Streaming Horror January 2025
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In this episode we experience excitement and despair about January's lineup for streaming horror on Paramount, Shudder, Screambox, Hulu, Netflix, scary films hitting theaters, and a few upcoming horror books we think might be worth a pre-order. Shoutouts to: Everyone who sacrificed for The Blair Witch Project, Shudder, Amish Paranormal Activity, Terrified, Ils, Malum, Red Rooms, Werewolves Within, Horror's Greatest, , Get Away, Grafted, giallo, Super Hot, Lizzie Lazarus, Wither, Stop Motion, Humane, Sophie Thatcher, The Ritual, Adam Nevill, owning your media, Stephen Graham Jones, Presence,...
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Holiday Special: A Sandman Slim Christmas Carol
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We have a special holiday episode for you this week! Rumor has it that Charles Dickens used to do public readings of A Christmas Carol every year. Now, we’re going to do our own Christmas Carol for you -- A Sandman Slim Christmas Carol. Join us in taking a sip from the Aqua Regia flask, lighting up a Malediction, and seeing what fresh mess Stark gets himself into this holiday season. If you're -- like us -- hanging around with some time to kill this holiday season, you've probably noticed that holiday horror new releases are slim pickings this year. We feel your pain! Here are some of our...
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Holiday Horror Special 2023
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Why do so many of us love – and even look forward to – holiday horror films? Is it because we’ve always known there was something off about Santa? Maybe we’d rather scream than sing a carol, or boring feelgood Christmas films make us feel stabby?Or is it because the holidays are horrific all on their own? In this special episode we talk about why people love holiday horror, especially us, and why we see holiday horror as much entertaining and enlightening as it can be a form of self-care. We’ve been looking forward to this show all month, we got all dressed up for you, and we...
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Horror Films That Scared The Hell Out Of Us
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In a previous episode we talked about movies and TV that seared some of the scariest onscreen moments into our heads as young horror fans. Here we talk about a few (but not all) of our top-tier scariest film and TV we've seen as adults. Some are new titles and some are older, but either way these managed to do something most horror can't -- they scared us. And we loved it! EPISODE FILMS VIOLET: The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan; 2018), HOST (2020), Talk to Me (2023), Hereditary (2018). RICHARD: Audition (1999), Wolf Creek (2005), Martyrs (2008), Haze (2005). Find us...
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The Penguin and Strange Darling
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What makes HBO's The Penguin so compelling, what are our favorite crackpot theories about the show, how is it crime horror, and why do we love to hate Oz Cobb so much? Why does a film like Strange Darling make critics so divided (while we love it so much), and why do we think its handling of power play in a one night stand is sophisticated? Find out in this episode where Violet dissects the juiciest bits of The Penguin (start: 1:00) and Richard walks us through the layers of Strange Darling (start 1:05:00). In this episode we also stan: Horror for Weenies (Emily C. Hughes),...
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Welcome to Raised By Horror!
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Richard Kadrey and Violet Blue bring you into the world of Raised By Horror -- its origins, why we love the art of horror, how dated storytelling often fails horror, how horror is good for us, upcoming episodes on truly scary (or darkly heartwarming/delightfully bonechilling) films and books, why horror boundaries are important, what to expect with difficult content snd spoilers, and so much more. Upcoming shows we talk about include: Films that scared the shit out of us as kids, films that truly scare us now, horror films to watch with friends who don't like horror, and our extra...
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Horror Films That Really Scared Us As Kids
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What is horror when you’re young? Werewolves and ghosts? Or is it more complicated than that? Maybe it’s more a fear of the unknown. The new and the strange. When you don’t know anything about the world, an open door or sudden shadow can be as frightening as any vampire. In this episode, we explore how we found our way into horror and it how it shaped (or deformed!) us into the obsessive fans we are today. There are films many of us saw as kids that scared us, which we consider beloved classics, like Alien and The Thing. But there are certain films that left a mark on us when we were...
info_outlineIn a previous episode we talked about movies and TV that seared some of the scariest onscreen moments into our heads as young horror fans. Here we talk about a few (but not all) of our top-tier scariest film and TV we've seen as adults.
Some are new titles and some are older, but either way these managed to do something most horror can't -- they scared us. And we loved it!
EPISODE FILMS
VIOLET: The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan; 2018), HOST (2020), Talk to Me (2023), Hereditary (2018).
RICHARD: Audition (1999), Wolf Creek (2005), Martyrs (2008), Haze (2005).
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