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Ranking Our Top 10 ‘Resident Evil’ Games For the 100th Episode! [Safe Room Podcast]
Two years ago, Safe Room Podcast began with a discussion about the Resident Evil series for its 25th anniversary. So for the milestone of 100 episodes, it felt fitting to return to the Resi well once more. Yeah, we’ve returned a few times in 100 episodes, but it’s a deep and lucrative well!
We’ve talked about a lot of Resident Evil games, but what are our personal favorites? There’s some obvious answers of course. But in creating our Top 10s, we found just how diverse two people’s favorites in a series can be.
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I’d like to take a paragraph or two to thank everyone who has listened to Safe Room over the past 100 episodes. The podcast’s origin began with the idea of Resident Evil‘s save rooms/safe rooms. A place among the horror for reflection before trudging out into the nightmare once more. Over these 100 slices of horror chat, Jay and I have made a place for talking about horror games of all kinds in broader terms than ‘Is it scary?’ and couldn’t be more proud of that. We’re also very proud to be part of the Bloody FM network among some phenomenal horror shows of all shapes and sizes.
And a thank you to our guests is also due. It’s especially been a delight to have Bloody Disgusting writers and podcasters such as Reyna Cervantes, Prince Jackson, Harrison Abbott, Aaron Boehm, Rob Coakley, and Mike Wilson guest on the show in that time. All came on and showcased exactly why Bloody Disgusting can be a great place for horror insight.
We’ll be making some tweaks to the podcast in the near future, so look out for those! For now, you can go and tell us how wrong/terrible/ridiculous our Top 10 Resident Evil game lists are.
After winding down June with discussions of our vey first William Castle film Homicidal (listen) and queer director Roland Emmerich’s summer tentpole Independence Day (listen), we’re heading back to 1981 to check out Joe Dante‘s seminal werewolf film The Howling.
The Howling sees television journalist Karen White (Dee Wallace) attend a psychiatric retreat with her husband Bill (Christopher Stone) after being attacked and traumatized by local serial killer Eddie Quist (Robert Picardo). It isn’t long before Karen realizes that the retreat is actually a secret cult of werewolves, and they’ve already got their sights set on Bill.
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Episode 394: The Howling (1981)
Make note of that smiley face sticker and snag that conveniently-placed jar of acid because we’re talking Joe Dante’s stealth werewolf classic The Howling (1981)!
Join us as we discuss the film’s deviations from its source material before doing a deep dive into this very tongue-in-cheek, self-aware horror film. It honestly feels like a precursor to Scream, in many ways!
Plus: Roger Corman (again!) those incredible special effects, differentiating “color movies” from “movies in color,” and why queer icon Elisabeth Brooks has us going “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!”
Cross out The Howling!
Coming Up Next: We’re tackling our very first Ken Russell film with a look at his controversial 1984 erotic thriller Crimes of Passion!
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