World of Horror with Mom & Mac

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week we looked at two classics concerning zombies: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968 & TRAIN TO BUSAN. Coming up on The World of Foundational Horror™, Quinn and I discuss DDON'T LOOK NOW. On the main show, we aree going to discuss Mom's picks for movies about cults: KILL LIST & THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975). If you want to get in touch with recommendations, c...

Send us Fan Mail Martin and Boaz from Film Vs. Film joined us with their It Means the World of Horror to Me™ pick, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. Quinn joined us, too, and we had a great chat. Topics include: The Church to Taylor-Joy, the nebulous plans of ghost-zombies, how to rank Edgar Wright films and how much smell can garlic realistically cover? Coming up, on the main show we will have Zombies (Mac&apo...

Send us Fan Mail This week Devin from Pineapple Shaped Lamps an Sully from Third Impact Anime joined me to discuss the 1922 silent classic HAXAN from Sweden. Have you seen this film? Which version is your favorite? Questions remain: 1920's cinema, what is so offensive about a closeup? Why do I suddenly have an intense craving for butter? Coming up: Martin and Boaz from Film vs Film will join...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! Numerous forces conspired against this show, but I am glad to finally bring it to your ears and hearts. This week's episode was delayed due to Mom's head cold. (I apologize for my nasal voice in this one!) After we were able to record, I had to re-edit the second half and as I correcting the distortion, we ended up sounding like we were communicating through tin c...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! Mac's Picks this week involve Early Creature Features with an Interesting Application of Effects. We viewed YOKAI MONSTERS: 100 MONSTERS from Japan and THE CREEPING FLESH from the UK. Mac brings the knowledge about yokai and Japanese folktales. We also look at a non-Hammer Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing film from 1973. We hope you listen and enjoy! In two weeks, i...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week, The Original Friend of the Show™, Quinn McLaughlin stopped by to talk with me about Hitchcock's REBECCA, from 1940. This is a bit of a Foundational World of Horror™ AND a It Means the World of Horror to Me mashup as 1. It is old and 2. We love it a lot. We talk about the plot, the characters, and especially, Jasper, the dog. We hope you will listen and enjoy...

Send us Fan Mail This week we were thrilled to welcome Ryan McDuffie & Tim Aslin from Dismembering Horror to the show to talk about two movies that Mean the World of Horror™ to them: ALIEN & CARNIVAL OF SOULS. We had a very nice chat and we hope you enjoy it and then immediately go subscribe to their podcast and download and consume their entire catalogue. Coming up soon: The Return of Qui...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week we looked at two portraits of obsession: Annie Wilkes from MISERY and I Geum-ja from Lady Vengeance. There are a couple of similarities between these two films I never noticed until now. The celebrity that springs up around each woman is one and the other one...has to do with feet. Contents of the Content: Mom & Mac Chat: Mac's playing Slime Rancher to mi...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week, Mac chose two movies that really demonstrate the idea that adolescence is hell: HELLBENDER from the US & RAW / GRAVE from France. Both involve 16-year-old women who learn truths about their true nature. Good people get hurt. It's a whole thing. Contents of the content Mom & Mac Chat: Mac has job interviews, Mom gets REAL vaccinated, and Five Guys doe...

