One terrified courier, one “urgent” delivery, and one town that turns into a nonstop survival gauntlet. Dan, Leah and Ollie (OllieEatsBrains) sit down for a Zombie Book Club deep dive on Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, and the conversation is as chaotic as the movie. We cover the tone that’s both hilarious and horrifying, the pacing … Read more
After nearly 40 days on the road, we’re home, sick, and running on fumes, which makes this Halloween-week check-in feel more undead than usual. We start with the zombie updates: Resident Evil, an upcoming conversation about Black Zombie and the cultural history behind zombie myths, and a future look at Colony from the filmmakers who … Read more
We’re recording from a hotel bed at The Saguaro Palm Springs, hungover, sun-sensitive, and happy, after driving cross-country from Vermont for our friends Eric and Joe’s wedding. Zombie stories keep telling us the same thing: the monsters are never the point, the survivor group is. The wedding felt like proof, a tight-knit chosen family where … Read more
We’re recording from the least glamorous studio imaginable: a camper bed in Kansas, in full “dead bug pose,” while tornadoes, flooding, and rerouted travel plans turn the Midwest into a live weather report. Two weeks into our road trip, we’re tired enough to be incoherent and honest about it. We dig into what RV campground … Read more
We welcome horror author T.J. Payne to talk about Intercepts, a sci-fi horror thriller where a secret government facility tortures prisoners into becoming “antennas” who can hijack the senses of anyone on Earth. At the center is supervisor Joe Gerhard, a man who tells himself the work is necessary right up until his own daughter, … Read more
