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Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. H.G. Wells, the great English author, wrote the novel, THE INVISIBLE MAN, in 1897, and all these years later it still resonates today. First adapted by Universal in 1933 to a very successful film starring the up-and-comer Claude Rains was a big hit. After their Dark Universe didn’t take off, they took their IP and decided to make them individually. Leigh Whannell (UPGRADE (2018)) takes the writing and directing reigns and brings the Blumhouse-Universal film, THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020). Cecilia Kass (Elizabeth Moss) is trapped in an abusive relationship with brilliant engineer and business man, Adrian Griffin. One night after escaping his estate, and with the help of her sister, she hides away with a childhood friend and his daughter. Soon she finds out that her ex has died by suicide leaving her a sum of five million dollars. Yet as the days go by, she begins to think there

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. FANTASY ISLAND was a very successful television show that ran on ABC between 1977 to 1984. Starring Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize, the show had guest stars that played characters that came to the island to live a supernatural fantasy that they had always hoped for. Some would learn a lesson while others would get closure from their demons. Now in 2020, Blumhouse has released a re-imagining of the TV show into a horror film. A group of folks won a contest for a trip to Fantasy Island. When they arrive, the are met by their host, Mr. Roarke (Michael Pena). After his guests inform him of their wish, he sets them off on their fantasy. Soon each guest is surrounded by wonders they could only dream of, however, soon things begin to turn darker. And they begin to wonder if there is something more going on than just a vacation. FANTASY ISLAND is directed by Jeff Wadlow

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. New England director Joe Begos is suddenly the “it” director with his latest film VFW (2020) making the rounds on VOD. In 2019, however, his film BLISS actually got a lot of praise from critics, receiving even better reviews than VFW. Outlets such as Variety, RogerEbert.com, Los Angeles Times, and the AV Club all reviewed it. And the movie holds a 90% on RottenTomatoes. Dezzy (Dora Madison Burge) is a semi-successful artist who’s had album covers and large showings of her work. She’s sold paintings for large amounts, but recently she’s had an artistic roadblock. Her agent is hounding her, and many clients are concerned that their investments won’t be produced. One night she gets involved with old friends and rejoins the drug culture that she had been trying to avoid. Soon she discovers a horrible secret that may change her life forever. With its psychedelic mood, and t

Welcome to Anthony T's Horror Show. Anthony T is back with two interviews this episode as Women in Horror month concludes. First, he chats with writer/director/producer/actress Rakefet Abergel about her award winning short film "Boo". Then, he chats with actress Sarah Schoofs about her latest films "Theresa and Allison" and "The Theatre of Terror". It's those interviews plus his thoughts on the first trailer for "Spiral: From the Book of Saw". Dark Discussions Podcast Network

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Though written in 1927, H.P. Lovecraft’s horror novel, THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD, was not published until many years after his passing. Being somewhat disappointed with the work, Lovecraft did little to publish it. And when he came down with cancer, the work would be put further on the back burner. However, in 1941, the story was released as a two part anthology in WEIRD TALES and only to be fully published in 1943 from Arkham House Press by Lovecraft’s friends, fellow authors August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. The year is 1928. The young bourgeois Charles Dexter Ward discovers in his family tree the existence of a less savory character on his mother’s side of the family. The ancestor, Joseph Curwen, who’s origins came from Salem, Massachusetts, died mysteriously in a torch-and-pitchfork attack upon his property in 1771 in Providence, Rhode Island. While researching

Welcome to Anthony T's Horror Show. Anthony T is back with an episode where he nevers gets to his rant about "Spiral: From the Book of Saw" Teaser Trailer as Terror Con 2020 conducts a hostile takeover of this podcast. In this episode beside his displeasure of Terror Con's lineup so far, he talks about CT Horrorfest ans thier great first wave of announcements and he kicks off Women in Horror month as he talks with actress and producer Erica Looker about her films "One Last Kill" and "The Box" from It Came From the 508 Productions. Dark Discussions Podcast Network

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. When a miscellaneous character was added to the DC animated series, BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, in September 1992, no one knew that anti-hero/villain Harley Quinn would take off and become one of their most popular characters. Since then, the character has starred in numerous comic books, spin offs, and was featured in the film SUICIDE SQUAD (2016) and its upcoming sequel. However, a spin off movie now titled HARLEY QUINN: BIRDS OF PREY (2020) was released to excellent reviews. After Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is dumped by her longtime boyfriend, the Joker, she is now off on her own. After blowing up a chemical plant as revenge for becoming a woman scorned, all of her enemies are now out to get her. When she discovers that a highly regarded diamond has more value than she original thought, her goal is to give it to Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) so his henchmen will leave h

Welcome to Fishnets and Phantoms: The Podcast. Part of the Dark Discussions Network. Review of the Listener selected movie Cat People from 1982 as well as news and musings on the dark side of romantic love. Host: Amy Schoofs-Rahne We would love your emails to darkdiscussions@aol.com and visit us at www.darkdiscussions.com WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. We are already 1/6th into 2020 and some good films have come out. Yet did last year start out with bang or a whimper? Dark Discussions puts together their review of all that was good and bad in 2019. Included is the consideration of 84 different films that were worthy enough to be considered as a top 10 film for genre and horror films. Each of your co-hosts put together a list of movies they thought were good enough to be seen by audiences. This included both a list of horror films and a list of other speculative fiction films. Afterwards we then combined them and came up with Dark Discussions definitive lists of the best of 2019. Some obvious films like Midsommar and Us appear but also little known films like The Dead Center, The Furies, and Satanic Panic were considered. Also included are some of our listener choices and what they felt were the best of the year. And don’t f

