The Best of King. We spent the month of November tackling a variety of monsters. From James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen) to Gena Rowlands in The Skeleton...
After spending the last few weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (listen), Jack Nicholson’s commanding performance in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen),...
After spending the entirety of October tackling Ed Gein titles such as Monster: The Ed Gein Story, as well as Deranged and In The Light of the Moon, as well...
Murder Made Fiction has catalogued two months worth of fictionalized portrayals of Ed Gein, ranging from the popular (Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Silence...
Scary Sad. Horror Queers Podcast has spent October celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), 50 years of Cronenberg’s feature debut Shivers (listen) and the ingenuity...
With Shelby Oaks, writer/director Chris Stuckmann made the leap from YouTube to theatrical film. But his feature directorial debut, which is now playing in theaters, doesn’t...
Jenn and I are in the midst of tackling all of the fictional adaptations of Ed Gein on Murder Made Fiction podcast, following past coverage on...
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a well-to-do white family hires a “too good to be true” nanny to help with the children and quickly...
There’s something off about Red Haven. In R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead, the new Tubi original written and directed by Jem Garrard (Slay), it’s pretty evident that there’s...
It’s hard to come up with a new take on the vampire film. So much of the lore has been established, it’s easy to fall back...
Killer Clown. Jenn and I have spent the first half of the month tackling all things Ed Gein on the Murder Made Fiction podcast, but we’re...
Taxpayer Funded Sex Slugs. After wrapping up September with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (listen), debating the merits of The Strangers: Chapter 1 (listen) and celebrating 30...
Match, the latest film from director Danishka Esterhazy (The Slumber Party Massacre remake, Killer Body Count) doubles down on the meaning of its title. On the...
1/3 of a Movie. After celebrating our 350th episode with From Dusk Till Dawn (listen), revisiting Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic anime Akira (listen), and stopping over in Bodega...
Throughout September, the Murder Made Fiction podcast has been discussing La Llorona – first with a primer (listen here), then 1933 Mexican film The Crying Woman (listen...
Spoilers for Episode 8 (“The Real Monsters”) of Alien: Earth to follow. It’s finale time for Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth and all Trace and I can say...
After revisiting Troma’s The Toxic Avenger (listen) and Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic anime Akira (listen) – with a brief stopover to celebrate our 350th episode and From...
Mexican Gothic. After kicking off September with a primer on La Llorona (listen here), Jenn and I began looking at texts with one of the earliest...
There’s a good chance that the first ~10 minutes of Brandon Christensen’s (Z, Superhost) new film will feel *familiar* to you. If you’ve heard of the...
Mexican Triptych. This month Jenn and I are all about South American legend/folklore with a deep dive into the cinematic adaptations of La Llorona. Last week...
Spoilers for Episode 6 of Alien: Earth to follow. With only a few episodes remaining in Alien: Earth‘s first season, the Noah Hawley series returns home...
The joke is literally in the title of writer/director Todd Rohal’s X-rated gross-out exploitation comedy, Fuck My Son! Described as a throwback to the films of...
In Aleksandar Radivojević‘s Karmadonna, God is real and he’s extremely displeased with humanity. Prone to profane rants and bloody vengeance, the deity manifests exclusively as a...
Nothing stays buried in director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan)’s latest, The Ugly. The film begins rather innocuously as television producer Kim Su-jin (Han Ji-hyeon) interviews...
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