Test Pattern

We close out our Universal Monsters series with a splash! We watched Creature From the Black Lagoon and Guillermo del Toro's gorgeous The Shape of Water! Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) Film historian commentary with Tom Weaver "10 Aquatic Facts About Creature From the Black Lagoon" by Mark Mancini, Mental Floss "The Fantastic Mystery of Millicent Patrick" by Vincent Di Fate, tor.com The Shape of Water (2017) "A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times" BluRay featurette "How Guillermo del Toro's Black Lagoon Fantasy Inspired Shape of Water" by Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter    

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by Peter Vronsky   Random Movie Roulette - @RMRoulette Thematic Elements - @them_elements Horror Business - @thehorrorbiz666 The Launchpad Podcast - @launchpadpod Bloody in Love - @bloodyinlove 2Guys Talking Horror - @2GTHorror Exploding Heads - @EHHorrorPodcast The Cracked Ones - @macabre_mouse Toon in Pod - @tooninpod For Dying Out Loud

In our latest Patreon Pick, Pete brings us two fantastic Ozploitation movies from his home country - Long Weekend and Body Melt! Long Weekend (1978) Producer/Cinematographer commentary "Is 1978's Long Weekend the greatest Australian Horror Film Ever Made" by Lee Gamblin, ComingSoon.net "The Savage Stack: Long Weekend (1978)" by Jacob Knight, Birth. Movies. Death.  

We're taking the week of Memorial Day off and dusting off the first two episodes of Test Pattern!  This was actually a two part episode that I recorded specifically for the radio before I realized I couldn't do this alone and asked Jacob to be part of the show.  You'll probably be able to see why after listening, but hopefully the diehard Test Pattern listeners will get a kick out of the first version of the show!

A Test Pattern PSA: DON'T DRINK THE WATER!  We watched Eli Roth's original Cabin Fever and the fantastic found footage film The Bay! Cabin Fever (2002) Director/actor commentary "14 Flesh-Eating Facts About Cabin Fever" by Jennifer M Wood, from Mental Floss The Bay (2012) "Barry Levinson's The Bay is a Fictional Horror Movie Meant to Save the Real Chesapeake" by Jon Bowermaster, from HuffPost

Random Movie Roulette - @RMRoulette Thematic Elements - @them_elements Horror Business - @thehorrorbiz666 The Launchpad Podcast - @launchpadpod Bloody in Love - @bloodyinlove 2Guys Talking Horror - @2GTHorror Exploding Heads - @EHHorrorPodcast The Cracked Ones - @macabre_mouse Toon in Pod - @tooninpod For Dying Out Loud

Godzilla level patron Annette curates a fantastically British double feature with Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz and the sleeper hit Attack the Block! Sources for this episode: Hot Fuzz (2007) Director/writer commentary  "Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy" from Every Frame a Painting Attack the Block (2011) Director/actor commentary

Edgar Wright's "Don't" Trailer Beetlejuice 2 Fan Poster   Random Movie Roulette - @RMRoulette Thematic Elements - @them_elements Horror Business - @thehorrorbiz666 The Launchpad Podcast - @launchpadpod Bloody in Love - @bloodyinlove 2Guys Talking Horror - @2GTHorror Exploding Heads - @EHHorrorPodcast The Cracked Ones - @macabre_mouse Toon in Pod - @tooninpod James Dean YouTube Channel @jamesd7004

After a couple of weeks of very dark subject matter, we lighten things up with two monster-filled action horror films of dubious quality! Sources for this episode: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) "Looking Back at The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie" by Phillip Tibbets, Den of Geek "What Went Wrong: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Shalimar Sahota, Box Office Prophets

Not even a power outage could stop us from putting this one out! (Sorry it's late, guys!)   The Thing Musical by legolambs Common Shiner's Social Mediasochist by Lowbarcomedy The Do It Yourself Giallo Generator   Random Movie Roulette - @RMRoulette Thematic Elements - @them_elements Horror Business - @thehorrorbiz666 The Launchpad Podcast - @launchpadpod Bloody in Love - @bloodyinlove 2Guys Talking Horror - @2GTHorror Exploding Heads - @EHHorrorPodcast The Cracked Ones - @macabre_mouse Toon in Pod - @tooninpod James Dean YouTube Channel @jamesd7004

We explore post-apocalyptic dystopian futures with The Road and It Comes At Night, in an episode curated by Godzilla level patron Skoll Hati! Sources for this episode: The Road (2009) "The Road Takes Desolate Journey From Page to Screen" by Hugh Hart, Wired  Oprah Winfrey interview with Cormac McCarthy, June 6, 2007   It Comes At Night (2017) "Why the director of It Comes At Night hopes audiences 'don't catch on' to his technological tricks" by Tasha Robinson, The Verge "It Comes at Night's director on What to Make of the Movie's Ambiguous Ending" by Jeffrey Bloomer, Slate

