While we probably won't ever talk about Creep 2, we have a great idea for Creep 3 -- cults! Join us as we talk about Netflix true crime, mental health struggles, and the movie Creep. Creep (2013) dir. by Patrick Brice. Written by and starring Brice and Mark Duplass, who is not married to Amanda Peet. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogoth...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 45
What real werewolves were wrangled? Say that five times fast as you download Wolf (1994) dir. by Mike Leigh, written by Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick, starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Christopher Plummer, David Hyde Pierce, Allison Janney, and David Schwimmer. Honoria Valemon: "21st Century Rewatch: Wolf (1994) and the Death of the Midlife Crisis Movie" That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Ch...
Feb 03, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 44
The Village (2004). Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrian Brody, Sigourney Weaver, and like three minutes of Jesse Eisenberg. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3....
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Happy New Year, ghosties! We're celebrating by re-posting our first episode of 2022: mother! If you give Ed Harris a cookie, then he'll want some whiskey. If you give him whiskey, then he'll invite his wife into your home. If he invites his wife, they'll invite their children. If they invite their children, genocide will break out in your living room. Wow, that escalated quickly! We're starting the year off with a bang by dissecting Darren Aronofsky's 2017 masterpiece, mother! Screenplay by Aron...
Jan 05, 2024•2 hr 12 min
Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it; but a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it. You know it's Christmastime when the Ice Princess is pushed off a building and lights the Gotham City tree in Batman Returns. Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton as Batman, Danny DeVito as the Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and Christopher Walken as Max Schreck. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follo...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 42
You've seen a serial killer's spirit enter a doll in Child's Play. You've seen a serial killer's spirit enter a snowman in Jack Frost. But have you seen a serial killer's spirit enter a $179 personal-use drone? We have, and we LOVE The Drone (2019) dir. by Jordan Rubin (Zombeavers) with a script by Rubin, Al Kaplan and Jon Kaplan. Starring Alex Essoe (Dr. Sleep, Starry Eyes), John Brotherton (Fuller House, Lights Camera Christmas, Chance's dreams), and Anita Bream (not enough). That's So Gothic ...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 41
That's So Gothic believed there were no good Thanksgiving movies... until we watched The House of Yes. Enjoy this serving of gothic leftovers on your Turkey day. We'll be back with new episodes in December!
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 1 min
The Night House Dir. David Bruckner. Starring Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, and Stacey Martin. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 40
To celebrate the launch of Living for the Dead, Kristen Stewart's new gay ghost-hunter show, we're checking out her first experience with non-vampire paranormal activity, Personal Shopper. Dir. Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, and a bunch of brilliant European actors rarely seen on US screens. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda....
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 39
A movie that shows the 80s accurately: cold, miserable, violent, and with cheap candy: Let Me In (2010) written and directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace-Moretz, and non-hyphenated actors Richard Jenkins and Dylan Minnette. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 201...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Very rarely is the Gothic "romantic rival" someone's biological twin brother, but very rarely do you get a treat of a film like (The) House of Yes (1997). (Literally just saw the "the" in the title as we were writing this description.) Written and directed by Mark Waters, based on a stage play by Wendy MacLeod, starring Parker Posey, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 37
We go to Manderley and hope to not get eaten by an heir to a baking soda fortune. Rebecca (2020) Dir. Ben Wheatley Written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel (yeah right) and Anna Waterhouse. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014-...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 36
The Others (1999) Dir. Alejandro Amenábar. Written by Amenábar. Starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan and Alakina Mann. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)
Aug 17, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 35
IT'S ALIIIVE! The trailer has no dialogue, which is ironic for a movie where no one ever stops talking at MAXIMUM VOLUME. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Adapted by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, and Robert Deniro. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Make way for a new woman in black. She's in mourning, but she won't let that stop her! My Cousin Rachel (2017) Dir. Roger Michell. Adapted by Michell from Daphne DuMaurier's novel of the same name. Starring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, and Holliday Grainger. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javole...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 33
She's so bored she could KILL. Lady Macbeth (2017) Dir. William Oldroyd. Adapted by Alice Birch from the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, and Naomi Ackie. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Cr...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 32
This gothic classic is identical to its 2018 Sophia Coppola remake except with more melodrama, brighter lights, theatrical acting, and ten times the horniness. The Beguiled (1971) Dir. Don Siegel. Adapted from the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, and it's complicated. Starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Mae Mercer, and Pamelyn Ferdin. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and A...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 31
