Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua catches Joe up on 22 years of SOUTH PARK history. Joe breaks down SCHMIGADOON. Joe is also gifting the world with a Cabaret to benefit Lambda Archives! This week we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of EX MACHINA (2014). We compare the film to BLACK MIRROR, discuss human responsibility and AI, explore the film's relationship to FRANKENSTEIN, and debate the ethics of ChatGPT. Can a fashion forward gynoid drink a Cosmo? Monstrous Creators and Exploited Crea...
Mar 12, 2024•52 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is doing some deep processing. Joe is seeking thoughts on the state of new Beyoncé music. This week we're taking it back 30 years to MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN! We compare the film with previously discussed adaptations, learn about Romanticism, and find ourselves in awe of Robert De Niro's Monster. MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (1994): A RETROSPECTIVE by Keri O'Shea 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein': The (Almost) Perfect Adaptation of a Horror Classic by Matthew ...
Mar 04, 2024•55 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joe got his hair did! We discuss THE NEW LOOK and FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS. This week we chat about THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER (2023). We break down the FRANKENSTEIN references at work in the film, discuss systemic violence, the state of mental health and substance use treatment, and the pressure on Black women to save us all. The Humanity at the Heart of The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster by JP Nunez THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER IS A HARROWING...
Feb 26, 2024•54 min
Welcome back to Fright School! This week we get into it about our shifting Queer culture. We compare and contrast Queer As Folk, Looking, and Love, Simon. We're continuing our Black Horror History dive with ABBY (1974)! Hitting theatres almost a year to the day of THE EXORCIST's release, Abby was quickly mired in legal troubles from Warner Bros. We compare the two films, discuss the Queerness of the film, and get curious about the Christian and Yoruba themes and the way Africa is envisioned in t...
Feb 12, 2024•50 min
Welcome back to Fright School! We are excited to be joined once again by Professor T.J. who tells us all about their return to JEOPARDY! Joe revisits DISTRICT 9. We are once again celebrating Black History Month with an ode to HORROR NOIRE with MA (2019)! T.J. called it a "misfire on every level" back in 2019 and we're very excited to hear about his current thoughts on the film. We also compare MA to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, recast the film with Melissa McCarthy in order to interrogate the rac...
Feb 05, 2024•57 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joe can't stop singing "Live and let Die.'" Joshua goes all ASMR trying some of Joe's cookies. We debate seeing MEAN GIRLS: THE MUSICAL. We also get nostalgic with QUEER AS FOLK and Joe shares his top 3 sex scenes. This week we wrap up Jigsaw January with SAW IV! We break down the ongoing father/son relationship trope in the series, discuss some of the confusing politics at play, and wonder about the film's role in building radical empathy. Using Saw IV as a Primer...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr
Welcome back to Fright School! We welcome back to the show Young David! We catch up with him and discuss how the new year is going so far. David offers his best of 2023 picks. We discuss Oscar nominations and post hot strike summer. This week, we're continuing our Jigsaw January with SAW III! We break down our favorite traps, finding a sense of purpose, and discuss the family dynamics often highlighted in the SAW franchise. Take notes kids, THIS is what back alley neurosurgery is supposed to loo...
Jan 22, 2024•50 min
Welcome back to Fright School! It's a whole new year of FEAR! We start off with a chat about our New Year's experiences. Joshua read some books. Joe plans to read the other 11 books he meant to read last year. We share our thoughts on SALTBURN. Feeling thirsty? Whose bathwater would you most like to drink? In honor of the 20th anniversary of SAW we are dedicating our 2024 January Franchise Deep Dive to the sequels in the sadistic series. This week, the secret word is trypanophobia as we find our...
