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Progressively Horrified

Progressively Horrified

Jeremy Whitley

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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. Get bonus content on Patreon

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Fear Level: Scary
Trigger Warnings: Jump scares, nudity, mild gore, stalking, cops, bad portrayals of therapy, violence against women

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In 1978 there was no such thing as the "slasher" genre. Psycho and Black Christmas were oddities in the thriller genre. Until one very tall man stole a tan station wagon and drove it Haddonfield to steal a featureless white mask from the general store, walk slowly with a butcher knife, and steal headstones. And thus was cinema changed forever.

  • Director: John Carpenter
  • Writers: John Carpenter and Debra Hill
  • Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, and Tony Moran

Talking Points:

  • All nurses should have capes
  • Station wagons and bellbottoms
  • Setting and place setting
  • Annie - A flannel bi? Discuss.
  • Bob and Linda - should they have a burger shop and three kids
  • Spoopy house
  • Let's play dog or skunk!
  • Loomis diagnoses you with a case of medical evil
  • Laurie - Haddonfield's only good babysitter
  • Can you gaslight a child about a thing you've already tries to tell other people about?
  • Hedges - Michael taught Homer how to do that thing.
  • A FIGHT! Totemic evil or malicious madmen - which would you like to kill you?
  • Should Halloween ever have had sequels?
  • John Carpenter's called shot on The Thing.
  • Incidental nipples
  • A debate about the staining power of butter

Please check out our guests!

Brad Michael Elmore
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BradMichaelElm1
Go Buy "Bit" right now!
Watch "The Wolfman's Hammer" free on YouTube!

Alicia Whitley on twitter: @aliciawhitley
Alicia Whitley on Instagram: @alburnet

Allie Mullin on twitter: @alliemullin
Allie Mullin on Instagram: @alliemullin
Allie's Photography Website: alliemullin.com

Bob Reyer
Listen to Bob on the Talking Comics Podcast every week: http://talkingcomicbooks.com/category/podcast-2/
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Emmanuel Lipscomb
Twitter: @elipscomb2

Katie Schenkel
Twitter: @justplaintweets
Buy The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast NOW!
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Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth
Emily's Website: Megamoth.net

Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.

Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com

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Join us next week to talk about FRIDAY THE 13TH

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Progressively Horrified - Digressively Horrified 022: Hanime

Digressively Horrified 022: Hanime

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05/10/21 • 5 min

Three episodes of content about Hannibal and we still have more to say! This one is a splice of a couple of smaller digressions from our Hannibal episode and we couldn't wait to share them with you!

Hope you listened to and enjoyed the "Jeremy's birthday special" on Friday with Bronwyn and Steve. It was fast and/or furious!

And this week be sure you tune in to hear us talk about "Repo: The Genetic Opera" with Talking Comics' own Joey Braccino! If you haven't seen Repo, it's a goth opera about the horrors of credit!

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Progressively Horrified - Rebroadcast - The First Purge

Rebroadcast - The First Purge

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02/23/22 • 162 min

Fright Level: Spooky (a little scary) with large amounts of existential dread
Trigger Warnings: attempted sexual assault, jump scares, violence, gore, racial violence, depictions of white supremacy groups, explosions

The First Purge is about as subtle as a brick to the face and it's about as affective too. This movie finally realizes the ideas that previous iterations of The Purge have been circling around and it only took the Trump presidency to make it happen.

The government has legalized all crime in Staten Island for one night and they're ready for the people to hit the streets and get their murder on. But when things don't go as expected, will the government have to take their medicine or will they conspire to directly cause the mass murder of black and brown people in the projects via organized hit squads? I mean, it's not like the government ever ran up in people's homes and started shooting before, right?

Recommendations:
Watchmen on HBO
Lovecraft Country
Attack the Block
Adventures in New America

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Follow Chris on twitter @themythofpsyche
Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn

Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"

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Progressively Horrified - Scary Movie Month Diaries #12: Porno
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10/21/21 • 4 min

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Available now on Shudder: Porno!

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Progressively Horrified - Digressively Horrified #55: Lost in Rec Town
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11/08/21 • 6 min

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Join us this Friday for our brand new episode on Nightbreed with guest Joe Corallo!

Also, make sure you caught last week's episode about Ex Machina with returning guest Tina Horn!

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Progressively Horrified - Digressively Horrified #59: Animorphs in Widescreen
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11/22/21 • 12 min

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Join us this Friday for our brand new episode on Rare Exports with Benito Cereno

Also, make sure you caught last week's episode about Suspiria (2018) with Skylar Patridge!