"Twilight, but with witches" is both an accurate description and a rude insult to this immensely charming teen romance that brings out the steamy side of Southern Gothic. Beautiful Creatures (2013) Dir. Richard LaGravenese. Adapted by LaGravenese from the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Viola Davis, and Jeremy Irons. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmai...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Our Southern Gothic series continues with a movie that grapples with the horrors of slavery in the American South, Beloved. Also a movie that had Karina Longworth ask, Civil Rights action or B-movie? https://grantland.com/features/looking-back-oprah-winfrey-beloved/ Beloved (1998) Dir. Jonathan Demme. Screenplay by Akosua Busia, Adam Brooks, Richard LaGravenese. Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandiwe Newton, and Kimberly Elise That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thu...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Our Southern Gothic series is now in full swing with the New Orleans-infused thriller, The Skeleton Key! The Skeleton Key (2005) Dir. Iain Softley. Screenplay by Ehren Kruger. Starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, and Peter Saarsgard. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - L...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Have you seen Cape Fear or have you seen Cape Feare (The Simpsons episode paraodying the movie)? Cape Fear (1991) Dir. Martin Scorsese. Screenplay by Wesley Strick. Starring Robert DeNiro, Juliette Lewis, Nick Nolte, and Jessica Lange. (We couldn't locate the source for our Southern Gothic facts, but we will post when we find it!) That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @m...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Dracula. The Mummy. Wolfman. Creature from the Black Lagoon. And creature from the Bates Motel. We discuss the return of classic Universal movie monster Norman Bates in Psycho II (1983) Dir. Richard Franklin. Screenplay by Tom Holland. Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, and Dennis Franz. Facts about Psycho II: https://www.eightieskids.com/completely-terrifying-facts-about-psycho-ii/ That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gm...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 26
All this sheeyit! Look at my sheeyit! I got … I got SHORTS! Every fuckin’ color. I got designer T-shirts! I got gold bullets. Motherfuckin’ VAM-pires. I got Scarface . On repeat. SCARFACE ON REPEAT. Constant, y’all! I got Escape! Calvin Klein Escape! Mix it up with Calvin Klein Be. Smell nice? I SMELL NICE! That ain’t a fuckin’ bed; that’s a fuckin’ art piece. My fuckin’ spaceship! U.S.S. Enterprise on this shit. I go to different planets on this motherfucker! Me and my fuckin’ Franklins here, w...
Mar 30, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 25
If you could re-make any movie, what would you choose? After the blockbuster success of Good Will Hunting, Gus van Sant chose to re-do Psycho, from the same script! The disastrous box office made this the first and last experiment of its type. Psycho (1998) directed by Gus van Sant. Shot from the original screenplay, lightly altered by original screenwriter Joseph Stefano. Starring Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, and his butt. We re-cast it for 2023. T...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 24
We have a lot of hunka hunka burnin' love for Baz Luhrmann's glittery masterpiece about the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Nominated for multiple Oscars, including Best Actor for Austin Butler, Elvis is a thrill ride. And yes, you are subscribed to the right podcast. Full Gothic breakdown after the plot summary. Elvis (2022) director by Baz Luhrmann. Written by Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, and Jeremy Doner. Starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Vanity Fair and ...
Mar 02, 2023•2 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 23
If an Airbnb looks too good to be true, there is most likely a rabid monster borne from an incestuous serial killer living in a secret room in the basement. Directed and written by Zach Cregger. Starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolen...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 22
The children's of the night -- what music they make. The music doesn't make a lick of sense, but it's music. Much like this movie. Sharpen your fangs as we discuss Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Screenplay by James V. Hart. Starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins doing about seven different accents. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrcha...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 21
We really enjoyed discussing Phantom Thread (2017) dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps. However, the internet ate it. We will resume our regular schedule in February.
Jan 20, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 20
If you give Ed Harris a cookie, then he'll want some whiskey. If you give him whiskey, then he'll invite his wife into your home. If he invites his wife, they'll invite their children. If they invite their children, genocide will break out in your living room. Wow, that escalated quickly! We're starting the year off with a bang by dissecting Darren Aronofsky's 2017 masterpiece, mother! Screenplay by Aronofsky. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris, and a batshit...
Jan 05, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Fa la la la laaaAAAAHHH! It's a special Christmas episode of That's So Gothic. Sit by a crackling fire and listen as we discuss the 2019 remake of Black Christmas. Dir. Sophia Takal. Screenplay by Takal and April Wolfe. Starring Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, and Cary Elwes. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic...
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 18
