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The Frightgeist

Alyson Horrocks & Jenn Carrasco

Welcome to Frightgeist, where horror meets the zeitgeist. Hosts Alyson Horrocks and Jenn Carrasco sink their teeth into classic and contemporary horror films, uncovering the real-world fears and cultural anxieties that gave them life. Each episode explores cinematic nightmares to reveal the politics, history, and social unease lurking beneath the blood and screams.

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August 12 · 1 hr 22 min
Madres (2021)
Madres (2021), Blumhouse's most under-seen social horror entry. A pregnant journalist, a farm town where none of the women have living children, and the real case buried underneath it.
July 22 · 1 hr 7 min
Lake Mungo (2008)
A grieving family, a drowned girl, and a documentary that keeps giving you evidence you can't trust. We explore why Lake Mungo (2008) is one of horror's quietest gut-punches, and why it hits even harder in the age of the digital afterlife.
July 2 · 1 hr 14 min
Fear Street 2: 1978 (2021)
Camp Nightwing, 1978: a possessed counselor, an axe, and a town everyone agrees is just cursed. This week we head into the woods with Fear Street: 1978, and dig up what that "curse" is really covering for.
June 4 · 1 hr 37 min
The Lost Boys (1987)
Santa Carla, 1987. It's motorcycles, mullets, and a saxophonist who refuses to wear a shirt. We break down The Lost Boys scene by scene, spill the chaotic behind-the-scenes story, and unpack the AIDS-era, milk-carton, MTV-soaked anxieties hiding under all that leather. Plus trivia!
May 14 · 1 hr 23 min
Carrie (1976)
On this week's episode, Jenn and Alyson get into Brian De Palma's Carrie from 1976.
April 27 · 1 hr
The Wicker Man (1973)
Join Jenn and Alyson as we get into the pagan perfection of 1973's The Wicker Man
April 3 · 1 hr 29 min
The Babadook (2014)
Join Jen and Alyson as we explore 2014's The Babadook, and it's exploration of motherhood, grief, and repressed trauma.
February 9 · 1 hr 25 min
Invitation To Hell (1984)
In this episode of The Frightgeist, we're watching Wes Craven's Invitation to Hell (1984). It's a made-for-TV horror movie about a family seduced into joining a suspicious country club.
January 26 · 1 hr 27 min
It Follows (2014)
Join Alyson and Jen as they discuss It Follows (2014), the acclaimed indie horror film about a young woman relentlessly stalked by a supernatural curse that's passed from victim to victim like a twisted game of tag. In this episode, we explore the movie's suspense, its atmosphere of creeping dread, and the lingering paranoia that might just follow you home.
January 10 · 1 hr
The Omen (1976)
Join the Alyson Horrocks and Jen Carrasco as they discuss The Omen (1976), the iconic horror film about an American ambassador whose family is plagued by mysterious deaths, which all seeming to point to his young son Damien. In this episode, we explore the movie's dark themes of paranoia, apocalypse, and parental mistrust, all reflected in the "satanic craze" of 1970s America.

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