Apr 2, 2020
We're exploring the darker side of TV journalism and the desire for fame with To Die For and Nightcrawler!
Sources
To Die For (1995)
"Grins, Gore, and Videotape: The Trouble With the Local TV News" by Eric Pooley, New York Magazine
"A Role to Die For" by Bob Strauss, South Florida Sun Sentinel
"Women Who Kill Part 2" by...
Oct 25, 2018
We discuss the case of H. H. Holmes - both the story we know and the truth.
Sources:
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Clips: H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer, directed by John Borowski
Song played in the episode is "In the Pines",...
Mar 28, 2018
We examine the case of Jeffrey Dahmer through the lens of the recently released bio pic My Friend Dahmer and the narrative documentary The Jeffrey Dahmer Files.
Sources for this episode:
Jeffrey Dahmer:
Stone Phillips interview with Jeffrey Dahmer, Lionel Dahmer, and Joyce Flint, "Dateline" NBC 1994
Jul 19, 2017
We examine censorship in horror with a detailed look at the Hays Code, the demise of horror comics, and the video nasties era!
Sources for this episode:
The Hays Code
"The History of Hollywood Censorship and the the Ratings System" - Filmmaker IQ
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema...
Jun 14, 2017
We go back to the depths of Soul’s Midnight to look at America’s most infamous unsolved case – the Zodiac Killer – and David Fincher’s ultra-realistic adaptation of Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac.
Sources:
The Zodiac Killer
This is the Zodiac Speaking (documentary)
His Name is Arthur Lee Allen...