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Episode 4: Patrick + Selana VS Kevin Smith

This time, our intrepid podcasters take on the king of podcasting himself, Kevin Smith, and his foray into the world of horror.

First, we talk about Selana's weekend at San Diego Comic Con, where she works every year at Stuart Ng Books, met a monster zine creator, sold books to JJ Abrams and asked Guillermo Del Toro to call Patrick. Then, listen to Selana's live reaction to the Ash vs The Evil Dead trailer, as she missed seeing that during con.

Then Patrick subscribes to Shudder, a horror streaming service, and Selana gets wistful about eventually whoring the podcast out for free horror stuff.

Have you listened to episode 3 where we talked for almost 2 hours and recapped all of The Walking Dead's season 5? Go! Go listen now!! No one had anything to say about it, so we had no one to talk about when discussing the last episode.

Finally, we get into the meat of the episode, talking about Kevin Smith and his two "horror" movies. Patrick recaps Kevin's career briefly, and mentions what became the genesis of Red State. Then they break down Tusk. We both decide we love Micheal Parks, though we disagree on Kevin's success.

Selana manages to squeeze in a shoutout to Eli Roth and drools over his upcoming return to the director's chair with Green Inferno.

Patrick gives the movie The Sacrament some love, because he's good at sticking with the theme, and Selana tells you to watch Absentia, because it was really unexpected and she's not so good at sticking with the theme.

Lastly, we throw some love to @ChillThrillNews that contacted us about @Inkitt's writing contest that's still going on, and Patrick makes Selana jealous over the awesome Mahonig Drive In Theater's upcoming Camp Blood series at the end of August.

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Until next time, fight bravely listeners!

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Selana: Wednesday Addams wrapped in a Luna Lovegood candy shell

When I was a wee lass of, oh, about 7 or 8 (how old are kids in 2nd grade?) I had to do my first book report. It was a worksheet kind of like this:

I'm sure a few of you remember the style. It folded in half like a book, and you had to draw a picture for the cover on the front, answer questions about the book in the middle, and on the back, write a review. "I liked this book because it was funny. You should read it if you like funny books." My first book report led to my first parent teacher conference, wherein my mom started getting a lecture from my teacher. "Ms. Holloway," they said. "If you're going to do your daughter's homework, you really should choose a more realistic book." they said. Problem was, my mom hadn't read The Shining by Stephen King yet.

It had been in her stack from the library, but I'd finished my books and started on hers. They didn't believe that I 1) was capable of reading an adult novel and 2) that I would have finished it. They grilled me about aspects of the book, handed me textbooks and teacher's manuals off of the office shelves, and then the meeting turned into a lecture that my mom should police what I read, as The Shining is highly inappropriate for a 2nd grader. To her credit (every child is different and your mileage may vary, I'm not suggesting you start reading Clive Barker to Junior at bedtime),

she argued that if I had questions or concerns, I knew to come to her, and that she wasn't damn well going to tell me to STOP reading something if I liked it, nor was she going to insist I dumb myself down to please them. I enjoyed Stephen King, Louis L'Amour, and Laura Ingalls Wilder in equal measure, and until it had an adverse effect on me, she didn't see a problem.

From reading to watching, my love of horror only grew. I didn't have the best childhood, and horror was an escape for me. Disney was fun, but seemed unrealistic in a way that depressed me, because I knew very well that there was no happily ever after, even at a young age.

Drama went largely over my head. Horror appealed to me because I knew it was fake, I knew I was safe, but it was so over the top that it was an escape. My parents fighting wasn't nearly as bad as being murdered by a man with a melted pizza face and knives for fingers,

and getting made fun of in school had nothing on a Shatner-faced lurker that always managed to get in the house.

Also, there was that thrill of adrenaline when a cat gets thrown across the screen and you jump and relax into nervous laughter, relieved that it's just a dumb cat-WAIT OHMIGOD HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU AHHHHHHHH-too late.

Movies led to soundtracks which led to the discovery of new sounds. I found Dead Man's Party and Bela Lugosi's Dead and Cemetery Gates and Burn and Spellbound and Your Best Nightmare and Living Dead Girl and the list goes on. I definitely think that The Horror of Our Love and Join Me in Death are gorgeous love songs, and maybe that's twisted, or maybe it's perfect. *dreamy sigh* #stillabetterlovestorythanTwilight

If I wasn't reading or watching or listening to something creepy, I loved the immersion of horror video games. My current obsession is Five Nights at Freddie's

but I cut my teeth on the first Resident Evil, the game that broke my first controller (when I freaked out and threw it across the room!).

Also, anyone remember that old Nightmare VHS game? Oh, happy memories... My embrace of horror is multi-faceted. What began as interesting stories and escape from a crappy childhood has turned into a lifelong love. Maybe my mom should have stopped me from reading above my grade level and not let me rent Lost Boys every weekend in Middle School, or maybe she did everything right.

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Patrick: What Hooked Me on Horror Movies

Back in the days before cable t.v., the local alternative to the main networks was UHF. In the Central/Southern NJ and Philly area there was UHF channel 48 that showed Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy and Blondie movies on Sunday, and on Saturday mornings was Creature Double Feature.

My first hook into the classic Universal Monsters was Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein. It’s true; my first Frankenstein monster movie starred Glenn Strange as the creature, not Boris Karloff. But this movie hooked me enough to seek out the other Universal monster movies. But it was Creature Double Feature that turned me into a horror movie geek. The show had a ghoulish host and corny humor, like Elvira but w/o the boobs.

Saturday mornings found me in my mom’s room, intently watching her black & white television and seeing my first Hammer Horror movie (The Vampire Lovers);

my first Godzilla movie (it had Ghidorah in it);

my first “blaxploitation” movie (Blacula)

and movies that ran the gamut from bad (Dracula vs. Frankenstein – look it up, it’s awful. It was released in 1971) to classic Roger Corman movies and everything in between. The final nail in the coffin, so to speak, was a haunted house attraction at the Jersey Shore: Brigantine Castle. I never got to go because my parents wouldn’t take me, but their commercials ran all the time on channel 48. The commercials scared the bejesus out of me! Their old commercials can be found on YouTube and there are some websites dedicated Brigantine memories. That’s how I became hooked on all things horror. Seven years old (give or take a year), laying on my mother’s bed on Saturday mornings, closely watching her 13” black and white television..it was all introduced to me in a quiet town nestled in the hills of New Jersey.

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Coming soon to a streaming service near you...

We are currently working on scripts and show ideas, the goal is to start 2015 with our first podcast posted and ready for subscribers by the end of January 2015. If you like anything that falls under the realm of horror, we think you'll like this! Expect massive amounts of excited posts as we get closer to the end of the year. We're planning some fun, fun stuff!