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Welcome to Part Two of my post-mortem on 2010-2019, the Decade of Dread!

Was 2010 to 2019 an embarrassment of riches, or just an embarrassment?

The honest answer is…BOTH.

This is my deep dive into "the State of Horror" as we move towards a new decade and brace ourselves as we walk into the maelstrom that is 2020.

In Part Two, I investigate the dark side of the geek and horror culture throughout the decade.

This episode is a critical look at some of the trends that weren't so hot, some trends and innovations that started with so much promise but, sadly, went south in the execution.

I look at how we as horror fans and horror creators handled ourselves during a decade of extreme changes and social upheaval.

I closed out Part One with a list of my favorite horror films from 2010-2015, and I'll close out Part Two with the list of my favorite horror movies from the years 2016-2019 and discuss what movie I feel defined the decade. It's bound to be controversial!

I hope you enjoy the show!

Movies Discussed:

Films of 2016:

THE NEON DEMON

DON'T BREATHE

GREEN ROOM

THE WITCH

THE VEIL

THE INVITATION

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

HUSH

THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

UNDER THE SHADOW

PHANTASM: RAVAGER

PET

THE MONSTER

ABATTOIR

THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE

TRAIN TO BUSAN

THE WAILING

SPLIT

SIREN

THE BELCO EXPERIMENT

FIRSTBORN

SWEET, SWEET, LONELY GIRL

TONIGHT SHE COMES

A DARK SONG

VIRAL.

Films of 2017:

IT

GET OUT

47 METERS DOWN

GERALD'S GAME

THE BABYSITTER

CREEP 2

CARGO

REBIRTH

IT COMES AT NIGHT

LAKE BODOM

TRAGEDY GIRLS

THE EVIL WITHIN

MOTHER! HAPPY DEATH DAY

CULT OF CHUCKY

MAYHEM

THE RITUAL

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER…

MARROWBONE

I REMEMBER YOU

COLD SKIN

DESOLATION

TERRIFIER

Films of 2018:

HEREDITARY

WILDING

UNSANE

UPGRADE

BAD SAMARITAN

ANNIHILATION

SUMMER OF 84

MANDY

APOSTLE

THE CLOVE HITCH KILLER

BIRD BOX

OVERLORD

Films of 2019:

US

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND

BRIGHTBURN

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK

IT CHAPTER 2

SATANIC PANIC

HAUNT

THE LIGHTHOUSE

RATTLESNAKE

DOCTOR. SLEEP

THE LODGE

THE PLATFORM

RABID

THE BANANA SPLITS MOVIE (Honorable Mention)

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It's a month into 2020 and the "terrible teens" are due for a post-mortem! There were huge changes in the world of entertainment in the years 2010 to 2019 and the horror genre was right in the middle of it all.

The advent of streaming services and the popularizing of "binge-watching" changed the way we watched horror and the amount of new and old films and television shows were available to us.

This was also a period where there was a huge variety of subgenres to choose from and it was a time where diverse storytellers shared their visions of the world and mavericks pushed the envelope of what makes a horror film a horror film.

 So, was 2010 to 2019 an embarrassment of riches, or just an embarrassment? Were the advances in technology good or bad for the horror genre? Were we a "Haunted House Divided" over all the changes?

Join me as I take a 2-part deep dive into "the State of Horror" as we move towards a new decade. I look at the good trends and the bad ones and give my opinion of who was the most influential filmmaker in horror from 2010-2019, and what movie I feel defined the decade. It's bound to be controversial! 

At the end of Part One, I'll also give a list of my favorite horror movies from the years 2010-2015. I'll give the rest at the end of Part Two.

I hope you enjoy the show!

