This time, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta welcome the ever-game Mena Suvari, who arrives bearing fangs and stories from her new film, Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Suvari, who first scorched herself into the pop-culture psyche in American Pie and later drifted, ghostlike and unforgettable, through American Beauty, has since built the sort of career that zigzags cheerfully between cult oddities and studio landmarks, stops along the way including Sugar & Spice, Loser, and Spun.

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In Episode #189, Bryan and Preston welcome filmmaker Paul Boyd for a lively autopsy of his career, from directing music videos for Shania Twain to his latest horror film, Scared to Death. The conversation inevitably wanders into the haunted corridors of The Shining, a film the podcast has tackled before but now revisits with the benefit of 2026 hindsight. Does it still scare? Does the drama hold up? Are we still unnerved by that carpet pattern, or have we simply grown accustomed to it?

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On this episode, we sit down with the indestructible Lin Shaye, a woman who has stared into more cinematic abysses than most of us have stared into our refrigerators as we discuss her latest plunge into the macabre, Scared to Death. Shaye, who long ago achieved the status of horror’s benevolent high priestess, approaches terror not as a gimmick but as a craft that is calibrated, precise, and just mischievous enough to enjoy the absurdity of explaining an ancient curse with the calm authority of someone giving directions to the nearest Starbucks.

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