The Cast of Cthulhu

We know that we're a film podcast, but for this Halloween, our final treat is for the readers: S.T. Joshi, THE preeminent H.P. Lovecraft scholar in the entire world, takes time out of his busy schedule to stop on the podcast and take all things Lovecraft and horror. The author, professor, and all around enthusiast talks with Jim about how he first discovered the late weird fiction

We're knee deep in Spooky Season, so it's about time that we stopped tricking everyone and delivering on the treats. We loved Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham so much that we just had to bring on co-director Sam Liu to talk about his work and influences. The longtime comics and fan and director of many critically acclaimed DC animated titles talks about how he discovered Lovecr

"The expendable crew of a corporate space vessel must stop a murderous shape-shifting alien organism that somehow got on board.""The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission." One of those films is seminal horror film, Alien, and one of them is Japanese anime film, Lily C.A.T. Can you spot the difference? Since a discu

Who better to be the logical, unsentimental protagonist of a Lovecraftian journey into discovery than the world's greatest detective? This animated adaptation of a comic miniseries written by Mike Mignola demonstrates how seamlessly the themes of H.P. Lovecraft blend with, compliment, and --- at times -- even subvert the age old themes and narratives that we've grown so accustom to

If you're anything like us, then you saw the comments about this Portuguese-language horror film being called "one of the goriest films since Braindead" and laughed about it for the 20 or so minutes. Then they dragged Peroá's body into the cabaret in a fish net and boy, oh boy, do the blood and guts start flying! You couldn't exactly call Dark Sea a good film, per se, but with wri

If you have no interest in the boys discussing theoretical outcomes for Better Than You Bay Bay, then skip ahead to 12:28. If you have no interest in a horror film with troubling sexual politics and which exploits the protagonist's vulnerability for wanting to be a mom to the point of making her a victim of creature rape, then skip ahead to the end of this film. The Deep Ones, weir

Sporting a 4.6/10 on IMDb and a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, Harbinger Down hasn't exactly imbedded itself indelibly in the public consciousness nor has it earned status as a cult classic. Still, costing just a shade over $380,000 via crowdfunding and created by Amalgamated Dynamics -- the guy's fucked over by the studio on 2011's The Thing -- is an admirable accomplishment, a film brou

A horror anthology demands a discussion with someone who knows a thing or two about horror anthologies, so Jonathan Inbody of Gray Matter: An Acid Horror Anthology Podcast joins the podcast to discuss the truly weird and difficult to track down Necronomicon: Book of Dead from the long ago time of the 1990s when anthology films were still in vogue. Adapting 3 stories from Lovecraft

The Cast of Cthulhu will be taking a hiatus for June as Jim moves and settles into a new place, so on this episode, the podcast goes out not with a bang, but with a whimper, discussing a prequel that was so atrociously meddled with by the studio that the director retired from filmmaking for a decade. Asking questions that nobody asked, The Thing can't commit to being either a tense

Filmmaker, podcaster, musician, and all around good guy, Tim Buel, joins to talk Prometheus, the film that actually first brought Jim and James together so many years ago. The boys all recount what their first impressions (sober or otherwise) were when seeing Ridley Scott's much-anticipated film in 2012 and how their opinions have changed -- or, in Jim's case, have remained pretty