Quiet Little Horrors

A podcast about films of quiet horror

Episode 06.08: David Lynch 07/13/2025

Episode 06.08: David Lynch We thought we'd take an episode to look at the work of the recently departed David Lynch and each of us brought one of our favorites to talk about: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and Mulholland Drive. Just a bunch of women trying to figure out what's real and what's not and how to live with it anyway, so if that's your idea of a good time, come on in. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/37353910

Episode 06.07: Fréwaka 06/29/2025

Episode 06.07: Fréwaka We love it when a film hits squarely in our personal center of interest and Aislinn Clarke nailed it. We discuss Fréwaka and its themes of historical and generational trauma, women at the mercy of fate, and some good old-fashioned evil fae. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/37198115

Episode 06.06: Antichrist 06/15/2025

Episode 06.06: Antichrist We're perpetually here for a bad time and there are few worse times than Antichrist. Join us for a discussion about Lars von Trier, excavations of cultural misogyny and pretty much all the content warnings. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/37027555

Episode 06.05: Hour of the Wolf 03/30/2025

Episode 06.05: Hour of the Wolf Bergman March continues with what is often regarded as Ingmar Bergman's only "real" horror film. We might dispute it's his only one, but not that this one goes to some horrific places. We discuss the figure of the tortured, self-absorbed artist, women's sustaining labor and if it's possible for artists to make the right bargains with the world. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/35918940

Episode 06.04: Cries and Whispers 03/16/2025

Episode 06.04: Cries and Whispers What wouldn't brighten the tail end of winter but some profound psychological chaos, despair and dread? So we're taking on a couple of Ingmar Bergman films, beginning with 1972's Cries and Whispers. We discuss the brilliant color cinematography of Sven Nykvist, the complex bonds between women and seeking freedom in the liminal spaces between life and death. You know, nice, lighthearted spring fare. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/35707255

Episode 06.03: I Like Bats & Martin 03/02/2025

Episode 06.03: I Like Bats & Martin We're not done with vampires yet. After sharing our favorites, we discovered that each host had one film on her list that the other had not seen and that the two films seemed oddly complementary: I Like Bats and Martin. So we both caught up and circled back to discuss two of the strangest and most psychological films in the vampire canon. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/35503225

Episode 06.02: Our Favorite Vampires 02/16/2025

Episode 06.02: Our Favorite Vampires After Nosferatu, we wanted to keep talking about vampires—but there were so many movies to pick from that, instead of choosing only one or two, we each brought a whole darn list. So enjoy as we discuss A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Daughters of Darkness, Thirst, Habit, The Addiction, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To and all the other best offbeat vampires that movies have to offer. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/35297480

Episode 06.01: Nosferatu (2024) 01/12/2025

Episode 06.01: Nosferatu (2024) It's a new year and a new season, and we're starting things off with a dark, dread-filled, mustachioed bang: Robert Eggers's 2024 Nosferatu. We discuss filmmaking from another era, storytelling from another era, and the feminine urge for death. Also: cats! Who survive! /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/34855410

Episode 05.21: 2024 Review 12/27/2024

Episode 05.21: 2024 Review 2024 is coming to a close and that means it's time to take stock. We share our picks for our favorite episodes, our favorite films we saw this past year, and what we're looking forward to seeing next year. Happy New Year, friends! /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/34634635

Episode 05.20: The Devil's Bath 12/01/2024

Episode 05.20: The Devil's Bath In 18th-century Austria, women be depressed. For pretty good reasons. We discuss the recent film, The Devil's Bath, and cover what it feels like to be trapped in an oppressive society, both sides of subtlety, and why maybe sometimes people should talk things out before resorting to murder (sometimes). /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/34216635

Episode 05.19: Bunny Lake Is Missing 11/17/2024

Episode 05.19: Bunny Lake Is Missing Bunny Lake is missing ... or did she never exist? You know women, always making up imaginary children to claim have been kidnapped. We discuss Otto Preminger's 1965 psychological whodunnit, Bunny Lake Is Missing, including the differences between the film and its source novel, and society's hysterical assumptions about women without children, or women with children via unconventional ways. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/33956677

Episode 05.18: Hellbender 10/27/2024

Episode 05.18: Hellbender To follow up our discussion with Toby Poser and John Adams, we take a closer look at their recent feature, also starring daughter Zelda Adams, Hellbender, and talk about folktales, monstrous mother-daughter relationships, and coming to terms with who you are. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/33643477

Episode 05.17: Toby Poser and John Adams 10/13/2024

Episode 05.17: Toby Poser and John Adams A little something different this time: we sit down with filmmakers Toby Poser and John Adams to discuss their homegrown horror films and what it's like working on a film as a family. Enjoy! /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/33435432

Episode 05.16: The Strangler 09/29/2024

Episode 05.16: The Strangler We go on an existential romp through loneliness, isolation, and serial killings, with a dash of bizarre sailor-themed nightclub musical. 1970's The Strangler is a French giallo of deep weirdness and opportunity for discussion—which is what we do around here, so this one is a good one. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/33216847

Episode 05.15: Indentikit 09/17/2024

Episode 05.15: Indentikit We hate the title, but we love the movie. And we love Liz Taylor, who gives a striking performance as an odd, difficult woman hell-bent on self-destruction in 1974's Indentikit. Also Andy Warhol shows up for a bit, because why not. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/33098057

