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On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss Richard Stanley’s recent film of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space.
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Episode 443 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).
If there’s been one constant over the decade, it has been the The Curator of Schlock.
Richard Stanley talked about the human visual spectrum going from ultraviolet to infrared and he felt that if something were to emerge in our space/dimension it would come in between these two. Magenta is the color between the two, so that’s what he used.
Some horror favorites from what I’ve seen of the decade, though some are mixed genre. And though I probably watch too many movies, I don’t watch all the movies and the closer we get to the present, the fewer I’m likely to have seen.
Coyote (2010)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Macbeth (2010)
The Reef (2010)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
A Field in England (2013)
The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013)
Deathgasm (2015)
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Under the Shadow (2016)
The Alchemist Cookbook (2016)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (2016)
The Void (2016)
Get Out (2017)
It Comes at Night (2017)
Let the Corpses Tan (2017)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Knife+Heart (2018)
Us (2019)
Midsommar (2019)
Color Out of Space (2019)
Short Films:
Brutal Relax (2010)
Canis (2013)
Coda (2013)
The Stomach (2014)
The Lighthouse (2015)
Deer Flower (2016)
Superbia (2016)
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye (2016)
Fry Day (2017)
Kaiju Bunraku (2017)
The Beaning (2017)
Docs:
American Grindhouse (2010)
Raging Boll (2010)
Forget Everything You Have Seen: The World of Santa Sangre (2011)
Vampira and Me (2013)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Dark Star: HR Giger’s World (2014)
De Palma (2015)
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (2015)
Kong: Long Live the King (2016)
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
Scream Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019)
Why didn’t I think to name a story Deathgasm?
The Blackcoat’s Daughter was a favorite of mine.
I’m probably forgetting some from the last decade, but:
Insidious (2010)
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Sinister (2012) – Scared me so bad I got a headache
The Conjuring (2013)
Lights Out (2016)
It (2017)
A Quiet Place (2018) – Terrifying in a dark theater with surround sound
Halloween (2018)
It was a bit of a James Wan decade, proving that you can be really scary on a small budget.
I loved A Cabin in the Woods, which some cinephiles don’t think should count as a horror movie because it parodies horror, but man that one was fun!