Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For Pop Culture Ephemera
We found 10 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “halloween”.
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Ghostbusters 2
March 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
1980s, 80s, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ernie hudson, film, ghost, ghostbusters, ghosts, halloween, harold ramis, movie, movies, rick moranis, saturday night live, sigourney weaver, snl
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold. Ghostbusters 2 is a sequel that's anything but paint-by-numbers. We're gonna call superfans Dylan Gregory and Tania Newton to blow some positively-charged slime all over a film that keeps on lifting us higher and higher.
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The Haunted Mansion
October 31st, 2023 | 25 mins 18 secs
amusement park, attraction, disney, disneyland, disneyworld, ghost, ghosts, halloween, seance, seances, spirit, spirits
It's a bonus Halloween treat (no tricks) as 7-year-old Celeste joins her old podcasting dad to revisit classic Disney attraction The Haunted Mansion, and the 999 happy haunts who call it home.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
October 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 37 mins
1970s, 70s, aliens, gender, halloween, horror, lgbtq, musical, musicals, queer, rock, rock and roll, sci-fi, scifi, sexuality, susan sarandon, tim curry, trans, transsexual
Let's do the Time Warp again as special guest writer/director/actress/producer Shakina Nayfack (@shakeenz, Difficult People, Quantum Leap) joins us to send off our Halloween season with a bang, emphasis on the bang. This musical is a one-of-a-kind blend of rock, camp, horror, and sexual exploration that really puts the "fluid" in gender fluidity, one that has and always will inspire hordes of live audiences to not just dream it, but to be it.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 23rd, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
american literature, disney, ghost story, ghosts, halloween, headless horseman, horror, ichabod crane, literature, new york, revolutionary war, short story, sleepy hollow, tim burton, washington irving
Over 200 years old and still scaring people, Washington Irving's masterpiece remains a Halloween classic and an all-time great ghost story. On this episode we not only discuss it, but as a bonus, the entire tale is here as an audiobook for your enjoyment.
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Resident Evil 4
October 9th, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
body horror, capcom, cults, gamer, gamers, games, gaming, halloween, horror, parasites, resident evil, video games, videogamer, videogames, videogaming, zombies
¡Puedes correr, pero no te puedes esconder! Resident Evil 4 was a revolutionary game that revitalized the series and videogames as a whole through its combination of tense dynamic gameplay, best-in-class body horror, and unsettling tone. Ken Cole of KenCast (@kenergycole) joins us to once again plunge into RE4's irresistible terrors.
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It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
October 2nd, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
animation, cartoon, cartoons, charles schulz, charlie brown, comedy, halloween, horror, peanuts, snoopy
Good Grief! It's finally Halloween and that means it's time for comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) to join our yearly vigil in the seasonal Peanuts special that is the most sincere.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Series)
July 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
1990s, 90s, angst, anthony head, comedy, demons, dracula, halloween, horror, nostalgia, sarah michelle gellar, satan, scooby, teen, television, tv, vampires
Slayers gonna slay as paranormal fiction writer Betsy Allen joins our Scooby Gang to revisit TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", where our heroes face off against the undead, the unholy, and all the awkward emotional garbage the life slings at you as you grow from teens to adults.
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The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
October 31st, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
comedy, freddy kreuger, halloween, horror, nightmare on elm street, nostalgia, the shining, the simpsons
We close out our Halloween run with a special episode about the Simpsons' Halloween specials, with special guest Amy Baum. Special!
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The Fly
October 24th, 2022 | 59 mins 34 secs
body horror, comedy, david cronenberg, gina davis, halloween, horror, jeff goldblum, movies, nostalgia, physics, sci fi, teleportation
Be afraid... Be very afraid... of a twisted fusion of sci-fi horror and romance, as well as man and insect.
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Thriller
October 17th, 2022 | 32 mins 19 secs
1980s, dance, halloween, john landis, michael jackson, music, nostalgia, pop, vincent price
No mere mortal can resist the evil of The Thriller!