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Welcome to a special edition of FRIGHT SCHOOL! This week, Joshua, along with fellow Geekscaper Sadie, sit down for a chat with YAGA costume designer Sarah Runnalls! We're gearing up for our weekly YAGA recap series so follow along at Geekscape TV: https://www.youtube.com/@GeekscapeTV/ Follow Sarah HERE: https://www.instagram.com/sarahrunnallscollection/ Follow Sadie at In Defense of Fandom: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-defense-of-fandom/id1674695211 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School!!! We recap our week at San Diego Comic Con 2026 including another fun year at the Her Universe Fashion Show! Joshua is going to meet and greet Ellen Greene at the 40th Anniversary screening of Little Shop of Horrors! We chat about seeing The Odyssey. This week, we're celebrating Pride a little late with LEVITICUS. We discuss conversion therapy metaphors, internalized homophobia, small town religions, and the films ambiguous ending. Recommended Reading Film Review: "Leviticus" by Dr. Thomas J West III HER Universe 2026 Fashion Show - As Covered by Geekscape News!! The Art of Fairy Tales Weekend Morbid Anatomy & The Philosophical Research Society Los Angeles, California · October 3 - 4, 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School! Are you fearfully and wonderfully made? Joe went to see Maria Bamford and Jackie Kashian! Joshua discovers Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are different things. This week we go on another expedition with Indiana Jones and the... no, sorry.. wait... THE MUMMY (1999*). We break down the 1990s Egyptomania resurgence by discussing aliens and the pyramids, Michael Jackson, and some of the things the film actually gets right! Recommended Reading: Representation and Reality in ‘The Mummy’ (1999) by Matt Szafran Mysterious wave of Egypt-o-mania crests in America's museums, media and malls by Jackie Loohaus An Egyptological Review of ‘The Mummy’ (1999) Find us on upcoming GEEKSCAPE shows! Napping Through Happy Hour Christian Cringe Daily Geekscape News! Check out all of the GEEKSCAPE Network Podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is trying to reorganize the Wes Craven Memorial Library with the help of Libib. Joe shares about his great job at decluttering in a clear targeted attack on Joshua. We discuss SEND HELP, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, and the untimely death of Koji Suzuki, the author behind THE RING. This week, we kick off a new unit all about THE MUMMY! We lay the foundation for the film by reviewing the Egyptomania that took hold of the Western world especially after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb. We examine the film's themes rooted in imperialism, colonialism, ancient Egyptian spiritual practices, and consider Imhotep's status as a sympathetic villain. Recommended Reading: Acknowledging Imperialism through The Mummy (1932) by Jessica Parant The Mummy (1932) and the Sympathetic Villain from Psychotronic Review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is waxing nostalgic for 2005 while celebrating the release of new Madonna music. Joe has been sneaking out to see horror movies without Joshua! We get deep about separating art from the artist when that artist is using her wizarding shillings to harm Trans people. This week, we watched THE ARBORIST! We get a little lost in the woods discussing parental grief, arboreal extinction, The Lorax, demon twinkery, and spooky child ghosts in animal costumes. There's a lot going on out in these trees... The Freaky Kiki Horror Ball is coming back! Follow our Instagram for all the latest information! Scream Diego is accepting short horror film submissions! Check it out HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Fright School! We discuss the Oscars and horror's fight for better inclusion. We celebrate SINNERS historic Oscars nominations. This week, we wrap up (for now) our deep dive into the Conjuring Universe with THE CONJURING: LAST RITES. We reflect on the franchise, gendered ideas around religiosity vs spiritualism in the film, the Warren's controversial career, and their final horror: getting their daughter married! Please consider donating to your local bail funds! The National Bail Fund Network Suggested Reading: ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Success Highlights Growing Power Of Religious Audiences by Joseph Holmes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to another Fright School Field Trip! We took ourselves out for Korean BBQ and 28 DAYS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE! We discuss the latest film from Nia DaCosta in terms of being the middle of a trilogy, the state of horror at prestigious award ceremonies, competency porn, and the sweet moves of Ralph Fiennes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome Back to Fright School! We often reflect on our show as an archive of our lives and the context in which we are creating it in. This particular recording day was heavy after multiple deaths and incarcerations of both Immigrants and US citizens and the ongoing oppressive response from our government. Wherever you are listening to us from, we have your backs and send love and solidarity. This week we continue our franchise deep dive with THE NUN. We discuss the horror genre's obsession with nuns, the Conjuring films' reliance of self-harm narratives, and analysis of the film as an allegory for the extensive abuse within the Catholic Church. Please consider supporting Bail Funds in your area to support the ongoing, necessary work of protestors and other people working to defend us all from tyranny and fascist violence: The National Bail Fund Network: Directory of Community Bail Funds Suggested Reading: One nun's take on horror film 'The Nun' by Rose Pacatte An Allegorical Reading of “The Nun” (2018) as Commentary on Religious Abuse by vacationbibleschool95 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! We reminisce on old school Vines and social media trends. Joe shares his love of HEATED RIVALRY which Joshua immediately tries to ruin with Queer theory. Is Joshua trying to gatekeep horror? This week, we continue our franchise deep dive in to the Conjuring Universe with ANNABELLE! We discuss the history of the Warren's case, the Magical Black Person trope, and review why dolls are so scary. We encourage all to donate to bail funds in your area to support the necessary work of activists around the country: The National Bail Fund Network: Directory of Community Bail Funds Suggested Reading: Oh, The Horror: Annabelle Review by Hana Shafi There’s a Psychological Reason Dolls Are So Spooky By Shayla Love Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Fright School! This week, we reflect on the past year of Fright School episodes. We promise we have so much more planned for this year barring an apocalypse which seems more and more likely! Joshua and Joe share what they did for New Years. It's that time of year again: franchise deep dive and this time we're grabbing our rosaries and plunging into THE CONJURING UNIVERSE! We kick off with THE CONJURING by discussing our love of Lili Taylor, the history of exorcism in the Catholic church, the heteronormativity of the film, and perhaps over reliance on the body-ody-ody of horror work that came before. Suggested Reading: “The Conjuring”: Right-wing, woman-hating and really scary By Andrew O'Hehir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices