyutani) with an examination of the notoriously troubled production and polarizing finished product that was David Fincher's directorial debut: ALIEN3. We're joined this week by friends of the show and fellow podcasters Lindsey Dunn and Blake Collier (hosts of the shows 1ofmystories and Fly By Films respectively). Together...

We have another special interview episode for you this week featuring writer/director Michael Felker talking with us about his new film THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT. The film is released to theaters and VOD as of October 4th, and we had the chance to sit down with Michael to discuss its lush production, its innovative and thought-provoking premise, and its often profound emotional qualities. The film...

We continue our spooky season franchise run (#Halloweyalnd-utani) with the next stop in the Alien franchise: ALIENS. Writer/Director James Cameron took inspiration from Ridley Scott's horror/sci-fi landmark and expanded both the scope and the possibilities with his own vision of a more action-packed, brisker paced thrill ride. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, accompanied by a host of gun-...

It's almost Spooky Season once again at The Fear of God and this year, we're keeping the annual tradition alive of marching through a whole franchise by tackling deep space, where no one can hear you scream. That's right, we'll be making our way through the entire ALIEN franchise through the rest of September and October, and we start this week with a Redux conversation about the landmark original...

We close down our march through a handful of recent Dracula-inspired films by taking a look at last year's RENFIELD. Starring Nicholas Hoult and Akwafina, Renfield is an energetic, humorous, and remarkably thoughtful take on codependency, oppressive relationships, and rampant injustice. Oh.... and Nic Cage plays Dracula. We're joined this week by FoGers and friends, Vera Goudie and John Viinalass...

We continue our series of recent takes on the Dracula mythos by examining last year's THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER. Nestled in the first third of Bram Stoker's original novel is the tale of a ship which unknowingly carried Dracula from his homeland to London, losing crew member after crew member along the way. Until now, that specific chapter had never been given a deeper cinematic exploration....

We have another special interview for you this week, this time with Mikael Hafstrom, director of 1408, The Rite, and his latest film, SLINGSHOT (in theaters August 30th). Slingshot tells the story of an expedition into deep space, where a small crew must execute a risky slingshot maneuver propelling off of Jupiter's orbit. When the mission's security becomes questionably compromised, one particula...

We continue our series this week on recent interpretations of Dracula with a subversively entertaining new thriller from the Radio Silence boys: ABIGAIL. When a motley crew of kidnappers take captive a young girl, they are locked in a mansion for 24 hours while the man who hired them seeks ransom. Little do they know, but quickly do they discover, that this is no ordinary job and they're holding c...

We kick off a brand new mini-series this week all about the most infamous bloodsucker in all of culture. Earlier this year, we drilled down on some recent films which were inspired by Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Coincidentally, the same thing has been happening with Bram Stoker's original classic vampire tale, inspiring a handful of films in the last year or two based upon different aspects...

In October of 2019, we covered this horror sci-fi landmark as part of our #ilovethe70s series. This week, we're revisiting it as part of our tribute to the late Donald Sutherland. This time around, we've invited two friends of the show: bestselling author Matt Ruff and Gorey Gamer Matt Murray. We all have a tremendous amount of positive things to say about this excellent film that explores paranoi...

We have another very special bonus interview for you today featuring writer and director Marcus Dunstan. Marcus first broke into the industry as a co-writer for the winning screenplay of Project Greenlight season 3, on which Wes Craven himself was an advisor. From there, he's directed The Collector, The Collection, Pilgrim, Unhuman, and co-written nearly half of the Saw franchise. His latest film,...

We continue our series paying tribute to the late Donald Sutherland by covering an unconventional, Oscar-winning thriller from 1971. KLUTE tells the story of a man (Sutherland) in search of his missing friend. His only lead is a tempestuous call girl named Bree (Jane Fonda). As the two of them pursue answers to this mystery, a richly layered and disarmingly human story unfolds between them. The fi...

