The Know Fear Cast

As we wind down our Summer of Disaster we watched the Dennis Quaid/Jake Gyllenhaal climate change disaster  The Day After Tomorrow.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com. We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearc...

Our summer of disaster is winding down, but the wind isn't out of our sails just yet, so prepare to be blown away as Matt and Mel discuss the 90s Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton Twister .   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We al...

It's the end of the world as we know it because we watched the 90s Bruce Willis/Ben Affleck classic Armageddon.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast .   If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patre...

For this entry in our summer series on disaster movies, we watched the Michael Caine movie The Swarm so that you don't have to. Lisa was not a fan.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.redd...

This week we watched  The Cassandra Crossing so that you don't have to.    The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast .   If you like what you hear, please consider suppor...

We thought this mini episode was too important to release as a Patreon exclusive, so we are releasing it to all our listeners. As a horror podcast that mostly focuses on film and books, we have been debating how to address the current movement and protests to address systemic racism and violence against people of color. Our solution is to offer some recommendations of black horror writers. We reco...

We continue with our exploration of disaster movies with The Towering Inferno   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com. We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast. If you like what you hear, please consider supporti...

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa. We continue our tour of disaster movies with 1970's Airport .   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com. We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast.   If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patre...

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa. We begin our summer dedicated to disaster movies by talking about one of the first and best-known ones:  The Poseidon Adventure.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearca...

We took advantage of the National Theater's free streaming opportunity to watch the stage version of Frankenstein directed by Danny Boyle and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller alternating roles as Dr. Frankenstein and his Creature.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.c...

As a followup to Roger Corman's  X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes,  we watch and discuss the other film that was part of its double-feature: Francis Ford Coppola's directorial debut  Dementia 13 .   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail...

We are joined by Grady Hendrix for a conversation about his new novel  The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Grady is also the author of the novels Horrorstor, My Best Friend's Exorcism, and  We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll and the nonfiction  Paperbacks From Hell.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit...

In this episode, we watch and try to make sense of the 1963 movie The Terror .   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast .     If you like what you hear, please conside...

For our latest "Master of Horror" we discuss the career of Roger Corman and do a deep dive into one of his most famous films: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit...

Lisa and Mel interview Andy Davidson author of In the Valley of the Sun and The Boatman's Daughter . This episode is being re-released due to some technical issues that kept it from appearing in some podcast feeds.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email a...

In this episode, Mel and Lisa discuss the 1960 Vincent Price classic movie "The House of Usher"   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast @gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast .   If you like what you hear...

For this episode, Mel and Lisa discuss several short stories from  His Hideous Heart , a collection of reimagined Edgar Allan Poe stories. Warning: there are spoilers for several stories.   You can read more about  His Hideous Heart here .    The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You...

In this episode, we celebrate the milestone of our 100th episode. And since it's 100 episodes and 2020 is the hundredth anniversary of  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari we use that as an excuse to talk about what many have dubbed the first horror movie. The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at  www.knowfearcast.com...

For our last episode on ghosts, we look at ghosts and "ghosting" as a metaphor to discuss the marginalized voices of history.     The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcas...

Happy holidays from the Know Fear Cast! Since this episode is scheduled to come out on Christmas Eve, we are re-releasing our episode on the Christmas ghost story.    The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subr...

For our second episode on ghosts, we discuss how ghosts and time travel stories can be a lot more similar than you might think and how ghosts can represent an "unmooring" or "layering" of time.       The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gm...

For our latest series we talk about a topic we've only hinted at before: ghosts.   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us via email at knowfearcast@gmail.com . We also have a new subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/knowfearcast .   If you like what you hear, please conside...

For our last episode on "new media horror," we discuss horror created on and inspired by the internet. We start by talking about  House of Leaves , a book whose postmodern style uses footnotes like hyper links, then move to other more recent internet horror venues such as podcasts and creepy pasta.

We are joined by special guest host and horror/video game connoisseur Nekko to discuss gaming, both video and tabletop, and its special place in the world of horror.   Nekko can be found on Twitter and Twitch at @nekkotheodd   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com . You can contact us v...

For our new series on "new media horror" we tackle a genre that we haven't given much attention to yet: comic books and graphic novels. From the pulp comics of the '40s and '50s to more recent entries like Walking Dead and 30 Days of Night , we explore horror in comic form   The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Matt, Mel, and Lisa.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the w...