Reviews – PseudoPod https://pseudopod.org The Sound of Horror Mon, 04 Jul 2022 03:57:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pseudopod.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-PseudoPod-chip-32x32.png Reviews – PseudoPod https://pseudopod.org 32 32 Mother Horror and the Dystopia of Meat https://pseudopod.org/2021/05/29/mother-horror-and-the-dystopia-of-meat/ Sun, 30 May 2021 02:09:34 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9981 This PseudoPod episode is narrated by Linda Hamilton. You know, she plays Sarah Connor in the Terminator franchise? THAT Linda Hamilton. She doesn’t just read the story or animate the dialog, she brings a cinematic quality to every line for the duration of this 30+ minute episode. It’s a real delight. But what is an Oscar-worthy performance without something memorable to perform?

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]]> Mother Horror and Final Girl Theory https://pseudopod.org/2021/04/30/mother-horror-and-final-girl-theory/ Sat, 01 May 2021 01:49:23 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9978 “Final Girl Theory” is a fictional story about a fictional, cult-classic movie called Kaleidoscope. The narrator is addressing the audience with a high level of knowledge about the film. At first, it’s almost documentary-like in tone but later, this changes. John Meagher’s reading is perfect- he has an urgent, almost excited way of engaging with the text that demands rapt attention. The author…

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]]> Mother Horror challenges you to Take A Walk In The Night, My Love https://pseudopod.org/2021/02/15/mother-horror-challenges-you-to-take-a-walk-in-the-night-my-love/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:55:16 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9758 First, I must use this opportunity to encourage horror fans that if they are only digesting their horror fiction through the traditional method of the written word, I strongly recommend integrating some audio into your diet. This is only my third PseudoPod episode but already I can feel my appetite for more grow stronger every day. “Take A Walk In The Night, My Love” by Damien Angelica Walters…

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]]> Mother Horror and “The Christmas Spirits” https://pseudopod.org/2021/01/02/mother-horror-and-the-christmas-spirits/ Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:01:17 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9673 It seems like something strange happens during the holiday season. Perhaps it’s the combination of eggnog, fruitcake, and the “Spirit of Christmas” that turns average people into consumers of cheesy books and movies with zero substance. To counter this alluring nonsense, I fill my December with Anti-Hallmark-Christmas-Horror. Instead of book covers featuring Golden Retrievers in Santa hats or…

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]]> Snowbird Gothic https://pseudopod.org/2019/02/14/snowbird-gothic/ Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:01:18 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8336 I picked this collection up after my revisitation to the Vampire Clan Novel Saga, because I was thoroughly impressed with Dansky’s excellent characters and action. Dansky pulls off the same trick that Stephen King does of making his characters fully inhabited and easy to settle into, and his plotting drags you along at a rollicking pace. Also, as an extra bonus, his story “Good Advice” was the…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Final Thoughts https://pseudopod.org/2019/02/07/the-clan-novel-saga-final-thoughts/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:01:43 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8335 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ In 1999, White Wolf embarked on their most ambitious fiction project to tie in to their Vampire: the Masquerade game line. This may be the most ambitious fiction tie-in for any role-playing product, ever. They repeated this one more time with a Clan Saga to tie in to their Vampire: The Dark Ages…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Anthology https://pseudopod.org/2019/01/31/the-clan-novel-saga-anthology/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:01:24 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8334 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Anthology covers events that start nearly a century before the primary events of the Clan Novel Saga, up through New Year’s Eve after the events. Also, oddly, part of the Assamite story also has events happening in 2001, a year after the anthology was published in November 2000. I can’t help but…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Nosferatu https://pseudopod.org/2019/01/24/the-clan-novel-saga-nosferatu/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 05:01:01 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8230 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Nosferatu covers events that happen between June 1 and November 30, 1999. It is Book 13 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in September 2000. It was written by Gherbod Fleming, who provided five of the thirteen novels in the set. Our primary POV character is Calebros…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Brujah https://pseudopod.org/2019/01/17/the-clan-novel-saga-brujah/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 05:01:36 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8229 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Brujah covers the action of the third phase of the war between the Sabbat and Camarilla, focusing on events between October 14 and November 11 of 1999. It is Book 11 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in April 2000. It was written by Gherbod Fleming, who provided five of…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Giovanni https://pseudopod.org/2019/01/10/the-clan-novel-saga-giovanni/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 05:01:30 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8228 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Giovanni covers events that happen between June 20 and November 4, 1999. It is Book 10 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in April 2000. It was written by Justin Achilli, and this is his sole contribution to this saga. If Tzimisce is the Saw of the series…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Malkavian https://pseudopod.org/2019/01/03/the-clan-novel-saga-malkavian/ Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:01:56 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8100 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Malkavian starts with flashbacks to 1788 before primary focus returns after the siege of Atlanta, with activities running from June 22 through October 20, 1999. It is Book 9 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in March 2000. It was written by Stewart Wieck…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Ravnos https://pseudopod.org/2018/12/27/the-clan-novel-saga-ravnos/ Thu, 27 Dec 2018 05:01:33 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8099 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Ravnos covers events that start immediately after the end of the Setite book, and fits nicely with it, particularly since both were written by Kathleen Ryan. The events start on July 28, 1999 and continue through October 12 of the same year. It is Book 8 in the original clan novel saga…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Assamite https://pseudopod.org/2018/12/20/the-clan-novel-saga-assamite/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:01:08 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8091 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Assamite generally remains aloof of the beginning of the war between the factions. It does not get deeply involved until the second phase of the war that was particularly highlighted in the Lasombra novel, and ends with events on October 6, 1999. It is Book 7 in the original clan novel…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Tremere https://pseudopod.org/2018/12/13/the-clan-novel-saga-tremere/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:01:52 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7918 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Tremere covers events that start after the fall of Atlanta and into the second phase of the war between the Sabbat and Camarilla on July 18, 1999 and continues through September 24 of the same year. It is Book 12 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in June 2000.

