Progressively Horrified

Updated: 12 Jan 2024 • 302 episodes
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A podcast that holds horror to standards horror never agreed to. Hosts Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, Emily Martin and guests watch, read, listen to, and check out movies, tv shows, comics, books, art and anything else from the horror genre and discuss it through a progressive lens. We'll talk feminism in horror, LGBTQ+ issues and representation in horror, racial and social justice in horror, disability and mental health/illness in horror, and the work of female and POC directors, writers, and creators in horror. We're the podcast horror never agreed to take part in.

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You thought we could wrap up a whole year worth of movies in one episode? Nah, son. We know how to talk and talk and talk.  This time we're covering all our favorite new takes on old favorites, our Latin American History month films, and a mélange of other great stuff. After this, you will know what the best horror mov

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2023: that was a fucking yeah, huh? We discovered that watching their movies back to back four weeks in a row was enough to make us hate any director. My eye has only recently stopped twitching when people say the name Cronenberg. Would you believe I even got tired to Guillermo Del Toro? Whodathunk? We caught up with S

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We've been talking about this movie since we started the podcast and now we finally did it! Unfortunately, this film's John Constantine is from LA. Mercifully, that means Keanu doesn't have to do a British accent. Not that he can't do it. I mean, forsooth, we all remember Bram Stoker's Dracula, do we not? Instead, this

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It's a very special episode of Progressively Horrified! Join the Horror Squad and guest Matt Fraction for a dynamic discussion about the 1970s proto-slasher film 'Black Christmas'!   ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Come for the absolute masterpiece of scene chewing that is Al Pacino as The Devil, stay out of the morbid curiosity of hearing what accent is going to come out of Keanu's mouth next. His accent grows no moss, because it's a rolling stone. Don't try to pin him to any one place or syntax. Hey, guys, did you remember that

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In which the concept of voodoo has 1980s Hollywood absolutely by the balls. They can't get enough of it. Nevermind that the version of it that makes it into movies like this is absolute nonsense and a half-hearted excuse to get Lisa Bonet dancing topless.  It's okay (it's not!) but you will get to see the devil who has

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