70shorror

The Girls remember their childhood fears of the 70s and 80s...Robbie-Ann talks about the origins of her basement phobia, the monster in the 1980s horror classic The Boogens. Amy dissects what exactly makes a monster. Robbie-Ann analyzes the monster in The Boogens, and why the movie is such an 80s horror classic. Amy's fear of the portal to hell: the red light under the escalator at the mall, and her childhood PTSD triggered by the theme from Get Smart. Amy's terrifying real-life attempted child-abduction from a super market by Sweathog kidnappers. A psycho-analysis of the sequence of Amy's childhood terror triggers. Robbie-Ann's psychological trauma incited by watching 70s zombie scary tv movie "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." The Monster Under the Bed: where did this Urban Legend come from? Robbie-Ann's childhood fear of serial killers, inspired by 70s news reports about John Wayne Gacy. Amy's fear of Richard Ramirez, Night Stalker serial killer who terrorized Southern California in the 1980s. Young Amy arms herself with a hammer in case he showed up. Can you help identify the mystery movie that scared Amy so much? The Girls try to identify it from Amy's fuzzy memory of seeing it on tv. Robbie-Ann's theory that humans were waiting to kill her outside, but monsters were trying to kill her in her own house...why? Robbie-Ann's childhood anxiety of something terrible happening to her parents. Bees: terror in the skies. Amy recalling Killer Bees in cartoons. The 70s terror propaganda  of quicksand, falling in manholes, and the Killer Bees headed to America. Robbie-Ann's childhood Super Fear of falling through the winter ice on the quarry of her childhood home. Amy reports exactly what and where quicksand is. Jellyfish: terror in the ocean. Going into basements as an adult.  Aliens: fearworthy or foolish? Robbie-Ann recalls a terrifying mystery movie from the 50s about aliens: can you identify it? Ghosts, vampires and Frankenstein? The Munsters' role in de-terrifying certain Halloween myths. Robbie-Ann's childhood confidence that she could talk some humanoid murderous monsters out of killing her. The Loch Ness Monster. Big Foot. Sharks. Amy reveals she never saw Jaws! 

Terry chose this horror cult classic that was director David Cronenberg's first feature length film. We discuss possible allegories and whether the film holds up today.

CW: language, conversation about sexual violence, murder

It's time to hit the road this summer. Feel the wind in your hair. Get into a fist fight with a couple of toughs with your girlfriend at your side singing rock ballads just before you drive off a cliff and return from the dead. Or you could just join Corey and Maddy as they discuss infamous biker films 'Psychomania' and 'Streets of Fire' in the first of two biker movie episodes this summer.

There is nothing I love more than a mint julep, a warm summer night, and a pretentious theatre troupe digging up the dead. Why, I do declare it is the most lovely evening one can imagine. So why don't we just all relax upon the back patio and enjoy ourselves a long, slow review with Corey and Maddy of the 1972 cult classics 'Dear Dead Delilah' and 'Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things'?