Progressively Horrified - Anna and the Apocalypse - Pride Rebroadcast

Anna and the Apocalypse - Pride Rebroadcast

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06/14/21 • 158 min

Progressively Horrified

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

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

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

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"

RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/progressively-horrified
Website: https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/
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Previous Episode

Velvet Buzzsaw (aka Non-Fungible Terror) w/ Sam Beck

Fear Level: Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, dismemberment, blood, frightening imagery, pretentious assholes

Director/Writers: Dan Gilroy (Writer: Freejack, Kong Skull Island, Real Steel, Bourne Legacy and director of Roman J Israel and Nightcrawler)
Stars: Jake Gyllanhal, Renee Russo, Toni Colette, Zawe Ashton, John Malkovich, Daveed Diggs, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer

This week we bring you something notably less moist than the Alien movies! It's a movie about art that kills you (and of course all the assholes in the art market who join in along the way). We've got bisexual Jake Gyllenhaal. We've got neurotic John Malkovich. We've got absolutely magic (and gay) Rene Russo! What more could you want? If you answer was murderous monkeys, well, somehow you're in luck. It's Velvet Buzzsaw time!

Topics of Discussion:

The magic of Gyllenhaal
Malkovich!
I built a railroad!
No you didn't you white son of a bitch!
Put your hand in me and see what happens!
Evil cat
Magic monkeys of the ghost gas station and other Goosebumps titles
Poor Coco
My respect for your work has evaporated
Always a critic, never a mourner
What's the point of art if it's never seen?

Recommendations:
Nightcrawler
The Cell
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "Dee Makes a Smut Film"
Basquiat
Memory & Dream
House of Leaves
The Fall
Donnie Darko

Follow our guests:

Sam Beck
Twitter: @SamBeckDraws
Insta: @SamBeckDraws

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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Come back next week to hear about Annihilation!

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Next Episode

Sarah Swire (Steph North) and Alan McDonald (Writer) Talk "Anna and the Apocalypse" - Pride Rebroadcast

OH MY GOD! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!

Actually I can tell you how it happened! We recorded a podcast about Anna and the Apocalypse and since we talked about our favorite tiny queer girl, Steph North, a whole bunch I tagged actress Sarah Swire in the tweet about the episode and then both she and Alan McDonald, the writer of Anna and the Apocalypse got in touch to say thanks for the shout outs in the episode and then Jeremy was like "Hey would you guys want to come on and talk about Anna and the Apocalypse and they both said yes and we had to do it at a weird time of day because Alan is in Scotland so Chris couldn't make it but she was there in spirit.

Topics of conversation are far ranging but include:
-Not burying your gays
-Singing
-Dancing
-Choreographing
-The many times of year during which different drafts of this movie were set
-Creating honest queerness in your characters
-Female protagonists not being your prize for hanging around long enough
-Sliding Doors alternate universe where this movie never happens
-Why directors should always want writers on their set
-Overcoming traditional masculinity at the end of the world
-Sarah's voice and how it's very good
-Ben Wiggins, the man who makes a mockery out of the concept of sexuality
-Optimus Prime's Linked in account

Follow Sarah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahswire/
Follow Alan on Twitter: @alanhmcdonald

Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod
Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58
Follow Chris on twitter @themythofpsyche
Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"
Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn
Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule.
Follow Emily at @megamoth
Check out Emily's art and art classes at: http://www.megamoth.net/

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