Episode 12: Annihilation with Joe Chen (@joforworms)

Explicit content warning

04/04/22 • 70 min

On today’s episode I’m joined by Joe Chen, drummer and vocalist for UK death metal band Vacuous, and writer/review for Grinding Horror Zine.

Joe’s music taste might be on the blacker side, but his FFO of uncanny, heartless and colour was a welcome challenge; after all, an iconic colour palette is integral to the mood of any good horror. Alex Garland’s 2018 trippy sci-fi biobodyhorror has colour in abundance; nauseating yellows and lush forest greens all seeping through the migraine-inducing spill of the Shimmer. Join Joe and I as we discuss disease, decay and death metal.

Check out Joe on Instagram: @joforworms

Vacuous band: @vacuousdeath

Zine: @grindinghorrorzine

HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

On today’s episode I’m joined by Joe Chen, drummer and vocalist for UK death metal band Vacuous, and writer/review for Grinding Horror Zine.

Check out Joe on Instagram: @joforworms

Vacuous band: @vacuousdeath

Zine: @grindinghorrorzine

HBF Cover art: @tbombadil Music: @birdengine

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Episode 11: House of 1000 Corpses with Jolene-Marie Richardson (@jolenemarie_designs)

On today’s episode I’m joined by Jolene-Marie Richardson, costume designer for The Last Drive In and many other amazing projects, fashion historian and co-host of @todyefor - a podcast on horror, history and costuming.

Jolene’s eye for style is evident in her FFO of retro, camp and grit - and frankly there was no other film I’d rather discuss than Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses. Listen now to hear Jolene tell us all off about the phrase ‘assless chaps’ and laugh at me struggle incessantly with the phrase ‘Firefly Family’,

Check out all of Jolene’s work at: jolenemariedesigns.com

Podcast: @todyeforpodcast

Instagram: @jolenemarie_designs

HBF Cover art: @tbombadil

Music: @birdengine

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Episode 13: Rosemary's Baby with Rebecca McCallum (@PendlePumpkin)

On today’s episode I’m joined by Rebecca McCallum, film journalist, assistant editor for Ghouls Mag and author of Mums + Sons zine.

Rebecca is one of the most hard-working women in horror, having had her writing featured in Rue Morgue, Dread Central and Grim Magazine, as well as her series with Moving Pictures film club about the Women of Hitchcock AND her recently published pocketbook. I knew having Rebecca on the show meant incredibly thoughtful analysis and amazing insights, and her FFO of Gothic, dreams and women leant itself perfectly to a film deserving of such: Roman Polanski’s 1968 meditation on the horrors of motherhood and misogyny: ROSEMARY’S BABY.
Join Rebecca and I as we dissect one of the most important, troubled, terrifying and relevant horror films of our time. Vodka blush anyone?

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of rape, child abuse and sexual assault.

Check out Rebecca on Instagram and Twitter: @PendlePumpkin

Rebecca’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/PendlePumpkin

Pre-order Mums + Sons: https://plasticbrainpress.bigcartel.com/

Rosemary’s Baby 6:66 Podcast: theshining237.com

Nathan Abrams - ‘Why Rosemary’s Baby Was a Jewish Horror Movie’: https://bit.ly/3xvIFXa

HBF Cover art: @tbombadil
Music: @birdengine