Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 37 in total of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “horror”.
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Coraline
October 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
00s, 2000s, animation, dakota fanning, fairy tale, ghost, ghosts, halloween, horror, ian mcshane, keith david, neil gaiman, parenting, stop motion, teri hatcher, they might be giants
Be careful what you wish for this Halloween. On this special it's a family affair as the Other Doug and the Other Ami welcome their children Celeste and Ben into the other world of 2009's Coraline. This stop-motion masterpiece spins a web and puts a button or two on a modern Grimm fairy tale about how the grass seems greener on the other side of a tiny mysterious door.
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The Colour Out Of Space
October 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
alien, aliens, audiobook, cosmic, cosmic horror, cthulhu, halloween, horror, invasion, literature, lovecraft, lovecraftian, short stories, short story, the thing
For this year's Halloween bonus reading, we're going down to Nahum's farm and taking a gander at "The Colour Out Of Space", cosmic horror master H.P. Lovecraft's unsettling tale of a chromatic contagion from beyond the stars.
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Fright Night
October 27th, 2025 | 2 hrs 22 mins
1980s, 80s, chris sarandon, halloween, horror, roddy mcdowall, tom holland, vampire, vampires
Hi-Diddly-Ho, neighborino! When Jerry Dandridge moves in next door, young Charlie Brewster's worst fears are confirmed, leading to a one-of-a-kind horror comedy that, unlike Jerry, does not suck. Guest comedian and filmmaker Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis, tarikrdavis.com) joins us to stake out this meta Halloween tale that we're happy to invite into our homes.
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Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
October 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 48 mins
1980s, 80s, army of darkness, bruce campbell, demon, demonology, demons, evil dead, ghost, ghosts, halloween, horror, necronomicon, sam raimi, zombie, zombies
There's only one word to describe Evil Dead 2 - Groovy! On this episode we're joined by deadite Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) to accidentally read from the Necronomicon and summon Sam Raimi's wild ride of horror, gore, and comedy that literally takes a chainsaw to just about everything. Headlined by human cartoon Bruce Campbell, the film remains a rollicking great blood geyser of Halloween fun.
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The Fly (Redux)
October 17th, 2025 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1980s, 80s, body horror, cronenberg, david cronenberg, geena davis, horror, howard shore, jeff goldblum, scifi, tragedy
Be afraid... be very afraid. For a bonus episode this year we're returning to the subejct of our fourth podcast for a more in-depth look at David Cronenberg's profound and deeply upsetting remake of The Fly. Filmmaker Alex Sosin gets into the teleporter with us for the grossest love story ever made.
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
October 13th, 2025 | 2 hrs 2 mins
1980s, 80s, a nightmare on elm st, dreams, freddy, freddy krueger, halloween, horror, johnny depp, nightmare, nightmares, robert englund, slasher, wes craven
9... 10... we can sleep again because, at long last, Freddy's Dead. For real this time. We mean it. This episode we nod off with Rick Firestone of the Pixel Project Radio podcast to eulogize the undisputed roastmaster of horror, Freddy Krueger. This entry is one of the most unwieldy in the franchise, but it still carries the series' flare for wild, imaginative dream sequences, and the most one-liners of any slasher film.
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The Thing
October 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 51 mins
1980s, 80s, alien, aliens, body horror, halloween, horror, john carpenter, kurt russell, lovecraft, lovecraftian, movie, movies, scifi
Why don't we just wait here for a little while, see what happens? 1982's "The Thing" was a critical and commercial failure, until its insidious genius began an infection that has spread to its complete takeover as a horror landmark. Comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to examine this brilliant, grotesque, and paranoia-inducing film.
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Destroy All Monsters
July 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
1960s, 60s, alien, aliens, ghidora, godzilla, horror, japan, japanese, kaiju, monster, monsters, mothra, rodan, science fiction, scifi, toho
It's mosnters versus aliens as Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and company find themselves at the mercy of an extraterrestrial menace in 1968's "Destroy All Monsters". Why have one kaiju when you can have them all? We don rubber suits and stomp on model cities with guest Joe Mastropiero aka Joedecahedron of the Dice Training podcast to celebrate a franchise that literally left an enormous footprint on cinema.
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Super Metroid
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 19 mins
alien, aliens, game, gamer, gamers, games, gaming, horror, metroid, metroidvania, nintendo, retrogame, retrogamer, retrogames, retrogaming, samus, samus aran, scifi, snes, videogame, videogamer, videogamers, videogames, videogaming
In space, no one can hear you scream, or roll into a little ball. Super Metroid is yet another jewel in Nintendo's crown, and one whose labyrinthine corridors of sci-fi horror forever cemented a genre of gameplay that has cast a shadow for over three decades. Matt Storm aka Matt Stormageddon of the "Fun" and Games, and Reignite podcasts joins us to celebrate Samus Aran and this seminal entry in the long-running Metroid series.
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Leprechaun In The Hood
March 17th, 2025 | 2 hrs 8 mins
halloween, hip-hop, hiphop, horror, ice-t, ireland, irish, leprechaun, rap, slasher, st. patrick, st. patrick's day, warwick davis
For St. Patrick's day, we have a treat. A horror film that's pretty neat. We're revisiting Leprechaun In The Hood, and a Lep in the 'hood, come to do no good. Guest Jala Prendes (host of Jala-Chan' Place, Monster, Dear Monster, and Duckfeed.tv's The Level) and her husband, Dave (co-host of Monster, Dear Monster) have a direct-to-video sequel to praise and rave. It's podcast gold, but listener beware, of Warwick Davis and Ice-T's towering hair.