We continue our tribute series to the late Donald Sutherland with a film that is perhaps more well known for the shadow cast by its sibling TV series. Scripted by Joss Whedon, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER tells the story of valley girl cheerleader Buffy who learns that she was born destined to rid the world of evil vampires. Sutherland plays her trainer and mentor Merrick in a cast that also features...

We kick off a new mini-series this week celebrating the work of the late Donald Sutherland, who passed away last month. We start by one of the most highly regarded horror films in his whole catalog: the dread-soaked, melancholy tale of grief and premonition called DON'T LOOK NOW. Set in Venice amidst the tragedy of a deceased child, married couple John and Laura (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christ...

We have something unique and somewhat special for you this week. Not a horror film in the traditional genre sense, last year's award-winning film from Jonathan Glazer THE ZONE OF INTEREST takes an unconventional approach to a story that's been told countless times. The Zone of Interest follows the family of Rudolf Hoss, a commandant stationed at the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The film never sh...

Landing the third installment in the ever-growing Quiet Place universe, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE gives us all new characters and a completely new location. Stylistically, it changes things up pretty dramatically and also takes the opportunity to dive into new territory thematically. On this episode, we talk from our hearts about how challenging -- but also how necessary -- it can be to hold onto hop...

A few weeks ago, we covered a wonderful and unconventional new horror film called NEW LIFE. We'd encourage you to check that film and our episode about it out, and then join us for this special interview we were able to have with the writer and director, John Rosman. We dive into not only the production elements and specific narrative choices of this film, but also the rich and poignant themes it...

We have something a little different for you this week. In anticipation of the release of A Quiet Place Day One, we gathered some of our friends and FoGers together (including Vera Goudie, Andrew Nelson, Jocee Worley, and Steve Beckley) to have a pod party discussing the first two films in this franchise. We pour out lots of love on these films as well as identifying some quibbles, make some diffi...

One of the more unique and noteworthy horror films to release this year, following a successful festival run last year is the new film by the Cairnes brothers, LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL. The film almost entirely takes place on the set of a late 70s late night talk show where a Halloween special focusing on mediums and possession goes horribly awry. We gather a small group of FoGger favorites inclu...

Go big or go home. Well this week, we're doing both as we bring the one and only GODZILLA MINUS ONE home to the Fear of God Podcast. This film absolutely swept the global imagination, becoming nearly unanimously praised for its thoughtful humanity, eye-popping (and Oscar winning) visual effects, and its rich, classical storytelling. We invited a bunch of guests, including returning friends Steven...

In a somewhat rare opportunity for us, we are covering a film this week that was just released LAST week. NEW LIFE is an unexpectedly thoughtful and moving film about two women in a cat and mouse chase across the country. Jessica (Hayley Erin) is on the run while Elsa (Sonya Walger) is pursuing her. The stakes and details of the chase are revealed later in the film (to devastating effect) but alon...

Have we got a fun episode for you this week! SHADOW IN THE CLOUD from 2020 is part claustrophobic radio play, part creature-feature, part war movie, and part absolutely bananas-bonkers action fantasy. Chloe Grace-Moretz stars as a WWII gunner who boards a plane under top secret orders with some top secret cargo, only to discover mid-flight that the plane is under attack from a malevolent creature....

This week, we're going way back to the silent film era for an absolute classic of early horror filmmaking. The iconic scene where Christine rips away the mask from the distorted face of Lon Chaney in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA from 1925 has been played countless times. But the film itself is woefully underappreciated. We're joined this week by co-hosts of the review podcast Horror, Sci-Fi, and Beyon...

We have another special treat for you today. We had the opportunity to sit down with writer/director Nicholas Tomnay about his upcoming thriller: WHAT YOU WISH FOR. The film is a psychological nail-biter with darkly comedic elements and we really think you're gonna enjoy it.0 In the film, Ryan (Nick Stahl) is a talented chef with crushing gambling problems. Circumstances being what they are, he le...