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Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast

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Host Andy Sell guides you through the history of horror movies! Part of the Unpops Podcast Network

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01:28:50

Slashers: The Nativity Scream

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2022/12/23

It's the most wonderful time of the fear! What's in your stalking? Killer santas! Moral panics! Warhol superstars! Multiple cast members from Rapid Fire AND The Haunting! And a startling yuletide masterpiece that could only be made by an American Southerner in Canada!

01:19:05

Slashers: A Gore-ientation (w/ Philip Johnson)

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2022/12/02

Andy invites his close friend and Look Good for the Boys co-host/producer, Philip Johnson, to get you all excited for the upcoming semester covering slasher films.

01:19:44

Extra Dread-It 11: The Shining & The Haunted Palace...

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2022/11/17

Taylor Gonda (These Things Matter podcast, the light of Andy's life) brings The Shining to school and Andy assigns Roger Corman's Poe-in-name-only "adaptation" The Haunted Palace from 1963 for a double feature of men being terrible partners by succumbing to the madness of patriarchal masculinity.

01:29:32

Substitute Creatures 1: Halloween Specials with Rob...

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2022/10/27

In this first-ever Ghoul School Halloween Special, Andy has an idea for a new episode format and asks writer and performer Rob Walker (The Hard Times, Victorian Cut-Out Theatre) to present a syllabus of key moments in television Halloween special history.

01:14:57

Extra Dread-It 10: Man Bites Dog & Behind the Mask:...

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2022/10/14

It’s a double feature of self-aware psychopaths and documentary film crews with questionable ethics as film programmer and Art House Rewind host (and friend of the show) Brian Oestreich joins us to discuss 1992’s edgy and bleak Belgian pseudo-doc Man Bites Dog and Andy assigns him the 2006 meta-slasher pseudo-doc Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

01:43:50

Extra Dread-It 9: Evil Dead 2 & House 2 (w/ Keith Carey)

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2022/06/23

Well, cut my hand off and call me Gramps! We got books of the dead and crystal skulls as we follow Keith Carey (Mean Boys, This is Not a Show) deep into a duo of disturbing domiciles decked with doors to demonic dimensions. It’s a double feature of the two Class of ’87 films from the La Casa series when Keith chooses Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, and Andy assigns House II: The Second Story.

01:32:06

Extra Dread-It 8: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre & The...

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2022/03/17

For today’s Extra Dread-It assignment, Sean Farina of the Malcontent Media Network brings in Tobe Hooper’s relentless, undeniable classic of the New Horror Era: 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Andy thinks James Whale’s 1932 horror-comedy The Old Dark House is the perfect pairing for a double feature of post-war dysfunctional family terror out in the sticks.

01:18:07

Extra Dread-It 7: The Evil Dead & Equinox (w/ Erik...

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2022/02/17

It’s a one-two punch of FX-heavy low-budget fan-made love-letters to the genre we study as wrestling commentator/writer/comedian Erik Barnes brings in 1981’s splatter-fest The Evil Dead and is assigned 1970’s stop-motion-fest Equinox!

01:31:37

Extra Dread-It 6: The Bad Seed & Curse of the Cat...

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2022/01/13

Friend and co-host of the Hollywood Crime Scene Podcast, Rachel Fisher, selects killer kid progenitor The Bad Seed (1956) and Andy pairs it with Val Lewton’s coming-of-age classic The Curse of the Cat People (1944) for a double-feature of true crime fascination, magical realities, and child psychology!

01:50:09

Conversation with S.A. Bradley

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2021/12/16

Andy talks with author, podcaster, and horror historian, S. A. Bradley (Hellbent for Horror) about various subgenres, finding community in horror enthusiasm, and his book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy.

01:19:13

Extra Dread-It 5: Duel & The Incredible Shrinking Man...

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2021/04/08

We welcome back Dan Ast (L.A. Macabre) for a double feature of Richard Matheson-penned explorations of masculinity, mortality, and mayhem on scales both macro and micro in this all-new, all-remote extra dread-it assignment!

01:16:16

Extra Dread-It 4: Dead Alive & Darkness (w/ Heat...

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2021/03/11

Blood on a Budget! We’ve discovered another extracurricular time capsule on campus! Miles and Dave from the Heat Seeking Panther Podcast join us to discuss Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive and Leif Jonker’s Darkness!

01:21:00

Extra Dread-It 3: Hellraiser & Jigoku (w/Nadav...

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2021/02/25

In this long-overdue third extracurricular episode, we open a time capsule from December of 2019 and find a conversation with comedian Nadav Fleischer about Clive Barker's classic Hellraiser and Andy's assigned B-feature, the 1960 surreal nightmare Jigoku.

01:25:50

Extra Dread-It 2: Fear No Evil (1981)

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2020/04/02

In this topsy-turvy second "bonus" episode, filmmaker Dan Ast (Claire, LA Macabre) picks one of his favorite movies and Andy baffles all involved by pairing it with Frank LaLoggia's panicky cult mile-marker, Fear No Evil, for a double-feature no one could've seen coming.

01:29:01

Extra Dread-it: Cabin In the Woods & Waxwork (w/Kevin...

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2019/11/03

Andy and Kevin Anderson (Bleak in Review Podcast) slay after school for the first bonus episode to discuss Kevin's pick (Cabin in the Woods) and Andy's recommendation (Waxwork). It's a double feature of supernatural fright and metanarrative sleight!

01:50:06

S1E5 - Found Footage: Lake Mungo

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2019/02/12

As we near the end of our first semester, Andy investigates the conditions and innovations that lead to Paranormal Activity and the resulting boom in found footage horror, touching on our longstanding cultural fascination with family drama and the paranormal. Adam Tod Brown joins in to discuss 2008's ghosts-and-grief pseudo-doc, Lake Mungo.

01:16:55

S1E4 - Found Footage: WNUF Halloween Special Interview

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2019/01/16

In this special episode, Andy and Adam take a study break to interview Chris LaMartina, the director of 2013's The WNUF Halloween Special, covering how you can help the upcoming sequel, the challenges and rewards of ultra-independent filmmaking, the glory days of VHS, and real-life supernatural encounters

02:48:43

S1E3 - Found Footage: The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2018/12/26

In this longer-than-usual episode, Andy takes a close look at the history of death-and-tragedy shock film, how it gave rise to pseudo-snuff, its relationship with our natural morbid curiosity, and its place in the evolution of found footage horror, leading up to a discussion with Adam Tod Brown about 2007's The Poughkeepsie Tapes. WARNING: This episode covers some extra disturbing themes and subject matter.

01:54:26

S1E2 - Found Footage: The Last Broadcast

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2018/10/31

Andy Sell and guest co-host Adam Tod Brown take their found footage horror safari into the digital wildneress of the 1990s where they meet a witch, a devil, and, uh, a guy, we guess

01:18:13

S1E1 - Found Footage: UFO Abduction

Ghoul School: A Horror History Podcast ·

2018/10/19

It's the first episode of #GhoulSchool with @andy_sell! This episode with special guest @adamtodbrown covers one of the first ever found footage horror movies -- 1989's UFO Abduction

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