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. After A QUIET PLACE (2018), Scott Beck and Bryan Woods were in demand. The wrote that movie and it became a smash hit and listed as one of the top horror films of the year, if not decade. One of their earlier scripts they were able to get funding to co-direct. Produced by the likes of Eli Roth (CABIN FEVER) and Todd Garner (ZOOKEEPER), their latest film, HAUNT (2019), was grabbed by Shudder as an exclusive. When a group of college students meet up for a Halloween gathering, they all decide to head out to funhouse like most people do during October. Once inside, the group split up and soon find out that what should have been a fun experience may be something else all together. HAUNT has received quite strong reviews from such aggregate sites as Rotten Tomatoes. With the success of they’ve now had, Beck and Woods may suddenly become a desirable duo for future projects. Dark

Welcome to Fishnets and Phantoms: The Podcast. Part of the Dark Discussions Network. A bonus episode for January 31, 2020. This contains news and the review of Lance Hendrickson's Pumpkinhead from 1988. We would love your emails to darkdiscussions@aol.com and visit us at www.darkdiscussions.com WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. With January 2020 underway, it is time to visit what is coming this year to cinemas, video-on-demand platforms, as well as those genre films that are going straight to disc. Last year, genre films seemed to be lacking in quality. There were many gems but not the large amount seen in prior years. This year however there seems to be a lot of great fils coming. Plus also new seasons of some quality TV series. Dark Discussions once again takes a look at all that’s on the calendar. Some of the more high profile flicks spoken of include GODZILLA VS. KONG, WONDER WOMAN 1984, A QUIET PLACE 2, as well as the sequel to the South Korean movie TRAIN TO BUSAN. Some other flicks talked about include VFW, THE LODGE, SWALLOW and television series such as SNOWPIERCER and DEVS. And then at the very end we list off what is remaining as well as discuss some of the latest news about movies an

Welcome to Anthony T's Horror Show. In this edition of Anthony T's Wrestling Show. Opps, I'm so excited I talk about C.M. Punk and his new film "Girl on the Third Floor" that I forgot its Anthony T's Horror Show. Before I talk about that film, I talk about the end of Rock and Shock, Is Marvel Studios Afraid of Horror and I interview director Aaron Mento about his latest film "Ugly Party Sweater" starring Sean Whalen and Felissa Rose. Dark Discussions Podcast Network

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. After the 20th Century Fox sale to Disney, there were a number of films that landed up in limbo. Disney had to go through various films and see what they could do with them. One of them was UNDERWATER (2020), a movie that had been sitting on the shelf since 2017. Starring a fairly strong cast, but with no marketable names, the movie remained unreleased for over two years. However, with its fairly expensive budget, Disney decided January of the new year could salvage a film they felt had no real market. In the year 2050, Tian Industries has built large drilling stations seven miles below the surface. When an unexpected event causes mass casualties at station Kepler 822 leaving only a handful of survivors, the group has to figure a way to survive. Captain Lucien (Vincent Cassel) says that they should suit up and walk across the ocean floor one mile to Roebuck Station 641. W

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. New Year's resolutions are a big thing for folks. Some want to lose weight, find a spouse, get a new job, work towards completing something; others have goals that they strive for. Co-host Mike said that there are a lot of genre films he hasn't seen that he wants to get to, so as a New Year's resolution, why not ask all the co-hosts to see some film they always wanted to see and then discuss. Another year doing so, each co-host chose a genre movie that they had never seen and decided to watch it and give their opinions. Films we discuss are INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978), THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920), GASLIGHT (1944), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), and THE UFO INCIDENT (1975). A wide variety of films they are but also some important ones too that one of your co-hosts finally got to see. With all that, Dark Discussions would like to say happy 2020 to all our listeners and

Welcome to Darkest Before Dawn Podcast. Episode 21 slashers with LC HOLT. On this Episode me and LC get into a conversation about slashers and there roll in the horror world. Dark Discussions Podcast Network

Welcome to Anthony T's Horror Show. Anthony T is back with the final part of his look back at 2019. This time its the top 10 films of 2019. He is joined by guests Ashes Von Nitemare and Patsy the Angry Nerd from Throwdown Thursday Podcast as they all talk about their favorite 10 films of 2019 and what they are looking forward to in 2020. Dark Discussions Podcast Network

Welcome to Fishnets and Phantoms: The Podcast. Part of the Dark Discussions Network. The Fishnets and Phantoms Best of 2019 Horror movies List! We would love your emails to darkdiscussions@aol.com and visit us at www.darkdiscussions.com WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Sometimes low profile films appear that get a bit of buzz. Many times, that buzz is just minimal, but it is usually enough for hardcore horror fans to take a look. THE DEAD CENTER (2019) is one of those. Some notice was brought because the film stars PRIMER (2004) director Shane Carruth. When the body of a “John Doe” appears with bizarre body wounds, pathologist Edward Graham (Bill Feehely) arrives at the morgue to find the body is missing. An unknown man appears in a random hospital room. He appears to have behavioral health issues so Dr. Daniel Forrester (Shane Carruth) commits him to find out who he is. Dr. Graham continues to investigate what happened to the missing body while Dr. Forrester begins to find things about the mystery patient that become disconcerting. First time director Billy Senese wrote this new film as well. The film, following a combination of a m

Welcome to Anthony T's Horror Show. It's a new year, so you know what that means as Anthony T gears up for his two part year in review. In part one, it's the second annual Horror Whammies and Horror Show awards as Anthony T gives his awards to some of the best in horror and some of worst in horror that made him question his horror fanatic status. Dark Discussions Podcast Network