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  • It's our very first comic book episode!

    Although we've reviewed several movie adaptations of comics in previous episodes (SWAMP THING, BLADE, CONSTANTINE, etc), we're delighted to review our first comic miniseries on the podcast: NIGHT OF THE GHOUL from writer Scott Snyder and artist Francesco Francavilla. We get into what prompted our first comic review during the review, but this was a delight to record and we're so excited to welcome a special guest back to our pod: Jeremiah Jones-Goldstein!

    If you haven't read the comic miniseries from Best Jackett Press yet, you can read digital versions via Comixology / Amazon Prime, but we absolutely encourage you to pick up either the single issues or the trade paperback versions from your local comic shop.

    Please support our guest Jeremiah Jones-Goldstein by checking out his recent appearances on the Magazines & Monsters Podcast, or by visiting his comics site at https://comicscomicscomics.blog/

    Our hosts Nick and Jake will also be in attendance at the ACME Show being held by our local comic shop Captain Blue Hen comics. That event will take place from 5pm to 9pm EST at the Newark Arts Alliance on August 19th!

    If you'd like to follow us on social media, you can visit our Linktree page (linked below) but we've also listed some of our social media handles:

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scarystuff

    Official site: scarystuffpodcast.com
    Twitter: @scarystuffpod
    Instagram: @scarystuffpodcast
    Letterboxd: @scarystuffpod
    Incredibly Niche Merch: teepublic.com/user/scary-stuff-podcast

    You can find a list of all the previous movies we've reviewed and their corresponding episodes (via the "Read Notes" option) here:
    https://letterboxd.com/scarystuffpod/list/all-reviews-scary-stuff-podcast/

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

  • Not only are we delighted to welcome special guest David Lawson Jr from Rustic Films back to the pod, but this episode marks his induction into our own Five-Timer's Club!

    David was our first appeared on our pod way back in our SHE DIES TOMORROW episode, and now a few years later he's back to discuss the horror anthology he has curated for Dark Matter Ink: HAUNTED REELS! We talk a bit about our favorite horror movie anthologies along the way, but mainly we're here to celebrate the release of a very special collection. David's assembled an amazing lineup of contributors that includes several creators we've talked about on the pod before (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Ariel Vida, C. Robert Cargill, Graham Skipper, Gary Sherman and many, many more), and we're absolutely delighted for everyone involved.

    You can see the full table of contents and order a copy directly from the publisher at this link:
    https://darkmattermagazine.shop/pages/haunted-reels

    We hope everyone enjoys the chat with David, we hope everyone picks up a copy of the book, and as always thanks so much for listening!

    Our hosts Nick and Jake also released their own horror fiction anthology a couple years ago, which is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble but you can pick up a copy from Bookshop here:
    https://bookshop.org/p/books/scary-stuff-a-horror-anthology-nicholas-leamy/15345332

    If you'd like to follow us on social media, we just updated our Linktree page (linked below) but we've also listed some of our social media handles below:

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scarystuff

    Official site: scarystuffpodcast.com
    Twitter: @scarystuffpod
    Instagram: @scarystuffpodcast
    Letterboxd: @scarystuffpod
    Incredibly Niche Merch: teepublic.com/user/scary-stuff-podcast

    You can find a list of all the previous movies we've reviewed and their corresponding episodes (via the "Read Notes" option) here:
    https://letterboxd.com/scarystuffpod/list/all-reviews-scary-stuff-podcast/

    Thanks so much!

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  • Please join us in wishing a happy house-warming to our host Nick Leamy! Nick detailed some of the home-buying headaches he and his family were dealing with back in our SPOOKIES episode, but that's all been settled and everyone's settling into a lovely new home.

    To celebrate this, we asked Nick to pick a movie to celebrate and he chose the original THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979), from director Stuart Rosenberg and starring Margot Kidder, James Brolin and Rod Steiger. Our opinions run a pretty wide spectrum on this one, which made for a fun discussion and we really hope everyone enjoys listening!