Episode 05.14: Longlegs 08/25/2024

Episode 05.14: Longlegs While we don't often cover new releases so close to their release dates, we anticipated that Longlegs was a good opportunity for an exception. This episode, we bookend our earlier episode on director Oz Perkins's debut feature with a discussion on his latest. Covered topics include the legacy of Anthony Perkins, the mythic potential of horror film, creeping dread, existential terror, unsettling silence. You know. The usual. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/32693007

Episode 05.13: The Blackcoat's Daughter 08/18/2024

Episode 05.13: The Blackcoat's Daughter It's Oz Perkins season here at the podcast. In anticipation of Longlegs, we went back to his debut The Blackcoat's Daughter—a film we've mentioned before, because it's about 200% our thing, but this is the first time we've discussed it in depth. Devils, psychosis, and another installment in our favorite ongoing thematic series, "teenage girls are terrifying." /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/32625707

Episode 05.12: Ghostwatch 07/28/2024

Episode 05.12: Ghostwatch Since we got on the topic of demonically possessed faux documentary, what else could we do next but talk about Ghostwatch and its timeless capacity for inspiring abject horror and lasting mental trauma. Have fun! /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/32319537

Episode 05.11: Late Night with the Devil 07/14/2024

Episode 05.11: Late Night with the Devil Once more into the breach of found footage, although this time with a self-aware twist, in Late Night with the Devil. We discuss the evolving genre, doing a lot with a little, and the haunted brillance of David Dastmalchian. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/32126972

Episode 05.10: The Man Who Haunted Himself 06/30/2024

Episode 05.10: The Man Who Haunted Himself The last in our mini series of episodes about doppelganger films is one about a little known Roger Moore gem: The Man Who Haunted Himself, from 1970. The swinging sixties are never over if you've got a reckless, hard-living double of yourself running around town causing trouble. We discuss the tension of determining what is reality and what's in one's head, how much we enjoy a solid psychological thriller, and why emotional repression is probably not the way to live one's life (even if it doesn't result in an evil doppelganger). /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/31933067

Episode 05.09: Us 06/16/2024

Episode 05.09: Us We're still on a tear about doubles, so this time we talk about one of the most direct, recent horror films on the subject: Jordan Peele's Us, from 2019. We discuss real-world parallels, social antiheroines, unsettling endings, and, of course, The Twilight Zone. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/31759977

Episode 05.08: Vertigo 06/05/2024

Episode 05.08: Vertigo Quick note: Our apologies for the delay with this episode—Jen was moving and has been even more scattered than usual. We're working our way through a series of episodes about films featuring doppelgangers and doubles, and for this one we reach back to classic Hollywood: Hitchcock's Vertigo. We discuss the meta machinery of making the "perfect" woman, how women end up participating in the same machinery themselves, and how much we love Midge. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/31619452

Episode 05.07: Black Swan 05/12/2024

Episode 05.07: Black Swan And we're back! We took a brief break and have returned with a long stretch of movies on a favorite theme: doppelgangers. We begin with 2010's Black Swan and discuss how it holds up over a decade after its release—especially these days, when the psychological horror film landscape is crowded with more unhinged women than you can shake a stick at, if that's your sort of thing. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/31263367

Episode 05.06: The Strings 03/31/2024

Episode 05.06: The Strings You know what's really scary? Songwriter's block. And also maybe ghosts. But also maybe not? The Strings is one of the quietest and most subtle films we've covered, almost entirely about interiority, isolation, and the prices people pay for creation. But also maybe ghosts? Who can say. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/30605958

Episode 05.05: Berberian Sound Studio 03/17/2024

Episode 05.05: Berberian Sound Studio This month we're delving into sound and music and all of their meta cinematic potential, beginning with the extremely meta Berberian Sound Studio. We discuss the practical art of sound effects, the tremendous performance of Toby Jones, and how one of our favorite movie endings is the dissolution of reality (we're very normal, that's why we have this podcast). /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/30400913

Episode 05.04: Crone Wood 02/25/2024

Episode 05.04: Crone Wood We go deep into the Irish wilderness for a found footage folk horror romp full of cults, secrets, and annoying young people with 2016's Crone Wood. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/30094048

Episode 05.03: Robin Redbreast 02/11/2024

Episode 05.03: Robin Redbreast We go back to our roots with this overlooked gem of classic British folk horror, Robin Redbreast. Contains some progressive perspectives current society seems to have retreated from and enduring the life lesson that you should never sleep with boring men, however pretty they are. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/29887413

Episode 05.02: Enys Men 01/28/2024

Episode 05.02: Enys Men We get experimental with one of our favorites from the past year, Enys Men, and discuss the wide range of folk horror, the deadening repetition of women's lives, and being unstuck in time and space. You know, a nice, normal start to 2024. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/29620593

Episode 05.01: 2023 Review 01/14/2024

Episode 05.01: 2023 Review Happy New Year! With 2023 in the books, we take a look back at our favorite films from the past year, new and old, and what we're looking forward to in 2024. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/29477023

Episode 04.22: Black Christmases 12/31/2023

Episode 04.22: Black Christmases Now that we've discussed the original Black Christmas, there's nothing else to do this year but take a look at the two remakes: one from 2006 and one from 2019. They both have a hard time living up to the first, they each have a charming weirdness worth watching. /episode/index/show/quietlittlehorrors/id/29248453

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