Raised By Horror
Raised By Horror is an inclusive podcast for grown-up latchkey kids whose proxy parenting was done by horror films and books. Hosted by Richard Kadrey and Violet Blue.
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Streaming Horror January 2025
01/10/2025
Streaming Horror January 2025
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, Lucy Liu, Companion, Cold Eternity, S.A. Barnes, Nat Cassidy, Nosferatu, Clay McLeod Chapman, Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Eric LaRocca. Find all podcast links on our (including , , , and more). Theme song: by Kevin MacLeod [Wikimedia Commons]. About: . About: . Support us
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Holiday Special: A Sandman Slim Christmas Carol
12/22/2024
Holiday Special: A Sandman Slim Christmas Carol
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 holiday horror streaming reccomendations to help find something to watch that might make the outside world look not quite so bad for a minute: Netflix: Blood Red Sky, You're Next, The Ritual, There's Something In The Barn, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Episode 4 (The Outside) Peacock: Krampus, Inside Look: Nosferatu, Black Christmas, Better Watch Out Prime: The Legend of Hell House (takes place just before Christmas Eve), Violent Night, Christmas Bloody Christmas Shudder: It's A Wonderful Knife, all the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, The Sacrifice Game, Rare Exports Need some Sandman Slim ephemera? Check out . Find all podcast links on our (including , , , and more). Theme song: by Kevin MacLeod [Wikimedia Commons]. About: . About: . Support us
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Holiday Horror Special 2023
12/06/2024
Holiday Horror Special 2023
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 handpicked a selection of films to keep you creeped out long after the creatures stop stirring. Enjoy! EPISODE FILMS RICHARD: , , VIOLET: , , And we had to add: Find all our links on our (including , , , and more). Theme song: by Kevin MacLeod [Wikimedia Commons]. About: . About: . Support us
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Horror Films That Scared The Hell Out Of Us
12/04/2024
Horror Films That Scared The Hell Out Of Us
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 on , , , , , , and . Now go smash those subscribe buttons -- and don't blow out the seance candle! Theme song: by Kevin MacLeod [Wikimedia Commons]. About: . About: .
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The Penguin and Strange Darling
11/24/2024
The Penguin and Strange Darling
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), Ghost Station and Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes, The Scourge Between Stars (Ness Brown), A24's upcoming Adam Wingard/Simon Barrett film Onslaught (with Dan Stevens), and more. EPISODE LINKS (Start: 01:00) Rosario Olivia's painting "" (seen in the office of Dr. Julian Rush) [ELLE] [YouTube] [YouTube] [YouTube] [CBR] [GamesRadar] (Start: 1:05:00) [Nerds of Color] [Script Mag] [Kodak] [CBR] Find us on , iTunes, , Spotify, and . Now go stab those subscribe buttons, and stay out of the woods at night! Theme song: by Kevin MacLeod [Wikimedia Commons].
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Welcome to Raised By Horror!
11/19/2024
Welcome to Raised By Horror!
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 special holiday horror episode! Video version of this episode is on our . On this episiode we have guest showrunner Scotland Symons. is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” He’s been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards. Kadrey has also written for comics, film, and video games. is a six-time award-winning author and journalist, having bylined for CBS News, CNN, Engadget, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, and more. Her books have sold over 2.2 million copies and translated into five languages. ! Raised by Horror logo by Theme song:
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Horror Films That Really Scared Us As Kids
11/19/2024
Horror Films That Really Scared Us As Kids
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 little, even if just one scene we still see in our heads today. That's what this episode is about. Films in this episode: VIOLET: (1967), (1979), (1978), (1973). RICHARD: (1955), (1958), (1963), (1968). Video version of this episode is on our . On this episiode we have guest showrunner Scotland Symons. is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” He’s been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards. Kadrey has also written for comics, film, and video games. is a six-time award-winning author and journalist, having bylined for CBS News, CNN, Engadget, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, and more. Her books have sold over 2.2 million copies and translated into five languages. ! Raised by Horror logo by Theme song:
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