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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
Aaliyah Innocent.
May was a busy subgenre-switching month. After kicking things off with disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen), we watched American Giallo The Fan (listen), then wrapped things up with Vincent Price’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (listen).
Now, in honor of Pride Month and the return of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (renamed The Vampire Lestat for S03), Trace and I had to check out the straight-washed second attempt to bring Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to life.
Back in 2002, director Michael Rymer pitched Hollywood on his vision for Rice’s second Chronicle book, The Vampire Lestat. Instead, the suits opted to adapt the third book, Queen of the Damned (likely due to the ancillary opportunities of the soundtrack, written entirely by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis).
In the film, Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens from slumber to reinvent himself as a leather-pant-wearing rocker. Lestat’s very public vampire persona attracts the attention of Talamasca novice Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), as well as the vampire’s maker Marius (Vincent Perez). But the nu-metal has the greatest impact on Akasha (Aaliyah), who awakens and promises to take over the world if her old foe Maharet (Lena Olin) doesn’t stop her.
Whose side will Lestat join? Will Marius help his fledgling or abandon him to public sacrifice? And does anyone actually care about Jesse? (Please note: that last question is rhetorical.)
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Episode 389: Queen of the Damned (2002)
Practice your Egyptian accent and bare that midriff because we are talking the troubled “adaptation” of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned (2002).
Directed by Australian Michael Rymer, this one was doomed by the suits before it was even greenlit (which happened AFTER all of the songs were written by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis). It’s a bit of a clusterfuck.
Plus: praising everything Aaliyah (RIP); critiquing everything Stuart Townsend (aside from his abs and leather pants); a soft queer reading of Marius; and bemoaning boring protagonist/audience surrogate JESSE.
Cross out Queen of the Damned!
Coming Up Next: We’re tackling Ben Stiller’s horror-adjacent dark comedy The Cable Guy (1996), in anticipation of its 30th anniversary!
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