Welcome to office hours on the Fangoria Podcast Network.

My name is Dr. Rebecca McKendry, and this is a bonus episode for my podcast Nightmare

University.

On these bonus episodes, I'll be exploring behind-the-scenes tales and genre-fueled adventures from my many years at Fangoria as the director of marketing.

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Dr. Rebecca McKendry.

And for the season finale of Office Hours, I want to discuss one of the elements of working at Fangoria that I came to love.

So much so that it kind of became part of me and became a predominant part of my role as I journeyed to other companies like Shock 2 Drop, FearNet, Blumhouse,

onto other podcasts like Shockwaves and even is now a huge element of my teaching. And this is the

element of championing deep cuts. We all have our horror faves, the well-known horror films that

we kind of consider to be our favorite ones, Halloween,

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th. But what I've discovered is that the majority of

horror fans that I meet also have their deep cut list. And this is the list of lesser-known

gems that they champion, that they spread the word about whenever they can. And this at its core is also

the definition of cult movies, that a lesser-known media property gets rediscovered by just a

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