MacGuffin Podcast

86 - Halloween Kills

With this week's podcast, we ring in Halloween with our review of David Gordon Green's Halloween Kills. We also discuss the horror films that never scared us and compare our answers to listeners' personal experiences. For the streaming homework, we talk about the 2008 British horror movie, Eden Lake, starring Michael Fassbender.

85 -VHS94

For this episode of the podcast, we review Shudder's new entry in the anthology V/H/S franchise, V/H/S94. We put forth a few ideas of horror tropes we'd like to see more of, and at the end, we review the 2006 documentary, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. 

 

84 - Fear Street: Part One - 1994

For this horror-themed episode, our special guest, filmmaker, blogger, and podcaster, Julia Marchese, joins us to review the first part of the Netflix horror trilogy, Fear Street: Part One - 1994. We talk about Julia's upcoming Stephen King short, I Know What You Need, as well as her past work as a staff member of the Los Angeles repertory movie theater The New Beverly. We discuss her feature documentary Out of Print, and to close things out, we review the 1980 cult thriller, Fade to Black. 

Check out all of Julia's projects at this link. 

83 - Werewolves Within

For this episode, we check out Josh Ruben's horror-comedy whodunit, Werewolves Within, based on the popular computer game. We also list a few of our choices for the scariest non-horror movies.  For this week's streaming homework, we discuss Troma's 1990 release, the cult-comedy, Frankenhooker.