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of our Alien Invasion! Episodes. Part One (Episode 81) covered INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, from 1956 & 1978. BEFORE WE VANISH is a 2017 Science Fiction/Horror film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It involves three aliens who are on a reconnaissance mission to steal "conceptions" from humans ahead of a planned invasion and annhiliation mission. No Mom &amp...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This is part I of our Alien Invasion show. This week we examine the 1956 & 1978 versions of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. As I state in the intro, this one is real swear-y for some reason. If that bothers you, I apologize and won't feel sad if you have to skip this one. Apologies to Veronica Cartwright, whom I call Nancy at least once. Next week we hope you'...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! Mac is moving this weekend, so we are pushing our Alien Invasion movies to next week. This time in the WORLD OF FOUNDATIONAL HORROR™ series, I am looking at two insane killers--John from HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON and Freddie from THE COLLECTOR. HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON was a Spanish/Italian collabo that is short on plot and character but long on style and I think is a whol...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week we got real lupine with it and looked at AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON & DOG SOLDIERS. We also talk about: job hunting, exercising, blonde labs taking a break in the middle of the road, summer break being over, social anxiety disorder, stress, drawing, and appearing on a friend's twitch stream (twitch.tv/ohheyitsdevin). Some questions remain: How many ti...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! Neither thunderstorms nor aggressive housecats could keep us from recording this podcast. IT'S ALL FOR YOU! This week Mom picked Nature Horror for the genre pick and we looked at LAKE PLACID from the US and BACKCOUNTRY from Canada. But there is so much more: Mom & Mac Chat, Letterboxd Reviews, Our Ratings & Questions, Trivia and a special new feature! Please li...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week Mac's genre pick is Witches! We looked at the directorial debuts of two masters and their masterpieces: Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY and Robert Eggers' THE WITCH. Content preview: Mac is househunting, and Mom is trying to squeeze the most enjoyment out of her summer unstructured time before she goes back into the classroom in a few weeks. We both cater...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! It was Mom's pick of Possession this week and we looked at METAMORPHOSIS from Korea & POSSESSOR from Canada! METAMORPHOSIS metamorphosizes into a bit of a mess after a certain very handsome Uncle Priest (Sung Woo-bae) shows up, but before that, there is some beautiful imagery and disturbing emotional family drama. Magnificent performances, kickass set design, and s...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This is part two of our Whole Squad Pod 1960-isode edition of the show. In part one, we looked at Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO. In this episode, we look at LES YEUX SAN VISAGE / EYES WITHOUT A FACE and PEEPING TOM. These films have everything: Daddy issues, childhood trauma, death by German Shepherd, death by tripod, random dance breaks, nosy neighbors and masks. Coming u...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week it is Mac's Picks of Killer movies with ICHI THE KILLER (2001) from Japan and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986) from the US. ICHI THE KILLER (2001): A sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer comes across a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain the enforcer can only dream about. HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986): Henr...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! We got the whole squad together to talk about three heavy hitters from 1960: PSYCHO, LES YEUX SAN VISAGE / EYES WITHOUT A FACE, and PEEPING TOM. We talked A LOT, so this Bonus will be in two pieces. This is Part One of two, wherein Quinn breaks down Hitchcock's classic proto-slasher, PSYCHO. Stay tuned for Part Two coming out real soon. This movie has everything: Mommy...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week I looked at two Foundational films about identity. DR. JECKYLL AND SISTER HYDE is a 1971 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their third adaptation of the story after The Ugly Duckling and The Two...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! This week Cat Sole, from the Kill the Cat Podcast joined us for an interview and to discuss her It Means the World of Horror to Me™ Pick, CORALINE. Our guest this week is Cat Sole. She is a filmmaker,  screenplay consultant, script editor, WoHo and co-host of the amazing film and screenwriting podcast, “Kill the Cat”. Some questions remain. Is there anything more scary than...

Send us Fan Mail This week I look at two stories of revenge. THE QUEEN OF THE MAGIC (1981) from Indonesia and KURONEKO / THE BLACK CAT (1968) from Japan Content warning: Rape Shoutouts to Niina Doherty's essay on THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC. You can read that here . Thanks to Dismembering Horror Episode 158--September 2021 https://www.dismemberinghorror.com/ Episode 158 on Spotify Thanks to The...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! Mom's pick was Creepy Kids. We looked at ORPHAN from the US and GOODNIGHT MOMMY / ICH SEH, ICH SEH from Austria. As per, spoilers abound including the two big "twists" in these two flicks. We enjoyed (some of) the performances in ORPHAN, but really hated the way the husband was drawn. We enjoyed GOODNIGHT, MOMMY so much more! Give both a (re) view and have a...

Send us Fan Mail WoHos! I couldn't wait. I kind of had to do this one to get it out of my head. Trigger warning, this mini involves discussion of a rapist and serial killer. 10 RILLINGTON PLACE was not on my radar, but it got under my skin and I am so glad I gave it a chance.  Have you seen it? WoHos! Get in touch! https://linktr.ee/WorldofHorror Gerry Entriken: WoHo Outro Theme Support the s...

Send us Fan Mail WoHo's! It's a special It Means the World of Horror to Me episode! Original Friend of the ShowTM, Quinn was nice enough to come by with one of her favorite horror films: ROSEMARY'S BABY from 1968. We spoil the hell out of it, as per, so if you don't want it spoiled, have a watch or rewatch before you listen. We are both such fans of the cinematography, the perf...