Jan 08, 2024•57 min
Happy New Fear! We’re looking back at 2023 and sharing our favorite moments! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 01, 2024•44 min
Happy Horrordays, Fright School! To celebrate, we thought we’d release this chat between Joshua and Jacki from the JERSEY GHOULS celebrating 50 years of THE EXORCIST! This streamed as part of Geekscape’s Holiday Livestream-tacular! We hope your holiday season, however you may celebrate, has been kind to you! Scary Cryptmas, children, and here’s to a New Year filled with FEAR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 26, 2023•50 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Thank you for sticking with us while we navigated some technical issues behind the scenes! This week we took in SAW... X? 10? 1.5? Whatever! We were just happy to see Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith taking the franchise back to basics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2023•45 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua threw his annual Halloween party! Thanks again to everyone who came out to our THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW screening with Lambda Archives and Diversionary Theatre! It was a wild and untamed success! This week it’s more Hammer Horror with CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to another Fright School Field Trip! We went to see THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER and have some thoughts that are about as convoluted as the plot of this film... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2023•44 min
Welcome back to Fright School! This week we welcome director (among many other things) Sam Irvin to the show! We discuss Sam's horror pedigree, his fanzine BIZARRE, and his books I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER HUNTER: How I Met Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, & More! and The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY! Joshua and Sam, who just so happens to have directed ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS, reminisce about their trip to Romania with Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of th...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Welcome back to Fright School! We are kicking off our EIGHT season! In honor of LGBTQ History Month, we are teaming up with LAMBDA Archives and the Diversionary Theatre for a showing of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! Join us for a discussion of the enduring legacy of the film and new perspectives on its meaning to Queer audiences. Joe is catching up on the GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW. Our 2023 Halloween Horror Film Challenge is out NOW and it's all about horror sequels. This Spooky Season we are r...
Oct 02, 2023•49 min
Welcome back to Fright School! The summer tourists are leaving San Diego just in time for the Invasion of the College Students from OUT OF STATE! Joshua forgot about scratched CDs! Count yourself among the lucky if you have no idea what he is talking about. This week we take on teenage alienation- literally- with THE FACULTY. It's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS meets THE BREAKFAST CLUB with a twist of THE THING! Oh, the late 90s! What a time! We discuss the pressures of conformity, invasion anxi...
Sep 25, 2023•52 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joe talks about drag on Guam! Joshua tries some Chamorro Chip Cookies! This week we take it back with the cult classic PROM NIGHT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2023•51 min
It's time to get back to Fright School! Joe regales us with tales from Guam! We discuss plane rides as we age. Once you get that taste of a few more inches of space, it is hard to go back! Joshua catches Joe up on the state of his practicum experience. She's therapisting ya'll! This week, we went to the movies (though thousands of miles apart) to see TALK TO ME! We take on the comparisons to HEREDITARY, addiction narratives, and internalizing the dangerous messages we come across on social media...
Sep 11, 2023•52 min
Welcome back to Fright School! We are wrapping up our PRIDE season! We welcome Ben to the show. Joe's a volunteer. We need Vanjie's List. Ben's a SCREAM! This week, we take another French turn with TITANE. We chat about objectophilia, gender affirmation, techno anxiety, and how family is often what you make of it. What a great theme to end PRIDE season on! We are taking a few weeks off for a summer break! See you in the fall! It's almost SPOOKY SEASON! Sex Drive: ‘Titane’ and the Meaning of Horr...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Bonsoir et bienvenue à Fright School! We're going French again! Joe has jury duty! We discuss the importance of showing up and trying to make the justice system a little better. This week we watched STRANGER BY THE LAKE, a cautionary tale for the Promiscuous Homosexual trope. We give a lesson in cruising culture, the French film's meditations on sex, death, and desire, and the visceral (almost boring) sex on display. Joshua discusses a theory on incel behavior and the economics of Queer sex that...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Welcome back to Fright School! We kick off by discussing what we've been watching. Joshua finally saw RENFIELD! We also get into some BEEF. Joe gets down to some Bidi Bidi Padam Dam and is feeling GLAMOROUS. This week we watched WINDOWS from 1980! Made at the same time as CRUISING, it experienced similar significant (well deserved?) backlash. It's another story of a predatory lesbian on the prowl that almost everyone involved regrets making. WINDOWS 1980 analysis by Ken Anderson Learn more about...
