Collective Nightmares

Dec 02 2024 100 ep. 88 mins 10

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Marshall Smith and Laura Patterson delve into horror films of all kinds. We are passionate about horror films and all transgressive media. www.collectivenightmares.com

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The First Omen (Stevenson 2024)

Dec 02 2024 81 mins

The First Omen (Stevenson 2024) The First Omen is a long slow burn. It is beautifully constructed, well acted, and intellectually terrifying. If you can see this in a theater, please do! There is lots more of our podcast! Please listen, review, subscribe, and tell your friends. SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE Proxy (Parker 2013) Inside (Bustillo & Maury 2007) TOPIC INDEX – The

Piggy (Perada 2022)

Sep 24 2024 74 mins

Piggy (Perada 2022) What a wonderfully different horror film! We love a film that is in dialogue with hegemonic gender norms, beauty standards, and audience expectations. Piggy evokes Haneke and Funny Games in tasking viewers with considering their own presumptions and responsibilities in watching a horror film. Fascinating! And with a exquisite performance by the lead actress Laur

X (West 2022)

Sep 02 2024 154 mins

X (West 2022) I got so invested in putting out our episodes for Pearl and MaXXXine I realized I hadn’t finished or release the one for X! My apologies! X is the film that starts the entire Pearl/Maxine trilogy. An outstanding horror film by itself, and even better now that we’ve seen the rest of the story come to fruition. Laura is definitely the star of this episode! You can h

MaXXXine (West 2024)

Aug 12 2024 97 mins

MaXXXine (West 2024) Creating a successful horror trilogy that isn’t full of toxic messaging (looking at you James Wan) has proven to be a historical rarity. The original Scream trilogy is Marshall’s gold standard for a progressive, innovative, cohesive, beautifully executed trilogy. While leaving the possibility of a sequel open has been standard practice since horror

Pearl (West 2022)

Aug 05 2024 77 mins

Pearl (West 2022) Ti West apparently shot this on the sly at the same time he was making X (2022). It is a prequel to X, and the second film in the MaXXXine trilogy, just to be confusing. As with X this film is expertly crafted and Mia Goth’s performance is absolutely stellar. Ultimately we decided that the ideologies of the trilogy will greatly depend on how the story arcs a

Barbarian (Cregger 2022)

Barbarian (Esterhazy 2021) A movie with twists and turns, some of which were awesome, some of which were at best confusing, at worst problematic. The film definitely has tension and moments of suspense and horror. We always appreciate a new, innovative film even if we don’t think it completely hits the mark. There is lots more of our podcast! Please listen, review, subscribe,

Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg 2022)

Jun 11 2024 78 mins

Laura hated it, Marshall loved it. One of the most divisive films in the history of the podcast. Laura was bored and disconnected. Marshall thought Cronenberg was not only bringing up fascinating topics of technology, bodies, and art, but also layering in a metaphor for an artistic oeuvre. This made for a great discussion.

Scream 5 5cream (Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett 2022)

May 20 2024 117 mins

Scream (Bettinelli-Oplin and Gillett 2022) This fifth Scream film keeps much of what has made the Scream films so successful, and does well to leave behind or update those parts that needed to be changed. Overall it strikes a good balance between homage and renewal. It’s a fun film that will please Scream lovers and slasher lovers. There is lots more of our podcast! Please li

Slumber Party Massacre (Esterhazy 2021)

Apr 29 2024 69 mins

Slumber Party Massacre (Esterhazy 2021) This film is so fascinating for so many reasons. It is a brilliant satire of slasher films and accomplishes so much of the feminist messaging that the initial Slumber Party Massacre was not able to do … for an hour and five seconds. The last half hour or so the film just falls off a cliff in terms of message, ideology, and representation. W

The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones 1982)

Apr 17 2024 48 mins

The Slumber Party Massacre (Jones 1982) This film is a cult classic. Written by Rita Mae Brown who also penned Rubyfruit Jungle and was an avowed feminist and civil rights advocate it was supposedly written as a feminist response to the first wave slasher films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, Amy Holden Jones who directed the film may have been more interested in produc