Movies Discussed:

Films of 2010:

Black Swan

The Crazies

Dream Home

I Spit on Your Grave

Insidious

The Intruder

The Last Exorcism

Let Me In

Paranormal Activity 2

Piranha 3-D

The Reef

Rubber

A Serbian Film

The Silent House

Sint (Saint)

Stake Land

Tucker & Dale vs Evil

We Are What We Are

The Wolfman

Films of 2011:

Absentia

Fright Night

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

The Incident

The Innkeepers

Red State

The Thing

The Tunnel

The Woman

You're Next

Films of 2012:

American Mary

The Bay

Berberian Sound Studio

The Cabin in the Woods

Citadel

Found

Grabbers

John Dies at the End

The Lords of Salem

Lovely Molly

Maniac

The Pact

Sinister

V/H/S

The Woman in Black

Films of 2013:

Curse of Chucky

The Conjuring

Evil Dead

Frankenstein's Army

Jug Face

Mama

V/H/S/2

We Are What We Are

Willow Creek

World War Z

Films of 2014:

Annabelle

As Above, So Below

The Babadook

The Canal

Creep

Deliver Us from Evil

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

It Follows

Oculus

The Purge: Anarchy

Starry Eyes

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Films of 2015:

Crimson Peak

Deathgasm

Demonic

The Invitation

Krampus

The Lazarus Effect

Sinister 2

Stung

We Are Still Here

The Witch

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Hello, my friends!

Happy Holidays!

I hope you got what you wanted for Christmas and Hanukkah!

And...here's one last present that I was hiding behind the sofa!

Last year I did a traditional Christmas ghost story reading. This is a tradition that harkens back to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and has been kept alive by the BBC throughout the decades.

I've decided I want to make this an annual event.

So, what I want to do this Christmas season is to tell a few short tales to chill you while you sit with just one flickering candle and a hot toddy or hot chocolate or a sugar-free energy drink. Whatever your poison, I hope these stories please you enough that maybe you can keep the tradition of the Christmas ghost story going with your own family.

This year I'll be telling THREE GHOST STORIES!

William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)

The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft (1926)

The Pale Man by Julius Long (1934)

I hope you enjoy the show, and I look forward to having more conversations in 2020!

Songs Used (with gratitude):

Faceoff by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Devastation and Revenge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Decay by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Dark Standoff by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Inner Sanctum by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Comfortable Mystery 2 - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

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'Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor', screamed the August 1995 headline in The Los Angeles Times.

From the 60s to the 80s, producer/director Al Adamson made cheap, crazy and effective exploitation films, like SATAN'S SADISTS and DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN for the drive-in market.

But the whole truth behind Al Adamson's strange life and gruesome death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. 

The new documentary BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON, chronicles the movies, brushes with Charles Manson, bizarre UFO encounters, and an ill-fated business relationship that ends in horrific tragedy.

Join producer/director David Gregory (LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) and producer Heather Buckley (THE RANGER) as they discuss Adamson, the obsessive nature of horror fans, and the fascination of horror and fringe cinema.

I hope you enjoy the show!

https://www.facebook.com/AlAdamsonDoc/

https://vimeo.com/348116253/59e9b68578

Movies covered: 

Psycho-a-Go-Go (1965)

Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)

Satan's Sadists (1969)

Hell's Bloody Devils (1970)

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Blazing Stewardesses (1975)

Carnival Magic (1981)

Beyond this Earth (1994)

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

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You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

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Great horror stories, like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, have universal appeal and artists can reinterpret them to reflect the anxieties of every generation.

And on Friday, September 13th, legendary Independent Horror Auteur Larry Fessenden releases Depraved, his newest vision of the Frankenstein story.

Since 1985, Larry Fessenden has been creating his own fiercely independent, critically-acclaimed horror films (No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, The Last Winter, and Beneath)through the film studio he created, Glass Eye Pix.

Join the conversation as Larry graciously comes on H4H to talk about his unique style in horror films, the existential horror of the nature of nature, and why Frankenstein is as vital today as it was in 1818!

I hope you enjoy the show!

http://glasseyepix.com/project/depraved/

https://www.depravedifc.com/ 

Movies Discussed:

Depraved (2019)

Like Me (2018)

Stakeland (2010)

Beneath (2013)

The Last Winter (2006)

Wendigo (2001)

Habit (1998)

No Telling (1991)

Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

Bitter Feast (2010)

Backcountry (2014)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

I Can See You (2008)

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

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Welcome to PART ONE of a podcast double-feature with the I Know Dino Podcast!  

Dragons! The xenomorph from Alien! The shark from Jaws!

These monsters are descendants of real creatures that walked the earth- the dinosaur.

Horror movies have used the dinosaur as a source for monsters since the silent era because they are a source of endless fascination and terror. 

