Harry and Jen Do Horror with Friends
Harry Nichols and Jen Lightfoot discuss current horror films with the help of a rotating guest!
Episodes
Lit Professor and Alien super fan Teagan Bradway joins us once again to discuss Alien: Romulus (2024). We discuss the film's approach to siblinghood, race and servitude, Gen Z, upgrades and AI anxieties, male rage, boy robots, and oodles more. Jen rips an atomic belch. Harry impersonates Marilyn Manson.
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Bonus episode time, b*tches! Lit professor and Alien fangirl Teagan Bradway joins us to discuss every. single. Alien film. We discuss Teagan's dope Ripley tattoo, the triumphs and failures of the Alien reboots/prequels, shredded blue Jesus, moms (of course), sex (of course), and more! Teagan presents her case for Alien 3 as a slept-on banger. Listen in as we build context for next month's episode on Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus (2...
Matthew Schmidt is the writer/director of the indie short film, "Mr. Sandman" (2024). He joins us to discuss his film, inspiration, and the importance of chasing your passions at any age.
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Fiction author Bob Proehl joins the pod to talk about Robert Eggers' Nosferatu (2024). We discuss the metaphor of the vampire, the cost of periodic accuracy, attitudes toward teen sex, COVID, free podcast ideas, the Keanussance, and what the hell Willem Dafoe is doing in this movie.
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Content Warnings: Spoilers, profanity
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Fiction author Bob Proehl joins Harry and Jen to discuss F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, Nosferatu (1922). The trio discusses the experience of viewing silent film in the modern day, Nosferatu's status as a classic bootleg, vampiric links to sex and disease, fear of the other, and Bob's failed attempt at reading Twilight. Keep an eye out for our episode on Nosferatu (2024) next week!
Drug/alcohol counselor Steve Elfenbein joins Harry and Jen to talk about Smile 2 (2024). They discuss mental health, water-chugging, addiction, the curse film trope, and heavy-handed narratives. Harry makes a bassoon noise.
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Content Warnings: Spoilers, drug/alcohol abuse and addiction, overdose
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Jen's sister Kim joins to talk about Heretic (2024). they talk Mormonism, atheism, language, rip-offs, spin-offs, and cults.
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Content Warnings: spoilers, violence
This episode's drinking game: Drink whenever . . .
- Jen can't remember a character's name
- Harry says "infantile"
- Harry makes an unfunny Mormon joke (finish your drink)
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Jen and Harry talk about the late David Lynch, the word "Lynchian," their first Lynch movie experiences, and their favorite Lynch films, Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001). Harry gives his spiel about Bill Pullman while Jen plans the show's first merch item.
Content Warnings: Spoilers, Suicide/Self-Harm
This episode's drinking game:
- Finish your drink whenever Harry or Jen are awkward about David Lynch being dead. ...
Chemist Sam MacMillan joins for a conversation on Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (2024). They discuss the patriarchy, beauty standards, substance abuse, the alt-health grift, cinematic references, the plural for "synopsis," and prosthetic boobs.
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Content Warnings: spoilers, body image, gore, substance abuse
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Jen and Harry review the films they watched in 2024. They talk the best of the best, the worst of the worst, the grossest, the horniest, conversation highlights, and horror trends. Listen in for a trip down memory lane!
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Music teacher Austin Kiley joins for a conversation on Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The trio get cozy and discuss the Tim Burton aesthetic, the age of the sequel, real-life Sally, sexism, racism, and Austin's take on How I Met Your Mother.
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Content Warnings: spoilers
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Allison Stull of Quad Pro Quo Podcast joins Harry and Jen for a Damian McCarthy double feature: Oddity (2024) and Caveat (2020)! The trio talk murder mysteries, creepy/beautiful houses, movement, rationalism, and whether or not they would survive diving into a cave full of vampires.
Content Warnings: Spoilers, violence
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Happy Halloween, kids! Harry and Jen take time out to chat about two of their favorite Halloween flicks, Trick R' Treat (2007) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). The two discuss their favorite aspects of the films, why the films have staying power, and why Halloween is the horniest holiday. They also say "punish" a lot. Stick around after the show for interviews with veteran Rocky Horror Picture Show participants.
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Harry and Jen are joined by Jen's partner, the lit professor Teagan Bradway! The trio get into one of the year's most anticipated horror films, Longlegs. They talk queer-coded killers, horny stabbings, the nuclear family, and the Nicolas Cage of it all.
Content Warnings: spoilers
Here's a cool article that inspired Harry's interpretation!
This episode features audio from The Wicker Man (2006) and Community.
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Cornell lit professor Caroline Levine joins us to discuss the Mexican-Peruvian body horror joint, Huesera: The Bone Woman. We discuss the natural body horror of pregnancy stories, the Ring-imprinted generation, the patriarchy, queer v. hetero relationships, and the "dismissive husband" trope.
Content Warnings: Spoilers, Pregnancy, Infanticide
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Songwriters Sam Lupowitz and Mandy Goldman join us again to talk Zach Creggar's Barbarian. We discuss haves and have-nots, Dante, systems that enable evil, story structure, and the weird hotness of Bill Skarsgard.
Content Warning: Spoilers, Sexual assault/rape, Bill Skarsgard
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Sam's glorious record from 2021
Violist, teacher, and reluctant horror fan Katharina Nichols joins us in a conversation about Immaculate (2024). We talk politics, Rosemary's Baby, the phenomenon of Sydney Sweeney, Nunsploitation, and Kat outlines her plans for her own evil convent.
Content Warning: Spoilers, Infanticide, Religious Violence
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Harry and Jen talk with artist/one-woman-riot Ten Van Winkle about the smash indie possession film Late Night with the Devil. They talk about guilt, exploitation, AI, peeps, and what the hell exactly happened in that movie anyhow.
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Harry and Jen are joined by Jen's friend-in-law, the lovely, insightful Mike Jan! Together, they dissect the surreal, meaty world of Robert Morgan's Stopmotion. They talk folklore, archetypes, agency, the age-old beef between fine and commercial art, and why an inanimate object may just be the sexiest character.
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Jen and Harry speak once again with Singer/Bar-Owner/Swiftie Kate Conroy, this time about the most recent installments in the Scream series. They talk the evolution of Scream, franchises, requels, authenticity, and David Arquette's hot-broken-old-man vibes.
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