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Lasombra https://pseudopod.org/2018/12/06/the-clan-novel-saga-lasombra/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 05:01:26 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7729 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Lasombra covers events that start after the fall of Atlanta and activity in Washington, D.C. really get rolling on July 16, 1999 and continues through September 22 of the same year, following the second phase of the war covering the assaults on Buffalo and Hartford. It is Book 6 in the…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Ventrue https://pseudopod.org/2018/11/29/the-clan-novel-saga-ventrue/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:01:56 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7725 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Ventrue covers events that happen between June 25 and August 27, 1999. It is Book 5 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in August 1999. It was written by Gherbod Fleming, who provided five of the thirteen novels in the set. It picks up just before the displacement of the…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Gangrel https://pseudopod.org/2018/11/22/the-clan-novel-saga-gangrel/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 05:01:08 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7705 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Gangrel covers events that happen between July 7 and July 26, 1999. It is Book 3 in the original clan novel saga and was published in June 1999. It was written by Gherbod Fleming, who provided five of the thirteen novels in the set. Some odd choices were made in the crafting of this…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Setite https://pseudopod.org/2018/11/15/the-clan-novel-saga-setite/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 05:01:30 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7697 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Setite covers events that happen between June 21 and July 31, 1999. It is Book 4 in the original clan novel saga (but third chronologically that ties up its events) and was published in July 1999. It was written by Kathleen Ryan, who also wrote the Ravnos book.

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Tzimisce https://pseudopod.org/2018/11/08/the-clan-novel-saga-tzimisce/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 05:01:23 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7617 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Tzimisce covers events that happen on and around the attack on Atlanta on the evenings of June 19 through July 7, 1999. I read Part 1: The War Council (6/19-21) before the TOREADOR book, the Part 2: The Firedance (6/22) and Part 3: The Deception (6/22-7/2) after TOREADOR. After TZIMISCE…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: Toreador https://pseudopod.org/2018/11/01/the-clan-novel-saga-toreador/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 04:01:28 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7612 This blog series starts here: https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Clan Novel: Toreador covers events that happen on and around the attack on Atlanta on the evenings of June 20-22, 1999. It is Book 1 in the original clan novel saga, and was published in February 1999. It was written by Stewart Wieck, who also wrote the Malkavian novel (please let that one be…

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]]> The Clan Novel Saga: A Revisitation https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/25/the-clan-novel-saga-a-revisitation/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 04:01:46 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7591

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]]> PseudoPod 307: That Ol’ Dagon Dark https://pseudopod.org/2012/11/09/pseudopod-307-that-ol-dagon-dark/ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:01:44 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=425 PseudoPod 307: That Ol’ Dagon Dark is a PseudoPod original. OL’ DAGON DARK He’s never heard of such a thing. Still, the aroma is enticing. He checks the box and the shelf, but there is no price. The shopkeeper is still in back, and all is silent within the store. Iverson contemplates the tobacco, then pulls a small plastic bag from behind a basket of pipes atop the shelves.

