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Episode 60. Season of the Witch: Witches in Film Part 3, The Witch (2015) and...
The past few years have seen the figure of the witch become a cultural touchstone for progressives and conservatives alike. From the resurgence of astrology, tarot, and natural healing methods to...
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Episode 61. Stardust: Event Horizon (1997) and Sunshine (2007)
Andrea and Alex reach for the heavens and find the furthest reaches of hell with two films about space exploration and the darkness therein. Event Horizon and Sunshine explore the different reasons...
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Episode 62. Surveilled: Peeping Tom (1960) and Psycho (1960)
In this episode, Alex and Andrea look through an illicit peephole into the world of the mad and macabre. Both Peeping Tom and Psycho caused sensations when they were released in the same year,...
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Episode 63. Play Dead: Funny Games (1997)
What constitutes a film? What constitutes a podcast episode description? Andrea and Alex ask these questions (okay, maybe not that last one) and more in this month’s episode. By plundering the depths...
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Episode 64. Tour de Farce: Young Frankenstein (1974) and What We Do in the...
Horror can be horrifying, but it can also be hilarious. Whether it’s mad science or vampires living together, the comedy in these films heightens the absurd as well as our notions of “typical”...
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Episode 65. Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Faculty (1998)
When it’s up to the misfits of Harrington High to stop the parasite-infected faculty from taking over the world, mayhem ensues. Alex and Andrea cut through the muck with a discussion on The Faculty‘s...
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Episode 66. Personal Hell: The House of the Devil (2009)
Join Andrea and Alex live at Salem Horror Fest! In this episode they tackle Ti West’s The House of the Devil and it’s reliance on the 1980s Satanic Panic movement. From modern technology to notions of...
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Episode 67. Where is my mind: The Stepford Wives (1975) and Get Out (2017)
This month, Andrea and Alex tackle two films whose hearts lie in the darkest, most secret parts of suburban utopia. In Bryan Forbes’ The Stepford Wives and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, we follow...
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Episode 68. House Proud: Mother! (2017)
Andrea and Alex break down the foundational elements of Darren Aronofsky’s divisive mother! From authorship to ecofeminism to sink instillation, few stones are left unturned or unexamined. REQUIRED...
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Episode 69: The Fack Lives!: 2018 Year in Review
Andrea and Alex return for their annual year in review episode. From their favourite films of 2018 to FAQs and bloopers, few stones are left unturned… and those are probably haunted anyway. EXTRA...
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Episode 70. Man Eater: Ravenous (1999)
Andrea and Alex head West to explore the notions of Manifest Destiny and the Frontier Myth in Antonia Bird’s Ravenous. Combining historical context through a modern gaze, Ravenous proves you are who...
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Episode 71. Violent Visage: Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Andrea and Alex unmask Georges Franju’s 1960 masterpiece Eyes Without a Face and peer into the damaged landscape of a post-World War II France, body modification and why sometimes, father doesn’t know...
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Episode 72. Sleeper Hit: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm...
Freddy Krueger may be the man of our dreams but what about his creator, the studio that sustained him, his victims and the 1980s? Andrea and Alex dive into their nightmares and beyond to explore the...
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Episode 73. Freddy Inc: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master (1988), A...
Andrea and Alex hit the hay one last time to discuss how Freddy became a marketing legend, a cultural sensation and an arbiter of taste. Transitioning from installments in the late ’80s to the ’90s to...
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Episode 74. Party of Five: The Mist (2007)
Is it the apocalypse or just the start of a new era? Can it be both? Andrea and Alex delve into everything from the military to existentialism, brought to life by Frank Darabont’s controversial...
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Episode 75. Crime Spree: Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and Zodiac...
This month, Andrea and Alex pull back the veil on narrative cinema and the true-crime phenomena. From John McNaughton’s nightmarish debut to David Fincher’s gumshoe epic, the answers to our response...
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Episode 76. Girls Trip: House (1977)
Andrea and Alex kick off a new semester with a discussion of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House, a truly bizarre but exciting entry into the horror canon. Covering everything from witch-y house cats, to...
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Ask the Fack – Episode 1 (PREVIEW)
Our first-ever Ask the Fack Q&A episode is live, in which we discuss our favourite books, our top non-horror movies, and some bonus parenting tips for horror fans (hey, you asked!) The full episode...
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Episode 77. Human Nature: Under the Skin (2013)
Live from Salem Horror Fest 2019 – Andrea and Alex tackle Jonathan Glazer’s alien masterpiece. Bringing the outlying universe down to Earth, Under The Skin reveals the darkest parts of consciousness...
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Glossary of Gore – Episode 1 (PREVIEW)
In our first-ever Glossary of Gore episode, Alex tackles Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze; analyzing Mulvey’s essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and discussing how it’s been applied since...
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