Jul 24, 2023•53 min
Welcome back to Fright School! We're back on our Queer horror kick this week! First let us introduce you to Altan Tealeaf during our Dungeons and Dragons chat. This week we discuss the Queer things going on in THE OLD DARK HOUSE! We discuss Post WWI pessimism, repression depression, and why Straights rush in. This one is all about laughter and sin- what could be more PRIDE than that?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 17, 2023•58 min
Welcome back to Fright School! This week we welcome to the Wes Craven Memorial Library Miss Amber St. James! This African Bearded Queen tells us all about her Drag Herstory, love of Horror, and what to expect at San Diego Pride! We took a field trip to see THE BLACKENING! We chat Spades and other games we cannot win, the short that inspired the film, and the intersections of Queerness and Blackness. Click HERE for everything Miss Amber St James! THE BLACKENING now available digitally! Learn more...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Welcome Back to Fright School! Joe attended and read names at Rainbow Graduation for the future legendary Queer children. We discuss Gender Apathy and the art of reading. Joshua recounts attending the Garbage concert and being aggressively complemented. Joe is going to Janet Jackson! Joshua is sooooo jealous. This week we are having some fun with ONCE BITTEN! It is all about a vampire lamenting the fact that there were no virgins in the 80s. We chat about Hollywood on film, Trans Panic, the wise...
Jul 03, 2023•55 min
Welcome back to Fright School! On this week's episode we are joined by the Maven of the Eventide herself, Elisa Hansen! Joshua and Elisa catch up after visiting Romania together. Elisa shares her love for the vampire and the Phantom of the Opera. Joe is delighted to not be left out of the discussion by chatting about Broadway musicals! This episode is very special because Joshua has long said Fright school would never cover INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, but here we are! Elisa brings her extensive ...
Jun 26, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua and Joe get serious about performative allyship. We share our memories of our first Pride celebrations. this week we are exploring an island full of Lesbian vampires in VAMPYROS LESBOS! Like last week's episode, we met another behavioral health professional attempting to treat vampirism. We wonder what Freud would think of this application of psychoanalysis? We revisit our Aryan vs Eastern European trope, discuss the myth of sexual violence as a catalyst for...
Jun 19, 2023•37 min
Happy PRIDE month Fright School! Joshua and Joe finished The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel! We take a moment to remember Tina Turner. Joe gives a quick lesson in why San Diego Pride is in July. This month, we are dedicating our episodes to Queer vampires starting with 1936's DRACULA'S DAUGHTER! We dive into vampirism as a form of internalized homophobia, the medicalization of Queer people, and the predatory Lesbian in film. Could Cognitive Behavioral Therapy work for gay vampires? Dr. Garth is sure tryi...
Jun 12, 2023•49 min
Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua joined a macabre of goths at the Cruel World Fest! Joe has been watching XO Kitty and getting very cultured with Eurovision. The boys discuss Heartstopper season 2 and anticipate The Little Mermaid. This week, Joe wraps up his takeover with SANZARU! It's a Southern Gothic tale with a Filipino twist. We chat about the horror of Texas, cultural humility, the Aswang, and gothic liminality. American Southern Gothic Meets Filipino Ghosts in SANZARU Learn more abo...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Welcome back to Fright School! We fully support the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike! Chat GPT is not going to do it. Joe gets serious about a typhoon coming for Guam. Joshua discusses his trip to Poland and sites of the Holocaust. Yesterday was Harvey Milk Day and World Goth Day! We're obviously going more for goth on this episode... This week Joe continues his takeover with THE DEAD LANDS! In this Maori language film we get Hamlet by way of the Predator and learn "even small things can be ...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 16 min
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May 15, 2023•54 min