    Also, as mentioned in the episode's intro, with the current WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes ongoing we highly encourage everyone to consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund to help those affected by work stoppages:

    https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

    If you'd like to follow us on social media, we just updated our Linktree page (linked below) but we've also listed some of our social media handles below:

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/scarystuff

    Official site: scarystuffpodcast.com
    Twitter: @scarystuffpod
    Instagram: @scarystuffpodcast
    Letterboxd: @scarystuffpod
    Incredibly Niche Merch: teepublic.com/user/scary-stuff-podcast

    You can find a list of all the previous movies we've reviewed and their corresponding episodes (via the "Read Notes" option) here:
    https://letterboxd.com/scarystuffpod/list/all-reviews-scary-stuff-podcast/

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

  • Happy Doug Jones Day everybody! It's our fourth year in a row celebrating our favorite horror holiday: the anniversary of the day Doug Jones worked on the set of Mike Flanagan's movie ABSENTIA.

    This year we're celebrating by watching THE DARKLING (2000), a USA original tv movie starring F Murray Abraham and Aidan Gillen (and of course Doug Jones, in the role of "Shadow Master"). As of this release the movie is a little difficult to track, but don't worry if you haven't seen it: we walk through the movie's plot as part of the discussion. This was a real blast to record, but we're always delighted to celebrate Doug Jones Day each year. We hope you enjoy the episode, and thanks so much for listening!!

    Check out our website scarystuffpodcast.com, and you can follow us on the following social media platforms:

    Twitter: @scarystuffpod
    Instagram: @scarystuffpodcast
    Letterboxd: @scarystuffpod
    Incredibly Niche Merch: teepublic.com/user/scary-stuff-podcast

    You can find a list of all the previous movies we've reviewed and their corresponding episodes (via the "Read Notes" option) here:
    https://letterboxd.com/scarystuffpod/list/all-reviews-scary-stuff-podcast/

  • Our not-quite-lost-but-certainly-long-delayed review of BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON (2006) is here! As mentioned in our SPOOKIES review, we recorded this episode back in January, but wanted to come back from hiatus with something else before this episode was released. Big thanks to everyone who voted for this movie in our Robert Englund poll, and apologies for the delay!

    Up next is our fourth annual "Doug Jones Day" episode, and we're very excited for everyone to check it out. We'll be reviewing THE DARKLING, a USA tv-movie from the year 2000 starring Aidan Gillen and F. Murray Abraham. In the meantime, if you would like to read more about the Jesse Malin medical fund mentioned in our opening, you can do so at this link:
    https://www.sweetrelief.org/jessemalinfund.html

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

    Check out our website scarystuffpodcast.com, and you can follow us on the following social media platforms:

    Twitter: @scarystuffpod
    Instagram: @scarystuffpodcast
    Letterboxd: @scarystuffpod
    Incredibly Niche Merch: teepublic.com/user/scary-stuff-podcast

    You can find a list of all the previous movies we've reviewed and their corresponding episodes (via the "Read Notes" option) here:
    https://letterboxd.com/scarystuffpod/list/all-reviews-scary-stuff-podcast/

  • We're back!

    Apologies for the unplanned hiatus, but we give an update on where we've been at the start of this return episode. After that, we're reviewing the movie SPOOKIES (1986), which is currently available on Shudder as of this release. If you want to skip straight to the movie stuff, the timecode for that is 00:18:58.

    We haven't forgotten about our previously announced episode for BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON. We recorded that back in January, but we didn't want it to be our first episode back after some time away. The BEHIND THE MASK episode should be out just before Doug Jones Day hits on June 30th!

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

    Check out our website scarystuffpodcast.com, and you can follow us on the following social media platforms:

    Twitter: @scarystuffpod
    Instagram: @scarystuffpodcast
    Letterboxd: @scarystuffpod
    Incredibly Niche Merch: teepublic.com/user/scary-stuff-podcast

    You can find a list of all the previous movies we've reviewed and their corresponding episodes (via the "Read Notes" option) here:
    https://letterboxd.com/scarystuffpod/list/all-reviews-scary-stuff-podcast/

  • Happy (very-belated) Holidays everyone!! It has been a bit of a rough month for all three of us here at the pod (some of these reasons are mentioned in the episode), so we knew going into this recording there was a good chance it wouldn't be out before Christmas. Sadly that proved to be the case, but we're glad the episode was finished in time for the end of 2022. And we're even more delighted to be reviewing another feature starring Jeremy Gardner (alongside Graham Skipper, Taylor Zaudtke and Rigo Garay) on the pod: THE LEECH (2022) from writer/director Eric Pennycoff!

