Tag: Zack Long

One topic that doesn’t come up often in discussions on writing horror is the importance of the victims themselves. There is plenty of writing...

If after the first kill in Jaws, the mayor agreed that there was clearly a shark problem and acted fast to get rid of...

If you take any Writing 101 course then you will be familiar with the importance of character arcs to fiction. Prose fiction has always...

In the latest episode of One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack sit down to talk about Kōji Shiraishi's found-footage horror film Occult from 2009. The...

Don't look now, it's another episode of One Missed Pod! This week Zack and Kelly are watching the 2004 horror film by Yoshihiro Hoshino,...

On today’s episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly are joined by Brett der Wiese, who had previously guested on the Wicked City and...

On today's episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly are joined by Brett der Wiese, who had previously guested on the Wicked City...

In this episode of One Missed Pod, Zack introduces Kelly to the 1958 cat curse movie Black Cat Mansion (aka Mansion of the Ghost...

In a new episode of One Missed Pod, Kelly and Zack sit down to talk about Dark Water (2002). The film was directed by...

In a new episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly discuss Shohei Imamura's 1979 true-crime serial killer thriller, Vengeance is Mine. Anchored by...

One Missed Pod is back! This week Zack and Kelly are talking about the Takashi Miike J-horror modern classic Audition (1999). The two discuss...

Welcome back, Scream Scholars. As a part of our continuing education in horror, it only makes sense to reach out to academics who have...

  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...

This year has been a hard one for all of us. As the year ends it feels like a good time for reflection. Despite...

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...

  Junji Ito is a decisive figure in the horror community, though each year finds more and more fans devoting themselves to his work. On...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...