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The Coffee Table - Streaming Screams Episode 22: Shattered

Shattered (Featuring Patrick Michael of Have Cheetah, Will View)
Sometimes a movie comes along and you have no idea what to expect from it. Sometimes, you are completely not ready for what you’re about to be hit with. Sometimes a movie with an unassuming title and little to no hype hits like a punch you just aren’t ready for. Sometimes, you sit down and find yourself watching something like
THE COFFEE TABLE
This week we’ll be joined by friend of the pod, Patrick from Have Cheetah Will View as we discuss the wildly bleak movie that he recommended to us.

Final Destination: Bloodlines - Screening Screams 2

Well, THAT was quick! We’ve got another surprise, the 2ND episode of our SCREENING SCREAMS series! While we were at it with Sinners, we decided to go ahead and talk about another movie we just saw in theaters:
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Does it hold up compared to the others? Join us as we go over the surprises, the laughs, and the final scene with the beloved and unforgettable Tony Todd. 

Sinners - Screening Screams 1

The first episode in our Screening Screams series! This will be a little different. In this unscheduled bonus series, Jess and Glenn sit down for a more casual discussion of a movie they’ve just seen in theaters. 
For this first episode, we discuss Ryan Coogler's Sinners! Does it live up to the hype? Join us to find out!

Christine - Streaming Screams Episode 21: God, I Hate Rock and Roll

Start your engines and crank up the oldies! We’re going to revisit the movie that combines the talents of two of the most important figures in horror history, Stephen King and John Carpenter, while somehow disappointing them both: 
Christine
We’ll talk about some of the unique characterizations, the origin of christine, some of the differences between the book and the film, some behind the scenes info, and the word “shitter.” Along the way, we’ll talk about trash movies winning acclaim at the Oscars, Jess’s hating the Rocky Horror Picture Show, musicals, movies from the 70s and 80s, greaser nostalgia, the banality of evil, and importantly, the fact that everything poops.

Abigail - Streaming Screams Episode 20: The Terror of the Tutu

The Terror of the Tutu 
The lights go down, a hush falls over the theater. Slowly, softly the strings of Swan Lake begin to fill the room, and a lone 12-year-old girl gracefully glides across the stage Into a gorgeously executed pirouette. Suddenly screams feel the air and blood seems to explode across the room from every direction! 
Welcome to the home of:
ABIGAIL
Join us as we take a look at the last days of a band of dumb kidnappers who have picked up the wrong little girl! 
Along the way we'll talk about concert ticket prices, yelling for songs at shows, Danzig, bad accents, bad ADR, differentiating aromatic root vegetables, and King Diamond. So grab a stake and some tights and join us in the bloodbath ballet that is this weeks episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Lake Mungo - Streaming Screams Episode 19: Alone

Alone
What would you do if you were confronted by something absolutely incomprehensible? How would you handle it, if you looked up one day and found death staring you in the face? What if you had to face that, alone, while still surrounded by the people supposed to be closest to you?
On the other side, what would you do if you were supposed to be one of those people, closest to someone who needed you and it was too late? What would you do as their dark secrets came bubbling up to the surface. That’s what we’ll be dealing with this week as we look at the criminally overlooked Aussie mockumentary:
Lake Mungo
Join us as we take an intimate look at a family, already deeply divided, as they deal with the horrors of death, and the horrors of life, and the horrors of being haunted by survivor’s guilt, by loneliness, and just maybe, by a ghost. 
Along the way we’ll touch on similarly deep concepts like, what do you do when your car is dying, or when you find out that your brother is secretly raising a kitten? How do we solve the epidemic of feline illiteracy? Do snitches REALLY get stitches? Can Glenn REALLY read your palm? How does Twin Peaks fit into all this nonsense?
Only one way to find out! Join us in a dream logic time loop of pixelated Australian ghost sightings on this engrossing episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Starry Eyes - Streaming Screams Episode 18: The Silver Scream

The Silver Scream
This week, we'll go back to the seedy, sadistic and cutthroat world of Hollywood and take a look at what happens when you sell your body and soul for fame, fortune and glamor with:
Starry Eyes
Taking a different approach to some similar themes as The Substance and The Neon Demon, we examine life for a struggling actress with an evil cult on one side of her, and the most toxic group of theater kids on the other. 
Along the way, we go all the way off the rails with the LA fires, conspiracy theories, generations, education, the evolution of the human mind vs the evolution of technology, California water, AI, movies with multiple directors, #MeToo, black metal and personal growth. Does it sound chaotic? It is, but we're having a damn good time on this bleakly glamorous episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!

Alien: Romulus - Streaming Screams Episode 17: Clip Show

Clip Show
In space, no one will hear you scream…or roll your eyes and groan. This week, Jess and Glenn sit down for the new Alien greatest hits album:
ALIEN: ROMULUS
We’ll talk about the physiological and social ramifications of hypersleep. We’ll try to track the increasingly complex reproduction cycle of the xenomorphs. We’ll tackle the biggest philosophical question posed by this movie: Is it possible to have too much fan service, too many references, and too many Easter eggs? The answer may just surprise you! Or it may not if you've seen this one.

Heretic - Streaming Screams Ep 16: Dante's Inferno is Everywhere

Zany Regional Spinoff Edition
 
Happy Birthday to us! Streaming Screams has been going for an entire year! We can hardly believe it! 
And speaking of belief, we are kicking off our second season with a movie that asks us some big questions about religion, ourselves and our beliefs: Do we believe what we believe because it’s what was taught to us? When we challenge our beliefs, how do they hold up? What is the one true religion? 
Heretic
This week we sit down and examine Hugh Gran in this fascinating foray into religiously philosophical horror as he terrorizes two young Mormon women. As we do so, we’ll ask some tough questions of our own: Would you walk into a house with metal in the walls? Should you trust overly charming people? Does a blueberry pie scented candle REALLY smell like blueberry pie? What’s the point of a cover letter, anyway?

The Substance / The Neon Demon - Streaming Screams Episode 15: Simply Irresistible

Simply Irresistible
Get ready for an absolutely bonkers journey through the glamorous and dangerous worlds of celebrity and modeling with two wild takes on being a beautiful woman in the entertainment industry:
The Substance
The Neon Demon
We are heading into the depths of what women in Hollywood and the Los Angeles modeling industry are willing to do to maintain their youth, their beauty, their fame and their adoration. We’ll talk about the violence one will do to themselves, or their competition, to remain pleasing to others, and the roles that society, men, age and power play in all of this, all explored through the lenses of body horror, understated supernatural dread, and good old fashioned murder.
Along the way, Jess will tell us why she doesn’t need more apps while Glenn continues to struggle with names and gets very invested in color schemes. We’ll talk about big cats, our experience with the Hollywood walk of fame, Glenn meeting Lars Ulrich and Nicolas Winding Refn, plastic surgery disasters, and we’ll make an announcement about the future of the podcast. 
So paint your face with sparkles and grab yourself some moist, floppy shrimp, because we're gonna get weird with it in this bizarre, yet beautiful, episode of STREAMING SCREAMS!