The Descent (aka How to Sell Millennials a Subaru) with Jason Strutz

Our beloved friend and the writer of the new comic Deprog, Tina Horn is back for a tale of cannibal twinks and jealous guys who make their feelings your problem.

Bones And All is a masterpiece and a wild alternate take on Wonka, if we're honest. Come join us for a wild ride of bisexual cannibalism the likes of which you only used to get from network television. We miss you, Hannibal.

It's like the horror film version of "is this a trash can or is it part of the art exhibit?"

We're back and if you don't think this Voots Riley satire is a horror movie, you just don't understand horror friend. Corporate America is the most terrifying horror of all!

We talk about the spooky race drama, mini-series "The Other Black Girl" all about Checkov's elevator ghost and how sometimes the real villain is the friends you braid along the way. 

Aaron and Alicia join The Horror Squad to talk about The Blackening (2022), which was directed by Tim Story and written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins. The movie is a good ol' fashioned slasher whodunit parody, that asks a simple question: who dies first if the entire cast is Black?

Happy Black History Month! And, as such, Happy Black Director's Month here on Progressively Horrified.

We're starting off hot with a new take on the Frankenstein story, "An Angry Black Girl and her Monster". In a way, it's a little bit of a "what if Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was a horror story?" but it's also got a little bit of "The Wire" flavor to it. It's clearly made with not a lot of money, but some excellent casting choices. Some of the direction late in this one is a little puzzling, but we think it's still very much worth a watch!

The episode you’re about to listen to is about Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and some relevant trigger warnings for this discussion include allusion to drug overdose and animal death, and our hosts ranked this movie as spoopy, and totally metal. Also, big thanks to special guest Amanda Albrecht (@Robofeather) - who is totally metal as well.

It's our first movie of the new year and we are starting out UPSETTING!
"Soft and Quiet" is a movie that sneaks up on you and ruins your day. It is absolutely and completely without chill of any kind. It's about a group of white women who start out by attending a regular old Nazi bookclub and by the end of the night will have committed multiple felonies/hate crimes.
It's a tight film. It's short. It's filmed in "one take" and follows these white women as things get wildly out of control. You're along for the whole ride AND WE DID NOT WANT TO BE... but... this movie does a few things really well. It's incredibly made, incredibly acted, brilliantly scripted. If it wasn't one of the single most traumatic watches we've had on this show, I'd say everybody should watch it. It is, however, incredibly traumatic and we are still talking about who we think the audience is for this and who should see it.

You thought we could wrap up a whole year worth of movies in one episode? Nah, son. We know how to talk and talk and talk. 

This time we're covering all our favorite new takes on old favorites, our Latin American History month films, and a mélange of other great stuff. After this, you will know what the best horror movies for you to go watch are. Whether you choose to do it, well, that's up to you.

2023: that was a fucking yeah, huh?

We discovered that watching their movies back to back four weeks in a row was enough to make us hate any director. My eye has only recently stopped twitching when people say the name Cronenberg. Would you believe I even got tired to Guillermo Del Toro? Whodathunk?
We caught up with Scream just in time for it to implode very publicly. We fell in love with a goofy black lesbian and her softspoken brother as they fought a sky manta ray. We learned how to murder someone with a Menu, we learned that babies are made when a woman grows an external rage womb, and we learned perhaps the least effective way to stop an apocalypse by showing up at a gay couple's cabin. But perhaps most importantly, Hellbender taught us that the real magical powers were the friends we ate along the way