    Our host Eric first saw the movie at this year's Chattanooga Film Fest, and has been looking forward to covering it on the pod ever since. Unfortunately the fore-mentioned rough month lead to this being more of a rambling/cathartic episode than we intended, but hopefully we're closing out 2022 on an entertaining note. We absolutely encourage everyone to check out the movie (currently available on VOD, blu-ray and the Arrow streaming service) before listening to this episode.

    Again, happy holidays everyone and thanks so much for listening!!

    CW: abortion, suicide (both of which are elements of the movie and are likewise discussed in this review)

  • One year to the day since we started our Elm Street restrospective, we're concluding it with our review of the Platinum Dunes remake of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010)! We've been teasing our opinions of this movie ever since we reviewed the first one, so we were very excited to finally record this discussion. We had a terrific time reviewing the Elm Street series, and this movie was no exception.

    We hope everyone enjoys the episode, and as always thanks so much for listening!!

  • It's time to tackle another true horror classic on our podcast, and hopefully we "did it beautifully!" Ahead of the release of his new comic DEAD SEAS from IDW, we're delighted to be joined by writer Cavan Scott to discuss his favorite horror movie: THE WICKER MAN (1973)! We've been fans of Cavan's work on Titans United, Shadow Service and more for quite some time now, so it was a real thrill to have him on the pod as a guest. We had a fabulous time discussing this film, and we very much hope everyone enjoys listening to it.

    You can find more details on Cavan's work in both comics and prose via his website here: https://cavanscott.com/

    And as always, thanks for listening!!

  • As we shatter our record for "Longest Episode on a Single Movie" (the previous record-holder being Oculus), is it any surprise that it was prompted by a new release from Rustic Films? Probably not, if you've heard our previous episodes, and probably even less surprising if you've seen the subject of our new episode: SOMETHING IN THE DIRT (2022). We were lucky enough to catch the latest from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead during the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, but we didn't want to do a full episode on it until it was widely released. The movie is now on VOD platforms everywhere, and we absolutely recommend checking it out and supporting some of our favorite filmmakers.

    The episode length may seem a little daunting, but we had a fabulous time discussing this film and an even better time chatting with returning guest producer David Lawson Jr.! It's always special having a chance to interview Dave on the podcast, and we really can't thank him enough for his time. If you want to skip right to the interview portion of the episode, the timecode is listed below. We also recommend checking out the new Rustic Films shop to grab some of their fabulous new merch at the following link: https://www.rustic.film/shop

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!!

    Timecode for David Lawson Jr interview - 02:26:00

    CW: there is some discussion of anxiety and depression in the latter portion of the movie review.

  • Happy Noirvember! We've been meaning to do a horror/noir movie as a Noirvember special since our first year, so apparently the third year's the charm. So this year we're delighted to review our first Clive Barker feature on the pod: LORD OF ILLUSIONS [1995], with Clive adapting his own short story "The Last Illusion" from the Books of Blood. And even better, we're joined by a very special guest whose prose and comics work we've loved for a long time: Duane Swierczynski!

    We had an absolutely fabulous time chatting with Duane, and we really hope everyone enjoys the episode. But more importantly, we hope everyone takes a moment after the episode to consider donating to Evie's Holiday Book Drive, which is currently active until December 5th, 2022. Duane gives more details on the book drive in our episode at this timecode (01:44:10), but you can visit the link below for more details on The Evelyn Swierczynski Foundation and to donate here:
    https://www.teameviefoundation.com/

    You can find more detail on Duane's work and social media links via his Linktree here:
    https://linktr.ee/swierczy

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!!

