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ACFM Trip 28: Horror

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

ACFM reunite for spooky season with one thing on their minds: the horror, the horror! Nadia, Jeremy and Keir embark on a historical, literary and cinematic exploration of scary stuff. Why do (some) humans love to be terrified? What can horror teach us about the nature of the universe? What do the latest crop of […]

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is Gem calling from the future. After we'd recorded the show, we thought

0:10.7

that we should probably give a spoiler warning, because there are a lot of films, books,

0:15.2

movies, some of which we just casually refer to, some of the key themes of, some of which

0:20.4

we do really give away key elements of the plot. I think it would take too long to explain

0:24.9

detail how much we spoil of each text, so I'm really just going to go through the list

0:30.2

of texts that we refer to in the show, some of the references to which do include spoilers.

0:36.0

But here's the list, quite quickly. It's not in chronological order with reference

0:40.6

to the order we did them in the show, it's just quite random. Anyway, here's the list.

0:45.5

A movie called The Woman in Black, the general work of H.P. Lovecraft, Joseph Conranston

0:51.5

of Ella Heart of Darkness, Sigmund Freud's essay, The Uncanny, definitely gave away

0:56.2

this in there. Horace Walpole's novel, The Castle of a Tranto, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,

1:02.7

Bran Stoker's Dracula, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, The film, White Zombie, The

1:09.2

film, Night of the Living Dead, The film Dawn of the Dead, Stephen King's nonfiction book

1:15.2

on writing, a memoir of The Craft, the 1950s film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the

1:21.4

early 80s film, Poltergeist, and the classic Clasher film, Halloween. We also mentioned

1:27.6

the Roman Polanski film, Rosemary's Baby, and very definitely spoiled that one. We talked

1:34.0

about the more recent film Get Out, and we talked a little bit about stuff that happens

1:38.2

in that that you wouldn't know from the general publicity. We referred to the general setting

1:43.1

in Themes, or 28 Days Later, and Children of Men, and the movie Everything Everywhere

1:48.2

All Up Once, and finally we referred to the brilliant, swiney-themed horror role-playing

1:54.5

game that Keir and I are lucky enough to be playing in at the moment, run by our very

1:58.3

clever friend Vaughn, shout out to Vaughn, but the only person who knows what's happening

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