Show Notes
Joining Alice Fraser this week is the mighty Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).
The subgenre deep dive this week looks at bodies / good use of embodiment - such as body swapping in Altered Carbon or Cronenbergian body horror. Tom espouses that 2025 has seen the greatest summer for cinematic horror in recent memory, discusses the trope of befuzzled kings leaving a trail of chaos in their wake, and feels a bit eurrgh about campery being shorthand for villainy.
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NEWS FILM Red Sonja
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN? FILM 28 Years Later FILM Bring Her Back FILM Weapons FILM Together Swordheart - T Kingfisher
TROPE ON A ROPE Befuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wake Looking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horror
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodies FILM Looper FILM Together TV Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy TV Doctor Who - Into The Dalek FILM Tusk PODCAST Smodcast Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis Ghost In The Shell Dune - Frank Herbert TV Alien: Earth FILM Ex Machina
MINES OF EURRGH Campery to mean villainy FILM Jupiter Ascending TV Twilight FILM The Little Mermaid FILM The Lion King FILM Robin Hood FILM The Fifth Element
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