Welcome to the Cold Case Films Podcast - the ultimate podcast for horror enthusiasts and movie buffs alike. Join our hosts Ainsley, a seasoned forensics and missing persons expert, and Tanner, a dude who likes movies as they view, review, and dissect your favorite horror films with a uniquely realistic perspective.

Every episode, Tanner and Ainsley discuss a horror movie. They summarize the movie, discuss its more critical elements, and talk about the level of realism of the more grim and scary aspects of the film using Ainsley's forensics expertise. This episode is a Halloween special with a double feature - Trick 'r Treat & The Descent

SPOILER WARNING AND TRIGGER WARNING. This episode includes discussion of the film in its entirety and features in-depth discussions on scares, gore, and other heavy topics frequently found in horror films.

Our hosts start the episode with Trick 'r Treat and discuss the surprising background story of the film's failure to launch (5:10), summarize the film and the five interconnected stories (8:15), and talk about how it's a near perfect Halloween-vibes movie (15:43). They then discuss the scary real world examples of actual people who have poisoned Halloween candy with the 1974 Pixie Stick Murders (19:04), the urban legend of Ghost Hands (23:25), and the logic behind family killers in relation to Principal Wilkens (25:05).

Our hosts then jump to discussing the second film for the episode, The Descent! They start by giving background on the film and its production (28:03), then move to a movie summary (30:33), they then discuss their opinions on the movie with itspsychological cave and relationship aspects, monster flick subjectivity, and filming techniques (36:43). Ainsley then comes in with her forensics expertise and tells the related true story of John Edward Jones, a spelunker who died in the Nutty Putty Cave in 2009 (43:33).

Enjoy the episode, have the happiest and spookiest Halloween, and please subscribe on whichever podcast platform you're listening to!

Links:

Instagram: @coldcasefilms

Twitter: @ColdCase_Films

Welcome to the Cold Case Films Podcast - the ultimate podcast for horror enthusiasts and movie buffs alike. Join our hosts Ainsley, a seasoned forensics and missing persons expert, and Tanner, a dude who likes movies as they view, review, and dissect your favorite horror films with a uniquely realistic perspective.

Every episode, Tanner and Ainsley discuss a horror movie. They summarize the movie, discuss its more critical elements, and talk about the level of realism of the more grim and scary aspects of the film using Ainsley's forensics expertise. This episode is on the 1976 film The Omen, let's dive in!

SPOILER WARNING AND TRIGGER WARNING. This episode includes discussion of the film in its entirety and an in-depth discussion on the topic of suicide from a death investigator/forensics viewpoint.

Our hosts start the episode by talking about the context of the shifting culture in the 70's and how it impacted a shift in film and TV from gothic horror to supernatural horror (6:20). They review omens in real life (9:31) and the omens that cursed the crew while filming (12:20).

After summarizing the movie's plot (19:33) and their opinions on it (27:40), Ainsley discusses her professional forensics experiences (42:44) with suicide by hanging, the different types of hanging, the different effects they have on the body, and how death investigators tell the difference between human remains and animal remains.

Enjoy the episode and please subscribe on whichever podcast platform you're listening to.

Links:

Instagram: @coldcasefilms

Twitter: @ColdCase_Films

Website: https://coldcasefilms.libsyn.com/site

Welcome to the Cold Case Films Podcast - the ultimate podcast for horror enthusiasts and movie buffs alike. Join our hosts Ainsley, a seasoned forensics and missing persons expert, and Tanner, a dude who likes movies as they view, review, and dissect your favorite horror films with a uniquely realistic perspective.

Episode 1 is... obviously our first episode!

The episode kicks off with an introduction of The Cold Case Films Podcast and our hosts! The podcast will discuss a horror movie on every episode. Tanner, our resident film buff, will pick apart the movie and talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. Ainsley, our resident forensics expert will join this conversation with Tanner. Lastly, Ainsley lead a diuscussion on the realistic or unrealistic forensics, criminology, gore, violence, and other real-life horror aspects that can be found within the film.

The film for this episode is The Silence of the Lambs.

Tanner reviews the history behind the acclaimed horror film, covers the storyline, and discusses the prominent themes and takeaways with Ainsley.

Ainsley then discusses the four types of serial killers and discusses which classification Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lecter fall into.

Enjoy the episode and please subscribe on whichever podcast platform you're listening to.

Links:

Instagram: @coldcasefilms

Twitter: @ColdCase_Films

Website: https://coldcasefilms.libsyn.com/site