(Sub)urban Legends: Halloween & Poltergeist w/ Travis Hunter

Not Your Final Girl

Hang out in the scary suburbs with us this episode! Pod Mortem co-host Travis Hunter asked us to pick a formative horror movie to go with his, and we ended up with a heavy hitter double feature for the books. First off we’ve got simplicity, style, and one of the greatest final girl/movie monster face-offs of all time in Travis’ kindergarten(!) favorite, John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), followed by whimsical-yet-terrifying classic Poltergeist (1982), which Candace and Ariel can both call early nightmare fuel.

Stick around for discussion of iconic soundtracks, normie stoners, ghost ASMR, dads losing their absolute shit, Candace’s sick Poltergeist shirt (sorry, it’s no longer available), and Ariel’s favorite game: Spielberg or Hooper. We will also find out what Roger Ebert thought of these titans of the genre, since we are sure you’re dying to know.

What’s your formative horror? Find us on the socials and let us know! While you’re at it, rate and review us so our egos can be sated.

Travis Hunter is the co-host/producer/editor of the weekly horror podcast Pod Mortem (@thepodmortem). He is also a singer/songwriter and award-winning writer with a degree in mass media/journalism. Follow him everywhere @travismwh.

And please check out Pod Mortem here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-mortem-a-horror-podcast/id1505007720

P.s. We made a reference to Satanic Panic as our last episode - you’re not crazy, we tweaked our schedule since we recorded this episode.

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Movies Discussed: Halloween (1978), Poltergeist (1982)

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