This month on Horror Hangover, Ryan and Cass are joined by cinephile Charles, co-host of When Will It End? -- a podcast exploring the beauty & bizarreness behind serialized storytelling in film.

Turn your lights off ... or on ... but will either choice save you from these existentialist entries? Silence your phone. Or call a friend? We're covering J-Horror & Tech & prodding into all its dis/connections through the iconic works of Kurosawa's Pulse & Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

CLICK IF YOU DARE:

• Kurosawa delves into what makes ghosts so haunting in this interview with Paul Matthews
• "The Broken Technology of Ghost Hunting" by Colin Dickey
• Subscribe to WHEN WILL IT END? podcast here for more of Charles' thoughts on franchises in film

OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO:

• FeliceY for our logo design
• Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix
• Ryan's metallic magic sound effects
• Walkscares! Twice the dread in twice the time!

Horror writer and host of Brooklyn's Word for Word Reel Talks film commentary series Scott Adlerberg joins us to discuss unexpected mystery twists. What makes a twist work? How do films balance this magical act without tipping their hand? Should we ever follow a spooky child in a raincoat? We answer these questions and more!

We also discuss Scott's latest book, The Screaming Child, now available from Ghoulish Books. Order a copy now...if you dare!

Synopsis:

Scott Adlerberg’s The Screaming Child is a mystery horror novel told by a grieving woman working on a book about an explorer who was murdered in a remote wilderness region, only to get caught up in a dangerous journey after hearing the distant screams from her own vanished child somewhere in the woods.

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• An interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• More of Scott's writing on crime!

OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO:

• FeliceY for our logo design
• Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix
• Ryan's killer riffs!

We're baaaaaack & kicking off March with a deep dive into urban legends in horror films -- What are they? Where do they come from? Do they help or hurt society ... or both?

To investigate this further, we push up our nerd glasses with the triple threat of Scarred for Life Podcast co-hosts Mary Beth McAndrews & Terry Mesnard plus horror writer & teacher (& amazing hubbie) Chris Poole to chat all things Candyman & the indie darling Butterfly Kisses.

CLICK IF YOU DARE:

• "They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror" by Steve Bogira (1987) at Chicago Reader
• "Candyman, the Scariest ‘Leave Them Damn White Girls Alone’ Movie Ever, Is 25 Years Old This Week" by Lawrence Ware at The Root
• "Candyman: Why This Racially Charged Horror Movie Is Scarier Than Ever" by Evan Narcisse
• "Candyman: How Bernard Rose and Clive Barker Created the Horror Classic" by Jack Beresford at Den of Geek
• "Cabrini-Green: A History of Broken Promises" by Alejandra Cancino, Better Government Association
• "I Could Move In There: When Jane Byrne Moved into Cabrini-Green" at WTTW
• "Erik Kristopher Myers: The Lost Interview" by Benjamin Radford at the Center for Inquiry

OUR SACRED OFFERINGS GO TO:

• FeliceY for our logo design
• Cano Jaguar for our creepy intro. mix
• Ryan's killer riffs!
• Nia DaCosta - give her all the work!
• Ruthie McCoy - rest in power
• Erik Kristopher Myers' Peeping Tom legacy