Basement Girls Horror Podcast

Dec 18 2024 16 ep. 80 mins 6

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A horror (and whatnot) podcast that covers film and literature across the genre. Think My Favorite Murder meets The Tolkien Professor, but for horror, gothic, suspense, and mystery. 👻🖤 Hosted by writers Bianca Perez and Steph Grossman.

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Holiday Rewind: THE SANTA CLAUSE as Body Horror | With Peter Counter

Dec 18 2024 65 mins

Steph had a baby in August. Bianca currently has, like, 5 jobs. BUT we're excited to return to the basement in 2025, with the goal of releasing an episode every 2-3 months. In the meantime—and with the 2024 Christmas season upon us—enjoy this Holiday re-post of one of our favorite episodes ever. Be merry, ho ho ho's! *** "Never put on a dead man's clothes." Author and culture

14. TAROT (2024) Movie Review | With Tarot Card Expert Cecily Sailer

Jun 06 2024 63 mins

"Sometimes the Death card means transformation—and sometimes it just means death." Cecily Sailer, founder of Typewriter Tarot and host of YOUR CREATIVE AND MAGICAL LIFE podcast, joins Steph Grossman and Bianca Pérez in the basement to discuss the new horror film TAROT (2024), directed by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, and (loosely) based on the 1992 YA horror novel H

13. THE SANTA CLAUSE as Body Horror | With Peter Counter

Jan 06 2024 65 mins

Never put on a dead man's clothes! Author and culture critic Peter Counter joins Steph Grossman and Bianca Pérez in the basement to discuss how THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994), starring Tim Allen, is actually a movie about body horror, possession, and the sublime. It's basically a yuletide HEREDITARY (in fact, we're pretty sure Santa Claus knows Paiman...). SHOW NOTES Peter Co

12. Ray Bradbury's THE HALLOWEEN TREE Book and Movie Review | With Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Host David Barr Kirtley

Oct 31 2023 64 mins

With Bianca Pérez out for her Hallowedding (!), WIRED's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast host David Barr Kirtley joins Steph Grossman in the basement to discuss the '90s animated Halloween classic, The Halloween Tree (1993), as well as Ray Bradbury’s 1972 novella of the same name that inspired it. SHOW NOTES Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast | geeksguideshow.c

11. Summer Camp Horror: FRIDAY THE 13TH

Sep 22 2023 61 mins

It ain't fall 'til September 23rd y'all. Hold onto sweet, scary summer for one more day by joining your resident basement girls in their discussion about the summer camp horror film that started it all: the original Friday the 13th. Topics include a brief history of summer camp, the "whodunnit" aspect of the film, cozy horror, feminist subtext, final girls,

10. Found Footage Horror, Part 2: Modern Found Footage

Jul 30 2023 128 mins

Screenlife = Screamlife. In this second installment of their found footage series, Steph Grossman and Bianca Pérez discuss how recent innovations in the genre tap into our internet addictions and round-the-clock "screenlife" to create uniquely contemporary horror stories. Screamlife found footage films discussed include: Megan is Missing (2011), Unfriended (2015), Unfrie

9. SPENCER Movie Review | With Adam D. Jameson

Dec 30 2022 91 mins

Is she eating the g*dd*mn pearls?! Author and film critic Adam D. Jameson joins Steph Grossman and Bianca Pérez to discuss the horror and gothic elements of Pablo Larraín's princess Diana movie SPENCER (2021), written by Steven Knight, and starring Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, and Sally Hawkins. Show Notes: Adam D. Jameson's website: https://adjameson.

8. Found Footage Horror, Part 1: The History of the Genre

Jun 21 2022 95 mins

My cam shake brings all the fans to the yard. Steph Grossman and Bianca Pérez present the history of found footage, a beloved sub-genre of horror, starting with its literary origins, and then discussing the earliest and most iconic FF horror films: David Holzman’s Diary (1967), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The McPherson Tape (1989), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Last Broadca

7. The Two Suspirias: Review of Dario Argento's Italian Horror Film SUSPIRIA (1977) and Luca Guadagnino's SUSPIRIA remake (2018) | With Bryce Jeter

Feb 06 2022 90 mins

Dance until you die/get pretzeled. Literature scholar Bryce Jeter joins Steph Grossman and Bianca Perez to discuss the similarities and differences between Dario Argento’s original Suspiria (1977), and Luca Guadagnino’s remake of it (2018), written by David Kajganich, and starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton (who goes above and beyond—as always—playing not one but two

6. My Favorite Horror: Interview with Alex Amick, Editor of the Western Horror Film THE WIND

Aug 04 2021 95 mins

Alex Amick, editor of the feature film The Wind, joins us to discuss breaking into the movie industry via film editing, what it was like on the set of The Wind (hint: it involved creepy night horses…), and her favorite horror, The Witch. The Wind (which we reviewed in Episode 1) is a western horror film set on the American frontier, where a woman is left to deal with the darkness