"I Lost My Virginity to David Bowie" by Laurie Mattix, as told to David Kaplan, Thrillist "Naked and Alone in the Ocean at Night" by Dave Good, San Diego Reader "The Odd Death of Michelle Von Emster" BuzzFeed Unsolved "The Bizarre Death of Elisa Lam" BuzzFeed Unsolved   Random Movie Roulette - @RMRoulette Thematic Elements - @them_elements Horror Business - @thehorrorbiz666 The Launchpad Podcast - @launchpadpod Bloody in Love - @bloodyinlove 2Guys Talking Horror - @2GTHorror Exploding Heads - @EHHorrorPodcast The Cracked Ones - @macabre_mouse Toon in Pod - @tooninpod James Dean YouTube Channel @jamesd7004

We're joined by Aaron and Matt from the awesome Launchpad Podcast to discuss two Italian horror masterpieces - Twitch of the Death Nerve and Tenebrae!   **Be sure to check out our guest spot on the Launchpad Podcast - out TODAY!** Sources for this episode: Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas "Looking Back at A Bay of Blood" by Ryan Lambie, Den of Geek "The Bay of Blood That Mario Bava Inspired" by Brian Collins, Birth Movies Death   Tenebrae (1982) The New Catholic Encyclopedia "Argento" by Alan Jones, Cinefantastique Spaghetti Nightmares: Italian Fantasy-Horrors as Seen Through the Eyes of their Protagonists by Luca Palmerini Dario Argento by James Gracey Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento by Maitland McDonagh   The Launchpad Podcast with Aaron and Matt Follow @launchpadpod on Twitter and Instagram Like Launchpad Podcast on Facebook Listen on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Music, or on the website!  

We examine the case of Jeffrey Dahmer through the lens of the recently released bio pic My Friend Dahmer and the narrative documentary The Jeffrey Dahmer Files. Sources for this episode: Jeffrey Dahmer: Stone Phillips interview with Jeffrey Dahmer, Lionel Dahmer, and Joyce Flint, "Dateline" NBC 1994 "How Systemic Racism Fueled Jeffrey Dahmer's Killing Spree" by Arthur Tam, Logo The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters   My Friend Dahmer: "Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood Friend Talks About His Graphic Novel My Friend Dahmer and its New Movie Adaptation" by Abraham Riesman, Vulture 

We howl at the moon as we look at the original Wolf Man from 1941 and the 2010 remake! Sources for this episode: "The Harmful History of 'Gypsy'" by Jessica Reidy, Bitch Media "History of the Werewolf Legend", History.com "Werewolf Legends Around the World", Historic Mysteries The Wolf Man (1941) Film historian commentary with Tom Weaver Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr., The Wolf Man Legacy Collection "The Wolf Man (1941)" by Jim Stafford, TCM "12 Howling Facts About the Wolf Man" by Mark Mancini, Mental Floss    

Godzilla level patron Elizabeth cast a spell and curated a FANTASTIC episode for us! "From ghoulies and ghosties and long legged beasties and things that go bump in the night, the good lord protect us" - We watched The Witch and The Autopsy of Jane Doe! Sources for this episode: The Witch (2015) "How Robert Eggers Combined History and Childhood Horrors in The Witch" by Ryan Anielski "Dressing The Witch: An Interview with Costume Designer Linda Muir" by Sam Ankenbauer "Black Phillip: The Real Story Behind the Breakout Goat from The Witch" by Seth Abramovitch   The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) "Director Andre Ovredal on performing The Autopsy of Jane Doe" by Katie Rife "Interview: Andre Ovredal Dissects The Autopsy of Jane Doe" by Howard Gorman "Autopsy of Jane Doe: How an actress played dead for horror film" by Clark Collis   "This is why we can't have nice things: The Witch and horror's gatekeepers" by Jason Coffman

We're joined by Shin Godzilla Patron Louis (from Random Movie Roulette) to talk about two mock horror documentaries - Adam Green's Digging Up the Marrow and the fantastic What We Do in the Shadows! Sources for this episode: Digging Up the Marrow (2014) "How Adam Green's Digging Up the Marrow Turned into a Real Life Horror Show" by Clark Collis, from Entertainment Weekly "Adam Green on Getting Personal and Chasing Monsters for Digging Up the Marrow" by Patrick Bromley, from Daily Dead "Q&A: Adam Green on Digging Up the Marrow Part 1" by Ken W. Hanley, from Fangoria   What We Do in the Shadows (2014) "What We Do in the Shadows", short "SCA Presents: What We Do in the Shadows" "Out of the Shadows: My Father's Suicide", TedX Talk with Cori Gonzalez-Macuer   Find Louis online! @LouisOreo Articles for Heroic Hollywood Louis's column on The Purchase Beat, "Off the Beat with Louis Otero" Random Movie Roulette Website @RMRoulette Facebook