  • First of all, it is October... so Happy Halloween everyone! For last year's Halloween, we reviewed a movie that we think captures the Halloween spirit rather perfectly: THE MORTUARY COLLECTION. So this year, we're reviewing the cinematic adaptation of a book that does the same for the whole autumn season: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983)! Since this is an adaptation of material we've all read and loved here at the pod, we're doing this review a little differently: we'll discuss the original novel a bit (and Ray Bradbury as a whole) before moving onto the movie.

    For a work that has influenced the lives of so many readers, it's so appropriate that we're joined by a special guest whose work has shaped the lives of our hosts: J.M. DeMatteis (Moonshadow, Justice League International, Kraven's Last Hunt and much much more)! We've mentioned his work on the pod before, but today Mr. DeMatteis is here to tell us about his new supernatural novella (THE EXCAVATOR) and the Kickstarter for THE DEMULTIVERSE, which will launch with four new first issues! We can't overstate how delightful it was to chat Ray Bradbury with Mr. DeMatteis, and we really hope everyone enjoys the episode.

    After you've listened to the episode, check out these links for more details on THE DEMULTIVERSE:
    https://spellboundcomics.com/
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spellboundcomics/surprise-four-secret-comics-by-jm-dematteis-demultiverse

    The novella THE EXCAVATOR is currently available in both paperback and ebook formats courtesy of NeoText.

    You can find more details on the other works of J.M. DeMatteis at his site:
    http://www.jmdematteis.com/

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!!

  • It's finally here! We've been saying for years that once the Criterion collection finally released it on blu-ray, we would review Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE (1997) on the pod. With the blu-ray out as of October 18th, it's finally time for us to review this absolute classic of horror. And joining us for this review is a returning guest from last year's BUTTERFLY KISSES review: Trevor Henderson!

    On top of being an amazing artist, we knew Trevor was a big fan of CURE back when we talked to him as part of our found footage episode, so we're so so glad we were able to get together to discuss what is arguably Kiyoshi Kurosawa's masterwork.

    After you check out our review, be sure to check out Trevor's new pod THE MAYFAIR WATCHERS SOCIETY! You can find more details as well as links to it on various pod platforms here:
    https://mayfairwatchers.com/

    You can also support Trevor by buying a print of his fabulous artwork via his Inprnt shop:
    https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/slimyswampghost/

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!!

  • After a few months of reviewing standalone horror features, we're back to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise! We've covered the six movies in the "Elm Street Prime" portion of the series, so next up is WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE (1994). This is a franchise favorite for many fans, and we're delighted to be joined by a special guest who is also a huge Elm Street fan: Cynthia Pelayo! We're big fans of Cynthia's work here at the pod, so please check out her recent releases after you listen to the episode.

    You can read more on Cynthia's latest release CRIME SCENE here courtesy of Raw Dog Screaming Press:
    https://rawdogscreaming.com/books/crime-scene/

    Cynthia's Linktree page can be found here:
    https://linktr.ee/cinapelayo

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!!

  • It's our very first anime review on the pod! We thrilled to be reviewing "Magnetic Rose," the first segment of the 1995 cinematic anthology MEMORIES based on the works of Katsuhiro Otomo. And not only are we thrilled that our first anime on the pod has a screenplay by Satoshi Kon (PERFECT BLUE, PARANOIA AGENT), but we're joined by a pair of fabulous guests: Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins! You know their screenwriting work from THE NIGHT HOUSE, SUPER DARK TIMES and more, but alongside Kevin Phillips they are also the hosts of Sync Ratios, a terrific Neon Genesis Evangelion podcast.

    We've had such an amazing run of special guests since our pod began, but it was particularly fun to chat anime with two folks we're enormous fans of, and we really can't thank Ben and Luke enough for their time. We run down where you can currently find their feature films during the review (HELLRAISER arrives on Hulu on Oct 7th!), but we highly encourage any Evangelion fans to check out the Sync Ratios podcast.

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!!

  • If you listened to our review of The Legend of Boggy Creek in Episode 50, you heard Jake and I realize that Episode 52 was coming up and that almost certainly meant it was time for us to review another comic book adaptation. We get into more of the details why in this discussion, but for Episode 52 we've chosen to review 2005's Constantine! This movie has had a bit of a contentious history amongst our hosts sinces its release, so it seemed like a good time to revisit this cinematic rendition of Hellblazer to see if our opinions had changed. We hope everyone enjoys the resulting discussion!

