The Ghastly Podcast

15/04/2022

We've got something we want to play for you... 📺🕵️‍♂️👄

Prepare to get sucked into this week's brand spanking new episode of The Ghastly Podcast, a delirious voyage into David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'. The perfect kiss-off to our 'Meta-Horrors' series, 'Videodrome' bravely captures the anxieties of an increasingly technology-saturated world in an onslaught of nightmarish images, where the boundary between the natural and the artificial becomes increasingly permeable. Join Nick and Johanna for one of their wildest discussions yet, with topics ranging from the 'manosphere' to the ethics of po*******hy.

Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PI7nq0k7DeIaTdMLRYgx0?si=Tos4ufDqRpqELg_4CAovqw

08/04/2022

👩‍👦🎥🔪 One, two, Freddy's coming for you... It's Friday (🥳) and Nick and Johanna are back with the penultimate chapter of 'Meta-Horrors'! The Wes Craven streak continues with a deep dive into New Nightmare (1994), the seventh instalment in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Actress Heather Longenkamp - who depicted Nancy in the original 1984 release - plays herself as reality starts to converge with the universe of the films, pitting her against a nightmarish foe made flesh...

Listen now!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6bixy8Tj8cgm0YpkWXxd59?si=vSgyo0_JQxGAyZvaasr7uw

18/03/2022

📞👻🔪Guess who... It's the next instalment of our 'Meta-Horrors' series! This week join Nick and Johanna as they take a magnifying glass to Wes Craven's iconic 1996 slasher 'Scream', unpacking the film's depiction of gender performance, sexuality, and the effect of mass media on youth culture.

Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zz8wF19XxIMIJf30AtjUm?si=5yj-RZb9T5OTlvG3OGxQPg

16/03/2022

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14/03/2022

As we continue to wend our way deeper into our 'Meta-Horrors' labyrinth, Michael Haneke's 'Funny Games' (2007) was a film we just couldn't resist taking a closer look at. Equal parts original and deeply disturbing, 'Funny Games' is not just a searing meditation on the role of violence in media but also an invitation to the viewer to unpick their own tangled relationship with the moving image.

Are you ready to play? Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/616ODGrCWzcXQwSyUkptTC?si=f3a8d280b38442e7

11/03/2022

🥚👯‍♂️🔫 Two strangers dressed in white appear at your door asking for some eggs. Do you:

a) Give them the eggs.
b) Make a polite refusal.
c) Run for your life.

Did you choose right? Listen to this week's episode on Haneke's gruelling 2007 opus 'Funny Games' to find out...

Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/616ODGrCWzcXQwSyUkptTC?si=52e305d97d8943ea

04/03/2022

🛖🌲🧟‍♀️ Fancy a mini-break? Get ready to check into Part Three of our mind-bending Meta-Horror saga, 'The Cabin in the Woods'. But first, a few house rules:

1. No guests over the age of 21.
2. No tampering with hidden cameras.
3. Strict adherence to horror movie tropes - or else!

Listen now:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Jg3bxZvbihJGSHnz69W5M?si=c45df8b0281040a4

25/02/2022

Attenzione! The second instalment of our 'Meta-Horrors' has officially arrived. This week, join Nick and Johanna as they dive headfirst into British auteur Peter Strickland's warped 2012 opus 'Berberian Sound Studio'. Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tCxeV2uEKKqHryBLBBhbB?si=37rUcJ1zTgySLuIuOxzncw