Progressively Horrified

Progressively Horrified

A podcast that holds horror to standards horror never agreed to. Hosts Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, Emily Martin and guests watch, read, listen to, and check out movies, tv shows, comics, books, art and anything else from the horror genre and discuss it through a progressive lens. We'll talk feminism in horror, LGBTQ+ issues and representation in horror, racial and social justice in horror, disability and mental health/illness in horror, and the work of female and POC directors, writers, and creators in horror. We're the podcast horror never agreed to take part in.

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April 26, 2024 114 mins

Jeremy, Ben, and Emily are joined by Jorri Roberts, AMC Networks Creative Strategist, for a chat about Interview with a Vampire (1994).

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It's Romeo and Juliet but with vampires and werewolves and a lot more sparkle.

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Which kind of horror creature are you? Are you the wet shirtless sewer dwelling kind or the or the dry in lingerie kind?

Underworld is a movie that will have you asking how it can be so full of ideas that seem good on paper and still somehow make something so boring. Guns that shoot bullets full of daylight? A sexy vampire assassin played by Kate Beckinsale? A  centuries old blood feud between sexy vampires and sexy werewol...

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It's time for the final installment of our Fear Street watch! 

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S. E. and Craig are back to brave another discussion about needle drops as Emily, Ben, and Jeremy chat about the second installment of Netflix's Fear Street trilogy. 

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There once was a street named Fear. Actually, this has nothing to do with a street. 

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This is the true story, of four strangers, one stranger's wife, and an indeterminate number of ghosts picked to live in a house, work together, and have their lives recorded by a psychopathic psychiatrist. Find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting haunted!

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Our beloved friend and the writer of the new comic Deprog, Tina Horn is back for a tale of cannibal twinks and jealous guys who make their feelings your problem.

Bones And All is a masterpiece and a wild alternate take on Wonka, if we're honest. Come join us for a wild ride of bisexual cannibalism the likes of which you only used to get from network television. We miss you, Hannibal.

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It's like the horror film version of "is this a trash can or is it part of the art exhibit?"

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We're back and if you don't think this Voots Riley satire is a horror movie, you just don't understand horror friend. Corporate America is the most terrifying horror of all!

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We talk about the spooky race drama, mini-series "The Other Black Girl" all about Checkov's elevator ghost and how sometimes the real villain is the friends you braid along the way. 

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Aaron and Alicia join The Horror Squad to talk about The Blackening (2022), which was directed by Tim Story and written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins. The movie is a good ol' fashioned slasher whodunit parody, that asks a simple question: who dies first if the entire cast is Black?

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Happy Black History Month! And, as such, Happy Black Director's Month here on Progressively Horrified.

We're starting off hot with a new take on the Frankenstein story, "An Angry Black Girl and her Monster". In a way, it's a little bit of a "what if Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was a horror story?" but it's also got a little bit of "The Wire" flavor to it. It's clearly made with not a lot of money, but some excellent castin...

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January 26, 2024 97 mins

The episode you’re about to listen to is about Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and some relevant trigger warnings for this discussion include allusion to drug overdose and animal death, and our hosts ranked this movie as spoopy, and totally metal. Also, big thanks to special guest Amanda Albrecht (@Robofeather) - who is totally metal as well.

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It's our first movie of the new year and we are starting out UPSETTING!
"Soft and Quiet" is a movie that sneaks up on you and ruins your day. It is absolutely and completely without chill of any kind. It's about a group of white women who start out by attending a regular old Nazi bookclub and by the end of the night will have committed multiple felonies/hate crimes.
It's a tight film. It's short. It's filmed in "one ...

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January 12, 2024 75 mins

You thought we could wrap up a whole year worth of movies in one episode? Nah, son. We know how to talk and talk and talk. 

This time we're covering all our favorite new takes on old favorites, our Latin American History month films, and a mélange of other great stuff. After this, you will know what the best horror movies for you to go watch are. Whether you choose to do it, well, that's up to you.

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2023: that was a fucking yeah, huh?

We discovered that watching their movies back to back four weeks in a row was enough to make us hate any director. My eye has only recently stopped twitching when people say the name Cronenberg. Would you believe I even got tired to Guillermo Del Toro? Whodathunk?
We caught up with Scream just in time for it to implode very publicly. We fell in love with a goofy black lesbian and her s...

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We've been talking about this movie since we started the podcast and now we finally did it!

Unfortunately, this film's John Constantine is from LA. Mercifully, that means Keanu doesn't have to do a British accent. Not that he can't do it. I mean, forsooth, we all remember Bram Stoker's Dracula, do we not? Instead, this time we leave it to Rachel Weisz to do an accent which basically just equates to "Americans talk low and m...

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December 25, 2023 99 mins

It's a very special episode of Progressively Horrified!
Join the Horror Squad and guest Matt Fraction for a dynamic discussion about the 1970s proto-slasher film 'Black Christmas'!

 

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Come for the absolute masterpiece of scene chewing that is Al Pacino as The Devil, stay out of the morbid curiosity of hearing what accent is going to come out of Keanu's mouth next. His accent grows no moss, because it's a rolling stone. Don't try to pin him to any one place or syntax.
Hey, guys, did you remember that Charlize Theron is in this movie. They don't give her a ton to work with, but she's playing Florida gi...

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