Progressively Horrified

It's Christmas time and Joe McHale is fully in his murder dad phase. He's playing dad's of questionable morals in all kinds of horror movies. We're doing a queer teen take on It's a Wonderful Life. Oh and also there's a dude dressed as a spooky angel runnin around stabbin people! But that's alright, because our Mr. Potter for this life is played by Justin Long who is doing A VOICE! It's a movie full of choices and we support nearly all of them!Who's our guest?Matthew JacksonBluesky @awalrusdarklyPodcast: Scares that Shaped UsWebsite: MatthewJacksonWrites.comWho's responsible for this?Director: Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls)Writers: Michael Kennedy (Freaky, Time Cut, Heart Eyes)Stars: Jane Widdop, Joel McHale, Justin Long, Jess McLeod (trans nb), Katharine Isabelle, Aiden Howard, Hana Huggins, William B DaviesWhat should you check out next?Matthew - Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025), Freaky, Heart EyesEmily- X-FilesBen - Freaky, BottomsJeremy - Time Cut, Tragedy Girls

Apologies for our lateness, we had our own sort of Christmas Carnage going on around here. Suffice to say, our editor had a fever that sounded more like a radio station than a temperature for the human body. She's all better now though, so let's get this show on the road!Director: Alice Maio MackayWriters: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl RobinsonStars: Jeremy Moineau, Molly Ferguson, Cassie Hamilton, Zarif, Lisa Fanto, Tumelo Nthupi, Alyssa Peters, Toshiro Glenn

Please enjoy a little post Thanksgiving treat of a preview of our Patreon-only episode released today on Patreon. We went hard in the paint on V for Vendetta, talking about all the many many trans metaphors of the Wachowskis, all the masks that we wear, and fighting fascism - a message that somehow continues being relevant no matter how popular movies about it get.If you want to join the patreon, click on the link in the notes on every episode. For five dollars a month you get an extra episode every month and ad free episodes on our Patreon feed!Be sure to come back next week to talk about the Alfred Hitchcock classic with perhaps the most homoerotic tension (yes, more than Rope) it's The Birds!

Who's responsible for this?!Director: Michael LehmannWriters: Daniel WatersStars: Winona Rider, Christian Slater, Shannon Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, Glenn ShadixWhat do we recommend?Michele - Craft, Mean GIrls, Jennifer’s Body, Lisa Frankenstein, Ready or Not, American Ultra, Love Lies BleedingEmily- Revolutionary GIrl Utena, SLC Punk, Ben - LadybirdJeremy - Tragedy Girls, Deadloch

Here comes the episode of the show that led Jeremy to declare we're never covering a tv show again!Director: Ben Stiller, Writers: Dan Erickson,  Stars: Adam Scott as Mark S. Aka Mark Scout, Britt Lower as Helly R., John Turturro as Irving B., Zach Cherry as Dylan G., Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel/Mrs. Selvig, Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick, Jen Turlock as Devon Scout-Hale, Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale, Dichen Lachman as Ms. Casey, and Christopher fucking Walken as Burt G.

Director: PANOS COSMATOSWriters: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-AhnStars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouéré, Richard Brake Jeremy is off today, so this one is perverts only. It's time to talk Mandy!Recs:Emily- for something more fucked up and less fun, Antichrist. for something less fucked up and more fun, One Night at Willy’s. For this movie (abridged), The Viewing episode from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. For the vibes: The Holy Mountain