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‘Guide to the Unknown’ Podcast Brings Everything Spooky to the Bloody FM Network!
Bloody Disgusting’s podcast network, Bloody FM, is happy to announce another addition to the network – Guide to the Unknown.
Each episode, hosts (and siblings!) Kristen Anderson and Will Rogers dive into everything spooky, from horror movies and pop culture, to urban legends, the paranormal, the mysterious…and the stupid. If it’s even vaguely creepy, they’re all over it.
Kristen and Will are long-time fans of scary stuff, who like to crack each other up as much as they like to freak each other out. Guide to the Unknown started over 6 years ago, and has been available in a video version from the very beginning. They quickly began recording each episode live (which came in handy in 2020), which has endured as a fun way to connect with their audience.
“We’re SO excited to be joining Bloody FM and be in some seriously great company. One of the coolest things about the horror community is that it’s just that, a community—and Bloody Disgusting is like the creepy rec center we get to meet in! We’re thrilled to join the club and have some scary fun together…and probably tell a few too many toilet jokes.”
GTTU has been going strong every week since 2017, with over 300 episodes for new listeners to binge. Thanks to their awesome community of Guidies, they’re just about to hit 1,000 reviews on Apple Podcasts and 2.5 million downloads overall.
Subscribe and listen now on all your favorite podcast platforms, and follow them on Patreon, Instagram, Twitter, and more.
It’s been a busy month on Murder Made Fiction podcast. In addition to introducing a new co-host (Perfectly Good Moment‘s Amanda Jane Stern), we spent Pride Month tackling a wide variety of Leopold and Loeb fictional adaptations.
In 1924 Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb plotted to commit the perfect murder when they abducted and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks. As Amanda outlines in her primer on the case, the men were caught almost immediately and the media circus that followed was billed “the trial of the century”.
Listen to Leopold and Loeb mini primer.
The fallout has reverberated throughout the last century as countless books, plays, musicals, and films have drawn on the case for inspiration. Some are more faithful than others, such as Richard Fleischer‘s 1959 drama Compulsion, which stars a young Dean Stockwell as Leopold and Orson Welles as the boys’ lawyer, John Darrow (named Jonathan Wilk in the film).
Listen to Leopold and Loeb: Compulsion (1959).
Then there are the texts that use the idea of queer-coded killers as a jumping off point, but confuse (or flat-out disregard) the details of the real life case in favour of jumbled fiction. That’s what happens in Barbet Schroeder‘s Murder by Numbers, which awkwardly introduces a tortured backstory for lead actress (and executive producer) Sandra Bullock. The result is an uneven film that misunderstands which of its two competing storylines are actually interesting (hint: it’s the Leopold and Loeb stuff with Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt).
Listen to Leopold and Loeb: Murder by Numbers (2002).
We ended up discussing other (often more successful) titles on Patreon, including 1992’s Swoon (a New Queer Cinema art-house take on the crime), Michael Haneke‘s 2007 Funny Games remake, and gay screenwriter Kevin Williamson‘s Scream, which proved to be a much more reverent and sly interpretation of L&L than we anticipated.
We wrapped up the month with a final summary episode about our favorite adaptations before chatting with author and archivist Erik Rebain, who literally wrote the book on Leopold (Arrested Adolescence) and maintains one of the foremost websites on the crime.
Watch our discussion on YouTube below (or listen here):
Next month: For July, we’re turning our attention to the Boston Strangler, with a look at films from 1964 and 1968, as well as the most contemporary version from 2023, starring Kiera Knightley and Carrie Coon.
Want even more true crime adaptations and Murder Made Fiction? Support the show on Patreon to listen to the aforementioned episodes, as well as a full-length primer on the case and 160+ hours of bonus content.
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