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Progressively Horrified

A podcast that holds horror to standards horror never agreed to. Hosts Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, Emily Martin and guests watch, read, listen to, and check out movies, tv shows, comics, books, art and anything else from the horror genre and discuss it through a progressive lens. We'll talk feminism in horror, LGBTQ+ issues and representation in horror, racial and social justice in horror, disability and mental health/illness in horror, and the work of female and POC directors, writers, and creators in horror.We're the podcast horror never agreed to take part in.

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Update frequency
every 4 days
Average duration
102 minutes
Episodes
310
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Blood Runs Down (aka Mommy's Off the Clock) with Alicia Whitley, Jay Joseph Jr., and Emmanuel Lipscomb

Blood Runs Down (aka Mommy's Off the Clock) with Alicia Whitley, Jay Joseph Jr., and Emmanuel Lipscomb

Scare Level: Spooky
Trigger Warnings: Child abuse, drowning

Our parents turning on us is everyone's first horror fantasy.

  • Director: Zandashe Brown
  • Writers: Zandashe Brown (Horror Noire’s “Bride Before Y…
00:31:06  |   Mon 28 Feb 2022
Nevermore Film Fest Interview - Nathan Crooker, Director of

Nevermore Film Fest Interview - Nathan Crooker, Director of "#NoFilter"

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings a…

00:29:23  |   Fri 25 Feb 2022
Candyman (aka Gentrificatin' Hornets) with Emmanuel Lipscomb, Morgan, and Aaron Amos

Candyman (aka Gentrificatin' Hornets) with Emmanuel Lipscomb, Morgan, and Aaron Amos

Scare Level: Existentially Terrifying
Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Racism, Bees.

Who can take the sunrise?  Mix it with the dew?  Hide up in your mirror and slash a screen or two?

  • Director: Nia DaCosta
  • Wri…
01:40:01  |   Fri 25 Feb 2022
Nevermore Film Fest Interview - Mark J Parker, Director of

Nevermore Film Fest Interview - Mark J Parker, Director of "Twin"

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings a…

00:39:55  |   Thu 24 Feb 2022
Nevermore Film Fest Interview - Vyky Saiz, Director of

Nevermore Film Fest Interview - Vyky Saiz, Director of "Restore"

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings a…

00:29:24  |   Tue 22 Feb 2022
Wake (aka Biddy Chorus) with Jay Joseph Jr, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Alicia Whitley

Wake (aka Biddy Chorus) with Jay Joseph Jr, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Alicia Whitley

Scare Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings: Abuse, pregnancy as punishment, voodoo

You wanna make an omelet, you gotta murder a few men.

  • Director: Bree Newsome
  • Writer: Bree Newsome
  • Stars: Sahr Ali, Christina Fa…
00:32:22  |   Mon 21 Feb 2022
Nevermore Film Fest Interview - O.B. De Alessi, Director of

Nevermore Film Fest Interview - O.B. De Alessi, Director of "Mudmonster"

The Carolina Theater in Durham, NC is putting on a horror film festival called the Nevermore Film Festival. It’s running February 25th through the 27th and you can buy tickets for physical showings a…

00:24:29  |   Sun 20 Feb 2022
Us (aka One Scissor is Just a Knife) with Alicia Whitley, Morgan, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Bre Indigo

Us (aka One Scissor is Just a Knife) with Alicia Whitley, Morgan, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Bre Indigo

Trigger warnings: Blood, gore, mild racism, child endangerment, childhood trauma, ptsd

  • The Basics
    • Director: Jordan Peele
    • Writers: Jordan Peele
    • Stars: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss, Tim Hei…
01:47:52  |   Fri 18 Feb 2022
No Face Benny (aka Scream Therapy) with Jay Joseph, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Alicia Whitley

No Face Benny (aka Scream Therapy) with Jay Joseph, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Alicia Whitley

Scare Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings: Child abuse, alcohol abuse

Sometimes you get in your own head? Am I talking about the film or the filmmakers? I don't even know anymore.

  • Director: Ciara Boniface
  • Wr…
00:16:57  |   Mon 14 Feb 2022
Eve's Bayou (aka Julian Grayraven's Punishment Wig) with Vita Ayala

Eve's Bayou (aka Julian Grayraven's Punishment Wig) with Vita Ayala

Trigger warnings: Child abuse, sexual assault, gaslighting, snakes, gun violence, alcohol abuse, misogyny.

