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The Evolution of Horror

BEST OF FRIGHTFEST 2019

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 2 September 2019

ā±ļø 119 minutes

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Summary

This week Mike is joined by Adam Robinson and a whooooole bunch of other members of the horror community to discuss FRIGHTFEST 2019. They countdown their top 5 movies from the festival and we hear snippets of interviews from filmmakers (including Alexandre Aja and The Soska Sisters) and other guests of the fest. All COMPLETELY spoiler-free.

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0:00.0

The Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

0:21.2

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. Usually in this

0:25.2

podcast we explore and we dissect the evolution and the history of the horror

0:29.8

genre by looking at particular sub-jomras one at a time.

0:33.0

Now we've already done four complete seasons of the podcast.

0:37.0

We look to the evolution of the Slasher movie, the evolution of the ghost story,

0:41.0

the evolution of folk horror, and earlier this year we finished our 23 years. of the

0:55.1

occult in film very very exciting so right now we're in a kind of summer break

1:00.3

but this is a very special one-off bonus episode in which me and my co-host Adam Robinson

1:07.3

are going to be discussing all things Fright Fest. Last week me and Adam and a whole bunch of other podcast listeners and contributors attended Fright Fest, one of the biggest horror festivals in the world. Five solid days of horror movies, pretty much playing back to back all day

1:26.4

every day across that weekend. So we wanted to take this opportunity to run down

1:31.9

some of our favorites, some of our festival highlights. So Adam and I will

1:36.0

be counting down our top five picks from Fright Fest 2019. Now all of these

1:41.2

recommendations and all of these discussions will be completely spoiler free so don't worry

1:45.5

I know there's a lot of people out there who didn't attend Fright Fest who might still want to listen to this

1:49.7

who haven't seen the movies don't worry worry, we don't spoil anything. These will be very brief

1:55.2

recommendations. There will be movies that you can hopefully look out for in the future when they're released in cinemas or on streaming platforms or wherever.

2:03.6

So you know get a pen and paper at the ready.

2:06.2

Note down some of these titles because trust me there are some absolute gems in here that

2:11.0

you are not going to want to miss if you're a horror fan.

2:15.0

Not only that I've also put the word out to other Frightfest attendees and I ask them to send

2:20.0

in little voice messages in which they can discuss their picks, their favorite movies of Fright Fest 2019.

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