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  Suehiro Maruo is the master of guro, a Japanese artform which combines the beautiful with the grotesque. Midori (1992) is the adaptation of Maruo's 1984 cult-manga masterpiece retelling of Shōjo Tsubaki. Kelly Gredner, one...

This year has been a hard one for all of us. As the year ends it feels like a good time for reflection. Despite the seemingly unending darkness that was 2020, there were bright...

On Episode 21, we had Scriptophobic writer Rachel Bolton on to speak about the found footage masterpiece Noroi: The Curse (2005). We mentioned quite a few films in that episode, especially the work of Kōji Shiraishi. Shiraishi's...

  Junji Ito is a decisive figure in the horror community, though each year finds more and more fans devoting themselves to his work. On this episode of One Missed Pod, Zack Long is joined...

Welcome back Scream Scholars! The last time the academy met we looked at Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror and found it to be a rather disappointing volume. While the earlier part of the history it...

One Missed Pod has finished with the Ring-A-Palooza but the Ring-A-Palooza hasn't finished with One Missed Pod. The Ring-A-Palooza led to burnout on Ring movies, haunted VHS', and supernatural mysteries that will require time to...

In this week's One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack are joined by Scriptophobic writer Rachel Bolton to discuss Koji Shiraishi's Noroi: The Curse, a found footage film that all three pod participants sing the...

Travel is one thing that no responsible person is participating in this year. However, just because you are trapped inside does not mean your mind cannot wander streets in countries far beyond your own....

Werewolf movies are often defined by their transformation sequences. They can live and die in those handful of seconds when the human form is shed and an otherworldly monstrosity springs forth, winning or losing...

In 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie became the most successful independent movie of all time. It would hold onto this honour until 1999’s The Blair Witch Project stole the crown. The turtles...

In this week's episode of One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack are joined by frequent guest Chris Vander Kaay to talk about the zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead. Zombies in general become a...

By the time I finally sat down and watched Trick ‘r Treat (2007), I had been living in hyped anticipation for it for close to two years. Since first premiering and earning acclaim on the festival circuit,...

The Ring-A-Palooza curse won't release Zack and Kelly just yet! Because Hollywood's Ring movies got so much discussion in the previous episodes, it seemed only fair to revisit those movies and offer updated opinions...

The first time my young, horror adverse mind even considered the Halloween franchise was over a decade before I would ever see even a frame of it. I was with a friend at a video...

The Ring-A-Palooza stops for no one! Zack couldn't make it this week on account of the fact that he had a hurricane roaring over his head at the time of recording, so he left...

The young woman at the ticket counter smiled politely as my mom handed over the money for the tickets. She didn’t ask questions— she didn’t ask to see an ID. No, she seemed perfectly content...

This week's episode was originally going to be 1998's Spiral with Andrew Roebuck but due to a medical emergency, the discussion on George Iida's Spiral was wrapped into the discussion on Ringu 2 with...

Chris VanderKaay returns to One Missed Pod to join hosts Zack Long and Kelly Warner in kicking off the Ring-a-Palooza, a multi-episode look at the Ring films. From techno-horror to cultural differences in adaptation,...

The teenager at the register gave my friends and I a decidedly inquisitive look as he held the clear box containing the R-rated cassette tape against the counter. His fingers drummed against the dull...

This week One Missed Pod watches 1969's Horrors of Malformed Men, a trip of a film that inspires discussions on gruesomeness, deformity, Japanese pinku eiga, and the films of Teruo Ishii. Reach your hosts at...

One of the greatest recurring themes in Tokusatsu is the act of forgiving oneself after contemplating your own actions or upon discovering a sin you never knew you were being complicit in. Various Ultra...

Kelly Warner returns with this week's movie; Ishiro Honda's Matango (1963), one of Kelly's favorites. Zack had the movie confused with Horrors of Malformed Men (1969), so that's next week's show. Do you like...

I suppose I knew Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) was a sequel, but for all intents and purposes in my eight-year-old mind, that was definitively the only entry in the killer robot from the post-apocalyptic...

Kaiju parody has been done a lot. Whether it is minor snippets of other spoof movies such as the truly dreadful ‘Spermzilla’ from Chillerama or the lovingly-crafted works of Minoru Kawasaki, their effectiveness varies...

Brettro Culture's Brett the Wiese joins host Zack Long to talk about the 1987 anime-horror OVA Wicked City while Kelly Warner is away. A mix of body horror and kink, the film isn't everything...