ScaryCrit: A Black Horror Podcast

YERRRR. It's our very first episode!
In E01, we get into why we started this podcast in the first place (2:51), pay our respects to Chadwick Boseman (24:30) and Joe Ruby (34:40), crack open the Negronomicon for the first time (38:30), and talk about maybe the most famous Black-almost-final-girl, Karla from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
**A note from the future!
What's up, Podcast People?! Thank you for listening to our very first episode...EVER! Jared and I appreciate your support more than you know. The first few episodes were a little rough, and a little long..but! We do get better with time. We've just celebrated 75 episodes so let us know what your favorite is on IG!
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Gems from E01
Mario Bava is the Master of Italian horror. Look him up.

• The Nightmare Room (2001-2002 - 2 Seasons)
• Are You Afraid of the Dark (1990-1996; 1999-2000 - 8 Seasons)
• Goosebumps (1995-1998 - 4 Seasons)
• Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated (2010 - 2 Seasons)
• Bones (2001)
• Scream (1996)
• Dracula 2000 (2000)
• Dracula 3000 (2004)
• Leprechaun (1993)
• Ghost Ship (2002)
• 13 Ghosts (2001)
• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• Coraline (2009)
• Black Panther (2018)
• Coming to America (1988)
• Scooby-Doo: Zombie Island (1998)
• It Chapters 1 & 2
• Candyman (2021)
• Spiral (2021)

Production Credits

• Host and Producer: Lauren La Melle
• Host and Editor: Jared Hudson

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It's weird science.
Sasha Banks joins Lauren and Jared on the pod this week to talk about a late 90's gem, Mimic. There was a lot of drama behind the scenes of del Toro's commissioned film. Even though he was Bill Gunn-ed in the end, there is still a lot to look at in Mimic. We discuss classicism, access, and how we determine value in this week's crit.
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Timestamps:
13:40 - Negronomicon
27:34 - Crit
1:25:52 - Final curls
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Credits
- Host and Producer: Lauren La Melle - instagram.com/laurenlamelle | twitter.com/laurenlamelle | Website: www.laurenlamelle.com
- Host and Editor: Jared Hudson - instagram.com/blossomsandbooks93 |

Gems from E57:

• america, MINE (Sasha Banks, co-im-press, 2020, Print)
• Twin Peaks (1990)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• The Night House (2021)
• The Conjuring (2013)
• Get Out (2017)
• The Gift (2015)
• Eve’s Bayou (1997)
• Harriet (2019)
• Severance (2022)
• Homecoming (2018)
• Black Mirror (2011)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Fargo (1996)
• Into the Wild (2007)
• Mimic (1997)
• The Descent (2005)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Oliver and Company (1988)
• Mimic (Donald A. Wollheim, 1942, Print)
• The Walking Dead (2010)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Ghostbusters (2016)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Hey Arnold! (1996)
• Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• Hook (1991)
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• Grey Gardens (1975)
• Serial Mom (1994)
• Finding Your Roots (2012)
• The Stepford Wives (2005)
• The Producers (2005)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
• Artist Unknown (TBD)
• Spencer (2021)
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

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In Episode 4, Lauren and Jared talk politics, flies, and capitalism (4:30), Lovecraft country and pickaninny problems (12:10), the most beautiful television in the world (31:19), how vampires tried - and failed - to gentrify the Bronx (36:10), a quick tangent to remember The Descent (44:51), the whelmed-ness of Bly Manor - (49:09), cringe at Netflix trying so hard to be down (1:02:43), accessibility and diversity in horror (1:10:43), a reminder that we said covid was going to ruin everything (1:31:38), and get into one of Lauren's favorite films ever - Bill Gun's Ganja and Hess.
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Gems from E04:

• Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood (1968-2001 - 31 Seasons)
• It Follows (2015)
• Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Vampires in the Bronx (2020)
• Hubie Halloween (2020)
• The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
• The Descent (2005)
• Black Christmas (2006)
• The Village (2004)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)
• Midnight Meat Train (2008)
• Terror Train (1980)
• Halloween (1978)
• Prom Night (1980)
• The Fog (1980)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Menace II Society (1993)
• Jason’s Lyric (1994)
• Higher Learning (1995)
• Demon Knight (1995)
• The Nutty Professor (1996)
• Cabin in the Woods (2011)
• Us (2019)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
• One Day at a Time (2017)
• Insecure (2016)
• Midsommar (2019)
• Boomerang (1992)
• Boyz in the Hood (1990)
• Fargo (1996)
• Ganja & Hess (1973)

Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992) Written by Carol J. Clover.

Special shout out to @DreaLeeanne for requesting the episode info! From now on, everything we talk about will be in the podcast descriptions and there will be a recap post on IG. Appreciate you!
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• Host and Producer: Lauren La Melle
• Host and Editor: Jared Hudson

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Back back back again! In Episode 2, we talk about the best vacuum cleaner ever (04:30), recap Auntie Patti and Auntie Glayds most wholesome VerzUz (06:32), remembering Brendan Fraser while we gush over Lovecraft Country (14:06), and girl summer is ending (22:15). We crack open the Negronomicon to discuss, among other things, the Academy and their foolishness (26:10), the dishonor of Mulan (40:03), They're back, a Scream 5 story (47:06), Nia DaCosta's Candyman (because its Nia DaCosta's Candyman) is delayed, y'all (1:00:37) and we get to know our hosts better as we break down Jared's Top 5 horror movies of all time.
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Gems from E02:

• Candyman (1992)
• Mulan (1998)

Jared's Top 5:

• The Thing (1982)
• Scream (1996)
• The Ring (2002)
• The Haunting (1999)
• Get Out (2017)

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• Host and Producer: Lauren La Melle
• Host and Editor: Jared Hudson

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Y'all know we love a good whodunit!
In E34, your hosts Jared and Lauren crack open the Negronomicon to talk about the fiasco that was the Emmys and a remake no one asked for before they get into the 2021 release Werewolves Within, a uniquely hilarious horror-comedy take on the which-one-of-us-isn't-like-the-other genre. From the way the film uses archetypes to its advantage, the rapid-fire humor, Finn's interesting characterization and the question of "What is considered horror?" being raised, there's a lot to ponder with a film that critics have called "Clue with werewolves."
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Gems from Episode 34

• Family Guy (1999)
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000)
• Squidbillies (2005)
• Celebrity Deathmatch (1998)
• Futurama (1999)
• Robot Chicken (2005)
• Sealab 2021 (2000)
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994)
• Superjail (2007)
• Criminal Minds (2005)
• Ted Lasso (2020)
• Schitt’s Creek (2015)
• Insecure (2016)
• Mare of Easttown (2021)
• The Sopranos (1999)
• The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
• Lovecraft Country (2020)
• I May Destroy You (2020)
• Hamilton (2015)
• The Muppet Show (1976)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009)
• Pose (2018)
• Ed Edd n’ Eddy (1999)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• A Quiet Place (2018)
• It (2007)
• Stranger Things (2016)
• Halloween Kills (2021)
• No Time to Die (2021
• Werewolves Within (2021)
• Clue (1985)
• Among Us (2018, video game)
• The Beast Must Die (1974)
• Veep (2012)
• The Tomorrow War (2021)
• Van Helsing (2004)
• Underworld (2003)
• Hide and Seek (2005)
• Needful Things (1993)
• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2011)
• Jurassic Park III (2001)
• Slice (2018)
• Scary Movie (2000)
• Scream (1996)
• Scare Me (2020)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

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