The Know Fear Cast

For our next episode on "hagsploitation" we discuss the film Strait Jacket   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other listeners fi...

For our next episode in our series on hagsploitation, Matt and Mel discuss the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, whi...

Mel and Lisa begin our new series on "hagsploitation" by discussing the origin of the term, the history, and what makes it scary. We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us...

In our latest installment in our movies in horror series, we watched and discuss The Ring .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps o...

For part three in our series on movies in horror, Matt and Mel look at Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie: A Novel   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely...

For our next episode about films in horror, Mel and Lisa discuss Silvia Moreno-Garcia's  Silver Nitrate   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free...

We begin a new series on movies in horror.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other listeners find us.    Theme Music by Nichola...

In our latest episode, we discuss Stephen Graham Jones' novella Night of the Mannequins .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps oth...

For this episode, we discuss the 2025 film Good Boy   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other listeners find us.    Theme Music b...

We return from our winter hiatus (slightly delayed thanks to a winter storm that left several of us without power) with another recommendations episode.

As a special holiday episode, we look at the 2015 film Krampus Also, a small correction: when Matt was giving his overview of the film he said that Adam Scott and Toni Collete's characters have one child. They actually have two.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patre...

For our fourth installment in the cozy horror series, Mel and Lisa discuss the 1998 film  Practical Magic .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely...

We continue our series on cozy horror by looking at the 2014 miniseries Over the Garden Wall .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and help...

For our second episode in our series on "cozy horror" we discuss Patrick Horvath's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which...

For our first series of season ten, we dive into the subgenre of "cozy horror" and discuss what we think constitutes this category. Here is the link to the article referenced in the beginng of the episode: https://www.themarysue.com/instead-of-arguing-about-this-horror-genre-why-not-curl-up-and-enjoy-it/ We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast...

We start off our tenth season with a retrospective looking back on the past decade of our podcast and finish it up with some recommendations for books, movies, and comics.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website kno...

For our last episode on dystopian horror, Matt and Mel discuss the first two episodes of the tv show  Silo . We will taking a summer hiatus, but we will be back in the Fall for Season Ten!     We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available...

In our second episode on dystopias, we look at Ursula K. LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and N.K. Jemisen's response "The Ones Who Stay and Fight."   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website k...

In our latest series, we discuss dystopia fiction and what makes it qualify as horror.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other...

We'll be taking this week off, so please enjoy this rerun episode of Hell House, LLC, originally released as part of our series on found footage. We will be back in two weeks with a brand new episode.

For our next entry in "hotel horror," we discuss Simone St. James' novel  The Sun Down Motel .   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and help...

In this special epsiode, we have a conversation with Cynthia Pelayo, author of the recently released novel  Vanishing Daughters. Cynthia Pelayo is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago, and The Shoemaker's Magician. In addition to writing genre-blending novels that incorporate fairy-tale, mystery, detective, crime, and horror elements, Pelayo has written nu...

For the next episode in our series on "hotel horror," we look at Ti West's 2011 film  The Innkeepers.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free a...

Mel and Lisa discuss the mother of all hotel horror stories: Alfred Hitchock's  Psycho.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other...

We begin a new series on the horror of hotels and motels by discussing the history of these types of stories and what makes them so scary.   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com . If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com . Or simply rate an...