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]]> Pseudopod 182: The Dreaming Way https://pseudopod.org/2010/02/18/pseudopod-182/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:23:09 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=264 Pseudopod 182: The Dreaming Way is a PseudoPod original. For further Coyote Tales, please check out: Reservation Monsters “Love Like Thunder” and “The Shooting Way” in “The Trio Of Terror” The Dreaming Way by Jim Bihyeh Her teachers never asked her to remove the headphones. What was the point? The girl earned a 100% on every quiz and exam, and when they called on her…

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]]> The Pseudopod Autopsy: Eight-Legged Freaks https://pseudopod.org/2009/04/30/the-pseudopod-autopsy-eight-legged-freaks/ https://pseudopod.org/2009/04/30/the-pseudopod-autopsy-eight-legged-freaks/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:01:33 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=205 Small towns have the worst luck. For fifty years they’ve been beseiged by martians, carniverous slugs, tunnelling prehistoric worms, vampires and most terrifying of all, B-movies. So if you live in a small town with a storied past and eccentric inhabitants beware. Because your town may be about to fall victim to…the Eight! Legged! Freaks!

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]]> https://pseudopod.org/2009/04/30/the-pseudopod-autopsy-eight-legged-freaks/feed/ 1 The Pseudopod Autopsy: Sunshine https://pseudopod.org/2009/04/01/the-pseudopod-autopsy-sunshine/ https://pseudopod.org/2009/04/01/the-pseudopod-autopsy-sunshine/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:01:39 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=204 A lone crew struggling to cope with the stress of an impossible mission. A bomb the size of a city and a star whose light is fading. Danny Boyle’s Sunshine is a difficult, spiky film that turns the traditions of spaceship movies on their head. Now, we take a look behind the scenes, examining how it’s structured, what it says about the times and crucially what makes it tick.

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]]> https://pseudopod.org/2009/04/01/the-pseudopod-autopsy-sunshine/feed/ 2 The Pseudopod Autopsy: Stephen King’s 1408 https://pseudopod.org/2008/03/13/the-pseudopod-autopsy-stephen-kings-1408/ https://pseudopod.org/2008/03/13/the-pseudopod-autopsy-stephen-kings-1408/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:32:31 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/2008/03/13/the-pseudopod-autopsy-stephen-kings-1408/ A man alone in a hotel room. The past, present and future colliding beneath banal wallpaper, store bought faux art and carefully neutral furniture. A courtesy phone, a mini bar and every surface covered in the blood of the previous victims. 1408 is a meticulously constructed assault on reality itself, a film where the normal is abnormal and where it’s a very, very bad idea to try and steal the…

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]]> https://pseudopod.org/2008/03/13/the-pseudopod-autopsy-stephen-kings-1408/feed/ 9 Review: Stephen King’s “1408” https://pseudopod.org/2008/02/27/review-stephen-kings-1408/ https://pseudopod.org/2008/02/27/review-stephen-kings-1408/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:00:40 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/2008/02/27/review-stephen-kings-1408/ Hotel rooms are, in essence, purgatory charged at a nightly rate. They exist in that same curious hinterland as the departure lounge at airports, not quite in one country and yet not quite at the destination. They are, in essence, neutral spaces, transient environments which are defined, which exist, only for as long as it takes you to check out. They’re also prime horror real estate…

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]]> https://pseudopod.org/2008/02/27/review-stephen-kings-1408/feed/ 7 The Pseudopod Autopsy: “John Carpenter’s Halloween” https://pseudopod.org/2007/12/21/the-pseudopod-autopsy-john-carpenters-halloween/ https://pseudopod.org/2007/12/21/the-pseudopod-autopsy-john-carpenters-halloween/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:56:52 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/2007/12/21/the-pseudopod-autopsy-john-carpenters-halloween/ A shape in the distance, a killer in suburbia, a psychiatrist pushed to his limits and an innocent girl in the firing line. Halloween is one of the acknowledged classics of horror, the patient zero of slasher movies. Now, we take a look behind the scenes, examining how it’s structured, what it says about the times and crucially what makes it tick. Welcome to the Pseudopod Autopsy. Now glove up…

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]]> https://pseudopod.org/2007/12/21/the-pseudopod-autopsy-john-carpenters-halloween/feed/ 3 Movie Review: John Carpenter’s Halloween https://pseudopod.org/2007/10/30/review-john-carpenters-halloween/ https://pseudopod.org/2007/10/30/review-john-carpenters-halloween/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:00:17 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/2007/10/30/review-john-carpenters-halloween/ Nothing makes us happier than seeing how far we can get from the campfire before we get scared. Horror cinema has been around almost as long as cinema itself and whether it’s Nosferatu walking jauntily through Bremen, Ellen Ripley discovering exactly how little she matters to her employers, or Laurie Strode running from the blank, featureless evil of Michael Myers, it’s given us some of the most…

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