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Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network Launches Original Scripted Horror Anthology ‘Bleeders DIEgest’!
We are beyond to thrilled to announce Bleeders DIEgest, the newest addition to The Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network – joining the lineup alongside Creepy, Knight Light, SCP Archives, The Bloody Disgusting Podcast, Margaret’s Garden, The Loser’s Club, Halloweenies, Horror Queers and The Boo Crew.
Bleeders DIEgest is an experience from where nightmares are born. Each episode tells a new original story of dark fiction. With the feel of classic radio drama, the stories are an immersive and theatrical experience that will bring the worst parts of your imagination to life.
We are made up of Spider One (Powerman 5000 / filmmaker and creator of MTV’s Death Valley), actress filmmaker and musician Krsy Fox (Knee High Fox / Underworld:Evolution / the upcoming horror feature FRANK) and The Boo Crew’s Trevor and Lauren Shand. Let the speakers take over your psyche as we unleash original scary stories every Thursday, written and produced by the four of us! We love every sub genre of horror, so within these tales there’s truly something for every horror fan.
Some well known guest narrators and actors pop in from time to time as well to help us bring these to life, so you never know who will be paying you a visit including Ice Nine Kill’s Spencer Charnas, horror icon Bonnie Aarons (The Nun, The Conjuring 2) and more.
“We are looking forward to finding creative ways of incorporating some of your favorite Boo Crew guests into this blood soaked adventure!” says Trevor and Lauren. “It’s so exciting to dive into new territory in the podcast space within the horror genre that we are absolutely obsessed with.”
“Ever since I was a little kid, I was transfixed by horror and science fiction,” explains Spider One. “Endless hours of my youth were spent watching Creature Double Feature and scouring the aisles of my local video store for the goriest of cover art. Its a dream come true to be able to now partner with Bloody Disgusting and share my own brand of scary with an audience.”
Krsy adds, “Making terrifying original short stories into such a theatrical and interactive show has been a dream come true. The stories of Bleeders DIEgest are already giving me nightmares, and I hope it does the same for you!”
The first two episodes are available now on Apple, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts! They include – the journey a troubled boy’s life takes when he begins to receive whispered messages from a mysterious voice in…The Whisper. Then, Bonnie Aarons introduces you to the Spider Lady who lurks in the neighorhood haunted house.
So follow us (if you dare!) at the links below! Oh and of course…. listener discretion is advised.
Find Bleeders DIEgest on:
Instagram: @bleedersdiegest
Twitter: @bleedersdiegest
Maybe you haven’t thought about your good friend Sweeney Todd in a while, or maybe you have. The 2007 movie is a bit of a memory, though a fond one – it has a healthy 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, for what it’s worth. But 2023’s Broadway revival starring Josh Groban, who your mom thinks is “so talented” (she’s right!), was enough of a hit that its run was extended.
It appears we’re in a bit of a Sweeneyssaince.
For the uninitiated, Sweeney Todd is the story of a barber who kills his customers and disposes of the bodies by passing them off to pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett, who uses them as a special ingredient. But there’s more below the trap door.
Sweeney Todd isn’t just a late 70s musical that turned into a movie; it started as a penny dreadful called The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (author unknown), told week-to-week in the 1840s. Penny dreadfuls were essentially fiction zines featuring serialized stories that were usually horror-based and cost a penny, leading to the very literal nickname.
The String of Pearls differs from the more well-known Sweeney Todd plot in that it follows the investigation of a missing persons case that leads to the reveal of Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett’s arrangement, as opposed to the more modern iteration which treats audiences to the duo hatching their homicidal plan and then giving the worst haircuts ever. What a delightfully wild reveal that must have been if you were a reader in Victorian London after weeks of wondering what had become of the missing sailor carrying a string of pearls to deliver to a lovely girl.
Kristen and Will discuss the history and future of Sweeney Todd and works inspired by it this week on Guide to the Unknown. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts to get a new episode every Friday.
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