  • The Basics
    • Director: Kasi Lemmons
    • Writers: Kasi Lemmons
    • Stars: Samuel L Jackson, Jurnee Smollett…
01:33:54  |   Fri 11 Feb 2022
Hair Wolf (aka The Chile of Boxer Braid Beckula) with Jay Joseph, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Alicia Whitley

Hair Wolf (aka The Chile of Boxer Braid Beckula) with Jay Joseph, Emmanuel Lipscomb, and Alicia Whitley

Scare Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings: Racism, cultural appropriation, racial microagressions

Look out for the horrors of Count Beckula! Hair Wolf is a sharp satire of white appropriation of black cultu…

00:44:19  |   Mon 07 Feb 2022
Blacula (aka Give Skillet a Cape) with Aaron Amos, Shawn Pryor, Alicia Whitley

Blacula (aka Give Skillet a Cape) with Aaron Amos, Shawn Pryor, Alicia Whitley

Scare Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings: Homophobia, racism, bury your gays, several homophobic slurs, the n-word (though used entirely by people in the community), blood and gore, potential gaslighting …

01:44:25  |   Fri 04 Feb 2022
Alien 3 (aka Schrodinger's Dog) with Erica Schultz

Alien 3 (aka Schrodinger's Dog) with Erica Schultz

Scare Level: Scary
Trigger Warnings: sexual assault, attempted rape, blood, body trauma, child death and autopsy, religious cult, flashing lights, animal death, dog death, dead nude child

The definitio…

01:50:16  |   Fri 28 Jan 2022
You're Next (aka Piss on your Levis) with Kat Calamia

You're Next (aka Piss on your Levis) with Kat Calamia

Fear Level: Spooky
Trigger Warnings:  


Welcome to the watch along guide for Progressively Horrified Episode 67. Here’s some things you might want to know before you watch the movie or listen to the epi…

01:42:55  |   Fri 21 Jan 2022
Devilman: The Demon Bird (aka Bird Bewbs) with Jamie Noguchi, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh, and Steve Seigh

Devilman: The Demon Bird (aka Bird Bewbs) with Jamie Noguchi, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh, and Steve Seigh

Fear Level: Existentially Disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: exploitative nudity, graphic violence


HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? You're having ok day at school but then you go outside to check on your sc…

02:16:22  |   Fri 14 Jan 2022
Devilman: The Birth (aka Castle Cocaine Club) with Jamie Noguchi, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh, and Steve Seigh

Devilman: The Birth (aka Castle Cocaine Club) with Jamie Noguchi, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh, and Steve Seigh

Fear Level: Existentially Disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: exploitative nudity, graphic violence


HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? You're having ok day at school but then you go outside to check on your sc…

01:59:14  |   Fri 07 Jan 2022
First Anniversary Special (aka Below Jennifer's Body)

First Anniversary Special (aka Below Jennifer's Body)

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On our first anniversary as a podcast, Jeremy, Ben, and Emily sat down to reminisce and rate the first fifty movies we watch…

02:20:43  |   Fri 31 Dec 2021
The Nightmare Before Christmas (aka Vampire Polycule) with Katie Cook

The Nightmare Before Christmas (aka Vampire Polycule) with Katie Cook

Fear Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings:  Bugs and clowns


THIS IS HALLOWEEN MOTHER F***ERS!

  • Director: Henry Selick (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, and Monkeybone)
  • Writers: Caroline Thompson (Edward Sci…
01:40:17  |   Fri 24 Dec 2021
Better Watch Out (aka We Need to Talk about Kevin McAllister) with Michael Tanner

Better Watch Out (aka We Need to Talk about Kevin McAllister) with Michael Tanner

Fear Level: Terrifying/Existentially Disconcerting
Trigger Warnings:  Sexual Assault, Gaslighting, homophobia, gore, violence, kids with drugs and alcohol


What if Home Alone, but terrifying.

  • Director: C…
01:30:05  |   Fri 17 Dec 2021
Gremlins (aka Life in Whitetown) with Shawn Pryor

Gremlins (aka Life in Whitetown) with Shawn Pryor

Fear Level: Spoopy/Spooky
Trigger Warnings:  Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, violence to animals, elderly abuse, classism, capitalism


A boy gets a pet that can talk, watches tv, and reproduces asexually…

02:29:30  |   Fri 10 Dec 2021
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