But, do the dinosaurs deserve their role as horror movie villain? Are there dinosaurs that are even weirder and scarier than what the movies usually show? 

Join me in a lively conversation with my guest Garret and Sabrina from the wildly popular I Know Dino Podcast as we discuss favorite dinosaurs, popular misconceptions, and their First Kisses with dinosaur horror!

This is the first part of a two-part multi-podcast collaboration with I Know Dino! To listen to Part Two (I Know Dino Episode 245), click here!

I hope you enjoy the show!

Here is the link to the I Know Dino Podcast: https://iknowdino.com/start-here/

Want to know more about dinosaurs? Take a look at these resources: https://iknowdino.com/resources/

Movies Discussed:

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Land Before Time (1988)

The Lost World (1925-silent)

King Kong (1933)

Westworld (1973)

Congo (1995)

The Dinosaur Project (2012)

Tammy and the T. Rex (1994)

My book, Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy on sale NOW!

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You can keep up with Hellbent for Horror on iTunes @iTunesPodcasts  

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The 6th Annual Etheria Film Night will be held on Saturday, June 29th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre, and H4H is celebrating with a series of interviews with the filmmakers!

Etheria Film Night is the world's most prestigious showcase of new short genre (horror, science-fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, and thriller) films directed by women.

This interview is with director Sarah K. Reimers to discuss her short film (and festival favorite), Bitten, her life-long love of horror films, and the horror of Midwestern cooking from the '70s!

Join me as I ask Sarah some horrible questions!

Etheria Film Night: http://www.etheriafilmnight.com/

Sarah's production website: www.bestbaddogfilms.com 

FB page for Bitten: https://www.facebook.com/bestbaddogfilms/

Family Recipies YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-712XsG36VrQZ3lE5kqFtA

Horror is an emotion first and a setting later. It's the only genre that is directly named after an emotion, and that gives horror a universal appeal. It also makes each person's experience and interpretation personal.

We close out June, Pride Month, with a celebration of the contributions the LGBTQ community has brought to the horror genre since the creation of the Gothic novel.

My guest is Waylon Jordan, the Associate Editor for iHorror.com, one of the largest online horror resources in the world. Waylon writes Horror Pride Month, a series of articles that chronicle the history and the present of queer horror and he graciously comes onto the show to expand on the discussion.

I hope you enjoy the show!

Read Waylon's work on iHorror.com: 

https://www.ihorror.com/author/spirtvox/

Follow Waylon on:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Waylonvox1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waylon.jordan.16

David J. Skal's Book on Bram Stoker: Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker

Movies covered:

Carrie (1976)

Halloween (1978)

Frankenstein (1931)

Child's Play movie Franchise (1988-2019)

The Lost Boys (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

American Psycho (2000)

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2019)

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

Knife+Heart (2019)

Lyle (2014)

The Quiet Room (2018) (short)

Books discussed: 

The Castle of Ortranto (1764)

The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890)

Dracula (1897)

American Psycho (1991)

The 6th Annual Etheria Film Night will be held on Saturday, June 29th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre, and H4H is celebrating with a series of interviews with the filmmakers!

Etheria Film Night is the world's most prestigious showcase of new short genre (horror, science-fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, and thriller) films directed by women.

This interview is with writer/director Chelsea Lupkin (Flutter, Uncovering Eden) to discuss her newest short film, Lucy's Tale and her love of genre film.

Join me as I ask Chelsea some horrible questions!

Etheria Film Night: http://www.etheriafilmnight.com/

Lucy's Tale: http://www.chelsealupkin.com/lucy

The 6th Annual Etheria Film Night will be held on Saturday, June 29th at the legendary Egyptian Theatre, and H4H is celebrating with a series of interviews with the filmmakers!

Etheria Film Night is the world's most prestigious showcase of new short genre (horror, science-fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, and thriller) films directed by women.

This interview is with writer/director/special effects supervisor Ivy Liao (The Chase, Synesthesia) to discuss her newest short film, Cupid's Paradise and her love of genre film.

Join me as I ask Ivy some horrible questions!

Etheria Film Night: 

Cupid's Paradise: https://www.facebook.com/CupidsParadiseFilm/