This is a curiousity. More Tuesday…

On THE MUMMY 🧻 "A cobbled together zombie-project" - @jacksonweaver.bsky.social "crosses a boundary you didn’t know you had" - Thom Ernst "decent gore and really squelchy sound design" - @joelipsett.bsky.social torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Expect to hear A LOT about S04 of #from because it’s the best damn horror show on TV. New episodes kick off Sunday and I’ve got a refresher on @bloody-disgusting.com to get you ready (after a 15 month break!)

Mārama is out in theaters today! @conrad-esq.bsky.social and I talked about the film out of TIFF, how it uses genre to confront colonialism, and that powerhouse lead performance

Welp, at least @tracedthurman.bsky.social finally got to check out 2017’s THE MUMMY

“Despite some decent gore and really squelchy sound design, the writer/director is just remaking his own EVIL DEAD RISE (to lesser effect).” Sorry to say, but LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY is a big disappointment.

So excited for this one. The book is exceptional

A film that answers the question: what if you tried to launch the Dark Universe, but Tom Cruise turned it into a vanity project?

@jennferatu.bsky.social and I get our body horror on with CHERNOBYL episode 3

It’s a new theme and Conrad and I have found one of the earliest texts: an interesting made-for-TV film!

Don't open that sarcophagus and prepare the fainting couch because we're discussing Karl Freund's #TheMummy (1932).

Spoiler alert: I love the miners!

First time watch and I liked THE MUMMY. I just wish the short runtime didn’t come at the expense of the film’s most interesting ideas.

@joelipsett.bsky.social and @sharai.bsky.social are delighted! Also - they’re back with coverage of S04 starting on Monday

Just look at our big boy!

A first time watch for me! Nice to cross this off the list

I quite liked WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE! so I knew I’d gel with the visual style of this one. What I didn’t know was how much I’d love Beetz as an action heroine lead. Damn is she ever great!

@brennacgray.bsky.social and I wrap up another “Book” (aka season of 50 episodes) with the film adaptation of TUCK, which makes the bold decision to cast Sir Ben Kingsley as the villain. Intriguing!

If you watch this at home, I encourage you to crank the volume (or listen via headphones). The sound design is A+

Digging into the new BBC miniseries of LORD OF THE FLIES and yeah…it’s rough (complimentary)

Q: What happens to a classic when Disney gets involved? A: more romance!

@jennferatu.bsky.social and I have plenty more to say about contaminated water apparently…

@jennferatu.bsky.social and I are diversifying our nuclear content beyond Chernobyl. We’re also in Japan talking about Fukushima on Patreon!

After six films, @conrad-esq.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social wrap up our 'Sex Work and Pornography' theme by revisiting common threads and themes, our favourite discoveries, and the titles we'd most recommend to listeners.

Watching a dumb shark movie gives me life 🦈

Catch up with Zazie before Tuesday so we can talk kick-ass action and whatever is going on with Arquette’s accent!

After 10 weeks, it’s the end of the road for HILL HOUSE. Come listen to our wrap-up of the series and how the finale has aged over time

EXIT 8 is out today and it’s a video game adaptation that’s worth your time. Liminal horror FTW! @conrad-esq.bsky.social of @movieoubliette.bsky.social and I chatted it up out of TIFF last fall (spoilers ahead)

Just speechless! Thrilled to learn Invisible Boys has been nominated for the Peabody Award. Much love to the cast and crew and all the creatives who made this show happen. I’m so proud we stand alongside some of these remarkable titles. Thanks to the Peabody Board of Jurors for this honour.

I remember people actively hating on episode 10, so it was wild to check it back out all of these years later.

@conrad-esq.bsky.social and I have wrapped up our current theme! Here’s our final text on ‘Sex Work and Pornography’ before we turn our attention to ‘HIV and AIDS’

It’s baffling to me that viewers want Morgan and Karadec to get together. They seem better as partners; just give them better romantic partner options 🤷‍♂️

This one doesn’t fully work, but it’s intriguing…

Episode 1 didn’t fully reel me in, but this second one? Yowza

Cool. Bye gurl, you’ve officially reached your hack era

SLITHER still works for me (even if its politics are…uncertain?) Truly feel like this has cross-over appeal to non-horror folks provided they can get past the icky, goopy FX.

I’ve loved SLITHER since I saw it in a nearly empty theatre back in 2006. How does it hold up <checks notes> 20 years later?

Oh huh…unexpected

It’s been more than two decades since @brennacgray.bsky.social and I checked this out, so let’s dig back in…

Tomorrow on the pod: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social discuss a Middle Grade classic in Natalie Babbitt’s #tuckeverlasting (the book, though Brenna mentions the comic, as well)

@tracedthurman.bsky.social and I are back on the HANNIBAL best, talking about a pair of very different episodes

This was a solid way to introduce the subject, especially since it’s not exactly the film I thought it would be!

Vote for the People’s Choice franchise to be covered on @podandthependulum.bsky.social this year! Will it be the CARRIE remakes/reboots? Or the life & times of Bella Swan in the TWILIGHT SAGA? An extended hang with Mia Goth in the X trilogy? Go AtM with THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE? Praying for THE PROPHECY?

There’s a disconnect between the director’s statement and the finished film because this film has BIG thoughts/opinions on sex work

One of my absolute faves of last year

FYI: @tracedthurman.bsky.social and I have a few MUMMY issues to deal with this month

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

Regular people showing up in huge numbers to shut down data centers absolutely bangs and is another one of those times when I'm like, we can disarm the nukes, we can end war, we can save endangered species, we can stop this shit, we can do anything.

Did I force @tracedthurman.bsky.social to discuss LOOK BEHIND THIS? Absolutely, but it’s an interesting creative exercise. What do we think of Verizon capitalizing on the most popular queer actor of the moment?