The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen Meckhaff and this is the Slade Culture Gapfest Unkindest

Cut of all edition. It's Wednesday June 20th, 2018. On today's show

hereditary is the latest indie artsy horror flick.

Does it continue the trend of terrifically taught low-to-mid budget movie making that has elevated the genre to new commercial

and artistic heights we will discuss and then the staircase

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For that segment we'll be joined by staircase completest Rebecca Laveoia. The mom and dad are fighting

podcast and finally there's only one the Bard and there's only one the

Isaac Butler. We bring them together for you today. Isaac discusses his new and marvelous Slate Podcast, lend me your ears.

Isaac, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's great to have you back and of course we have Laura Miller in the the house the book critic for slate.com. Hey Laura

Hi Steve. All right well hereditary is the new art house hit horror film. It comes from the imagination of first-time writer and director Ari

Astor. It's about a family deep in grief and their own codependency with one another.

The action begins with the death of the Grand Patriarch a troubled and

complex woman whose legacy appears to be one of deep remorse and perhaps a strain of

mental illness. The deep and murky tributaries of a family living with secrets and lies that's really sort of the subject of hereditary

It's filled with a lot of silence plus there's a really cool Tud style house I believe.

Oh it's arts and crafts.

That's what I said Laura arts and crafts style house.

The movie stars Tony Colette and Gabriel Byrne.

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