    Big thanks to Jacob’s brother Jeremiah Jones-Goldstein for joining us for this review! Be sure to check out his own site: https://comicscomicscomics.blog/

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

    Note: the episode begins with some discussions of the comic source material and why we picked the movie for this particular episode, but if you want to go right to the movie discussion the timecode is 00:35:11.

  • For our 51st episode, we're taking a quick detour from the Nightmare on Elm Street series to review a different kind of dream-centric horror movie: Come True (2020) from director Anthony Scott Burns! We were big fans of the Father's Day installment of Holidays that Burns directed, and we're very excited to discuss one of his feature-length projects on the pod. And even better, we're joined by a very special guest: Daniel Kraus! We've talked about Daniel's work in the past, particularly praising his comic series The Autumnal published by Vault, so we were absolutely delighted to have a chance to chat with him about a fascinating movie as well as his new book The Ghost That Ate Us!

    For more details on The Ghost That Ate Us, you can visit this link via the publisher Raw Dog Screaming Press:
    https://rawdogscreaming.com/book-deal-daniel-kraus-the-ghost-that-ate-us/

    For more details on Daniel and his work, please visit his website (and please check out The Autumnal):
    http://www.danielkraus.com/

    If you'd like to support our pod and try a new coffee roast at the same time, our collaboration coffee with Rootless Coffee is on sale for the month of September 2022 at the link below!
    rootlesscoffee.com/products/scary-stuff-podcast

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

  • We're back, and we're celebrating our 50th upload! For this very special episode, we're very excited (or at least some of us are) to be reviewing The Legend of Boggy Creek! This episode is dedicated to one of our longtime listeners, but we hope everyone enjoys it!

    Also coinciding with the release of this episode is the return of our coffee roast! We're doing another run of our collaboration coffee with the fabulous folks at Rootless Coffee, and you can grab a bag here:
    https://rootlesscoffee.com/products/scary-stuff-podcast
    The coffee is only on sale until the end of September 2022, so order while you can.

    Thanks so much for supporting our pod, and as always thanks so much for listening!

  • Happy Doug Jones Day everybody! It's our third consecutive year celebrating actor Doug Jones (although technically this is the 12th anniversary of the original Doug Jones Day), but it's the first time we're reviewing a Disney movie on our podcast! For this year's Doug Jones Day episode, we're discussing 1993's Hocus Pocus, wherein Doug Jones plays "Billy Butcherson" in one of his earliest roles.

    This is a beloved movie in several corners of horror fandom, and was a gateway horror movie to many, many people. We had a blast talking about it, and we hope everyone enjoys the episode.

    And most importantly: thank you so much for listening!

    CONTENT WARNING: although we're doing a Disney movie for this episode,
    we are still our usual profanity-laced selves throughout the discussion. There are also excerpts read from an old draft of the script that feature jokes more mature/coarse than those in the finished film, and some jokes that have not necessarily aged well since the 90s. So the movie itself may be family-friendly, but please note that this episode/conversation is not.

  • It's the 40th anniversary of John Carpenter's The Thing, and we're celebrating with a truly special episode. For our review of this horror classic, we're joined by special guest Mat Johnson. Mat has written amazing works in comics (Papa Midnite, Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery, Right State), in prose (Drop, Pym, Loving Day) and is now working on two upcoming tv series: Manhunt and The Fall of the House of Usher. Mat also has a brand new novel being released on June 28th titled Invisible Things, but most importantly for our podcast: Mat is a longtime fan of the Philadelphia 76ers!

    This is a special movie to both us and Mat, and the resulting conversation is some of the most fun we've ever had on the pod. We really hope you enjoy the conversation, and we highly encourage you to check out Mat's work if you haven't already (links below).

    And as always, thanks so much for listening!

    You can find more details on Mat's new novel INVISIBLE THINGS here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636431/invisible-things-by-mat-johnson/

    You can find more details on Mat's comics and prose work on his website: http://www.matjohnson.info/