The Dead Thing and Bloody Axe Wound

In this episode we're talking about horror at The Oscars, Demi Moore's (and horror's) snub, and the sex workers who had Anora stolen from them; what's streaming right now, FoundTV online worldwide and exceptional horror shorts on YouTube, The Dead Thing, Bloody Axe Wound, what's coming to theatres, books, and the Bram Stoker Awards.

We discuss:

This article about names in horror, Companion, Opus, Locked, Ash, The Woman in the Yard, Humanist Vampire, Starve Acre, Sator, Criterion's amazing horror catalog.

In online finds: FoundTV, and YouTube horror shorts Baby Fever, Who Goes There, Prey, The Hound, Do You Even SCREAM?

Main events: Richard examines The Dead Thing, a misunderstood slow burn supernatural dating app horror descent. Violet takes the lead in writing a love letter to Bloody Axe Wound, a film with zero faults and an incredible cast and soundtrack. Also much excitement for the Osgood As Dead series, and the Bram Stoker Award novel nominees:

House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

Find all podcast links on our Raised By Horror Linktree (including YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and more). Theme song: Pop Goes the Weasel by Kevin MacLeod [Wikimedia Commons].

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