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A Beginner’s Guide to the ‘Nightmare on Film Street Podcast’
The Nightmare on Film Street Podcast is officially a member of the Bloody Disgusting Podcast Network and we couldn’t be happier. I think the first website I ever bookmarked on my family’s desktop computer was Bloody Disgusting! It’s an honor to partner with the #1 name in internet horror (and the producers of found footage all-timer V/H/S), and we’re excited to share our spooky little corner of the internet with you.
Nightmare on Film Street is a home for horror fans, from die-hards all the way to casual creeps. The show is hosted by Kimberley, a hair dye addicted, vegetable eating, pin collecting, board game nerd and Jonathan, a coffee grinding, craft beer drinking, bearded lady in disguise. Our goal has always been to recreate those conversations with your friends over coffee (or beer) immediately after getting out of the movie theatre, but it can be hard to know where to start with a new podcast. And with that in mind, we’ve compiled a quick beginner’s guide to the show just for you!
Below are four episodes that we think perfectly capture the candid, comedic spirit of Nightmare on Film Street.
Gates of Hell: Event Horizon vs. The Beyond
As lifelong horror fans, we have a deep appreciation for 90’s horror. Some call the decade a low point for the genre BUT THEY’RE WRONG- I mean, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. Needless to say one of us have very strong opinions about Event Horizon. Join us as we venture out into the great unknown of Space (and also Louisiana) in search of the gateway to another dimension where pain and suffering are is just a regular Thursday afternoon. It’s a double feature of eye-ball obsessed, zombie-infested, NASA nightmare fuel! First up we’re taking a quick trip out to Neptune for Paul W.S. Anderson’s space-horror Event Horizon (1997) before crash lading back down into the ethereal realm of Lucio Fulci’s grindhouse classic The Beyond (1981).
Double Trouble: The Number 23 vs. I Know Who Killed Me
When you think “so-bad-it’s-good” movies, there are probably two films that immediately come to mind and we cover them both in one episode! July is a wild time at Nightmare on Film Street because we dedicate the entire month to guilty pleasure and greedy-guts picks. It’s a free-for-all of personal favorites and unpopular opinions and we recently sat down to record two staples of Trashterpiece Cinema, perfect for laughing along with friends. If you’re a fan of gritty, mind-bending noirs, Twin Peaks nonsense, and Brian De Palma-esque femme fatales filtered through B-Movie logic and very un-erotic fiction, then you are in the perfect headspace to enjoy Joel Shumacher’s The Number 23 and Chris Sivertson’s I Know Who Killed Me! Crack open a beer, plug your prosthetic leg in to charge, and join ussss…
Wet, Dead, And Full of Secrets: The Ring vs. What Lies Beneath
We are legally required to inform you that this particular episode of Nightmare on Film Street is cursed! If you dare listen, in seven days you will… receive another podcast in your feed!! This was an episode we had both been looking forward to since we started the podcast, and it gave us the perfect opportunity to discuss horror movies filled to the brim with ghosts harboring wet, dead, secrets. First up, we sink into the murky waters of Robert Zemeckis’ watertight murder-mystery What Lies Beneath (2000) before floating on down the river to investigate the torrent of terror that is Gore Verbinski’s revolutionary remake The Ring (2002)! Like everyone in our generation, that jump scare in The Ring has scarred us for life, but we genuinely believe that What Lies Beneath is one of the most underrated ghost tales of the 20th Century. If you agree, or if you’re asking yourself ‘What the heck is What Lies Beneath?’, this episode is for you.
Nightmare Alley: In Conversation with Host Creators Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd, and Gemma Hurley
In between our regular head-to-head episodes of the show, we like to chat with filmmakers about their upcoming projects, and how they became obsessed with horror in our Nightmare Alley episodes. By now, you’ve likely heard of the quarantine-filmed, zoom-based found-footage horror Host. It’s arguably the horror film that will come to define what life looked like in 2020, and (as big found footage fans) we fell in love with the film immediately. We sat down with filmmakers Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd, and Gemma Hurley to discuss Host just as the movie was hitting Shudder, and the world was taking notice of this tiny, terrifying little piece of cinema coming out of the UK. Hear all about how the internet’s new favorite found-footage film began as a simple prank between friends bored on Zoom, and how they managed to get Shudder on board after the video went viral. Happy Spookies!
We hope you enjoy listening to the podcast as much as we enjoy recording it. It’s all a bit of casually-obsessed fun for the cool creeps looking to keep that Halloween spirit alive all year long. New episodes drop every other Thursday with bonus Nightmare Alley episodes in the in-between weeks, whenever possible. You can find new (and old) episodes of the Nightmare on Film Street podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, and you can continue the conversation with us over on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook!
“This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”
Is there anything more terrifying than the relentless passage of time? It’s a bitter truth that just when we’ve become accustomed to our bodies, the sands of time turn and we’re forced to watch them slowly break down in a cruel march towards inevitable death. But what if there were a way to stop the aging process – a potion that would return us to our peak physical condition and hold us there until the end of time? Would we take it? And would we eventually find that the blessing of perpetual life is actually a curse? No film explores this dilemma quite like Death Becomes Her. Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 horror comedy pits two showstopping divas against each other for a single spotlight while asking what they would do for eternal youth – and what will be the hidden cost?
Madeline (Meryl Streep) and Helen (Goldie Hawn) are old frenemies with a history of vicious competition. Madeline seems to have won the most recent battle and married Helen’s fiance Ernest (Bruce Willis), but decades later, their marriage is on the rocks and Madeline’s once thriving career is now a thing of the past. When Helen returns with a stunning new look, Madeline turns to unorthodox methods to maintain her feminine dominance. She drinks a potion designed to give her eternal youth, but returns home to find her life turned upside down by her downtrodden husband and jealous “friend.” Having both taken the potion, “Mad” and “Hel” engage in a bitter fight to the death over years of petty snipes and the right to claim the title of Most Desirable Woman.
In their latest episode, The Lady Killers dissect these two glamorous killers and the hidden social commentary in Zemeckis’ iconic film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall dish over their own fears of aging, choose their favorite diva, and decide whether they would take the potion should they ever find themselves in Lisle’s (Isabella Rossellini) lavish home. How does the film hit differently when watching as an adult? Could Madeline, Helen, and Ernest ever make a polycule work? Is Lisle a hero or a villain and how does she keep that gorgeous necklace in place? They’ll wrestle with these questions and more in a podcasting shovel battle to the death on this unique horror comedy and one of the most glamorous casts of all time.
Stream below and subscribe now via Apple Podcasts and Spotify for future episodes that drop every Thursday.
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