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Horror Bytes Episode 2: Surreal Tea Time and Petting a Dog in the Apocalypse [Safe Room Podcast]
Horror Bytes is back!
It’s Horror Bytes Episode 2, and for the second installment of our monthly segment in which Neil and I cover bite-sized horror experiences, we’ve increased our number of picks from two to four games apiece.
This allows us to produce a more substantial conversation and dissuade me from continuing to inundate Neil’s inbox with bite-sized horror game suggestions on an hourly basis.
And while his efforts were futile, we at least got a longer chat out of it!
Among this month’s picks, we have a cartoon baby running from spiders, a teen left home alone, a Game Boy-inspired meta visual novel about tea, an ax-swinging demon hunter, and a game that ended a little too abruptly. All games are available on Steam and/or itch.io with an entry fee of ‘free’, but as you’ll hear, some are very much worth sending a few bucks to.
Neil’s Picks
Jay’s Picks
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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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