Filthy Horrors | The Masque of the Red Death Board Game

Darla supported the board game version of Masque of the Red Death (based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, illustrated by Gris Grimly, and published by IDW) on Kickstarter. So now she, Jessica, special guest Chandra Reyer, and I are playing it to determine who will be the most popular noble left in the castle after the blood-spattered specter comes to visit.

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Filthy Horrors | The Halloween Series

Darla, Jess, and I watched all the Halloween movies, including Season of the Witch, the Rob Zombie remakes, and this year's Halloween Kills. Big spoilers for everything, including Halloween Kills.

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Filthy Horrors | Werewolves

Darla, Jess, and I watched a bunch of werewolf movies and now we want to talk about which is better: Wolfen or The Howling? Who's irritated by An American Werewolf in London and who rejects The Company of Wolves? And what does puberty have to do with any of this? 

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Filthy Horrors | Return of the Filthy Horrors

Darla, Jess, and I have been fully vaccinated and reconvene at last to catch up on how we did during the pandemic and what horror movies, books, and shows we were into over the last year-and-a-half.

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Filthy Horrors | Letters from Whitechapel

Would you like to play a game? Darla, Jessica, and I did and chose Fantasy Flight Games' Letters from Whitechapel. One player takes the role of Jack the Ripper as the other players' detectives attempt to catch him over a series of four nights.

We also talked about other horror-related and -adjacent things we've been watching and reading:

• Harper's Island (2009 TV series)
• A Christmas Carol (2019 TV mini-series)
• Doctor Sleep (book and film)
• Dracula (2020 TV mini-series)
• Mindhunter (2017 TV series)
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
• Marvel Comics Tomb of Dracula series
• Sweetheart (2019)
• Underwater (2020)
• The Turning (2020)

And some things we've been looking forward to:

• The Lodge (2019)
• Run (2020)
• The Invisible Man (2020)
• The New Mutants (2020)

Filthy Horrors | That Razor in the Apple

Last week was Halloween, so Darla, Jess, and I released a holiday episode of Filthy Horrors talking about everyone's favorite spooky time of year. After a history lesson on the holiday, we hollered about why Halloween is important, our childhood memories of it, how we celebrate today, and the best (and worst) candy to find in your plastic Jack O'Lantern bucket. We also talked about a Halloween field trip and a bunch of other spooky stuff including:

• Flatliners (2017)
• Hammer House of Horror TV series (1980)
• Nomads (1986)
• Dracul by Dacre Stoker and JD Barker
• Disney Frankenstein, starring Donald Duckby Bruno Enna, Fabio Celoni, and Luca Merli
• It Chapter Two (2019)
• It (1990)
• The Little Stranger (2018)
• Halloween (2018)
• The Dark (2018)

Filthy Horrors | Dracularity

Darla, Jess, and I get Dracula-ed out discussing Bram Stoker's novel and the many movies, TV shows, comics, novels, and board games it's inspired.

Filthy Horrors | But You Know It's Still Grimm

Darla, Jess, and I embrace the dark side of some of our favorite fairy tales: "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The White Snake." And if you're not familiar with "The White Snake," don't worry. We'll read it to you!

Also up for discussion:
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Would You Rather (2012)
Jaws (1975)
Crawl (2019)
What the Folklore podcast
Mythos podcast

And things we're looking forward to:
It Chapter Two and Ready or Not

Filthy Horrors | Filthy Horrors... Lite

Darla's not feeling well, but there are donuts and there is coffee, so Jess and I have an informal chat about... well, about a lot of stuff. We begin and end with Horror, but there are lots of other rooms to explore in this old, dark house and some of them are filled with Magnum PI and Star Trek.

Topics Covered:

• Evil Dead (2013)
• The Golem (2018)
• The Wind (2018)
• Making comics and attending conventions
• Disney+ and CBS All Access
• Magnum PI and ‘80s TV
• Star Trek
• Editors and the creative process
• Godzilla movies
• Ghost Stories (2017)
• The Beast of Wolfe’s Bay by Erik Evensen
• Marrying Mr. Darcy card game
• Rachel Rising by Terry Moore
• Revival by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton
• Hack/Slash by Tim Seeley and Emily Stone
• Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest by Ludwig Flammenberg
• The Ring (2002) score by Hans Zimmer
• Ambient music on YouTube

Filthy Horrors | Aaaand Poe

Darla, Jess, and I begin this episode in a haunted cemetery, an appropriate place to talk about one of our favorite writers, Edgar Allan Poe. After some talk about other horror we've been into the last month and a discussion of our own funerals, we dig specifically into "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Raven." With side-trips to other Poe stories as well as our favorite adaptations of his work.

Please Note: It was windy at the cemetery and the sound overwhelms the discussion a few times during that section of the episode. We cleaned it up as best we could, but if it's bothersome, you might want to skip ahead to about 20 minutes into the show. At that point we've moved inside and the audio is clear for the remainder of the episode.

Filthy Horrors | Purple! Monster! (or, The Titular Goblin)

Darla, Jess, and I completely lose our credibility when we play Trivial Pursuit: Horror Movie Edition. Play along and see if you can answer the questions before we can. (You can.)

Filthy Horrors | Ghost Stories

Darla, Jess, and I eat at a haunted restaurant then talk about three of our favorite ghost movies: Poltergeist (1982), The Orphanage (2007), and The Woman in Black (2012).

 

Filthy Horrors | Frankenstein Is the Monster

Darla, Jess, and I get flustered about Frankenstein. Or maybe that's just Kenneth Branagh's abs. And maybe that's mostly me. At any rate, we cover the Mary Shelley biopic starring Elle Fanning, the novel itself, and more movie adaptations than you can shake a pitchfork (or a torch) at.

Introducing the Filthy Horrors Podcast | And That's When the Murders Began

I know I have a problem, but just listen. I started a new podcast with a couple of dear friends: Darla Ecklund and Jessica Hickman. It's a horror podcast, so if that's your thing, I hope you'll give it a listen.

This one's different from other shows I'm on, because the three of us all live near each other, so we're recording it face-to-face instead of online. I have some learning to do about producing a show like that, but this was a fun discussion. We just talk about how horror got its claws into us and reveal our favorite horror movies, books, comics, and TV shows.