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Fear Level: Terrifying
Trigger Warnings: Jump scares, gaslighting, gore, cops, violence against women, knife trauma, alcoholism, metal on metal screeching

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In 1984, Wes Craven brought Robert Englund to haunt our dreams as the blade handed, dream haunting, gone but not forgotten psychopath Fred Krueger. To this day, he's been keeping kids awake late into the night. Luckily for us, one teen girl had a library card, access to shotgun shells, and a penchant for lucha libre.

  • Director: Wes Craven
  • Writers: Wes Craven
  • Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Talking Points:

  • Practical special effects at their all time best
  • Sound mixing not quite so much
  • DIY Craft videos and YouTube survival channels
  • Does Rod know how buttons work?: an expose.
  • Dudes in long sleeve crop tops
  • Final Girls and their baby pajamas
  • Scary Wolverine or Half a Deathstrike?
  • LASERHANDS!
  • Fuck you, Glen
  • Wine bottle teddy bear
  • Men don't dream and women don't poop, except in Bali
  • I'm into survival, Glen.
  • DadCop - a lesson in expedient story telling
  • Suburban moms and their trophy furnaces
  • Predatory relationships and unnecessarily loud teenage orgasms
  • "My GOD! She just broke that chair over his back! Ring the damn bell, ref!"

Recommendations:

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Scream, Queen!
  • Hellbent
  • Deathbed: The Bed that Eats
  • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
  • Opus by Satoshi Kohn
  • Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1989) - Starring Robert Englund
  • Hellraiser
  • Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
  • Perfect Blue
  • Red Eye
  • Scream
  • Cursed

Please check out our guests!

Tea Fougner
Twitter: @teaberryblue
Comics Kingdom

Elana Levin
Twitter: @elana_brooklyn
Podcasts:
Deep Space Dive
Graphic Policy

Elizabeth Brei
Twitter: @peachchild

Vita Ayala
Twitter: @definitelyvita

Morgan
Twitter: @diversityhorror
Blog: https://diversityhorror.blogspot.com/

Steenz
Twitter: @oheysteenz
Instagram: @oheysteenz
Book: Archival Quality
Strip: Heart of the City

Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth
Emily's Website: Megamoth.net

Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.

Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com

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Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified to support the show, get bonus episodes, early access to upcoming episodes, and a cool Progressively Horrified t-shirt.

Join us next week to talk about Child's Play

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Progressively Horrified - Digressively Horrified: Near Dark did a Heroes
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03/21/22 • 4 min

Near Dark could have had a different, more Heroes-ish ending.
We're glad it didn't.

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Progressively Horrified - Cronos (aka Vampire Grandpa) with Luke Herr and Erica Henderson
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04/07/23 • 70 min

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Progressively Horrified - Anna and the Apocalypse - Pride Rebroadcast
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06/14/21 • 158 min

Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary) with mild jump scares and moderate existential dread
Trigger Warnings: zombies, gore, pandemics, high school, musicals, Christmas

Anna and the Apocalypse is a 2017 horror/comedy/musical from Scotland that combines our love of musicals set in high schools and zombie horror comedies set in England. It's directed by John McPhail and it stars Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, Paul Kaye, and the podcast's new girlfriend Sarah Swire and new boyfriend Ben Wiggins.

This movie has us co-sleeping in ballpits, fantasizing about power throuples, and examining the effects of toxic masculinity on how we deal with apocalypses and friendships. We also talk extensively about Sarah Swire's portrayal of Steph North and how rare it is to have a non-sexualized queer woman with social anxiety, a warm winter wardrobe, and a hatchback in a horror movie, despite the fact that that describes a quarter of our friend group. We are Soldiers at War for this movie and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.

Recommendations:
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Feed by Mira Grant
Cobra Kai
Paper Girls

Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod
Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Follow Chris on twitter @themythofpsyche
Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn

Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"

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Website: https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/
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How many episodes does Progressively Horrified have?

Progressively Horrified currently has 340 episodes available.

What topics does Progressively Horrified cover?

The podcast is about Lgbt, Scary, Left Wing, Feminism, Progressive, Podcasts, Books, Movies, Disability, Arts, Liberal, Tv & Film, Politics, Horror and Film Reviews.

What is the most popular episode on Progressively Horrified?

The episode title 'Halloween (1978) (aka Rottable Mood Lighting) with Brad Michael Elmore, Bob Reyer, Katie Schenkel, Alicia Whitley, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Allie Mullin' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Progressively Horrified?

The average episode length on Progressively Horrified is 73 minutes.

How often are episodes of Progressively Horrified released?

Episodes of Progressively Horrified are typically released every 3 days.

When was the first episode of Progressively Horrified?

The first episode of Progressively Horrified was released on Oct 29, 2020.

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