We Have Such Films To Show You

Who is Silent Hill for? Fans of the video games? Fans of horror films? Maybe a little bit of neither! Yakov and Josh turn up the fog machine and wonder how Sean Bean manages to not get killed, among other things.

Josh and Yakov take on two very different eating-people-for-fun-and-profit flicks, 1999's Ravenous and 2004's Dumplings, and talk about what goes wrong and right, respectively, with the films.

Filmed thirty years later and set thirty (still futuristic) years earlier, this Alien prequel gives Aliens-franchise fans Yakov and Josh a lot to make complicated faces about, figuratively speaking.

Josh and Yakov revisit Ridley Scott's classic and pick out the few rough spots while chattering about all the stuff that's great and meandering through the franchise that followed.

A close reading of the recent based-on-a-truthy-story flick about paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren tackling a big mess of haunty badness in 1971. An imperfect but at times super duper creepy film.

The J and the Y take a visit to another formative meta-horror classic, 1996's Wes Craven horror comedy Scream, and talk about what works well, what doesn't, and just how amazingly rooted/dated in the mid-90s it is.

It's 1999, and some idiot kids got killed in the Maryland woods, and it's up to Josh and Yakov to basically talk about how they feel like The Blair Witch Project still holds up really well. Also a bit about video games!

Yakov and Josh tackle the 2007 indie wunderkind Paranormal Activity, and talk about found footage, zero-budget horror, and the problem with having your main character a terrible unlikeable boring jerky jerkface jerk. But it's a good movie!

Polishing off the John Carpenter "Apocalypse Trilogy", Josh and Yakov watch Sam Neill watch the world go to hell and talk talk about metanarratives, Lovecraft, and power suits.

Yakov and Josh talk about John Carpenter's 1987 film, comparing it with The Thing (see ep. 25!) and marveling at the mustache and general creepiness of the film's notional hero. Also, Satan.

Before there was The Thing, there was 1951 The Thing From Another World! After The Thing, there was...another film called The Thing! We talk about them both, and the 1938 short story "Who Goes There" that started this all.

It's our one-year podcastversary, and we celebrate with John Carpenter's The Thing, a classic horror and paranoia flick featuring some really delightful practical special effects work and also a plenty of Kurt Russell.

The final chapter that very much wasn't, this mid-franchise slasher manages to typify the early 80s slasher genre without doing very many interesting things in the process.

The subject of any number of sequels and remakes, this 1974 proto-slasher flick is all kinds of interesting for both the genre tropes it inspired and the ways in which it differs from the standbys of the slasher genre that followed.

It's just Yakov and Josh and this amazingly of-its-time 1981 Canadian slasher fic, bringing some love into your Valentine's Day proximity. Won't you be (getting murdered in a) mine?

Josh and Yakov tackle the 1998 Japanese horror flick Ringu (remade for the US in 2002 as The Ring), and develop a theory that this is actually still the Jacob's Ladder review and they've been dead the whole time.

Y and J have a good trip through bad trip classic Jacob's Ladder, wrestling with the clashing metaphysics and mixed messages of this often visually arresting story about why it's hard out there for a postal worker.

In a film that looks exactly like it cost $900K to make in 1985, Josh and Yakov find a lot to love (most of it in Jeffrey Comb's performance as Herbert The Love Bug West) and also plenty to complain about.

It's a six-in-one special, as Yakov and Josh break down the five films-within-the-film of this horror short collection and talk about found-footage faux-documentary cinema.

Josh and Yakov are thrilled to discuss a movie they actually unambiguously enjoyed, this 2009 period-piece gem from upstart horror writer/director Ti West that plays in a lot of great ways with the heritage of the horror genre.